One of the qualms regarding Sony's PlayStation Now when it arrived on PlayStation 3 last year was the pricing model. With prices ranging from $2.99 for a four hour rental to $5.99 for seven days, users questioned the value of the company's Netflix-esque streaming service.
Once upon a time, Neill Blomkamp -- the creative mind behind District 9, Elysium and the upcoming Chappie -- was attached to direct the long-gestating Halo movie, and is now in contention to oversee the pilot episode of Steven Spielberg's upcoming TV series. But the filmmaker also has a vested interest in another venerable sci-fi franchise and has even drafted up his own vision of what that end product could look like if he had the opportunity to one day direct.
What better way to ring in the New Year than to spend time with Joey, Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler and Phoebe? That's the question Netflix has posed to its subscribers across North America and Canada after all ten seasons of Friends arrived on the streaming service on New Year's Day.
To appease those users affected by the three-day PSN outage over the Christmas period, Sony has announced plans to offer members a five-day extension to their PlayStation Plus subscription free of charge.
Having served as executive producer on HBO's critically-acclaimed bootlegging drama since its inception, Mark Wahlberg now wants to take the show one step further after the actor revealed plans to spearhead a Boardwalk Empire movie alongside Martin Scorsese.
Given the monumental success that the two have enjoyed over the past few years through the likes of The Incredibles, Up and Wall-E, it's almost easy to forget that in 2005 Disney and Pixar considered splitting up. Thankfully, the divorce didn't happen, but that didn't stop Disney Animation from concocting its own nascent version of what Toy Story 3 could be, and today those storyboards have found their way online and they showcase a very different journey for Woody and the gang.
Artist Kasra Farahani has released some truly stunning concept art for the BioShock movie that never was, after the video game adaptation was canned at Universal Studios following budget problems.
When it released back in 2007, shackled with a weighty expectation off the back of its acclaimed predecessor, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 proved to be somewhat of a misfire. Cluttered with too many villains and poorly conceived plot threads, Tobey Maguire's third outing as the friendly neighbourhood web-slinger was a damp squib on the biggest of scales.
