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Hubble telescope dates oldest star at 14.5 billion years old

Week of Cool Comic Book Moments – Batman’s Nemesis, Leviathan, Revealed

Jerry Ordway, Pandora and the future

Mark Waid Heads Discussion On The Future Of The Comics Medium

Bullet casings and shotgun shells are the perfect media for Deadpool’s portrait

Kris Anka To Join Uncanny X-Men #4

The next movie for Svengoolie is Son of Frankenstein.

12 One-Scene Wonders in Doctor Who

Shot-by-Shot Analysis Of Star Trek Into Darkness Alternative Teaser

Martin Freeman: Sherlock series 3 starts filming ‘the week after next’

Into The Hive Mind: Investigating Pastiches, Adaptations And Sherlock Holmes Beyond The Canon

It’s Not Evil Dead 4, It’s Army of Darkness 2. Would we be continuing from the American or International ending? And wouldn’t Evil Dead 4 be the same thing as Army of Darkness 2 anyway?

Watch the incredible evolution of Jurassic Park’s spitting animatronic Dilophosaurus

Video: 24-Foot Animatronic King Kong Revealed – Star Of New Stage Version

SXSW Film: Much Ado About Nothing Q&A

Masters of Westeros Castle Greyjoy

Radiodrome, Episode 113: Based On A True Story.

Radiodrome, Episode 114: The Wikipedia List Of The Worst Movies Of All Time.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 86: Lord of the Rings (1978)

Saturday B Movie Reel #101 – Barbarian Queen (1985)

Yes, that PC cleanup app you saw on cable TV at 3 AM is a scam. Pretty much as you’d expect.

Barnes & Noble to close one-third of retail stores over the next decade.

Cartoon Network Cancels Young Justice And Green Lantern: The Animated Series. Teen Titans Go and Beware the Batman will replace them.

Pilot News—Wonder Woman Amazon on Hold, CW Orders Tomorrow People.

Jonathan Frid featured in SAG awards video.

French Church Goes Cute By Changing Gargoyles to Gremlins

PBS airing superhero-themed Pioneers of Television.

Celebrate Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary With Mini David Tennant.

The Doctor and the Ponds finally meet Inspector Spacetime.

David Troughton and Murray Gold Win Audio Drama Awards.

Hollywood’s trash, our treasure: 17 salvageable flops from the late-winter dumping ground.

Toby Whithouse Introduces Being Human Series 5

Damien Molony and Kate Bracken interview: Being Human series 5

Grimm: The Web Series.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Linkara Riffs: The Gossip.

Atop The Fourth Wall: Happy Days #2.

Stan Lee’s Real Life Wolverine Claws.

Captain Marvel DIY Sweater.

Jeffrey Combs - Happy 10th Anniversary to Shout! Factory

New study shows that graphic novels really do help people learn.

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: The New 52.

Newest Oz: The Great And Powerful Poster.

Empire Magazine Man of Steel Cover.

New Man of Steel Images Spotlight Cavill, Shannon and Crowe.

Superman on TV: January 28th-February 3rd

'Death Of Superman Lives' Documentary Hits Kickstarter

Wolverine Puts On A Suit In New Image From The Wolverine.

Bryan Singer Talks X-Men: Days of Future Past

The Saint Revival Promises ‘New Take’ On Simon Templar.

Ghostbusters game from Capcom's Beeline available now

Evil Dead Had Received An NC-17, Cut For R.

Looks Like Suspiria Remake Slashed.

New X-Files Comic Launching From IDW.

P:R Approved: The Rahzzah’s Wonder Woman

Robert Zemeckis Blames Death Of Roger Rabbit Sequel On Regime Change At Disney

Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava and Zombies DVDs/Blu-rays from Synapse

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked (Death is Not the End) – So Is Europe Just a Codeword for Limbo for Osborns?

I Love Ya But You’re Strange – Lois Lane Meets a Man Who Somehow Has More Issues That Silver Age Lois Lane

Paul Giamatti may play Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

The Wackiest and Most Random Roles the Star Trek: TNG Cast Ever Took On

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week): January 28th.

House To Astonish Podcast, Episode 99.

