SANCTUM

The epic adventure Sanctum, from three-time Academy Award® winning executive  producer James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic) follows a team of cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave systems on Earth. Sanctum is a thrilling action adventure experience unlike any other.

Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific’s Esa’ala caves for months,, but when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank’s key team including his teenage son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd) are forced to radically alter their plans.

The team is forced deeper into the cave system where they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and their own sense of panic as they search the underwater labyrinth for an escape route to the sea. With dwindling supplies, the crew is confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?

Sanctum is a fast paced, edge of your seat action adventure from the team that brought you Titanic and Avatar. Also releasing on the 3D home entertainment Blu-ray platform, experience the vast and beautiful caverns in all their glory thanks to James Cameron’s unique camera technology. Experience the action, adventure and suspense with loads of exclusive Blu-ray and DVD special features, every home
entertainment collection must include Sanctum.

Available to own & rent on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD from June 2, 2011

SANCTUM DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
• Deleted Scenes
• Sanctum: The Real Story (How It Began; Making the Movie; In The Aftermath)
• Feature Commentary With Director Alister Grierson, Actor Rhys Wakefield, And Co-Writer/Producer Andrew Wight

SANCTUM BLU-RAY 3D + BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
• APPs: pocket BLU {Remote control, Keyboard, Mobile To Go {Pre-Authentication – Theatrical Trailer, Universal Blu-ray Trailer; Post Authentication – TBD}
• Nullarbor Dreaming
• Feature Commentary2 With Director Alister Grierson, Actor Rhys Wakefield, And Co-Writer/Producer Andrew Wight

SANCTUM
Director: Alister Grierson
Cast: Richard Roxburgh
Ioan Gruffudd
Rhys Wakefield
Alice Parkinson
Dan Wyllie
Price: DVD SRP $39.95
Blu-ray SRP $44.95
2-Disc version (3D + digital copy) SRP $54.95
Genre: Action / Thriller
Duration: 109 mins

Sydney, Australia – March 30, 2011 – LucasArts and TT Games today announced that LEGO® Star Wars® III: The Clone Wars™ will ship to retailers in Australia for the Wii™ system, Nintendo DS™ family of handheld systems, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, and Xbox 360®videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows. The game will also be available as a day-one title for the Nintendo 3DS™ hand-held system on March 27. The latest instalment in the 21 million unit selling LEGO Star Wars video game franchise, LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is a tongue-in-cheek take on the entire Clone Wars era that runs through the feature films and the hit animated television show, Star Wars®: The Clone Wars™.

With an all new graphics engine and enhanced animations never before seen in a LEGO game, players will explore a vast universe – including 16 different star systems, 32 story-based missions and 48 bonus levels making it the biggest LEGO Star Wars videogame to date. Players will take on Separatist forces on the massive battleship the Malevolence, destroy hundreds of Droids in epic ground battles and take off in their favourite ships in multi-layered space battles. Whether you’re a Padawan or Jedi Master from this galaxy or the next, players of all skill levels are bound to have a brick smashing good time in single player mode, or with their friends and family via jump in/jump out co-operative play.

“The LEGO Star Wars games deliver a winning combination of enormous fun, signature humour and high quality gaming. We look forward to another massive blockbuster title for LucasArts with LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars,” said Mary Bihr, VP of Global Publishing at LucasArts. “TT Games has done an extraordinary job making the biggest and most fun LEGO Star Wars game to date and we’re thrilled to share this experience with families and gamers of all ages around the world.”

“It’s been incredibly enjoyable helping to build a brand new LEGO Star Wars experience with LucasArts,” said Tom Stone, director at TT Games. “Giving the player all new experiences and ways to experience Star Wars has always been our goal and I’m confident that fans around the world are going to love what they find.”

LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is rated PG by the Classification Board.

For more information on LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, please visit www.legostarwars.com.

“A touching and powerful film” Evan Williams, The Australian

From Academy Award winning writer/director, Sofia Coppola, comes Somewhere, a critically acclaimed, moving and intimate story about the world of bad-boy actor Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) and a empathetic look at the questions we must all confront in life.

Johnny is an actor stumbling through a life of excess in contemporary Los Angeles and living at the notorious Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. Aimlessly driving around in his Ferrari with a constant stream of girls and pills to stay in with, Johnny drifts through life comfortably numb.

Then, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) from his failed marriage arrives unexpectedly at the Chateau. Their encounters encourage Johnny to face up to where he is in life and confront the question that we all must: which path in life will you take?

On Blu-ray and DVD, this beautifully crafted movie features a ‘Making Of’ documentary exploring the true artistry of Sofia Coppola’s movie making.

