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Netflix’s “Trigger Warning” is the kind of sturdy thriller that recalls movies from “First Blood” and “Commando” to the early John Cena vehicle “The Marine” and the 2004 remake of “Walking Tall”: a military veteran returns home, looking for peace, only to face violent antagonists who force him back into action.

The difference is that in “Trigger Warning,” the veteran is a woman (Jessica Alba), and the voice behind the camera is female also, as Indonesian director Mouly Surya makes her English-language debut. It’s not just Surya’s first American project after a series of acclaimed films in her home country but also her first action movie. As she told IndieWire, Surya was determined to deliver the traditional satisfactions of the genre while also exploring what it meant to have a woman in a role typically occupied by actors like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and The Rock.

“I think from the get-go,...

First things first: Trigger Warning is a title that makes zero sense. That phrase could imply multiple meanings: a warning for potentially distressing viewing, or perhaps, more literally, an allusion to a gun trigger. Neither really relate in any meaningful way to this particular film. Instead, this is a kind of Road House meets Rambo wannabe, an action-thriller-Western that sadly never escapes the deep, forever-abiding sense that what you’re watching is largely mediocre and always derivative.

We open with a car chase through a desert in Syria, as terrorists chase down an American relief truck. One aid-worker leans out of the window and fires a few rounds off with a machine gun. “Do you think they know we’re not aid-workers?” ponders one of the characters. Immediately you know that this is perhaps not the kind of film to trade in geopolitical sensitivities.

Rarely does it skirt the slickness...

If there is something positive about the existence of streaming platforms in recent times, it's the explosion of quality television series that we haven't experienced for several decades. There is something for everyone, even for TV sceptics who are not easily convinced to step out of the cinema or from what they concern as a serious screening content. Almost four years ago, during the Mastercard event at the Venice Film Festival, Brian de Palma confessed that he was hooked to the comedy-drama series “Dead To Me” starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, admitting that he was watching television more than ever before due to a big improvement in quality of productions. Liz Feldman wasn't in the audience, but I was, glad to hear that such a legend and I are sharing the same passion for the show.

“The Brothers Sun” had me at “Michelle Yeoh”. I wasn't interested in reading the synopsis,...

The current real estate market is tough. But despite obvious challenges like high interest rates, these standout New York City next-gen real estate agents — Eric Brown of Compass, Maggie Chong of Serhant, the Corcoran Group duo of Marko Arsic and Jason Lau, Douglas Elliman’s Erin Lichy (a star of the new season of The Real Housewives of New York City), and Brown Harris Stevens’ Michael Kelley-Bradford — just keep going.

All six are nominated for The Hollywood Reporter‘s 2023 Power Broker Awards‘ Rising Star Award for up-and-coming agents 35 and under. The winner will be announced later this month.

“If anyone says interest rates don’t impact pricing, that’s just a lie, honestly,” says Brown, 32, a top agent at Compass.

“I have so many buyers who have just paused. Everybody’s kind of freaked out from the instability,” says Chong, 35, a Serhant agent who lives in Brooklyn. “But,” Chong counters,...

Last year, The Hollywood Reporter launched the annual New York Power Broker Awards, bestowing honors on the market’s top sellers and savvy marketers. For 2023, THR is announcing winners in two categories and the nominees for such accolades as penthouse sale of the year and real estate rising star. The winners in nominated categories will be announced on THR.com in July.

Team of the Year – Winner

Douglas Elliman’s Eklund | Gomes Team, which did $4.6 billion in residential deals in 2022.

Philanthropic Impact – Winner

Ryan Serhant of Serhant, for his support of the American Cancer Society, The Ali Forney Center (for LGBTQ youth) and Feeding America, among other charitable organizations.

Celebrity Property Portfolio – Nominees

Noble Black (Douglas Elliman), Nick Gavin (Compass) or Deborah Grubman (Corcoran), one of whom will be awarded for being a trusted agent of Hollywood clients.

Agent of Historic Architecture – Nominees

In the running for putting special care...

