Want To Be A Jedi?
How many of us have wanted to wield a lightsaber? Well, soon you’ll be able to!
It took a few years, but it looks like LucasArts is finally going to deliver Star Wars fans the lightsaber simulator they’re been looking for.
In a press release, the company formally announced the long-awaited (not to mention long-winded) Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels for the Nintendo Wii. Based on the upcoming Clone Wars animated feature film, the game turns players into amateur Jedi by transforming the Wii remote into the legendary Jedi sword, letting them virtually slice and dice through destructible Clone Wars environments.
Fans should take heed, however — since the game is based on the Clone Wars film, it will not feature popular characters from the original trilogy, such as Luke Skywalker.
Scheduled for release sometime in holiday 2008, Lightsaber Duels will be the third Star Wars game to hit the Wii, following the smash hit Lego Star Wars and the upcoming action game, The Force Unleashed.
Everyone, START YOUR WIIs!
No surprise there: Disney working on a Camp Rock sequel
What should come as no surprise to anybody: Disney is now hard at work to the sequel of its High School Musical trilogy follow-up, Camp Rock. The Disney Channel is hoping to broadcast the sequel in spring or summer of 2009.
The first Camp Rock debuted to 8.9 million viewers on Friday night, the second highest viewership ever for the network (but still far below the 17.2 million they got for High School Musical 2).The movie stars the Jonas Brothers (Joe, Kevin and Nick), who had a following before the movie was released. With that in mind, shouldn’t the ratings have been even higher? Maybe it’s just that they’re no Zac Efron.
With the High School Musical phenomenon moving to theaters, Disney does have to do something to pick up the slack. Admittedly, I am not the target demographic for this genre, but it was once described to me as “this generation’s Grease”, which seemed pretty accurate. Although, to my knowledge, Grease didn’t spawn these sort of copycat milk-it-till-it’s-dead follow-ups.
Vanessa Hudgens talks to Newsweek
In a recent interview with Newsweek, Vanessa Hudgens talked about High School Musical and Zac Efron’s hygiene. (Yep, you read that second item correctly.)
About High School Musical 3, Hudgens, who is currently on location shooting San Francisco, says that she thinks the crew is done after the completion of the trilogy. She also reveals that her character gets accepted to Stanford.
Hudgens also refutes reports that beau Zac Efron doesn’t shower. (Has anyone else heard this? Am I just not hip to the goings on of tween dreams like Zac Efron? Maybe I should pick up a Tiger Beat magazine.) She says, “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Whoever came up with that is completely idiotic. He showers! He showers! Believe me, he does.”
So, there’s no more High School Musical after this one. Looks like Camp Rock, which stars the Jonas Brothers, will be Disney’s new cash cow.
[via Yahoo]
Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt Release Date Set
A release date for Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno [rest of title] has been set, and its a biggie! We will see a flamboyant Austrian Cohen creating uncomfortable situations with the American public on May 15th 2009. That week has been the release of the Shrek trilogy, all three Star Wars prequels, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Da Vinci Code. To me this suggests Universal mean business!
We havent heard too much about the movie, however thats a good thing as we dont want to be spoiled too early. There has been talk of Ben Affleck being interviewed by Cohen in character, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger. There was also the incident in the lobby of Wichita Kansas Airport, where Bruno and his friend were caught stripping down to tight shorts.