“Author Joe Hill is following in the steps of his father Stephen King, and making the transistion to Hollywood. His book, Heart-Shaped Box is being developed into a big screen thriller by director Neil Jordan over at Warner Bros, Mandalay Pictures has optioned his upcoming novel Horns, and his graphic novel, Locke & Key was set-up at Dimension Films in 2008 with talk of a potential franchise.
Latino Review has learned that the project has moved over to DreamWorks, where Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are developing a big screen adaptation as part of their producing deal with the studio. No word on if they will lend a hand in the screenplay adaptation.
Here is the official synopsis from the publisher:
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them…. and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all…! Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) creates an all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder, with astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez. Hill has received the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Best Short Story, and the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award-2007, among his growing collection of critical accolades.
At the 2009 Eisner Awards, Locke & Key was nominated for Best Limited Series and Joe Hill was nominated for Best Writer. You can watch a trailer for the comic book that was created by IDW Piublishing:
“Hey, I didn’t know Jeff Bridges was in a remake of Logan’s Run! He looks really awesome in this first image from…oops. That’s Bridges in Tron Legacy, isn’t it? And is that a disc attached to his back, or is he just happy to have an Oscar nomination? Refresh yourself on details about the dual characters for Bridges and get a high-res version of the image after the break.
I like that this first real image of Bridges calls back to the Comic Con teaser, aka the VFX Concept Test footage. That stuff isn’t actually going to be in the film, remember. It was just created as proof of concept. But looking at this, it seems that the test footage is very similar to stuff that will be in the final film.
When we last heard from Tron director Joseph Kosinski, he said that Bridges would be playing two characters: the ‘real world’ Kevin Flynn and a new version of his digital character, Clu. “I’d say he’s Clu 2,” the director said. “There was a Clu in the first film who looked like Jeff but was very simple in terms of his abilities. He’s very stiff. Clu 2 is a second incarnation of Kevin’s avatar. He doesn’t only look like Jeff, but he can think like him too. So it’s a whole new level of artificial intelligence.” So which one is this? The disc suggests Clu, but we don’t know for sure.”
“Firefox: Mozilla’s out with the 1.0 of its Weave project, and it delivers on what it first promised—quiet, complete syncing of bookmarks, passwords, preferences, history, and even open tabs. It also heralds the coming of a really cool mobile experience.
If Weave synced your currently installed add-ons, you’d be up and running after a fresh Firefox installation in 2 minutes. As it is, Weave is still a very efficient and lightweight sync of your core Firefox experience, allowing you to maintain multiple Firefox installations across computers and operating systems. Xmarks does bookmark and password syncing too, and across other browsers, but Weave doesn’t offer site “discovery” services or other value-added stuff—just a way to automatically connect your Firefox browsers, and even browsing sessions.
That syncing of open tabs is where Firefox Mobile, just out in a third release candidate, will really shine. As Jay Sullivan told us, the idea is that the minute you step away from your desktop or laptop and wake your phone up, Firefox Mobile will pick up on the tabs you had open while you were sitting down.
Weave syncs through Mozilla’s servers. If you’d rather sync up your passwords and bookmarks to your own hardware or cloud space, Mozilla offers instructions on setting up your own server.
Weave 1.0 is a free download, works wherever Firefox 3.5 or higher (or Firefox Mobile) does.”
Boing Boing: • It’s a buck short of $500 for the cheapest model. Wifi only: 16GB=$499. 32GB=$599. 64GB=$699. Wifi and 3G: 16GB=$629. 32GB=$729. 64GB=$829.
• The battery is good for 10 hours on a charge, Apple claims, with a month of ’standby.’
• It’s half an inch thin and weighs 1.5 pounds.
• It has a 9.7″ high-res display, with a custom-cut operating system that will have its own applications. iWorks apps are $10 each.
• Books, newspapers and mags, including the NYT, will be available.
• iPad 3G models are unlocked, there’s no contract, and you pay $30 a month for unlimited data. Don’t fall for the $15 250MB deal: if you’re interested in this gadget, you’ll use more. AT&T users get free use at their hotspots.
• It has a 1GHz “Apple A4″ chip and flash storage.
• It has Wifi-N, Bluetooth, speaker, mic, iPod connector, an accelerometer and compass. No camera.
• There’s a keyboard dock, turning it into a desktop computer. Expect third party ones that turn it into a netbook, too: making this a category killer app given the cheap, contract-free 3G.
“Wondering what Tron Legacy is going to sound like? Your first clue has turned up, courtesy of a leaked demo version of Daft Punk’s contribution to the soundtrack, “Fragile.” Click through to listen for yourself.
“Talk about procrastination (or rather, ignorance of a fundamental flaw in your OS for nearly two decades): a Google engineer recently discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft’s 32-bit Windows kernel that had been around since 1993.
It’s kind of funny that this thing has been around long enough to get a driver’s license, but less so considering that it’s exposed every Windows OS since then to hacker takeovers. The afflicted subsystem was the Windows Virtual DOS Machine, and the potential for damage was pretty serious, according to yesterday’s Microsoft advisory:
What might an attacker use this vulnerability to do? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
Bad news! Don’t worry, they’ll patch it. But do worry, for all the other teenage bugs out there that no one’s caught yet.”
Windows/Mac/Linux: The oft-delayed but much improved 3.6 version of Firefox has landed, offering up faster performance, one-click themes, safer add-ons and plug-ins, better font handling, and a lot more. Grab it now.
We’ve been downloading and trying out Firefox 3.6 from the first alpha, and from what we’ve seen, 3.6 is a bigger update than the minor decimal point iteration would indicate. It ranked second only to the cutting-edge Chrome builds in our speed and performance tests, which meant there was real improvement in startup time and page rendering.What’s new? The video above provides the highlights, but the talking points are:
Instant themes: Point 3.6 at the Personas gallery, and you can hover over a theme to see how it would look in your browser. Click to apply it, and it’s your browser skin. You can then manage your Personas from the Add-Ons menu.
Out-of-date plugins notifier: Start your browser up with an outdated, and potentially virus-friendly, Adobe Flash or other plugin, and Firefox will tell you and provide an update link.
Full-screen “open” video: If you’re looking at a video streaming in Ogg or another free format, Firefox can play it full screen.
WOFF support: More intriguing for developers than users, but, still, Firefox now accepts and downloads smaller-sized Web Open Font Format fonts, allowing sites to more quickly show you their text the way they intended.
Faster, faster, faster: Mozilla promises better JavaScript, startup time, and rendering speeds.
You can read up more on what’s new in the 3.6 release notes, but you’re probably going to want to discover its features for yourself. Firefox 3.6 is a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.”
