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Former Uploaded.to Admin Fined $188,000 For Copyright Infringement

Dreamworks Will Layoff 350 Employees

March 30th is International Tabletop Day

The weirdest stories about objects that came shooting out of the sky

Notes on a Fandom: Last Exit.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Zombies.

Giant-Sized X-Position: The All-New Brian Michael Bendis Interview, Part 2.

Seth Grahame-Smith has been hired to ‘polish’ the Fantastic Four reboot.

Chris Cooper has been cast as Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Gimmick or Good? – Spider-Man #1

Why You Should Read Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars.

DC Histories: Damian Wayne (Robin V).

DC Comics Puts ‘WTF Certified’ On Hold And It’s Probably For The Best

Image of the Day: Awkward 1950′s and 1960′s Batman Moments #3

One Comics Fan’s Cosmic Quest to Collect All of Jack Kirby’s Covers

The Sandman Re-Read: Brief Lives.

Doctor Who Is For Everyone.

BBC Showcase Marks 50 Years of ‘Doctor Who’ with Symphonic Spectacular

Pushing Daisies' Lee Pace to Headline AMC Period Drama Halt & Catch Fire

Lost Girl Prompt Meme.

Juliette Binoche is in talks to join Jareth Edwards’ Godzilla reboot.

Teen Wolf Returns To MTV This June.

What if Real Genius was an M. Night Shyamalan thriller?

Ridley Scott Writing Prometheus 2 Script.

The Walking Dead names new showrunner: Scott M. Gimple.

'Evil Dead' Fans - Cook Yourself a Killer Pizzanomicon

Looking back at Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

The 2012 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot

Doctor Gash's Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies Ever #2 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Trailers From Hell: Mick Garris on Twice Told Tales

Don’t Touch That Dial: Midseason Thrillers and Historical Dramas

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Gets Renewed for a Third Season

11 Reasons David Bowie Is A Sci-Fi Icon

No, Ghostbusters 3 Will Not Be Animated. I doubt it will happen either way.

Giant Lego Hogwarts.

The Flatliners Remake Appears To Have A Director.

Horror Etc, Episode 288: The Blind Dead Series.

Now Playing Podcast: Tank Girl (1995)

Comic Issues #107—Like A Ross.

Geekfest Rants, Episode 129: New York Toy Fair 2013—Part 2.

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 59 – The End: An Introduction

Bloodbaths And Broomsticks Podcast, Episode 50: Spookies (1986) Commentary

Out of the Blue: Episode 1: Doug Jones

Next Year In Yuletide. Some people (like me) are already planning what they’ll nominate next year. I’m making a note to nominate the Fred Saberhagen Dracula novels.

In relation to this year’s Yuletide, I’ve just finished signing up—fandoms I’ve offered are: Fright Night (1985), Back to the Future, Pushing Daisies, Ghostbusters, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Addams Family (1991)—with the fandoms tossed into the bucket section being Last Unicorn (1982), Van Helsing (2004), Mannequin (1987), Soapdish (1991), A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman, Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1996, Anno Dracula Series - Kim Newman.

I threw out Cabin in the Woods, since I wasn’t sure how well I’d be able to write for that one. If it turns out that I enjoy the pilot for Mockingbird Lane, then I’ll edit that in if I’m able.

‘Six strikes’ system goes live this fall, appeals to cost $35.

Paypal Slips ‘No Class Action’ Clause Into Policy Update.

Newsweek to cease print publication.

Penguin To Publish Kids Graphic Novel Line.

TV Tango has updated their list for Halloween on TV: 405 Halloween-Themed Movie Marathons, Episodes & Specials on TV in October 2012.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: Double Your J-Horror Comedy With X-Cross.

Longbox of the Damned: Vincent Price Presents #3.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.

Meta Slashers: A Retrospective.

Traveling Halloween Museum.

16 Strange, Weird, And Wonderful Halloween Decorations.

Rare Halloween Videos: 1992: The Three Stooges Fright Night.

