Want something to do every weekend from now until the end of the summer? Have about $200-$500 in tax return and economic stimulus plan checks burning a hole in your bank account? Do you love movies?!? Look no further, it’s the mikull.com 2008 Summer Movie Guide.
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Netflix Launches Movie Streaming Set Top Box - Mac Rumors Today, Netflix unveiled a Roku designed $100 set top box that delivers streaming movies to your television (as blogged last January).
The Roku box is about the size of a paperback book, has no hard drive, and simply streams video through an ethernet or Wi-Fi connection. [...]
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After months of speculation, Warner Bros has revealed officially to the L.A. Times that they plan to split the final Harry Potter book into two films. One will be released in November 2010, the second in May 2011, and will simply be titled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I / Part II.
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HD DVD dead… No More Format War… Go Buy A Blu Ray Player — Ain’t It Cool News
Sources inside Toshiba have begun leaking to the press - that Toshiba is no longer going to be manufacturing HD DVD players - and is abandoning the format altogether. Apparently, this decision is going to cost [...]
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New Lawsuit May Kill ‘The Hobbit’ - Blogging Sundance - Here’s yet another article in the ongoing saga of actually making the Hobbit movie (or movies). For those keeping score, here’s the latest:
According to the Associated Press, this latest suit was filed Monday by The Tolkien Trust, a British charity that manages Tolkien’s estate, and [...]
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Buyers Beware: Current Blu-ray DVD Players Won’t Correctly Play Future Discs: In other words, do not purchase a Blu-Ray player until at least October of 2008, unless it’s a Playstation 3. Kick ass article from consumerist that details what’s really going on with Blu-Ray hardware on the market.
Current players are Profile 1.0, and can play [...]
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Apple Closes In on Hollywood: Businessweek reports that Apple may be close to striking a deal with most of the major movie studios to provide movies for the iTunes store.
Apple may have had to compromise on a number of issues including pricing in order to get everyone on board. Apple has reportedly agreed to pay [...]
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Freshly stolen from several other blogs: We’ve all been wondering what to make of those whispers that Warner was indeed going Blu-ray exclusive, and apparently, those rumblings are true: Warner Brothers announced today that they would be moving their titles from HD-DVD to the Blu-Ray format. Many have suggested that this marks the end of [...]
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Engadget notes that Netflix is developing movie set-top-box with LG, slated to launch sometime in Q2. The networked player would purportedly allow owners to stream in movies for viewing on their television, and it’s being reported that the feature would be “included in all of its various price plans… at no extra charge.”
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