Careening through the air 30,000 feet above the ground can be a brutal experience. To help us cope, airlines have evolved some pretty sophisticated on-demand entertainment in the form of games, movies, internet, and the occasional backrub. Here’s a look at some of the ambitious ideas that got us there, the failures along the way, and concepts we might see in the future.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past has received a real-world tie-in via The Bent Bullet, a promotional website and video that weaves X-Men mutants in with a JFK conspiracy theory, blending the real and fictional in a quasi sort of alternative history genre getup. The video, which we have for you after the jump, summarizes the […]
The folks behind the international push for the viewing of the sequel to one of the most well-received comedy movies in recent history – Anchorman – have brought on some heat when it comes to viral advertising this month. They’ve made it known to the whole world that they mean business with a total of […]
If you’d expected the star of American Horror Story to take the part of Quicksilver in the next Avengers movie, you’d best guess again. Instead it’s been confirmed today by Marvel that both Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson will be joining The Avengers in the roles of Scarlet Witch and her twin brother. These characters […]
Your device will now give you driving directions in the voice of superstar comedian Kevin Hart. “Watch out!” snaps Hart in a promo video posted this week by Waze, “Animal on shoulder ahead!” The comedian’s voice will be available on devices running the social navigation and traffic monitoring app, as well as other celebrities as […]
After launching on iOS and Android almost a year ago, the mobile version of Redbox Instant by Verizon has finally arrived in the Windows Phone Store. Aside from a few cosmetic changes and added Live Tile support, the new app works exactly like its cross-platform counterparts, offering movie streaming and maps to nearby Redbox kiosks. An $8 monthly subscription also covers the rental fees for up to four DVDs, although customers can upgrade to Blu-ray discs for an additional dollar. The bad news is that the app’s exclusive to Nokia’s Lumia range right now — plebes with other WP8 devices will have to wait until the end of January for general availability.
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Source: Nokia, MarketWatch, Windows Phone
You know when you get in those funks where you feel like every movie is the same, or pointless, or badly written? You might just be watching a ton of junk on Netflix, but before you judge too harshly you should look at the pile of crap that readers have to whittle down to find good scripts.
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A fully functional replica of the Batmobile from the 1989 Michael Keaton Batman film will be going up for auction Nov. 30. Many replicas have been made of the various models of Batmobile, but none with quite this level of authenticity. For starters, the flamethrower, afterburner, nine-inch-rise hydraulics and remote start all work. Oh, and […]
Holy wow this is impressive. Artist Anders Ramsell animated Blade Runner by painting 12,597 different water color paintings and stringing them together into beautifully fluid sequences. It’s incredible, you feel like you’re watching Blade Runner, you get to hear Harrison Ford and follow the story but you’re seeing it like never before—in moving art.
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Have you ever walked out of a movie theater utterly convinced you could have made a far better film? Now you can put your money where your mouth is with a new screenwriting tool called Plotagon. To make it easier for the imaginationally-challenged to visualize a scene or dialogue they’ve just written, the software actually generates an animated version of the script.
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