The Legend of Dead Kel features a mysterious tale of intrigue, danger and dark magic on the island of Gallows End, players will encounter shadowy characters and new enemies, and will experience a host of new side quests, treacherous battles and exciting new challenges. The Legend of Dead Kel gives players access to Gallows End, a gigantic new continent to explore where players claim ownership of a vast personal estate and experience new weapons, Twists of Fate and other perks against new enemies. The Legend of Dead Kel will be available starting on March 20, 2012 on Xbox Live, PlayStation^®Network, Origin^TM and Steam.

NBA Jam by EA SPORTS is Now Available on Google Play 

BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!! Relive the 90’s nostalgia of NBA Jam now available on Google Play.  Fans can jam with their favourite stars from all 30 NBA teams in over-the-top, high-flying, 2-on-2 arcade basketball featuring the voice of Tim Kitzrow, the original play-by-play announcer, NBA Jam is the hottest new arcade sports game on Android. Hear all the classic catchphrases plus a few new ones. Go to the hole. Go strong. Go for the monster jam. KABOOM! 

KEY FEATURES: 

• 3 modes of play let you ball the way you want:
  • Play Now – Select a team and jump right into the ballgame.
  • Classic Campaign – Defeat all other teams to win the championship, and unlock legends, hidden players, and outrageous cheats.
  • Local Multiplayer – Go big head 2 big head against a friend via  local WiFi or Bluetooth
• Play as your favourite Stars from all 30 NBA Teams
• Featuring the voice of Tim Kitzrow (the original NBA JAM play-by-play announcer), you’ll hear all the classic catchphrases plus a few new ones
• Unlock legends from the classic arcade and open up outrageous cheats.

On March 21 this year, the film makers behind the internationally popular Food Matters film will offer their second film, the ultimate get-healthy documentary “Hungry For Change”, for free online for ten days at http://www.hungryforchange.tv/ 

The first film in its genre to really empower and provide practical and realistic solutions, “Hungry For Change” is set to take on the billion dollar dieting and weight loss industry.  

Dispelling the dieting, weight loss and so-called health food myths constructed by mainstream media, “Hungry For Change” features Britain’s most famous health food crusader, Jamie Oliver, as well interviews with best selling health authors and leading medical experts including Dr Alejandro Junger, Dr Christiane Northrup, David Wolfe, Daniel Vitalis, Dr Joseph Mercola, Jason Vale, Jon Gabriel, Kris Carr and Mike Adams.  The film also tracks real life stories of people who have struggled for years with their weight and managed to turn their life around including Evita Ramparte, Frank Ferrante and Joe Cross. 

“Hungry For Change” shows you how many of the ‘health foods’ we eat are keeping us locked in the dieting and bad health cycle and how by educating ourselves about what we eat and where it comes from, we can truly take control of our appearance, our health and ultimately, our life,” said Laurentine ten Bosch, the film’s co-director.  

With expert advice on navigating supermarkets – foods to buy and foods to avoid, how to read labels and identify food additives, understanding the dangers of aspartame, MSG and high fructose corn syrup, this film will have you thinking like a nutritionist in no time.  The film explains why diet and fat free foods should be avoided at all cost, how to over-come food addictions and obsessive food cravings.

Discover through “Hungry For Change” how to eat yourself beautiful – learn about the best foods to make your eyes white, your skin glow and your hair strong and shiny.  You’ll really understand what fat and cellulite are and how to better equip yourself to lose weight and reduce skin imperfections.  

In an attempt to make the film’s message available to the public and as far reaching as possible the film makers have forgone a film festival premiere in favour of launching “Hungry For Change” for free on the internet.  They know the power of social media and word of mouth and are excited that the film will soon be made available to viewers all over the world, at exceptional quality, online. 

“We thought long and hard about how to launch the film,” James Colquhoun said. “This is information that needs to get to people fast.  There is this prevalent mind set in our society where we think that being overweight, having food allergies, feeling sluggish or run down is just part of life and ageing.  It’s not true and with access to solid information, we can all start making better choices for our health” 

An owner’s manual on how to eat your way to beauty and health, “Hungry For Change” will be available for free for ten days only during the world-wide free online premiere from

March 21-31, 2012.  Be the first to watch it at http://www.hungryforchange.tv/ 

ABOUT THE FILM MAKERS

As nutritionists turned film makers, Laurentine ten Bosch and James Colquhoun are committed to sharing this important message with the world. With over 230,000 DVDs of their first film, Food Matters sold worldwide “Hungry For Change” is set to reach a very wide audience.  With Hippocrates’ wisdom ‘let thy food be thy medicine’ as their vision, they first sought alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs after seeing the terrible side effects they were having on their family. They set off on a path of discovery, studied Nutrition through the Global College of Natural Medicine in California and instantly became aware that they weren’t alone with their concerns. 

