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Frank Miller and Odd Lot Entertainment, the creator and production company behind upcoming The Spirit are close to teaming again on the classic sci-fi property Buck Rogers, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Odd Lot is in negotiations to option the rights to "Rogers" from Nu Image/Millennium, which obtained those rights this year from the Dille Trust. Millennium is expected to get a credit on the movie but won't be involved in day-to-day production.

Miller will write and direct his own big-screen take on the comic serial; while the creator has only begun to sketch ideas, it's expected to be a darker take, with many of Miller's signature visual elements and themes, such as corruption and redemption.

It's likely to be a priority project for Miller, though he has been mulling a Sin City sequel.

One of the first pop-culture vehicles to tackle the issue of space exploration, the story of Buck Rogers began life as a comic serial in the late 1920's and early '30's and has seen numerous film and television versions over the years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081219/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_autos

Bush OKs $17.4B bailout of the auto industry

WASHINGTON – Citing danger to the national economy, President Bush approved an emergency bailout of the U.S. auto industry Friday, offering $17.4 billion in rescue loans in exchange for tough concessions from the deeply troubled carmakers and their workers.

Allowing the massive auto industry to collapse in the middle of what is already a severe recession "would worsen a weak job market and exacerbate the financial crisis," Bush said. "It could send our suffering economy into a deeper and longer recession. And it would leave the next president to confront the demise of a major American industry in his first days of office."

President-elect Barack Obama, who takes office a month from Saturday, praised the White House action but also warned, "The auto companies must not squander this chance to reform bad management practices and begin the long-term restructuring that is absolutely necessary to save this critical industry and the millions of American jobs that depend on it, while also creating the fuel efficient cars of tomorrow."

Stock prices rallied on Wall Street as investors cheered the government's action. Republicans on Capitol Hill, though, expressed disdain for the bailout. And while the United Auto Workers said the plan would keep factories running, the union said it was upset by loan conditions "singling out workers."

"We will work with the Obama administration and the new Congress to ensure that these unfair conditions are removed," said Ron Gettelfinger, president of the UAW.

Obama will be free to reopen the arrangement from the government's side if he chooses, an administration official said.

Bush said, "The time to make hard decisions to become viable is now, or the only option will be bankruptcy. The automakers and unions must understand what is at stake and make hard decisions necessary to reform."

Some $13.4 billion of the money would be available this month and next — $9.4 billion of it for General Motors and $4 billion for Chrysler LLC. GM is slated to receive the remaining $4 billion in loans after more money is released from the financial rescue account.

Under terms of the loans, the government will have the option of becoming a stockholder in the companies, much as it has with major banks, in effect partially nationalizing the industry. Bush said the companies' workers should agree to wage and work rules that are competitive with foreign automakers by the end of next year.

And he called for elimination of a "jobs bank" program — negotiated by the United Auto Workers and the companies — under which laid-off workers can receive about 95 percent of their pay and benefits for years. Early this month, the UAW agreed to suspend the program.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Congress should release the second $350 billion from the financial rescue fund that it approved in October to bail out huge financial institutions. Tapping the fund for the auto industry basically exhausts the first half of the $700 billion total, he said.

If the carmakers fail to prove viability by March 31, they will be required to repay the loans, which they would find all but impossible. A firm will be deemed viable only if it can show positive cash flow and can fully repay the government loans.

General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner said in Detroit that GM had much work ahead but he was confident it could reinvent itself with the government help and even lead an economic recovery in America.

House Republican leader John Boehner called the administration's plan "regrettable." He said that granting loans for automakers was never the intention when Congress passed the $700 billion plan to rescue financial institutions and that the new plan "has failed both autoworkers and taxpayers."

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the congressional oversight panel for the Wall Street rescue program, decried the decision, saying a Chapter 11 reorganization, not loans rewarding decades of mismanagement, would have been a better decision.

