China Creates Super-DVD

China Creates Super-DVD

According to a new article in Nature magazine, as reported by the ever-reliable Dark Horizons,  Chinese boffins have created a DVD-like disk, but with hundreds of layers. This extends the disc capacity to the petabit level. Researchers at the University of Shanghai...
Penn In For Nicole Smith Biopic

Penn In For Nicole Smith Biopic

Any Outposter of a certain age will be familiar with Anna Nicole Smith. She was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith started her career as a Playboy magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 Playmate of the Year. She later...
Warner Bros. Taking More Write Downs

Warner Bros. Taking More Write Downs

According to last week’s quarterly earnings call, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed the write-off of $115 million in content due to canning movies in the third quarter of 2023. As reported in The Hollywood Reporter, this as part of a strategic realignment plan...
Bond On: A VIEW TO A KILL

Bond On: A VIEW TO A KILL

Ladies, gentlemen, Outposters. Be upstanding. Sir Roger Of Moore reaches the end of his tenure as James Bond, and it is with some sadness we now find ourselves at the end of an era that probably defined Bond for many of us of a certain age. Some sadness? OK, lots of...
GLADIATOR 2 Budget Gets Pumped

GLADIATOR 2 Budget Gets Pumped

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator sequel was hit by the strikes and then hit by an accident on-set. This, among other things, might have impacted the budget ever so slightly. How slightly? Well… According to a new report in The Hollywood Reporter the initial budget of...
It’s All Over With FAST XI

It’s All Over With FAST XI

It started out as Point Break in cars over people who jacked DVD players. It ended up as a globe-trotting, petrol-powered super-spy franchise about fambly. Now, it is finally confirmed, Fast & Furious will end with Fast XI. One last ride. Fast X and Fast XI were...