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Best Buy’s CEO resigns after a loss of $1.7 billion.

Alex Ross paints the box for a somewhat smaller replica of the Starship Enterprise.

Why is everybody obsessed with Snow White right now?

Universal is developing ideas for a possible sequel to Snow White And The Huntsman if it does well at the box office —but without Snow White.

Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 2 of 5).

Dr. Pepper released its tie-in ad for The Avengers—Stan Lee makes a cameo.

Another clip from The Avengers, this time with a scene starring Nick Fury and Maria Hill.

Leven Rambin has been cast as Clarisse, daughter of Ares, in Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters.

The most common grammar, usage, and style errors in print today.

The Dictator was moved to a new opening date, in order to avoid competition with Dark Shadows—since Paramount doesn’t want ‘to risk cannibalizing the comedy audience by bashing heads with a rival on the same opening weekend.’ So now its current competition is only the second week of The Avengers.

In defense of: Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Voting for what stories everyone will be writing in the Finish-A-Thon continues until Friday.

Janeane Garofalo was almost Monica instead of Courteney Cox. Six Real Stories Of Near Miss Casting. Rosie on Seinfeld as Elaine—horrifying.

Geek Gear: The Princess Bride Shirt.

Sherlock Holmes as Smaug.

Becky Cloonan illustrates new edition of Dracula.

The Japanese trailer for Total Recall.

Which tv incarnation of Storm is the best? They left out the version of Storm that was in Pryde of the X-Men, but that’s understandable if they missed it.

Zombie survival Google map allows you to find food and guns for the undead apocalypse.

Wooden VHS coffee table.

Warehouse 13 Phoenix Medallion Replica.

10 Obscure But Awesome Greek Gods And Monsters Fit To Film.

Pop Candy interviews Joss in advance of his Q&A with Reddit. That last answer is great.

New featurette for Brave.

HBO has renewed Game of Thrones for a third season.

Lena Headey to voice animated Grimm Fairy Tales. It’s based on Zenescope Entertainment’s comic book series.

Universal to release Back to the Future Augmented Reality Sleeve and Steelbooks Abroad.

Why old books get that old book smell.

Chicks Dig Comics goes on sale today, and here’s the full table of contents.

The We Hate Movies Podcast discusses Free Enterprise. At the start, they recommend Sarek, by A.C. Crispin.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/824719.html

CISPA Bill Lets ISPs Spy On and Report Pirating Subscribers.

From Think Geek: Ninja Fighting Chopsticks. I can just see Meggan giving this to Korvus or Wade, over at

x_project.

Superman cufflinks.

Viking Batman.

Book trailer for Darth Vader And Son.

Boomerang plans a 14 hour Captain Planet marathon for Earth Day.

New clip from The Raven.

DC Comics will revive National Comics to spotlight dormant characters.

As expected, The Dark Knight Rises will be PG-13.

Darwyn Cooke on why he initially said no to Before Watchmen.

Senior Editor Bobbie Chase has been promoted to Executive Editor over at DC Comics, while previous Executive Editor Eddie Berganza has been moved to a different position. Congratulations to her.

Grant Imahara, in front of the TARDIS, dressed like the Tenth Doctor and wielding a sonic screwdriver in one hand…and a puppy in the other.

There will be an 11-hour Veronica Mars marathon on SoapNet on April 15th.

Cliff Chiang draws Joss Whedon for GQ magazine.

Days of Our Lives changes head writers (again). Gary Tomlin and Christopher Whitesell will serve as the new head writers, effective immediately. So that recent reboot may be jettisoned for another reboot?

Maleficent will be coming to theaters March 14th, 2014.

Ben Kingsley is in final talks to play a villain in Iron Man 3.

Cinematic Titanic will be returning to the Family Arena in St. Charles on Saturday, November 17th, for those that are in that area.

Snow White And The Huntsman: Behind The Costume Design.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/824440.html

In light of recent events, Wupload and Fileserve have exited the file sharing business. You may only retrieve files you have personally uploaded.