Documenting their journey and learning with a camera in hand, this later became the footage and content for the global sensation, Food Matters.  The filmmakers interviewed several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing – that all claim the same thing – we are harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer.  

“Hungry For Change” will be their second documentary film. 

The film is also Executive Produced by Distracted Media’s Enzo Tedeschi known for the Australian internet hit, The Tunnel.   Enzo Tedeschi worked with Laurentine ten Bosch and James Colquhoun on both Food Matters and “Hungry For Change” as the Producer.

The normal run-of-the-mill zombie may not give Lollipop Chainsaw’s Juliet Starling, San Romero’s heroic cheerleader, a hard time with her trusty chainsaw by her side, but the Bosses of Zombie Rock are a force to be reckoned with. In Lollipop Chainsaw, Juliet will face larger than life bosses such as: Zed, the punk-rockin’ misfit; Vikke, the king of Viking metal; Josey, the master of funk; Mariska, the queen of Psychedelia and many more.

Available in 2012, Lollipop Chainsaw is the ‘un-deadly’ story of sweet but killer zombie-hunter Juliet Starling and her quest to uncover the root of a colossal zombie outbreak. With her wickedly awesome chainsaw in hand, Juliet slices, dices and splits her way through hordes of the undead, but soon realises the horde is only the opening act to a festival of zombie rock lords determined to kill the chainsaw-wielding cheerleader. The game will be available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Monday 19th March 2012 – Codemasters today announced that F1 2012 will launch worldwide in September for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and PC. F1 2012 is the next game in the award-winning, multi-million selling series from Codemasters as part of an exclusive multi-year deal with Formula One World Championship Limited.

To mark the announcement and introduce one of F1 2012’s new headline features, Codemasters has released a video following F1 2012 Creative Director, Stephen Hood, as he meets the next generation of drivers at the Young Driver Test. Filmed at the Yas Marina Circuit, home of the FORMULA 1 ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX, Stephen asks if their experience with Codemasters’ FORMULA ONE™ games has been of benefit as they prepare for a career in the world’s most exciting motorsport in real life. The video is now playing at www.youtube.com/codemastersgames.

F1 2012 will introduce a new Young Driver Test mode as one of the headline additions to the series that will take players even closer to the experience of becoming a FORMULA ONE driver. Players will be introduced to the world of FORMULA ONE through a range of tutorials explaining how to handle racing’s most exciting and responsive cars, and challenged to earn a drive from a team for the 2012 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.

In the video, rising star Sam Bird, testing for Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team, says, “I think Codemasters have done a super job of giving regular people a proper insight into what a FORMULA ONE car is like.”

Stefano Coletti, representing Scuderia Toro Rosso added, “When I came to Abu Dhabi I couldn’t go to the simulator so I switched on the videogame and started to play. It actually worked because when I got here I felt like I’d already driven [the circuit]. It was my first race in GP2, first ever time in GP2, and I won in my first race so it actually helped.”

In F1 2012 players will feel the unparalleled thrill of becoming a FORMULA ONE driver with a host of new features, wide-ranging technical and gameplay advancements and extensive competitive and co-operative multiplayer components. F1 2012 will feature all of the official teams, drivers and circuits from the 2012 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, including the debut of the 2012 FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX at Austin, Texas and the return of Germany’s famous Hockenheim circuit to the calendar.

F1 2012 is set to deliver the most accessible and immersive FORMULA ONE game for fans of all abilities.

F1 2012 is in development at Codemasters Birmingham for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and PC and is available for pre-order ahead of its September worldwide release. To get all the news straight from the studio, race over to www.facebook.com/formula1game or follow the team on twitter at www.twitter.com/formula1game.

Scienceworks’ popular exhibition Explore-a-saurus is leaving Melbourne soon, and visitors can bid farewell to the dinosaurs by voting for which prehistoric creature has earned the title of ‘Awesome-a-saurus’!

Explore-a-saurus has seen more than 150,000 visitors explore a world of forensic palaeontology and animatronic dinosaurs since opening in June 2011, and will be closing at Scienceworks on 15 April.

