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Nearly half a million Yahoo passwords leaked following hack. If you want to see if you were on the list, you can go here and check for your e-mail—I’m safe, from the looks of it.

Kristen Chenoweth was injured on the set of The Good Wife after being hit on the head by a falling piece of lighting equipment. As a result of which, she had a seizure and was hospitalized—so best wishes to her on a speedy recovery.

First Clip From Total Recall. The international poster.

Alex Ross To Paint All Of Chris Roberson’s Masks, With The Shadow, Green Hornet And Zorro.

The Dark Knight Rises VHS Cover.

TNT Renews Falling Skies For 10 Episode Third Season.

Nickelodeon Orders Second Season Of The Legend Of Korra.

Drew Goddard Rewriting The End of World War Z. Whedonesque reacts to the news here.

A New Space Adventure Show From Buffy’s Steven DeKnight? Starz also announces a new Dracula show by J. Michael Straczynski.

Model for Max Fleischer’s Superman found to be a 1950s pro wrestler.

Face To Face With The Hobbit Trolls—The Shrounds Have Come Off Weta’s Wonderful Creations.

The Hobbit at Comic Con: Peter Jackson’s San Diego plan.

The AV Club interviews Darwyn Cooke.

Dark Shadows Movies (House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows) Blu-Ray Covers Revealed. Very nice.

Looking back at Batman Begins.

Fall 2012 Complete Schedule For ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, And NBC With Trailers Of New Series.

Which new TV show will be your crack? Our First Impressions.

Get Under The Cloak Of Arrow.

J. Michael Straczynski Creates Studio JMS.

Science Aims To Misbehave With Firefly-Focused Browncoats Unite Special This Fall.

Fox Gung Ho On Fantastic Four Reboot, Lock Josh Trank As Director. Meanwhile, if Fox doesn’t find a new director for Daredevil soon, the rights revert back to Marvel/Disney.

The Line It Is Drawn #97: Comic Book Characters And Star Trek Characters.

First Look At Guy Gardner On Green Lantern Animated Series.

P:R Redesign: Daniel Irizarri’s Superboy.

Pajiba recasts Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whedonesque discusses it here. I disagree with most of the choices.

Why Did You Join Twitter? At this point in time, I have not.

Famous science fiction movies, depicted as 16th century Ottoman paintings.

The Art of Frankenweenie Exhibition Photo Gallery.

NECA Show Off Prometheus Action Figures.

Two new clips from The Dark Knight Rises.

Could We Build Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise.

Plush Spock.

First image of Skyfall’s Q.

20 Facts About Life of Brian That Might Make You Feel Like Whistling A Cheery Tune.

Digitally created portrait of Merida from Brave.

Stephanie Brown Dropped From Smallville In Favor Of Barbara Gordon?

Nerdist Writers Panel #46: Len Wein, Ed Brubaker, and Jackson Publick.

10 Great LGBT Superheroes (And Superhero Couples).

Dimestore Dames spotlights Frigga.

Retro Shock Theater: Burnt Offerings From Dark Shadows’ Dan Curtis.

NBC Cancels Awake

Apparently some spiders hunt in packs. You have been warned.

The CW picks up The Carrie Diaries, Arrow, a version of Beauty and the Beast with Kristin Kreuk, First Cut, and Cult.

The CW renews Nikita, Gossip Girl, and Hart of Dixie, cancels Ringer and The Secret Circle. Whedonesque reacts to the news of Ringer here.

NBC officially cancels Harry’s Law. ABC cancels Missing, Pan Am, The River—also, GCB.

ABC officially picks up 666 Park Avenue, show details revealed.

The Easter Island statues have bodies.

The Last Voyage of the Demeter Attracts Another Director: Neil Marshall.

From Think Geek: Malcolm Reynolds Metal-Plated Pistol Prop Replica.

Vintage Star Wars Stamps.

The You Are Beautiful Meme.

First drawing of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird sells for $71,700.

Weekend Discussion Thread: What would you do after the apocalypse?

Sign ups are open at Whedonesque.

Nominate your favorite sf/f podcast for the Parsec award.

Dalek from recycled engine parts.

Editorial: Marvel Needs To Re-Hire Joss Whedon For The Avengers 2.

Jane Espenson: Cocktails With Stan Lee.

Judge rules an IP address doesn’t identify a person or BitTorrent pirate.

BitTorrent Set To Rebrand Itself As Gyre?

White House Says President Obama Will Definitely Veto CISPA.

Back to the Future Marty McFly Hat Prop Replica.

