July 26, 2001 -
Video
games beating up banner ads - By Suzanne Vranica,
The Wall Street Journal Online,
Gentlemen, start your engines. In coming weeks, General Motors
will unveil a custom video game on the Internet that lets
gamers race GM vehicles such as the Cavalier, Avalanche and
Corvette. The car maker thinks its "GM eMotion Challenge"
will grab the interest of Web surfers ages 16 through 25,
a group GM rarely targets...
July 18, 2001 -
Interested
in what "they" think is the best of the net?
- The 5th Annual Webby Awards Nominees - From
online galleries and up-to-the-second news sources, to
interplanetary exploration and cyber-communities, The
Webby Awards nominees exemplify the kinds of sites
that Internet users visit daily for information and
entertainment...
July 16, 2001 -
When
'Fantasy' meets reality
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within looks about as
real as a cartoon can. "The sheer challenge of
creating a very realistic human character has been the
Holy Grail of computer graphics for a long time,"
says director Hironobu Sakaguchi in his native
Japanese, speaking through an interpreter.
"Moviegoers like to see something they've never
experienced before." And 200 technicians from 20
countries made sure that's the case in Final Fantasy,
out today. The characters' faces and bodies have a
detail unequaled in animated films so far. And though
the characters and situations are new, this epic
sci-fi tale does have a built-in audience: It's a
spinoff from one of the most popular interactive-game
franchises...
July 16, 2001 -
Hollywood
blockbusters pirated over Web
- Three current box office hits--"Lara Croft:
Tomb Raider," "Shrek" and "Pearl
Harbor"--are among the most-pirated movies over
the Web for the month of June, researchers said.
MediaForce, a digital copyright enforcement company,
said the top-pirated film on the Web for June was
"Snatch," followed by "Pearl
Harbor," "Traffic," "Tomb
Raider," "Shrek," "The
Matrix," "Gone in 60 Seconds,"
"Hannibal," "Gladiator" and
"X-Men." The New York-based company
estimated that the list incorporates about a million
pirated copies for the month of June...
July 11, 2001 -
The
make-believe life of actress Natalie Wood
- The
make-believe life of actress Natalie Wood - Natalie Wood grew up before our very
eyes on the silver screen - capturing hearts in the 1947
classic 'Miracle on 34th Street' and becoming a woman in
the 1955 film, 'Rebel Without A Cause.' She was one of the
top three female movie stars in the history of film,
making her a legend in her own lifetime and beyond. But
the story of what Natalie endured, of what her life was
like when the doors of the soundstages closed, has long
been obscured... - Natalie Wood grew up before our very
eyes on the silver screen - capturing hearts in the 1947
classic 'Miracle on 34th Street' and becoming a woman in
the 1955 film, 'Rebel Without A Cause.' She was one of the
top three female movie stars in the history of film,
making her a legend in her own lifetime and beyond. But
the story of what Natalie endured, of what her life was
like when the doors of the soundstages closed, has long
been obscured...
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