IF THE FORMAT WAR IS OVER THEN WHAT DID BLU REALLY WIN

HERE IS AN ARTICLE FROM BETANEWS.COM SAYING IF THE FORMAT WAR IS OVER THEN WHAT DID BLU REALLY WIN

We really didn't have enough stories on the format war this week, only a few dozen. And I figured that perhaps to make it an even thirty (or was it forty?) we should close the gap with one more.

The huge trend we saw this week was the move away from the format war. Well prior to Warner Bros.' announcement, it appeared the major CE manufacturers were working to build the functionality some of them had once planned for their high-definition disc players, into their HDTV displays and set-top boxes instead. A great many of them -- with a few prominent exceptions, such as Sony -- were about ready to write off their losses and move on.

And honestly, who can blame them? This farce has gone on for too long, and the differences about which both sides are still arguing are not only negligible, but growing more insignificant by the day. For instance, the Internet functionality and updated interactivity layer being built into Blu-ray Profile 2.0 are already being superseded by systems-on-a-chip planned now for the HDTVs to which they would connect.

To say Jackie Emigh's been digging into some new angles on this story is to say the New England Patriots are scoring some first downs these days. Jackie

Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews: Scott, doesn't the timing of Warner's retraction of Blu-ray support -- just days before CES -- seem a bit strange to you? And isn't that about as odd as the seemingly miraculous rebound in Blu-ray sales from November to December?

At this point, it's kind of hard to believe that it was only this past November that Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer grimly declared the war a stalemate. Industry figures were showing that HD DVD had managed to close its sales gap with Blu-ray in a couple of weeks simply by lowering its prices.

But by December, Stringer was a happy man. Buoyed by an investment estimated at between $500 million and $2.5 billion from Dubai International Capital (DIC)-- a fund controlled by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktuom, ruler of Dubai -- Sony had cut its own pricing on the Blu-ray-enabled PlayStation, and sales had surged back up again in time for Black Friday.

And oh, by the way, a few days after DIC announced its investment in Sony, DIC named Nobuyki Idei -- former chief executive of Sony's chief advisor board -- to the board of its own Global Strategic Equities Fund.

And here we are around six weeks later, after a horrific experience for HD DVD at CES, with some folks already ready to sound the death knell for Toshiba's format.

But ideally, technology wars should be decided on the sole basis of a product's ability to meet the need of its users. And here, Blu-ray and HD DVD each have their advantages and disadvantages.

Blu-ray, for example, is now in the throes of moving from Profile 1.0 to the incompatible Profile 1.1 to Profile 2.0, a format which is expected to introduce still further incompatibilities.

And although Sony and its partners stand to pick up additional revenues from users who decide to upgrade to newer Blu-ray drives, there's every possibility that some of them might migrate over to the HD DVD side, too.

Moreover, Blu-ray products are reportedly more costly to make than those that follow the HD DVD format -- and in many cases today, the price of a Playstation doesn't even cover Sony's manufacturing costs.

So if Blu-ray is in fact going to win the war, it'd really better happen fast, to prevent the kind of price erosion that might interfere drastically with production and profitability.

Yet from a product standpoint, Blu-ray does hold one clear advantage over HD DVD, and it is this: Essentially, Blu-ray disks can hold more data.

Here, Sony seems to have learned well from experience. If you've heard about the old videotape wars between VMS and Sony's Betamax format, you might know that one of the main reasons why Sony lost that particular war revolved around a one-hour tape time for Betamax, versus two or even three hours for the competing VHS.

So, I say, may the best product win the Blu-ray/HD DVD war -- regardless of financial investments and real or rumored studio defections.

Scott Fulton: Yes, Jackie, and thank you for that lead-in: I'm still wondering whether either product can genuinely remain the best product in its category for too long. To that end, I have a theory I'm working on. But I'd like to try it out first on our CES analyst, Sharon Fisher.

Sharon, we're always hearing about companies pledging to "push" the envelope. An old Chuck Yeager phrase. I've always said that in order to create a new platform, you have to "break" the envelope. You can evolve platforms incrementally, but to justify a new one, there needs to be a complete new reason for its existence.

Sharon Fisher, BetaNews Senior CES Analyst: I'd go along with that.

Scott: Why build a new interstate system, for instance, unless our cars can fly now?

Sharon: Heh. You're going to pull in the Freepers with their talk of a Canada-Mexico highway.

Scott: When Comcast advanced its fat pipes model, and demonstrated the idea of turning on the TV selecting what you want to see as opposed to what's on, that changes everything for me. That deals with the very nature of television itself. That's when I heard an envelope rip.

Sharon: I suppose. On the other hand, I'm a big fan of serendipity. I'll watch a movie on TV when I have the same movie in my rack.

Scott: True, but imagine the peace we would have in our lives if the few hours we do spend watching television were watching the good television we want rather than wasting our time with whatever's on.

Sharon: Part of the reason I don't get cable is that I know I'd watch History Channel all day, just because I could.

Scott: My wife would say my 24-hour channel would feature photon torpoedoes.

But think about it: The structure of many people's lives in America revolve around television. The real reason why evening news ratings have dropped is because people work later. The reason why morning news ratings climb is because they go to work earlier.

Then there's prime-time, a three-hour block for most networks. There's an industry devoted to that.

Sharon: Television used to be a social phenomenon, too. Everyone would get together to watch Uncle Miltie.

Scott: And there's "The Tonight Show." Proof right there, viewing habits revolve around time. Pat Weaver, the great former president of NBC and Sigourney Weaver's dad pretty much invented television around the concept of the clock.