"Unless union contracts are renegotiated, and unless demand picks up for domestic autos, $14 billion, $34 billion, $74 billion — even $104 billion — will not solve the problem," Hensarling said. "I fear that a devastating precedent has been set that the federal government will now be pressured to bail out every failing company in America — something that taxpayers and future generations cannot afford."

Under terms of the loan, GM and Chrysler must provide the government with stock warrants giving it the option to buy GM and Chrysler stock at a specific price. In addition, the automakers would be required to agree to limits on executive pay and eliminate some perks such as corporate jets.

Paulson, who plans to discuss the deal with congressional leaders and Obama's transition team in the near future, said he was confident that the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have the resources to address a significant market crisis if one should occur before Congress approves the use of the second half of the rescue fund.

Friday's rescue plan retains the idea of a "car czar" to make sure the auto companies are keeping their promises and moving toward long-term viability.

The short-term overseer will be Paulson. But the White House deputy chief of staff, Joel Kaplan, said that if the Obama team wants someone else installed to bridge the administrations, Bush is open to that. Kaplan said there have been discussions with Obama's aides throughout the process and the White House believes Obama's view of the problem and the solution tracks with theirs.

The White House package is the lifeline desperately sought by U.S. automakers, who warned they were running out of money as the economy fell deeper into recession, car loans became scarce and consumers stopped shopping for cars.

The carmakers have announced extended holiday shutdowns. Chrysler is closing all 30 of its North American manufacturing plants for four weeks because of slumping sales; Ford will shut 10 North American assembly plants for an extra week in January, and General Motors will temporarily close 20 factories — many for the entire month of January — to cut vehicle production.

Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli thanked the administration for its help.

In a statement Friday morning, Nardelli said the initial injection of capital will help the company get through its cash crisis and help eventually return to profitability. He said Chrysler was committed to meeting the conditions set by Bush in exchange for the money.

Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally said his company would not seek the short-term financial assistance but predicted the aid would stabilize the industry.

"The U.S. auto industry is highly interdependent, and a failure of one of our competitors would have a ripple effect that could jeopardize millions of jobs and further damage the already weakened U.S. economy," Mulally said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081219/ap_on_re_us/missing_florida_girl

DNA tests confirm remains are Caylee Anthony

ORLANDO, Fla. – Skeletal remains found in the woods are the Florida 3-year-old who has been missing since June, but they don't reveal any clues about how she was killed, a county medical examiner said Friday. A utility worker stumbled upon the remains last week, less than a half-mile from where the girl lived. DNA tests confirm that the remains match Caylee Anthony's genetic profile, said the medical examiner, Dr. Jan Garavaglia.

Caylee's mother, 22-year-old Casey Anthony, was indicted in October on first-degree murder and other charges, even though no body was found. She has insisted that she left the girl with a baby sitter in June, but she didn't report her missing until July.

It took authorities several days to analyze the remains, and some tests are still being completed. Some of the bones were as small as a pebble and had been scattered, and the fragments were hard to find by excavators who searched on their hands and knees, authorities said. The bone fragments did not reveal any trauma before death, Garavaglia said, but exactly what happened to the girl remains a mystery.

"Bottom line is, folks, no child should have to go through this," said Orange County Sheriff Kevin Beary.

A search team said they did not check the wooded area sooner because it was submerged in water. Beary said his department was investigating reports that the utility worker who called in the tip leading to the discovery of the remains had tried several times in August to call in his suspicion about a bag in the area.

"If we missed a window of opportunity we don't know," he said. "I'm not throwing anybody under the bus because we don't know. That's why we conduct an administrative review."

Casey Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez, was with her at the Orange County Jail shortly after she found out the news from a jail chaplain, said Todd Black, a spokesman for the attorney. She was notified about 15 minutes before the news conference about the positive identification. Black said he wouldn't comment on her reaction.

A message left for the attorney representing George and Cindy Anthony, Casey's parents, was not immediately returned.

