Posted by Frank Meyer - Friday, January 19, 2007 9:19 PM
Billboard is reporting rumors that Rage Against The Machine may be reuniting for the first time in over six years to play the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival this spring.
Meanwhile, as Audioslave bandmate Chris Cornell records a solo album, guitarist Tom Morello’s one-man band side-project the Nightwatchman will issue its debut album April 24 via Epic.
...Hey, has anyone heard a peep from Rage's Zach de la Rocha in, like, forever?
Posted by Eugene Morton - Friday, January 19, 2007 3:39 PM
Laurence Fishburne is wrapping up negotiations to join the cast of 21.
This filmic adaptation of the best selling "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions" by Ben Mezrich will also star Heroes’ Masi Oka and Kevin Spacey.
The movie will be shot in Las Vegas as well as Boston and filming is scheduled to begin in February.
Posted by Stephen Johnson - Friday, January 19, 2007 3:32 PM
The massive popularity of console gaming (and growing power of the systems themselves) has lead to a slump in PC gaming since its peak in 2004, but there are signs that the trend might be turning around.
This week the NPD Group released its year-end PC software sales figures, and PC sales did better in 2006 than in 2005.
Guess what game is on top of the pack and leading the sort-of-resurgance of PC gaming? Right! World of Warcraft!
"It's refreshing to see an increase in retail sales of PC games after having experienced a few years of declines," NPD analyst Anita Frazier said in a statement. "With revenues from digital downloads and subscriptions on the rise as well, the PC games segment of the industry remains healthy."
Also, of note... fully five Sims titles are among the top ten sellers in PC gaming.
Posted by Stephen Johnson - Friday, January 19, 2007 2:53 PM
Popular videogame Gears of War has sold three million copies since its release in October. The map pack they released a couple weeks ago on Xbox Live has been downloaded 750,000 times.
I know this is "true" because Microsoft said so in a press release. Press releases are a means of distributing information from manufacturers and retailers to you, the public.
It works like this: Manufacturers hire public relations firms to write press releases. The PR firms send the releases to media outlets like TheFeed, then, if we think the news is interesting enough, we tell you about it. You, if all goes well, decide to buy a something based on this information, or you become just a little more aware of the product at the center of the press release.
Posted by Mike D'Alonzo - Friday, January 19, 2007 12:16 PM
Ohio really must hate South Park. The good people of Marysville, Ohio want to rename a park that people have come to call 'South Park,' because associations with the show have become 'inappropriate.' Ohio has foisted such legends on our mythology as the Kent State Massacre and Drew Carey, and they're concerned about the inappropriate nature of a park called 'South Park.'
Seriously, isn't there something else these people could be doing? Oh, and they want to call the place 'Greenwood Park,' which, for my money, brings up 'inappropriate' memories of ultra Right Wing country superstar Lee Greenwood, whose 'God Bless The U.S.A.' still makes me vomit in my mouth, just a little.
Posted by Mike D'Alonzo - Friday, January 19, 2007 11:50 AM
Al Pacino has been signed to play surrealist painter/artist Salvador Dali in Dali & I: The Surreal Story, an account of the end of the painter's career and life. The film will begin shooting in June, and is being directed by Andrew Niccol, the man who was responsible for Pacino in Simone.
This could either be a brilliant move, or a complete disaster, depending on which Pacino you get. The man is my favorite actor on Earth, but even so, he occasionally makes mistakes. The Devil's Advocate comes leaping to mind.
Posted by Stephen Johnson - Friday, January 19, 2007 11:12 AM
Bah-ha-ha! Yahoo News is reporting the case of three thieves in Lindenhurst NY who decided to pilfer a bunch of electronics from the Town of Babylon Public Works garage.
No big deal, right, except the electronics they lifted were GPS devices. The cops were quickly able to trace the signals to the ingenious cri
Laurence Fishburne is wrapping up negotiations to join the cast of 21.
Ohio really must hate South Park. The good people of Marysville, Ohio want to rename a park that people have come to call 'South Park,' because associations with the show have become 'inappropriate.' Ohio has foisted such legends on our mythology as the Kent State Massacre and Drew Carey, and they're concerned about the inappropriate nature of a park called 'South Park.'
Al Pacino has been signed to play surrealist painter/artist Salvador Dali in Dali & I: The Surreal Story, an account of the end of the painter's career and life. The film will begin shooting in June, and is being directed by Andrew Niccol, the man who was responsible for Pacino in Simone.