Bloodcast, Episode 27: The Omen and The Shining.

Film Sack Podcast #148: Double Dragon (1994)

BPI Asks UK ISPs To Block More Major Torrent Sites.

31 Days of Horror: A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors/Jacob’s Ladder.

31 Days of Horror: The House of the Devil/Suspiria.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: The Haunting (1963).

Ghosts From A to Z. I’d say it’s very thorough, as Mr. Boogedy actually made the list. The Ghostbusters focused entries are great, especially the ones for Gozer and Vigo.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: From Beyond (1986)

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Mystics In Bali.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: Fright Night Part 2

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #22: Night of the Living Dead (1990).

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #23: The Pit And The Pendulum (1961)

Longbox of the Damned: MonsterMen (And Other Scary Stories).

Rare Halloween Videos: 1991: Miss Switch Mystery Special

Gift Guide: A Nightmare On Elm Street Slasher Soap.

Monster In My Pocket Trading Cards Review—Part 2.

Evil Dead trailer premieres Wednesday; Teaser for Trailer online.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 4.

Toys: Ghostbusters 31% off on MattyCollector.com—On October 31st Only.

Megan Lara’s Doctor Who Bad Wolf T-Shirt Featuring Rose. Some lovely artwork on that one.

Tigger’s TARDIS T-Shirt.

Full trailer for Iron Man 3.

Watch two clips from Mockingbird Lane.

From Think Geek: Bleeding Skull Candle.

When We First Met—Gotham Police Department Debuts.

Cosplay: Gotham Overrun With Leather, Latex, And Itchy Plants.

12 Alternate Prometheus Posters.

United Cutlery Staff of Gandalf the Grey and Orcrist

Rumor Behind Cartoon Network/DC Nation Fiasco May Be True.

The 10 Best Episodes Of The 1980s Twilight Zone TV Series.

World’s Geekiest Bar Now Open In Paris.

Here’s a scarily life-like sculpture of Sigourney Weaver as Ripley.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #176: Create a recipe based on a favorite comic book character.

Mark Waid Explores The Grey Area Of Green Hornet.

DC Reveals Cliff Chiang’s Concept Art For Orion.

P:R Approved: Héctor Barros’ Angel.

Marching band turns into a giant DeLorean for their Back to the Future half-time show. They do the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show immediately before that.

The Thing from The Fantastic Four made out of pumpkins is sort of genius.

Why Didn’t HBO or NBC Want The Walking Dead?

15 Best Alternate Endings To Famous Movies. Army of Darkness’ original ending makes the list, along with Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Clue, Star Trek: Generations, and the 80’s version of Little Shop of Horrors.

Original Dark Shadows Script Pages.

NYCC’s Final Photo Parade.

Memories of Comic Book Gimmicks Resurface.

Bizarro Back Issues: Dracula Fights The Silver Surfer Because of Reasons (1976)

Clark Kent Quits Daily Planet To Become Blogger.

CBS picks up full seasons of Vegas and Elementary.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Backwards Hats.

Rifftrax VOD Sample: Nightmare At Noon.

Vote for what Junk Food Dinner will review for their 400th movie.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 271: ‘Sploitation.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 81: Bordello of Blood (1996)

Gweek 072: A History of Halloween.

Remembering Jeremy Brett.

Beware The Theater Ninjas.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Zinda Blake (Lady Blackhawk).

Gail Simone And Jim Calafiore Smash $100,000 On Kickstarter.

Teaser Poster For A&E’s Bates Motel.

Meet The Gunslinger: Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy teaser. Arrival: Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy teaser.

Whodini T-Shirt.

Lionsgate snaps up Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Joss Whedon Offers An Avengers Sequel Update.

Joss Whedon Gives Guided Tour of Cabin in the Woods’ ‘Black Room’.

The Five Best Professor X Stories.

The Many Deaths Of…

Frankenhooker to headline Chicago’s Terror In The Aisles 12.

The Justice League Movie: Facts, Rumors and Fiction.

Remember when Superman disarmed a bomb by disco dancing?

10 Plot Twists From DC’s Original Zero Month.

Six Developments From Batman #0.

