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David R. Ellis has passed away unexpectedly, at the age of 60. He had been at work on his next film, Kite. May he rest in peace. He was a director who worked on Snakes On A Plane, Final Destination 2, and many others. He was also stunt coordinator for The Addams Family, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Ghost Dad, Warlock (1989), Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge, The Beastmaster, and many other tv shows and movies.

Fandom Stockings are live. And another thank you to those that left well wishes, fanfic, or fanfic IOU’s.

Happy 66th Birthday, David Bowie.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been cast in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

Josh Brolin joins Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

10 Awesome Female Engineers From Science Fiction.

Fan Art: Ghostbusters 3 poster starring Andrew Garfield.

Amy Pond, The Girl Who Waited Under A Van Gogh Sky T-Shirt.

Guillermo del Toro Confirms DC Comics Project Dark Universe

100 Quotations Every Geek Should Know.

Comics You Should Own—Sandman.

Television Critics Association Winter Tour Part 1: 'Hannibal,' 'Bates Motel,' 'Mockingbird Lane', ‘Dracula.’

Honest Trailers: Inception.

Rachel Weisz Reveals Oz: The Great And Powerful Character Details.

The Ultimate Guide To 2013’s Science Fiction And Fantasy TV.

Bones Renewed For Ninth Season.

Adapt And Die: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1988)

Mark Romanek’s live action Cinderella movie is too dark for Disney.

Watch out: Someone is trying to scam science fiction authors.

An interview with Steven Moffat, conducted by his son Josh.

An interview with Tobe Hooper.

More DC Writer Changes To Come - Was Gail Simone Just The Beginning?

Zombie attack sheet set.

James Mangold Explains The Wolverine's Placement in the X-Men Film Universe

Trailer for Syfy’s Defiance.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 92: The Raven (2012).

Now Playing Podcast: Texas Chainsaw 3D (2012)

As a passing note as to how cluttered Nellie’s house was? Her daughter hired a cleaning crew. They’ve brought the back of a semi truck to cart things off, with extra dumpsters. They’ve been working almost non-stop (they took a break on Sunday afternoon) since Friday. They’ve hauled that thing away six times to the dump and back, and they’ve only made it into the living room. They get here at 7 AM every morning, and they don’t stop until 6 PM.

Demonoid Is Back, BitTorrent Tracker Is Now Online. While it’s just the tracker for now, I would still be wary of it until the site had actually been back up for a while without incident.

DDoS Attacks Take Down What.cd, BTN and More BitTorrent Trackers.

Pirate Bay cofounder now suspected of ‘attempted aggravated fraud.’

Youtube Axing 60 Percent Of Its Original Content Channels.

Prompts are up for the World’s Finest Gift Exchange.

Horror Education of the Week: Children of the Corn.

Monster of the Week: C.H.U.D.s

Child’s Play Video Game Officially Canceled.

Four new photos from Oz: The Great And Powerful.

Superman on TV: November 12-18.

Hitchcock Movie Poster (Version #4).

Latest Retro TOS Tees by Juan Ortiz.

The Collectable Art Company: Seventh Doctor design print released

Weeping Angel Barbie.

Bid on the set for Science Channel’s Firefly anniversary special.

Fringe comes to The Science Channel beginning November 20th.

This Liam Neeson/Taken Job Ad Deserves A Huge Audience.

Poltergeist Remake Tone, Script Progress, And More From Screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire.

The first teaser trailer for Dr. Mabuse.

P:R Approved: Erica Henderson’s Starfire.

A Buffy Limerick Episode Episode.

Martin Freeman Exclusive Interview.

The Cabin In The Woods—The Art of the Title interviews Drew Goddard, and Main Title Designers Jarik Van Sluijs and Pamela Green. Whedonesque discusses the interview here.

What scientific breakthrough, and/or demented piece of science daredevilry, would you like to see inside the next five years?

WonderCon Remains In Anaheim For 2013.

Best Cosplay Ever (This Week)—November 12th.

Read the original script for Prometheus right now.

Poll: Which Movie Props Would You Honestly Buy For Your Home?

Film Sack Podcast #139: Face/Off (1997)

Nerdist Podcast: Eric Idle, Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly, and Sophie Winkleman.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 274: Spanish Horror.

Steven Franken has passed away, at the age of 80, as a result of cancer. May he rest in peace. If he’s who I’m thinking of, he played a warlock who was henpecked by his mother, and had a crush on Samantha on Bewitched. Where he also played five other characters. He was also in an episode of the Adam West version of Batman as a valet, and was the voice of someone in Batman: The Animated Series. His best remembered role would be as the rich and snobby Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and for MST3K fans he ended up in Stranded In Space.

In Praise Of The Doomsday Machine (and William Windom).

U.S. Returns Seized Domains To Streaming Links Site (After 18 Months).

Own e-books? Publishers to pay back millions over price fixing charges.

Oracle knew about currently exploited Java vulnerabilities for months, researcher says.

How It Should Have Ended: The Dark Knight Rises—Bane Bonus.

Read a preview of Detective Comics #0.

Talking Rifftrax: Ghosthouse.

Pond Life: Part 4.

Doctor Who Episode Posters Released.

8 Female Candidates Who Could Theoretically Play The 12th Doctor In Doctor Who.

Jorge Garcia guest stars in Once Upon A Time.

The Evil Cat’s Out Of The Bag In This Grimm Clip.

The Many Kisses of Superman and Wonder Woman.

The Justice League/Transformers Comic That Never Was.

Warner Bros. must be kicking themselves that they let Joss Whedon get away.

