Steven Spielberg is developing a biographical mini-series about Napoleon Bonaparte. Spielberg himself revealed the news during an interview recently with Canal+. The twist here is that the project was originally penned by Stanley Kubrick as a feature film screenplay back in 1961. The filmmaker abandoned the project in the 1970s due to budget and … [Read more...]
A Mini mindset: how an automaker’s Connected platform could spark a seismic shift in infotainment expectations
February 22, 2013 by
Mini sold some 66,000 vehicles in the United States last year, and despite being on American soil (in its current incarnation, anyway) for just 13 years, this market has quickly become its biggest. Those drawn to the brand are likely intrigued by, if not outright enamored of, its quirkiness. Mini likes to say that the company is "Not Normal," and … [Read more...]
Luke Evans Set For Train Robbery Mini
February 17, 2013 by
Welsh spunk Luke Evans is set to play Bruce Reynolds, the masterminded behind the Great Train Robbery, in a two-part TV mini-series to air later this year. Reynolds hatched the plan for the 1963 mail train heist, at the time Britain’s biggest ever robbery with a haul worth £41 million in today's money. One part follows the thieves, the other the … [Read more...]
HBO’s Third WW2 Mini Will Go Aerial
January 20, 2013 by
HBO has confirmed it is developing a third World War II miniseries from Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg following their successful collaborations on "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific." The untitled miniseries will deal with aerial wars through the eyes of enlisted men of the Eighth Air Force - known as the men of the Mighty Eighth. Historian … [Read more...]
Apple iPad mini hands-on!
October 24, 2012 by
At long last, it's the iPad mini. Unveiled today at a special event in San Jose, the slightly more portable iPad most certainly looks like its 9.7-inch elder, but it's equipped with the same Lightning port that was ushered in on the iPhone 5 and is entirely more eager to slip inside some of the world's largest cargo shorts. If you'll recall, rumors … [Read more...]
Thunderbolt-equipped Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini storage devices now up for pre-order
July 24, 2012 by
Hankering for a Drobo with Thunderbolt? They're here... almost. Starting today, consumers far and wide can place their pre-orders for the Drobo 5D and the Drobo Mini. As a refresher, the former is a BYOD desktop solution with a pair of T-bolt ports and a lone USB 3.0 connector; just bring up to five 3.5-inch HDDs, and your RAID adventures are … [Read more...]
Worthington Plans Gallipoli Journo Mini
June 13, 2012 by
Sam Worthington will co-produce and potentially star in a six-hour miniseries dealing with a group of journalists who covered the famous failed WWI Gallipoli campaign reports Deadline. Over almost a year of fighting took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey in 1915 as a joint British and French operation set out to capture Constantinople … [Read more...]
Zotac ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus mini PC launches with E-450 APU, gets reviewed
April 13, 2012 by
Zotac and its XBOXes -- just when you think your next dorm room PC couldn't get any smaller... it does. The latest in the stable is the long-winded Nano XS AD11 Plus, a hysterically titled small form factor PC equipped with a dual-core 1.6GHz AMD E-450 APU, Radeon HD 6320 GPU, 2GB of DDR3 memory and an HDMI output. There's also a 64GB mSATA SSD, a … [Read more...]
