It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Refurbished 16GB Microsoft Zune HD: $99.99, today only (CowBoom)
Selling new for $160 and up elsewhere, Best Buy-owned CowBoom.com is selling the refurbished 16GB Zune HD digital media player for $100, today only.
Add a one-year warranty for $9 or a two-year warranty for …
It’s not been officially announced yet, but Deadline is reporting that 20th Century Fox is close to signing Darren Aronofsky to direct the second solo Wolverine movie. The site says that the deal is “close enough that discussion has turned to shooting the sound stage portions of the film in New York so the filmmaker and Hugh Jackman …
Begin (or continue) your horror literature education with our list of the top 15 classic horror novels published before 1950.
A reminder to all the faithful, to all the penitent: Wednesday is two days away. Prepare yourselves. To that end here is the list of new comics hitting shelves near you. For the sake of readability this list does not contain alternate covers, magazines, toys, statues, posters or other merchandise. Just comics.
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Here’s something interesting: At the end of an interview with Simon Pegg in yesterday’s Observer newspaper in the UK, it appears that Pegg confirms a rumor about his friend, actor Martin Freeman:
And he enjoys a good giggle on relating the news that Martin Freeman has been cast in the lead role in The Hobbit, the prospect of his
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File this under “Surprising no-one,” but it’s finally official: Warner Bros’ movie adaptation of The Hobbit has finally been officially greenlit, and Peter Jackson will direct. With this non-news finally known, expect an announcement about whether or not the production will stay in New Zealand following union troubles sooner rather than …
The long saga of the movie version of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman spin-off, Death: The High Cost of Living, seems to have come to the latest in a line of endings with Gaiman’s proclaiming the project a victim of Warner Bros’ recent renewed focus on DC Comics properties. In a new interview with Vulture, he said,
We just set it up again at a
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It’s a zombie moment. Grey, shambling, undead ex-people are the most durable monster fantasy of right now, and hat goes double for comics, from The Walking Dead on down through Blackest Night and the unkillable Marvel Zombies franchise. Zombie stories are stories about assimilation–being robbed of one’s individuality and absorbed into a …
He may not have been a massive success as a movie star, but Marvel’s Incredible Hulk is headed back to somewhere where he was a definite smash hit: television. Bruce Banner’s alter-ego is to star in one of two live action projects Marvel TV is currently developing for corporate sibling ABC, with 1980s anti-drug/teenage runaway series …
Know which mobile game is really popular? Angry Birds. If you’re an Android user, you can download the full version for free as part of a partnership between the company behind the game, Rovio Mobile, and the GetJar.com online app store. You won’t find it in the Android Market.
Believe it or not, the GetJar site is chugging along a bit
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I can’t quite tell if this means that the current Fairy Tale fad (Disney’s Alice In Wonderland, as well as upcoming movies based on Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel and others) has jumped the shark or not, but Entertainment Weekly is reporting that former Lost executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have re-teamed with …
Apparently, cheap holidays can still be found in other people’s misery. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that ABC’s new superpowered soap No Ordinary Family has received an order for four additional scripts, the only new fall drama from the network to do so. As the site notes, Family‘s success should be seen in the context of the relative …
