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Early Edition: Rufus Sewell Turns Into a Vampire; 'Dragonflight' Book Takes Wing; More
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'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' just got its head vampire: Rufus Sewell will play Adam, the leader of the bloodsuckers in Fox's adaptation of the best-selling book. Benjamin Walker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anthony Mackie and Dominic Cooper also star in Timur Bekmambetov's 3D movie. In the film, based on Seth Graham-Smith's novel, the nation's 16th president spends much of the Civil War battling vampires rather than the Confederacy. Bekmambetov should be a nice fit for 'Vampire Hunter,' having directed 'Night Watch' and 'Day Watch,' two outrageous fantasy-thrillers. [TheWrap]
Is this 'Avatar' meets 'How to Train Your Dragon'? Copperheart Entertainment and Entertainment One are producing an adaptation of Anne McCaffrey's 'Dragonflight,' the first in the 'Dragonriders of Pern' book series, with 'Watchmen' and 'X-Men' writer David Hayter set to pen the script. The story revolves around»
- Harley W. Lond
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Video Game Pioneer Jerry Lawson Passes Away
In the mid-1970s, the Homebrew Computer Club was just an irregular gathering of tinkerers, hobbyists and enthusiasts who met to talk shop and swap tips about how to build and work with computing hardware. These gatherings gave birth to the personal computer and two of Apple's co-founders--Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak--were members in good standing. Jobs and Wozniak sparked a home computing revolution with the Apple II but another member created an altogether different sort of seismic shift in the electronics world.
Jerry Lawson's name didn't wind up becoming as renowned as Jobs or Wozniak's but his accomplishments helped pave the way for video games to become a cultural force at home and in arcades. Lawson worked at Fairchild, where he led the team that created the first cartridge-based video game console. The Fairchild Channel F preceded the more famous Atari 2600, proving the viability of the nascent technology.»
- Evan Narcisse
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