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UPDATE: Auction is over.

I’ve got HD DVD for sale on ebay.co.uk: The Holiday, Knocked Up, The Kingdom, Serenity, American Gangster, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, An American Werewolf in London and Dante’s Peak. Each movie cost £5.99, shipping is free for Europe add £4 for the rest of the world. I’ve got 2 to 4 copies of each movie.

I’ve also got some PSP UMD for sale: DodgeBall, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Daredevil, Chain Reaction, Behind Enemy Lines, Alien vs. Predator, Kingdom Of Heaven og Predator. It’s £4.99 each. I’ve only ship the UMD movies to Europe since they are region 2 and will only play in a European PSP. Free shipping.

AUCTION HAS ENDED

I’ve have some HD DVD movies and Sony PSP UMD (region 2/Europe) movies for sale on eBay.co.uk. Free shipping to Europe, add £4.00 for rest of the world. Since UMD movies as region 2, these will only be shippet to European countries.

HD DVD movies – £5.99

• American Gangsters
• An American Werewolf In London
• Dante’s Peak
• Knocked Up
• Mr. Bean’s Holiday
• Serenity
• The Holiday
• The Kingdom

Sony PSP UMD movies – £3.99

• Alien vs. Predator
• Behind Enemy Lines
• The Day After Tomorrow
• Dodgeball
• Kingdom Of Heaven
• Predator

The Oscar (aka Academy Award) was held on Sunday March 7, 2010. The big winner was The Hurt Locker with six Awards.  Under you’ll se all the winners. List taken from Oscar.com:

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart

Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side

Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo’Nique – Precious

Animated Feature Film: UP

Art Direction: Avatar

Cinematography: Avatar

Costume Design: The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell

Directing: The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow

Documentary Feature: The Cove – Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens

Documentary Short: Music by Prudence – Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

Film Editing: The Hurt Locker – Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

Foreign Language Film: The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos), Argentina

Makeup: Star Trek

Music (Original Score): Up

Music (Original Song):  Crazy Heart – “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”

Short Film (Animated): Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin

Short Film (Live Action): The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson

Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett

Visual Effects: Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

Writing (Adapted Screenplay): Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire – Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher

Writing (Original Screenplay): The Hurt Locker – Written by Mark Boal

Here is the list of all the Golden Globe 2010 award winners, taken from GoldenGlobes.org:

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Martin Scorsese

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Avatar

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart

Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
The Hangover

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Mo’nique – Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best Animated Feature Film
Up

Best Foreign Language Film
The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band – Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte) (Germany)

Best Director – Motion Picture
James Cameron – Avatar

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – Up In The Air

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Michael Giacchino – Up

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)” – Crazy Heart

Best Television Series – Drama
Mad Men (AMC)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife (CBS)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama
Michael C. Hall – Dexter (SHOWTIME)

Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Glee (FOX)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Toni Collette – United States Of Tara (SHOWTIME)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Grey Gardens (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Chloë Sevigny – Big Love (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
John Lithgow – Dexter (SHOWTIME)

The first couple of American Pie movies was great and fun. And you might thought that the series had ended. But you’re mistaken. A new movie is now out in US. I’ve lost count, but I guess American Pie Presents: The Book of Love is the 7th movie in the series. One character from the original movies are still present, Jim’s Dad played by Eugene Levy. The movie is available on both DVD and Blu-ray.

A short description of the the story:

When three East Great Falls High buddies accidentally discover the legendary “Book of Love,” penned by some of their school’s alumni, they embark on a hilariously outrageous quest to lose their virginity with the girls of their dreams. Join Jim’s Dad (Eugene Levy) and this lovable and outrageous group of guys in this raucous comedy full of shocking and heartwarming fun!

Watch the trailer and interviews with the cast in the videos bellow.

The man behind movies like Alien, Terminator and Titanic is back with Avatar. And I’m talking about James Cameron. He got the idea for this movie in 1994 and have been making it for the last four years. It’s a great movie.

We meet Jack Sully who’s a former Marine confined to a wheelschair. He’s recruited to a outpost on Pandora which have a mineral that can solve the energy crises on Earth. They started the Avatar Program since the atmosphere on Pandora is toxic for humans. The avatars are geneticaly engeneered with DNA from human and natives from Pandora. The mission is to infilitrate the Na’vi and to get them to move, so the humans can mining the rare mineral.

I thing Avatar is a great movie. The story is OK, the action is good and the visuals are amazing. I watch Avatar in 3D and the effect is very good. It’s a lot of CGI in the movie, but it blends well with real life people and places.

Avatar is a long movie, around 160 minutes, but it doesn’t that long since the story, action and scenery keeps you watching and forgetting the time. Avatar is highly recommanded, and if you have the opertunity to watch it in 3D, do that.

Avatar trailer

Interview with James Cameron

Interview with avatar actors

Picture taken from IGN.com.

It’s getting closer to the next Xbox 360 Dashboard update. The new firmware will bring you four new services to the Xbox. It will let you use Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm and Zune from the Xbox 360 Dashboard. According to Xbox UK the update will come on November 17. Also there will be a public beta end of this month. If you live in UK, you will also get the Sky Player sometime this fall, which will let you watch TV on the Xbox.

If you are a heavy user of Facebook and/or Twitter, now is the time to invest in Xbox 360 Messenger Kit for text typing. I’ve been using it close to a couple of years now and it’s way better to type text than useing the controller.

For an indepth preview of the new services, you can check out Joystiq.com or watch the video from Engadget.com below.