Bigpoint Announces

 Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms as Official Title of Upcoming Browser-Based MMORPG; Exclusive Trailer at Comic-Con

New Trailer to Premiere at San Diego Comic-Con; Updated Website Ready to Capture Early Beta Registrations

 Bigpoint – a global leader in online video games – today revealed the official name of its upcoming free-to-play (F2P) fantasy massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) as Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms. 

Bigpoint has partnered with HBO® to develop the game inspired by the network’s critically acclaimed television show, Game of Thrones®, adapted from the bestselling fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George R.R. Martin. Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms will be set within the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, giving players the chance to experience epic moments from the television series. At the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con, July 12-15, Bigpoint will release a new exclusive video trailer for Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms.

“Selecting a game’s title can be quite an arduous process, especially in the free-to-play space where games must be easily discoverable by players around the world,” said Max Pfaff, Producer, Bigpoint. “By selecting Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms we’re confident that we’ve chosen an identifiable name that will resonate with the global community of diehard Thrones fans.”

In context of the lore, the Seven Kingdoms were originally independent countries which rose up over thousands of years until the Targaryens ruled over them as one nation of Westeros. Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms begins after the deaths of King Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark. The Starks of the north declare war on the south and Baratheon’s two brothers both make claims to the throne. Players are challenged to form alliances through Player vs. Player (PvP), Siege combat and politics to control Westeros.

Fans attending San Diego Comic-Con (July 12-15) will also have the opportunity to get a first look at the exclusive new Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms trailer by Bigpoint which can be viewed at booth 2615 (Dark Horse). The teaser captures the essence of gameplay and visual fidelity that players will get to experience when the game is launched.  

Bigpoint is collaborating with Norwegian development studio, Artplant, on the development of the forthcoming Unity-based project. Bigpoint and Artplant have previously partnered on the production of Battlestar Galactica Online, a breakthrough F2P space combat MMO that recently celebrated its first birthday and 10 million registered pilot milestone.

Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms beta testing is slated to begin later this year. Fans are encouraged to visit: http://www.GameofThronesMMO.com/ for more information and to follow the latest Twitter updates @GOTMMO.

RoGoPaG

RoGoPaG is to be released in the UK in a Dual Format (DVD & Blu-ray) edition as part of Eureka Entertainment’s MASTERS OF CINEMA Series on  27 August 2012.  DVD edition also available!

(DVD edition also available)

• Long-awaited Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition of this renowned '60s "anthology film", available for the very first time anywhere in the world on Blu-ray, in a beautiful new restoration

• Consists of four separate episodes, each directed by a major director in the annals of film: Roberto Rossellini (Rome: Open City; Francesco giullare di Dio; Voyage to Italy), Jean-Luc Godard(Breathless; Vivre sa vie; Pierrot le fou; the recent Film Socialisme), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Accattone; The Gospel According to Matthew; Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom), and Ugo Gregoretti (Omicron;Le belle famiglie; Maggio musicale)

• Released uncut in this edition, but suppressed and censored in Italy at the time of its initial release

• Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose episode stars the legendary Orson Welles, was sentenced to a suspended four-month prison term for "defamation of the state religion"

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SYNOPSIS:

Conceived by the legendary Italian producer Alfredo Bini, the multi-director portmanteau film Let's Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG [Laviamoci il cervello: RoGoPaG] brought together four giants of European cinema to contribute comic episodes reflective of the swinging post-"boom" era. The resulting omnibus collectively examines social anxieties around sex, nuclear war, religion, urbanisation – and the promise of a modern cinema.

