On a Quora Q&A post, former Apple employee Chad Little answered the question:
How did Apple.com become the de facto spot for movie trailers? The major record companies giving up control to iTunes is a blunder I can fathom. Not sure why the Hollywood studios still debut their films on Apple.com, though.
Great news, Star Wars fans! Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace is going to release in theaters on February 10, 2012. Lucasfilm Ltd. director and founder/chairman and Star Wars franchise creator George Lucas announced plans to convert all 6 Star Wars movies into 3D and re-release each movie one episode per year starting in 2012. [Moviefone]
What happens when you dress up like Darth Vader and wear pink hospital scrubs then go out and try to rob a bank in a grocery store? You end up in the Pulse2.com Hall of Shame. Gregory Sanchez dressed up in the aforementioned outfit and tried to rob a Bank of America branch within the same Albertsons grocery store that he worked at as a “courtesy clerk.” Sanchez had a hatchet, a black wig, and gloves too. “The robber’s elaborate disguise did not keep from getting caught later on,” stated Captain Mike Parker. The crime took place in the 19000 block of Colima Road in Los Angeles. Sanchez is being held on a $100,000 bail. [LA Times]
George Lucas and Lucasfilm is having Star Wars re-released in 3D. The first movie to be released in 3D is The Phantom Menace in 2012. Fox will be distributing the 3D films. “Getting good results on a stereo conversion is a matter of taking the time and getting it right,” stated Visual Effects Supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic John Knoll. “It takes a critical and artistic eye along with an incredible attention to detail to be successful. It is not something that you can rush if you want to expect good results. For Star Wars we will take our time, applying everything we know both aesthetically and technically to bring audiences a fantastic new Star Wars experience.” [TechLand]
Improv Everywhere, an improv group responsible for creating many viral videos has brought Star Wars characters into a New York City subway car to reenact the Princess Leia/Darth Vader scene from Star Wars. Check out the viral video below of Improv Everywhere doing their thing:
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With 50,000 views on YouTube this month, this bear clutching and spinning a lightsaber has gone viral.
If you take the voice of Steve Jobs from the introduction of the Apple iPad and add it to the Star Wars scene that involves the Death Star briefing, you have a viral video. Over 70,000 people watched this video over the past weekend on YouTube.
We all know that Star Wars fans are into DIY projects. The Death Star BBQ, the Star Wars chess set, the R2-D2 table, the Tie Fighter web cam, and the R2-D2 PC case mod, were all pretty inventive. But the hanging Y-Wing bed is extremely creative. Below is a gallery of the bed:
[via Gizmodo]