Trolling could get you 25 years in jail in Arizona.

Girl believes she’s a wizard from Hogwarts (with a light saber, it sounded like) after getting her wisdom teeth pulled. All I did was throw up in the parking lot after Mom walked me out (after I went to sleep in the chair three times after regaining consciousness—asking “What time is it? Is it over?” each time I woke). According to Mom, her response to getting them removed was crying—my aunt’s was cursing everyone out. Nobody was fortunate enough to have the world’s nerdiest trip.

Batman Lego Cake.

Movies Dot Com details the highs and lows of Superman Returns.

Watch a new 60 second tv spot from Dark Shadows.

Chris Hardwick launches The Nerdist Channel.

Help preserve and share the Locus Magazine archives.

Hellraiser: The Series is now in development. I really do not see how this could work, unless they tried Showtime or HBO.

Dark Horse Comics announces Ghost: The Series. They’re just relaunching the comic book series, not making a tv show.

The Nerdist interviews Jeph Loeb and Paul Dini about Disney XD’s new Ultimate Spider-Man.

Mark watches The Fellowship Of The Ring, becomes hopelessly obsessed.

Catwoman comes to DC Nation.

New tv spot for Snow White And the Huntsman.

From Cracked: The 9 Most Insane Board Games Of All Time.

Who are your favorite siblings in comics?

As an April Fool’s prank, Medievalists uncover “lost” recipe for roasted unicorn.

Will you ever go to SDCC?

The We Hate Movies podcast looks at 1990’s Mr. Destiny.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/822294.html

Quikster is a terrible name, so Netflix bought DVD.com.

Google Maps Quest View turns your commute into an RPG.

New promo for The Avengers, showing a little more when it comes to Loki’s warriors.

Avengers and the Marvel Movies: Kevin Feige speaks with SFX.

A very rare behind the scenes of Buffy, from the filming of Helpless.

British actress Charity Wakefield has signed on for the Munsters reboot, for the role of Marilyn Munster.

8 Bit game covers for Psycho, The Birds, and North By Northwest.

The Rifftrax for Mesa Of Lost Women is available on April 3rd.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Dinner and a MST3K Episode Night.

Another featurette for Snow White And The Huntsman, showing day eleven of filming, in the throne room.

From Cracked: The 5 Most Clearly Cursed Expeditions Of All Time.

Smaug The Golden?

A fourth tv spot for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

The Dark Knight Rises trailer, made out of Lego.

Top 10: Fantasy Worlds In Film And Television.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast discusses Surviving The Game (1994). Afterwards, they go off into a discussion of The Hunger Games and The Muppets.

Schlock Treatment focuses on Maximum Overdrive.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/821525.html

Rapidshare was declared legal in court in Germany, and told that they must monitor external sites that link to copyrighted material they host, and ensure those files become inaccessible. They plan to take the case to the Supreme Court.

The next Rifftrax Live has officially been announced: on August 16th, Manos: The Hands of Fate will be riffed, and simulcast nationwide via Fathom Events. That’s the day before my birthday. If I’m able, and the local theater participates, I’ll likely be there.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Scandal Savage.

Insanejournal is having a Tax Time Sale—from now until April 17th, permanent accounts are 20% off.

The Dark Knight Rises will not have a panel at Comic Con 2012.

Rare Dracula poster discovered, sold for $143,400.

From Next Movie: Our 15 Favorite Lady Villains In Movies.

Four movies from Elvira’s Movie Macabre will be coming to DVD on May 8th.

Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Set, in limited edition coffin packaging is delayed again—it will now be released on July 10th.

Featurette: Eureka: A Look Back.

Major highlights in the history of space opera.

How to build a robotic squirrel-squirting water sentry-gun. Why did I see this, and think of Squirrel Girl?

What makes a good book-to-film adaptation?