Doctor Who Shoe Designs. If only they were normal shoes.

The Classiest Doctor Who Scarf Ever.

San Diego Comic Con 2012: Twilight Zone Exclusives.

NPR interviewed Steven Moffat—listen to it here.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Steven Moffat share secrets of Sherlock season 2 with Io9.

After Lost Girl fans complain, Syfy explains scene cuts.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: The Unknown Master—Part Two.

Amber Heard is in talks to join the cast of Machete Kills.

Look who’s related: Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku.

Tim Burton offers updates on Beetlejuice, Big Eyes, and more.

Weekend Discussion Thread: MST3K-Inspired Creative Projects.

Q&A Interview with Fringe Executive Producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman.

A funny round table discussion with the cast of The Avengers, as it premieres in the U.S. All of them hope they won’t be recast. According to RDJ: “To be recast is to die in the Marvel universe.” Whedonesque discusses it here.

The Avengers makes $80.5 million its opening day in the U.S.

Avengers Friending Meme.

Seth Green directs a parody ad involving two female Jedis and a Wookie.

The World’s Loudest Bike Horn Is More Deafening Than A 747 Taking Off.

Your Guide To Attending (and Surviving) Mid-Week Midnight Premieres.

The Beautiful Illustrations That Made Poe’s Stories Terrifying In 1919.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast 123: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Schlock Treatment 76: Staying Alive.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast talks about The Big Alligator River (1980), aka The Great Alligator, aka Il Fiume del grande caimano, aka Alligator.

CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere “Turbulence.”

Judge Rules Takedown of Pirate Party General Proxy Illegal.

Major Book Publisher Demands Jury Trial Against BitTorrent Pirates.

Appropriately, the Fringe season finale has two possible endings.

And now Universal wants to make a Rockford Files movie with Vince Vaughn.

New shirt available from Red Bubble: Tully’s Ghost Tours.

10 Ways Self-Hating Fans Make Genre Entertainment Worse.

Snow White And The Huntsman: Tons of Gorgeous New Pics. Including the international poster.

Anchor Bay Takes Amy Heckerling’s Vamps.

Con Preparation: The Proper Way To Cosplay.

43 Avengers stills explode with lasers, jets, and latex.

The Art of Science Tattoos.

The Sales Poster For Neil Jordan’s Vampire Film Byzantium.

The AV Club interviews Joss Whedon. Whedonesque discusses it here.

New VOD Title From Rifftrax: Curse of Bigfoot.

The Big Blockbusters of Summer 2013.

From Newsarama: 10 Characters Who Could Turn The Avengers vs. X-Men Tide.

Eliza Dushku to voice She Hulk in the Hulk’s animated series.

From Think Geek: “Solar Turbine” Steampunk Pocket Watch.

Hobby Star is suing Wizard over their use of the term “Toronto Comicon.”

Mista-M’s redesign of Power Girl.

From Cracked: 6 Terrifying Children’s Cartoons From Around The World. Dot And The Kangaroo is on the list at #2. Oh, how I agree when it comes to the Bunyip part—I watched that when I was 2.

The Avengers Cartoon Is In Trouble, Loki Sought For Questioning.

From Tor: The 10 Best Comedic Fantasy Films.

Tiki Stormtrooper.

Press release for season 3 of Lost Girl.

Did you choose your pet the right way?

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 54: Gymkata.

The Now Playing Podcast discusses Iron Man 2.

Pirate Party Ordered To Shut Down Pirate Bay Proxy.

Youtube’s BlackBoxTV Brings The Horror and Sci Fi.

Discuss The Cabin In The Woods. Round two of the discussion is here. Expect spoilers.

8 minutes of rare on set footage from Jurassic Park.

Marvel’s Kevin Feige Confirms Guardians Of The Galaxy Movie Development.

Sir Ian McKellen, on acting.

Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in new Lone Ranger set pictures.

IDW’s solicitation for Ghostbusters #11.

Isn’t it about time you gave Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull another chance?

Mystery Science Theater Beatdown: The Greatest Video Game To Never Exist.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Disturbing Things About MSTed Movies.

Christopher Nolan explains his love for shooting on film, and disinterest in 3D.

Help turn a Neil Gaiman poem into a rad t-shirt for charity.

Saturday the 14ths. While I loved the first film at the time, I always disliked Saturday the 14th Strikes Back.

Answers from the DC New 52 Panel at C2E2.

Here’s the first interior artwork from Before Watchmen.

Slashfilm interviews Katherine Sarafian, producer of Pixar’s Brave.