The interactive exhibition was developed by Museum Victoria’s expert exhibition, paleontological and education staff, and demonstrates the ways in which fossil evidence is used to learn how dinosaurs lived; from how fast they ran, to what colour they were and even how they cared for their young.

To send the dinosaurs on their way, Scienceworks is running an online competition where people can vote for which of six dinosaurs they think is the ‘most awesome’ of all time.

Those who vote go in the draw to win one of three Big4 Holiday Park gift vouchers each valued at $1,000, as well as weekly prizes including Museum Victoria household memberships, passes to the Explore-a-saurus and Scienceworks and IMAX Melbourne Museum passes.

To place your vote for the most awesome dinosaur of all time, visit Scienceworks on Facebook and select the Awesome-a-saurus link: http://www.facebook.com/scienceworks

“Dinosaurs are a perennial favourite among children, and we’ve found that Explore-a-saurus has been no exception,” said Genevieve Fahey, Manager of Scienceworks.

“It’s not just the moving, roaring animatronic dinosaurs that make this exhibition so captivating – it’s also the way in which it encourages children to look at the scientific method behind what we know about dinosaurs.

“So much of what we do at Scienceworks is about sharing with the people of Victoria a love of science, and showing that it isn’t all about lab coats and chemistry, but about being inquisitive and creative.

“What better example of this than the science of dinosaurs? There’s still so much we don’t know about these incredible creatures who once ruled our planet.”

Explore-a-saurus will tour to Perth, Western Australia where it will go on display at SciTech, making room for Scienceworks next major exhibition Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention.

Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention opens on May 19 and runs until November.

Umbrella Entertainment brings all the glitz, glam and gossip of “The Only Way Is Essex Series Two” to DVD on April 4 2012 – available at leading DVD retailers and www.umbrellaent.com.au

Back for a second dose “TOWIE” promises even more drama, glamour, boob jobs and orange tans than the last!

Catch up with the gang and find out what’s happening with Mark’s love life. Could sexy Sam or sultry Lucy keep the lothario from settling down with long time love Lauren? What will the other women in his life, sister Jess and mum Carole, make of his decisions?

Join bubbly beautician Amy and her cousin Harry behind the scenes where they produce the definitive Essex spray chart and search for an assistant to kick up the stilettos and go ‘glamping’!

Can love-struck Arg keep gorgeous Lydia in his life when faced with her over-protective mother Debbie? Or is it time to start running? Kirk receives some fatherly advice about his feelings for girlfriend Lauren, whether he likes it or not!

Meet Joey Essex who spends his days perfecting his walnut-whip and evenings wooing the ladies, his cousin Chloe who is of course a model, Essex’s number one car sales rep Gemma and not to forget national treasure Nanny Pat in all her winning glory.

Get ready to be entertained – no time to be shy – they’re all here and ready to shine, those fabulous folks from Essex!

FANTASTIC PLANET FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ITS 2012 PROGRAM 

Australia’s favourite genre film festival, Fantastic Planet Film Festival is set to unleash 11 days of the very best horror, fantasy and science fiction films when it kicks of at Dendy Cinema Newtown on 22^nd March 2012. 

Narrowing down over 600 submissions from across the globe, the Fantastic Planet Film Festival will showcase a stellar line-up of films, many being Australian premieres and recipients of international awards and recognition. 

Opening night of the Festival will see the Australian premiere of the post-apocalyptic science fiction thriller and nominee for ‘Best New International Feature’ at the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival, THE DIVIDE; followed by the science fiction drama ANOTHER EARTH, winner of the prestigious Sloan Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. 

The Festival’s program also includes numerous award-winning films including ‘Best Horror Movie’ at the 2011 American International Film Festival BELOW ZERO; ‘Best Film’ at the 2011 Toronto After Dark Film Festival FATHER’S DAY; ‘Best Feature Film’ at the 2011 Sci-Fi London Film Festival PIG; and UNICORN CITY which received official selection at the 2011 San Diego Film Festival. 

Four Q&A sessions will also be held throughout the Festival including BELOW ZERO’s writer/producer Signe Olynk and producer Bob Schultz, director of THE DEVIL’S ROCK Paul Campion, writer/director of SKEW Seve Schelenz, and CRAWL’s writer/director Paul China and producer Benjamin China. 

