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Wednesday 25 April 2018

The SAGA CONTINUES...DISNEY'S LUCASFILM SUES REN VENTURES OVER COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND MUCH MORE

I apologise for the pun but this was just begging to be done and I just couldn't let it go to waste. I just saw this article on TheHollywoodReporter's website that was published the day after the article that was published on TheBlast.com's website and just had to put this up here.

According to TheHollywoodReporter.com's website now Disney's LucasFilm is suing Ren Ventures for copyright infringements, trademark infringements and unfair competition and is asking the court to cancel Ren Ventures trademark of "Sabacc".

According to TheHollywood.com's website Disney's LucasFilm says that Ren Ventures sought to capitalize on the fandom of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" film by creating the video game app "Sabacc" right before this films release in 2015.

Also according to this same article on The HollywoodReporter.com's website Disney's LucasFilm goes even further by stating in court documents written by Disney LucasFilms' attorney Cynthia Arato that:

"Defendants' website, Facebook page and other social media accounts all display copyrighted images from "Star Wars" motion pictures and television episodes and quote copyrighted dialogue from these works..."

She goes on to say that:

"They even named one of their companies, Ren Ventures, after the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" character named Kylo Ren."

She also goes on to say that:

" Prior to the Defendants' claimed "first use" of the mark SABACC, in 2015, Plaintiffs publicly announced that LucasFilm was developing a new motion picture focused on Han Solo as a young man..."

"Star Wars fans and any interested observer would expect that the pivotal game of Sabacc between Lando Calrission and Han Solo would be part of the new movie. In fact, fans began to speculate about whether the movie would feature Sabacc".

So in other words Disney's LucasFilm attorney is saying that Ren Ventures knew even before 2015 that Disney's LucasFilm was going to be making a new film seeing Han Solo when he was a young man and they knew that this could or would feature the card game Sabacc as anyone who is like me and fan of "Star Wars" knows that Sabacc is how the Millennium Falcon became Han Solo's ship, and this is also told in a screenplay for 1978's "The Empire Strikes Back" that wrote it as "Sabacca" but was then changed to "Sabacc" in the 1980 novelisation of this story and in the first book in a trilogy about Lando Calrissian explains the rules of "Sabacc", and that regardless of this they made the mobile game app anyway so they had to have known that they were going to be creating click bait for people as anyone who's anyone is going to click on this want to play it as it even sounds regardless of who owns this trademark like "Sabacc" is something from "Star Wars". 

REN VENTURES SUING DISNEY'S LUCASFILM, DENNY'S AND COLLIDER.COM FOR TRADEMARK INFRIDGEMENT

I was perusing the Internet yesterday and an interesting headline popped up saying "LucasFilm suing video mobile app company over Sabacc" and as I am a huge Star Wars fan my curiosity was of course piqued as to know more about this story...but alas the internet went so I couldn't read what this was all about until today.

I Googled this and according to TheBlast.com's website a mobile video app created by Ren Ventures is suing Disney's LucasFilm, Denny's and Collider.com for copyright infringement for a card game app called "Sabacc" that combines both poker and poker.

Also according to TheBlast.com's website Ren Ventures claims that in 2015 it filed for the trademark of Sabacc and that this was granted in 2016 as it went unopposed...this just sounds ridiculous to me as I am a huge fan of Star Wars and last time I checked LucasFilm and Disney both before Disney bought LucasFilm are pretty big companies and your telling me that if they don't physically go to court and legally trademark this name it's free game for anyone to take it as a name for anything?!

Surely someone in these big companies already knows this and Ren Ventures is saying that there was no one in these companies that either appeared to know this, thought of it themselves to use "Sabacc" in their marketing departments when they bring out all the Star Wars merchandise when this new film would come out or just didn't care about this therefore they didn't oppose this giving them "Ren Ventures" free rein to use it in a card game app they created.

Also according to TheBlast.com's website Ren Ventures didn't give Disney's LucasFilm license to use the term "Sabacc" and that it certainly didn't give them license to partner with Denny's restaurant in America to create an advert that centres around this game and is therefore suing them and Collider.com for violating their trademark by using "Sabacc".

TheBlast.com's website says this lawsuit is in response to LucasFilms lawsuit last year which was to have Ren Ventures trademark cancelled as LucasFilm claimed that this would only cause confusion with customers.

