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I understand that the movie industry is trying to find whatever they can to both increasing the number of people going to the movies as well as a way to try and stop movie piracy but this idea of counting on 3D movies to save their asses is not going to be their holy grail.

It’s not so much that movies currently in production are getting a 3D make-over or that any new movie in the pipeline is being rewritten to become a 3D movie but apparently movie companies are going back to the vault to re-release 3D versions of old movies.

I get that Avatar has prompted everyone to rethink their opinions about 3D movies but that doesn’t mean that the same process will work for future, current or past movies. As Alex Billington wrote in a post over at FirstShowing.com about this threatening trend

What would James Cameron think about all of this? We know that he doesn’t like converting live-action movies shot on regular cameras to 3D. Late last year, he publicly criticized Tim Burton for doing this with Alice on Wonderland, saying that it “doesn’t make any sense to shoot in 2D and convert to 3D.” So although it’s his beautiful movie Avatar that is causing Hollywood to go 3D crazy, I have a feeling that he wouldn’t be happy with everything they’re doing now. The studio execs are all hungry for 3D and are going to convert almost everything they can (including summer tentpoles). But will the 3D even look good? Probably not.

“You wouldn’t want to remake Star Wars, or Close Encounters, just because you can do it in 3D. It’s bad. Then you’re just back into terrible remakes of good movies,” producer Gavin Polone told The Wrap. Polone is developing the sequel to Zombieland, which as we already know will be in 3D as well. “Zombieland makes a lot of sense — it’s an action movie, there’s stuff coming at the camera. We’ll write to it. You don’t want to make a heavy drama that way.” Of course he’s right, but I don’t think that’s the concern. My concern is that Hollywood is going to convert every damn action movie to 3D just because Avatar made over $100 million.

This is another fine example of “just because we can do it doesn’t mean we should”.

The fake celebrity death circuit takes no breaks for public holidays, and this Christmas the hot rumor has Eminem dead in a car crash.

According to the rumor, “Eminem died this morning in a terrible car crash” The rumor claims that Eminem was using a cell phone that distracted him, causing him to swerve into the path of an oncoming truck.

The rumor goes on to claim that the rapper “died from bleeding to death” after being admitted to hospital. The rumor also quotes a doctor on the death, and claims that MTV is showing a special on his career tonight.

We’re only scoring the Eminem died rumor a 3/10; car crashes are very much a standard fake celebrity death rumor, although the quotes and cell phone aspects are somewhat original.

For the record, Eminem has not died, Eminem is not dead, end of story.

Charlie Sheen was arrested in Colorado Christmas morning on charges that he allegedly beat the sh*t out of his wife Brooke Mueller Sheen.

The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Department in Aspen said in a statement that officers had attended a home in area following a 911 call, and they arrested Sheen at the scene.

Sheen was charged with second-degree assault, menacing and criminal mischief. After a short time in jail, he was released late in the day after posting $8,500 bond and being advised by a judge on the conditions of his release.

Sheen has along history with violence and drug issues. Along with shooting former fiance Kelly Preston, Sheen has previously been arrested on drugs charges. Former wife Denise Richards accused Sheen of beating her, although those charges were never proven in court.