As Michael B. Jordan stepped back into the role of Adonis Creed for “Creed III,” he also stepped into the directing ring for the first time. Also returning for the latest installment is cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau, who was tasked with framing the film’s epic boxing matches. Together, Jordan and Morgenthau worked to create the franchise’s most visually unique chapter to date.

Bookending the film are two brutal boxing matches that serve as pivotal moments in Adonis’s life and professional career — the first, Creed’s retirement fight in South Africa, and the last, his face-off against former childhood friend Damian “Dame” Anderson (Jonathan Majors) in Los Angeles. Those particular sequences are intended to show that there is more to the fights and the athletes than meets the eye. For Adonis, being in the ring gives him the opportunity to lay his demons to rest and find peace in his life.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has done a lot in her long career. But until now, none of the tomes written by the former Secretary of State, U.S. senator, first lady and winner of the 2016 popular vote have gotten the big-screen treatment. That could change.

Madison Wells, Gigi Pritzker’s entertainment company, has acquired and will develop a feature adaptation of “State of Terror,” a thriller that Clinton penned with help from best-selling writer Louise Penny. Both writers will serve as consultants on the project, as well as executive producers. Clinton certainly knows of what she writes. “State of Terror” is rooted in Foggy Bottom intrigue. It follows a novice Secretary of State Ellen Adams, who is unexpectedly brought into the administration by a newly-elected president, her political and personal adversary. Clinton, of course, got the state department gig after losing out in the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama.

Penny is...

Madison Wells, Gigi Pritzker’s award-winning, independent entertainment company, has acquired and will develop a feature adaptation of State of Terror, the best-selling novel by former Secretary of State, U.S. Senator and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and New York Times best-selling novelist Louise Penny. This high-stakes thriller of international intrigue follows novice Secretary of State Ellen Adams, who is unexpectedly brought into the administration by a newly-elected President, her political and personal adversary. Events soon erupt that sweep her into a world of global intrigue and diplomacy where the stakes could not be higher and the potential consequences, both personal and global, could not be greater.

Both Clinton and Penny will serve as Executive Producers as well as consultants on the film, whilst HiddenLight Productions will produce. Pritzker and Head of Film and TV Rachel Shane will produce for Madison Wells.

Following a competitive bidding situation, Gigi Pritzker’s indie production company Madison Wells has acquired rights to develop a feature film adaptation of “State of Terror,” a thriller novel by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and author Louise Penny, the company announced on Thursday.

“State of Terror” centers on novice Secretary of State Ellen Adams, who is unexpectedly brought into the administration by a newly-elected president, her political and personal adversary. Events soon erupt that sweep her into a world of global intrigue and diplomacy where the stakes could not be higher and the potential consequences, both personal and global, could not be greater.

Both Clinton and Penny will serve as executive producers as well as consultants on the film. Clinton will produce via her HiddenLight Productions banner founded by Clinton, Sam Branson and Chelsea Clinton. Gigi Pritzker and Head of Film and TV Rachel Shane will produce for Madison Wells.

Zachary Wohlman, the Golden Gloves-winning welterweight known as Kid Yamaka featured in the ESPN+ documentary series Why We Fight and who was the subject of Emmy-winning filmmaker Matt Ogens’ short Kid Yamaka, died Sunday, according to his wife and trainer. He was 32. No other details were given.

Wohlman’s death was announced by Wild Card Boxing Club trainer Freddie Roach, who wrote in part, “Love and support to the Wohlman family and to all affected. We love you, Zach. You will never be forgotten. Rest In Peace.”

So deeply saddened with the passing of a very loved member of our Wild Card Boxing family-friend, brother-Zachary “Kid Yamaka” Wohlman. Love and support to the Wohlman family and to all affected. We love you, Zach. You will never be forgotten. Rest In Peace @ZacharyWohlman pic.twitter.com/neLKib3a3W

— WildCardBoxingClub (@WildCardBoxing1) February 15, 2021

The fighter’s passing was confirmed by Wohlman’s wife,...

Fox has given a script-to-series commitment to “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” based on the novel by Mitch Albom.

