Actress Megan Fox makes a splash with the new Motorola 'DEVOUR', 'MOTOBLUR' phone, aired as a special commercial spot during CBS' "Super Bowl XLIV" broadcast, February 7.
From Verizon Wireless and Motorola, Inc. the phones will be available in March. The DEVOUR is noted as the first Verizon Wireless phone to feature 'MOTOBLUR', a unique 'Android'-powered content delivery service.
MOTOBLUR can sync contacts from e-mail services, including Gmail,, with posts, messages and photos from social network sites, automatically delivered to the home screen and fed into streams.
Edmonton, Alberta based BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. report that the video game "Dragon Age: Origins", debuting November 3, 2009, has so far sold over 3.2 million units worldwide.
The game is the sixth consecutive winner from BioWare, alongside "Baldur's Gate", "Neverwinter Nights", "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic", "Jade Empire" and "Mass Effect".
Since the release of the game fall 2009, the studio has created additional content packs including "Warden’s Keep" and "Return to Ostagar'. The upcoming expansion pack, "Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening" is set to launch March 16, 2010.
"This is a tremendous start for the 'Dragon Age' franchise and we are extremely pleased with the great reception the game has already received from critics and fans worldwide," said Dr. Ray Muzyka, co-founder, BioWare and Group General Manager of the RPG/MMO Group of EA.
"Our team is dedicated to crafting high quality, engaging new adventures and stories in the world of 'Ferelden' for our fans!"
"...'Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening', BioWare’s next installment in the Dragon Age lore, occurs following the events of 'Dragon Age: Origins'. Players assume the role of a 'Grey Warden Commander' entrusted with rebuilding the order of Grey Wardens and tasked to uncover the mystery of how the darkspawn survive after the slaying of the 'Archdemon'.
How players choose to rebuild their order, resolve the conflict with the mysterious 'Architect', and determine the fate of the darkspawn are just some of the many intriguing moral choices that will shape each player’s heroic journey. Players will also be able to import their character from 'Dragon Age: Origins or start out as a new Grey Warden from the neighboring land of 'Orlais'..."
Decker joins Kathy Ireland, Cheryl Tiegs, Hiedi Klum, Elle MacPherson, Tyra Banks and Petra Nemcova as SI cover models. .
Today (February 9) also marks the multiplatform debut of the"2010 SI Swimsuit" franchise, featuring more than 1,400 photos and 100 videos of swimsuit models taken during shoots spanning Chile, Portugal, India, the Maldives, Canada and the US.
"Our readers will enjoy the many surprises in the latest installment of this renowned franchise," said SI Group Editor Terry McDonell. "This year's Swimsuit issue features both familiar faces and exciting newcomers and photography that fans have come to expect, transporting them to a new array of exotic locations."
Decker's swimsuit was made by Italian designer Delfina Swimwear, necklaces by Lana Jewelry /Camilla Dietz Bergeron, her ring created by Isaac Prado, solid gold bangles featuring eight diamond bezels by Sara Weinstock, Sydney Evan provided the beaded bracelets and Helen Ficalora produced the diamond stacking rings.
2009 cover model Bar Refaeli, with Julie Henderson, Esti Ginzburg, Jessica Gomes, Hilary Rhoda, Damaris Lewis, Jessica White, Cintia Dicker, Irina Shayk, Anne V and Daniella Sarahyba also featured in the special issue.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek the "2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit" issue...
On March 1, Canada's Corus Entertainment will expand its portfolio of women's specialty services with the launch of "W Movies", Canada's first movie channel 'dedicated to women'.
"...Programmed exclusively with women in mind, 'W Movies' will be the go-to destination for women looking for entertaining and intelligent films, seven days a week, 24 hours a day..."
"With the phenomenal success of women-oriented films at the box office, coupled with the huge popularity of our film blocks on W Network, we know that women have a real appetite for movies," said Susan Ross, for Corus, Specialty and Pay Television.
Catering to Women 25 - 54, W Movies will showcase films with genres ranging from relationship, romance and comedy to drama and suspense.