Well, along comes Comcast. Granted, they're not really the first to suggest this, but they're the first with the know-how and the capital to actually pull this off.

Sharon: On the other hand, look at what the writer's strike has done to TV. All reality shows, all the time.

Scott: "Reality." Glad I don't live there.

Sharon: I know. When I want reality, I turn off the TV.

With Comcast's tru2way, television could become much more participatory. Think of real-time "America's Funniest Home Videos," sponsored by YouTube.

Scott: But the big suggestion is that it may become feasible for programs to become recorded entities waiting for our perusal. And yes, participatory.

But imagine how that changes the entire industry. The business model of entertainment production.

Sharon: How would they promote them?

Scott: If you didn't have to watch CSI any more...why would you???

Sharon: Hey. Some people like CSI.

Scott: So much of network entertainment is placeholder material in-between a few moments of quality. If there were no revenue to be derived from placeholder material, if people could refuse it if it were offered, there would be a huge depression for the entertainment industry.

Sharon: You know, that's not what I'm worried about. I'm worried about the opposite: the few gems out there being overwhelmed with waves of dreck. As I pointed out earlier this week, Comcast's big promotion of HD was...Norbit.

Scott: Waves and waves of dreck....disguised as Eddie Murphy. But wouldn't people reject the waves of dreck out of hand?

Sharon: I don't think people would refuse what was offered, no. It might be a big boon to the sports industry.

Scott: True! A lot of new sports would get new viewers. Softball.

Sharon: Curling!

Scott: Cricket!

Sharon: I shudder to think about the kids' programming, though...as the mother of someone who eats, breathes, and sleeps Hannah Montana. She's put out that I won't spend $3000 and airfare on a Hannah Montana ticket.

Scott: And on that note of nightmare...I bid you good luck with that, Sharon.

Next: Scott Fulton on the lessons of history unlearned.

Scott Fulton, BetaNews: When I was a boy (if I was a boy) growing up in that mighty metropolis I thought Oklahoma City to be at the time, my aunts and uncles would often make the 90-mile trek north to visit me in what my local weatherman lovingly referred to as "the Big Town." They'd arrive in a recent-model Ford stretch sedan that seated about 29 -- never a GM car, always a Ford, for it was Henry who got America through the depression and we all owed him a debt of gratitude.

The Ford LTD back then had a trunk large enough for a queen-size mattress, with room left over for a few sleepers. My Uncle Vernon, a retired chief of detectives, would use that trunk to haul back a month's supply of Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, and 7-Up -- not the knock-offs, but the "real" soft drinks, in glass bottles that clinked around in wooden crates. You couldn't always get the real soft drinks in Southern Oklahoma or Northern Texas, because the bottlers' trucking routes didn't extend very far south of us, or very far north of Dallas. Some people subsisted on Cragmont Cola, Dr. Wells, and Bubble-Up.

My cousins from the back seat of the LTD would beg to go to the movies, because the Big Town always got the first-run films. Not that going to the local theater in Lindsay, Oklahoma wasn't a hoot in itself, at a venue whose décor seemed best suited for the premiere of a Harold Lloyd film. But the Big Town had the Cinerama screens, the plush seats, the ushers with the hats, and on top of that, all the brands of candy -- the local Bunte brand, Brach's, Hershey's, Hollywood, Peter Paul, and the real M&Ms rather than the cheap knock-offs that tasted like buttons pinched off your granddad's overcoat. And we had twin theatres -- not just one screen but two! We had the luxury of choice in the Big Town.

It doesn't take a genius or even a respectably smart historian to know that when Americans want to be entertained or amused, their first requirement is to know that nothing is being held back from them. It's not so much that Americans need to see everything on the menu at one time. It's not only a comfort but a reassurance of their basic principles that Americans know they're not missing out on something to which they're entitled.

The very thought that anyone would invest time and money in an entertainment medium that was guaranteed, through the stubbornness of the very people producing it, to offer less than 100% of what should reasonably be available to them, is in hindsight one of the most bizarre, hare-brained collective mis-reads of American behavior on the part of any multi-billion-dollar industry in the history of commerce.

There are some consumers today who are willing or even eager to invest their time, energy, and money on a promise of a big reward in the future. But not all Americans are gamblers, and too many of us would prefer to gamble -- when we do gamble -- on something more fundamental to our futures than "high definition." If we're going to make the big trek north, if you will, we expect a payoff, not a promise. We won't drive 90 miles out of our way just to end up with a "gussied-up" version, to borrow an adjective from my aunt, of the little hometown theater on Second Street.

It is of little or no consequence to most everyone I've ever met that Blu-ray has more of a share of the available high-def movies than HD DVD; it's like comparing two half-empty bottles of soda. It doesn't much matter which one is closest to full; neither is particularly appealing if it's sitting up there for sale on the store shelf. You kinda wonder who's gotten into it.

And it isn't as though the television industry hasn't had an epic format battle before, or a hard time coming to a decision on either of two ways to go forward.
After World War II up until the early 1950s -- back when Uncle Vernon was on the beat and The African Queen was playing at the local theater in Lindsay -- there was a real format war in the television industry.

The debate was over how to put color on the picture tube. RCA had a system that directed the stream of electrons to painted points of color on the inside of the CRT, creating varying shades of the optical primaries red, green, and blue. CBS had a system with a spinning translucent wheel painted red, green, and blue, through which flickering images were beamed at such a speed and intensity that when they collided on the back side of the CRT and hung around for a few microseconds, they looked colorful.