A unique interview (since the one interviewing is 12 years old) with Mark Sheppard, while he was attending the Doctor Who convention last weekend.

Watch a clip and behind the scenes interview for The Wicker Tree, the sequel to (the Christopher Lee version, not the Nicholas Cage remake) The Wicker Man.

Justin Lin is attached to direct an adaptation of Lone Wolf And Cub.

Dan Didio: The Crisis Years.

Jamie McKelvie talks to Newsarama about his Carol Danvers redesign.

The 10 Most Awesome Moments From Game of Thrones’ First Season.

From Cracked: The 7 Biggest Jerk Moves In The History Of Superheroes.

This latest tv spot for Snow White And The Huntsman shows more footage. Io9 interviews the director, Rupert Sanders.

Joss Whedon carefully selects which Avenger he’ll doom forever in these adorable behind-the-scenes pics.

Emma Stone and Marc Webb discuss the character of Gwey Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man.

Emily Andras will be the new show runner for season 3 of Lost Girl.

Michael Bay, take a cue from these Ninja Turtles designs.

Hunger Games Cake.

Todd Spence’s fantastic Back to the Future painting.

David Tennant on his role as Charles Darwin in The Pirates: An Adventure With Scientists.

Now Playing Podcast discusses The Hulk—the one directed by Ang Lee. In the late 90’s, they wanted Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler to be the Hulk. Also, it would have been a comedy. I never knew that. So...it could have been so much worse.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/820107.html

Al Ross, cartoonist for The New Yorker, has passed away at the age of 100. May he rest in peace.

Variety is up for sale.

To cash in on the Dark Shadows movie, they’re selling nail polish. The four colors include: Decades of Dysfunction, Buried Alive, Grave Mistake, and Mysterious Curse. For those that wonder, mysterious curses involve a shade of purple when they aren’t turning someone into an undead creature of the night.

Two new tv spots are out for Dark Shadows. Here’s the first. Here’s the second. Behind the scenes photos.

First tv spot for Snow White And The Huntsman.

How to claim your free $5 of print comics through Marvel.

Ten minute featurette for Wrath of the Titans.

Ten more images from The Avengers. And a new featurette is here.

The Hunger Games made an estimated $155 million opening weekend alone.

Medieval monks complained about their jobs in the margins of ancient manuscripts.

Zombie mall promises movie-style undead battle.

The BBC has renewed Being Human for a fifth season.

You have a second chance to purchase tickets for Comic Con: March 27th. The hotel reservation system will open on Thursday at 9 AM PT.

Five days left to sign up for the Finish-A-Thon.

Batwoman wins GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book.

Here’s the new season seven teaser trailer for Doctor Who. Read an interview with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill at BBC’s Official Doctor Who Convention.

World’s Finest Interviews Young Justice Lead Character Designer Phil Bourassa.

10 Nerdtastic DVD and Blu-Ray Exclusives That You May Have Missed.

Clive Barker discusses his recent illness which resulted in a coma, his recovery, his current dog’s health (and late pets), and various books.

Chris Claremont’s dream X-Men movie involved James Cameron as director, with Bob Hoskins as Wolverine, and Angela Bassett as Storm.

A Farewell To SoapNet, Home of Time-Shifted Soaps. The transition to Disney Junior began on the 23rd. For those who still have access to SoapNet in April, you can watch Veronica Mars. Given that it was showing One Tree Hill when I checked a few minutes ago, I still have SoapNet. No idea how long that could last, though.

Art from the Lucasfilm Willow cartoon that never was.

Behind the scenes of Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope.

Top 10 Worst Movie Monsters.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/819638.html

Megaupload Data May Soon Be Destroyed.

Google Strikes Back After MPAA Objects to Hotfile Intervention.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Meggan (aka Meggan Puceanu, Meggan Braddock, or Gloriana). I once managed to locate an icon of that moment where Meggan delivers cocoa to Kurt in the tub. Amusingly, hit the random icon button on Dreamwidth, and got that one first for this entry.

