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Nestle recalls Nesquik chocolate mix because of salmonella risk

Sony Entertainment Head Steps Down

5 Dracula Spoofs To Celebrate Bram Stoker’s Birthday.

Here’s the official trailer for World War Z.

The international trailer for Hitchcock.

Trailers From Hell: John Landis on Panic In The Streets.

Secrets Behind The X-Men: Cosmic comedy with Excalibur, but the Phoenix mini-series didn't make it to print, Colossus didn't make the team, and Nightcrawler's Captains Courageous team wasn't assembled.

Best Art Ever (This Week): November 9th.

Tokypop: Cosplay Friday #4. My favorite is the person dressed as Adam West Batman, complete with bomb.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Aunt May…Herald of Galactus?!

Every fan needs a copy of Making Ghostbusters.

10 Classic Logos Re-Imagined For The Zombie Apocalypse.

The zombie version of the Mile High Comics Woodchuck logo.

25 Things We Learned From The Rocky Horror Picture Show Commentary.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #392.

Beauty and the Beast gets full season.

Syfy Renews Haven For Season 4.

Spielberg, Tarantino And Zack Snyder All Say No To Star Wars.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 273: Twin Peaks.

Movie Issues Podcast: Sixteen Candles (1984)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 123: Too Close For Comfort.

On the Yuletide front, I’ve been writing chunks of the fanfic I was assigned. I’m going to get started on piecing things together, starting this weekend. From there, I’ll see if it’s long enough and work on that. The series I’m writing for is completely and utterly insane, which helps.

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.

Has Your ISP Joined The US ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Scheme?

Demonoid Will Be Back, But Patience Required.

How @Gizmodo Got Hacked and How You Should Defend Yourself.

Briefcase company sues Marvel over The Avengers box set packaging.

TR Contest Special: Lesser-Known Bat-Villains.

Parting Shot: Dark Knight Rises Toy Needs A Spoiler Warning.

Colin O’Donoghue joins Once Upon A Time as Captain Hook.

G4’s Attack Of The Show interviews David Tennant.

Mike Nelson Talks Rifftrax Live, Manos The Hands Of Fate.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Ten Essential MST3K Episodes.

New trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Greenbooks guest post: in defense of a Hobbit trilogy.

Star Trek Ten for Ward #5: 10 Trek Novels The Canon Passed Over.

Awesome Art Picks: Hawkeye, Justice League, X-Men And More. My favorites are the ones of Jean as Marvel Girl with Scott, and the impressive Magik that Mike Mayhew made on commission.

Obscurus Lupa takes a look at the 80’s Beauty and the Beast tv series, starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton.

Watch the First Doctor bid farewell to Susan—in color.

San Diego Comic Con 2013 Tickets Selling Briskly- But Not Insanely.

Now Playing Podcast: Dr. No (1962)

Movie Issues Podcast: Total Recall (1990).

Pop My Culture Podcast #87: Barry Bostwick.

James Nesbitt and Adam Brown are joining The Hobbit. I thought Nesbitt was great in Jekyll, so this is good news.

A record has been set for the most fans to do the Time Warp at the same time: 8,239 people.

10 Insane Facts Comics Taught Us About American History.

How To Make A Scarecrow Costume. The kind from Doctor Who’s Family of Blood.

Some Back To The Future items are up for auction.

MGM files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. whedonesque discusses it here, since Cabin in the Woods is mired down in this mess.

Back to the Future returns to select AMC theaters on November 6th. It’s not near me, unfortunately.

For anyone that hasn’t already seen it—you can see Alyson Hannigan, Alexis Denisof, and their baby dressed up as Raggedy Ann, the Christmas Tin Soldier, and a sock monkey for Halloween here. Last year, they were kangaroos—if you can’t find the picture in the comments, it’s linked to here. Astoundingly adorable.

I’m not sure if this is a flash mob event, or simply regular cosplay, but Lord Voldemort and a few Deatheaters showed up at Grand Central Station. I’ve never been interested in Harry Potter, but I thought it was funny.

From Cracked: The 7 Most Offensive Adaptations of Classic Comic Books. #1 on their list is the Generation X tv movie.

20 Heroic Librarians Who Save The World. Pretty much everyone I could think of was listed—including The Librarian movies, Evie from The Mummy, and Giles.

Sylvester McCoy is another that has been cast in The Hobbit. He will reportedly play Radagast the Brown.

In other news, I found out something about the movie shown after the Zombie Walk. It’s the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead—not interested in seeing that, which leaves me free to go to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Also? Thanks to a post by cinemassacre, I found out that Rifftrax Live is doing the original House on Haunted Hill on October 28th. Normally, that sort of thing doesn’t show up in the theaters around here. For once? It will be at a theater near the mall at 7 PM. So now I’m trying to decide if I want to go see that, too. I love Vincent Price movies, and I like the Rifftrax guys.

[Poll #1635312]

As a sidenote, I see that I need to find a Vincent Price icon. Bela will do for now.

A Captain Picard Wedding Cake.

There are reports that Chris Sarandon will have a cameo in the remake of Fright Night.

The newest season of V has been trimmed from 13 episodes, down to 10.

