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Superman Powers his way to the top

Superman returns brings in $21 million in its first day at the theaters! Making in number 8 all time movies released on Wednesday.

Yahoo movies reports:

“ Superman Returns” is the third comic-book adaptation created by director Bryan Singer, who also turned “X-Men” and “X2: X-Men United” into smash hits. The film stars newcomer Brandon Routh as the hero who returns to Earth after a five-year absence and faces a new threat from villain Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) and a fresh rival for the affections of Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth).
It was the first movie about the Man of Steel since 1987′s flop “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace,” the late Christopher Reeve’s fourth and final time as the superhero. ”
With the long holiday weekend at hand this could prove to be a triumphant return for the man of steel.

I personally will try and make time for the movie but with World Cup action heating up I am not sure it will be in the cards.

If you really want to see what the super fans are saying head on over to http://www.bluetights.net/bulletin_list.php
themovieblog.com
Or Warner’s official Superman blog: http://movabletype.warnerbros.com/supermanreturns/

 

 

More details come forward on the alleged spy for hire case involving MPAA.
Greg Sandoval, of news.com, reports the following

“I contacted (the MPAA) and offered to provide it information regarding (Torrentspy.com founder) Justin Bunnell and Torrentspy,” according to a signed statement by Robert Anderson, the man identified elsewhere in the filing as a “hacker.””

This is playing out more and more like a moive. It is alleged “by Valence Media is that as part of its attempt to gather information on Torrentspy, the MPAA hired private investigators to comb the trash cans of Torrentspy executives.”

So what is boils down to is the MPAA thinks it’s ok to break certain laws, such as privacy issues, but it’s not ok to break copyright laws.

If this all comes to light that the MPAA did in fact break the law, then the jury should hit them with a huge settlement. I don’t condone breaking copyright laws at all. But I can’t stand people or organizations who think they are above the law.

Movies for download on itunes? This reported by Variety, the Hollywood rag. Apple is in negotiations with most of the major movie studios to add movie content to their online store. This would be the next logical step, since they now offer, music, music videos, and primetime TV shows.

This should be of no surprise to you that Apple is in talks with the major studios to offer movies in their itunes store.

Retuers states” Citing unnamed sources, Variety said iTunes might begin offering film downloads by the end of 2006, but currently a price on iTunes is a sticking point in negotiations.”

This should come as no surprise as well. Just check out the price points on movielink and Cinemanow.com. They charge more for less of a product. You get the feeling the only reason these two sites have movies available is so the Hollywood studios can avoid an investigation by the Department of Justice.

Steve Jobs of Apple wants a flat fee of $9.99 per movie and the Studios want a varying pricing base on movie title. With some as high as $19.99! Again look at Movielink or Cinemanow and see how varying pricing can confuse the customer. Jobs needs to hold his ground on this point as it’s the foundation for a successful site.

Time line for this new project is end of 2006. Just in time for the holidays and new ipods that are sure to hit the stores right in time for the Christmas rush.

 

‘Cars’ takes first in the box office with $31.2 million in its second weekend. It beat out ‘Nacho Libre’, a Jack Black movie about a cook in a Mexican orphanage who takes up wrestling to help raise money for better food for the kids. Has a very ‘School house” rock feel to it.

Third place was ‘Fast and the Furious’, with $24.1 million. This is well below the first two racing movies. I would say this is due to the fact that they had no real star power pushing this movie. They relied on a Franchise name and slick racing term, drifting. The original ‘Fast and the Furious’ made $40 million in its opening weekend and number two did $50 million in its first weekend. They both had big stars the 13- 25 year old crowed loved, who got out and pushed the movie hard. I think we can call this franchise done.

Yahoo movies reports things are looking up for Hollywood; “Hollywood’s overall business rose for the fifth-straight weekend. The top 12 movies took in $139.1 million, up 7 percent from the same weekend last year, when “Batman Begins” opened with $48.7 million.”

Here is the list of this weekend’s numbers:
1. “Cars,” $31.2 million.
2. “Nacho Libre,” $27.5 million.
3. “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” $24.1 million.
4. “The Lake House,” $13.7 million.
5. “The Break-Up,” $9.5 million.
6. “Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties,” $7.2 million.
7. “X-Men: The Last Stand,” $7.15 million.
8. “The Omen” $5.35 million.
9. “The Da Vinci Code,” $5 million.
10. “Over the Hedge,” $4.05 million.

The big attraction next weekend is the long awaited ‘Superman Returns’. More on this in a couple of days.

 

Share Music iPod to iPod-No Restrictions

I love my ipod but there is one draw back. I hate the fact that I can’t transfer music form my ipod back to my computer. Why? I am sure it was to calm music industry fear of piracy, but for the consumer it sucks. I own the ipod I own the music via itunes store why can’t I transfer the tunes from one computer to another? You used to be able to do this but not any longer.

Yes I know there are many different types of software you can buy that will allow this type of transfer but after going to download.com and tying several different programs and getting all kinds of spyware placed on my computer I just gave up. Yesterday my friend called me up and told me about this software he bought at Fry’s that allows him to:

COPY MUSIC from ANY iPod
COPY ANY DVD MOVIES to your iPod
CREATE FREE RINGTONES from any mp3 or CD
PROTECT your valuable music collection from disaster!
VIEW daily news, weather, email and more on your iPod

So I went over to the site and downloaded the software. It’s awesome! No spyware thank god. I will write more about feature and tips at a later date. But for now I want to start turning DVD’s into ipod movies and transfer music from one computer to another.

You can check out this software here

I hope in the next version of ipods Jobs will listen to his customers and allow us to transfer once again.