DATES: 22^nd March to 1^st April, 2012

LOCATION: Dendy Cinema, Newtown. 261-263 King St, Newtown

TICKETS: On sale soon at www.dendy.com.au 

WEBSITE: www.fantasticplanetfilmfestival.com

Fantastic Planet Film Festival 2012 Program

Thursday, March 22rd

7:00pm
THE DIVIDE
Dir: Xavier Gans – 110 min / Germany/USA/Canada / 2011
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
When an atomic bomb devastates New York, eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their apartment building. The residents soon succumb to cabin fever as fear of radiation and dwindling food and water plays on their mind. However Julie, the only young woman, has her own worries as the men begin to regress into dangerous packs. She quickly learns to be ruthless if she wants to survive, aware that her sanctuary is becoming her hell.

9:20pm
ANOTHER EARTH
Dir: Mike Cahill – 92 min / USA / 2011
Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’S Astrophisics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate planet Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.

Friday, March 23rd

7:00pm
YAKUZA WEAPON
Dir: Tak Sakaguchi and Yudi Yamaguchi – 105 min / 2011 / Japan
SYDNEY PREMIERE
YAKUZA WEAPON is like taking a bite from a Hollywood actioner, another from a Yakuza crime flick, chewing em’ up, spitting em’ out and microwaving em’ on high. A yakuza in exile returns to Japan to exact revenge, with a machine gun arm, a rocket-launcher leg and a naked woman weapon who shoots from her um….well, use your imagination! YAKUZA WEAPON defies description, stunning, hilarious, razor sharp and totally original.

9:00pm
PENUMBRA
Dir: Adrián García Bogliano, Ramiro García Bogliano – 85 mins / 2011 / Argentina
SYDNEY PREMIERE
Marga, a savvy young real estate agent discovers that some strange clients haven’t been exactly honest with her about their plans for an inner city apartment that they want to rent. Trapped in the building – on the day of a solar eclipse – Marga finds herself locked in a battle of wits against the tenets from hell.

Saturday, March 24th

12:00pm
VAMPERIFICA
Dir: Bruce Ornstein – 95 min / 2012 / USA
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Carmen McCoy, is a flamboyant, twenty-something, sometime student at a small community college, who wants nothing more than to hang out with his best friend Tracy, be in a musical production at school, and maybe, one day, be a star. Instead, he discovers that for him, destiny has something else in store: he is the reincarnation of the 200 year old vampire king, Raven.?Now, Carmen must choose between his friends and that destiny. The films is a mix of comedy and tenderness, drama and action, friendship and isolation, even a musical number… and blood… lots of blood…VAMPERIFICA is a campy horror comedy with bite: Overflowing with laughs, gore and scares.

3:00pm
SHORTS 1: SCI-FI

5:00pm
THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS
Dir: Sean Branney – 103 min / 2011 / USA
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Celebrated author H.P. Lovecraft’s classic tale of alien horror bursts onto the screen in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s. Folklore professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. His inquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends. Filmed in the style of the classic 1930s films such as Frankenstein, Dracula and King Kong, The Whisperer in Darkness returns us to the golden age of movies for a thrilling adventure of supernatural horror. Filmed on location in New England in Mythoscope™ by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, The Whisperer in Darkness treats audiences to a cinematic thrill not felt since the Hoover administration.

7:00pm
BELOW ZERO
Dir: Justin Thomas Ostensen – 94 min / 2012 / Canada/USA
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Facing writer’s block and a crucial deadline, screenwriter Jack “The Hack” (Edward Furlong) decides to remove himself from all distractions by locking himself in the freezer of an abandoned slaughterhouse, where fiction and reality blur. Inspired by true events, method writer Signe Olynyk’s BELOW ZERO is a beautifully-shot and perfectly-cast feature film (also featuring Michael Berryman and Kristen Booth), that is a twisty story within a story, within a real-life story.

9:00pm
UNDERWATER LOVE
Dir: Shinji Imaoka – 87 min / 2011 / Japan
SYDNEY PREMIERE
Announcing itself as a ‘pink musical’ UNDERWATER LOVE combines the talents of revered Aussie cinematographer Chris Doyle, French-German electro-pop due Stereo Total and Cult Pinku director Shinji Imaoka. Asuka is a 35-year-old fish factory worker who begins to question her recent engagement after she is visited by formerly deceased lover in the form of a half-man, half-turtle entity known as a Kappa. Alternating bizarre sex scenes with glorious musical numbers, this is a hilarious, stunningly photographed, one-of-a-kind oddity. Truly unlike any other film ever made.

