Del Toro Reveals That He And Peter Jackson Did Not Fight Over Hobbit Prequels

For those of you out there who figured the real reason for Guillermo del Toro walking away from the Hobbit prequels was due to some sort of personality clash with the God of Middle Earth; Peter Jackson, well; you’re wrong. According to del Torro, he walked from the project before the two even had a chance to get on each other’s nerves. Talking to the Los Angeles Times, del Toro revealed… “We were at the stage where the collaboration was good. If there were going to be any issues, we never got to that stage [in development].” He also went on to reveal that his decision to walk away wasn’t solely down to MGM’s financial…

ModNation Racers Patch To Reduce Loading Times

On my video game shelf I have a copy of ModNation Racers for the PS3. Now, this copy has only entered my PS3 on two separate occasions. The first time I put it in I had to wait nearly thirty minutes before I could play the bugger (system update and forced install) and when it finally allowed me to play it I had to suffer from atrocious loading times that made me think that my PS3 was broken. After a few races I came to the realization that my PS3 wasn’t responsible for the ridiculous loading times; it was the game and that was when I turned it off. The second time the ModNation Racers…

Leonardo DiCaprio Walks Away From Mel Gibson Viking Movie

It seems that everybody hates Mel Gibson right now but that’s okay with Mel coz he probably hates you too. (Especially if you don’t eat pork) As a big fan of Mel Gibson it’s been hard seeing his public meltdown over the last couple of years and his most recent movie Heart of Darkness was the single most boring movie I’ve seen this year and despite my disliking for the movie I figured that at least things couldn’t get any worse for one of the true all-time Hollywood greats. But it did. And it did again. And then it did some more. And now Leonardo DiCaprio has distanced himself from Mel’s Viking movie. Yep, such…

War Machine Joins Law And Order Los Angeles Spinoff

Iron Man star Terrence Howard has signed on for NBC’s upcoming Law and Order spinoff; Law & Order: Los Angeles. Howard will join an interesting cast which includes Skeet Ulrich, Doctor Octopus; Alfred Molina and Corey Stall. According to Wikipedia, Law & Order: Los Angeles is… Projected for a Fall 2010 season premiere on NBC,[3] this will be the first American Law & Order series set outside of New York City. So far, Skeet Ulrich and Alfred Molina are the only actors to be cast in the series, as Det. Rex Winters and ADA Peter Morales, respectively. (we can now add Terrence Howard’s name) Apparently Howard will only appear in half of the episodes as…

Check Out The New LET ME IN Trailer From Comic-Con

The new trailer for Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) Let Me In has hit the web. Let Me In is a remake of the Swedish version which was called Let The Right One In. It stars that Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass. Anyway, the trailer is worth checking out, I found it a bit flat if I’m honest but that could be because I’m suffering from Vampire burnout, oh yeah, Let Me In is about Vampires, and well, it doesn’t really look any different from anything we’ve seen before. Take a read of the official synopsis and if you like what you read then check out the trailer… An alienated 12-year-old boy befriends a mysterious young newcomer in his…