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PlayStation Portable Actors Jorge Garcia and Dominic Monaghan are big PSP gamers, and they can watch the show's two-part pilot episode on Sony's handheld unit. A Universal Media Disc version was released at the same time as the DVDs, with all the same bonus features...
...year's end, Crash earned no major critics' prizes, not even a Golden Globe nomination for best picture. (Not since 1983 has a film won the top Oscar without a Globe citation.) But Lions Gate, the indie distributor that picked Crash up, sent out an astonishing 130,000 dvds of the film, rightly figuring that anyone who saw it would, at least, not forget it. The tactic paid off with the SAG award and Oscar nominations for Best Picture and for Haggis as director and writer (with Bobby Moresco...
...scandal-racked police force. A special rapid-reaction unit called a flex squad in the southwestern district was disbanded in December after one of its officers was accused of raping a detained woman before setting her free. A search of the precinct building turned up stashed narcotics and counterfeit DVDs. The charges came after years of rumored misconduct, and critics in the media say police brass let the unit continue to function primarily because the department's code of silence is not that much different from the one on the streets. "How will the department look now when...
...That doesn't mean that Vongo isn't good for some people in the meantime. I can think of two groups who would probably love to pay $10 per month to watch loads of decent movies. First, the road warriors who are sick of toting a bag of DVDs on every flight (and paying for all of those discs). Second, people who have broadband at home, but don't spring for premium cable. Vongo might not have the selection that Netflix offers, but the near-instant gratification of a 25-minute download is alluring...
...should have trusted the Lionsgaters. Handed the tough sell of a multistory drama about racial tension, they made bold decisions: to open the film in May and play it on 1,900 screens, get the cast on Oprah, then saturate the film community with 130,000 DVDs. "Nothing sells itself," says co-star and co-producer Don Cheadle, who was pleased when Crash became the right kind of controversial film--"the quintessential watercooler movie...