11:00pm
FATHER’S DAY
Dir: Astron-6 – 99 min / 2011 / Canada/USA
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
The urban legend known as ‘The Father’s Day Killer’ began some years after the demise of serial rapist/murderer Chris Fuchman. Since the 1970s, the use of contraceptives has tripled in North America alone and a generation of fathers fell asleep with the covers pulled tight, buttocks clenched. The story has become a fire-side cautionary ritual on camping trips, often used by fathers to warn their sons of the dangers of unplanned pregnancy. That deep seeded fear of penetration, violation and eventually death waned as the murder and rape of fathers continued to decline all over the world. Unfortunately those numbers didn’t remain low, and it would seem that the legend is not yet complete…Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father’s Day Killer.

Winner Best Film, Toronto After Dark

Sunday, March 25th

1:00pm
THE COLOUR (DIE FABRE)
Dir: Huan Vu – 87 min / 2010 / Germany
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis’ father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. A visually haunting adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short novel ‘The Colour Out of Space’.

3:00pm
SHORTS 2: A NIGHT OF HORROR: LOVECRAFT

7:00pm
UNICORN CITY
Dir: Bryan Lefler – 101 min / 2012 / USA
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Voss (Devin McGinn, THE LAST LOVECRAFT) is a gamer who is unemployed and looking for work. When a management position opens up at a gaming company, he interviews but lacks evidence of the leadership abilities necessary to land the job. Given a week to prove himself, Voss does the only thing any rational adult would do; he creates a Utopian society for gamers. Voss convinces his gaming guild to follow him into the mountains and has Marsha, his best friend, document his abilities. However things get complicated when Shadow Hawk (John Gries, NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE), his gaming nemesis, arrives to overthrow Voss’ kingdom. UNICORN CITY is a hilarious adventure into the world of gamer culture. Think MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL meets NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE!

9:00pm
THE BOOK
Dir: Richard Weiss – 92 min / 2011 / USA
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
They come from another dimension. They have an agenda we are not aware of. They are already here and they look just like us. How would you react if you encountered your double and you knew that only one of you could remain? In the year 2284, best-selling author Alexis is confronted by look-alike aliens who want to take over his identity so they can use his name to publish THE BOOK, their means for “saving” humanity. Unpredictable, but often playful, these visitors engage Alexis and his family in a wild and provocative chase. The alien’s book, a potent instrument of alchemy, neutralizes all negative emotions in whoever reads it. No more greed. No more anger. No more fear. No more war. Harmony on the planet. A formula for Utopia? A secret group of dissidents determined to remain “unchanged” thinks otherwise.

Monday, March 26th

7:00pm
SHORTS 3: A NIGHT OF HORROR: ZOMBIES

9:00pm
THE ARRIVAL OF WANG (L’arrivo di Wang)
Dir: Antonio Manetti and Marco Manetti – 80 min / 2012 / Italy
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Gaia, a Chinese language interpreter is called on an urgent and top-secret job. She meets Curti, a govt. agent devoid of scruples who needs to interrogate the mysterious Mr. Wang. But due to the need for secrecy, the interrogation takes place in the dark and unnerved, Gaia has trouble doing her job properly. When the light is finally switched on, Gaia discovers why the identity of Mr. Wang is being covered with so much secrecy. Facing her is a creature from another world. An encounter that will forever change her life. And that of the entire planet.

Tuesday, March 27

7:00pm
DEADBALL
Dir: Yudi Yamaguchi – 99 mins / 2011 / Japan
SYDNEY PREMIERE
Playing like some acid-tinged cross between ROLLERBALL & BATTLE ROYALE, this Sushi Typhoon production gleefully obliterates all notions of good taste. Centering its action on a kamikaze baseball game between a team of Nazi trained high-school girls and a bunch of death row inmates, DEADBALL redefines the term ‘over the top’. Be prepared for exploding baseballs, MSG-Infused vomit masquerading as food, and general depraved shenanigans you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere else.

9:00pm
SHORTS 4: A NIGHT OF HORROR: AUSTRALIAN HORROR SHOWCASE

Wednesday, March 28th

7:00pm
EXIT HUMANITY
Dir: John Geddes – 114 mins / 2011/ Canada
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
EXIT HUMANITY is a story told through the written and illustrated journal of Edward Young as he battles his way through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead. Set a decade after the American Civil War, Edward returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific re-animation of his wife Julia, and that their son Adam has disappeared. Edward starts to record his experiences amongst the living dead that has torn his family apart, and threatens all of mankind. Throughout his harrowing journey Edward finds friendship, guidance and love amongst chaos and despair, when all else seems to be lost in a world robbed of its humanity.