Patricio Oliver’s New Mutants redesign.

crack_van is in need of drivers.

Stephen Fry and Ian McKellen pay licensing fees to save Hobbit pub.

An excerpt from Dark Shadows: Angelique’s Descent, by Lara Parker.

We Wish You A Turtle Christmas, and other proof that Michael Bay’s not the first to screw up the Ninja Turtles. The good news for me is I managed to miss each and every one of these during my interest in Ninja Turtles. I do remember the promos that featured Venus on Fox, though.

The trailer for season 2 of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

The first clip from Wrath of the Titans.

Remembering Are You Afraid Of The Dark.

Stained Glass TARDIS.

New IMAX promo for The Avengers.

New promo art for The Amazing Spider-Man reveals The Lizard.

Found via

noscans_daily: Courtesy of MAD TV and Cartoon Network, a spoof/musical number with the JLA. The JLI make a cameo in the middle of the insanity.

75 words every sci-fi fan should know.

8 Forgotten 80’s Live Action Children’s Sci-Fi Series. From that list, I watched Small Wonder and Out Of This World.

Director Rupert Sanders discusses making Snow White And The Huntsman.

Julie Taymor’s original ending for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.

New clip from The Cabin In The Woods.

Veronica Mars will begin airing on SoapNet on Saturday, April 7th.

ETA: Disney Junior launches today; Soapnet to continue on some carriers. So in light of that tidbit, it all depends on where you live, whether or not you get to watch Veronica Mars.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/819083.html

Petition: RIAA and the Obama Administration: Stop ISP’s from launching a massive copyright spying scheme this July 12th. Last I checked, they had 1550 signatures, out of a needed 2500.

Google Defends Hotfile (And Megaupload) In Court.

First image released from The CW’s Arrow pilot.

Collider had a one-on-one video interview with Marc Webb.

Stan Lee is selling his “Pow!” logo ring.

John Carter will end up costing Disney about $200 million.

Five images of Mark Gatiss in Being Human (UK version). Slight spoilers for those who haven’t been following the season.

New tv spot for The Cabin In The Woods.

New tv spot for The Raven.

The UK trailer for Prometheus.

Seeing the funny side of the Dark Shadows trailer.

An exclusive five minute preview for Snow White And the Huntsman.

Twelve new images from The Avengers.

not_primetime fandom nominations go from April 19th to April 26th.

The Wonderful Costumes of WonderCon.

The 10 Best Millennium Episodes.

Promo shots for the final two episodes of Lost Girl’s second season.

Is the novelization of Back to the Future a literary masterpiece? Shockingly, no.

The We Hate Movies Podcast discusses No Holds Barred (1989).

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/817900.html

Major ISPs to turn into copyright police by July, says RIAA—they’ll cut off service to those identified as pirating files.

New trailer for Snow White And the Huntsman.

Another trailer for Dark Shadows. It aired during Once Upon A Time, and has a few alternative shots.

Farscape comes to Blu-Ray.

Wait, Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Might Not Be Mutants? They’re Aliens Now?

From Geeks of Doom: WonderCon 2012: Cosplay Parade, Saturday Edition.

Joe Dante on Voyage To The End of the Universe.

Six more classic Target Doctor Who novels are being reprinted.

thatyourefuse is hosting the Scandalize A Conservative! Make Porn! Multifandom Create-A-Thon.

TARDIS chocolate box.

25 Great Superheroine Moments.

SuperTed. I don’t think I ever watched that one.

Find Out If Your House Will Be Underwater By 2100.

What do you see in this picture: Wolverine or two Batmen?

The Bad Movie Fiends Podcast discusses D.C. Cab, starring Mr. T and Gary Busey.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/817552.html

AOL has fired their instant messaging team—so now AIM apparently only consists of support staff. AIM is the only messaging program I use.

Say goodbye to the printed version of Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

Buford, Wyoming is up for auction.

