Category: Watch
Splashcast Goes Pro
We’ve been following the web 2.0 company Splashcast Media for exactly 1 year now. On February 25, 2007 we launched version 7.0 of StuffWeLike.com because of Splashcast. I rushed to quickly redesign the website and focus it on entertainment news and videos.
Over that time, we’ve worked very closely with Splashcast to help improve their offerings. Their original player looked like this:
As you can see, there are many flaws with this design. Over time Splashcast improved many features, but it wasn’t until August 29, 2007 that it went 2.0.
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Do You Live in LA?
In the Spring of 2005, writer, producer, director Neil Mandt and cinematographer Marc Carter set out on an around the world journey to film the story about two guys traveling to the famous Full Moon Party in Thailand. All they had was one camera, two wireless microphones, three batteries and a rough story outline. They traveled without a crew, a cast or having scouted any locations, all of this was to be done on the fly.
There weren’t any casting calls along the way, just strangers picked up on the street to either act in a scene or hold the camera as Neil and Marc delivered their improvised lines.
The outcome is a smart, funny and poignant story about world travel.
‘Iron Man’ Featured on ‘Lost’
Paramount Pictures and Marvel will premiere the full trailer for Jon Favreau’s ‘Iron Man’ with ABC’s ‘Lost’ on Friday, February 28th, 9PM Eastern time.
‘Iron Man’ is based on the Marvel Comics character, Tony Stark an inventor and ex-soldier who uses his wealth to rebuild his broken body and combat crime and terrorism
Watch StuffWeLike for the trailer when Paramount releases it to the Web.
‘Iron’ Man opens May 2nd at a theater near you!
Hellboy Is Coming (again)
Universal Pictures and Dark Horse present Hellboy: The Golden Army, the NEW 16-page comic that details the rise of The Golden Army in the upcoming action-thriller “Hellboy II: The Golden Army!”
Written by Mike Mignola, from a story by Hellboy II director Guillermo del Toro, the prequel comic features three different covers (Hellboy, Abe and Liz), and will be distributed at conventions and events leading up to the film’s release on July 11, 2008.
As a preview to the WonderCon edition of “The Golden Army” comic debuting this weekend, a 5-page preview of the comic has just debuted online at: http://www.hellboymovie.com/production/
Check it out!
Oscars? Who Cares!
Well, according to Spock.com, about 6 million users care.
That’s how many voted for their 2008 Oscar “People’s Choice” selections. According to Spock, the following will be taking away the little Oscar statuettes on Sunday evening:
Best Actor: Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Best Supporting Actor: Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton”
Best Actress: Ellen Page in “Juno”
Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee in “American Gangster”
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson for “There Will Be Blood”
Compare that list with ROGER EBERT’S choices:
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood”
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men”
Best Actress: Ellen Page in “Juno”
Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee in “American Gangster”
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen for “No Country for Old Men”
Who do you think will win?
Tune in to the 80th Academy Awards, Sunday February 24th.