9:00pm
SHORTS 5: AUSTRALIAN SCI-FI / FANTASY SHOWCASE

Thursday, March 29th

7:00pm
PIG
Dir: Henry Barrial – 90 min / 2011 / USA
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
MEMENTO meets P. K. Dick in this mind-trip of a psychological / sci-fi thriller.
A man wakes up alone in the middle of the desert with a black hood on his head and his hands tied behind his back. He has no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clue to his identity – a piece of paper in his pocket with the name “Manny Elder” written on it – sends him to Los Angeles where things are not what they seem and clues lead to something bigger and more unusual than he could have ever imagined.

9:00pm
SHORTS 6: A NIGHT OF HORROR: EXTREME

Friday, March 30th

7:00pm
THE DEVIL’S ROCK
PLUS: Q&A with international guest, the film’s co-writer/director Paul Campion
Dir: Paul Campion – 83 min / 2011 / New Zealand
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
On the eve of the D Day landings, allied commandos set out to raid enemy positions in the English Channel. Approaching a German bunker during a night-time raid they hear mysterious noises and are compelled to investigate. Inside they find dismembered corpses strewn across the floors and occult symbols covering every surface/ Only tow beings remain alive – a Gestapo officer tasked with raising the forces of Hell to fight for the Nazi cause and his demon slave, hungry for human flesh. What ensues will test the bravery and sanity of the men, pushing them to the very limits of fear, belief and life in a terrifying battle between the forces of good and evil.

9:00pm
THE YELLOW SEA
Dir: Hong-Jin Na – 140 min / 2010 / South Korea
SYDNEY PREMIERE
Na Hong-Jin stunned us in 2009 with THE CHASER, he now returns with this tale of ambitious scope for which he has just received a nomination for ‘Best Director’ at the Asian Pacific Screen Awards. THE YELLOW SEA tells the story of Gu-Nam, a taxi driver in China with huge debts. He is offered a way of his problems – travel across the Yellow Sea to Korea and make a kill. He accepts and so begins a journey of violence, double-crosses and some intense hand-to-hand hatchet action you are likely to see!

Saturday, March 31st
1:00pm
TOMIE: UNLIMITED
Dir: Noboru Iguchi – 85 Mins / 2011 / Japan
This film is seriously weird, seriously creepy and seriously fantastic. Part Lynch, part J-horror, pure Iguchi. Gravure idol Miu Nakamura plays Tomie to perfection, creating a truly sinister schoolgirl character. Tomie is the embodiment of lust with the power to make anyone fall in love with her – don’t let her next victim be you! Based on Junji Ito’s famous manga, this fiendish tale drips with the darkness and dread.

3:00pm
SHORTS 7: FANTASY

5:00pm
SKEW
PLUS: Q&A with film’s writer/director Seve Schelenz
Dir: Sevé Schelenz – 82 min / CAN / 2010
When Simon, Rich, and Eva head out on a road trip, they bring along a video camera to record their journey. The carefree adventure slowly becomes a descent into terror as unexplained events threaten to disrupt the balance between the three close friends. Each one of them must struggle with personal demons and paranoia as friendships are tested and gruesome realities are revealed…and recorded. This film is like PARANORMAL ACTIVITY on steroids. Genuinely terrifying.

7:00pm
CRAWL
Plus: Q&A with the films writer-director / producer team: The China Brothers (Paul and Benjamin)
Dir: Paul China – 80 min / Australia / 2011
SYDNEY PREMIERE
Crawl is a character-driven thriller set in an unknown, rural town. A seedy bar-owner hires a mysterious Croatian to murder an acquaintance over an unpaid debt. The crime is carried out, but a planned double-crossing backfires and an innocent waitress suddenly becomes involved. Now a hostage in her own home, the young woman is driven to desperate measures for survival. A suspenseful, yet darkly humorous chain of events builds to a blood-curdling and unforgettable climax.

