Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Fright Night: Colin Farrel (In Bruges) and Toni Collette (United States of Tara) have been cast in the remake of 1985 vampire flick Fright Night opposite Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Terminator Salvation). The Dreamworks film will supposedly stick to the …
Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, or too …
Finally, we get a glimpse of one of the biggest puzzle pieces of the big-screen Green Lantern universe.
We had known for a while now that Peter Sarsgaard had been cast to play Hector Hammond – the Ferris Aircraft employee who walks through the wreckage of a crashed alien ship and comes back with a supercharged brain and a seriously …
This week’s True Blood minisode stars Sookie, Tara and Lafayette at Merlotte’s when chit chat gets ugly over Bill’s income. Not as good as last week’s Jessica, but still a good taste.
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More on Techland:
Kathryn and Stuart Immonen initially serialized their WWII art-preservation drama Moving Pictures online a few years ago. It’s now being published as a single volume by Top Shelf, which debuted at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this weekend and will soon be in stores. If you only know the Immonens from their superhero projects …
Wait, what?
Today, Delacorte Press announced that its newest fantasy author is … Tyra Banks? Apparently, the America’s Next Top Model creator has signed on for a series of modeling-themed books set in a magical alt-reality. The first title, Modelland, is already finished and will hit bookstores next summer.
On her web site, Banks …
Whatever your opinions about the quality of the Michael Bay Transformers movies, it’s hard to deny that they’ve pushed the envelope insofar as what’s possible with digital filmmaking and CGI. You can’t really say that for the most recent Transformers games, though. Maybe it’s because they’ve been tied to movie release dates …
I feel like the current catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is establishing THE model for how we globally experience and respond to disasters.
Namely, we Twitter the hell out of them and map them with Google Earth. The government is no longer the bottleneck for disseminating large-scale catastrophic events. The emergency …
Sprint has a pretty decent headstart in the next-generation 4G mobile data race, although the company’s decision to go with the WiMAX standard over the LTE standard, which many people consider to be a better long term option, has drawn some criticism in the past.
During Sprint’s earnings call today, CEO Dan Hesse was asked about …
Via GamerTag Radio comes word that Project Natal should be hitting store shelves in October. During an interview with a Saudi TV station, Microsoft Saudi Entertainment & Devices Marketing Manager Syed Bilal Tariq says Saudi Arabia will be getting NATAL the same time as the rest of the world and pegs that launch to October 2010. He also …
Hello, greatest thing I’ve laid eyes on this week.
This fake commercial shot in 1998 features the figurine likenesses of literary pioneering sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte as feminist vigilantes fighting against the evils of a man’s publishing world – complete with fake mustaches.
My favorite part of its YouTube …
Wednesday is just one day away and as I’m sure you’ve heard by now it’s the end of an age at Marvel. Siege and the old Avengers titles are wrapping up to make way for the Heroic Age. Over in DC the real Batman is standing up. He’s standing up in a cave but we’ll take it. Check back later this week to see if any of these pages make our …
