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Not Yet, Snake! It's Not Over Yet! Four Reasons To Be Hopeful About The Metal Gear Solid Movie

Not Yet, Snake! It's Not Over Yet!  Four Reasons To Be Hopeful About The Metal Gear Solid Movie

Video game fans are naturally suspicious of movie conversions because they’ve been burned more often than charcoal briquettes. Which is weird, because pattern recognition is meant to be a gaming skill. Columbia Pictures’ announcement that it's taking on the Metal Gear Solid license with Iron Man and The Amazing Spider-Man franchise producer Avi Arad has many gamers wary. The last attempt crashed and burned only two years ago, with Michael De Luca, producer of Oscar winner The Social Network, citing vague but fatal incompatibilities between video game companies and the big screen. But as the game's signature character Solid Snake once said: "Don't regret your past! Learn from it!"  With that in mind, here are four reasons the film adaptation might actually work this time.   more »

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After Earth Teaser Heads into Viral Space

After Earth Teaser Heads into Viral Space

Maybe call it a trailer preamble. Tidbits of the backstory and a tease of M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming sci-fi pic After Earth spread around the internet after the film's official site launched a run-down of the backstory. The video gives an account of a 1908 spacecraft crash and the subsequent discovery of a technology called "Lightstream" that propelled humankind forward, before ultimately destroying it. Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith star in the project, which is slated for release next June.
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