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Nick Stahl, star of Carnivale and Terminator 3, is missing.

The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage from Massive DDOS Attack.

Canadian Internet Surveillance Dies A Quiet, Lonely Death.

Wil Wheaton Defends BitTorrent, Warns For Anti-Piracy Lobby.

What do we want from a TV finale?

About One-Third of People in the U.S. Have Sleepwalked.

Dick Miller talks working with Corman, Scorsese, and more.

1986: X-Men headshots from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.

Guillermo del Toro’s Hulk series is still a possibility, while a Punisher tv show is not.

Joss Whedon talks sequel, Buffy and X-Men parallels.

Contagion Writer Brought In For Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Sequel.

Fan Art: Are You A God?

Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees Toast Is Coming Your Way.

Watchmen Toaster.

Syfy Summer 2012 Schedule.

Orphan’s Isabelle Fuhrman To Lead Suspiria; Full Cast Announced.

New Doctor Who Minisode To Air On May 24th.

More Classics From The Warner Archive: The Awakening, Eye of the Devil, The 27th Day, Night School, and The Spiral Staircase.

Epic Tea Time With Alan Rickman.

Carrie Cast Continues To Expand.

Trailers From Hell: Dan Ireland on The Lair of the White Worm.

Star Trek, Doctor Who, and A Space Shuttle On One Sci-Fi Ring.

Creating The Amazing Spider-Man: Limitless Inspiration.

Some character art for the supporting characters of Brave.

Comic Con Gets Wild With Walking Dead Obstacle Course.

Trailer Offers Look At ABC Series 666 Park Avenue.

Comic Book Day: 20 Years of McFarlane Independence.

Jack Kirby/Joe Sinnott Fantastic Four page fetches record $155,350.

Dark Shadows/Vampirella Crossover Comic From Dynamite Entertainment.

Lara Parker Talks Wolf Moon Rising.

First Official Image Of Jonny Lee Miller As Sherlock Holmes, Lucy Liu As Joan Watson.

Rocking Horses of the Apocalypse.

From Think Geek: Navitron Steampunk Wrist Compass and Sundial.

See a Trio of Vintage Travel Posters Featuring Ghostbusters and More.

Graphic Alchemy: The Evolution of the Comic Book Movie.

Now Playing Podcast: Batman (1966).

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 58: Undercover Blues (1993).

Tony DeZuniga passed away early Wednesday, at the age of 79, as a result of a stroke, heart failure, and brain damage. May he rest in peace. He was the co-creator of Jonah Hex and Black Orchid.

10 Things You’ll See In Almost Every Tim Burton Movie.

10 Fictional Scientists We Wish Were Real.

Joss Whedon picks top 10 Buffy episodes for an all day Logo marathon on May 19th.

Confirmed release dates for Ghostbusters Ongoing #’s 9-11.

The Ghostbusters Tour of New York.

An interview with Piers Anthony.

Hugh Dancy Talks About NBC’s Hannibal.

According to TV Tango, if you have Chiller, there’s a Dark Shadows marathon (original series) tomorrow.

Ain’t It Cool News’ video review of Dark Shadows. Blog of Dark Shadows invites people to post their responses to the film. I love Io9’s brutal reaction.

Dark Shadows brought in just $550,000 at midnight screenings this morning. Understandable, given the reviews—but ouch.

Yahoo Movies interviews the original actress to play Victoria Winters—Alexandra Moltke-Isles.

ABC has renewed Revenge and Once Upon A Time for second seasons, while Castle will also get another season.

Random Roles: Jackie Earle Haley.

Pop culture mysteries, and whether we want the answers.

Archaeologists Find Oldest Known Mayan Calendar.

The surprisingly complicated legacy of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee.

10 Avengers Comic Stories That Could Make The Perfect Sequel.

Stephen King reveals the plot of his Shining sequel. Dan will be “aided by a prescient cat.”

Praised Zombie Script Maggie Bites Into A Cast.

A clip from Superman Vs. The Elite.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch: Little, Green, Brilliant.

Behind the scenes video for Snow White And The Huntsman.

The Fairy Tale In The TV Age.

MGM Plans To Adapt Ray Bradbury’s From The Dust Returned.

On May 14th, at 1 PM EST, PBS will host a live chat with Mark Gatiss.

Casting Crowley And Aziraphale For Good Omens. A list that could come in handy for those in RPG’s.

Two International Posters For Prometheus.

R2-D2 Rain Barrel.

Way More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Animaniacs.

A new image of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises.

Tom Wilson answers all of your Back to the Future questions in one handy postcard.

First look at J.H. Williams’ cover for Batwoman #12.

Anti-CISPA Petition.

Microsoft Backs Away From CISPA Support, Citing Privacy.

Livejournal Scrapbook is going away. I’ll see if I can find out how much space I’ve used up, since I use it for storing icons, and various things I need to link to.

