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It has been said that a Blu-Ray player priced at below $300 would jump-start the high-def market and, according to some early reports, Wal-Mart may be ready to do so. According to Home Media Magazine, Wal-Mart may be readying a Blu-Ray player priced at $298, $100 cheaper than the Playstation 3. The Magnavox NB500MG9 is a Profile 1.1 player with HDMI 1.3 connectivity, picture-in-picture and upconverting technology that converts standard DVDs to 1080p....

The super-producer talks about the film he co-wrote 25 years ago and dishes on upcoming projects If you look at Walter Parkes’ filmography, he’s ammassed hit after hit as a producer, with his partner Laurie McDonald. He has lined up hit after hit with such films as Men in Black, Gladiator, The Ring, Minority Report, Catch Me if You Can and last year’s Sweeney Todd just to name a few. Back in the 80s, though, he and screenwriter Lawrence Lasker wrote this script for WarGames, which came back to DVD in a 25th Anniversary Edition on July 29, and the influence of that film is still felt today....

Yahoo! just made the first 5 minutes of Blood: The Last Vampire available, and we’ve got all of it here for you to view… On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old “halfling.” Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts....

The stars of the film spook out in the third installment of the thriller series What’s the fun of going to the theaters if you’re not freaked out? It’s the third time we get to experience that excitement in the Final Destination series. Since virtually everyone has been killed off in the first two movies, it’s a brand new cast to live " well, at least for a little bit....

A few weeks ago, Arrow star Stephen Amell held a Facebook Live Q&A session with his fans, as he’s often known to do, when the topic of a potential Arrow and Supernatural crossover popped up. Stephen Amell said that he’s “totally up for it,” although Supernatural stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles don’t appear to feel the same way. During an appearance on a special Comic-Con edition of Conan last night, host Conan O’Brien brought up this potential crossover, but it seems Jensen Ackles isn’t a big fan of the crossovers....

Queen Elizabeth II faces all manner of personal and professional drama and turmoil in the newly released trailer for The Crown Season 5. Released courtesy of the official Netflix YouTube channel, The Crown Season 5 is scheduled to land on Netflix on November 9 and will leap into the ’90s and detail the tumultuous marriage between Charles, the Prince of Wales, and Princess Diana, which sadly ended in tragedy. Check out the trailer for The Crown Season 5 below....

Fox has released a new featurette for Season 2 of The Following, which debuts in a special time on Sunday, January 19 at 10 PM ET, following the NFC Champtionship game, before the show returns to its Monday 10 PM time slot on January 27. Series stars Kevin Bacon (Ryan Hardy) and Shawn Ashmore (Mike Weston) reveal what has changed with their characters this season, and we also see new footage of a brutal subway murder....

Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo are no strangers to the concept of a shared universe, and it sounds like they will be taking some of those lessons learned at Marvel and applying them to their upcoming Netflix action outing, The Gray Man. While the first The Gray Man, which features Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans as warring spies, has not yet been released, the Russo Brothers are already looking to the future and planning multiple follow-ups and spinoffs....

The Lion King 1 1/2: Sales of the critically acclaimed “The Lion King 1 1/2” have now reached six million combined DVD/VHS units in North America since its release, it was announced today by Bob Chapek, President of Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Based on these sales figures, “The Lion King 1 1/2” is now the best-selling video and DVD so far this year. DVD is growing rapidly, particularly now among the mainstream audiences at exponential rates, with families driving the growth....

Apple TV Plus has released the official trailer for The Morning Show, introducing us to a world of ambitious, egotistical entertainers and their search for power. Starring Jennifer Aniston (Murder Mystery), Steve Carell (Beautiful Boy, Welcome to Marwen) and Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies), The Morning Show explores the shifting entertainment landscape and high-stakes world of morning news television. We’re brought into the cut-throat politics of entertainment through the eyes of Aniston and Witherspoon’s characters, who are navigating their complicated personal lives while trying to maintain control of their high-powered professional careers....