Roberto Rossellini's Illibatezza [Virginity] follows an airline stewardess plagued by an obsessed American tourist whose 8mm camera enables the indulgence of a personal, and solipsistic, vision of the Ideal. Jean-Luc Godard's Il nuovo mondo [The New World] takes place in an Italian-dubbed Paris beset by nuclear fallout, and wittily chronicles the changes that take place in the lives – and medicine cabinet – of a handsome young couple. Pier Paolo Pasolini's scandalous La ricotta [Ricotta, as in the curded cheese] presents the goings-on around a film shoot devoted to the Crucifixion and presided over by none other than Orson Welles (playing a kind of stand-in for Pasolini himself); it is this episode that landed Pasolini with a suspended four-month prison sentence. Lastly, Ugo Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante [Free-Range Chicken] depicts a middle-class Milanese family flirting with the purchase of real-estate and engaging catastrophically with an antagonistic consumerist infrastructure.

Let's Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG remains one of the definitive entries of the Sixties vogue for the multi-auteur anthology film, and The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present it for the very first time anywhere in the world on Blu-ray, in a Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition, released on 27 August 2012.  (DVD edition also available!)

Available to pre-order from:

Amazon (Dual Format Edition) http://amzn.to/IOPRi7

HMV (Dual Format Edition) http://tidd.ly/12c1d7ef

Play (Dual Format Edition) http://tidd.ly/190df4af

The Hut (Dual Format Edition) http://tidd.ly/52fe3b98

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 TRAILER:

Original Theatrical Trailer http://bit.ly/KOuR8y

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 SPECIAL DUAL FORMAT (BLU-RAY + DVD) EDITION FEATURES:

• Gorgeous new HD restoration of the film in its original aspect ratio, in 1080p on the Blu-ray

• Newly translated optional English subtitles

• Original Italian theatrical trailer

• 56-page booklet featuring new essays by Tag Gallagher, Arthur Mas, Martial Pisani, and Pasquale Iannone; a new translation by Tag Gallagher of excerpts from an oral history about the film; and rare archival imagery

    

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DETAILS:

Label: Eureka Entertainment Ltd

Dual Format Cat. No: EKA70047

Dual Format Barcode: 5060000700473

Dual Format RRP: £20.42

DVD Cat. No: EKA40351

DVD Barcode: 5060000403510

DVD Dealer RRP: £17.36

Release Date: 27 August 2012

Certificate: PG

Run Time: 123 minutes

Format: 1.85:1 OAR

Genre: World Cinema

Director: Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Ugo Gregoretti

Year: 1963

Country:  Italy

Language: Italian

Subtitles: English (Optional)

Ice-T on stage at BFI Southbank

Sonic Cinema:

Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap

  

The hugely successful Sonic Cinema will return to BFI Southbank on Friday 20 July with a special screening of Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap followed by an onstage Q&A with director and Hip-Hop legend Ice-T.

Ice T’s debut album Rhyme Pays (1987) helped define the gangsta rap genre, and he went on to have not only a hugely successful music career, but a TV and film career also (he has been a regular on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit for over a decade). As one of the most influential figures in Hip-Hop and rap culture, the BFI is thrilled to welcome Ice-T to the Southbank stage following the screening of his directorial debut. Through his documentary Ice-T will take audiences on a deeply personal journey, interviewing a who’s who of Hip-Hop talent, including KRS-One, Nas, Eminem, Dr Dre, Chuck D, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap reveals the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most influential protagonists reveals ‘The Art of Rap’. This extraordinary documentary features unique performances, without resorting to archive footage. What emerges is a mighty tribute to an American art form that brought poetry to a new generation. Following on from the screening and Q&A, audiences will also be able to enjoy a night of the finest hip-hop beats in the benugo lounge courtesy of Sonic Cinema DJ Tayo Popoola.

Event Details:

Sonic Cinema: Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap + Ice-T in Conversation

USA 2012. Dir Ice-T.  111min.

Fri 20 July 20:30 NFT1

The BFI Southbank is open to all. BFI members are entitled to a discount on all tickets.  BFI Southbank Box Office tel: 020 7928 3232. Unless otherwise stated tickets are £10.0, concs £6.75 Members pay £1.50 less on any ticket. Websitewww.bfi.org.uk/southbank