We posted the trailer back in April, but now, the team behind the movie has released the full film on Youtube! Be sure to watch this one, this is one of the best fan film I’ve ever seen. Enjoy!
Set during the Crusades, the faith & fighting skills of a group of Templar Knights is put to the test when they encounter the Predator. Their battle is the thing Myths and Legends are born from.
Starring Adrian Bouchet, Amed Hashimi, Sabine Crossen, Ben loyd-Holmes, Jon Campling, Joe Egan and Philip Lane.
To comment on the current dating “market,” four students from Leiden University created “Tender,” an art installation that uses a piece of meat to “swipe right” automatically on a simulated version of the Tinder dating app. Yep, it seems that this is what the “meat market” is all about these days.
If you were to look back on the Batman comics and all the stellar artists who have given their own personal touches to the caped crusader, you would see he has a laundry list of some of the most talented people in the industry at his back. From Jim Lee to Tim Sale, every artist had their own style to Batman, and no one was any better or worse than the other. Some made Batman darker, more ripped, angrier. Some made him look more like a character, bigger and larger than life. And even some chose to stick with his golden age roots and keep him campy and classy. The wonderful thing is, there is no right or wrong. It all comes down to YOUR favorite visual representation of the hero.
Kotaku assembled a great list of which artists really made the hero shine:
About Paul Pope:
With the rough-edged cyberpunk and Japanese manga signifiers abounding in Pope’s work, the sweaty, volatile sensibility found in works like Batman Year 100 return the character to the pulpy tone of his fictional forebears.
I, for one, was a big Frank Quietly guy. He just made Batman look and feel like a real person, and no one has been able to replicate that since. Although, huge props to Capullo for his New 52 run. Faceless Joker was insane, and he breathed some real life into that book.
But what may surprise you is that Pratt loves him some Fireball Whisky. So at the end of his photo shoot, he was kind enough to offer tidbits on how to act, in between consuming an entire bottle of Fireball.
Microsoft says it’s found a way to cut the bandwidth needed for cloud-based gaming by 80 percent. It shifts part of the work to the user’s device, so results will likely be variable.
The company has been working with researchers at Duke University and has come up with a tool named Kahawai, the Hawaiian word for “stream.” It aims to deal with the problem that while streamed games, with the majority of the work done by a remote server, can allow top-notch games on less-powerful devices, the resulting bandwidth makes it less viable for anyone on a mobile data package or fixed-line broadband with a data cap.
The Kahawai solution tries to find a happy medium between pure device gaming and pure cloud streaming when it comes to the work of generating graphics. It means the user’s device will either produce a basic ‘sketch’ of every frame, completely producing selected frames (at least six per second but more depending on capabilities) or a combination of the two. The remote server will continue to do the bulk of the frames and complete the fine detail.
The basis of the technology is that many of the ‘big picture’ elements of an on-screen image won’t necessarily change that much from frame to frame. Instead it’s more minor changes such as shading that help create more impressive graphics. The system also takes advantage of the H.264 video compression format.
The researchers tested the game on Doom 3 and found that the average bandwidth needed to stream it was cut by 80 percent without any obviously visible decline in the graphics. They also asked 50 ‘hardcore’ gamers to carry out a set task (killing 12 monsters on a specified level) and found that not only did they subjectively rate the performance of the game as the same both with and without the Kahawai tool running, but objectively the player performance didn’t vary significantly with or without Kahawai. The testing also showed the response times were largely identical in both tests.
Testers used one of two devices: a high-end PC with graphics card and a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet. The general pattern of Kahawai not affecting performance was consistent across both devices.
According to the researchers, the tool can also be modified to allow the game to continue running without an active Internet connection, albeit with a noticeable drop in graphics quality. The idea here wouldn’t so much be to target offline play, but instead to make game streaming viable on connections which have the occasional dropout.
I would say, “don’t hold your breath,” but unlike other attempts by Fox, it APPEARS as if this is going to happen.
Fox tried to make a LOEG TV show a few years ago — emphasis on ‘tried.’
But hey, third time’s the charm, right?
Fox is sure hoping so, as they hand the reins over to producer John Davis (NBC’s The Blacklist).
Ira Napoliello and Matt Reilly are overseeing the remake, based on Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s graphic novel of the same name, centering on Victorian-era literary characters such as Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde teaming to fight a common enemy.
Orson Welles was an enigmatic, mercurial, and idiosyncratic man, but he was nothing short of a genius, making him arguably THE best filmmaker that has ever lived.
And if you know anything about Welles, you also know that he lived a life full that was full of bad luck — and that’s putting it mildly.
In what was supposed to be his comeback film, Welles directed The Other Side of the Wind, but due to financial limitations, he died before he was able to finish editing it, leaving it lost to cinematic history for the past 40 years.
The film is the epic story of legendary film director J.J. “Jake” Hannaford, played by the equally legendary John Huston. In the film, Jake sets out to make his own career re-defining film, also titled The Other Side of the Wind.
The movie also stars legendary actors Peter Bogdanovich, Lilli Palmer, and Dennis Hopper.
As of this writing, there are 21 days left to reach the whopping $2 million needed to fund the project, and despite pleas from directors Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, just over $230,000 has been raised.
For MUCH more information about the project and the film itself or to donate, click here.