Albom will write the adaptation and executive produce with Keith Eisner. Warner Bros. TV and Fox Entertainment will produce.

The one-hour drama series will use the same characters from the novel, including Eddie, who dies on his 83rd birthday at the beginning of the book. According to Fox, “‘The Five People You Meet in Heaven’ will explore each character’s unique journey in this world and the next. With heaven as the place where your life is finally explained to you — by five people you touched — the ongoing storylines of interwoven characters will explore larger themes such as redemption, love, hope and human connection.”

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“The Five People You Meet in Heaven” was published by Hyperion in...

Fox has given a script-to-series commitment to The Five People You Meet in Heaven, based on Mitch Albom’s bestselling novel. Albom will pen the adaptation, produced by Warner Bros. TV and Fox Entertainment.

The newly independent network has been experimenting with a script-to-series model — which triggers a straight-to-series order if a script is approved — alongside the traditional pilot model. Last season, Fox handed script-to-series commitment to drama Talent, an adaptation of the graphic novel from Graham Yost, Boom! Studios, Original Film and Sony Pictures TV. That project ultimately didn’t go forward.

Using familiar characters from Albom’s bestselling novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven will explore each character’s unique journey in this world and the next. With heaven as the place where your life is finally explained to you — by five people you touched — the ongoing storylines of interwoven characters will explore larger themes such as redemption,...

Mitch Albom’s bestselling novel “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” is getting the TV series treatment.

Fox has issued a script-to-series development order for the project, with Albom himself in place to write and executive produce. The one-hour drama project hails from Warner Bros. Television and Fox Entertainment.

Using familiar characters from the novel, the series will explore each character’s unique journey in this world and the next. With heaven as the place where your life is finally explained to you, by five people you touched, the storylines of interwoven characters will explore larger themes such as redemption, love, hope and human connection.

Former “The Good Wife” executive producer and “Designated Survivor” showrunner Keith Eisner is also on board as an executive producer.

Albom previously adapted his novel for a TV movie released in 2004, which stuck pretty faithfully to the events of the book. The film starred...

Sunday marks the return of HBO's The Newsroom, a series that isn't exactly known for being subtle—especially in its first season, which featured a memorable scene set to Coldplay's "Fix You." Anvilicious? Oh yeah. Emotionally manipulative? You betcha. Surprisingly effective all the same? Unfortunately, yes, according to EW.com's Lanford Beard. Which is how we came upon this week's PopWatch Confessional question: What's the song that's had a surprising, embarrassing emotional effect on you? Lanford Beard, staff editor: Between all its walk-and-talks, Network rip-offs, and "women be klutzy" gags, The Newsroom's first season actually took on a few actual news events,...

The randy sailors of On the Town are back in the Big Apple, and taking up permanent residence at the newly-renamed Lyric Theatre (where the beleaguered Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was the previous tenant), with lots of dancing boys and girls courtesy of Smash's acclaimed choreographer Joshua Bergasse (keep your eyes peeled to EW.com for a future feature on him, by the way). In other news, "Big" Al Pacino is coming back to Broadway next fall in a brand-new play written expressly for him by master wordsmith David Mamet, about a billionaire taking a fateful phone call before semi-retirement.

Sherlock Holmes is a well-established character known for his detective work of gruesome murder cases. In the new book Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, we find several stories by the book's authors, James Lovegrove, Mark Hodder, and others.

George Mann, the book's editor, recently sat down with us to give us some clues to the mysteries ahead.

Amanda Dyar: Encounters of Sherlock Holmes features numerous stories from authors James Lovegrove and Mark Hodder, among others. Can you tell us a bit about each story and how they fit together in the Sherlock Holmes universe?

George Mann: Well, I was aiming for an eclectic mix of stories for the anthology, ranging from the traditional (in the mould of Doyle’s originals) to the fantastical, with a fair bit of variety in between. So on one hand we have stories such as Mags Halliday’s tale of mysterious passengers on the Necropolis Express,...

