ITP: "Middle East movie buffs losing out online"

From ITP.com [link]

Due to film licensing restrictions, which tend to cover distinct geographical regions - most often the US and Europe - Western films such as Pulp Fiction or Shrek 3 cannot currently be licensed for online distribution to end users in the Middle East, meaning internet surfers here simply cannot download content legally online.

Licensing, schmicensing .... can anyone spell BitComet?

Five 80s cartoon remakes l'd like to see

I think its only natural to expect more Hollywood remakes of 80s TV shows and cartoons. Most of today's Hollywood producers spent their wonder years buying Marvel comics, Transformers toys and He-Man action figures.


Transformars is out.

Iron Man, He-Man, ThunderCars are in the works and now Voltron is WIP.


I have to say that I am a sucker for these remakes. I loved the Transformers movie and can't wait to see Iron Man. Word is that ThunderCats will be a CGI film; personally, I think that will kill the movie.

I'll also hold on to my thoughts on Voltron until I know which one will they do. The 5- Lions Voltron or the 50something vehicles ones. (You know there were 2 versions)


Now, having said that, here is my own top 5 list of 80s shows that I would love to see on the big screen:

5. M.A.S.K.

4. Visionaries

3. Centorions

2. Gundam

1. Robotech
Undoubtedly the mother of all mecha animation. This video here tells you why.

One show I'd love to find out more about is Jumaro. It was a Japanese show about remote controlled fighting robots in action figure size. The show was dubbed into Arabic and Greek languages only.



Here is a sample:










Which one was your favorite?

Iron Man has a friend in Dubai

In the highly anticipated Iron Man movie, Ghostface Killa a rapper -who is also known as Ironman- will be playing the character of an Arab Shaikh from good ol' Dubai.

From the leaked trailer, it does seem that the film will have more than one reference to the Middle East "situation". But According to this, the Dubai-based Shaikh character person is actually one of the good guys and will help Iron Man/Tony Stark (Played by Robert Downey Jr.) kick some bad-guy butt.

Guess who is back..

Wafi Heist Video

Like everyone who has an email in the UAE today, I received the URL of the mobile phone video that captured the Wafi heist in progress.

See it here. Another Video here as well

I don't know what to say. I am in total shock, really.

Some friends were supposed to go there last night, but changed their minds at the last minute. Thank god they did.

From the video, I can clearly see that the robbers:
Are very organised (In uniform - all dressed in black and masked).
Targeted Graff. One of the most, if not THE most, exclusive jewellery outlet in the mall. I bet they must've had scouts that checkout out the place many times.
It was done late Sunday evening; traffic is light, both inside and outside. Making it a clean in-and-out.
Influenced by Hollywood (Ronin): notice the make of the Audis - exact models that were used in the heist movie.
In the Gulf News story, it says that the cars were set on fire. So, they must've had replacement cars. Also, one car had an Abu Dhabi car plate and the other was without any.

AND ... they were frigging armed.

When I first read the story headline, I thought they must have used real-looking toy guns; but you can hear the live gunfire in the video.

This heist had the potential of going really really really bad. There are no news of any life casualties, lets hope there are not.

My sixth sense