Now, mind you, the difference between these two formats was gigantic, not aesthetic like the difference between Blu-ray and HD DVD. The RCA system had the advantage of not catching fire when left on for long periods of time, say, an hour. It also introduced the term compatibility from the sociologist's vernacular into the technological vocabulary, in that existing black-and-white sets could show pictures intended for color broadcasts.

Yet it was CBS that set an important standard, in one of technology's most influential battles. You see, thanks to RCA's huge legal department, the matter of which standard should prevail went to the US Supreme Court. And there, setting a precedent which the high court would follow later for picking the winner, it chose the CBS spinning wheel as the national standard. But the court case took so long that, in the meantime, RCA had flooded the market with inexpensive black-and-white sets -- compatible systems that could receive NBC's later color broadcasts.

The standard CBS set was for gracefully bowing out, when it appeared its cause was lost in the marketplace. The company made up a convenient excuse (it literally said the Korean War effort forced it to shift its priorities), and moved over to the RCA field-sequential system by 1954 to make amends. It was awkward at the time, but in retrospect, it was so graceful.

Everyone knows the government has a questionable track record of settling history-making disputes, so it's a good thing they stayed out of today's blue-laser battle. But what we're faced with now, too many years after someone had the bone-jarring idea of upping the frequency on the laser beam, are two sets of technology companies and content providers with differing stakes in the concept of high-definition, battling over the remains of the recorded video market. We are already seeing consumer apathy about the whole idea of having high-def movie discs and at the same time not actually, legally owning them, thanks to DRM, EULAs, and this ridiculous notion held by the studios that we're not all consumers but rather extended lessees of their content. And while we did see buyers a few months ago willing to place a hundred-dollar bet on a discount HD DVD player, for what it's worth, the market at large has rejected high-definition video on blue-laser disc.

So what is it that Blu-ray thinks it has won this week? Any student of history or even an amateur observer of public attitudes knows that you can't win an audience with half of a value proposition. If I know for a fact that a country I live in will only let me read 50% or 70% or 99% of the books printed in the world, for whatever reason it might concoct, I don't want to live in that country.

If I can only see 70% of the movies, I don't want to waste a nickel on the theater that would withhold from me the 30%. I'll drive the 90 miles north, thank you very much, in an LTD that gets 10 miles to the gallon, filled with 30 gallons of Ethyl and 50 gallons of 7-Up. There's a right comfortable place to stretch out in the back if you don't mind the crates and the clinking and the kids with their big bags of candy.

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NEW LINE CINEMAS GONE BLU TOO

NEW LINE CINEMAS HAS DECIDED TO BITE THE BLU BULLET AND GO BLU

HERE IS THE ARTICLE FROM ENGADGETHD.COM

As if anyone expected anything different, New Line confirmed with Variety Magazine that it'll follow Warner to the Blu-ray promise land. While this is a no brainer considering the relationship between Warner and New Line, (also owned by Time Warner, just like Engadget) other studios remain up in the air. When, and if, Universal makes the switch as well is any ones guess, but at this point we doubt many would expect otherwise. But, as we've learned in the last few days, anything's possible, but the idea of having one HD format to adopt is something even most members of the red camp can get behind.

COMCAST LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE FANCAST

COMCAST HAS LAUNCHED NEW WEBSITE FANCAST.COM ARTICLE IS FROM WIRED.COM

Cable giant Comcast on Tuesday plans to unveil Fancast, a TV-and-movie search site that the company hopes will become one of the Web's top entertainment destinations.

After a year of development and six months in beta, the site still isn't all there yet -- but it's already far enough along to become the electronic programming guide that TVGuide.com only wishes it could be.

"The problem is that people don't know how to get their hands on something," says Amy Banse, president of Comcast Interactive Media. "We thought, let's give consumers a one-stop shop."

Fancast is one of several announcements Comcast CEO Brian Roberts is expected to make at Tuesday morning's CES keynote address -- the first by a cable exec. He'll also tout a dramatic expansion of Comcast's video-on-demand lineup and a portable DVR developed in partnership with Panasonic.

The AnyPlay DVR -- announced by Panasonic on Monday, but not available until early 2009 -- is designed to slide out of a docking station on the set-top box and has a pop-up screen, so you can watch it in a plane or a car. It will double as a DVD player, so you'll also be able to watch movies and TV shows you can't find on television.

With Fancast itself, if something is on TV at all, you should be able to find it. If it's in movie theaters or on DVD or available from iTunes, Netflix, Amazon or Web-video sites like Hulu, you can find it too.

Key to the site was Comcast's purchase last year of Fandango, the movie-ticketing site best known for its incredibly annoying sock puppets. News of the deal was greeted with snorts of derision: Would the move pan out, or was it, as blog baron Nick Denton predicted on ValleyWag, "a classic boom-time blunder by an aging corporation eager for the internet limelight"? Given the cable industry's dismal track record on innovation, the smart money was with Denton.

Yet Fancast turns out to be surprisingly well-designed -- and useful enough that the biggest complaint is likely to be, what took so long?

Like IMDB and other sites, it can be searched by title, actor, director and any number of other keywords. But it also takes a crucial next step, leading you directly to what you're looking for.

Take television. You don't have to be a Comcast customer to find a show on your TV lineup. Type in your ZIP code and check off your cable or satellite provider, and Fancast tells you not only what time it's on but whether it's on channel 43 or channel 403.

Other links take you directly to iTunes, Amazon, Netflix and Blockbuster. If you're looking for a film that's still in theaters, Fancast hands you off to Fandango, which provides local times and theater locations, and in many cases a link to buy tickets online.

Fancast is also supposed to play full-screen video from Hulu, CBS.com and -- Roberts announces today -- Viacom networks like MTV and Comedy Central. Unfortunately, this feature is still pretty buggy: On a Mac running Safari, for example, Fancast plays CBS videos but not Hulu's. Tech support is said to be on the case.