MattyCollector.com Releasing Zuul Figure At San Diego Comic Con. That looks gorgeous.

From Think Geek: Conan The Librarian Shirt.

Disney picks up Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.

Neil Gaiman interviewed Stephen King for the UK Sunday Times Magazine.

An interview with R.J. Jamison, co-author of Barnabas And Company.

First appearance of Iron Man in Tales of Suspense #39 sells for $375,000.

One of Batman’s most convoluted plans to protect his secret identity ever.

Pottery shards were the first ever ticket stubs.

Atari 2600 Wedding Cake.

It’s official: the Chronicle director will reinvent the Fantastic Four.

Why does Joss Whedon always kill the characters we love?

Q&A: Night of the Comet Star Kelli Maroney talks with Fangoria about her career.

So, you want to watch Dark Shadows? An brief overview of the 60’s series, without really hitting on any of the storylines.

David Koepp in talks to write Snow White And The Huntsman sequel, studio wants Rupert Sanders to direct.

Justice League Trailer (Avengers Style) Parody.

Sam Raimi Will Produce Poltergeist Remake, But Not Direct.

Nis Jassen has “lavishly illustrated A Study In Scarlet in two editions: a regular and a deluxe edition.” The foreward is written by the late Edward Hardwicke.

Universal sues The Asylum over its version of Battleship.

Looks like the remake of Carrie could have found footage elements.

David James Kelly Rewriting Daredevil Reboot.

Weekend Discussion Thread: If You Could Ask One Question…

The Classic VHS Horror Game That Was So Funny It Was Scary.

MacGyver’s Floating House Is For Sale.

Official blurb and first look at Wizards Vs. Aliens, from Russell T. Davies.

Dalek mysteriously materializes atop MIT computer science building.

Time to have a little word about Captain Britain.

Outer Limits Trading Cards.

The 2012 Forbes Fictional 15.

Schlock Treatment 75: Ghostbusters II.

Barry Cahill passed away on April 9th, at the age of 90. May he rest in peace. He was best known for originating the role of Sam Powers, during the early years of The Young And The Restless.

FCC wants to fine Google $25,000 for WiFi investigation.

Megaupload’s hosting company might be sued next.

A cake made to look like the Eye of Sauron.

The next movie for Svengoolie is Dracula’s Daughter.

Batman: False Start.

Talking to Dan DiDio about Wally West.

Exclusive: Screenwriter John Spaihts on the Mummy Reboot.

Marvel’s Saturday at C2E2

The trailer for Monster In The Closet—featuring a very young Fergie and Paul Walker.

New international trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man.

Benedict Cumberbatch wins an Olivier acting award.

Cosplay of the 1980’s versions of Rogue and Psylocke spotted at Wizard World Toronto.

The Cabin In the Woods came in third place, with an estimated $14.85 million at the box office.

Hunger Games wins box office 4th week in a row.

Matt Fraction Takes Aim At Hawkeye.

Is this the greatest obituary ever published in the history of death?

Ferris Bueller’s further days off: 14-plus short-lived film-to-tv adaptations.

Broke? Go to India and catch a vampire.

Fan Art: Stay Puft Marshmallow Spread.

New Gambit Ongoing Comic Launching In August.

Steven Spielberg’s Advice.

The Countdown To The Avengers Comment Ficathon And Drabble Fest.

The Sherlock/Shakespeare Challenge.

The Avengers DVD will have over 30 minutes of deleted scenes.

The proton pack flash drive.

Robot cakes: Includes K-9, R2D2, Optimus Prime, Daleks, Cybermen, and several others.

Kris Anka’s redesign of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

Baby Chewbacca.

What if Google had launched in the 80’s?

Kimberly Peirce making Carrie relevant for today.

Top Ten Vampire Death Scenes From The Movies.

Why CISPA is a really bad bill.

Why Microsoft And Facebook Are Pro-CISPA But Anti-SOPA.

MPAA says embedding illegal video is copyright infringement.

Sony projects record losses of $6.4 billion.

David Tennant has been cast in BBC America’s miniseries The Spies of Warsaw.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Stephanie Brown.

In this still from Dark Shadows, we see that Barnabas sleeps in the linen closet.

Six new photos from Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.

Mary Syn as Gozer the Gozerian.

Cosplay of Tom Servo and Crow were spotted at SakuraCon in Seattle.

David Gordon Green’s Suspiria remake starts shooting in September.

Science fiction and fantasy tv shows that tried to reinvent themselves in their final season.

Bid on dinner with Joss Whedon, to benefit Equality Now—auction closes May 1st. For the fan with money to burn, since as of the last I checked it was over $1000. Someone needs to bid on breakfast with Tom Brokaw, since the poor guy is currently at $0. whedonesque discusses the auction here.

