Sunday saw the first teaser for The Wolverine emerge, though its six-second runtime wasn't particularly illuminating. Director James Mangold went ahead and tripled that yesterday with another look at the film, but fans were still clamoring for an honest-to-goodness trailer for the film: the sort you'd not risk missing by answering the door or, you know, blinking. Rejoice, then, for the film's first true trailer has arrives.
The pleasantly sci-fi sounding RetronN 5 may not mean a thing to you right now, but this little black box may become a household treasure if it delivers on its unique promise to play cartridges from NES, Famicom, Genesis, SNES and Gameboy Advance (with added Game Boy and Game Boy Color compatibility). The previous edition of the machine, the RetroN 3, won rave reviews from fans of retro gaming who praised its ability to run classic games with ease. This latest edition from developers Hyperkin also runs through HDMI and adds save state functionality. The machine boasts its own controller with mappable keys, but it also features two slots for each of the supported machines' original controllers.
God Of War: Ascension developers Santa Monica Studios have made good on their promise to patch a section of the game so difficult fans balked in their masses. The PS3 title's infamous Trial Of Archimedes was giving players trouble even on lower difficulties, enough so that the developers took heed.
World War Z's latest trailer has been released by Paramount. The Brad Pitt-starring, Brad Pitt-produced Max Brooks adaptation is due in theaters this June after its Christmas 2012 release was postponed following myriad production difficulties, reshoots and rewrites. You can view the new trailer below, provided Paramount doesnt yank it from the web again. I mean, what studio likes promoting their movies, anyway?
Fans of Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter series who fancy their gaming on the go may be delighted to hear the series' trilogy of classic PS2 platformers is scheduled for release on PS Vita later this year. In what has to be one of the oddest ways to kind-sorta-promote-without-anyone-really-noticing The Last Of Us, the games will make their handheld debut following their recent classification by the ESRB, though if last year's Vita port of Metal Gear Colid Collection is anything to go by, it won't include the series' PSP entries Daxter and The Lost Frontier.
As if Doctor Who wasn't enough of a phenomenon already, rumors of an episode directed by none other than The Hobbit's Peter Jackson have begun to circulate as the buildup to the show's 50th anniversary continues. The Australian, known also for his hand in horror classics Bat Taste and Braindead, is a known fan of the English sci-fi series and during an interview with EW and claimed he'd even do it for free: "They don’t even have to pay me. But I have got my eye on one of those nice new gold-colored Daleks. They must have a spare one (hint, hint)."
Riddick fans rejoice, for its star and occasional Rock-botherer Vin Diesel has rewarded his Facebook followers with a trailer for the film which we've snuck out of the social network's entirely imagined vaults to present here for your immediate enjoyment. Enjoy immediately:
Townies is shaping up quickly to be something I want to see. Seth Rogen's forthcoming comedy, in which he'll play a regular Joe and family man forced to confront the local bros from a nearby frat house, has already nabbed the 100% dependable Zac Efron and has most recently added Dave Franco and Christopher Mintz-Plasse to its lineup. There's a whole bunch of six degrees action to be found there if you figure in Superbad, Freaks & Geeks, 21 Jump Street and a host of other Rogen projects and the film, directed by The Five Year Engagement's Nick Stoller, already looks considerably more promising than any of the bearded Canuck's most recent endeavors.
Kiefer Sutherland is reportedly in talks to star as the villain in the upcoming Pompeii, Paul W.S. Anderson's 3D disaster movie about the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Rome.
Though Anchorman: The Legend Continues is still in production, star Kristin Wiig is already set to work with writers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay again in Welcome To Me, an independent picture directed by Shira Piven (Fully Loaded) and written by Eliot Laurence (The Big Gay Sketch Show). The film is about Wiig's character spending her lottery winnings on a cable access talk show about her life living with associative personality disorder. Silver Linings Playbook's success means that now's the best time to get a project like this running, given the pairing of mental illness and comedy being as close to 'in vogue' as it'll ever be.