Within a few months, Comcast and TiVo customers should be able to click a button on the site and automatically record a show on their DVRs. Banse says Comcast is talking with other cable providers about doing this for their subscribers as well.

Also in the works are "community" features like consumer reviews and sharing recommendations with friends, plus the ability to program your DVR from a mobile phone -- something you can already do in more-advanced countries like Great Britain. "We have another 12 months of work ahead of us," Banse says.

Until then, users will just have to content themselves with the Six° button, which -- you guessed it -- provides links to just about every movie, television show, actor, writer and director anyone has ever been involved with. Kevin Bacon, eat your heart out.

COMCAST NEW PROJECT INFINITY CES 2008 NEWS

HERE IS AN ARTICLE FROM BETANEWS.COM ABOUT THE NEW PROJECT FROM COMCAST CALLED INFINITY

Scott Fulton, BetaNews: During his keynote address later this morning at CES 2008, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts is slated to introduce a venerable onslaught of brands to the public at large, at least one of which could have a significant and perhaps historic impact on cable television service.

For now, the big announcement is being referred to as "Project Infinity," and it involves nothing short of the deprogramming of the programs it offers from all its content providers.

Comcast corporate statement Tuesday morning: Project Infinity envisions ever-increasing customer choice that continues the evolution of time-shifted viewing that began with the huge success of Comcast On Demand. Comcast's vision is to give customers exponentially more content choices -- all available to consumers at the click of the remote without having to buy any additional equipment.

Scott Fulton: Conceivably, the service could involve a kind of DV-R on the server side, effectively pre-recording all its shows at the source and delivering them over IPTV connections to digital cable subscribers on their own schedules. It could be a simpler service than you think, since Comcast would only need to store a few cached recordings, which could be far more efficient than distributing millions of DVRs just so millions of viewers can record programs on the receiving end.

And with a local hard drive not being necessary, the cost of service subscription may reflect that one less item.

Likely to be featured as part of this service is a new Comcast brand called Fancast. Subscribers will be able to tune-in on demand to recorded content that viewers have missed, and may do so not necessarily through their TVs. Replayed shows will also be made available through the Web.

Comcast corporate statement Tuesday morning: Need to decide what to watch tonight? On Fancast users can search for video content and entertainment information they're looking for on over 11 million web pages including information on more than 50,000 television shows, 80,000 movies and 1.2 million people combining multiple sources of entertainment information.

So yes, there's a social aspect of it as well. More from Brian Roberts' keynote at CES later in the day.

UNIVERSAL SAYS THEY ARE STAYING RED FOR RIGHT NOW

ACCORDING TO BETANEWS.COM UNIVERSAL IS STAYING WITH HD-DVD FOR NOW.

HERE IS THE FULL ARTICLE FROM BETANEWS.COM:

5:00 pm ET January 10, 2008 -- Universal Studios has officially dispelled the rumors from Variety that it will drop HD DVD and switch to Blu-ray.

"Contrary to unsubstantiated rumors from unnamed sources, Universal's current plan is to continue to support the HD DVD format," said Ken Graffeo, executive vice president of HD strategic marketing for Universal Studios Home Entertainment and also co-president of the HD DVD Promotional Group.

The response would have come sooner, but many HD DVD executives were on flights home from CES when the story from Variety broke.

2:00 pm ET January 10, 2008 -- The HD DVD Promotional Group is expected to release a statement this afternoon refuting claims that Universal is jumping ship to Blu-ray.

While it's not clear what the statement will say, HD DVD indicated at CES that it still had full support from Paramount and Universal -- the last two major Hollywood studios to be backing the format exclusively.

However, without actual exclusive contracts in place, Universal could still decide to switch allegiances in the future.

It's not clear what led to the Variety claims, but they follow similar rumors reported by the Financial Times -- and later disputed by the studio -- that Paramount would go Blu-ray only.

Sources close to the matter say that neither Variety or the Financial Times bothered to contact HD DVD for confirmation before publishing the rumors.

Posted at 9:23am ET:

The entertainment industry publication Daily Variety is reporting this morning that Universal -- the only HD DVD stalwart we haven't talked that much about during CES week -- is preparing to gracefully back out of its commitment to that format.

The studio would first fulfill its remaining promotional commitments to HD DVD, which is what Warner Bros. has also committed to do through May. Variety also confirmed what had been stated as rumor yesterday that Paramount, the other HD DVD backer, does have a clause in its contract with the HD DVD Promotions Group to back out should Warner Bros. also back out.

BetaNews is on the floor of the final day of CES throughout the day, and will gauge reaction to this news.

BLU-RAY WINNING THE FORMAT WAR AGAINST HD-DVD WITH THE ADDITION OF WARNER BROTHERS

ACCORDING TO WARNER BROTHERS THEY DECIDED TO GO BLU

Just two days before Bill Gates' Consumer Electronics Show keynote, Microsoft's chosen next-generation video format suffered a major setback. Late Friday, movie and television studio Warner Bros. announced that it is discontinuing its support of the HD DVD format, and will release its high-definition home-video offerings solely on Blu-ray Disc beginning this coming May. Currently, the company, which controls nearly 18 to 20 percent of the US home-video market, supports both Blu-ray and HD DVD.

"Warner Bros.' move to exclusively release in the Blu-ray Disc format is a strategic decision focused on the long term," said Barry Meyer, Warner Bros.' chairman and CEO, in a statement. "The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass-market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers."