March titles include "Big", "Forrest Gump", "You've Got Mail", "When Harry Met Sally", "Working Girl", "Six Days and Seven Nights", "Dangerous Minds", "What Lies Beneath", "Chasing Amy", "Bounce", "Shakespeare in Love", "A View From the Top", "Sliding Doors", "Dying Young", "Sleeping with the Enemy", "Steel Magnolias", "Runaway Bride" and "The Hoax".
Additional premieres in March include "Once", March 2, "Memory Keeper's Daughter", March 2, "Tristan and Isolde", March 4, "Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith", March 9, "The Engagement Ring", March 11 and "The Hoax", March 27...
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. report they have entered into a televised promotional partnership with NBC, debuting today (Tuesday, February 9th), three days before the start of NBC's broadcast of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
DreamWorks Animation produced seven winter sports-themed, CG animated 'vignettes' tied to the upcoming Paramount release "How To Train Your Dragon", opening March 26th.
The vignettes will be fully integrated across all NBC platforms, including the "Today" Show, CNBC, USA and MSNBC as well as during the network's regularly scheduled telecasts of the Vancouver Games.
The entire series is narrated by late-night talk show host Craig Ferguson and directed by Tim Johnson, an executive producer of "How To Train Your Dragon".
Featuring characters from "Dragon" competing in variations of sports from the movie's 'Viking Games of 1010', the custom vignettes include competitions in snowboarding, speed skating, bobsledding and ski jumping.
"We were inspired by the Nordic-like setting of this year's Winter Games in Vancouver and tied it to our imagined story of burly Vikings on a desolate island we call 'Berk,'" said Chris Sanders, co-director of "Dragon".
"How To Train Your Dragon" is set in a mythical universe of Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by author Cressida Cowell, following 'Hiccup', a Viking teen who doesn't fit in with his tribe's tradition of 'dragon slayers'.
"Hiccup's world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view..."
"Dragon" features the voice talents of Ferguson, Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T.J. Miller and Kristen Wiig, produced by Bonnie Arnold, directed by Sanders and Dean DeBlois.
According to reports, Peter Bogdanovich will direct and co-script with writing partner Parish Rahbar, an adaptation of author Kurt Andersen's 'scathingly funny' 1999 novel "Turn of the Century."
The Das Films feature will shoot in New York City.
Set in February 2000, "Turn Of The Century" follows 'George Mactier', who has parlayed a Newsweek magazine writing job into a PBS documentary, leading to a $16,575-a-week job as a producer at the sinister 'MBC Network'.
Mactier's series, titled "Narcs" is a mix of fact and fiction in which actors get to participate in real drug busts, getting all the best lines because they are working from scripts. In one sequence, an arrested dealer, also turns out to be an Actors Equity member (thanks to a gig in the musical "Rent"), so he gets union scale for his 'appearance' in the series and a recurring role.
Meanwhile Mactier's wife 'Lizzie Zimbalist', a brilliant software entrepreneur with insights into the coming century, earns recognition from both Mactier's boss and Microsoft, leading to unexpected complications.
Bogdanovich recently won a Grammy for directing the music doc "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream".
Sneak Peek the official "Oscars" poster for AMPAS 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, featuring co-hosts Steve "The Jerk' Martin and Alec "30 Rock" Baldwin perched on Oscar's shoulders.
The telecast will air on ABC, Monday March 7, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The tag line on the poster is "You've Never Seen Oscar Like This."
Posters are available for purchase on the Academy Web site, the only 82nd Oscar's commemorative item available for sale to the public. Click the image to enlarge...
CBS Sports' coverage of "Super Bowl XLIV," featuring the New Orleans Saints' win over the Indianapolis Colts, Sunday, Feb 7 was viewed by a Nielsen estimated average of 106.5 million American viewers, making it the most-watched program in US TV history.
"With all the memorable story lines going into Super Bowl XLIV combined with the awesome power of the NFL, we are thrilled with this rating", said Sean McManus, President, CBS News and Sports.