Joss Whedon answered questions over at Reddit.

Carrie stage play closes two weeks ahead of schedule.

With the head writers being replaced, there will also be some cast cutting on Days Of Our Lives—say goodbye to Christie Clark, Patrick Muldoon, Sarah Brown, and Matthew Ashford. I never liked Madison, and the others just didn’t really have a good storyline going.

Matt Groening finally reveals the location of Springfield. It may or may not be in Oregon.

Teaser for Tron: Uprising.

The trailer for A Fantastic Fear Of Everything.

Two more tv spots were released for The Avengers yesterday. Here’s the first. Here’s the second. Today, you get a third clip, and a featurette.

EPIX will premiere the documentary With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story.

Evil Dead 2—rotoscoped.

From Newsarama: 10 Creative Team Reunions We Want To See.

Castle appears to be having zombie troubles.

Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 3 of 5).

Gary Ross releases statement as to why he won’t be directing Catching Fire.

We’re On The Road To Comic Con: The Hero’s Journey Continues.

Interview with (the UK version) Being Human’s Kate Bracken. The interview contains spoilers for events that occurred at the end of season 4, as well as where the show goes from there.

Where Being Human (American version) went wrong this season. Spoilers for the entirety of the current season.

Man of Steel to be “edgy” like The Dark Knight, says Young Superman actor.

Collectible Canadian quarter will feature a glow-in-the-dark dinosaur skeleton.

The Amazing Spider-Man is just the first part of an origin story.

Two new giant images from Prometheus.

Here’s a new clip from The Cabin In The Woods. Exclusive TV Spot: The Cabin In The Woods Is Rated R For…

An exclusive first look at the new Furby. Those soulless eyes…same as ever.

A letter to Batman’s shark repellent Bat-Spray, from a lover spurned.

The Now Playing Podcast discusses The Incredible Hulk (2008).

Rudy Ricci passed away on March 8th, following “a fall likely exacerbated by health problems.” He was 72 years old. May he rest in peace. He was the co-creator of Night of the Living Dead, and played a zombie in the film. He was also the lead motorcycle raider in the original Dawn of the Dead. He was a writer for Return of the Living Dead.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) continues to gain support. It’s reportedly worse than SOPA.

Dropbox has doubled the amount of free space you get when you refer a friend.

My inner child was raised by werewolves.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Lana Lang.

How to tell when the superhero craze is finally over.

Allan Quatermain is also getting his own show.

If Doctor Who were a 16 bit RPG. Hysterical. However, if you haven’t watched season 6, there are massive spoilers.

Rediscovered episodes of Doctor Who to be screened in Cardiff.

The Twelfth Doctor Probably Won’t Be A Woman, But If She Was…

Lost Girl isn’t Buffy the Vampire Slayer—and that’s okay.

terror_scifi is discussing Blade Runner.

Over ten new images from Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.

What we’re looking for in Man of Steel.

Work begins on Detroit’s Robocop statue.

Watch the first full clip from The Avengers.

From Kotaku: Goodbye To The Comic Shops That Helped Shape Me.

Falling Skies: Season 2 Video Preview.

Six unique theater-going experiences to thrill jaded audiences.

Take a behind-the-scenes look at Total Recall.

Carrie remake director digs this fan poster featuring a bloody Chloe Moretz.

Geoff Johns talks about the new version of Billy Batson that he and artist Gray Frank are developing.

Return of the 1990’s: The 20 Year Nostalgia Cycle Is About To Turn Over.

The most evil books known to nerdkind.

Mark Gatiss defends the unaired Sherlock pilot.

The 9 Most Baffling Monuments To Great People.

Snap-Together Voltron Chess Set.

An exclusive clip from The Moth Diaries.

In an exclusive interview with Blog Of Dark Shadows, Seth Grahame-Smith discusses the tone of the new film.

Listen to Danny Elfman’s score for Dark Shadows.

Terror Transmission gives a very detailed look (a nearly three hour look) at Dawn of the Dead (1978).

The Now Playing Podcast looks at Iron Man.

The Horror Etc Podcast: Episode 239, Cursed Films. Poltergeist, The Exorcist, The Omen, The Crow, Superman, and numerous others that have had issues during the course of their production and beyond are up for discussion.

HTC is deleting all its users’ backups after April 30th.

John Macaluso named CEO of Wizard World.

Joel Kinnaman says the new Robocop will be more human, in addition to having a different look for the visor and suit.

Watch the first footage from James Cameron’s trip to the ocean’s deepest point.

Netflix will not rescue Terra Nova.

Warner Bros. has filed an appeal to reverse earlier rulings in the copyright battle with the creators of Superman, and “put everything out in open court in a trial.”

Bully will be released to theaters unedited and unrated.

caughtincobwebs is hosting a Marvel Friending Meme.