By Chris Wright, More Horror

“Waxwork” (1988)

Written By: Anthony Hickox

Directed By: Anthony Hickox

Starring: Zach Galligan (Mark), Jennifer Bassey (Mrs Loftmore), Joe Baker (Jenkins), Deborah Foreman (Sarah), Michelle Johnson (China), David Warner (Mr. Lincoln), Eric Brown (James), Clare Carey (Gemma), Dana Ashbrook (Tony), Micah Grant (Johnathan)

I use to love watching this movie as a kid and as an adult, I still enjoy it just as much. I had to originally do a search as I had no idea what the title of this movie was but was overjoyed to be able to watch it again when I found out the title. “Waxwork” is a classic B style horror movie that isn’t cringe-worthy but very enjoyable to watch. It was one of the few motion pictures that Vestron at the time actually produced. It was made available in an R-rated and an unrated edition from them. It is available on DVD by Lionsgate.

Sylvia Kristel: Private Lessons and Lady Chatterley’s Lover [See previous article: "Sylvia Kristel Dies: Emmanuelle Star."] Kristel’s two notable efforts during that period were Alan Myerson’s box-office hit Private Lessons (1981), in which she, as a foreign housemaid, becomes the erotic tutor of a (horny) all-American 15-year-old (Eric Brown), and the Just Jaeckin-directed, European co-production Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1982), co-starring Excalibur‘s Nicholas Clay. Critics, however, weren’t exactly thrilled with either movie, particularly Jaeckin’s good-looking but slow-moving, bare-bones (and -bodies) adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel. (Photo: [...]...

Sylvia Kristel who starred in the 1974 erotic film Emmanuelle, has died from cancer at the age of 60. According to The Huffington Post, Kristel's agent Features Creative Management said in a statement Thursday that Kristel had died in her sleep last night after battling cancel for a few years. Just Jaeckin's Emmanuelle marked her breakthrough, which she followed with a sequel, and numerous TV movies. The actresses other roles included 1981's Lady Chatterley's Lover as Lady Constance Chatterley, alongside Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay and Anne Mitchell. In the same year, she starred in Alan Myerson's Private Lessons comedy with Howard Hesseman and Eric Brown.

Sylvia Kristel who starred in the 1974 erotic film Emmanuelle, has died from cancer at the age of 60. According to The Huffington Post, Kristel's agent Features Creative Management said in a statement Thursday that Kristel had died in her sleep last night after battling cancel for a few years. Just Jaeckin's Emmanuelle marked her breakthrough, which she followed with a sequel, and numerous TV movies. The actresses other roles included 1981's Lady Chatterley's Lover as Lady Constance Chatterley, alongside Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay and Anne Mitchell. In the same year, she starred in Alan Myerson's Private Lessons comedy with Howard Hesseman and Eric Brown.

Panel moderator Liz Rosenthal, of digital media group Power to the Pixel, opened Independent Film Week's "Transmedia is for the People" discussion by lamenting declines in the time and money that audiences have to devote to media, even as the quantity and variety of content and channels grow. Today's viewers, she said, are fragmented across platforms, where they expect to follow the stories they consume and have those stories follow them. Audiences have also evolved from passive absorbers to active collaborators who anticipate personalized experiences from their entertainment. Seeking to bridge the gap between an errant viewership and filmmakers stuck in traditional creative models, Rosenthal turned the conversation over to a three-man panel. The hour-long chat between Adnann Wasey, digital director of of Pov docs; Eric Brown of production company Kornhaber Brown; and Steve Coulson, creative director at Campfire, highlighted a number of key ideas about building...

Former America's Next Top Model contestant Angelea Preston has welcomed a baby boy. The reality star, who married her husband Eric Brown earlier this year, gave birth to Eric Bueno Brown Jr in the early hours of August 26, Us Weekly reports. Preston's son weighed 8lb, 7oz when he was born in New York Hospital in Queens. "Angelea, Eric and Eric, Jr are doing great," Preston's rep said. "Right now Angelea is on super mother mode, tending every minute to her beautiful newborn son! She's ecstatic and cries happy tears because she can't believe he's here." Eric is the second child for Preston, who (more)...