9:20pm
THE THEATRE BIZARRE
Dir: Douglas Buck. Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley.
114 mins / 2011 / USA/FRANCE/CANADA
Down a seedy city street, a young woman is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees the front door slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the vast, eerie auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an odd marionette-like man who will introduce her to six tales of the truly bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees crosses paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people’s memories gets her fix through the fluid of her victims’ eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep. But as the stories unfold, something strange is happening to the woman. Something irreversible and horrific. Something that awaits its next audience in THE THEATRE BIZARRE.

Sunday, April 1st
3:00pm
SHORTS 8: ANIMATION

5:00pm
THE CORIDOOR
Dir: Evan Kelly – 98 min / 2011 / Canada
SYDNEY PREMIERE
They’ve been the best of buddies for more than a decade, but now they’re changing – getting married, getting fired, going bald, going crazy. During a male-bonding weekend they will discover a spectral corridor through the woods, an impossible hallway where none should be. It will lead these five men into fear, into betrayal and into the biggest change of them all: by weekend’s finish… they’ll be dead.

7:00pm
LOVE (ANGELS & AIRWAVES)
Dir: William Eubank – 90 min / 2011 / USA
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity – and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.
The film festival circuit hit LOVE is a hauntingly beautiful science fiction masterpiece, which brings to mind such classic films as 2001: A SPACE OPERA, SOLARIS and MOON. Produced and scored by Angels and Airwaves, this is the must see sci-fi film of the year.

Followed by award ceremony and closing night party.

Battle.net^® presales for the hottest game of 2012 NOW LIVE  

World of Warcraft^® Annual Pass Promotion Ends May 1 

IRVINE, Calif. — March 15, 2012 — The end is nigh! Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that Diablo^® III, the next chapter in its critically acclaimed action role-playing game series, will be unleashed from the Burning Hells on May 15.

Starting that day, gamers with a thirst for fast-paced action and adventure will be able to purchase Diablo III at retailers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. In addition, gamers in the regions above as well as in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil will be able to buy Diablo III digitally via Blizzard’s Battle.net^® website.

Players in the listed Latin American countries and in Russia will be able to purchase Diablo III at local retail locations starting June 7. Digital availability for the Russian version of the game will also begin June 7. In addition to the English version, Diablo III will be fully localized into Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, European Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.

Blizzard also kicked off global digital presales for Diablo III today. Would-be wizards, witch doctors, demon hunters, barbarians, and monks throughout the world should head to http://www.blizzard.com/games/d3/ now to reserve their digital copies.

“After many years of hard work by our development team and months of beta testing by hundreds of thousands of dedicated players around the world, we’re now in the homestretch,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “We look forward to putting the final polish on Diablo III over the next two months and delivering the ultimate action-RPG experience to gamers worldwide starting on May 15.” 

Diablo III will be available for Windows^® XP/Windows Vista^®/Windows^® 7 and Macintosh^® at a suggested price of $89.95 AUD for both the retail DVD-ROM version and $79.95 AUD for the digital version sold directly from Blizzard. A special alabaster-white Collector’s Edition, sold exclusively in retail stores at a suggested retail price of $139.95 AUD, will include the full game on DVD-ROM, a behind-the-scenes Blu-ray/DVD two-disc set, the Diablo III soundtrack CD, a 208-page Art of Diablo III book, and a 4 GB USB soulstone (including full versions of Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction^®) and corresponding Diablo skull base, as well as exclusive in-game content for Diablo III, World of Warcraft^®, and StarCraft^® II: Wings of Liberty^®. Diablo III has received a MA 15+ rating from the Australian Classification Board.

World of Warcraft players interested in getting Diablo III free are encouraged to join the more than 1 million players who have already signed up for the World of Warcraft Annual Pass.^* Through this promotion, with a 1-year commitment to World of Warcraft, players will receive a free digital copy of Diablo III — which they’ll be able to start playing immediately on May 15 — as well as an exclusive World of Warcraft in-game mount and access to the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria^™ beta test. This offer will no longer be available as of 5:01 p.m. AEST on May 1. Learn more at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/annualpass.

In Diablo III, players take on the role of one of five heroic characters — barbarian, witch doctor, wizard, monk, or demon hunter — and engage in pulse-pounding combat with endless legions of evil. As they undertake an epic quest to rid Sanctuary from the corrupting forces of the Burning Hells, players will explore diverse and perilous settings, grow in experience and ability, acquire artifacts of incredible power, and meet key characters who’ll join them in battle or aid them in other ways.

