If you're still playing Aliens: Colonial Marines, you may be excited to hear its latest 4GB patch is now available for download. Fixes include myriad visual tweaks, repaired audio glitches and basically just a really, really long list of things that tackle faults the game was released at retail with built-in.
Blade: Trinity director David Goyer has reportedly signed on to direct a new adaptation of a thing, because he's alive and awake: Alexander Dumas' classic novel The Count Of Monte Cristo. Goyer, known for his hand in (admittedly) the best Batman origin story ever told in Batman Begins (but also for directing Blade: Trinity), is no stranger to what he calls "re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences", though his apparent use of the term 'graphic novel' to describe a film he's making has me worried.
Following in House Of Cards' footsteps (and getting the jump on Arrested Development), Hemlock Grove is Netflix's next all-original program to go live, full-season, on the subscription video service in mid-April. The Eli Roth-produced thriller looks to take cues from Twin Peaks and The Killing in its depiction of a small town dealing with the death of a teenager while going about their business as the sort of weirdos that wold get curtain-twitchers tutting. A second trailer's been released for the series, which you can can view right here, right now, and without a moment's delay (unless you're at work or just, like, don't want to or something...)
I don’t think I qualify as a gamer. I play games, sure, but it’s a rare occasion that I buy a new triple-A title and rarer still that I venture into the ever-intimidating realm of competitive online play which I feel (ever so slightly resentfully) has come to define gaming, and thus gamers. I’ve been playing the same franchises since the 1990s and those are the few I’ve kept close to my heart, treasured sets of games against which all others have been measured as generations have come and gone. I’d champion the merits of Resident Evil 2 to co-workers fresh from a night’s carnage on Modern Warfare and meet only ignorance or arrogance. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 held not the same charms north of the Millennium that it did back in 1995. In getting to a point, I was in exile, self-ostracized from a gaming community I felt I couldn’t engage with and forever doomed to re-enjoy but never supplant the small cache of titles I’d been playing for years. Then, God Of War happened.
Though it may have recently lost Jack Nicholson, David Dobkin's The Judge is none the poorer for star power. Following the recent announcement of Nicholson's replacement by Robert Duvall, Deadline has confirmed today that Vincent D'Onofrio has joined the project as Duvall's son. His brother, to be played by Robert Downey Jr., will return home following their mother's death and their father's possible involvement as a prime suspect. Throw in said father's Alzheimer’s and you've got a neat board upon which to pin performances from the typically dependable cast.
Fresh off the back of her animated aural debut in Disney's Wreck-It Ralph comes news that Sarah Silverman is in talks to star in Seth MacFarlane's second full-length feature film as director and star, A Million Ways To Die In The West, which the Family Guy creator is writing alongside Ted scribes Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. Considering Ted's success both critically and commercially, it seems like a safe bet for the Take This Waltz actress to get on board with this project. With no announced projects for the near future, she would join a cast boasting Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron and Giovanni Ribisi to play the latter's fiancé, battling her Christian faith's dictum on chastity before marriage with her day job as a prostitute.
