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Judy Freudberg has passed away, at the age of 63, as a result of a brain tumor. May she rest in peace. Her work as script typist on Sesame Street earned her seventeen Emmys. She was also the writer for The Land Before Time and An American Tail.

U.S. Government Equates Megaupload To Bank Robbers.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Tatsu Yamashiro (Katana).

The Lone Ranger is way over budget again, possibly because Gore Verbinski is building his own trains.

The Alan Moore Interview.

Lucy Lawless pleads guilty to trespass.

ESP Guitars Releasing a Limited Edition Bela Lugosi’s Tales From The Grave Guitar.

Brent Spiner joins Warehouse 13 for a recurring role in season 4.

Official panel for The Hobbit at Comic Con 2012?

New poster for The Amazing Spider-Man.

Eureka Star Neil Grayston on End of the World, the Scream of Disaster Movies.

E.T. 30th Anniversary: The Sequel That Never Was and Three Decades of Cameos. You can read the pitch for E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears here.

The 15th anniversary trailer for The Asylum.

The Line It Is Drawn #94: Alternate Reality Character Designs.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns—behind the scenes of the animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s graphic novel.

The Ghostbusters in the style of Super Mario Bros. characters.

Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven.

James White’s Masters of the Universe Poster.

Jurassic-Sized Velociraptor Yard Statue.

Spectacular Hogwarts Cake.

32 Things We Learned From The Alien Commentary.

Free RPG Day is coming this Saturday.

With Fringe Making Their Farewell Tour At SDCC, Will Bones Be Far Behind?

Hyperrealistic Comic Book Paintings.

The Future Is A Foreign Country: Margaret Wander Bonanno’s Strangers From The Sky.

Fewer movies at Comic Con as TV moves into Hall H.

Stephanie Brown Joins Batman In Smallville Season 11.

It’s the trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution.

Canadian Media Companies Target CBC’s Free Music Site.

Two new posters for The Amazing Spider-Man.

New Dark Shadows comic book collection.

Nine more images from Dark Shadows.

The Great Alan Moore Reread: The Batman Stories.

Wizard signs The Situation to create a superhero. A horrible idea.

Another clip from The Avengers—this time, a scene featuring Nick Fury and a caged Loki. Clip #5: Thor vs. Iron Man. With each clip, I’m actually interested in this movie. Even though I cannot stand a single actor involved, and plan to wait until it airs on something like Encore.

Colin Ferguson: Eureka’s final season will be “as dark as we’ve ever gone.”

Interview with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: The Unknown Master, Part One.

Everything You Missed From The Cabin In The Woods. Massive spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the film you might want to save this one for later.

Julianne Moore could play Carrie’s mother.

The story behind that Girl In The Fireplace cosplay at PAX East.

The Nerdist interviews Brea Grant.

All five Star Trek captains are due to attend Destination Star Trek London in October.

Sixteen Alex Ross Original Sketch Covers For The Shadow #1.

The tie-in novel for The Dark Knight Rises will be released the same day as the movie.

Brian Azzarello talks Before Watchmen, after the controversy.

Ted Naifeh teases upcoming ‘Ame-Comi Girls’ artwork with early sketches.

The Post-Superhero Era: The Protagonist As Celebrity Or Consultant.

New photo from the set of Star Trek 2.

The first photo of Aaron Eckhart in I, Frankenstein.

New international poster for The Raven.

International Prometheus Trailer.

Nathan Fillion and Robert Downey Jr. do an Avengers/Castle promo.

The teaser for Night Of The Living Dead—Live.

Was 1982 the best ever year for fantasy and and sci-fi movies?

$37,000 for a jewel-encrusted magic mushroom flash drive?

First trailer for Dorothy of Oz shows what happened after the tornado.

The secret lives of avalanche rescue cats.

Check that bought Superman rights sells for $160,000.

Image at 20: The Marvel Exodus, From Marvel’s Perspective.

Titanic 3D pushes the lifetime gross of the film past $2 billion.

TARDIS Lockers At Gallifrey High.

A Dapper TARDIS Suit With Top Hat.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: The Perfect Weapon (1991).

Terror Transmission: Episode 66: Hellraiser.

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 )

Syfy changed its mind, and now Eureka is canceled. The six episodes order from before has been removed. They will air the remaining episodes, and that’s it.

BBC America is going to air three Doctor Who specials, leading up to its return in late August.

Celebrating 30 Years of Alan Davis. I spotted at least one error in the article, although there may be more. At one point, they accidentally refer to Captain Britain as Captain American.

I am having the weirdest problem. For some reason, I just can’t get to x_logs. While I can see the posts via xp_friends, when I try to get to it I can’t—nor can I even see the user info page for that one. LJ is currently not reporting any site-wide issues. It’s probably just a problem with a particular cluster for certain people. If it were a Spyware Doctor issue blocking it, it would be affecting more than just that.

ETA: And suddenly it works again, the moment I post about it. Thank you for going away, strange issue!

( Beneath the cut, answering the icon meme for: deathpixie, writteninsable, and frito_kal. )

And this meme has resurfaced. In light of what Meggan got up to yesterday, there are bound to be some very oddly funny ones.

