I'm finally coming out of my limbo and giving another shove at the entertainment industry after dull 2004. I plan to update this weblog more often and give overhaul to my other project pages and my profile page to reflect my progress and goals.

Basically, as you can notice on the right side of this page, I plan to read more, watch more, work more, and write more about movies and entertainment that fits into my master plan. This space is my diary plus progress report plus my report card plus my writing exercise, and plus a part of who I am.

Carpe diem!

Coming Soon! James Cameron on Battle Angel! "So we're in pre-production now on a movie called Battle Angel, which is based on a Japanese Manga series of graphic novels by an artist named Yukito Kishiro. It's not in the sort of top ten of graphic novels in Japan; it's a lesser known one, and we're going to make Battle Angel over the next couple of years and release it in '07. By early summer of '07, we expect to have somewhere around a thousand digital 3D theaters that will be able to show an image that looks more or less like what you saw in the IMAX theater but the IMAX theater was film, and this is going to be digital projection... It's a bit of a m?lange of the first three books, which means that it pulls forward the motorball story into the Ido, Alita, Hugo story, if you will.

Live action and CG mixed, meaning we will build sets, we'll shoot with actors and we'll have CG characters. Alita will be CG; she'll be performed by an actress but what you see in the film will be CG... It will be PG-13 -- lots of blood, but it's all blue." I wish him the very best and dying to see this one on the big screen. But a 3D picture that requires you to wear a glasses? That will never fly, IMO.

Wired 13.01: The Shadow Internet. "The kids in the scene aren't trying to bomb the system. They don't care a whit whether major labels suffer more from file-sharing than indie labels, or if a ban on prerelease DVDs affects Miramax's chances at the Academy Awards. They do this because it feels mildly rebellious, like smoking a doobie behind the local Kroger or setting off the school fire alarm - and because it's fun.

Like ants, curries are monomaniacal about tiny tasks - they copy and move files from place to place - but together they form a force so powerful that it threatens to displace the traditional forms of media distribution. In fact, Forest believes the scene will eventually go legit, and he's even started a company, called Jun Group, that uses the topsites to promote movies, musicians, and TV shows. "The topsites don't care where their files come from, as long as no one else has them," he says. Last summer Jun Group dropped a collection of live videos and MP3s from Steve Winwood on the topsites. "We got 2.9 million downloads," says Forest, "and album sales took off."' How do you beat the shadow system that topples the current system? If you can beat them, join them? Go legit how and what business model? The answer to this riddle will hold the Power to rule all the media as we know it.