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Disney’s grand TV plans

Ali “Ningauble” Aksöz — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:02:12 +0000

Disney have confirmed that four series will premiere on streaming service Netflix in 2015 and will unfold over multiple years. Marvel will develop these four shows, each with a minimum of thirteen episodes each, which will lead to “a miniseries programming event”.

So what are those four series?

Well, they are “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones,” “Iron Fist” and “Luke Cage”.

According to Deadline.com, during a call with analysts about the company’s 3Q earnings, Disney CEO Bob Iger called the four properties in the Netflix deal – Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist – “not among the most popular,” adding they “were never going to become feature films.”

This will all culminate in Marvel’s mini-series event The Defenders, an Avengers-style team-up, which re-imagines a dream team of self-sacrificing, heroic characters around New York’s Hell’s Kitchen.

Marvel Television and ABC Television Studios will produce. Marvel Entertainment president Alan Fine says:

“This deal is unparalleled in its scope and size, and reinforces our commitment to deliver Marvel’s brand, content and characters across all platforms of storytelling. Netflix offers an incredible platform for the kind of rich storytelling that is Marvel’s specialty. This serialized epic expands the narrative possibilities of on-demand television and gives fans the flexibility to immerse themselves how and when they want in what’s sure to be a thrilling and engaging adventure.”

Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos added, “We’re thrilled to be working with Disney and Marvel to take our brand of television to new levels with a creative project of this magnitude.”

They are pretty smart, these Marvel dudes… Making TV shows on their less popular characters and upgrade them into movies if they are successful.

Let’s see how this grand project will turn out.

Darth Vader gets TV specials?

Ali “Ningauble” Aksöz — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:55:10 +0000

A brochure from a European Brand Licensing Show, recently surfaced online. The show consist a schedule of Disney’s plans for the “Star Wars” franchise for the next two years.

Most items on the list are already announced projects, but three are unannounced titles and one of those is named “Darth Vader Themed TV Specials” which is set for Summer 2014.

Although there are no details, we think it may be an animated tie-in with the new “Star Wars Rebels” show.

What do you, guys think?

Sansa and Tyrion meets in Game of Hearts

Ali “Ningauble” Aksöz — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:26:44 +0000

There are a hunnerd parodies and what if’s created from George R.R. Martin’s – A Song of Ice and Fire – Game of Thrones online, hell, we wrote about ‘em several times. But now, comes one of the cooler ones.

Here, the creators of the video re-imagined the show as an American romantic comedy flick, where there is a sensitive and spoiled broad and a rogue-like, skirt-chasing dude, whole lotta pop songs and New York streets.

Of course here, the broad is Sansa Stark, the cutest of all Starks, the dude is Tyrion, the shortest womanizer ever and the city – probably – King’s Landing, the Westeros equivalent of NYC.

Watch it here;

And tell us what you think.

New PlayStation Vita coming October 10th

Ali “Ningauble” Aksöz — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:41:00 +0000

Sony has announced a new version of its PS Vita. The Vita PCH-2000 is 15% lighter and 20% thinner than the original model and will add an additional hour of life to the battery.

Further hardware improvements include a micro-USB charger and 1GB of onboard storage. Interestingly, the screen tech has been changed to LCD from OLED, what is likely responsible for the drop in price. Also, there will be three special edition models: Gundam Breaker, God Eater and Otomate.

The new (WiFi-only) Vita will land in Japan first, on October 10th in Japan for 18,980 Yen (or about $190). It’s unclear if and when this model will be made available in the otherparts of the world.