Warner Bros. joins a host of other movie studios--including the Walt Disney Company, 20th Century Fox, and Lionsgate--who are backing the Blu-ray format. More importantly for gamers, Blu-ray was created by Sony, which has included an internal Blu-ray Disc drive as part of all four PlayStation 3 models released since November 2006. Besides movie studios Universal and Paramount, HD DVD is backed by Microsoft, which released an external HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 in November 2006. It recently denied rumors that it is working on a version of the Xbox 360 that would have an internal HD DVD drive.

Toshiba, which led development of HD DVD at the same time it was partnering with Sony to create the PS3's cell processor, was openly shocked by today's events. "Toshiba is quite surprised by Warner Bros.' decision to abandon HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray, despite the fact that there are various contracts in place between our companies concerning the support of HD DVD," the company said in a terse statement. "We were particularly disappointed that this decision was made in spite of the significant momentum HD DVD has gained in the US market as well as other regions in 2007. HD DVD players and PCs have outsold Blu-ray in the US market in 2007."

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HERE IS THE SUMMARY FOR THE MOVIE WALK HARD DEWEY COX STORY FROM IMDB

The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), whose songs would change a nation. On his rock ‘n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to – and then kicks – every drug known to man… but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman – longtime backup singer Darlene (Jenna Fischer). Written by Sony Pictures

HERE IS A REVIEW FOR THE MOVIE WALK HARD THE DEWEY COX STORY FROM DVDTLAK


It takes a smart team to make a good spoof. This is evident in the many not-good spoofs that have polluted cineplexes in recent months, simple-minded exercises like "The Comebacks" and "Date Movie" that think referencing something is the same thing as spoofing it. "Walk Hard" gets it. Written by Jake Kasdan and Judd Apatow and directed by Kasdan, it's a parody of musical biopics, particularly "Walk the Line" and "Ray," and it merrily deconstructs the conventions of the genre with subtlety and (where required) blatant outright mockery. When the legendary rock singer Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly) stands contemplatively in the shadows backstage before a performance and a crew member urges him to get ready, a band member explains: "Dewey Cox needs to think about his entire life before he plays." The rest of the film is a flashback, of course, starting with Dewey's childhood in Arkansas in the 1940s. His brother Nate is a talented pianist and the favored son; as you know from seeing other biopics, Dewey is bound to be responsible, at least indirectly, for Nate's death. In this case, it's horseplay in the barn that leads to Dewey accidentally cutting Nate in half with a machete. At age 14, Dewey -- already being played by the very obviously 40-something John C. Reilly -- performs rock 'n' roll at a school talent show, resulting in mayhem. A few years later he's married to, and has an impossible number of children with, Edith (Kristen Wiig), who doesn't support his dreams of being a musician. "I do believe in you!" she insists. "I just know you're gonna fail." He sweeps floors at a black nightclub where everyone dances erotically, and gets his big break when the regular singer/guitarist is injured. His trajectory mostly follows Johnny Cash's, notably in his falling in love with a backup singer named Darlene (Jenna Fischer) and eventually leaving his wife for her. He becomes a drug user, too, after being introduced to it by his drummer, Sam (Tim Meadows), who warns him against using marijuana ... not very convincingly, since he also mentions that it has no side effects, isn't addictive, and is the cheapest drug there is.

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HERE IS THE SUMMARY FOR THE MOVIE NATIONAL TREASURE 2 FROM IMDB

While Ben is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth's diary, one man stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Thomas Gates, Ben's great-grandfather, is mentioned in the page. It shows that Ben's great-grandfather could have been a person involved with Abraham Lincoln's murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley to Buckingham Palace(which they break into). It takes them to a book in the White House(which they break into also)and they even steal a page from the book. But in order to see more from the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. Which do they choose? It's obvious. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore and they even mention the JFK conspiracy. Could Ben clear his family's name? Or will his family be known as the descendant of Abraham Licoln's murderer? Written by mviedirctr354

HERE IS A REVIEW FOR THE MOVIE NATIONAL TREASURE 2 FROM DVDTALK

The short review of the new "National Treasure" sequel is that it's the exact same film as its predecessor. The extended review would be that it's the exact same film as its predecessor, but somehow even more unpleasant.

Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) is ready for a fight when a mysterious treasure hunter named Mitch (played with dead-eyed, boat-payment-glee by Ed Harris) sullies the Gates name by suggesting Ben's ancestor was involved in the murder of President Lincoln. Joined by his father Patrick (Jon Voight), estranged girlfriend Abigail (Diane Kruger), and sidekick Riley (Justin Bartha), the team scoots around the world on the hunt for clues that will lead them to a lost city made of gold. Closely hunted by Mitch's men and various law enforcement officials (led by Harvey Keitel), Ben and the gang try to elude danger at every step on their quest to save the family from historical disgrace.

2004's "National Treasure" was a meticulously tedious adventure film that, while appealing in its monotone family entertainment value, failed to catch fire as it gasped its way through leaden stunt set-pieces and hokey historical recreations. I blame director Jon Turteltaub, who failed to show much aptitude for the art of the action sequence, not to mention his complete unease with subtlety.

"Book of Secrets," isn't truly a sequel to the first "Treasure" film, but something of an unofficial remake, trucking through almost the exact same story beats and awkwardly similar locations, even presenting an overwrought climax that's set inside a very familiar cavernous, ancient chamber. The script doesn't further the characters either; it merely corrals them snugly together for another big show of puzzling, jetting around the globe to mingle with famous landmarks. In fact, I defy anyone to sniff out an actual character arc in this picture.