Director/Writer: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Stephen Dorff
Elle Fanning
Price: DVD SRP $39.95
Blu-ray SRP $44.95
Genre: Drama

Available to own & rent on Blu-ray and DVD from May 4, 2011

Melbourne, Australia, 30 March 2011 – Kogan today extended its free HDMI cable offer to Australian shoppers who buy a TV from JB Hi-Fi indefinitely.

Kogan originally planned to run the ‘cut the cable con’ campaign until March 31, but today extended it due to the hugely positive response from Australian shoppers.

Ruslan Kogan said the campaign had been very successful, but there was a lot of work left to do to help Australians save their hard earned money.

“We received an tremendous response when we launched our campaign to cut the cable con earlier this month.

“We are trying to bring the overpriced cable rort to the public’s attention in a bid to force the big retailers to cut out this dodgy practice.

“Unfortunately, Australian shoppers are still being asked to pay an arm and a leg for a cable when they should only be spending a few dollars.

“As of today the Kogan ‘Cut the Cable Con’ promtional offer will run indefinitely.

“Big bricks-and-mortar retailers need to know it’s not OK to trick people into spending too much on overpriced accessories like HDMI cables,” Kogan said.

Any Australian customer who buys a TV from JB Hi-Fi from January 1 2011 will be eligible to redeem a free Kogan 1.4 HDMI cable while the promotion is running. The giveaway will now run indefinitely.

Customers who email their JB Hi-Fi proof of purchase to jbcon@kogan.com.au will be sent their free HDMI cable.

Pick Up Your Glasses-Free 3D Entertainment System From Tomorrow

Australia and New Zealand, 30 March, 2011 –

The Nintendo 3DS™, Nintendo’s new device which offers portable entertainment in 3D without the need for special glasses, launches tomorrow in Australia and New Zealand on March 31.

Play games in 3D, take 3D photographs and enjoy engaging new social applications that will offer a new surprise every day. Nintendo 3DS will launch in Cosmos Black and Aqua Blue alongside 13 3D games including nintendogs™ + cats, Super Street Fighter® IV 3D Edition, Tom Clancy’s™ Ghost Recon® Shadow Wars, PES 2011 3D, Rabbids® 3D, Combat of Giants™ Dinosaurs 3D and The Sims™ 3.

SYDNEY, 30 Mar, 2011

Ford Australia, in partnership with TopGear Australia magazine, has unveiled not one, but two spectacular new Mad Max Interceptors.

The 21st century concepts have been designed by Ford’s designers for TopGear Magazine Australia to help celebrate the revival of the Mad Max action movie genre.

It is more than 30 years since Hollywood director, George Miller’s original Mad Max movie – starring Mel Gibson and a jet black Ford XB coupe-based Interceptor – hit movie screens around the world.

Ford Australia’s Melbourne-based Asia, Pacific and Australia Design Director, Chris Svensson, jumped at the chance to design a new Interceptor and has since thrown the full weight of Ford Australia’s Research Centre behind the project, with stunning results.

“Our entire team was very excited to be involved in this after-hours project and they approached it with a great deal of enthusiasm – even those that were too young to remember the first Mad Max movie,” Svensson said. “We had a special screening of the original movie so they could understand it.”

Led by chief designer passenger cars Asia, Pacific and Africa, Todd Willing, the team created several way-out concepts that pay homage to styling cues from the original XB Coupe Interceptor.

Out of the concepts two have been chosen by the magazine to feature in the April issue of TopGear Australia magazine, on sale now, because they take body design, power sources and weaponry to a futuristic level.

TopGear Australia magazine readers will be invited to vote on which design Ford should take to the next level.

The winning car will be turned into a clay model, and then a scale version, which is expected to be revealed later this year.

The two competing designs – by designers Nima Nourian and Simon Brook – are limitless in their imagination, technology and weaponry. Among the weaponry is an industrial-strength “taser” mounted to the bonnet to zap bad guys on bikes straight off the road.

Other futuristic movie features include a titanium-lined body shell to interrupt police scanners and wheels with extendable spikes to shred enemy vehicles.

Nourian said his design paid tribute to the 1970s Interceptor, but also drags the car into the future.

“There are some great scenes in the first movie with high-speed chases and clashes with the bad guys, and I thought I’d take that one step further,” he said. “So instead of having weapons and machine guns, we’ve got an industrial strength taser that’ll zap cars dead and out of the way.

Brook’s car was equally threatening. “During high-speed pursuits, the wheel’s inner spokes on my design would pop out and start ripping up other cars,” Brook said. “They’d do some serious damage to other people’s vehicles.”

