Proving you can take the property out of the studio but you can’t take the studio mentality out of screwing up the property…

Dear Marvel, please pay the man so we can hopefully enjoy Iron Man 2 as much as the first. Let X3 be lesson learned, not repeated.

Regarding the rumors that Marvel wont bring back Jon Favreau for IRON MAN 2… — Aint It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
MARVEL has the opportunity to create franchises that last - not for a few years, but for decades. But they have to make the right decisions and be willing to work with the artists that will grow and evolve the properties into franchises that are worth existing. When an artists run grows stale, thats when you change horses - not after the first win.

Serenity on BD would be shiny. Now please.

Blu-ray.com - Universal Releases Blu-ray Plans
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released their plans for shifting their high definition focus from the defunct HD DVD format to Blu-ray. Beginning in July, Universal plans to release all new home video releases on Blu-ray day-and-date with their DVD releases.

Looks interesting. Mammet is heavyweight, and he seems to have some actual MMA knowledge. Couture knows his stuff.

PS - Please don’t frak this up…

REDBELT || A SONY PICTURES CLASSICS RELEASE

From ISPs to drive traffic? It’s the only sane reason I can think of for their otherwise business-ending-ly moronic decisions which do nothing but encourage bit torrent. Seriously.

Seriously.

DirecTV DVR clampdown: a sober reminder of DRM suckitudeDirecTV DVR owners got some bad news from the satellite TV provider recently when the company announced that it will break some of the existing functionality of the DVRs. Effective April 15, subscribers will only have 24 hours to watch pay-per-view movies recorded to their DVRs. Once the movies are purchased, the clock starts ticking, and after 24 hours, the PPV movie saved to your DVR will become nothing more than an unreadable collection of zeros and ones.

Whether he mucks it up or not, self-financing 100 episodes, networks be damned, is a luxury few modern producers could even dream of (imagine a self-financed Sorkin West Wing on HBO, or Whedon Firefly…) Yet hopefully lower cost 4K cameras, Final Cut Pro, and the Internet will mean that, one day, you don’t need Lucas-bucks to do this kind of thing.

George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ plan | George Lucas | The Q&A | Movies | Entertainment Weekly | 2

Have you built any sets or done any mockups?

No, what we do in our TV series is we write the entire first year and finish it as a script. Then we start getting ready to shoot it, then we start casting, and then we do it. We know where the whole first year is before we even start to work on it. I mean, I can do that because I’m financing the whole thing. So I’ve got it pegged out for 100 episodes, and I know exactly what I’m going to do and how I’m going to do it and what the risks are.