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An animated fairy tale meets modern, live-action comedy. The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world? Written by Orange

In an animated fairy tale world, a young girl meets and falls in love with the handsome prince of her dreams. News of this romance upsets the prince's mother, the evil queen, who uses her black magic to send the girl hurtling out of the animated world into the one place in the universe where there is no true love: modern day Manhattan. The now-real girl has to survive in New York City and find her way home again to her true love. Written by Giorgio_C

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While it walks cautiously in the shadow of self-referential monstrosities like "Shrek," Disney's latest princess feature "Enchanted" is an amusing romp that plays more happily to the all-important four quadrant ideals than anything else the studio has released this year. However, it's a charmer with severe reservations.

In the fairy tale land of Andalasia, Giselle (Amy Adams) is preparing for her wedding to Prince Edward (James Marsden), much to the chagrin of her soon-to-be stepmother, Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon). In an effort to remove the future princess from the picture, Narissa pushes Giselle down a fountain where she magically ends up in New York City. Offering help to the bewildered Giselle is lawyer Rob (Patrick Dempsey), who can't believe this unstoppably perky songstress is for real. When attempts by Narissa's henchmen (Timothy Spall) to kill Giselle fail, the Queen heads down the fountain herself to finish the job, while Edward traipses around the city with a rodent pal vowing to save his fiancée.

"Enchanted" marks a return of sorts to the 2D animation fold for the Disney company, choosing the opulent art form to illustrate the storybook life in Andalasia and cozy the material up to the legacy of princess movies. In fact, "Enchanted" is nothing but a valentine to the princess lifestyle; a full court press by the studio to find themselves a new glittering heroine in Giselle, using such devices as Julie Andrews's narration and cameos by the voices of past Disney royalty to make it a welcoming family affair.

Director Kevin Lima does a competent job pinpointing the fairy tale aesthetic for "Enchanted," jamming the film with talking animals, lavish costumes, and bouncy musical numbers. There are also a hundred references to other celebrated fantasies, most presented in an obvious fashion (single slippers, poisoned apples) so the audience can make a game of spotting the tributes. It's a relentlessly bubbly picture with at least two great songs (one, "That's How You Know," is an exhilaratingly choreographed showstopper) and a vibrant production design to please the eye.

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SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee has their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies. Written by Anonymous


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It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust- found only in the vast Artic expanse of the North -was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle... Written by Krista

Adaptation of the Carnegie Medal-winning novel by Pullman, the first volume in the His Dark Materials trilogy. In a parallel Oxford, young Lyra Belacqua begins a dimension-crossing odyssey that builds from a merely atypical children's adventure into a complex (and frequently quite dark) philosophical epic. Written by Tom Aylward-Nally

Lyra Belaqua, living in Oxford's Jordan College, is not but a young girl living among scholars. Her world may seem diverse, from physical embodiments of souls that take the shape of an animal, but similar with people around you to become friends and enemies. She is thrown into a perilous adventure when she overhears a conversation of an extraordinary microscopic particle, Dust. This particle is said to unite different worlds, and is feared by many who want to destroy it forever. As Lyra is flung into the middle of this horrible struggle, she meets wondrous creatures both big and small, and villains who are not what they seem. Gobblers, that kidnap children, will turn out in the most unexpected places. And a magical compass of gold that will answer any question if one is skilled enough to read it. Lyra's adventure continues throughout these three books, and the first is about to be told. Written by Reaz

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"Golden Compass" is one of those outrageously expansive fantasy tales with enough characters to fill three movies and a perplexing vocabulary that stacks up in a hurry, leaving the bewildered viewer gasping for air. That's not to say this is a bad film, but it's a tough nut to crack. As fantasy epic book-to-screen adaptations go, this has the most intimidating thickness to date.

Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) is a precocious 11 year-old roaming the collegiate home of her uncle, Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), with her animal other half (known as Daemons), Pantalaimon, at her side. Gifted a truth-revealing compass device called an Alethiometer, Lyra finds herself in severe jeopardy when the wicked Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman) shows up to claim the girl and the compass for the benefit of the vile Gobblers. Meeting up with loyal Gyptians, cowboys (Sam Elliot), witches (Eva Green), and earning the life debt of a bruiser Ice Bear (a polar bear crossed with a punch in the face) named Lorek Byrnison (robustly voiced by Ian McKellen), Lyra heads to the arctic to save a group of children undergoing experiments performed by the Gobblers and find the secret of a mysterious luminescent substance called Dust.

Phew. If any of the above synopsis made sense, congratulations! You're already halfway to understanding the riches "Compass" offers. Adapted from the Philip Pullman trilogy of novels, "Compass" is setting out to be the next "Lord of the Rings" franchise dynamo, complete with sophisticated special effects, a sparkling cast, and labyrinthine source material that is begging to roll out over three movies. So much so, "Compass" actually fails to contain an ending.

I'm new to Pullman's vast imagination, which leaves me at quite a loss over how to interpret writer/director Chris Weitz's compacted adaptation. Weitz is not the first director that comes to mind when dreaming up the possibilities of a fantasy free-for-all; clearly the people financing the film could make the artistic credibility leap from "American Pie" to "Compass" that I couldn't. Actually, Weitz does an admirable job stapling down a coherent narrative, keeping his camerawork clean and always goading a sense of awe into the forefront. He seems fearful of pushing his luck with the script, so the ambition of the picture is limited to character introductions, not stylish widescreen wizardry.

If the sheer amount of story doesn't feel heavy enough, "Compass" spends almost every scene explaining itself, as if stuck in permo-exposition mode. It's exhausting trying to keep up with everything onscreen (the Dust subplot is left painfully unexplained), but the basics are covered, even if they discharge from characters who spend more time spitting out plot points with puckered pusses than engaging in bewitching verbal warfare.