Give me one of your characters and one of mine, and I will give you their top three Texts From Last Night!

The Short Circuit remake is now in the hands of the man that gave us the Alvin and the Chipmunks CGI movie.

First official picture of Anne Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises. Bleeding Cool has a better look at it here, where you can see more. Geeks of Doom does their own Bat-analysis of it.

Season 6 of Eureka has been cut back from 13 episodes to 6. They are currently filming season 5, and airing season 4.

Mental Floss lists 11 Bizarre Or Shocking TV Deaths. I would have added Joyce, Wash, or Tara for shocking. In the comments, someone mentions Tessa on Highlander: The Series. Due to where I came in, that one wasn’t shocking for me.

Because they made more money than Cowboys and Aliens, watch as Harrison Ford rips the head off a Papa Smurf doll.

Before The Amazing Spider-Man is even released, Sony is setting the release date for The Amazing Spider-Man 2: May 2, 2014.

Trailer for episode 6 of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Eureka has been renewed for a 5th season.

The cast for the newest season of Dancing With The Stars will be revealed on August 30th, at a live press conference that takes place during an episode of Bachelor Pad. All I know is that if a couple of the rumors are true, (The Situation being cast was one of them, I remember hearing) I won’t be watching. I’ll find out who was cast the next morning, since there is no way I’m watching Bachelor Pad.

In Russia, someone started a cult dedicated to worshiping Gadget Hackwrench from Rescue Rangers.

Batman robbed a Taco Bell drive-thru. No money was taken, just food.

Starz released character profiles and a series synopsis for the new season of Torchwood.

More people may have been cast for X-Men: First Class. Maybe. At this point, it seems like it’s more rumor than anything else, given the fact that yet another person was supposedly cast as Emma Frost. This time, it’s January Jones.

Geeky Wedding Invitations. The zombie wedding invitations are my favorite, with the Browncoat wedding (complete with autographs from Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion) a very close second.

Does anyone need a Dreamwidth invite code? It’s a first come, first serve basis, since I only have seven. I’ll PM you the invite code.

Found via donutsweeper: The writers of Eureka dealt with ransom notes when it came to a missing puzzle piece. Read the hysterical saga here. Seriously, they need to have something like this for one of their episodes.

Thanks to Io9, you can see some Ghostbusters related artwork. My favorite is #5, with #6 a very close second.

Over at whedonsque, Joss Whedon posts his interview of Jed Whedon.

The “That’s My Favorite” Meme. It’s a fanfiction praise meme, where you comment with your username and fandoms--people tell you their favorite thing (specific story, characters, or lines) about something you’ve written. My comment is here.

Here’s a clip from Rex Is Not Your Lawyer. While David Tennant’s American accent is awful, I believe I’ve heard worse.

Azazel will be joining X-Men: First Class—Jason Flemyng will play him.

heroines_fest accepts prompts until the 27th.

And thanks to ontdcreepy, I found out that The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon has a short sequel. If you haven’t seen The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon, watch it here. The sequel—Spoon Vs. Spoon—is here.

The Most Unfairly Cancelled TV Shows. Firefly, Pushing Daisies, and Wonderfalls get mentioned.

Dollhouse has been cancelled. The remaining episodes are supposed to be aired anyway, and there should be a “significant series finale.”

Also cancelled: Hank, so Jordan Hinson will probably head back to Eureka.

For those not sure about signing up for Yuletide, sign-ups close at 8 PM CST.

John Barrowman will not be appearing on Desperate Housewives, as rumors previously implied. Scroll down quite a bit on that page to see the question and answer regarding it. It’s fourth from the bottom.

The Case of the Two Watsons. A comic showing how the media has changed Watson.

Eureka was renewed for a fourth season…and they might do a musical episode.

Found this link (and this one) via kiramowett and scotchsour: Reading Rainbow has been canceled. You can watch the intro here.

The latest “I’m a Marvel, and I’m a DC” is on Youtube, and you can watch it here.

The Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows Of All Time.

Did anyone else watch last night’s Psych? The girl that was supposed to be possessed looked (at least to me) like a mix of Callisto from Xena, and Jordan Hinson from Eureka. And I love that Ray Wise was supposed to be a priest.

Saturn 3 is reportedly getting a remake, and so is Yellow Submarine…and Dirty Dancing. I was about to ask whether or not they had already made a sequel, but the article I’m linking to confirms they did. And nobody watched it, either.

Here’s something interesting. A shrine to a certain Torchwood character has been set up outside a door that’s used for Torchwood. If you haven’t already seen Children of Earth, you will be spoiled.

Dirt-Cheap Aliens Who Still Look Awesome. The Daleks are #10 on the list. #2 happens to be the 456 from Torchwood.

Warehouse 13 has apparently been picked up for another season by the Syfy Channel, with the potential for later seasons to be longer. I haven’t tried this one yet—is it worth watching? And on that note, is Eureka good? I’ve just recently watched the last two episodes of the current season, and wondered if it was worth watching earlier ones.

And, lastly, the Rahne and Illyana PB poll will be closing at the beginning of next week. Probably Monday evening or Tuesday morning. If you haven’t already (and last I looked, nobody had) voted, please do so here.