"And I am extremely proud of the way the entire CBS Television Network produced, sold and promoted the most-watched television show in history."
Coverage of "Super Bowl XLIV" earned an average household rating/share of 45.0/68.
Sneak Peek "The Who" during the half-time show and a special backstage "Who" acoustic set...
Actor Brian Austin "90210" Green will reprise his role as 'Metallo', the 'Superman' villain with the 'kryptonite'-infused heart, in the upcoming Vancouver-lensed, CW TV series "Smallville" Episode #9.18.
Green previously portrayed 'John Corben', aka Metallo in two episodes for Smallville's ninth season, debuting in the episode "Savior".
Corben is a war time reporter, who meets 'Lois Lane' and expresses his distaste for vigilantes, particularly 'The Blur" (Clark Kent).
In the following episode "Metallo", Corben is hit by a truck and wakes up with bionic additions, including a kryptonite powered matrix that replaces his heart while powering up his body.
In the hospital 'Dr. Emil Hamilton' attends to him, but Corben loses it and surging with his new implanted power, begins his search for the Blur, blaming him for his sister's murder.
Corben kidnaps Lois, but Clark confronts him, trying to disable his cybernetics. When that fails, Clark heats a lead door from a nearby boiler and fixes it to Corbens chest, covering his radiating heart.
When Corben attempts to pry away the plate, he rips out his heart and dies.
Later, 'Tess Mercer' reveals she has both the kryptonite core and Corben. She asks a scientist if Corben can be revived, who replies that since 'Metallo' is more machine than man, he has simply gone 'offline'...
The new 'Metallo' episode will air Spring 2010.
Click the images to enlarge, Sneak Peek 'Metallo', live-action/animated and a great scene from the classic "Smallville" episode "Action"...
"Smallville: Absolute Justice", the 2-hour, Vancouver-lensed CW special broadcast, combining two previously unaired "Smallville" episodes, attracted more than 2.8 million viewers, for the largest audience of the show's season.
The feature-length episode, showcasing 1940's superhero comic book team, "The Justice Society" earned good numbers in all categories, including adults 18-49, men 18-49, and adults 18-34.
Glen Winters directed the first hour and actor Tom Welling directed the second hour, connecting the unaired TV episodes "Society" and "Legends".
Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Dennis Neville, the original 'Hawkman' debuted in 1940's Flash Comics #1, followed by several incarnations in DC Comics.
As a crime-fighter, Hawkman "fights the evils of the present with weapons of thepast", while wearing large, artificial wings, attached to a harness made from the rare 'Nth' metal, enabling him to fly like an eagle.
In "Absolute Justice","...A man named 'Sylvester Pemberton' tracks down 'Chloe' (Allison Mack) and tells her he knows about her team of superheroes and needs their help. However, before he can explain further he is killed by 'Icicle' (Wesley Macinnes).
Clark' (Tom Welling) and Chloe's investigation leads Clark to the former headquarters of the 'Justice Society of America', where he meets up with 'Nelson' AKA 'Dr. Fate' (Brent Stait), 'Carter Hall' AKA 'Hawkman' (Michael Shanks) and 'Courtney' AKA 'Star Girl' (Britt Irvin).
Courtney pleads with Hawkman and Dr. Fate to help her catch the killer that is targeting their group but they are reluctant to resume their duties as superheroes.
Clark, 'John Jones' (Phil Morris), 'Green Arrow' (Justin Hartley) and Chloe team up to help the JSA stop Icicle before he murders another member of the group.
"Meanwhile, 'Lois' (Erica Durance) receives a package from a mysterious agency called 'Checkmate', run by 'Amanda Waller' (Pam Grier)...
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Smallville: Absolute Justice"...
Actress Megan Fox makes a splash with the new Motorola 'DEVOUR', 'MOTOBLUR' phone, aired as a special commercial spot during CBS' "Super Bowl XLIV" broadcast, February 7.
MOTOBLUR can sync contacts from e-mail services, including Gmail,, with posts, messages and photos from social network sites, automatically delivered to the home screen and fed into streams.
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