Love this: IFC has a list of the top ten “disturbingly powerful” fictional film corporations.
 
They don’t mention Resident Evil’s Umbrella Corporation though - which is pretty damn scary if you ask me….. 

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Whilst I’m on a flow about digital media trends, there’s this from Digital Media Wire.
The global PC game industry totaled $10.7 billion in 2007, led by online PC gaming revenue with $4.8 billion, while retail sales accounted for just 30% of total revenues, according to a report from the industry trade group the PC Gaming […]

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Slate Magazine has the following story.
Most Sunday mornings at Buckhead Church in downtown Atlanta, one person is conspicuously absent: the senior pastor, Andy Stanley. A nationally known evangelist, Stanley is usually 20 minutes away at North Point Community Church, the suburban megachurch he has led for 13 years. To the 6,000 or so faithful at […]

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Digital Media Wire reports that the Vancouver-based company Movieset has received a ZAR11.4 million investment from the British Columbia Discovery Fund as part of a ZAR38 million round of financing, led by Rho Canada. The tecchie geek in me rejoices! -MovieSet offers behind-the-scenes video of films in production.
Check out for example, the star interviews from Battle in […]

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When Amazing Grace - Michael Apted’s rich bio-pic of the political campaigner William Wilberforce - was released last year (to coincide with the bi-centennial of the end of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade) it came in for the usual braying criticism from the liberal media.
The New York Times for instance, claimed that the movie “prettifies” the slave trade […]

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Scrappy tyke James McAvoy butches up nicely in Wanted, the first American movie by Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov. Bekmambetov previously made the partly-brilliant, partly-poor Night Watch / Day Watch vampire movies and this latest opus is equally patchy; sometimes it is edge-of-the-seat thrilling, other times it’s just dozy. Although it’s apparently based on a comic book, for […]

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The Province of the Eastern Cape has recently appointed a Film Commissioner.
Documents for the Amathole District Municipality Film Development Strategy conducted by Martin Cuff Consulting in July 2007 are available here for cross-reference purposes.

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Having watched it again last night, I’ve decided that The Prestige is a very good movie.
Beginning in turn-of-the-century London, it tells of two young magicians who set out to carve their own paths to fame. Angier (Hugh Jackman) is a consummate entertainer, while the rough-edged Borden (Christian Bale with a truly horrible accent) is a […]

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Eek. I think I just became a Sci-Fi geek. I just sat through the first two seasons of Battlestar Gallactica, back to back. Don’t say I don’t know how to have a good time…..

Well written, dramatic, and often touching, BSG was of course filmed in Vancouver, Canada - which is pretty much kick-ass when it […]

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