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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.

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.)

If the rumor that David Tennant and Georgia Moffett are now married is true, congratulations and good luck to the two of them.

Matt Parkinson is the new VP of Marketing for Dark Horse, replacing the recently departed Micha Hershman.

From Newsarama: 10 To Watch In 2012: Movies.

ABC will have a Once Upon A Time marathon on New Year’s Day.

Comics Beat gives an overview of Misfits, since it’s available on Hulu.

The Finish-A-Thon is moving to Dreamwidth.

Ewok Cake.

Gingerbread Serenity.

Rejected Parallax concept art for the Green Lantern movie.

Watch the new promo for the Blade animated series.

General Zod will be played by Michael Shannon in Superman: Man of Steel.

Arthur Darvill discusses the upcoming season of Doctor Who. He manages to avoid any spoilers.

Being Human (the original, British one, not the Syfy version) is going to be “reinvented.” There are spoilers for the end of season 3 in the article, if anyone hasn’t already seen it.

8 Lovable Cinematic Knock-Offs of the 70’s and 80’s. As they mention prior to the list, a few of the trailers may not be entirely safe for work. They might be obscure, but I’ve seen a few of these.

A little girl wants to join Darth Vader on The Dark Side, rather than fight him. She bows/kneels before him.

Sign-ups for the Finish-A-Thon end on Friday.

Here's a Back to the Future shirt that's only being sold for the next 24 hours. The remains of Marty, the DeLorean, and a T-Rex.

They are restarting imports at Dreamwidth, following a discussion with LJ Ops team—wherein the latter made a few changes to their data export function. I have to applaud them for working together on that. I'll hold off on importing everything to them just yet. For one thing, it would take a while since this journal dates back to 2004. For another, I'm waiting for my paid account to go through--when that does, all the icons I use will make the transition.

For those wanting to back things in their LJ up just in case they need more than one place during some downtime, I still have 7 invites.

Gulliver McGrath will play David Collins in the Dark Shadows movie. When I heard that Chloe Moretz had been cast as Carolyn Stoddard, I assumed it was an April Fool’s joke. It seems to be true, though. Carolyn’s character was 18 or 19 when the series started, so Moretz will be the youngest incarnation of her, at the age of 14.

IDW is planning to launch a monthly Ghostbusters comic.

First clip from the Thor movie.

A puppet theater in Seattle is hosting a production of Manos: The Hands of Felt.

Congratulations to David Tennant and Georgia Moffett on the birth of their baby girl. They have named her Olivia.

BBC America has released a trailer for the upcoming season of Doctor Who, featuring a few scenes that weren’t in the other one.

First teaser for Torchwood: Miracle Day.

The Finish-A-Thon is open for sign-ups again—instructions can be found through that link to multific.

An April Fool’s joke that was actually interesting was that Alfred Hitchcock had been resurrected as a zombie so that he could direct a movie version of The Walking Dead. Here’s a list of other television related things that went on. I missed out on playing with Youtube turning into 1911 style footage, thanks to a migraine.

From Cracked: 6 Time Travel Realities Doc Brown Didn’t Warn Us About. Yes, the TARDIS gets mentioned quite a bit in the comments.

The 15 Cruelest Deaths In Star Trek History.

Voting for the Finish-A-Thon is over. The prompt that won the poll, and that I’ll be starting on soon, is this one: “Donna/Martha/Jack, drinking buddies--the best OT3 that never was. No smut, just a fanfic that focuses on their friendship, as they share stories and bond. The Doctor would likely be nearby, hoping with all his hearts that they weren't sharing any humiliating moments of his.”

x_journal sidenote, that accidentally got erased when I was posting: For when Meggan will eventually try for a driver's license during the game, I realized something while doing some research. Since she's got German citizenship and is only a New York resident, there might be a lot of red tape to go through before she can do so. Let's watch Meggan go mad what I assume would be a mountain of paperwork. Anyone know much of anything about New York's laws about that? I've been going through their DMV website.

Last call for people to vote in the Finish-A-Thon, for which prompt I should write. Currently it’s prompt #4 in first place with 12 votes, and a two-way tie between prompts 2 and 5 for second place with 7 votes. If you haven’t voted already, there are prompts related to Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, and Highlander.

Christopher Lee’s 10 Greatest Roles (That Aren’t Dracula)

A BBC Radio ad for the next episode of Doctor Who.

Does anyone know where I can find more icons of Meggan, from her days in Excalibur? I only have this one, and one other. Oddly, it's rare to find any of her.

Votes in the Finish-A-Thon are being accepted until Friday. If you haven’t voted for the prompt I should write already, please go here to do so.

221b_bakerst is hosting a Sherlock Holmes friending meme.

You can see a couple of screencaps from the live action Blue Beetle screen test over here. The costume actually looks rather nice. Over at Topless Robot, someone in the comments said he looked a little like something from Big Bad Beetleborgs. Couldn’t get the theme song out of my head for a little while.

