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Filming for Need for Speed movie begins in Macon, Georgia
- Filming for the screen adaptation of Electronic Arts’ Need for Speed franchise has begun in an unlikely location: Macon, Georgia. A local car wash in the southern city is being used as the backdrop for at least a portion of…
Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams to collaborate on Half-Life or Portal film
- Valve CEO Gabe Newell and director / producer J.J. Abrams recently found themselves sitting aside one another during the keynote at the 2013 DICE Summit. What started out as a casual chat about storytelling in video games and friendly critique…
Netflix announces its own content delivery network, Open Connect
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As the largest single source of traffic on fixed networks in North America, Netflix accounted for 32.9% of peak hour downstream traffic in the first half of 2012. Netflix says that works out to nearly a billion hours of TV shows and movies streamed per month, and all of those videos are served via...
Tuesday tech deals: 40" TV $380 + deals on Blu-ray player and movies
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TigerDirect offers the Toshiba 40" 1080p HDTV for $449.99. This $70 mail-in rebate cuts it to $379.99. With free shipping, that's $9 under a deal from April and the lowest total price we could find by $39. It's also tied as the best shipped price we've ever seen for a Toshiba 40" HDTV...
Netflix revamps Web-based video player with new look, features
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Netflix has updated its Web-based video player, tweaking the look of existing controls and adding a few new ones. You'll notice that the interface is streamlined with all of the controls on a single line, whereas the previous interface was more disjointed with buttons scattered across two lines...
Ashton Kutcher to portray Steve Jobs in upcoming indie film
- Ashton Kutcher will portray Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming film titled “Jobs.” The movie will begin filming in May during a break from Kutcher’s role in “Two and a Half Men” following Charlie Sheen’s public departure last year. …
Weekend Open Forum: Have you met anyone famous?
- Facebook and the University of Milan conducted a study earlier this year to determine the validity of the “six degrees of separation” concept – that each person on the planet is only six steps away, by way of introduction, from…
Mortal Kombat reboot confirmed, coming to theaters in 2013
- Mortal Kombat will be heading back to theaters in a big way thanks to a fan-made short film in 2010 called Mortal Kombat: Rebirth. The new movie based on the popular tournament-based fighting franchise is scheduled for a 2013 release…
Movie theaters to use emotion-detecting anti-piracy cameras
- We often see reports of invasive security measures at airports, but TorrentFreak warns that movie theaters are increasingly guilty of trampling your privacy. Theaters already use metal detectors, night-vision goggles, as well as bag and body searches to catch camcording…
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