The Orange County utility worker, Roy Krunk, identified himself at a brief afternoon news conference. He said that he had contacted the Orange County Sheriff's office in August to report that he had seen "something suspicious, a bag, in the same area."

Reading from a statement, he said he was cooperating with the sheriff's office and FBI and would not discuss details with the media.

David Evans, his lawyer, said Krunk is not involved in the girl's disappearance.

"His participation in this matter is strictly as a concerned citizen with a sharp eye, good instincts," Evans said. "Those who have speculated to the contrary could not be more wrong."

Evans asked that the media give his client and other utility workers their privacy.

The case captivated the community where the little girl's family lived, and Caylee has been a staple on national news as her grandparents pleaded for tips, promising that the girl was still alive.

Caylee's grandmother first called authorities in July to say she hadn't seen the girl for a month and her daughter's car smelled like death.

Police immediately interviewed Anthony and soon said everything she told them about her daughter's whereabouts was false. The baby sitter was nonexistent and the apartment where Anthony said she had last seen Caylee had been empty for months. Anthony also lied about where she worked, they said.

Other troubling details emerged: Photos surfaced of Anthony partying after her daughter went missing. Friends said she was a habitual liar, but also a good mother.

Last month, the Orange County State Attorney turned over almost 800 pages of documents showing someone used the Anthonys' home computer to do Internet searches for terms like "neck breaking" and "household weapons."

In mid-March, someone searched Google and Wikipedia for peroxide, shovels, acetone, alcohol and chloroform. Traces of chloroform, which is used to induce unconsciousness and a component of human decomposition, were found in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car during forensic testing, the documents say.

http://kotaku.com/5113270/at-least-28-video-game-movies-in-production

Cold Fear (2008)

Fear Effect (2008)

Area 51 (2009)

Castlevania (2009)

Clock Tower (2009)

Halo (2009)

Kane & Lynch (2009)

The Legend of Spyro (2009)

Metal Gear Solid (2009)

Onimusha (2009)

Sabotage 1943 (2009)

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)

Spy Hunter (2009)

The Suffering (2009)

Tekken (2009

Warcraft (2009)/World of Warcraft (2011)

Bioshock (2010)

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (2010)

Driver (2010)

Earthworm Jim (2010)

Gears of War (2010)

God of War (2010)

Joust (2010)

King of Fighters (2010)

Mortal Kombat (2010)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

Resident Evil 4 (2010)

Splinter Cell (2010)

WTF?! JOUST?!

Fuck that. I'm 170lbs and I drink nothing but regular soft drinks. I don't put that poison aspartame or splenda in my system, it taste like shit anyways. How can you punish people of normal weight because other people are fat. Soda didn't even make them fat. Slap the tax on all of them, or none of them.

LOL. When I win the lotto, I'm buying it and drinking some of it... hopefully I can force everyone that comes to visit to try it until its all gone. X'D

X'D I'm talking about thoes $30 a GLASS type of wines. Some wines can be hundreds of dollars per bottle.

This wine is $160,000

http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/cx_np_1119feat.html

I cant say enough about how sick I am people taking ancient civilizations as if they were all stupid cavemen. Humans during the ice age were making stones sharper than surgical steel. We can't build the pyramids like the Egyptians did. The fact is, we don't know what our world was like back then, we only have whatever stood the test of time. Refer back to the Life After People program History ran a few months ago. It would only take a few hundred years for everything we've build to disappear completely. No one would ever know it was there. What has disappeared over 10,000 years of civilization? A lot of castles in England where wooden in the middle ages, they are all gone now because they rotted away and only the stone ones remain.

Just imagine how much knowledge we'd still have if the library of Alexandria didn't get burned to the ground. A major debacle of human history was keeping all that knowledge in one place. The dark ages began after that, and it was almost like a computer crashing, or hitting the reset button on your NES in the middle of playing.