The Line It Is Drawn #106—Comic Book Cover Homages. Personal favorite would have to be a tie between the one with Bane smashing the Batmobile into Batman while the Bat Family flees, in homage to Action Comics #1—and the Squirrel Girl homage to The Dark Knight Returns.

Science Fiction’s Greatest Failures (And How They Saved Us All)

Cosplay Round-Up: Baltimore Comic Con 2012.

Gates McFadden Interview, Part 1. Part 2.

Dragon Con cosplayers recreate Astonishing X-Men wedding cover.

Bravo is rebooting Heathers as a potential series.

Brave Little Toaster To Be Developed As CGI Reboot, All of Us Collectively Groan.

When Ewoks Attack.

Hand Painted Star Wars Cookies.

Bruce Campbell’s Cream Of Evil Soup T-Shirt.

Beaker was spotted at Dragon Con.

Alice In Wonderland Cake.

Awesome Dalek Cosplay At Dragon Con 2012.

Hero Complex: The Show interviews Nathan Fillion.

Vote For Your Favorite Classic Universal Monster.

10 Great Canadian Contributions To Nerd-Dom.

New poster for season 2 of Once Upon A Time.

We Are Overloaded With Season Four Images From The Vampire Diaries.

Viggo Mortevsen Will Not Be Dr. Strange.

42 Things We Learned From The Terminator 2: Judgment Day Commentary.

More Live Action Akira Storyboards Surface Care of Chris Weston.

Hey Kids, Comics Podcast, Season 1, Episode 9: Spider-Man.

Saturday B Movie Reel Podcast #79: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit.

Mission Log Podcast #6: Episode 6—The Enemy Within.

yuletide sign-ups open later today. For those that want to check the updated list of fandoms without characters included, you can go here. Justice League Unlimited, and Justice League International have both been added back. This is going to be so hard to narrow down to under 30 fandoms to write, and even harder to come up with any requests at all. The latter is almost impossible for me.

Back to the Future fans recreate the “It’s the Libyans!” scene.

The 16 Worst 90s Superhero Redesigns.

norah is hosting a love meme here.

I doubt this is true, just interesting. Dick Van Dyke claims that he was saved by porpoises while adrift at sea.

An old letter from 1978 shows how Kitty Pryde was almost given the codename Sparrowhawk. She was originally intended to be the first of the New Mutants—I knew that bit, but not the Sparrowhawk name.

Dino De Laurentilis has passed away at the age of 91. He was responsible for producing movies such as Danger: Diabolik, Army of Darkness, Flash Gordon, and many others. May he rest in peace.

Remember I mentioned a week or so back that Bruce Campbell was going to officiate a marriage ceremony at a zombie convention? Well, this was followed by a ceremony (with Ted Raimi there to help) for a room filled with couples to renew their marriage vows. You can watch that here. The ritual concluded with Bruce Campbell saying, “I now pronounce you zombie and corpse. Man and wife. You may now eat braaaiinnnsss.”

Thanks to Syfy’s Hollywood Treasure, in this extended interview Stan Lee is stunned to see the original artwork for Fantastic Four #12, complete with his original notes. It’s a fascinating moment. Until this, he apparently never found original artwork with his notes accompanying it, due to always erasing them.

The Tim Burton-Johnny Depp version of Dark Shadows should begin shooting in April.

Some casting news for the new Spider-Man movie: Sally Field has been offered the role of Aunt May. Martin Sheen has been cast as Uncle Ben. And Mary Jane won’t appear in the movie at all. This is a terrible casting decision for Aunt May, even if you don’t factor in the bit where I just do not like Sally Field.

Found this out via the MST3K Yahoo Group: Rifftrax is releasing their live shows to DVD. So far, it’s just the Christmas shorts one, and Plan 9 From Outer Space. As of yet, not the Rifftrax Live version of House on Haunted Hill—just the regular Rifftrax they did before.

Flee the zombie hordes on the “Organ Trail.”

From Cracked: The 7 Most Ridiculous Ghost Stories From Around The World. I’ve heard of Raw Head Bloody Bones.

A Dalek Pumpkin. And eve11 made a Weeping Angel pumpkin.

