Dennis Quaid and Kate Walsh Join Paul Bettany’s ‘Legion’

Filed under: Action, Thrillers, Casting, Newsstand, Religious

Variety reports that Paul Bettany’s Legion has just added a whole crowd of actors, including the star power of Dennis Quaid, Kate Walsh, and Tyrese Gibson. They will be headlining a cast that includes Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand and Willa Holland. They’ve signed on just in time, as the movie is about to start shooting in New Mexico.

Legion is a thriller that stars Bettany as the archangel Michael, who is all that stands between mankind and an apocalypse after God has lost faith in humanity. But the Almighty apparently hasn’t lost all hope — a child is on the way who is the second coming of Christ, and a group of strangers who recognize the fact must band together to save it. It is director Scott Stewart’s first feature film, from a script he co-wrote with Peter Schink.

I am quite intrigued by the movie, as I am a sucker for any kind of Biblical thriller. The problem is that they are almost always terrible. (Though I will always give props to The Prophecy for proving that the Devil does, in fact, wear a mullet.) The combination of Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid gives me some hope though, since they generally pick good scripts. We’ll see if this is one of them.

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Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone in a new historic flick
With Jodhaa Akbar’s box office success, the flavor of the season is historic movies. Firoz Nadiawala is all set to produce a historic movie. Firoz has sighned Vinay Shukla as the director for his film and has approached Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone to play the main leads in his film. Deepika Padukone is all set […]

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Catch a clip of King Corn

Filed under: Vegetables, Television/Film, High-fructose corn syrup, Sugar

Remember back in October when I posted about the independent movie, King Corn? The movie wasn’t in wide release when we first mentioned it, and so a number of you expressed interest in seeing it, but weren’t able to find a screening anywhere. It’s gotten wider distribution over the last six months, but for those of you who haven’t been able to find the time or place to see it, I’ve got partially good news for you. A twenty minute clip of the film is now available on AOL video site, which means that I can embed that chunk of the movie here, for your viewing pleasure.

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Future fashion from the past
This is a fun video that Etienne Mineur predicted I would love! It presents a selection of Fashion designers ideas from the 30’s, for instance the very visionary electric belt adapts itself to the body. The woman of tomorrow will move in an atmosphere that is scientifically kept at the right temperature! Apparently, the man of the future will wear both a telephone and a radio! Can we make this dream finally possible?

An electric belt will adapt the body to climatic changes and a dress that consists of a transparent net will probably catch the men!

A wedding dress made of glass, a dress adaptable for morning, afternoon or evenings and an electric headlight to help find an honest man!

Finally, this awesome outfit for the man of the future who will be fitted with a telephone, radio, and containers for coins, keys and candies!

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Nokia’s NAVTEQ acquisition draws probe from the EU

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS

It may have won approval from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and NAVTEQ shareholders alike, but it looks like the EU’s European Commission needs a bit more time to think over Nokia’s acquisition of the company, and it’s now launched an “in-depth” probe into the matter. According to Reuters, the Commission said that the “proposed merger raises serious doubts with regards to … competition concerns,” although it was quick to add that the decision to open the inquiry does not prejudge the result of the probe. Among other things, the probe will apparently attempt to asses whether whether the purchase would affect the cost of maps for other companies providing navigation services on cellphones. If all of this has a familiar ring, it should, because it wasn’t all that long ago that the EU launched a similar probe into TomTom’s similar acquisition of map-maker Tele Atlas.

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Amrita Rao finds love in Jal singer Farhan Saeed
The cupid has finally able to struck Amrita Rao, with her mom accompanying her everywhere she goes the cupid had a tough time targetting her. But all said and done Amrita Rao is going around with her new man, and he is none other than Farhan Saeed. Farhan Saeed is the lead vocalist of Pakistani […]

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Google’s YouTube gains video programming intel; Nielsen cringes

Filed under: Products and services, Google (GOOG)

Was YouTube really worth $1.65 billion to Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) when the world’s largest search company bought it a few years ago? By today’s standards, that now seems like a bargain. Consider Yahoo! Inc.’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) impending purchase by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Microsoft’s “small” stake in Facebook that values the social networking site at $15 billion.

YouTube is probably one of the most-used sites I see from friends and family these days. Hours upon hours can be wasted navigating through all the content there, and now that YouTube has launched its YouTube Insight tracking tool, the equivalent of viewership tracking is now available to those who upload videos to the site.

Imagine being able to see details like when, where and how often your videos are being viewed. Previously only available to advertisers at YouTube, all YouTube video uploaders can now see this kind of information. To those who think web surfing time may be eating into television-viewing time, this should provide more detail on whether this is actually happening. Nielsen, eat your heart out.

Professionals and amateurs alike will now be able to test the popularity of different kinds of content at different parts of the days across different parts of each country to make the content as customized as possible. This is what Google is famous for — relevancy. No blanket ads here — the company wants its YouTube users to become more successful, which in turns makes it more successful. Rack up another content relevancy win for Google here.

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Friday Happy Hour: Purple Rain Martini

Filed under: Recipes, Cocktails, Happy Hour

I’m not exactly sure what makes this drink a martini, and I’m also not sure if this has anything to do with Prince and his fancy outfits and his motorcycle, but it sounds rather intriguing.

It’s the Purple Rain Martini, and it’s made with pomegranate-infused sake, which I bet is something a lot of you have never had (I certainly haven’t). Full recipe after the jump.

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SMS pictures on a frame
For last Christmas my sister offered my grand ma a photo frame on which she can display digital pictures via usb upload/connection. It is a pretty cool idea, but my grand ma needs to constantly plug a usb key if she wants to update her pictures. Also she prefers the beauty of printed pictures rather than pictures on a “TV like frame”.

It is interesting to see how printed pictures are important. They have a specific meaning. It is not about what the pictures represent, it is about holding the pictures in the hand, turn them and draw notes in the back, sliding them in a book, bringing it from places to places. During the war, my grand father used to send my grand ma pictures with his beautiful poems written in the back. They served a specific function with a letter.

Now that these digital frames invades the mass market, I wander what is left from the entire spectrum of photo-human relationship. I consider them being something that have little to do with the traditional picture. They conveniently randomly select pictures and display them.

The Vivien photoradio: They send picture emails. You get picture postcards.

One idea that I recently found, from interaction designer John Kestner who gave a talk today at Media Lab, is the photo digital frame that receives pictures from SMS. The designer repackaged the printer into a photo frame and its display is the out tray of the printer.

Vivien translates between generations. Vivien prints pictures with messages on the back from family and friends, placing them right into a photo frame. It is warmer and easier to maintain than current printers and requires no computer, receiving emails with pictures, subscribed photostreams and SMS messages through Wi-Fi.

On can print messages in the back of the picture.”A Standalone device that receives picture emails, photocasts, and SMS messages from family and friends, and prints picture postcards into a photo frame.” It is a good idea because it invites for a new relationship to the picture frame, here it creates a message with a surprise! Of course there should be some kind of filtering mechanism for spam SMS pictures.

Vivien photoradio also comes with Clark that provides a quick Internet connection to users without one. Nearby Vivien photoradios will begin receiving content!

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