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Aubrey Fleming is a regular high school student with friends and family. One night, she unexpectedly disappears. Two weeks later she is found unconscious in the middle of the woods. When spoken to, her loved ones realize she has forgotten her identity and the personality living in her body is Dakota Moss, a character that Aubrey created in one of her stories for an English assignment. Dakota denies ever being Aubrey knowing that they look identical. Now, Dakota must try to unravel the mystery of how her and Aubrey co-exist and find out who abducted Aubrey that night. Written by Organic_6

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When some mystery thrillers reveal their secrets at the end, you say, "Aaaahh," in a mix of surprise and satisfaction. When "I Know Who Killed Me" unveils everything, you say, "What? Are you serious? That's stupid." I have to assume that this was not the filmmakers' intention. Lurid, over-sexualized, and boring when it's not being actively unpleasant, "I Know Who Killed Me" stars Lindsay Lohan as Aubrey Fleming, a talented high school senior with a football player boyfriend (Brian Geraghty) and a scholarship to Yale. She writes fiction and plays the piano, both allegedly with great skill, though the examples we're shown aren't very impressive.

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The mile high city is rocked when an ancient Egyptian menace comes to town, and the Denver Ghostbusters must return to save the universe once more. In this sequel to the internet cult hit Freddy VS Ghostbusters, the boys in gray find themselves up to their eyeballs in spooks, as a greater threat looms on the horizon...

A talented cast and crew made up entirely of volunteers (see also: fanatics) worked over the internet and across borders for over two years. Featuring dazzling special effects, an original score, and an engaging story inhabited by quirky characters, this feature length film is a truly one of a kind fan made experience.


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Erik, Ryan, and Cooze start college and pledge the Beta House fraternity, presided over by none other than legendary Dwight Stifler. But chaos ensues when a fraternity of geeks threatens to stop the debauchery and the Betas have to make a stand for their right to party. Written by Anonymous

From Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Rogue Pictures comes a brand-new hilarious chapter in the legendary American Pie saga, American Pie Presents: Beta House. The hijinks now move from the town of Great Falls to the University of Michigan, where the infamous Beta House fraternity has been setting new standards for incredible parties and outrageous antics. Our heroes are cousins Erik and Dwight Stifler, of the American Pie series' famed Stifler family. Erik has recently been dumped by his high school girlfriend and is trying to re-invent himself while pledging Dwight's fraternity, Beta House. Meanwhile, Dwight is trying to save Beta House from an onslaught by the newly established GEK ("Geek") House, which is led by power-hungry nerd leader Edgar and his band of geek brothers and sisters. Erik's best friend Mike "Cooze" Coozeman and his new roommate Bobby also pledge Beta House and ARE planning to enjoy college to the fullest. It promises to be a semester full of partying, craziness, pranks, and sexual tension to exceed expectations... ...and it does! Erik finds a girl, Ashley, to heal his heartbreak. Cooze dates Ashley's roommate Denise -- but finds himself in a possible "Crying Game" scenario. Dwight and the other Betas fight off Geek House for social supremacy on campus. The rivalry gets so intense that the only way to settle it is through direct competition in the Greek Games, an ancient campus ritual that went so far out of control it was banned forty years ago. It turns out that even Geeks can be bullies, so the Betas have to pull together to fend off the Geeks and prove that some traditions deserve to be upheld. Written by USHE

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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.

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The process that's utilized by "Beowulf" to render its grandiose scenes of confrontation is called Motion Capture. A stylized hybrid of animation and human acting (think a 'roided up rotoscoping), mo-cap is still in its infancy, but don't tell "Beowulf" that. A lush, pulsating adventure tale, this is the future of cinema; the limitations of storytelling inching one step further to being forever erased.

When drunken King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) and his Queen (Robin Wright Penn) find their land besieged by the vile and wicked monster Grendel (Crispin Glover), they call on hero Beowulf (Ray Winstone) to slay the beast. With an ego to match his skill, Beowulf battles Grendel, only to find his hazardously tempting Mother (Angelina Jolie) a more conniving foe. After victory becomes his mythical imprisonment, Beowulf's talents are needed again when a dragon ravages the kingdom.

"Beowulf" is the most famous of poems. An epic adventure dating back to the year 700, the tale of heroism has been debated, explored, and CliffsNoted a thousand times over, but I'm positive it's never been envisioned quite like this movie. Visual magician (or director) Robert Zemeckis has snatched the poem and pried it open by way of intricate mo-cap execution, the same process that brought "Polar Express" to life in 2004, conceiving luxuriant primitive worlds for Beowulf to conquer and snarling enemies to fight. It's classic adventure storytelling, thrilling when the film eventually settles into its battle cry, and pinched raw by modern twists that hurl "Beowulf" away from a sleepy high school assignment and toward something genuinely unpredictable.

Certainly the screenplay by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman does take time to get rolling, as it has difficulty shifting gears between Beowulf's brawling sense of war and his royal exhaustion. However, words are of little importance in this picture, since Zemeckis is serving up an overflowing basket of big screen treats, even offering the film in 3-D and IMAX formats (the preferred theatrical exhibition, lemme tell ya) to best grab the viewer by the throat.

Being a perfectionist and a firm believer in constructing shots instead of shooting for the edit, Zemeckis uses the freedom and fluidity of mo-cap to imagine Beowulf's towering feats of strength. Watching the title character slice sea creatures in half, leap on a flying dragon, or fight Grendel in the nude (the film's best sequence), it becomes clear that "Beowulf" is fearless with its staging. In the animation realm, Beowulf's stories of past glory can be executed to soaring heights, while his current troubles with creatures of all shapes and sizes drip with newfound flexibility, meticulously orchestrated in the director's imaginative, affectionately sustained shot list.

