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The early adopters are out in force today. Based on analysis from Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog & the investors of the AAPL board on Investor Village, it seems that as many as 50,000 iPads were pre-ordered in its first two hours of availability this morning. That’s pretty staggering demand, especially considering that on a typical day Apple only receives an average of 15,000 online orders for all products combined.

Naturally, we have no way of knowing if these numbers are exact as of yet. The numbers reflect over 50,000 orders placed in two hours, and the percentage of those that are iPad orders isn’t clear. Considering that the iPad was just made available for pre-order today, however, and the 15K daily average noted above, it’s likely the majority of orders placed this morning were indeed for the iPad. Additionally, the numbers only reflect the number of orders placed, not the number of units ordered; taken with the 2-pad maximum for today’s pre-orders, the data does suggest that somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000 iPad pre-orders were placed within two hours of its availability.

This suggests a huge demand for the device, at least among early adopters. It will be very interesting to see if this trend is repeated once the iPad is actually available in stores.


One interesting note: even if all 50,000 of those iPads were the $499 version (which is very unlikely), based on iSuppli’s analysis of that unit’s build cost, it means Apple gained nearly $13.5 million in revenue profit from the iPad alone in a mere two hours — and that’s the bare minimum. Once you factor in all the other models and their higher prices, the numbers climb by several million dollars. Even for a company with a market cap in excess of $205 billion, that’s still pretty amazing performance.

[h/t MacRumors]

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One of my favorite movies at Sundance in 2009 was Antoine Fuqua’s cop drama “Brooklyn’s Finest,” which finally hit theaters last week. One thing I’ve noticed about the movie since that Sundance cut is a small yet significant change made to the ending. When MTV’s Josh Horowitz spoke to Fuqua recently at the film’s press junket, I requested that he ask about the ending and why it was changed.

“That ending was an experiment,” Fuqua said. “The Sundance cut was a chance for me to put the movie in front of a real audience. It wasn’t done at all, by far. Everything is temporary. What it did was it allowed me to watch it with an audience reaction and then go back and go to my original notes, and then follow… again why I wanted to tell the story which dictated that ending.”

This is all pretty vague so far, and that’s because I’m trying to keep spoilers after the jump. So if you haven’t seen the movie, click onwards at your own risk.

In the movie as it now exists, the cops played by Don Cheadle and Ethan Hawke end up dead, killed in the line of duty. Richard Gere’s cop is seen in the new cut’s final frame; he’s walking away from a crime scene where he’s just killed two men and saved the women they kidnapped when everything stops in a freeze frame on a close-up of his face, then cut to black as the credits roll.

That’s not how things went in the Sundance cut however. Gere keeps walking, leaves the scene, carries out his retirement. The last shot of the movie is an extreme long shot showing us Gere sitting in a boat on a peaceful lake. He takes out a gun, puts it in his mouth — bringing us back to his first scene in the movie — and the screen cuts to black as we hear a loud bang.

Fuqua first addressed his original ending. “Before, I was doing it in a way because it was an independent movie, I had my freedom, I could do whatever I want, I read a New York Times article and I wanted to punch people in the gut with that, but then that would’ve been just me…” he pauses, “jerking off, so to speak. It wasn’t really about the story so much as it was about me wanting to make a statement about some of the things I read in the process of making this movie.”

Hawke, who was also present for the interview, added, “All of these characters, they’re really in a state of spiritual crisis. We had come across this [fact] that more cops had violent deaths by suicide than in the line of fire. It kind of guided our thinking on the movie about the state of mind these guys were in. But you know, movies are always– it’s a work in progress. You have to have a lot of good ideas to make a movie.”

Fuqua then circled things back around to the changed ending. “When I got to the ending with Richard and you see his face, and the blood and his eyes swollen, I said ‘That’s America.’ That’s kind of where we are right now. Dazed, confused, but then we’re still moving forward, there’s still some hope, we still have a chance. We’ve taken some hits, but we’re still standing. It kind of came out of everything that was happening.”

What’s your take on the new ending vs. the old? Are you hoping to see the original ending restored or at least included on the home video version of the movie?

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‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ Director Antoine Fuqua Explains Why He Changed The Ending

Gorgeous blonde actress Amanda Seyfried wears just a sheer lace bodysuit in these photos for the latest issue of Esquire. The “Big Love” star also nicely fills out a black strapless bustier. Oh la la!

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Amanda In Lace

Earlier today I had pictures of Julie Bowen, the mom from the show Modern Family, in her bathing suit so it would only be fair to have a few shots of her TV daughter doing the same thing. Here’s Sarah Hyland in her sweet tiger print swimsuit looking hot while playing in the surf. I know her character is like fourteen years old, but before everyone starts thinking I’m some sort of prevert, yes prevert is worse than a pervert, I looked it up and she’s nineteen so just drop it. That being said… Call me.

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