What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • I've always said high heels are killers... Alien-Inspired High-Heels [Pic] • Featuring this head-scratcher: "Eric Brown, 47, of Palm Beach Gardens, said he wouldn't let his 6-year-old daughter watch that kind of movie until she turns 18." But the idiots throwing these parties are 18, 19, 20, and even older. 'Project X' film reels in criticism over copycat destruction • Apparently tweeting makes us funnier... Steve Martin on Twitter’s ‘New Form of Comedy’...

FIFA 12 and Battlefield 3 have sold more than 10 million copies each, Electronic Arts has announced. Star Wars: The Old Republic and Madden NFL 12 were also singled out for praise during EA's latest financial call. Madden NFL 12 has shifted more than 5 million units since August, while Star Wars: The Old Republic already has 1.7 million active subscribers. Meanwhile, EA's digital distribution service Origin registered more than 9.3 million customers and has generated more than $$100 million (£63m) in non-gaap revenue since its launch. EA's chief financial officer Eric Brown (more)...

Electronic Arts has expressed concerns about the financial state of a "major European retail partner", thought to be Game. EA's John Riccitiello told investors that the retailer's financial condition could affect future earnings. "We are concerned with the financial condition of one of our major European retail partners, which could lead to both increased bad debt and lost sales," he said.

Chief financial officer Eric Brown said that the company was "focused on some isolated European retailer issues", admitting that a "negative outcome could adversely (more)...

Aliens are heading to Earth - but this time to save us rather than destroy us - in award-winning sci-fi author Eric Brown's new novel.

Solaris announced that it has acquired the UK and Us rights to Serene Invasion, which will be published in summer 2013 and spans the first 25 years following a "peaceful invasion" of Earth by aliens who believe they are saving humanity from self-destruction.

The novel opens in 2025, with the world plagued by war, terrorist attacks, poverty and increasingly desperate demands for water, oil, resources.

The West and China are sending forces into Africa and South America in order to 'stabilise' regimes, but in reality to garner precious land on which to farm intensively, mine for resources and drill for oil.

Much of the global conflict surrounds the dearth of natural resources in an overpopulated world, with the rich West and China doing nothing to alter their materialistic life-style.

Solaris Books has announced that it has acquired the sequel to Helix by sci-fi author Eric Brown.

Helix Wars will be delivered in the spring of 2012, for publication in autumn next year. The agent was John Jarrold, and the deal was for UK and Us rights.

Published by Solaris in 2007 and reprinted several times since, the space opera Helix revealed the worlds of a vast construct winding around a single sun. The work of an ancient alien race known only as the Builders, the helix resembles a spiral staircase with each twist or circle consisting of well over 10,000 worlds.

Each world has its own unique atmosphere and there are some 6,000 alien races within the colossal structure - all at varying levels of technological accomplishment.

"I'm very excited that Eric is returning to the worlds of Helix," said Jon Oliver, editor-in-chief of Solaris. "And it's great to be continuing to work with Eric,...

Star Wars the Old Republic has no release date set, however that isn’t stopping its’ publisher from announcing the game could be delayed until 2012. According to a report from EA CFO Eric Brown who was talking to investors, while EA is still aiming for a 2011 holiday release, there is a good chance that Star Wars the Old Republic will be delayed until next year.

Here is what Brown had to say:

“In terms of timing we haven’t given a street date yet, We won’t do so for some time, possibly at our next upcoming earnings call towards the end of October. We did hold out a slight possibility that it could slip to our March quarter. And the factors that would cause a slip is, for example, us not being completely satisfied with the scalability testing, and wanting to tune it for several extra weeks.”

However, as a response to Brown,...

Slowing down, taking time to smell the roses and enjoy the little time we have on this planet really is a great way to live your life. Of course, that just makes the wait until October, and subsequently the release of "Battlefield 3," seem even longer. While the fall and winter months are getting super crowded with amazing games, it's hard not to get excited about Dice's military-shooter juggernaut. So, it was worth getting pumped today at the news of a new trailer – except it's only a teaser.

