• ‘Bioshock Infinite’ snap judgment: Taking to the skies, and taking on religion and race 
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BioShock  | One of the most highly anticipated games of 2013, BioShock Infinite hopes to do for airships and American Exceptionalism what 2007′s BioShock did for underwater cities and Ayn Rand-ian Objectivism. Which is: Make them really, really cool.      View blog reactions

• • Box office report: ‘Taken 2’ nabs No. 1 for second weekend 
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Atlas Shrugged movie  |Atlas Shrugged  | The second half of the adaptation of Ayn Rand’s epic seminal tome collapsed in 11th place with $1.7 million on 1,012 screens. That is just slightly better than 2011′s Atlas Shrugged: Part I, which opened to $1.69 million — on 299 screens. Shrugged, indeed.      View blog reactions

• ‘BioShock 2’ review: Can diving back into Rapture ever be the same? 
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The sheer ambition and scope of BioShock’s storytelling and setting remain nothing less than a revelation. “Steeped in the objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand” are not words most people ever expected to use to describe a videogame, and the final act’s twist was a true mind-frak that caused me to question the very nature of what it means to play a videogame.      View blog reactions

• ‘Watchmen’ director Zack Snyder launches new website 
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The Fountainhead  | The site includes a section called The Lounge, where [Cruel and Unusual Films] -- which includes company co-president Deborah Synder (who's also Zack's wife), and producer Wesley Coller -- list what they're watching (the anime film Appleseed), reading (Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead) and listening to (Allison Crow's "Hallelujah").      View blog reactions

•The deal report 
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Atlas Shrugged has found its screenwriter: Lionsgate has hired Braveheart scribe Randall Wallace to take on adapting the massive Ayn Rand novel for the big-screen Angelina Jolie project.      View blog reactions

• •The deal report 
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Angelina Jolie has hopped onto Lionsgate's production of Ayn Rand's epic tome Atlas Shrugged, ending the novel's decades-long slow dance with Hollywood to the big screen. ''It's not going to be your normal movie — (the book is) 1,495 pages,'' explains producer Howard Baldwin (Ray). ''There's two ways [we] can go: [We] can go with two or three movies, or one fairly long movie."      View blog reactions