Brook’s design takes cues from the current FG Falcon but advances it further into Armageddon-land, while adding touches of the retro Interceptor as well. “I wanted to keep it clean and aerodynamic in its essence, but still brutal and tough.”

Miller has begun filming for a new Mad Max instalment, tentatively called Mad Max 4: Fury Road.

UBISOFT UNVEILS EXCLUSIVE TRACK FOR MICHAEL JACKSON THE EXPERIENCE XB360 KINECT AND PS3 MOVE: STRANGER IN MOSCOW

Stranger In Moscow, written in 1993 and released worldwide in 1996 (US 1997), is the fifth and final single of Michael Jackson’s HIStory album.

The track will be one of the three exclusive songs in the track list of Michael Jackson The Experience PS3 with Move compatibility and Kinect for Xbox 360 versions, to be released in Australia on April 14, 2011.

The 3 exclusive tracks for the next-gen version of Michael Jackson The Experience:

· Blood On The Dancefloor

· Stranger In Moscow

· You Rock My World

Sydney, Australia – March 30, 2011 – Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax® Media company, and Del Rey, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that Del Rey Books will publish a novel based on the upcoming RAGE® video game. The novel, also entitled “RAGE”, will be written by author and game writer Matt Costello and will release on August 30, 2011. The novel will be published simultaneously in the UK and British Commonwealth by Ebury Publishing, part of the Random House Group.

RAGE is the latest game from id® Software, the acclaimed designers of such classics as the Wolfenstein®, DOOM®, and QUAKE® series. Eagerly awaited by the gaming community, RAGE is already being touted as one of the industry’s most innovative first-person shooters, winning numerous awards at E3 2010, including ‘Best Overall Game of Show’ from IGN and three ‘Best of E3’ Game Critics Awards including ‘Best Console Game’. Set in the not-too-distant future after an asteroid impacts Earth, you emerge into a vast wasteland to discover humanity working to rebuild itself against such forces as bandit gangs, mutants, and more.

The novel delves even deeper into this world and its characters through the pen of Matt Costello–the same person who helped write the story for the game. The world was doomed and only some of the population could be saved. That was what the scientists were saying, at least. So the best and brightest were gathered and put into stasis deep beneath the surface of the Earth–buried so that man could live.

When Lt. Nick Raine emerges from his Ark, he finds the human race has not been wiped out. And people, as resilient as they are, are scraping together a new world from the rubble of the old. This was not what anyone in the Arks expected–a new society where might is right, mutants plague the Earth, and “friend” is a term for the person who hasn’t stabbed you in the back.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

MATT COSTELLO’s best-selling and award-winning work across all media has meshed game play, technology and story. He is the writer and creator of groundbreaking TV, novels, nonfiction books, and games in both U.S. and U.K.

ABOUT BETHESDA SOFTWORKS:

Bethesda Softworks, part of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, is a premier developer and worldwide publisher of interactive entertainment software. Titles from five of the world’s top development studios – Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, Arkane Studios, Tango Gameworks, and MachineGames – are featured under the Bethesda Softworks label and include such blockbuster franchises as DOOM®, QUAKE®, Wolfenstein® , Prey®, The Elder Scrolls®, Fallout®, and RAGE®. For more information on Bethesda Softworks’ products, visit www.bethsoft.com.

RAGE, DOOM, QUAKE, Wolfenstein, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Prey, Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda, Bethesda Softworks, id, id Software, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Arkane, ZeniMax and their related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or in other countries. Other product and company names referenced herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. All Rights Reserved.

ABOUT DEL REY:

Del Rey Books (http://www.delreybooks.com) was founded in 1977 as an imprint of Ballantine Books, a division of the Random House Publishing Group, under the guidance of the renowned Judy-Lynn del Rey and her husband, Lester del Rey. Del Rey publishes the best of modern fantasy, science fiction, and alternate history.

March 29th, 2011 – Halfbrick’s debut XBLA release of 2010 is now even more enticing – the critically acclaimed Raskulls is on sale for just 400 Microsoft Points, which is a huge 50% off! As part of the March 29th Xbox Live Deal of the Week, players can now download the adventures of King, Dragon, Ninja at the best price yet!

Included in the download is the entire original game, featuring the epic single player Mega Quest spanning three chapters and a massive variety of bone-bashing levels, as well as the entire online and local multiplayer game for up to four players! A fan favorite at PAX Prime and PAX East 2011, Raskulls multiplayer regularly steals the show as a fast and frantic racing platformer filled with awesome item powerups, close finishes and a huge cast of adorable characters. Now is the best time to start your Raskulls career by getting in on the action against tens of thousands of players around the world!