Another trailer for Battleship.

The first trailer for Dark Shadows debuts this Thursday on The Ellen Degeneres Show. Here’s a quick snippet from her preview trailer, along with some screengrabs. The website for the movie has launched.

New stills from Wrath of the Titans.

New poster for The Hunger Games.

Chris Hemsworth presents new footage from Snow White And The Huntsman. You can find three mini-featurettes here.

Drew Goddard’s SXSW festival diary.

whedonesque discusses it here.

junetide is open for sign-ups.

Hamie Mohd’s artwork of Wonder Woman.

Hobbit pub accused of copyright infringement.

Sherlock’s Mind shirt.

The TARDIS ring.

Geek Pop Reinterpretation. Includes Darth Vader hugging a unicorn.

Stjepan Sejic’s art of He-Man vs. the forces of Skeletor.

Is this the alternate origin story in Zack Snyder’s Superman?

The Now Playing Podcast discusses The Trial of The Incredible Hulk.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/816164.html

From The Comics Journal: Remembering Sheldon Moldoff.

The MPAA is going after Hotfile now.

Michigan State University is offering a course called Surviving The Coming Zombie Apocalypse: Catastrophes And Human Behavior.

New images of the design for the new Ninja Turtles tv show.

Re-Animator The Musical returns.

First picture from The Lone Ranger…with Johnny Depp as Tonto.

An Excalibur ad with promo art, from 1988.

Hammer studios has issued a public appeal to track down lost scenes that were cut from its films by censors. The movies include: Rasputin: The Mad Monk, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Reptile, Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell, and The Viking Queen.

The 50 most memorable action movie moments. So now I need to track down Encounters of the Spooky Kind. Loved the hopping vampires in Mr. Vampire, so I would probably like that one, too.

Geek Talk interviews Lewis Lovhaug, aka Linkara. They discuss SOPA, his time working at Barnes and Noble, Star Trek, Doctor Who, MST3K, and various other topics.

Promo image of Christian Bale in the new, slightly modified Batsuit.

From Cracked: 5 People From History Who Were Absurdly Hard To Kill.

First clip from DC Nation: Baby Superman.

Kiefer Sutherland was almost Robin.

Tor takes a close look at the trailers for Mirror Mirror and Snow White And The Huntsman, and how they differ.

RedemptionCast interviews Tim Minear about his time writing for Angel.

whedonesque discusses it here.

Colin Morgan: The Year of the Thoughtful, Intelligent Geek.

Lionsgate plans to make a film focusing on the theft of Nicholas Cage’s copy of Action Comics #1.

And a meme:

1. Leave a comment to this post.
2. If requested, I will give you a letter (feel free to comment if you've already had a letter from elsewhere or don't want one).
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/814912.html

The government says it can seize and shutdown any domain that ends in .com, .net, .cc, .tv, and .name, even if they’re registered abroad.

terror_scifi will be discussing The Neverending Story.

New trailer for Cabin In The Woods.

whedonesque discusses it here.

Catch a live chat with Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, regarding The Cabin In The Woods, on March 11th at 12 PM, CST.

Thundercats returns to Cartoon Network on Saturday, March 24th, at 9:30 AM.

This is what happens when Winnie The Pooh and Deadpool merge: Dead Pooh.

TARDIS in a bottle.

Godzilla Candelabra

DC will replace misprinted hardcovers of Absolute Kingdom Come—one page was missing text.

If you have a DVD or Blu-Ray copy of Dracula Prince of Darkness with an audio synch issue, StudioCanal will replace it.

Eye of Sauron found in space. Everyone doomed.

German trailer for The Avengers.

Sony is trying to negotiate a Spider-Man spin-off, starring Venom. Possibly with Josh Trank directing.

Japanese teaser trailer for Snow White And The Huntsman.

Tv trailer for Mirror Mirror.

