Amazon To Announce Its New Tablets On September 6?

We reported a month ago on the "five or six" new tablets Amazon is rumored to release this year. The company has invited press to a media event in Santa Monica, CA, scheduled less than a week before Apple is expected to announce its next iPhone. A clear effort to keep us guessing, the press invitations simply state, "Please join us for an Amazon Press Conference."

Amazon announced the Kindle Fire at a similarly furtive press event last fall, so while it's not 100% certain this will be a tablet announcement, it probably is. And not a moment too soon: with Google's vastly superior Nexus 7 now on the market and the iPad's market share still basically unchallenged, Amazon has some catching up to do.

Everything's speculation for now; so what do you think? Will Amazon announce a 10" iPad killer? - just an updated seven-incher? - an out-of-left-field smartphone? Cast your bet in the comments.

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Steve Pink in Bad Santa 2 Talks

We’ve been talking about a Bad Santa sequel for the best part of a decade, but a green-light seems to be moving ever closer with a director now in talks to board the project.

According to Deadline, Steve Pink – who has previously directed Accepted and Hot Tub Time Machine– is in talks to both rewrite and helm Bad Santa 2, which would see Billy Bob Thornton return in the title role.

Johnny Rosenthal wrote the previous incarnation of the script, although there’s no word on a plot or start date.

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