Following the blow dealt to the HD DVD format by Blockbuster’s allegience to Blu-Ray, it seems that the Sony-backed format is gearing up to attack its rival again. Digi Times reports that the Blu-ray camp are set to give away five free disks to anyone who buys a new Blu-ray player or a PlayStation 3 console. While the list of movies on offer is hardly awe-inspiring, it certainly tilts the table again in Blu-ray’s favour.
Meanwhile, Amazon and Microsoft have revealed a plan to boost the HD-DVD format by releasing high-def versions of independent films in the format. The new CustomFlix DVD On Demand service allows the retailer to burn an HD-DVD copy of a film upon ordering, allowing Amazon to boost its selection with indie features that can’t justify a commercial production run. Amazon expects to have a thousand movies available through the service.
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Twenty years after the animated cult-phenomenon, the epic war between the ‘giant-fucking robots’ returns to the big screen. Michael Bay’s live-action adaptation is spectacular and fun.
Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars original trilogy is set to attend the Celebration Europe event in London next week.
Paramount/DreamWorks has scheduled their preliminary lineup for the 2007 Comic-Con international later this month.
Screenwriter-turned-comic book publisher Andrew Cosby (Eureka, Haunting) and Johanna Stokes have been hired to rewrite the Walt Disney Pictures’ project First Ascent says the 
Following the release of a teaser trailer attached to Transformers and the launch of the mysterious site at 1-18-08.com, the Cloverfield project continues to generate interest through what looks to be the start of a clever marketing campaign.
I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.