Edgar Cayce said their is information about Atlantis contained under the right paws of the Sphinx. Sonar tests indicate there is a massive chamber under the paw. There was an effort a few years ago to excavate under the Sphinx, and even a live TV special on some of the chambers they found under it. I remember them showing a filled tunnel they were clearing out that they said possibly lead under the sphinx right paw. (this special had no mention of Edgar Cayce's prediciton). Nothing has been heard since then. I believe Egypt was just as advanced as Atlantis was.

the PSP is pretty nifty. I won't buy one, because every hand held I've ever own has collected dust after the 1st week of using it. I've played the only game I've wanted to play on it as well. It may be tempting one day because I have to stay at work overnight every once in a while when they wax the floors, but I know as soon as I get one, I'd never have to work that shift again. X'D

One of my friends loves the strong vinegary tasting red wines, he'll fill a whole glass and drink it all.

Well, I can't really knock it. Bourbon/Whiskey tastes like drinking liquid oak on fire, and I love it. X'D It doesn't make much since. If I ever had a chance to taste some of that high class super expensive wine, I wouldn't pass it up. Even though its been aged for decades and probably is the most rotten of all, I'd still have to see what it was all about.

14 is my best. I missed 3 times he poped up.

I personally can't stomach wine, I can't understand how the sour/rotten taste is enjoyable. Its pretty much no different from vinegar to me. I can handle white wine, but red wine makes me want to puke. I stay away from it altogether though. Thats just me though, A lot of my friends drink wine.

http://www.sockandawe.com/ LOL throw shoes yourself!

http://bushbash.flashgressive.de/ not as good but still funny

You need new shoes if it is a corn, because it will just come back. Try wearing thicker socks for a few days and see if it goes away. It could be an insect bite of some kind as well.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51396

Maggie Q (Live Free or Die Hard) has joined the cast of King of Fighters, an English-language, live-action adaptation of the best-selling Japanese video game now filming in Vancouver.

Directed by Hong Kong's Gordon Chan, the movie also stars Sean Faris, Ray Park, Will Yun Lee and David Leitch, who doubles as action choreographer.

The $12 million action pic is a co-production of Taiwan's Double Edge Entertainment, Japan's Micott & Basara, Inferno Entertainment from the U.S., the U.K.'s Scion Films, Axis Entertainment, Convergence Entertainment and Singapore's Innoform Media.

Production will wrap in mid-January, with the movie scheduled for delivery in the third quarter of 2009.

She needs to gain a little weight first....

Sweet. Any idea what those new weapons on his arms were?

In the PSP prequel Chains of Olympus (which I borrowed my friends PSP just to play) there was a weapon called the Gauntlet of Zeus, which was similar to what he had on, but he only had it on one arm. This weapon was so bad ass, I stopped using the blades of chaos almost all together. It is possible that they will be similar.

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Here is a preview of what it might be like.

Meh, I wish they would have went with Josh Holloway as Gambit instead. Hopefully its better than X-Men III

Happy B. Drink up.

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Shoekreig!!! X'D

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Sounds like the classic case of fair-weather friend. If she only uses you to hang out because her other friends aren't around, then just drop her. She might straighten up her act, she might not. You don't have to tell her you don't want to hang with her or anything, but you can just be busy with other things instead of having time for her. Don't invite her to hang outs anymore. eventually she'll get the hint.

having everyone either a jedi or sith can be horde vs allience, but can they develop at least 8-10 unique play styles. ofc yo get the tank, the melee dps, the caster and the healer. but basing this on force lore, i cant see much diversity in a clas system

KOTOR had a very extensive character creation/level up system, with 9 different combination that I can remember, that's not counting which skill set you chose. They determined what attributes points you received most of to invest in per level, what feats you started with, and what you could obtain, how you fought, how much damage you could take/deal, what armor you could wear, among a few things.

There were 17 powers that as you chose to invest in, not only could they be more powerfull, but they changed almost entirely into a different power making around 51 different force powers.

BioWare has created some of the best level up systems I've ever seen, Just play KOTOR or Mass Effect. Character variety isn't going to be an issue. Its more along the lines of what Strider said.