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Richard Alf has passed away, at the age of 59, due to pancreatic cancer. May he rest in peace. He was one of the co-founders of the San Diego Comic Con.

Lily Collins has been cast in the remake of The Evil Dead—the character of Mia is basically a female version of Ash.

They’re remaking Carrie…again.

Noel Clarke is joining Star Trek 2. Meanwhile, Benedict Cumberbatch has reportedly been cast as the villain.

Batman characters, Dr. Seuss style.

From Cracked: 10 Old Toys That Made Sense In Their Era (And Nowhere Else).

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Cake.

Amazon is taking pre-orders for the first Ghostbusters trade paperback for the ongoing IDW series.

Gateways To Geekery: Dystopian science fiction films of the 1970’s.

The live action Akira is is no longer happening, after the studio decided to rethink the budget.

A parody trailer for a Doctor Who/Back to the Future crossover.

10 weird times Marvel and DC unofficially crossed over.

Tomorrow is the day comments are unscreened at fandom_stocking.

Syfy’s promo for Lost Girl.

Livejournal is offering paid account refunds for accounts paid in December. This is due to the billing/autopay bug.

The Rules of Magic, According to the Greatest Fantasy Sagas of All Time.

The Evil Dead remake gets a release date: April 12, 2013.

Lionsgate is planning to remake American Psycho.

Dreamwidth will be completely down for maintenance (servers being physically carried elsewhere, hopefully not dropped) for a few hours on December 13th.

Lost Girl was renewed for a third season on Showcase.

The poster for The Amazing Spider-Man.

A new poster for The Dark Knight Rises.

Trailer for the next episode (The Sword In the Stone Part 1) of Merlin.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Mariko Yashida (Sunfire from Exiles).

The Holiday Love Meme, Secret Santa Style.

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Car.

First of all, Les Daniels has passed away. There is very little information as of yet, but from what I’ve found it followed a short illness. May he rest in peace--I'll edit as I find out more. When I was around 10 or so, I found his vampire novels in a used bookstore and enjoyed them. Citizen Vampire, The Silver Skull, The Black Castle, and Yellow Fog. He also wrote Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics, DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World’s Favorite Comic Book Heroes, and various other comic book works, most of which I owned.

Remembering Andy Rooney with MST3K.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Cecilia Reyes.

Syfy’s preview for Lost Girl.

The trailer for the next episode of Merlin, called The Secret Sharer.

SFX lists Sci Fi’s 10 Geekiest Films And Shows. Buffy makes the list, along with The Middleman.

SFX discusses Elisabeth Sladen’s autobiography, listing 35 facts they discovered from it. I’ll be on the lookout for it over here.

I’ve just discovered that in the evening, a local channel transforms into ME TV. And on Saturdays, at 9 PM, there’s a horror host that pops up. Svengoolie. This is apparently what his act is like. I’ll try to catch it when he shows Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man next week, and see if I like him. Made a syndicated feed of his blog, so I’ll actually know when there are updates with the schedule. svengoolierss. Had I watched last night's airing of Dr. Cyclops, I could have seen him interviewing Robert Englund.

TheMarySue lists the panels at New York Comic Con you might accidentally miss if you don’t know about them.

From Newsarama: 10 Must Sees, Must Dos, at New York Comic Con.

Lost Girl gets an American air date from Syfy: January 16th.

Three new clips from NBC’s Grimm.

Full details on AMC’s 16-day Fearfest, hosted by George A. Romero.

A fan comic: A Brief History of the Doctor and the Master.

From Total Film: 40 Greatest Spider-Man Moments.

A geeky father built a Back to the Future train set for his son, complete with tiny Delorean.

Here’s a trailer for the first part of the final story for The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Man Who Never Was.

10 Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies That Must Never Have Prequels. Ghostbusters and Back to the Future are rightfully included.

Yuletide nominations will open soon.

And a meme, taken from a few on my IJ friends list:

Give me one of my characters and an age and I'll tell you what they were for Halloween that year. And possibly some crazy made up right at this moment story about said Halloween.

I’ll go ahead and list previous ones for Meggan in game.
Age of 15: Weeping Angel, sneaking up on people via levitation.
16: A hippie, since she waited too long to find something.
17. Inigo Montoya
18. This year, she’s going to be Amalthea from The Last Unicorn.

Gateways To Geekery: Mystery Science Theater 3000.

To celebrate the release of Star Wars on Blu-ray, George Lucas sent Jawas (and a Stormtrooper) to take over Times Square.