Dice and EA have just released a teaser, for a trailer, of an upcoming game. Wow.

Well, there's some throat stabbing, and some shooting, and – well, that's about it. This little teaser shows off just a little bit of Operation Guillotine, but we're clearly not getting the whole picture. According to a slug near the video's end, "Operation Guillotine continues" on September 16. So,...

Bestselling author Eric Brown is to take readers on a voyage into Weird Space in a new shared world he has created for Abaddon Books.

The space opera series will begin in June 2012 with the release of The Devil's Nebula by Brown, who previously wrote Helix, Engineman and The Kings of Eternity.

In the first book, Brown will introduce readers to the human smugglers, veterans and ne'er-do-wells who are part of the Expansion - and their uneasy neighbours, the Vetch Empire.

When an evil race from another dimension - which infests humans and Vetch alike and bends individuals to do its hideous bidding - threatens the Expansion and the Vetch, only cooperation can make the difference between a chance of survival and no chance at all.

Brown's shared world will be explored by other writers with each subsequent book.

It's the latest addition to Abaddon's series of shared worlds which...

Eric Brown'S upcoming sci-fi novel The Kings of Eternity is to be published by Solaris Books on April 1.

It took Brown ten years to complete and Solaris regards it as a "major awards contender."

The official description is as follows:

1999, on the threshold of a new millennium, the novelist Daniel Langham lives a reclusive life on an idyllic Greek island, hiding away from humanity and the events of the past. All that changes, however, when he meets artist Caroline Platt and finds himself falling in love. But what is his secret, and what are the horrors that haunt him?

1935. Writers Jonathon Langham and Edward Vaughan are summoned from London by their editor friend Jasper Carnegie to help investigate strange goings on in Hopton Wood. What they discover there - no less than a strange creature from another world - will change their lives forever. What they become, and their...

10-year plans are popular this month. First, Ubisoft talked about a decade's worth of intentions for Assassin's Creed, and now Electronic Arts is talking about just as many years for one game — "Star Wars: The Old Republic." The topic came up as EA CFO Eric Brown was addressing his "Old Repulic" outlook at the Ubs Annual Media and Communications Conference in New York where expressed hopes that the Mmo will last into 2021 (assuming a Spring 2011 release).

"We're shooting for an extremely high quality game experience," Brown said, according to an McV report. "We view this as a ten-year opportunity."

He also said that EA isn't going to need "World of Warcraft" subscriber numbers in order to make their money back from what's been dubbed one of the the publisher's most expensive projects ever.

"Our assumptions for break-even and profitability are not seven-digit subscribers," he explained. "We think we can run...

By the time the highly-anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic is released to the masses, EA will have spent more money on it than any other game in the company’s history.

You have to spend money to make money. EA and Bioware are spending a lot of money in research and development to make sure the game delivers on its promises of grandeur and innovation. EA is also giving Bioware a lot of time to get everything ready for the game’s release, which won’t be before March 2011.

The “most expensive EA game ever” title adds to the already high expectations for this Mmo. Bioware seems to have the Midas touch when it comes to creating games with great gameplay that interacts with a great story, such as Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins. The Star Wars universe is rich and very popular. It is not shocking...

EA has revealed that Star Wars: The Old Republic is the most expensive project in its history, Gamasutra reports. Speaking at the Janney Capital Markets' 2010 Consumer Conference, studio Cfo Eric Brown revealed that the game's delay is partially due to its budget. "It is the largest R&D project EA has ever undertaken in terms of total dollars that we expect to spend bringing the title to market," he said. "We're not expecting it to ship in fiscal 2010, nor have we given a specific ship date thereafter. We're intentionally being nonspecific on the ship date." (more)...

San Francisco -- Electronic Arts Inc.'s results topped analysts' estimates, helped by sales of hit video game "Battlefield: Bad Company 2," but its shares fell as investors were looking for an even stronger performance from the company.