How are Charlie Chaplin and World War I different in a world of vampires? This is an excerpt from a new novella that is included in a new edition of Kim Newman’s The Bloody Red Baron.

Pop My Culture #76: Jane Espenson.

This week on The Bad Movie Fiends Podcast, it’s Q: The Winged Serpent (1982).

MPAA targets Fileserve, Mediafire, Wupload, Putlocker, and Depositfiles.

David Finch was briefly hospitalized in Mexico City. Best wishes to him on a speedy recovery. He was diagnosed with kidney stones, contrary to early reports of a bad bout of food poisoning.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Sssssss.

ECCC12: The Art of the Whedonverse.

Buffyfest talks horror and comics with Scott Allie—part 1.

First set photos from I, Frankenstein.

Hornswoggle is your new Leprechaun.

Foywonder salutes Baywatch Nights, season 2.

Longboarding Gandalf tells cars they shall not pass.

And now, we enter the realm of April Fools Day news. Believe nothing from here on out.

Mars Attacks is not a Broadway musical written by John Layman. But it should be. That was an early April Fool’s bit of false news that made the rounds through almost every single news site that I follow. I want to see that scenario make Yuletide.

Firefly: The Arcade Game. whedonesque discusses the hoax here.

Fox to release limited edition Alien Easter Egg.

Stephanie Brown returns in a new series entitled Spoiler, to be funded by Kickstarter. If only that were true.

Deal: Certified Pre-Owned TARDIS (Companion Not Included).

Admiral Ackbar the “it’s a trap!” bass and other Think Geek products we wish were real. Think Geek also offered a chance to win a Starfleet TR-580 Tricorder VII “straight from the bridge of the Enterprise NCC-1701-D.”

Bill Murray signs on for Ghostbusters 3 after all. Hey, made me laugh since it's so unlikely.

Warren Stevens has passed away, at the age of 92, due to complications stemming from lung disease. May he rest in peace.

In Memory of Andy Hallett. He passed away three years ago today.

Fantasy themed B&B in Belgium. You can find a Jules Verne space-exploration room, Baba Yaga's hut, a troll's den, a Gaudi themed room, and what appears to be a Trojan Horse.

Dark Shadows reveals nine new, full-body character posters.

Three new hi-res images from Cabin In The Woods. New UK poster.

The 10 Most Baffling Moments In Lois Lane And Superman’s Love Life.

Ways To Screw Up The Avengers Movie.

CBS (and possibly J.J. Abrams) have put a stop to that long-lost Star Trek episode.

Looking back at Quantum Leap.

Free digital download of the first Shazam strip from Justice League.

Indiana Jones trilogy posters by Maxime Pecourt.

10 More of the Greatest Ghosts In Geekdom. Vigo makes the list.

Watch the press conference (from the Doctor Who Convention) with Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill, Steven Moffat. and Caroline Skinner.

Benedict Cumberbatch is a wizard now. Is anyone really surprised?

Marvel Mash-Up Preview

Fox has renewed Bones for an eighth season.

Cartoon Network announces their schedule of new and returning shows—no sign of Thundercats, and no word as to whether it was cancelled just yet.

The Dark Fest deadline is tomorrow.

Bill Corbett has opened a kickstarter page to help finance a comic book he’s working on, called Super Powered Revenge Christmas.

States Make Laws About Facebook After Death.

Criminal Charges Dropped In Manga Customs Case.

A 27 year old Doctor Who fan with terminal brain cancer is seeking an urn shaped like the TARDIS for his ashes.

Maggie Q will be the voice of Wonder Woman on Young Justice.

NBC has renewed Grimm for a second season. whedonesque discusses this here.

Batman Live comes to the U.S. in September.

Return to Collinwood Book Tour Dates And Locations.

The Japanese trailer for Men In Black 3.

Cosplay from WonderCon 2012.

Behind The Sofa is now available for pre-order.

IDW’s solicitation for Ghostbusters #10.

From The Private Journals of Charles Xavier. These were found in the back of New Mutants #’s 21-26. It’s confined to just the New Mutants, and not the ones for the Hellions.

Costume Designer Michael Wilkinson discusses Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel.

Who else remembers Carrie and Mike on a flying bed? It achieved lift-off, beginning at 1 minute, 30 seconds. Thank you, daysofourlives. This was around the time of Austin and Greta wearing only fig leaves in the virtual reality Garden of Eden, if I’m not mistaken.

