I’m nowhere near as rant-y as I was in the last podcast. I’m finally finishing my 10+ year project to convert my original Star Wars laserdiscs to DVD — you know, the originals where Han shoots first, Jabba isn’t seen until Jedi, and Hayden Christensen is not the ghost of Anakin Skywalker? Yeah, those. And considering that the source is decades-old laserdiscs in standard definition, the results look pretty damned good.
And – oh, hell, yes – I am so pumped for Rogue One and Assassin’s Creed!
– Netflix finally lets you download some of their content for offline viewing
– AT&T launches DirecTV Now for cable cutter
– Google Play is now offering UltraHD movies
– PowerDVD will let you view UHD Blu-rays on your PC
– DVDs To The Troops
– Disney sets industry records for domestic box office
– The remake of Stargate isn’t happening after all
– Apparently, George Lucas really liked Rogue One
– No, there will not be a Rogue One sequel because there already is
– 7 minutes of Dunkirk will premiere before select 70mm showings of Rogue One
– Billie Dee Williams will be returning to voice Harvey Dent in The LEGO Batman Movie
– Alien: Covenant teaser poster arrives
– Not even the actors knew about the chest bursting scene when filming Alien
– Legendary actor Kirk Douglas turns 100
– Fast 8 is now The Fate of the Furious
– Trailer: Fifty Shades Darker
– Trailer: Spider-Man: Homecoming
– Trailer: The Mummy
– Teaser: Transformers: The Last Knight
– Teaser: Baywatch
– Trailer: War for the Planet of the Apes
– Teaser: Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
– Trailer: Assassin’s Creed
– Aquaman release date set to October 2018
– Todd McFarlane wants a new Spawn movie to be more for the horror than action crowd
– Figure out the timelines for several major franchises
– Sega’s Altered Beasts, Shinobi, Streets of Rage and others to be make for TV and film
– Ultra-widescreen version of Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time in select IMAX theaters
– Neo-Nazis boycott Star Wars spin-offs because racist idiots are still idiots
– How laserdiscs (including DVDs and Blu-rays) work