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September 16th is Mexican Independence Day. It’s just like Independence Day, only Mexican.

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(This DVD was used as “research material” for “Mexican Independence Day”)

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Here’s something we missed during our brief Powet-outage.
From Monday’s Lying In The Gutters:

CYBERTRON VS CYBERDENE

I understand there’s a “Transformers/Terminator” comic book series on the way. Will it be Dynamite, will it be IDW?

Will it be as bad as “Transformers/Avengers?” No.

Sounds alright to me. Hopefully they’ll get a good writer attached, I nominate Greg Pak.

New York Times reports from an interview with Daniel A. DeMatteo, the COO of GameStop, that they’ll be re-organizing their stores this fall to accomodate the massive influx of DS players, Wii Warriors, and Guitar Heroes.

In particular, he describes a whole rack just for music and rhythm games and more shelf space dedicated to family friendly games like Mario Kart, Nintendogs, LEGO Star Wars, and more. Frankly, I’d expect this from a larger retailer. I’m surprised a Target or Walmart hasn’t already done it. As a described “core” gamer by those who are catering to these “Casuals” I have to wonder how this will cut into shelf space for more refined titles like Bioshock and Assassin’s Creed, and even well known games like Mario Galaxy. I mean, there are now tons of old people playing Wii Sports and training their brains, but doesn’t GameStop owe it to themselves to turn these casuals into core gamers too? Putting up a shelf with nothing but music and rhythm games will mean for sure coverage with Rock Band and Guitar Hero, but will they also pull out older and lesser known titles like Elite Beat Agents?

Can the casuals and cores live together? Leave a comment.

Image from nataliedee.com

After the rather laughable (literally) showing that was Land of the Dead, it’s not hard to believe that one of zombie master George Romero’s “Dead” flicks would be passed by the wayside. Although, this very well could have been the intention.

The new title, Diary of the Dead, is an independent member of the Dead series family, rather than it’s money-backed theatrically released siblings that was first released at the Toronto International Film Festival this past Saturday. The plot, which is said to be “non-realistic view of things” starts with students beginning to film a horror movie in the wilderness at the same time as the events of Night of the Living Dead, only to be attacked by zombies. Romero says that he aimed to have it be different from The Blair Witch Project in that it will give a different perspective of what happened that particular night other than that of the boarded-up farm house in the first movie.

Romero has stated that this movie will not in fact be the fifth installment to his series, but more of a side-story – “a rejigging of the myth” he quotes. Beyond it’s debut at the film festival, no other releases have been mentioned.

Diary of the Dead @ MySpace

Looks like the good folks at Xbox Japan slipped up an released some screen shots before the official announcement of Ninja Gaiden 2 for the Xbox 360. These shots were quickly taken down, but not before a mister bloke of NeoGAF took notice. More gory goodness after the jump.
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With the DVD release of Transformers right around the corner and the movie still yet to see its September 21st IMAX release, you’d think Dreamworks, Paramount, and Hasbro would be eager to talk about making a sequel to their $600+ Million movie. Well producer Don Murphy is talking…

For those of you most anxious about TRANSFORMERS 2, the silence you hear is primarily because people are fretting about a presumed strike in June 2008. Will it happen? I don’t know- does the public care about strikes anymore in this day and age? What do rich people have to strike about anyway? I don’t have any side here (you hear about the writers and the Producers but that actually means the STUDIOS) I just think stopping work is kind of pointless. But since no one wants to be filming IF a strike happens, everything needs to be done filming by the end of May 2008. So this is affecting the lack of news about Transformers 2 at least for now. Stay tuned.

So the good news is they’re not going to try to rush something, but the bad news is we’ll have to wait until the whole thing gets sorted out. I don’t know enough about the Hollywood strike to tell you what might happen, but I don’t think anyone actually wants to stop working so I’m sure they’ll find a resolution before we run out of movies.

On the bright side, check out this: Taiwanese Guy Turns his Mobile into Fully-Functioning Transformer-Phone!

Apple.com is hosting the long awaited trailer to the 2008 movie adaptation of the Marvel comic Iron Man. Directed by Jon Favreau, it stars Robert Downey Jr, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Terrence Howard.

This trailer will be very familiar if you saw the footage from ComiCon, but this is of course much higher quality.

On Friday, Marvel released a teaser image for what appears to be another Marvel event focusing on the X-Men. I’ve mirrored the image below. The only other information released with it was a date. September 10th, 2007. Thats tomorrow. Whatever this is about will most likely be announced at a Diamond event for ‘Direct Market retailers’.

Is it me, or is that Hisako (Armor from Astonishing X-Men) in the upper right corner of the teaser?

Source: Newsarama