This Krang costume is great. Krang’s comments appear to be recorded from the cartoon, making it even better.

I found out that Joshua Wyles Photography took pictures of all the zombies in the Zombie Walk. This is Zombie Bruce Campbell/Ash, complete with chainsaw on hand, boomstick (which can’t be seen) and fake strap-on chin. Another angle, where you can see part of his gun. Pictures of everyone in the Zombie Walk are here. Thankfully, I don’t need an account to see any of this.

Last night, we had a grand total of three trick-or-treaters. We had the door open (and the lights on once it got dark) from 3 PM, until 8 PM. We didn’t get anyone until 7:05 PM, and that was all we ended up getting. It was two kids, and their mother said to count the baby in her arms since she had gone to all the trouble of dressing it like a pumpkin. We have a huge bowl of candy left over, which will soon be given to my uncle. It might take him a few months to get through it.

How many trick-or-treaters did everyone else get? Our numbers were low because downtown Paducah was roped off for trick-or-treaters—they were expecting 2,000. That, and three or four Trunk or Treats being done, along with a fall festival at another church means low numbers for everyone else.

I finally found the episodes of Days of Our Lives that recapped Marlena’s possession. I always thought it was immediately following the battle in the morgue—but no, it was right before that. It's the episode where John discusses everything that happened with a priest. If you’re interested in watching that one, start at Possession 169 and continue watching until midway through Possession 173.

Remember how Tim Burton was supposed to do a version of Superman back in the 90’s? This is what almost happened when it comes to the costume.

The 16 Least Scary Sci-Fi Movie And TV Monsters. While Manos and The Creeping Terror make the list, there’s not a single monster from Doctor Who.

geeksofdoom posted 7 of the Most Memorable Werewolf Transformations.

Horror’s Greatest Heroes: 10 Greatest Monster Fighters. Ash, Buffy, and Van Helsing make the list—unfortunately, the Doctor and the Ghostbusters don’t.

From Den of Geek: The plot holes and paradoxes of the Back to the Future trilogy. And Io9 posted Things We Learned At The Back to the Future Reunion. Due to constant interruptions because of bad weather, I missed almost everything with the cast of Back to the Future being on The Today Show. There was a moment where I heard that the DeLorean was almost a refrigerator, but that’s all I caught.

Merlin has been renewed for a fourth season. 10 episodes, rather than the usual 13.

10 Most Bizarre Behind The Scenes Horror Stories.

Io9 believes they’ve found the most depressing death of Dracula ever put on film—in Billy the Kid vs. Dracula. I remember that scene, from when it aired on TNT’s Monstervision. If you read the comments, you’ll find other odd ways Dracula has died.

Zombies Invade Sydney.

Most Unneccessary Science Fiction TV Spin-offs Of All Time. The one I really agree with: Slimer And The Real Ghostbusters. When they aimed the show at pre-schoolers, I think that’s when I stopped watching.

Bruce Campbell will officiate a wedding this weekend, at a zombie convention.

The Indiana Jones Saga is being converted into 3D--and then, the movies will be released again. This is not a good idea.

6 Reasons Why Horror Fans Make The Best Film Fans.

Someone in my earlier Holmes post mentioned there was a Tom Baker version of Hound of the Baskervilles, with Baker as Sherlock Holmes. A quick search on Youtube later, I found the entire movie, if anyone out there wants to watch it. Part 1 is here. Parts 2-5 can be found on this page. And parts 6-12 can be found on this page. For those interested in reading more comments in the discussion of best and worst Holmes movies, I cross-posted to 221b_bakerst over here.

From Io9: Never before seen Ghostbusters behind the scenes shots. And speaking of Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman explains why he thinks the time is right for Ghostbusters 3.

An interview with Alan Tudyk—and the whedonesque post about it can be found here.

The 10 Greatest Science Fiction Comedies. Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, and Galaxy Quest are included on the list.

I've heard that Army of Darkness has an alternate ending that was only shown in Europe. Instead of ending up fighting a demon and getting the girl at S Mart, Ash ends up stuck in the future.

Has anyone actually seen this ending? Is it good? And does anyone know where I can download the alternate ending?