Behold the sequel to Manos: The Hands of Fate. It’s fan made, and apparently will star Debbie—the little girl from the original. I don’t really know how to react to this, especially after watching the four minute preview.

A new clip from the finale of Doctor Who has just been released. Looks good so far.

There’s a chance Blue Beetle will get his own live action series. It’s the Jaime Reyes version, not the Ted Kord version. I don’t believe I’ve read any of his comics, other than what’s popped up on scans_daily, and what I heard through a review Linkara did.

A 35 second teaser for the finale of Doctor Who.

A father and son built a Stargate in their backyard.

Please remember—if you vote in the poll and are not participating in the Finish-A-Thon this round, only vote for one prompt. If you have signed up for this round, you can vote for two prompts. As of the last time I checked a few minutes ago, looked like prompt #4 was in the lead with 12 votes.

Voting for the Finish-A-Thon is now open. If you are participating you can vote for two prompts in each poll. If you aren’t, only one. Please go here to vote for which story I should write. Follow their tag of finishathon:2010:voting to find and vote in the other polls. I have prompts that are Doctor Who, Doctor Who/Ghostbusters, and Doctor Who/Highlander. The poll is open until Friday.

8 of Professor Xavier’s Biggest Jerk Moves

A script review of the new Fright Night. Even with David Tennant as the updated version of Peter Vincent, I can’t see this working.

If you had me under your command and could make me write anything, regardless of whether or not I know the fandom or if anybody even writes fic in that fandom for Doctor Who/Torchwood or Ghostbusters, no matter how crack-addled it might be, what would you love to see me write?

This is partly for fun, to see how weird the prompts can be. Partly because it might end up in the Finish-A-Thon polls, when I sign up in the next two hours.

A new kind of cloud formation over the Central US. I love the comments over at Io9—one person said it looked like the Fright Night poster, while another referenced Ghostbusters. Actually, one day the clouds around here went like they did when Gozer arrived. It’s never a good thing when that happens.

Four new clips have just been released for the next episode of Doctor Who.

Days of Futurama Past. Basically, Futurama characters redrawn as X-Men. I know nothing about Futurama, except that there’s a character named Bender, and a woman with one eye. However, on the X-Men front, if you look in the back right corner, you can spot the New Mutants. I recognized Illyana Rasputin, and Warlock. Meggan from Excalibur is toward the middle right.

Sign-ups for the Finish-A-Thon end tomorrow, and I’m trying to think of any ideas. I know I’ll add a possible sequel to No Proton Packs Beyond These Doors to the poll, as well as a possible sequel to A Beautiful, Pie-Filled Disaster. I need prompts for something else I could add to the poll, however, so now’s the time to throw out something weird or funny in either the Doctor Who or Ghostbusters fandoms, or a crossover between the two. Or ideas for what you might want to see in either sequel, depending on what’s picked. So here’s a poll for any suggestions. An explanation of what the Finish-A-Thon is can be found here.

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Starz is going to make and air season 4 of Torchwood. It will be ten episodes, including Eve Myles and John Barrowman—and the production staff include RTD and Julie Gardner. It should be in summer 2011. I’m really not interested after Children of Earth. (Plus, we don’t have Starz, and Comcast won’t give it to us, but that’s a whole other issue.)

Moffat is interviewed by his son.

The 8 Most Depressing MST3K Episodes. #2 is Manos—I would have put that at #1.

noscans_daily is hosting The Comics Fandom Love Meme. Express your love for anyone in the comic book industry.

The TV Tropes Meme. You post your username, and people say what TV Trope fits you. Feel free to blame me if you get trapped in TV Tropes for the rest of the day. My thread is here.

Requesting prompt ideas for the Finish-A-Thon over here—for some reason, I accidentally friends locked it. It’s unlocked now. If anyone's not sure what the Finish-A-Thon is, follow the tags. It should explain things.

I decided I will definitely be doing the Finish-A-Thon this time around. I’ve been digging through old ideas/prompts for what I could add to the poll for the Finish-A-Thon. A sequel to No Proton Packs Beyond These Doors—I’ll probably stick that up there for the poll, along with a sequel to A Beautiful, Pie-Filled Disaster. Since at the time I wrote that, I believe people wanted one—besides, I originally wrote it for the Finish-A-Thon in the first place.

So I’m asking my friends list to throw out some prompts in the comments. Either ideas for one of those sequels I mentioned, or something else that’s Doctor Who, or Ghostbusters/Doctor Who related. Maybe Merlin or Highlander: The Series related.

Christopher Nolan will not be bringing back the Joker for the third Batman movie.

Topless Robot asks what your nerd epitaph would be.

Batman was seen being led away in handcuffs—the charge? Loitering. Apparently, in LA people are no longer allowed to wander the streets dressed as superheroes. I never knew they could in the first place.

The Finish-A-Thon will be starting again soon, and sign-ups start now. I might end up signing up for this again this year.