A clip for Snow White: A Deadly Summer. Maureen McCormick being evil and over the top in this slasher movie—so much into the realm of chewing the scenery that I might have to watch it.

Due to heavy rains and a leaky roof, Pittsburgh’s ToonSeum has lost about $20,000-$25,000 of comics.

After 2013, Skins is cancelled.

Farscape fans might like this particular bit of casting news for the episode of Doctor Who written by Toby Whithouse. There are mild spoilers, if you wish to avoid knowing the time period it takes place in.

Toronto Batman returns.

Part two of Dread Central's two part interview with John Carpenter.

For this computer, the mouse I use stopped working, as though I had worn out the wheel through constant scrolling. Which...is how I read my friends list. It was also jittery, and refusing to highlight or messing up and switching the words around. So Dad gave me his mouse, and I gave him mine. On his laptop, mine works perfectly, leaving us both baffled. So now, I’m keeping his smaller one.

Crossposts: http://calliopes-pen.livejournal.com/814093.html

Robert Sherman has passed away at the age of 86. May he rest in peace. He and his brother were responsible for writing “more than 200 songs for 27 films and two dozen television productions.”

The enduring legacy of Age of Apocalypse.

Fox has cancelled Terra Nova.

Dr. Doom cosplay.

Dread Central has part one of a two part interview with John Carpenter.

Kristen Bell will play the lead in Disney’s Snow Queen adaptation Frozen.

Charles Rouse-Rodriguez redesigns the Teen Titans.

The We Hate Movies podcast discusses Off Beat.

The Horror Etc podcast discusses Video Nasties.

Joss Whedon: Heroes And Inspirations.

whedonesque discusses it here.

Spider-Man meat buns can be found in Japan.

The full line-up for Disney XD’s Marvel Universe block.

Kristen Stewart discusses Snow White And The Hunstman—most of the interview is in the latest issue of SFX.

10 new images from Men In Black 3.

Another still from Dark Shadows—this time, it’s Helena Bonham Carter as Julia Hoffman.

10 widely seen and wildly underrated horror performances.

Spoof trailer for Where’s Waldo: The Movie.

Brian K. Vaughan is hosting an Ask Me Anything at Reddit.

And now, a meme, taken from

hradzka:

I was thinking you should tell me about stories you think I should write. I mean, if you could sit me down for a day or whatever and say, "I want you to write this story for me," what would that story be?

I'm not actually promising to *write* any of these, mind you, but it's fun anyway. And who knows if I'll be inspired!

I'm getting a "status: 12002" message when I try to cross-post this particular entry via Dreamwidth--so, like last time with that glitch, I'll just post it in each place and then go over and add a link in both places. I'm not sure which part of the html is causing the error, since there isn't anything in common with the previous occurrance.

Cross-posted to Dreamwidth here.

Robert Sherman has passed away at the age of 86. May he rest in peace. He and his brother were responsible for writing “more than 200 songs for 27 films and two dozen television productions.”

The enduring legacy of Age of Apocalypse.

Fox has cancelled Terra Nova.

Dr. Doom cosplay.

Dread Central has part one of a two part interview with John Carpenter.

Kristen Bell will play the lead in Disney’s Snow Queen adaptation Frozen.

Charles Rouse-Rodriguez redesigns the Teen Titans.

The We Hate Movies podcast discusses Off Beat .

The Horror Etc podcast discusses Video Nasties.

Joss Whedon: Heroes And Inspirations.

hradzka:

I was thinking you should tell me about stories you think I should write. I mean, if you could sit me down for a day or whatever and say, "I want you to write this story for me," what would that story be?

I'm not actually promising to *write* any of these, mind you, but it's fun anyway. And who knows if I'll be inspired!

I'm getting a status: 12002 message when I try to cross-post--so, like last time, I'll just post it here and then go over and post it to LJ, before adding a link over there. I'm not sure which part of the html is causing the error, since there isn't anything in common with the previous occurrance.

Cross-posted to LJ here.