The video game publisher -- whose inability to meet its financial targets had been frustrating investors for several quarters -- on Tuesday affirmed its outlook for the current quarter and fiscal year.

Chief financial officer Eric Brown said EA had a good quarter, but little has changed in the past three months that would cause the company to change its guidance.

"We're taking share in what is a down market, which is good news, but in terms of the overall outlook, we remain cautious," he said in an interview with Reuters.

EA stocks fell 3.7% in extended trading, following a 3% rise during the regular session.

EA said it swung to a net profit of $30 million,...

When news broke yesterday of Republican donor Eric Brown's (allegedly) $1,900 bill to the Rnc for a lesbian bondage strip club session, can you blame the Msm for jumping on the story like a pack of ravenous wolves? Sex, the political party associated with family values, and early reports the Gop Chairman Michael Steele was personally involved (though he was on a plane)? It's better than the Eric Massa-massage scandal two weeks ago! Lets watch the feeding frenzy, courtesy of Newsweek.com.

By the time "Star Wars: The Old Republic" comes out in Spring 2011 or later, the Mmo will reportedly have the honor of calling itself EA's most expensive game ever. Single-player games are already pricey; just look at the $44 million price tag on "God of War 3". Launching a major Mmo, however, costs significantly more.

Though many games can be made at $30 million or under, "any Mmo costs significantly more than that," EA's chief banker Eric Brown told a Wedbush Morgan Securities audience in New York, according to Eurogamer. Brown indicated "The Old Republic" would be more comparable to "World of Warcraft," which in 2004 cost Blizzard "$100 million, perhaps more" -- hence the distinction he bestowed upon "The Old Republic" as the "largest ever development project, period, in the history of the company."

If "The Old Republic" swells to the size of "WoW," it could recoup those costs in a month or two,...

Eric S. Brown likes zombies. A lot. The man has become extremely prolific in the sub-genre of zombie fiction and is now embarking into adapting (or warping) H.G. Wells' classic War of the Worlds with a brain-eating zombie twist.

The story is along the same vein as the recent hubbub about Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Take a classic tale of literature, mix in a bunch of guts and undead, shake thoroughly, and voila! A new story is born. This re-tale, titled War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies, mixes Wells' classic telling with interspersed additions of a rising legion of the walking dead.

Brown's publisher, A.P. Fuchs of Coscom Entertainment, had something to say about it. "Brown has taken the regular narrative of H.G. Wells’ book and has blended his own thoughts on a zombie apocalypse into it seamlessly.

A new trend continues, as the world of classic literature is about to get another injection of zombie action.

The following press release popped up in the 'Bunny's inbox this morning...

Master of the Undead gives The War Of The Worlds new life

Following hot on the heels of Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, undead short story master Eric S. Brown takes a stab at H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds.

In genre circles, science fiction usually carries with it some level of horror. Now zombie short story master Eric S. Brown takes sci-fi horror to a whole new level with his amazing additions to H.G. Wells’s famed novel, The War of the Worlds, now titled, The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies

What if it wasn’t just aliens that landed that fateful day when ships from Mars appeared in the sky?...

New York -- Shares of Electronic Arts fell in after-hours trading Tuesday after the video game giant said it is eliminating 1,100 jobs, or 11% of its staff, after holiday-season results came in well below its expectations.

The company reported a widened fiscal third-quarter loss, including charges, and significantly reduced its guidance for the full fiscal year.

EA cut its fiscal year 2009 revenue estimate to $4.2 billion-$4.35 billion, from $4.9 billion-$5.15 billion, because of weaker-than-expected sales; its decision to release certain titles, including "The Sims 3" and "The Godfather 2," in fiscal 2010 rather than in fiscal 2009; and the strengthening U.S. dollar.

The company also now expects a fiscal-year loss of $3.29 per share to $3.56, wider than previously feared.

For the quarter ending Dec. 31, Redwood City, Calif.-based EA recorded a loss of $641 million, including a $368 million impairment charge related to its wireless business and a $244 million charge related to deferred tax assets. In the year-ago period,...