Family Guy Digital Copy courtesy of Fox Home Entertainment
A few months ago we took a hands-on look at Digital Copy with Family Guy - Blue Harvest. The show's Star Wars parody came to DVD with an extra disc containing a digital file version of the feature which easily copied to a Video iPod, a PC, or a PC-file compatible device (like an Archos media player). It's a handy way to get a "portable" copy of the DVD you've bought, so you don't have to buy it all over again via download to the hard drive of your laptop or a portable video device. But what else is on the way for Digital Copy?· Fox has the biggest support for on-disc Digital Copy so far, but Family Guy was actually their second. Last November's 2-DVD version of Live Free or Die Hard was first. The Blu-ray version didn't have it, though, and it didn't support iPod copies yet either (leaving iPod users AND Macintosh users out in the cold). But this would quickly and easily transfer a nice-looking copy of the film's unrated cut to a PC or compatible device.· Fox then expa...
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Saoirse Ronan and James McAvoy in Atonement courtesy Focus Features
The Atonement house mysterious movies and an actor after more than fame Ask FlickChick Question This may sound shallow but after seeing the movie Atonement which I thought was really good and moving the thing I keep thinking about is the house Is it a real place and if so can you tell me anything about it SethFlickChick Tallis House the site of the terrible family betrayal in Atonement is a real house and the filmmakers shot both interiors and exteriors there This is often not the case Crews frequently use the exterior of one place and either build sets for the interiors or shoot them someplace else The house is Stokesay Court which stands on 1000 acres in Shropshire some three hours north of London it was built in 1891 in whats called the Jacobethan style which combined elements of English Renaissance Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture The style is often dismissed as vulgar and ugly in part because it was favored by newly minted mil
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Will Smith's I Am Legend topped the weekend box office with a mighty $76.5 million haul, the biggest December opening ever (edging out The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's $72.6 mil) and a personal best for the former Fresh Prince. Jason Lee's Alvin and the Chipmunks placed second with $45 mil.Rounding out the top five were The Golden Compass ($9 million), Enchanted ($6 mil) and No Country for Old Men ($3 mil). Atonement, the most-nommed film for this year's Golden Globes, pulled in $1.85 million across 117 screens. Overall, the top 12 films were up 39 percent from the same weekend a year earlier.
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