A new trailer for Dark Shadows aired during the Mad Men season premiere.

There will be a screening of House of Dark Shadows in Los Angeles, on Sunday, April 1st, at the Laemmle Royal Theater on Santa Monica Boulevard.

Steampunk Janine.

New tv ad for Prometheus.

Parents built a Narnia wardrobe for their daughter.

Some set photos from the CW’s Arrow pilot.

Mythbusters’ Grant Imahara will play Sulu in a new Star Trek fan film.

Chloe Moretz has been cast as the new Carrie.

A teaser of the trailer for Total Recall.

From barn to bibliothek, a library emerges from history.

Bollywood Avengers Music Video.

The next batch of MST3K titles up for release in Volume XXIV are: Fugitive Alien, Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2, The Sword And The Dragon, and Samson vs. The Vampire Women.

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.

Jeff Rice, a Veteran Amazing Race producer, died in Uganda after being poisoned. May he rest in peace. A second was poisoned and seems to have survived, but his name wasn’t mentioned in the article I read. Best wishes to him on a speedy recovery. While I haven’t watched in a couple seasons, I loved that show.

havocthecat has news on the SOPA/PIPA front, with it going further in tracking internet activity this time around.

Kim Dotcom has been released on bail, but banned from using the internet or straying too far from home.

Some 80’s centered Marvel Comics solicitations for May. New Mutants Classic Volume 7 will be released, collecting issue #’s 48-54 and Annual #3.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Yrra Cynril (Fatality/Star Sapphire).

A new clip involving Alfred telling off Batman sarcastically, in Justice League: Doom.

The trailer for the documentary Wonder Women: The Untold Story Of American Superheroines.

Anthony Stewart Head will present Buffy: The Greatest Episodes on Syfy UK. whedonesque discusses it here.

Eternal Law has been cancelled.

Community will return on March 15th. I avoid that show, since I don't like Chevy Chase or Joel McHale, but I know there are fans on my friends list.

Tobias Kwan’s drawing of Batman.

The first publicity photo has been released for Doctor Who, season 7, along with some casting news.

New image from The Avengers. whedonesque discusses it here.

Collin Donnell has been cast as Merlyn the Archer in the Green Arrow pilot.

snickfic is hosting a Multi-Fandom Het Mpreg Ficathon.

Over at terror_scifi, lonewytch wrote some great meta: Labyrinth And The Heroic Journey.

The international trailer for Battleship.

Two new tv spots for The Hunger Games.

Stephen King reads from his sequel to The Shining, Dr. Sleep.

Some impressive looking cosplay involving medieval Batman armor.

Another look at Johnny Depp’s Barnabas, along with Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth, and Jonny Lee Miller as Roger.

Stephen King is working on a sequel to The Shining.

Spider-Man’s public service announcement comics are being collected in a trade paperback.

As part of a bonus feature, the boxed set of Doctor Who season 6 will include a five part (short in length, given the comments) miniseries called Night and the Doctor.

A t-shirt with Cthulhu in the Ghostbusters logo.

First there was the theory that Nicholas Cage was a vampire, based on that old Civil War era photo that surfaced. Now we have someone that vaguely resembles John Travolta.

This week’s Dimestore Dames is the late, great Sue Dibney. I loved that character.

Think Geek is selling the Master’s pocket watch. Memories of a maniacal Time Lord not included.

Batman editor Janelle Asselin has seemingly quit DC for Disney.

An editorial asks: How young is too young for comics? I would say you’re never too young, given I got started when I was 2.

From Newsarama: 10 Comic Book Super Powers Way Worse Than Talking To Fish. #3 includes certain mutants. While I agree with Maggott’s inclusion, I disagree with Doug Ramsey being on the list.

BBC 3 have chosen to cancel Doctor Who Confidential.

Sara Douglass has passed away after a struggle with cancer, at the age of 54. May she rest in peace. She wrote fantasy novels such as Starman and The Wayfarer Redemption.

First look at the home video artwork for the Fright Night remake.

Remembering Jim Henson.

Boom! Studios honors the late Minck Oosterveer.

Obscurus Lupa discusses Big Wolf On Campus. I never knew about it when it aired. Given the time frame of it beginning in 1999, I was graduating high school, entering college, and more interested in Buffy.

Official Merlin season 4 trailer #2.

Prequel for the season finale of Doctor Who.

From Tor: These 5 Writers Should Take A Crack At Doctor Who. I would replace Dan Brown with Terry Pratchett. Just…no to Tina Fey. Replace her with Jane Espsenson.

I watched my first Wes Craven and Stephen King movies yesterday. Salem’s Lot (the original) and The People Under The Stairs. Not scary at all. When it comes to the former, never in my life have I wanted to see an entire town slaughtered by the vampires so badly. With the latter, that one was strange, but I liked it.