Finish-A-Thon sign-ups are now open. I'll likely sit this round out, since I can't think of anything I want to finish. (There's Methos and Duncan meeting Dracula--and that one where Martha turns out to have been a Pre-Immortal, but I believe those two are possibly quite dead.)

Michael Hossack has passed away, following a battle with cancer, at the age of 65. May he rest in peace. People may remember him as one of the Doobie Brothers.

Josie DeCarlo passed away in her sleep, at the age of 82. May she rest in peace. She was the widow of Dan DeCarlo, and the model for Josie, of Josie And The Pussycats fame.

AIM: The Reports Of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.

Net Neutrality’s Death Rattle Starts July 12th.

Court orders Rapidshare to filter user uploads.

In light of the death of a third horse on the set of Luck, HBO has chosen to halt production of the second season, canceling the series.

Get your first look at DC Nation’s Super Best Friends Forever.

Lessons In Character Development: The Real Ghostbusters.

There’s new footage for The Avengers in this Japanese trailer.

Art from the Soviet version of The Hobbit, back in 1976.

Updates on The Hobbit pub issue, as Sir Ian McKellen adds his support.

6 Comic Stories In Which Normally Cheerful Heroes Turned Dark.

Joe Shuster’s artwork for the 1942 novel The Adventures of Superman.

First footage from Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake.

Luke Skywalker and the Doctor, playing with a lightsaber.

Bebop and Rocksteady cosplay.

David Lynch’s anti-litter ad from 1991.

Gateways To Geekery: Old-Time Radio.

21 Fresh Images From Dark Shadows.

First trailer for Superman Vs. The Elite.

From Tor: Six Weird Things We Probably Won’t See In The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Guardian interviews Mark Gatiss. If you haven’t watched season 2 of Sherlock, there are spoilers for that, along with this season of Being Human.

Nathan Fillion will play Hermes in Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters. whedonesque discusses it here.

The Film Sack podcast discusses The Crow.

Terror Transmission’s latest podcast focuses on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).

Once the Dark Shadows trailer pops up after airing on Ellen, I'll edit it in.

Edit: Here's the trailer for Dark Shadows. While it does seem funny, it...really doesn't feel like Dark Shadows, does it?

Don Markstein—the creator, editor, and writer of the Toonpedia website—has passed away at the age of 64, following a long illness. May he rest in peace.

A Doctor Who charity book called Behind The Sofa was being created to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research UK—but they’ve run into problems with Paypal. Paypal refuses to release funds to the book’s editor, until he can prove he already spent money on the book. ETA: An update on the situation, along with an apology from Paypal, can be found here.

Michael Eisner's The Tornante Company is remaking the Garbage Pail Kids movie. This…is a terrible idea.

BGZ Studios and the fire effects team for The Walking Dead chip in for a Dark Phoenix cosplay, complete with actual flames.

Kitty Pryde pinup from Marvel Fanfare #35.

Joss Whedon plans to work on Dr. Horrible 2 this summer.

From Pajiba: 115 Reasons Why We Love Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Bilbo and Gandalf in the style of Calvin and Hobbes.

The We Hate Movies podcast talks about Hackers.

Annie Ilonzeh has been cast in the Green Arrow pilot, in an unspecified role.

New character posters for The Avengers.

Plushie DeLorean.

A new featurette and five more images for Mirror Mirror. Plus, you can find five clips here…including a Bollywood dance-off type of thing in clip five.

From College Humor: Official Spoiler Rules.

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

In terms of personality, which fictional character do you think I most resemble?

Jean Giraud has passed away, following an illness, at the age of 74. May he rest in peace. He worked on the Silver Surfer comic in the 80’s. He also did production/concept design for Willow, The Fifth Element, Masters of the Universe, Tron, Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland, The Abyss, and Alien.

The new look of Dropbox.

Amy Reeder exits Batwoman over creative differences, and Trevor McCarthy takes over.

Gnu Books (in Ontario) is shutting down, and the remaining books and comics are being cleaned out of the store at $1 each.

New promo for Mirror Mirror. Oddly creative.

Two new images from The Cabin In The Woods. A very special message from Joss Whedon. whedonesque has a round-up of reviews for the film.

Chocolate Cthulhu Idol.

Robocop now has a release date: August 9th, 2013.

From Newsarama: The 10 Best Alternate Realities: Age of Apocalypse And More. Buffy’s Doppelgangland and Star Trek’s Mirror Mirror are included.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: An Anatomy of a Show.

Fearnet interviews Lost Girl’s Ksenia Solo.

George Takei’s happy dance.

