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Wow, Trent Reznor is really doing this whole online distribution thing properly; first it was a very affordable 36-track epic, released (until recently) exclusively online in brilliant quality ... now, NIN's new single "Discipline", brand new (apparently it was mastered only a day or two ago), with vocals, not just something off the weeks old "Ghosts I-IV", which can be yours just by giving your e-mail address. Hey, I…

 

It's strange that just last night I was watching "Total Recall" with some friends and I realized how much Arnold Schwarzenegger resembled Charlton Heston in features and acting style in some of the scenes, and started wondering what Ridley Scott's proposed version of "I Am Legend" (to star Schwarzenegger) would have been like, especially as a pseudo-remake of "Omega Man", which I still consider to be a brilliant movie, starring…

 

Science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke died yesterday at his home in Sri Lanka. Clarke was the visionary behind many influential sci-fi works including "Childhood's End", "Rendezvous with Rama" and, of course, "2001: A Space Odyssey". Clarke's close collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on the film adaptation of "2001" in 1968, brought forth an epic change in the way science fiction was imagined on the screen. Classics such as "Silent…

 

Zap2it reports that the television remake of the UK series "Spaced" is going ahead as planned, produced by McG and written by Adam Barr ("Will & Grace"). I'm sure everyone is hoping for the same success as "The Office" (many Americans don't even know there was a UK original), but I'm not sure I do. "Spaced" was an original show, wholly and totally original, and that just…

 

The day will come when I no longer have to embarrass myself constantly bitching and complaining about remakes, but that day is not today. News is now coming from AICN, via an exclusive over at Crave Online that Platinum Dunes, the team who are responsible for the recent "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Amityville Horror" and "The Hitcher" remakes (that's Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form) now have…

 

The new Nine Inch Nails album, "Ghosts", a 36 track instrumental collection, has been released exclusively online. Following the example of Radiohead with "In Rainbows", the main difference here is that the NIN tracks sound amazing, rather than the really-very-low-quality tracks Radiohead released (as more or less a teaser as the album eventually went on-sale as a regular music CD). The album is available in multiple formats (all downloadable, high-quality, DRM…

 

After a string of box office flops, news came today that New Line will be merged into its parent company, Time-Warner. New Line started its life turning "Reefer Madness" into a cult hit on college campuses in the 1960's, made hits of John Waters' movies in the 1970's and brought us the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series in the 1980's, where it finally found its success ... In recent years…

 

(via AICN) I love audience camera footage of trailers from conventions. When you're watching a new, exciting trailer in a regular movie theatre after the jaded audience has already maybe seen it on the internet, you just don't get that thrill you get with a fan audience ... I have to agree with Moriarty at AICN when he says that it was more of a thrill for him to see…

 

Ben Chapman, best known for his role as my all-time famous monster, "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" died earlier today in Hawaii. Chapman played the Gillman in the on-land sequences in this classic film (Ricou Browning performing the underwater sequences). His creature has become a visual icon for movie horror, and was the only one of the core Universal Monsters to be created outside if the 1930's…

 

(via AICN) Here's a cause worth fighting for; I have been watching, out of the corner of my eye, for the last while, the goings-on surrounding the indie film, "Fanboys". The film last screened (as a rough cut) in 2007 at Star Wars Celebration Europe where it was received enthusiastically by the - uh - well, fanboys. Anyway, enter The Weinstein Company, who have been delaying the…