She’s pretty as a penny, she’s athletic and she can kick a zombie’s butt in five seconds flat. Move over, Buffy, there’s a new monster-slayer in town: Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice.

Obviously, Jane Austen probably didn’t see this one coming. Small publisher Quirk Book’s mashup of Austen’s famous novel has managed to create a bestseller in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as written by Seth Grahame-Swift.

And according to the report in Variety, the mashup is now moving to the movies with Natalie Portman producing and starring as the eponymous Elizabeth Bennet. continue reading…

After two weeks at the box office top spot, the vampires of Twilight got bitten by Sandra Bullock and a sports-family-drama movie.

The good news is that as expected, overall business during the weekend slid a bit after Thanksgiving but still pretty high—21 percent—as compared to last year. The bad news is that attendance isn’t doing as well. A lot of the movies lost about 60 percent of their audiences over weekend. continue reading…

There’s so much buzz surrounding filmmaker James Cameron’s opus Avatar that it’s hard to believe what’s real and what’s not. However, what is very real about Avatar is that it’s becoming the first convergence point between a movie and a video game.

Based on a 1994 script treatment written by Cameron, the science-fiction film Avatar is being acclaimed as a filmmaking breakthrough in terms of technology even before its upcoming release this December. The story, about a human-alien war on a far-off planet named Pandora over its resources, will feature the merging of both human and alien perspectives in the movie.

It’s no surprise that with the technological advances Cameron has used to create the film, Avatar is also being released as a video game with the help of game developers Ubisoft. This is Ubisoft’s key corporate strategy behind Avatar: the convergence of movies and video games.  continue reading…