Tuesday 24 April 2018

NEW! "EQUALIZER 2" MOVIE TRAILER!

I was perusing YouTube.com's website the other day and I couldn't believe this came up on my homepage.

You may or may not have seen the trailer to this yet, here is the link to this on YouTube.com to have a little look at it and see it for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyNJ3UrGk_I

Both Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington are back in this follow up to "The Equalizer" which if you haven't seen this first film I urge you to go and see this as it was action packed and is good to watch if there is nothing on the TV to watch...if you haven't seen this film then I will fill in the blanks for you...Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall a seemingly quite, keeps himself to himself, has a routine guy like for example he doesn't have much in his apartment and he keeps a watch by his bedside and gets up at a certain time each morning, gets dressed, takes the same bus each morning to a diner and sets himself out in a booth with a book each night, he cleans with the serviette the knife and fork once he sits down in the booth and then goes to work at a home depot store and seems to be friendly towards Ralphie who is trying to train to become a security guard at the store but one day Ralphie up and stops wanting to train after his mother's restaurant gets broken into and there is a fire and after McCall learns it was no accident and it was really the work of corrupt policemen who did it because she didn't pay her protection money on time...he pays them a little visit and gets them to give the money back to Ralphie's mother. And after he befriends a young girl who also regularly goes to the same diner as him that wants to become a singer but gets into a different car each night stops coming to the diner one night and is put in the hospital goes out to pay the people that did that to her and in turn the audience find out that he used to be a government agent that quit as soon as he got married and in turn has to go to war with the head of the Russian Mafia as he learns that The Russian Mafia is running a prostitution ring that she is involved in and that involves corrupt police to look the other way so to speak.

This film sees Denzel Washington reprising his role as Robert McCall who is getting justice for the oppressed and exploited but he has to go back into action when his long time friend Susan Plummer played by Melissa Leo is murdered whilst by the looks of this trailer is investigating the death of another agent.

According to IMDb.com this is pencilled in to be released in the UK on the 17th August. This will be directed by Antoine Fuqua.

NEW! MUST SEE VENOM TRAILER AND POSTER!

I was just perusing the internet this morning and I saw this headline..."Venom Trailer with Tom Hardy actually in it this time" and I just had to have a look at what this was all about. According to Collider.com and Comicbook.com's website some fans weren't happy about the teaser trailer that Sony released where you only got to see Venom begin to appear and fans didn't get to see all of Venom as if you've seen any of the build up for this movie there seemed to be a lot of talk about how Tom Hardy wouldn't be wearing any kind of suit to get into the character of Venom but it would all be done by CGI including the long protruding tong that is in the comic books.

If you haven't seen the teaser trailer for this movie here is the YouTube.com link to see what you think for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzxFdtWmjto 

Here is the YouTube link to take a little look for yourselves and see what you think of this NEW! VENOM Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Mv98Gr5pY

Here is the NEW! Poster to go along with this NEW! trailer for "Venom"

venom-poster-released

Not a lot of details are known yet about what the plot of this movie will be save for the NEW! Synopsis that Sony have released with this NEW! trailer and poster for "Venom" which says according to Comicbook.com's website:

 " One of Marvel's most enigmatic, complex and badass characters comes to the big screen, starring Academy Award nominee Tom Hardy as the lethal protector Venom".

Is this really a synopsis for this NEW! film?! because to me this doesn't really tell you what this film is going to be about...the trailer seems to give you more of an idea than this synopsis does like how it looks like this film is definitely going to have teeth...literary done by CGI of course and metaphorically as this looks like this is more than your average Spider-Man film.

But I just thought with how it says in the synopsis of this movie that had no involvement what so ever from Marvel Studios "lethal protector Venom" might just be me but could this be seeming to suggest that for all Venom's:

"If I see it, we can do whatever we want"

deal he makes with Tom Hardy's character Eddie Brock he does a little good in the process by taking on the crazed head of the Life Foundation who is testing alien symbiotes on humans and wants to see the effects on humans as well as taking on these test subjects that have infected Eddie Brock and maybe wreaking havoc?