Figures & Speech: Toys of Terror—The Ten Scariest Action Figures Ever.

Is Sam Raimi Really Going To Direct The Poltergeist Remake? No, he is not.

Ghostbusters 3 To Start Shooting In 2013, Bill Murray Out. We’ll see if this turns out to be true, or yet another rumor making the rounds.

Brian De Palma Gives Blessing On Carrie Remake.

The Great Stephen King Reread: Carrie.

31 Days Of Horror: Christine/Carrie.

6 Filmmaking Tips From John Carpenter.

The Official Italian Teaser Trailer For Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D.

The Top 50 Horror Movies of All Time.

Horror Europa With Mark Gatiss.

Stunning Nightmare Before Christmas Cake.

10 Great Jump Scares In Horror.

‘I Believe You Said You Wanted More?’ It’s a Little Mermaid/Doctor Who fan art.

8 Highlights From Doctor Who’s Peter Davison at NYCC.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 Trailer.

Lego Batman: The Movie—DC Superheroes Unite Trailer.

P:R Redesign: Denis Medri’s Batman Beyond

Bela Lugosi: Age 18.

Revisiting Torchwood: first impressions.

Warner Brothers wins court ruling in rights to Superman case. Shuster Estate Set To Appeal Court Ruling. The Legal View: What the Shuster ruling means.

George Takei will guest star in an episode of Hawaii Five-0.

New artwork for Hannibal.

The Line It Is Drawn #111—Comic Book Characters and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Characters.

Animal Practice cancelled.

Jack The Giant Killer Gets Moved Up Three Weeks And A New Title. They’ve changed the word Killer to Slayer.

J.R.R. Tolkien letter reveals poor sales of The Hobbit.

Heathcliff will get a CGI update.

2012 Top 100 Comic Book Runs #55-51.

The 10 Most Defining Performances In The History of Genre Television.

The Shut Up And Watch This Podcast, Episode 56: Lifeforce (1985) Commentary

The F This Movie Podcast: The Others (2001).

The Arrow In The Head Podcast: Stephen King’s Silver Bullet (1985)

Weinberg’s House of Horrors Podcast, Episode 9: Horror Movies Of The 1980’s.

Mission Log Podcast #11: Episode 11: The Corbomite Maneuver.

Jake Eberts has passed away, at the age of 71, following a brief illness. May he rest in peace.

Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid, and BTjunkie Are Still Alive.

Botnet master gets 30-month prison term for renting out infected PCs.

Mother Puss Bucket T-Shirt. It’s Mr. Stay Puft’s angry head being roasted over a fire.

Ghostbusters mod for Doom 2: Gozer battle.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Seth Green.

Weird Secrets Of The Avengers That You’d Never Have Guessed.

Robot Chicken DC Comics Special Review. You can watch a recently released clip here.

Man of Steel: 10 Mistakes From Superman Returns The Reboot Must Avoid.

The AV Club Q&A: Confused By Our Commitment.

Syfy Acquires British Series Sinbad, Will Premiere April 2013.

Top 50 alternate movie endings. The list includes X-Men: The Last Stand, Army of Darkness, Dawn of the Dead, The Birds, Brazil, Clue, and many others.

The Eleventh Doctor’s 11 Best (and 7 Worst) Episodes.

Another clip from Doctor Who: Dinosaurs On A Spaceship.

Star Trek TNG: Season Two Blu-Ray Out On December 4th.

On Star Trek’s 46th Anniversary, Google Celebrates With Interactive Doodle.

New Wonder Woman Series In Development For The CW.

Wonder Woman On TV: A Brief History.

Writer Victor Gischler Gets To Know The Shadow.

Game of Thrones Cake.

New VOD Title From Rifftrax: The Bermuda Triangle.

Trailers From Hell: David DeCoteau on Tourist Trap.

Exploring Lost Worlds: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger.

Jim Starlin talks Thanos, Guardians of the Galaxy, and more.