Sign-ups for the hlh_shortcuts 2011 fic exchange are now open.

A new print of Horror of Dracula has been unearthed—the longer, more explicit version reportedly only seen in Japan until now.

Bruce Campbell discusses the Evil Dead remake.

The CW is remaking the 80’s Beauty and the Beast tv series.

The Nine Lives of Chloe King has been cancelled.

Promo for the next episode of Lost Girl

Fox is supposedly considering creating a channel that would air nothing but The Simpsons.

A wonderfully done, partially completed sand octopus. I love the sign.

Stephanie Brown returns to being Spoiler when the DC Universe reboots, according to Dan DiDio.

Anna Silk discusses Lost Girl with SFX.

Insanejournal will have a 2-4 hour period of downtime sometime soon, while they switch over to a new server.

A few shots of Henry Cavill in the Superman costume.

A scene from the next episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

The Ghostbusters: Chicago Division have figured out how you can make Hi-C Ecto-Cooler at home. I never drank the stuff, but I know it would be nostalgic for some. The Cinema Snob ran into these guys a week ago and tried it, possibly at the same convention.

The best uses of steampunk on television.

Short clip for season 2 of Sherlock.

The season premiere of Lost Girl has been brought down to a PG rating, rather than the usual TV-14.

Someone actually made plushie proton packs.

In an incredibly stupid and ill-advised moment, a man dressed as Spider-Man went out during Hurricane Irene and tried to catch the waves at Virginia Beach. No word as to whether or not he survived that, as the clip ends as he runs into the waves following the interview.

Hannah Murray has been cast in the new Dark Shadows movie. She will play a “hippie chick.”

In Doctor Who’s Let’s Kill Hitler, there was a scene that was cut due to how expensive it would have been to film—watch it here as a motion comic. They showed it during the commercial break when the episode aired on BBC America.

A meme, taken from frito_kal and deathpixie:

Top Five! Ask me for my top five list of anything and I shall respond. Then go forth and do the same.

36 Things We Learned From The Ghostbusters Commentary Track. Some of these things I didn’t know, like the fact Sigourney Weaver’s audition involved her pretending to be a dog.

For this Halloween, the writers of Castle are planning a Ghostbusters themed episode—and hoping to get a Dan Aykroyd cameo in there.

CBS is planning on remaking Bewitched.

Smurfs 2 is coming, and should be hitting theaters in 2013.

Den of Geek interviews Alan Tudyk.

Syfy has ordered one more episode of Eureka. The series finale.

A trailer for season 2 of Lost Girl.

( Beneath the cut, answering the icon meme for: mackinzie )

First official image of Henry Cavill as Superman.

Season 2 of Sherlock is set to premiere sometime in early 2012.

Brand new trailer for the next part of Doctor Who’s season.

Here’s a short interview with Ksenia Solo, discussing her nomination for a 2011 Gemini Award, for her role as Kenzi in Lost Girl.

Bubba Smith has passed away, at the age of 66, reportedly of natural causes. May he rest in peace. He was probably most famous for his role in the Police Academy movies, which I’ve never seen.

At Comic Con, William Shatner dared fans in the audience to shout “KHAN!” for as long as they could: 30 seconds in duration.

You can watch the entirety of the Lost Girl panel here.

G4 interviewed Matt Smith and Karen Gillan during their coverage of Comic Con, and you can watch it through Blogtor Who. There are vague spoilers for upcoming things like a monster or two, but it's nothing huge. I haven’t located footage of their interviews with Nathan Fillion and John Barrowman, but I’ll keep an eye out for it for anyone that may have missed it.

Two clips from the new Thundercats cartoon.

According to the Marvel Television Presents panel, Hulk, Alias Jessica Jones, and Cloak and Dagger are due to be adapted for ABC. The last one would be on ABC Family, set in New Orleans, immediately after Hurricane Katrina.

At Comic Con, one person was spotted dressed as Boba Fett Wolverine.

You can watch the Joss Whedon panel here: 49 minutes long. whedonesque discusses it here.

10 science fiction cartoons that didn’t make it past one episode. An honorable mention went to Pryde of the X-Men.

Top 5 Joss Whedon Moments. whedonesque discusses the list here.

Another clip from Torchwood: Miracle Day, with Rhys, Gwen, and their child.

Falling Skies has been renewed for a second season.

A handful of Doctor Who stars before they were famous.

9 more episodes have been ordered for Lost Girl in advance of the season premiere.

Tickets are now on sale for the next Rifftrax Live: Jack the Giant Killer.