Michael Keaton Replaces Hugh Laurie In Robocop.

The Line It Is Drawn #104—Superheroes Get New Jobs.

More of the Hero Complex interview with Neal Adams.

New Diamond Select Trek Toys On The Way.

Geek Gear: Monty Python/Dark Knight Rises ‘The Black Knight Rises’ Shirt.

Marvel Tease The Return Of Dark Phoenix.

Stan Lee’s Bloggerin’ Time.

The Weekly Geek: Dragon Con.

Make your own Barnabas Collins costume.

Has Dark Shadows outgrown Victoria Winters?

310 TV Series And Movie Marathons And Events For Labor Day Weekend 2012. Logo will be having a Buffy marathon, BBC America will have a Doctor Who marathon, and Encore will have a Superheroes Labor Day marathon which includes Darkman, Spawn, The Shadow, Flash Gordon, Hulk, The Green Hornet, Superman 1-4, and Batman Returns. Those that have Chiller TV have a Buffy marathon there, too.

Dr. Horrible sequel to hopefully be in production ‘within the next year.’

Neil Gaiman on a trampoline.

The Law Office of Lando Calrissian.

The secret allure of the spoiler.

The 5 Coolest (And 5 Strangest) Marvel Comics Foodstuffs.

Psylocke Redesign By Bryan Lee O’Malley.

The inspiration for Comic Sans gives his verdict on this ‘awful’ font.

From Cracked: 6 Ironic Coincidences Behind the Scenes of Famous Movies.

Premiere Date For Red Dwarf X.

P:R Regulars: Yasmin Liang’s Art.

Sherlock Re-Imagined in New Paradigm’s Watson and Sherlock.

Comics Aren’t Just For Eyes Anymore.

Burger King Stormtrooper.

Watch a fake ad for the Back to the Future Hoverboard.

Grand Theft Auto: Hill Valley, Back To The Future Version.

10 Things We Know About The Psycho Prequel TV Pilot Bates Motel.

Katie Longua Imagines Superheroes As Pokemon Trainers.

Fringe Season 5 Promo #2.

Not The Droids You’re Look For T-Shirt. Crossing over with MST3K.

Watch The Avengers In Theaters This Labor Day Weekend. Whedonesque discusses the news here.

Comic Book Club Podcast: J.K. Woodward.

Hey Kids Comics Podcast, Season 1 Episode 7: Transmetropolitan.

Mission Log Podcast #4, Episode 4: Where No Man Has Gone Before.

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

Name a fictional character and I'll tell you three reasons I wouldn't want to date them.

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.

Proxy War Against The Pirate Bay Heats Up.

Megaupload’s domain name was sold for $11,099.

Behold the Dalek Easter Egg.

How Las Vegas missed out on a life-sized Starship Enterprise.

AOL sells 800 patents to Microsoft for $1 billion.

Facebook to buy Instagram for $1 billion.

Sign-ups for the Doctor/River ficathon end on April 15th.

The Rotten Truth: Hey, Universal, Give Other Monsters A Chance, or, An Argument Against The Mummy Reboot.

Behold the dark beauty of Russia’s 1968 Little Mermaid cartoon.

A peek at Stephen King and John Mellencamp’s new musical.

The 10 Nerdiest Deaths of Michael Shanks. He gets two death scenes from SG-1, as I expected. I never knew he was in Highlander: The Series.

Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 1 of 5).

Second short for Super Best Friends Forever, in the DC Nation block.

Movie posters for DC’s imaginary superhero flicks.

A new image from Total Recall.

Katniss Barbie.

Live action spoof trailer for Hey Arnold, in which Helga is psychotic, and Arnold has at long last grown into his football head.

Watch a silent era Back to the Future.

Pac-Man: The Movie fan short.

Statler and Waldorf cake. They will mock you as you eat them.

Mike Wallace’s Rod Serling interview.

Ralph Bakshi remembers Thomas Kinkade and his work on Fire And Ice.

And now, Monty Python’s John Cleese on the origins of creativity.

The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast discusses Warlock: The Armageddon.

Syfy has decided to pick up season 2 of Lost Girl.

Tor discusses The Middleman.

The Best Satanic Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen.

John Cleese responds to Youtube comments, such as questions of what elderberries taste like.

Ghostbusters cake.

From Newsarama: 10 Major Creator Disputes Throughout Comic Book History.

First clip from The Amazing Spider-Man.

Tonight or tomorrow morning, we’re expected to get either an inch of snow--or a blizzard. Or nothing, since they've been wrong before. And so, since I’m prone to predicting this sort of thing by the intensity of migraines one to two days beforehand, everyone keeps asking if I’m in any pain yet. So they’ll know if they need to rush out to buy bread and milk, presumably. No, not yet. I’m the human barometer.

Psych was renewed for a 7th season.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is coming to Blu-Ray.

Tor remembers David Bowie’s The Hunger. They also discuss his role in The Prestige.

The new Batsuit for The Dark Knight Rises. Good news—still no Bat Nipples.

First beautiful look at the Blu-Ray version of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Handmade TARDIS Purse

Tim Burton discusses Dark Shadows post-production.

Blogtor Who lists 10 actresses they think should be the next companion. Personally, I wouldn’t want Zooey Deschanel anywhere near the TARDIS.

DC Comics plans to cancel OMAC, Men of War, Mister Terrific, Hawk and Dove, Blackhawks, and Static Shock.

10 Unsung Science Fiction TV Classics.

Monty Python’s Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch t-shirt.

Here’s the first official clip from The Woman In Black.