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Dan Vassar thought he had it all: a great wife, a great job, and a great son. But just as Dan thinks his life is as it should be, he is thrown for a loop when he finds himself traveling into the past and in doing so impacts people's lives -- sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. While doing so, Dan is able to reconnect with Livia Beale, his ex-fiancée who supposedly died in a mysterious plane crash.

General Summary of the occurances in season one: May Contain Spoilers.

Livia has been accompanying Dan throughout his Journeys. Although they do travel together it is still unsure as to why they're time travelers and it is unclear as to whether or not we will ever find out. Although it was identified that Livia died on a plane and no body was ever found, in actuality she disappeared. Nobody knew where she went and when Dan met up with her on his first journey he wanted answers. Later it was identified that Livia is from the 1940's and met Dan on accident. For some strange reason time wasn't letting her go back to her era so she ajusted. It has been mentioned that Dan can go back in time and Livia goes to the future. There are conditions though, as they can only go backward or forward to times where they are alive. Livia has mentioned that the journey's will get longer.


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Plunged headlong into another world, DG must discover her true identity, battle evil winged-monkey-bats, and attempt to fulfill her destiny. Her perilous journey begins on the fabled Old Road that leads to a wizard known as the Mystic Man. Along the way, she is joined by a decidedly strange trio of companions "Glitch," an odd man missing half his brain, "Raw," a quietly powerful wolverine-like creature longing for inner courage, and "Cain," a heroic former policeman (known in the O.Z. as Tin Men, for their tin badges) seeking vengeance for his scarred heart. Ultimately, DG's destiny leads her to an emotional and terrifying showdown with the scintillatingly wicked sorceress Azkadellia, whose ties to DG are closer than anyone could have imagined. DG's life, as well as the very future of the O.Z., hangs in the balance.

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Three misfit parapsychology professors are booted out of their cushy jobs at New York City's Columbia University. Despite their relative lack of funding, they start an enterprise called Ghostbusters, a spectral investigation and removal service. One of the men has a plan to catch and contain supernatural entities, though it has never been properly tested. Undeterred, they obtain a former fire station as a base and begin advertising on local television. At first, their clients are few and far between, and the Ghostbusters have to depend on their individual talents to keep the business alive: Dr. Egon Spengler is a scientific genius, Dr. Raymond "Ray" Stantz is an expert on paranormal history and metallurgy, and Dr. Peter Venkman has charm and business savvy, although he is in some ways a charlatan. Although he initially comes off as a bit of a goof and sleaze, Venkman eventually finds a subtly heroic side to himself when he learns that a creature called Zuul is haunting the apartment of Dana Barrett, a client who has become the object of his lustful intentions. Unfortunately, it soon becomes apparent to the Ghostbusters that the spike in paranormal events means they are headed toward a climactic confrontation with an entity ancient Sumerian God known as Gozer the Gozerian, whose presence was implied by bizarre occurrences such as the demonic Zuul appearing in Dana Barrett's apartment! The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple and face Gozer themselves. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple. Written by Greg Bole {bole@life.bio.sunysb.edu}

Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are three scientists at Columbia University in New York City. When their grant expires, the guys are fired and they go into business as a ghost extermination company called "Ghostbusters". Their first customer is orchestra cello player Dana Barrett, who was scared out of her apartment on the 22nd floor of a high rise apartment building on Central Park West. It seems that Dana's neighbor, Louis Tully, is also being affected by the strange happenings in the apartment building. Armed with proton guns, the Ghostbusters become wildly popular, and they are joined by Winston Zeddmore, who is looking for a job with good pay. Overzealous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agent Walter Peck thinks the Ghostbusters are frauds, and he has the Ghostbusters put in jail. Peck is forced to believe the Ghostbusters when New York City is put under siege by an ancient Sumerian God named Gozer the Gozerian, who is channeled through the apartment building that Dana and Louis live in, and the mayor has no choice but to let the Ghostbusters out of jail to face Gozer. Written by Todd Baldridge

After being kicked out of their university, parapsychology professors Spengler, Stantz and Venkman decide to go into business for themselves by trapping and removing ghosts from haunted houses. After some initial skepticism, business is soon booming as The Ghost Busters rid New York of its undead. When a downtown skyscraper becomes the focal point of spirit activity linked to the ancient god Gozer, however, the problem may be more than the team can handle. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher {rocher@fiberbit.net}

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A classic film that still entertains, "Ghostbusters" tells the story of 4 scientists who, after finding themselves out on the street, decide to open their own business catching ghosts. The script(by Dan Ackroyd/Harold Ramis) is still just as funny and witty today and the sort of dry comic timing between the characters I still found quite funny. The film deals with the band searching for the reason why so many ghosts are finding their way into the city, but also adds in a few subplots, such as an Environmental Protection Agency agent going after the Ghostbusters because he believes they're violating state environmental laws as well as an additional romantic subplot between Bill Murray's ghostbuster and Sigorney Weaver's character. Technically, the film also still stands up. The effects were incredible then and now, they can still be appreciated as great for their time. There's also something more entertaining about the not-quite-flawless nature of a lot of the film's physically done special effects that I find more entertaining than most of the seamless effects of a lot of today's films. But overall, it's a movie that's still wonderfully funny, smart and sure to entertain on this new disc- Columbia/Tristar has done a fantastic job bringing this film to disc in a great Special Edition package.



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