The details are thin on the ground right now, but Deadline has gotten the scoop on Tim Burton’s next film, which will be a 3D, stop-motion  film based on the original Addams Family sketches. The film’s producer, Chris Meledandri, has acquired the rights to the original drawings, which originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine. According to the website, the new film will have no relation to any of the past versions outside of the sketches, which includes all of the various TV series, the 90s films and the recent Broadway musical.

Opinion

I’m both curious and disappointed about this at the same time. On the one hand, its great that The Addams Family is getting another revival and it could open up a new generation to the whole timespan of Addams Family shows. Given the stop-motion nature, we can only hope that Burton gets Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline) invovled as that unique approach would certainly lend itself well to the original Addams Family sketches. On the other hand, for Burton to work on such a macabre franchise is not surprising in the slightest. There’s also the fact that Burton’s last stop-motion entry, Corpse Bride, was a complete borefest (my Dad actually fell asleep when we saw it), so that doesn’t bare well for this. It seems that for all of Burton’s “dark” vision, he just doesn’t have anything original these days. Both this, Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are all existing works and Burton’s set design has become such a cliché that anything normal looking would be considered original for him. Finally, you all owe me $1 if Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are cast as Gomez and Morticia respectively and Danny Elfman does the film score. I’ll need to see an actual trailer at least before I can make a proper judgement though. As for Bison, it was just Tuesday.

Source: Deadline

Would you see Avatar again in the theaters? 3D only? More after the jump.

Couldn’t get enough of Battlestar Galactica? Still can’t? Well, it looks like a German Developer is going to be fulfilling your wishes.

The Apple iPad has finally received a release date today. The much maligned piece of consumer electronics from the company famous for expensive, yet sexy hardware will be releasing the iPad to the unwashed masses of America next month on the 3rd of April.

Got Stadium Events for the Nintendo? Yes? You’re about to be rich.

Well, if you were like me, and watched “The Daily Show” or “Colbert Report” on Hulu you’re out of luck.  Viacom and Hulu couldn’t come to an agreement over the weekend on advertising money and Viacom is pulling the plug on it’s shows being with the growing new Internet star.

WINTER IS COMING!!! WINTER IS COMING!!! WINTER IS COMING!!! WINTER IS COMING!!! WINTER IS COMING!!! WINTER IS COMING!!!

Ok sorry just had to get that off my chest. I’ve kinda been going through different stages of ecstasy ever since a friend linked me to The Hollywood Reporter’s article about the Game of Thrones tv series. HBO decided today to green-light the series, ordering 9 episodes plus the pilot. Guess I’m going to have to get HBO now….damn it.

My mind is blown…and I only got to hear a few seconds from the new album that will close out the entire concept album saga of The Amory Wars. They ended the story with No World For Tomorrow a little while back, but now they’re going to reveal all in Year of the Black Rainbow.

Well if you haven’t heard by now…yesterday, Avatar made the final $2,000,000 needed (no thanks to me going to see it for a second time) to surpass the other Cameron movie that has held the crown for waaay too long, Titanic. Geeks around the world rejoyce, we finally have a sci-fi movie in the #1 spot instead of some mopey boat movie.

When I used to go on family road trips, especially the ones to visit relatives, I would bring along my NES and a good handful of games to keep me from bashing my head against the wall in sheer boredom. Considering that my NES is still chilling in my basement and is still working after 20 years, the current generation is much more feeble compared to the hearty cart based systems.

This was a road trip, if we ever flew anywhere, I’d still make sure to bring it but I’d surround it in my luggage with clothes and pillows to prevent damage…still works after all of these years. Too bad I can’t say the same for one of the readers of the Consumerist who had his Xbox 360 taken through the nine levels of hell before arriving at his destination.

Unexpectedly, Sony Pictures announced today that they are scrapping plans for the fourth entry in the popular Spider-Man series, citing scripting and scheduling concerns with director Sam Raimi.  But don’t expect that to be the last you see of the web slinging  crusader on the silver screen, as plans are already underway of a full franchise reboot, with a new cast and crew for 2012.

Could this be a good excuse for Sam Raimi to get going with the inevitable Evil Dead 4?  I sure hope so.

[Source: SuperheroHype]

Paramount Pictures has announced the tentative release date for the next entry in J.J Abrams’ Star Trek reboot as Stardate 65958.2 (or June 29, 2012).  While nothing is known about the sequel’s story yet, Spock himself (Zachary Quinto) seems on board with the whole thing, tweeting

“the flag has been planted. june 29th, 2012. sequel. trek it out.”

So there you go Trekkies, another two years until the next Enterprise expedition.  What will you do until then?

[Stardate calculation courtesy of TrekGuide]

A player of Entropia Universe Online that goes by the name Buzz Erik Lightyear must have a whole bunch of disposable income that he should be spending macking hoes and smokin blunts while doing donuts in his Ferrari. I say this because the DB actually spend over $300,000 dollars to buy a piece of in-game real-estate.

Well, given how successful the first Left 4 Dead game and now Left 4 Dead 2 have been, it was certain that we’d see some DLC down along the line. Hot off announcing the new update for Team Fortress 2, Valve have now announced a new campaign for Left 4 Dead 2. The most important part being that Bill, Francis, Louis and Zoey are back! Yep, that’s right, the original survivors will be making an appearance in the new campaign, appropriately called “The Passing” as it’ll be the only time that both sets of survivors will cross paths. Details are sketchy right now with no release date other than Spring 2010 announced but we do know that it will be set in a rural Georgia town between the “Dead Center” and “Dark Carnival” campaigns. Also mentioned are new weapons and a new uncommon common infected as well as new maps for versus, survival and scavenge, which I assume will all be based off this new campaign. Pricing is mentioned as not announced, but strangely doesn’t specify the 360 version of the game, which could possibly mean that PC players will have to cough up too, although I’m only speculating here. Given the support Valve have given to both the original Left 4 Dead and their other games like Team Fortress 2, I doubt it will cost anything on PC. I won’t mind paying as long as it’s not a baby campaign like Crash Course.

Finally, while the original survivors will make an appearance, the campaign will still take place from the new survivors’ perspectives. However, it would be nice if we could play as the original survivors as a reward for completing the campaign. Hopefully we’ll get to know what happened to the original survivors and just how they ended up in the deep south.

Surprisingly enough, Tony Hawk: RIDE, the latest in the obsolete skateboarding series, hasn’t been going down to well with most of the gaming press. Right now, the game across all platforms comes out at an average of 52 on Metacritic, which as we pros on the Internet all know, is the ratings equivalent of cock size. Now Mr.Hawk isn’t too happy about this, telling The Sudbury Star that he doesn’t think game reviewers have given the game a fair chance.  He made the point that “They were ready to discredit it before they even tried it, and if it didn’t play exactly how they imagined it… then they passed it off,”. Well I can’t exactly imagine how game reviewers must have imagined the game to be like, what with if it being controlled by a piece of plastic more gimmicky than any Guitar Hero guitar or Rock Band drum kit, so I guess they had all the more reason to pass it off. Not only that, but the game is $130, and since you can’t play it without the “skateboard”, then not everyone is going to be so happy to drop that much money on what is essentially an experiment.

Of course, I don’t exactly know what people were going to expect about Tony’s reaction to the reviews. Even if the game had fared well, it’s not as if he’s going to speak negatively about the game. Otherwise, how is he going to carry on rolling around in the money that he gets for letting Actiblizzard use his name? Still, it just goes to show how irrelevant the Tony Hawk series has become. Who knows, maybe Tony Hawk Hero would fare better.

Source:The Sudbury Star