This is pencilled in according to IMDb.com's website to be released in UK cinemas on October 5th 2018 and will be directed by Ruben Fleischer and the screenplay is written by Kelly Marcel, Will Beall, Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner according to IMDb.com and is based on the Marvel characters by Todd McFarlane and David Michelinie.


Friday 20 April 2018

CATCH UP POST: MIKE SHINODA, THE MEG MOVIE TRAILER, 30 SECONDS TO MARS NEW! ALBUM "AMERICA", NEW! PANIC! AT THE DISCO PART II

God I really don't know where to start on this follow up Part II as there seems to have been a million things happen whilst I've been recovering from a chest infection.

But first things first 30 Seconds To Mars released on April 6th their NEW! album "America" and I can't believe the negative comments I've seen on the Internet about this and about the band, things like someone on YouTube.com did a meme with their list album cover but instead of it saying the top 5 of whatever like for instance you could have got on one album cover the top 5 sex positions, top 5 list of styles as said by GQ etc they've done "WOW THIS BAND HAS GONE DOWN HILL FAST" and people saying that 30 Seconds To Mars have sold out with this album...I get it people are entitled to their own opinion but... this album sounds different to the bands other albums but over a career spanning as long as theirs are you not as a band going to differ in sound over time? And I know what I may say next may get a few comments on here or it may not as it may cause offense but I'm going to say it anyway...are the people that are saying these things really fans of 30 Seconds To Mars? as if you were a fan of 30 Seconds To Mars like I am surely you would just be excited at this band releasing a NEW! album after so long between this NEW! one and "Love. Lust. Dreams. Faith" and you'd just want to listen to it because you want to hear any of the NEW! songs that haven't been released after "Walk On Water", " Dangerous Night" which was according to Wikipedia produced by Zedd and "One Track Mind ft. A$AP Rocky" and what these other tracks sound like? And if you haven't heard any of these amazing tracks here is the link below to see what you think for yourself on YouTube.com:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-TJV4WMwQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA2w-PMKspo&list=RDFA2w-PMKspo#t=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN7N0P2TxHQ&index=2&list=RDFA2w-PMKspo

I just thought whilst I was listening to this that this "One Track Mind ft. A$AP Rocky" definitely to me anyway has vibes of Khalid and Marshallow's single "Silence":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1sqYc3qas

I apologise for saying this but I just felt like I needed to get this off my chest as it's really been bugging me as well as reading some of the surprisingly negative comments that people have been giving Gwen Stefani whilst she's been doing all the press for her NEW! upcoming "Just A Girl" residency in Las Vegas...why do people do this when there is no need for negative comments? Especially as she is Gwen Stefani lead singer of "No Doubt" one of the coolest bands ever,-in my opinion-.

Anyhew...I have to say that since I have received a copy of "America" I cannot stop playing this album as I am loving these tracks no matter how different they might sound to some people. If you haven't heard any of this NEW! album yet well shame on you, you need to put down whatever your doing right now and get on over to wherever you download your music from Spotify, ITunes, Amazon etc and listen to this album it will get you seriously hooked!...that might just be me as I'm a bit biased being a fan of 30 Seconds To Mars...yes this album does sound different to "Love. Lust. Faith. Dreams" but all these different sounding songs make you want to listen to them and find out what's your favourite sounding track off this album.

I also have to say that whenever I listen to "Rescue Me" the guitar on the track always makes me think of "The Police-Message In A Bottle"...if you've not heard this song where the hell have you been all these years? here is the link to hear this song on YouTube.com:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXWrmQW-OE

And I'm absolutely loving their epic cinematic sounding "Monolith" which is just an instrumental track.

And I am really surprised because I haven't heard on their previous albums any duets, Halsey appears on a duet "Love Is Madness" on Track 7 of this NEW! album and I have to say that this as well as "Remedy" which is sung by Shannon Leto and sounds more acoustic, is one of my favourite tracks and every time I listen to this album I always get this track stuck in my head. If you haven't heard this track yet here is the link to it on YouTube.com:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCCFU7l4w04

And I was perusing YouTube the other day and after hearing about this upcoming film for a couple of months now I saw the first official trailer for this Jason Statham film "The Meg" has officially been put up on the Internet, here is the trailer for this film if you haven't already seen this yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsLk0NPRFAc