The 15 Greatest Classic Nickelodeon Shows. I would add Are You Afraid Of The Dark, and Salute Your Shorts.

1950s Rockabilly Batman came to life at Dragon Con.

Remember when Robin fought Batman while he was taking a shower?

G4, 2002-2013.

Donkey Jones T-Shirt.

Unattended Children Will Be Given To The Goblin King.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—September 7th.

Why is William Shatner making a documentary about Xena?

Comic Book Legends Revealed #383.

Nosferatu At 90: Florence Stoker, Vampire Hunter.

Final Breakdown Of Special Features For They Live Special Edition.

Mission Log Podcast #5: Episode 5: The Naked Time.

Movie Issues Podcast: Mannequin (1987)

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.

Here’s a round-up of Jonathan Frid focused items: Fangoria has a lovely write-up of his life. Big Finish offers their condolences. Johnny Depp says he was “elegant and magical.” A beautiful, classy open letter of love from David Selby. Lara Parker shares her memories of the man in her blog. Found this out via this ShadowGram post: Donations may be made in Jonathan Frid’s memory to “Hillfield-Strathall College, the school where he got his first taste of acting.”

And a couple more clips: Quentin helps Barnabas escape from Edward. Barnabas, back when he was trying to drive Julia insane (ignore the annotations, funny though they are).

FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer service.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Jane Foster.

Bryan Fuller Says Hannibal Is Planned For Seven Seasons.

The Weekly Geek: Xena Was Real. Or, at least, female gladiators were.

An upcoming Batgirl bust.

The teaser for Beware The Batman.

The Batman Musical Is Here.

Centaur Anatomy Revealed: Two Hearts, Six Limbs, One Brain.

Dawson And Rourke In For Sin City 2.

How The Hunger Games Should Have Ended.

Theatre Converted To A Bookstore. Impressive.

Baltimore will host the next North American Discworld Convention in 2013.

Doctor Who: a celebration of the Cybermen.

Bram Stoker Centenary: Grimwood On Dracula.

Avengers Additional Shooting: Not A New Scene, But “One Little Change.”

Lionsgate Offers Catching Fire Directing Duties To Francis Lawrence.

Read an excerpt from Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron, by Kim Newman.

Worst Heroic Lead Characters.

Japanese Brave Poster Contains New Story Elements.

53 Reasons Why We Need A New Star Trek TV Series.

Luca Pizzai’s redesign of Banshee, Siryn, and Black Tom.

5 Reasons MST3K’s Joel Is Better Than Mike…and 5 Reasons Mike Is Better Than Joel.

This photo of a spider eating a 1.5 foot long snake will burn into your brain. Those with arachnophobia, steer clear.

Frank Miller’s 1994 speech on Jack Kirby and creators’ rights.

Incept yourself with lucid dreaming goggles.

Should you check your e-mail?

Calvin McFly and Doc Hobbes.

Marvel’s Avengers Come To Life At New Madame Tussauds New York Exhibit.

14 Freaky Sci-Fi And Fantasy Prisons.

Community: Subverting The Genre.

Lego Catwoman And Lego Wonder Woman.

Spock Through Time.

Lost In Space Robot Cake.

Doctor Who won a couple awards at the National Television Awards—you can watch the wins for Best Actor for Matt Smith, and Best Actress for Karen Gillan at Blogtor Who.

The Texts From Last Night Multifandom Ficathon.

Generation Hope ends with issue #17.

This new featurette from Mirror Mirror includes footage that wasn’t in the trailer. It still looks awful—and the White Guardian does costume birds on the head far better.

rarewomen is open for sign-ups. Fandom subcategories for Greek Mythology, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics.

Lara Parker’s new Dark Shadows novel (Curse of the Full Moon) will be released on September 25th—new editions of her other novels will be released in April.

Netflix is pretty sure it has no future in DVD’s.

Does anyone else remember Herself The Elf?

After Elton interviews Lucy Lawless.