Diablo III was built from the ground up to leverage the full functionality of the Battle.net platform, which delivers powerful matchmaking and communication tools, allowing adventurers to seamlessly join forces for exciting cooperative play. Battle.net also provides a secure infrastructure for the Diablo III auction house, a feature-rich marketplace that Sanctuary’s heroes can use to trade their hard-earned treasures. Players will be able to buy and sell weapons, armor, and other valuable items in the auction house in exchange for in-game gold. Players will also have the option to receive real-world currency for auction house sales, which they can apply to their Battle.net Balance for the purchase of a variety of digital products through Battle.net, including Diablo III auction house items, or cash out through a third-party payment service such as PayPal^™ in most regions. Further details related to the auction house will be announced in the coming weeks.

For more information on Diablo III, please visit the official website at http://www.diablo3.com. To set up a Battle.net account and to opt-in to Blizzard Entertainment beta tests, please visit the official Battle.net website at http://www.battle.net. With multiple games in development, Blizzard Entertainment has numerous positions currently available — visit http://jobs.blizzard.com for more information and to learn how to apply.

^*Based on internal company records.

About Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft^® and the Warcraft^®, StarCraft^®, and Diablo^® franchises, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard Entertainment’s track record includes thirteen #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company’s online-gaming service, Battle.net^®, is one of the largest in the world, with millions of active players.

Razer launches its new e-Sports and pro-gaming educational platform, driven by some of the world’s most popular e-Sports personalities

Sydney, Australia – 16 March 2012 – Razer, one of the world’s pioneering supporters of e-Sports, champions an all new e-Sports learning platform aimed at every gamer from casual and competitive amateurs to pro-gamers, driven by some of the world’s most experienced and celebrated gaming personalities. 

The Razer Academy, currently in its beta phase, designed to provide an interactive, in-depth and enjoyable learning experience for e-Sports fans, will provide gaming shows, guides, game analysis, commentary, articles, interviews and documentaries, brought to you by some of the most famed individuals in e-Sports history. 

The Academy contributors will include:

Abdulatif “Latif” Alhmili – Streetfighter champion

Bachir “Athene” Boumaaza – world famous gamer and YouTuber

Toby “TobiWanKenobi” Dawson – professional Defense of the Ancients commentator

Ben “MrBitter” Nichol – professional StarCraft II commentator

Martin “AngeL” Olsen – professional Defense of the Ancients player

Protato Monster – League of Legends YouTube channel

John “Swifty” Pyle – World of Warcraft legend

Rachel “Seltzer” Quirico – e-Sports journalist and gamer

Stuart “TosspoT” Saw – professional commentator

Kendall “arCtiC” Smith – professional console gamer

Leigh “Deman” Smith – professional commentator

Kevin “RotterdaM” van der Kooi – professional StarCraft II commentator

Alexei “Cypher” Yanushevsky – Quake professional 

Supplementing this all-star lineup of e-Sports personalities will be the elite members of Team Razer – hundreds of professional gamers with huge competitive gaming experience, who will lend their knowledge and expertise to the Razer Academy project as guests on shows, commentaries and guides. 

Ranging from match analysis and commentary in StarCraft II and League of Legends to live e-Sports gaming shows and guides to hone and develop your game, the Razer Academy will be situated on a brand new online portal where you can pick and choose those games and e-Sports stars you wish to follow. 

“Unlike some other sports where professionals use tricked-out equipment made expressly for them, pro gamers use the very same hardware off-the-shelf that is readily available to you. Have you ever wondered what they use, why they use a certain type or style of mouse, keyboard, headset or surface? Razer Academy will strive to educate and demystify the why and how of gaming hardware. The Razer Academy aims to quench your thirst for e-Sports, providing a platform to not only improve and develop your game, but to make it your true passion,” said Robert “RazerGuy” Krakoff, co-creator of the first gaming mouse and President, Razer USA. “The star contributors to the Academy are legends in their own right and, drawing on their experience and talent, will provide some truly mouth-watering content to help you become a pro-gaming baller too.” 

For more information on the Razer Academy, please visit http://www.razerzone.com/academy 

About Razer:
Razer has been a pioneering supporter of e-Sports since its conception. It is in our blood and we are driven to further the culture of professional gaming in all that we do. We work hand in hand with our pros to forge weaponry for the players who stake their livelihood on podium placements. Our gear is designed to perform flawlessly in high-stress tournament conditions where winning is everything and mistakes cost championships. Those who compete with our equipment will attest – We live by our words: For Gamers. By Gamers.

For more information, please visit www.razerzone.com