The story for this is according to IMDb.com after escaping an attack by what he claims is a 70ft Megladon (a prehistoric shark) Jonas Taylor who will be played by Jason Statham must save those trapped on a sunken submersible...this to me looks soooo stupid and soooo CGI because this would never be plausible that a prehistoric shark would still be hanging around at the bottom of the ocean and nobody has seemed to have noticed until Jason Statham came along to save the day...but now that I think about this I think with this and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's "Rampage" movie about a huge CGI gorilla that has been genetically altered and also a wolf which has been mutated with the DNA of a bat to make a flying wolf I think we've moved now into the realms of movies that you just shouldn't ask stupid questions of what's real, what's not real, what's plausible and what's not plausible just go and see the films...or this could just smell like everybody involved in this movie was desperate for a pay day.





Monday 16 April 2018

CATCH UP POST: MIKE SHINODA MUSIC, PANIC AT THE DISCO, "THE MEG" MOVIE TRAILER, 30 SECONDS TO MARS NEW! ALBUM "AMERICA" ETC... Part I

Oh gosh a lot has been happening whilst I've been not posting on here and trying to get over a chest infection so I apologise for my absence...so I thought whilst I've been away and unable to post anything on here I'd catch up on a few things that you may or may not have heard about that I really wanted to post on here about but couldn't.

First I just have to put up on here how you may or may not have heard but Gwen Stefani the lead vocalist for the amaaaazing band "No Doubt",-which I am a massive fan of,- is getting a Las Vegas residency "Just a Girl" at the Zappos Theatre inside Planet Hollywood and tickets for this are on sale now, here is the link to go and get your tickets that you do not want to miss out on:

https://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/952651

This event will go on until March 16th in case you haven't clicked on the button on the bottom of this link to see the full list of residency dates.

Some of you may or may not have heard but Mike Shinoda from "Linkin Park" has been recording music recently and if you haven't heard of any of this NEW! Music yet you have to stop right now and go and listen to his NEW! Song "Crossing A Line" from his NEW! Album "Post Traumatic" that as soon as I heard this song I just jumped onto Amazon's website and pre-ordered this album as I cannot get this out of my head...but that isn't a bad thing as I'm already loving this song sooo much and I keep playing this song on repeat  and I urgently advise if you are not a Linkin Park fan like me go and pre-order this album NOW! which according to Amazon's website is officially released on Friday 28th December as this is music that just has to be played to and listened to.

If you haven't heard any of Mike Shinoda's NEW! Music here is the link to have a listen to them and see what you think of this on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sRc3j7IU0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMTsul4UFl8

I have to say that I can't believe how close up the camera gets to this fire at the side of the road in the music video for this song "Nothing Makes Sense Anymore" and I can't believe how everything looks so eerie the day after this fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk_2NB0RIaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW52pp_qKeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEQoF_8Z7s

Also if you haven't seen it yet you need to watch the Live streamed on YouTube.com concert of Linkin Park and Friends celebrating the life in honour of Chester Bennington as this is just too good to miss if you are a fan of Linkin Park but you'll also get to see fantastic artists like these Blink 182, Sum 41, Zedd, Alanis Morrissette and more perform alongside Linkin Park...I think this is also amazing to see a concert streamed on YouTube.com as you can see this concert on any device or even if you wanted to you could put it on your TV and sit back, chill, get a few drinks in or get a few friends round in the comfort of your own home or wherever your watching this. Here is the link to watch this if you haven't already seen this concert on YouTube.com's website:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VoLHdADma8&t=136s

Also if you haven't seen this yet you have to go and watch this NEW! Panic At The Disco music video for their single "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" this is sooo good, here is the link to it on YouTube.com for you to take a look at Brenden Urie fighting off ninja's looking properly badass but still remaining to look dapper whilst doing all this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVXauWq9Hwg

Also if you haven't heard this yet their NEW! single " ( Fuck A) Silver Linings" you also just have to listen to this as when I first heard this song I just really didn't expect this kind of song from "Panic At The Disco", here is the link for you to have a listen to it and see what you think on YouTube.com:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUopuhqwCM

Having heard both these songs that you can now download or stream I really can't wait to hear the album that I've already pre-ordered that according to Amazon's website will be officially released on June 22nd 2018.