It’s no secret that veteran movie and television producer Avi Arad has played an important role — possibly one of the most important — in bringing comic book movies to the point they are today. Not only did the former CEO and founder of Marvel Studios help bring Marvel out of bankruptcy in the late ’90s, but his efforts to bring Marvel superheroes from the page to the screen paved the way for much of the characters’ rise to mainstream prominence in recent years.
Over the weekend, Arad was in town promoting his latest page-to-screen project, “The Amazing Spider-Man,” a reboot of the popular Marvel Comics character’s big-screen franchise that casts Andrew Garfield (“The Social Network”) as wall-crawling, web-slinging nerdy superhero Peter Parker. Along with telling IFC all about the new film — which is directed by “500 Days of Summer” filmmaker Marc Webb — Arad also shared some thoughts with IFC about the other genre he’s been mining for movie projects lately: video games.
November 2025 is the 61st month the PlayStation 5 has been available for. In the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the PlayStation 5 when compared to the aligned launch of the PlayStation 3 by 1.57 million units.
In the last 12 months, the PS5 has grown its lead over the PS3 by 3.31 million units. The PlayStation 5 is currently ahead by 28.11 million units.
PS3 got a bad rap because of the price. I bought it day one (I was very lucky). A Blu-ray player was more expensive than the PS3 at the time around 800$+
And that was for a standalone player with no internet connectivity. A network enable BD players like the PS3 was, were around $1000 at the time
That's true, but it gets worse. I remember seeing independent analysis from CNET or something like that. They concluded that PS3 was not only the cheapest, but also had the best video quality of any BD player.
Good to see there is an improvement despite the challenges plaguing this generation.
At the end of year 5, the ps3 received a pricecut making the 160GB model $250 and the 320G GB model $300.
I miss those days when there was not so much demand for microchips and the prices of things generally came down.
Now everything seems to be a smart device with very few companies to supply the needed chips.
Why compare to the PS3? The machine was a total abortion.
Comparing to 4 would be best being it’s the previous generation and was hugely successful.
There is a ps5 to ps4 comparison. The PS4 currently has a narrow lead.
https://www.vgchartz.com/ar...
we should also not forget what shitstorm the ps3 got cause of the price bk then
it was still a phenomenal console
Western media did everything in their power to destroy the ps3. They shiited on its price and made fun of the CELL (I'm surprised there wasn't more dbz memes) calling it alien hardware. Still it gave us games like Uncharted 2 and TLOU.
Former Playground Games veterans Gavin Raeburn, Jon Davis-Hunt and Marco Conti reflect on Forza Horizon’s origins and how it “beat every other driving franchise out there.”
Former Playground Games veterans Gavin Raeburn, Jon Davis-Hunt and Marco Conti reflect on Forza Horizon’s origins and how it “beat every other driving franchise out there.”
"We have a great director,” said Arad of the film. “So in anticipation, I’m accumulating the kind of games that I’m personally interested in from a story standpoint. They have to have a story.”"
It's not about the director...hell you could have Steven Spielberg attached and I would still have doubts....I mean honestly has Neil actually played the games, he says he has but in interviews it sounds like he dosen't know what he's talking about. It's about picking the right actors for the parts and having a good story that stays true to the games...basicaly using source material not trying to change everything. Honestly you could take Amy Hennigs script and tweak it during the gameplay moments and unneccesary parts and you could be set to go.
Hopefully they'll get Nolan North to play Drake and then Emily and Richard to play their parts aswell.
i do they get the people who did the video game to do the movie, but if not can i say to use Nathan Fillion to be drake
People need to watch lockout before they pick there drake http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Guy Pearce could definitely do justice to Drake....but he'd need to bulk down a bit. He was huge in lockout!
Nolan North and Nathan Fillion are both too old to play Drake now. It just wouldn't be believable and would fall flat.
Emily and Richard, on the other hand, would be perfect.
Drake is an athletic guy, you can't just throw a guy in his 40's into the role, especially if they're thinking of it becoming a franchise. I love both actors and would love to see them in other stuff, but their time has passed for this movie.
Edit: After watching that Lockout trailer, I think Guy Pearce could definitely pull it off. He's still old, though, but at least he's athletic and can pull off the humor.