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A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

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The DRM camp is now saying that copying is good—to a degree. The upcoming DVD release on November 20 of Live Free or Die Hard will be the first to allow digital copies to your PC and one other USB-attached device. That’s two copies for the price of one DVD. The folks at Fox are calling this a Fox Digital Copy, and plan to roll it out with future DVDs as well. The catch: any device you put it on needs to be compatible with Microsoft’s PlayforSure DRM technology. That excludes all iPods, Sony PSPs, and even Zunes. 

According to Game Informer magazine(December issue) Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis have all come together and started work on a Ghostbusters video game. The story will take place after the events of Ghostbusters 2. The game is being developed by Zootfly(primarily a strategy game maker). Earlier reports from Dan Akroyd said the game would play like Gears of War with a very gritty feel to it. The game should release sometime next year for all major game consoles. The screenshot featured is on the cover of Game Informer.

Well fret not. Almost everyone involved with the old sci-fi channel mainstay has moved to continue the shows tradition in some way.

First, there’s Rifftrax, created by Mike Nelson the second host of MST3K. Rifftrax is a series of downloadable commentaries for ever growing collection of movies. Each commentary stars Mike himself and usually accompanied by 1-2 guest stars. These stars are usually his fellow comrades Kevin Murphy(2nd Voice of the robot Tom Servo) and Bill Corbett(2nd voice of the robot CROOOOOOOOOW!). Some of the special guest stars have been Sean Patrick Harris(Doogie Hauser) and Fred Willard. Each commentary features the same quality rapid fire puns, insults and meanderings that made MST3K such a hit with movie buffs.

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Tonight on HDNET movies, 10:15 PM ET and again at 12:00AM ET. This is an exclsuive sneak peak. HDnet movies is included with most Dish network HD packages. Check with your provider to see if you can get HDnet movies by tonight. Note: The DVD will be available from Magnolia films online in a couple of weeks.

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Today Sony’s CEO made some intriguing statements:

We were trying to win on the merits, which we were doing for a while, until Paramount changed sides

“It doesn’t mean as much as all that,” Stringer said. He added that he believed there was an opportunity of uniting the two camps under one format before he became CEO, and he wishes he could travel back in time to make that happen.

The battle rages on in our hearts and our wallets.

source: Forbes.com

According to Engadget, on Friday(one day only), Wal-mart will be offering the entry level Toshiba A2 HD DVD player for the astonishing $99.99 price point. The A2 model is a entry level machine that is only able to output a 1080i/60fps signal. The latest model the A3, will be capable of outputting a full 1080p Signal. The A3 is expected to be priced at or around 200 dollars this holiday season.

One thing to be wary of is that Wal-mart tends to cut prices drastically on products they have little intention of stocking. Meaning every store may only be getting a few of the A2’s and a few dozen of the A3’s.

CORRECTION: I had orginally reported that the prcie drop on the A2 was permanent. It is actully only for this friday(11/2/07). Sorry for the confusion.