Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) team up to offer this candid snapshot of a single day on planet Earth. Compiled from over 80,000 YouTube submissions by contributors in 192 countries, Life in a Day presents a microcosmic view of our daily experiences as a global society.

The whole film’s free to watch.

This is the new PlayStation Video Unlimited service. This PlayStation app runs at a full 60 frames per second (when you see it on a PS3), has tons of 3D graphics effects, full-speed 1080p video playback, and a fluid, hardware accelerated, animated user experience. What you may not know is that this is a web app.

It uses the Trilithium platform, whose APIs allow access to the PS3 hardware (CPU cores, GPU, video playback engine etc.) via JavaScript.

The helmer, who most recently scored with Relativity’s “Limitless,” a Virgin Produced pic that starred Bradley Cooper, is in negotiations to shepherd the action adventure after David O. Russell recently left the project due to creative differences.

I haven’t seen Limitless, but I have watched The Illusionist, which I thought was fantastic.

Warner Bros. in the UK has published a job listing for an intern to dig through known piracy mediums in order to “gather information” and report back to the studio.

A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come.

Inspired, as are many other quotes from The Wire.

(via Neatorama)

“We were showing that Grace doesn’t care about her human body, only her avatar body,” Cameron said. Augustine’s destructive behavior “is a negative comment about people in our real world living too much in their avatars, meaning online and in video games.”

Maybe they should not have licensed the rights to Avatar for use in a video game, then.

Make no mistake, James Cameron is the only person who can beat James Cameron.

(via Boing Boing)