Star Wars walker: I want one of these when I get old
Just too cool, right?
Source: Walyou.
If the Manhattan battle in ‘The Avengers’ really happened, it would cost $160 billion to repair the damage
“The Avengers” is one heck of a movie with one heck of a final act. It’s all non-stop awesomeness as the Avengers battle Loki and his army for the fate of the Earth. And during that battle, a part of Manhattan is pretty much laid to waste, with buildings torn to bits, roads destroyed and debris everywhere. The geek in me actually wondered, “How much damage did they do? And how much would it cost to repair?!” Thankfully Gizmodo has the answer: $160 billion.
Kinetic Analysis Corporation, a leading disaster cost prediction firm based in the US, undertook some modelling for The Hollywood Reporter. They calculated that the physical damage alone would cost $60-70 billion, with economic and cleanup ramifications adding $90 billion. Which gives a total of around $160 billion, and that’s to say nothing of the loss of lives. By way of comparison, Hurricane Katrina cost $90 billion, and the tsunami in Japan last year $122 billion.
Head to Gizmodo for the full story.
‘Game of Thrones’ review: Road blocks for everyone!
Note: I apologize for how late this review is. Technical difficulties, we’ll call it.
As the second season carries on, “Game of Thrones” is showing us that every character is susceptible to the same plight: the roadblock. While it can be said that every episode shows characters hitting a wall, I think the latest episode, “The Old Gods and the New,” showcases that fact.
‘Avengers’ rakes in the dough, record with $200M opening weekend
“The Avengers” crushed “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ to become the movie with the highest grossing domestic opening weekend ever. It soundly beat “Potter” by about $30 million, with the “Avengers” earning $200.3 million in its first three days of its release.
Final trailer for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ released
The year of 2012 means business when it comes to its superhero/comic book movies. In just a handful of days, “The Avengers” will be released into theaters, and a couple months after that, “The Dark Knight Rises” opens July 20. It’s no doubt summertime will be blockbuster heaven for fans and studios alike.
And to further keep us on the edge of our seats, Warner Bros. has released the final theatrical trailer for “The Dark Knight Rises,” which is embedded after the jump.