During a recent appearance at Pennsylvania’s Steel City Con, actor Ryan Hurst revealed that The Walking Dead writers’ room originally scripted more of a fight between Beta and allies Daryl and Negan. Actor Ryan Hurst, who played the role of Whisperer Beta in the popular AMC series, spoke about the “would-have-been” fight scene between the three characters that just didn’t make the cut. After the turning point in The Whisperer War, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) had lured Beta into a trap, and is nearly killed for beheading Alpha....

Another seven days have come and gone and left us with another slew of movie news, box office figures, new official sites for upcoming flicks and new trailers. So lets get this party started with this week’s Notables. NOTABLES “The Shield Returns for a Seventh Season” - Monday, June 5 I don’t usually have any TV news on here, mainly because my TV intake is normally limited to ESPN… except for this AWESOME show....

Mafia films have a sense of dirty, exciting fun when done right. These gangster pictures have been a staple in all of Hollywood’s assemblage of films, from the classic Little Caesar and The Public Enemy from the ’30s to more recent movies like American Gangster. It’s hit-and-miss, and while movies like Gangster Squad and Live By Night haven’t really done anything to benefit the genre, others like Goodfellas, The Godfather, and The Untouchables have been essential viewing for the average filmgoer....

Iran has arguably created some of the most underrated cinematic content, with critical film analysts from around the world praising Iranian cinema as among the world’s most essential and artistic. In the Iranian (or Islamic) Revolution of ‘79, the authoritarian monarchy of the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (in alignment with the United States, and its western policies), was overthrown by the Islamic state of Ayatollah Khomeini. Afterwords, media fundamentally changed in the country, and a range of post-’90s Iranian films shadowing this era gained much attention throughout the years, garnering high-profile awards on the international scale (at film festivals like Cannes, Venice, and Berlin)....

Ratings be damned, The Walking Dead isn’t going anywhere. In fact, the universe is expanding. The flagship series has already been renewed for season 10 and showrunner Angela Kang has indicated they don’t intend to treat it as the final season. Fear the Walking Dead is also still going strong and now, we have word that a third series set in this universe is in active development at AMC. The news comes as part of a recent fourth quarter 2018 conference call....

Though MCU films have always utilized a certain level of wit and humor to compliment their epic action sequences, it is possible that the recently released Thor: Love and Thunder was the funniest installment in the franchise’s history. Humor was not always the primary objective of Thor films. The first two movies were among the most serious MCU offerings. However, when Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, The Mandalorian) took over the role of directing the franchise, the God of Thunder’s solo films had a tonal overhaul....

Tower Heist, a film that was initially titled Trump Heist and has been in various stages of development for years, has finally been greenlit by Universal Pictures, according to Deadline New York. Ben Stiller is starring in the film and Brett Ratner is directing from a script that has been worked on in various stages by writers like Ted Griffin, Noah Baumbach and Jeff Nathanson. Previous writers, when the film was an African-American ensemble film about a group of workers planning to rob Trump Towers, include Russell Gewirtz, Rawson Marshall Thurber and Leslie Dixon....

If you recently missed an episode of your favorite show, don’t sweat it. TV Daily has you covered. Every day, we will be updating you with the funniest, most exciting series out there. Finally, you can catch all of these water cooler conversation starters in one convenient place. Today, we have brand new episodes of The Jay Leno Show, Trauma, Mercy, Fringe, The Adventures of Danny & the Dingo, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Psych, and ....

Ty Burrell and Max Charles have joined DreamWorks Animation’s 3D film, Mr. Peabody & Sherman. The film will follow the adventures of a genius dog, his adopted boy, and their WABAC machine - a contraption that transports the duo back in time so they can witness historical events. Rob Minkoff will be directing from a Craig Wright script. Ty Burrell will be voicing Mr. Peabody, the world’s smartest person, who happens to be a dog....

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy director Kurt Margenau has praised the casting of Spider-Man: No Way Home star Tom Holland as aspiring adventurer Nathan Drake in Sony’s upcoming adaptation of Naughty Dog video game Uncharted. Speaking with Games Radar, Margenau, who was co-lead designer on Uncharted 4 and game director on Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, did admit that he is not involved in bringing the series to live-action, but could not wait to finally see the movie following so, so many delays, believing that Holland is a “great choice....