Lucian from Underworld movies goes Vamp again for Twilight Sequel?

What. The. Hell.

Apparently Michael Sheen has signed on to play “Aro” in the next Twilight Movie….

Now ill give the guy credit for busting ass and making the Underworld movies a slight bit more enjoyable (a difficult task when you are given cutoff dialog and short Mad-Science scenes), but isnt this the definition of typecasting?

According to the Twilight Wiki, which i actually had to visit to research this post, Aro is a vampire who leads “The Volturi”, and his sister, after being turned into a vampire by him, gains the ability to make people happy…

Wow, not only is this movie gonna suck, its gonna suck and ruin a decent actor’s career. Its like some sort of bizzaro-universe need to ruin Vampire mythos as a whole.

In related news, Stephanie Meyer apparently single-handedly kept the book industry afloat last quarter. Her four twilight books were the four best selling books of Fiscal First Quarter 2009, with her Sci-Fi body snatcher book The Host placing 14th on the list.

Normally id take the stance that its good that people are actually reading, but when what they are reading is tainting the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre with shit like how vampires Sparkle in the Sun….i loose what little faith i have.

To all Twilight Fans

For the love of god, go buy a William Gibson book.

Digg Dialogg with Trent Reznor

I make no secret of my unbridled love for the band Nine Inch Nails. I can remember the moment my friend Josh let me have The Fragile and how i would play it over and over in my truck on the way to high school. I can remember listening to The Downward Spiral and the Broken EP with friends while hanging out playing Goldeneye on the N64, and when Year Zero came out, i was constantly scouring blogs and forum posts looking for the latest clues in the ARG that accompanied it.

Diggnation is also a fun little diversion that i catch from time to time. Back in the early days of RantTV, i would watch the broken with friends who came over to my house and show them all the cool tech stuff you could do with just a few bucks and a little ingenuity.

So what happens when the two things meet? You get the above video, which is a collection of questions posed to the NIN mastermind from the digg community. Want to know what the most embarrassing thing Reznor keeps on his Ipod? Want to know how he feels about the current state of the music industry? And which classic arcade cabinet does Reznor own just to get away from the monotony of life, the universe, and everything?

Find out in the Digg Dialogg Interview with Trent Reznor.

Just dont tell John Malm….

Thanks to Revision 3 for the embed.

Twitter Founder Evan Williams on Tekzilla

Twitter, the social networking app that has taken the world by storm, is at the forefront of emerging tech news. Almost every day you can see a placement from a news channel or celeb on their latest thoughts and musings via the text-blogging phenomenon. Some companies have even seen an upturn in product advertisement via the service, making a simple app one of the most sought after marketing resources in recent years.

Evan Williams is the founder of Twitter and in the video above, he shares his thoughts on the future of Twitter with Revision 3’s Tekzilla vodcast correspondent Veronica Belmont. @Ev, as he is known on his website, talks about the monetization aspect of twitter and some of the companies, such as Twitpic and Exectwits, that are using the Twitter system to drive revenue higher and higher.

He also talks about future plans of twitter including incorporating image and video sharing as part of the system. It appears that Williams would rather let other companies focus their efforts on working with Twitter to develop the appropriate system for such services on their own, instead of letting Twitter absorb those services as a part of normal functions of the Twitter website.

Its a worthwhile interview to check out if you have a little bit of time. The video embed should seek direct to the appropriate time when Williams is interviewed during the program, but if it doesn't, check it out at about 13 minutes in.

-Jon

What’s Going On with Drama 2.0?

Drama 2.0 is was(?) one of my very favorite foils on the web. Now it seems that the mysteriously anonymous blogger that we only know lives overseas, is employed by eMarketer, and hates almost everyone in Web 2.0 punditry, has stopped blogging tech.

Does anyone know what’s going on with him?  I admit I haven’t done any deep digging on this yet, but the last thing even remotely tech related was posted April 4th, and was a video mostly centering around Twitter and the Hudson plane crash.

The last update from Drama 2.0.

The blog has been completely re-designed, now.  It’s named the same thing, but now with the tagline “Celebrity drama has never been this sexy.”

Most posts are about female celebs, with teaser photo galleries leading into a “premium membership area,” that promises uncensored photography.

The new site seems too well planned and thought out to be another one of his gags.  Are we to assume that Drama has hung up his hat in terms of poking fun at us?

Unfortunate, if true.

Dollhouse Isn’t Dead Yet [Twitter Trends]

Earlier this afternoon, I noticed that Dollhouse, one of my favorite shows on TV right now, was trending as the number one Twitter topic.

Rather than do any research myself on the hubbub, I told Sean about it, and he broke it down over at his personal blog.

- Fox Television Network ordered, produced and paid for 13 episodes.  This includes the pilot and 12 normal episodes.  The pilot was trashed, and parts of it reused.

- Fox Television Studio (different than the network) needs 13 episodes for the DVD release, so they commissioned a stand-alone episode entitled “Epitaph One”.  This brings the total number of episodes produced to 14.

- Fox Television Network has no interest in “Epitaph One” as it is stand alone and they did not commission it.  They are under no obligation to air the episode, although people would like to see them do so.

- Fox Television Studio will put “Epitaph One” on the DVD release for season one regardless if it airs on television or not.

So there you go.  Bottom line – the show’s not out of jeopardy yet, but it definitely hasn’t been openly cancelled yet.

Billy Bob Thornton is a musical genius….just kidding.

The above video details Q TV’s Jian Ghomeshi having a minor spat with one Billy Bob Thornton over mentioning his previous acting career during an interview for his “Boxmasters” music project. Apparently the boxmasters are a “rockabilly-meets-brit-invasion hybrid band” that are doing pretty well on the circuit.

Normally i would describe in detail what happened, but its easier and far more satisfying if you watch the video.

Meet Billy Bob Thornton, this month’s Joaquin Phoenix!

-Jon

View2Gether.com – Playstation Home for the web?

Mark took the time to send me a press release a day or so ago from the ABC Family marketing team regarding view2gether.com, an “Online Viewing Platform” for ABC Family shows. Apparently fans of a television show on the network called “Greek” (yes your guess is as good as mine) will be able to log on to the view2gether website and host online “Viewing Parties” where they can watch and discuss their favorite episodes through a synched up online streaming platform. Just like watching Television with a bunch of friends at your house, except not on your television, and no where near any of your friends.

Now don't get me wrong, viewing parties are fun and all. The Oscar viewing party was like being a part of an MST3k Episode when i went. But i much preferred the idea Sony put in motion with their Home software. See, supposedly at some point in the lifetime of Home, any media content you have saved to the PLAYSTATION 3 (yes, that is the way you write it) hard drive can be queued up and streamed to your friends via your personal space big screen. You and your friends’ avatars then can sit, press a button, and bring the movie up full screen for everyone in the party. Now thats a cool idea. It creates some sort of normality in a virtual world environment.

Now considering that this is ABC Family using the platform, i highly doubt any shenanigans on the level of say, AICN’s Talkbacks, but quite simply its a chat room with a video that plays at the same interval for all people in the room….which is not necessarily the coolest thing since sliced bread. Time will tell if this website ends up working out. Maybe if they get some more shows available other than “ABC Family’s Hit Show Greeks!” (their words, not mine), then this just might have a chance.

-Jon