Watch a spoof of Back to the Future, with Doc freaking out because the future in Back to the Future Part 2 isn’t coming to pass.

5 Great Moments From Spike TV’s Scream Awards. It includes footage of Bill Murray showing up fully dressed in Ghostbusters garb to accept an award for Zombieland and thanking all the comics who died before him. Also, a very short clip of the Back to the Future reunion.

Today is the last day for fandom nominations for Yuletide. As of this moment, there are 4295 fandoms listed.

Elvira spoofs the “I’m not a witch” commercial. Sadly, none of the channels around here are showing her revival of Elvira’s Movie Macabre.

I just found out that Maiden Alley Cinema will be showing one horror movie this year. On October 29th and 30th, they will be showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Now, every other year, it’s been shown around 11 PM. This year? On the 29th, it’s at 9 PM, and the 30th, it’s being shown at 7 PM--so I might be able to go to that last one. So if things work out, I’ll be going to the Zombie Walk, followed by The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Which Dad knows nothing about, so I get to scar him for life.

Although, if I followed the Zombie Walk people to the restaurant they're headed for, I might catch a special showing of Dawn of the Dead in the meeting room. I just think they’re underestimating the number of people that will be squeezed in there. Last year, when Maiden Alley Cinema hosted it, they expected 20 or 30. What they got was probably 200 or 300. Since more people know about it this year, there will likely be more.

And 30 minutes before the Zombie Walk begins, there will be a seminar for learning how to survive a zombie attack.

ETA: Just changed my Yuletide fandom nominations again. Now, it's My Best Friend Is A Vampire, The Librarian series of movies, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Dark Shadows (1991), and the original Fright Night. Unfortunately, this causes Randall and Hopkirk (the 2000 version) to not be listed at all--so if someone wants to add that, you'll have to get it in there before 8 PM CST.

The Most Expensive Costumes At New York Comic Con. I’m impressed by the Carnage costume.

The Rocky Horror Show is back on stage.

Greg Rucka discusses the things he’s learned and done in the name of research.

Beware the cute side of the Force. A little girl is dressed as Darth Fairy.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Back to the Future, the footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly is being released.

After Dan Aykroyd’s vague update about Ghostbusters 3 comes some more news. He is involved and the studio will listen to his input, but he is not rewriting the script. Ivan Reitman and Columbia are happy with whatever was in that draft. The only one who hasn’t signed on yet is Bill Murray. This basically boils down to no real news as of yet.

All month long, cinemassacre has been reviewing one horror movie a day, leading up to Halloween. He’s done this every year since 2007, for those interested in checking it out. Today’s review was Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires. A link to a master list of what he posted for October in 2007, 2008, and 2009 can be found here—go to his main blog page to find everything from this year. And here’s his Tribute to TNT’s Monstervision.

Doctor Who’s Top 10 Emotional Moments.

Remember that remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that was due to be made by MTV? It’s been stopped.

From Cracked: The Five Creepiest Unexplained Broadcasts. It includes the Max Headroom one that interrupted Doctor Who.

I have to give a big thank you to the person currently bidding for me over at help_haiti. Anyone else that might want to help out and get a story, you can bid here. As it’s for a good cause, I’m even willing to try out writing Doctor/Master. Other pairings I am willing to write (as friendship or relationship) include: Doctor/Donna, Rose/Doctor/Jack, Martha/Jack/Doctor, Donna/Doctor/Jack, Martha/Jack, Martha/Doctor, Jack/Doctor, and Donna/Jack. My entry over there tells everything else I’m willing to write.

As a reminder: The Vampire Auction portion of the Support Stacie Auction begins tonight, and runs through the 18th, ending at 9 PM CST. My thread is here.

Fox is apparently remaking The Fantastic Four. I was never interested in the first two, due to Jessica Alba being in them.

zombie_fest is now taking prompts. Any fandom, so long as it involves zombies in some way. I spotted a prompt for Psych, and one for Life on Mars. Which makes me think of what Adrian Monk would do if confronted with zombies—probably scream for more wipes, before locking himself in his house.

Anyone actually want a first look at the CGI Smurfs? Go here.

There’s good news for Rocky Horror fans. The MTV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is on hold, and may not even be done at all.

For Merlin fans: The Camelot Solstice ficathon is taking sign-ups over here.

For those of you that didn’t know, it looks like Wil Wheaton’s blog has an LJ feed--wilwheaton. I’ve added it to my friends list, especially after reading this post where he thinks back on his first Rocky Horror experience. Because MTV’s remaking it.

For those that are interested, I managed to find the Boris Karloff section of the movie Black Sabbath, made in 1963. The story was The Wurdulak, and it’s definitely worth watching—suitably creepy, and not that gory. Since it’s in the public domain, it’s not violating anything by being on Youtube. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5.

In other news, I just put in a request (at SurftheChannel) for the one episode of Highlander they don’t seem to have yet. Archangel. Also, these movies: House of Frankenstein (the 1997 4 hour long tv movie), Shadow of the Vampire, The Curse of Dracula (which has so many aliases—and was redone into a different tv movie in the 90’s, for the Sci-Fi Channel), High Spirits, Love at First Bite, Saturday the 14th, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Maybe they’ll have better luck finding something somewhere than I did, for some of those more obscure ones.