The Ghostbusters PDF eBook Preservation Project has now added a 1984 issue of Starburst that had several articles on the film.

The All-Time Craziest “Thing Of The Week” Formulas From Science Fiction And Fantasy TV Shows.

Alex Winter discusses the state of the Bill and Ted 3 script.

Thousands of spiders blanket an Australian farm after escaping a flood. Welcome to my nightmare. Especially since they’re all the same type that I found in the tub a while back, all the same size.

Chrome finally breached in Google’s Hackathon.

A huge coronal mass ejection slammed into Earth today. I’m so happy that someone else at Io9 (in the comments, specifically the one by mayssm) thought of Night of the Comet. Saw that for the first time a couple months ago on Logo, and it was the first thing I thought of when the news mentioned it.

10 movies with the word Terminator in the title (that are 100% unrelated to the Terminator). I watched Lady Terminator after seeing The Cinema Snob’s review of it—it’s gloriously insane if you like bad movies.

Elizabeth Blackmore and Jessica Lucas have joined the cast of the remake of The Evil Dead.

TV Tropes interviews Doug Walker, aka The Nostalgia Critic.

Toy Story meets The Shining.

A Wrinkle In Time turns 50.

Real Fear: The Truth Behind The Movies premieres on Chiller TV on March 11th.

Two new Rifftrax DVD’s are available: The Galaxy Invader and The Crater Lake Monster.

Four new images for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Aidan Quinn is joining the cast of Elementary, in the role of New York Police Department’s Captain Gregson.

The Austin Chronicle talks to Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard about The Cabin In the Woods. In the process, Goddard reveals everything about the ending of the film. So if you want to go into this film unspoiled, don’t read it. whedonesque discusses the article and huge plot reveal here.

Trailers From Hell talks about I Was A Teenage Werewolf.

Trailer for the next season of Community.

New tv spot for The Hunger Games.

Victorian Star Trek daguerreotypes.

Thanks to a recent Kindertrauma post about Witchery (aka Witchcraft, aka La Casa 4), I stumbled across this old format for Prevue Guide (which would eventually morph into the TV Guide Channel). From 1991. That would be back before anyone except Memphis (at least around this area) really had that channel, so I only ever saw it when we stayed at a hotel there for my sister’s eye doctor appointments. Strangely enough, I saw this exact one—makes sense, I probably would have been there watching June of 1991.

The entire history of Doctor Who in 10 minutes.

Funny Foreign Film Titles. When you go to Hong Kong, Batman And Robin becomes Come to My Cave and Wear this Rubber Codpiece, Cute Boy.

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.

Ralph McQuarrie has passed away at the age of 82. May he rest in peace. He was best known as the concept artist for Star Wars.

crack_van’s fandom overview for Sherlock. If you haven’t seen all of season 2, there are spoilers.

The latest Film Sack podcast discusses Dragnet (1987).

The next movie for Svengoolie is The Mummy’s Ghost.

Radio Times has The A to Z of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. whedonesque discusses it here.

A Steampunk Thing from The Addams Family.

You know those welcome signs that have messages in front of a church? Looks like Friday's madness caused the wind to punch a hole straight through that sign at church, and then rip the plastic out and letters off. The metal around the edges is still there--they're working on fixing it. Roof leaked over where the instruments are kept and a couple pews, a handful of shingles blew away, and the heating was briefly knocked out. Aside from that, it looks like everything held up well.

Imageshack has changed their policy. Now, you can only have 500 images per account, by March 1st. Anything over that amount will be an expired image. I should be okay, since a quick check shows I only have 296 things in there.

DC Comics will shut down their site’s message boards in March.

A comic collection uncovered in someone’s closet was expected to sell for $2 million. Well, the first 227 comics in this collection have now sold for $3.5 million.

Movies asks when it is a good time to introduce a child to Ghostbusters.

New trailer for Pixar’s Brave.

Trailer for Morgan Spurlock’s Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope. whedonesque discusses it here.

Here’s part one of a two part Mental Floss interview with Trace Beaulieu.

A clip from the new Plastic Man short that will debut as part of Cartoon Network’s DC Nation block.

According to Google Maps, Mary Poppins is the Doctor...or just a Time Lord in general.

Sherlock in five languages.

Zombie Princess Leia and Stormtrooper at Megacon 2012.

Due to technical difficulties in the process of cross-posting, I had to post it myself in both places, with this one backdated to the exact time I posted it at Dreamwidth so that future imports won't double it. For those wishing to comment in the Dreamwidth entry, it's located here.