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ESPN is expected to bid for rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics.

NBC, which as the rights to the Olympics through 2012, has made certain that ESPN gets little in the way of coverage of the sports event.

With Disney owned ESPN’s growing popularity and increased revenues, it is expected that it will challenge NBC’s lock on the Olympics rights.

In commenting on ESPN’s expected bid for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 games which Chicago is vying for, John Skipper, head of ESPN’S content, stated “We would never put an event on tape delay.” The network has vowed to air all of the competition live.

With NBC’s unprecedented success with this year’s Beijing Olympics, both CBS and Fox may be joining ESPN in geting the air rights for the future games

Disney is denying claims that they fired Brittany Murphy who was slated to be the voice of Tinker Bell.

A Disney spokesman stated that the change was due to a schedule conflict which resulted after John Lasseter joined the company and changed the date of the project.

Mae Whitman has been hired as Murphy’s replacement.

I’m not sure if this is real or a photoshoped fake but it’s pretty cool. I like the Jack Sparrow style beard on the skull. POTC 3 is going to rock.

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Richards on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean 3:

At World’s End. For those that don’t know, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones has been cast to play Jack Sparrow’s dad.

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In Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End the player will get to play both Dead Mans Chest and At Worlds End. Playable characters are Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swan and many of the other characters for a short while such as Barbosa or Mr Gibbs.

Ill start off with the character likeness. Many of the characters are exactly like they are in the films but a few such as Elizabeth and Captain Teague are not. The voices for most of the characters are done very well but everyone would rather the original cast contributed. Nobody would miss out on the comedy they got in the film from Jack Sparrow or the seriousness of Will turner.

The gameplay is the same that you get in games like LOTR and is a bit repetitive and you are limited to moves that you are able to do. Most of the time you will be running around using a sword to attack but side weapons are available such as grenades which are very fun to use if there is an enemy far away and the flintlock pistol is very fun as well and also throwing knives are awesome. There are times where you will have to use a different form of combat against bosses and this is called dueling. The dueling system is entertaining at first but can get a bit boring as its just the same stuff over again.

The graphics are different for the ps2 and ps3 version of course but the ps2 version is very different. Ps3 graphics are reasonable but could have been better because it saught of does look like that they were just crammed in.

The game does stick to the same story lines as in the films but not really events that happen during it. Of course there are the missions such as escaping from the prison at the the beginning of Dead Mans Chest and playing as William to grab the key of Davey Jones but the game lacks what really happened during the film.

This game is a very fun game but is not recommended for those who do not like repetitive games and delivers the experience that you would get in a movie type game. Overall 7/10

I spent the day at Comic-Con in beautiful downtown San Diego. It was an overwhelming experience. I walked by the likes of Lou Feragno and Stan Lee, and just missed Neil Gaiman, Kevin Smith and the cast of Heroes. In the geek world it doesn’t get any better.

The one thing that I did take catch was a panel of PIxar filmmakers, Ralph Eggelston (For the Birds), Andrew Jimenez (One Man Band), and Katherine Sarafian (Lifted) discussing the studio’s short films.

The big news was that they announced a new Pixar DVD to be released on November 6th. The Pixar Shorts: A Short History, will include 13 of their acclaimed shorts plus an exclusive documentary.

They screened the documentary for us, which covered the lifespan of Pixar, from it’s days at LucasFilm, through the hiring of John Lassetter and the selling of imaging software, to the studio we know and love today, stopping with the creation of a little movie called Toy Story.

It was entertaining and insightful.

The Disney presence was felt on the convention floor as well, with a large Pirates exhibit, ABC Family previews and, well, stuff. Lots of stuff.

On Saturday there will be previews and panels for The Chronicles of Narnia- Prince Caspian, and Pixar’s next film, WALL*E.

Looks like they are NOT facing the same fate as the Tower stores. So, you will still have them as an option for buying your Disney media.

Andrew over at Puppetvision makes a very good point. Many people put The Dark Crystal (1982)(perhaps The Empire Strikes Back(1980)) as the first use of an animatronic puppet in film. But turns out it was probably another very innovative film — Mary Poppins. Walt was always looking forward an used animatronics in many of his films following Mary Poppins too.

People who own an HD DVD player can forget about watching “Spider-Man 3″ in high definition when it goes on sale during the holiday season. The movie from Sony Pictures will only be available in the Blu-ray DVD format. Likewise, people with Blu-ray players won’t be able to enjoy the action-thriller “The Bourne Ultimatum,” which Universal Pictures will release only in HD DVD.

These exclusive arrangements, plus aggressive price cuts for high-def DVD players, are designed to persuade consumers to finally embrace one format or the other.