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Kirsten Dunst has stated, in an interview with MTV, that she will be reprising her role of Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man 4 and mostly likely Spider-Man 5.
Brett Ratner, the director of X-Men 3, has been confirmed to be the director of the God of War film. via UGO Movie Blog
First Showing talked to Donald De Line, producer of the upcoming Green Lantern film, who said that the film should start filming in spring of 2009.
Marvel has signed a deal with Paramount to have them distribute their next 5 self-produced films, Iron Man 2, Thor, First Avenger: Captain America, Avengers, and Iron Man 3. via IESB
Variety has revealed that Marvel is looking at Kenneth Branagh to direct Thor.
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
9 to 5 Mac has a rumor that the iphone may be coming to Verizon Wireless next year.
Disney has revealed that Johnny Depp will reprise his role of Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, will play Tonto in a new Lone Ranger movie, and will play the Mad Hatter in Tim burton's Alice in Wonderland movie. via Slashfilm
Disney also revealed that National Treasure 3 is in development and will be released winter of 2010. via IESB
COMIC BOOK NEWS
DC Comics has canceled their Minx line of books. Minx was their young adults line of books. via Comic Book Resources
Sony has announced that they will exclusively have Punisher: No Mercy for download on the PSN. The game will be an arena first-person shooter, like Unreal Tournament.
Lucasarts has released new footage of their upcoming game, Fracture.
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Google has released a video tour of the Android OS on the HTC Dream G-1.
Oh yes Jake, you are not the only one who looks at news... The Android is scheduled to come out today.coming from techjunkeez.com Android Is a new operating system for the mobile market as you probably already know, but I'm just telling our "readers" (if there is any). T-mobile is the first phone distributors i guess you'd call them. The new operating system is different from others by its open source code which allows the user to code and create their own content for the phone. It looks very kool, I'm not really a phone person and everyphone i get i usually treat like crap and don't really care about it...but with this i would probably make an exception.
Verizon Wireless has announced that they will start a month to month agreement for their cell phones.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
The BBC is reporting that Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl books, will be writing And Another Thing..., the sixth novel in the inaccurately named Hitcherhikers Trilogy, the last book of which, Mostly Harmless, came out 16 years ago.
Variety is reporting Jude Law is currently in talks to play Dr. Watson opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Warner Bros.' 2010 Sherlock Holmes movie.
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Stephen Chow has been cast as Kato, Green Hornet's sidekick, and will direct the upcoming Green Hornet movie (June 25, 2010).
William Shatner has responded to the comments J.J. Abrams comments from early in the month, saying that he was never approached by anyone for a cameo and then goes on to praise himself.
Dread Central is reporting that Brett Ratner is in talks to direct the new Conan movie. Why are people even bring up his name to direct films after he completely destroyed the X-Men 3.
TELEVISION NEWS
Gateworld has descriptions of the main characters for Star Gate Universe.
VIDEO GAME NEWS
Megaman 9 will be released in September 22 on WiiWare, September 25 on the Playstation Network, and October 1 on X-Box Live Arcade. via Joystiq
Siliconera is reporting that Konami has registered a trademark on the name Metal Gear Solid Existence.
The new Prince of Persia game has been given the release date of December 2nd. via Joystiq
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Talk Android has photos of the first Android phone, the HTC Dream G1, in the wild. the phone is expected to be released next month.
Why the fuck do pirates get a whole day to themselves.... pirates don't even exist anymore(that plunder and rape cargo ships and villages) where the fuck is ninja day? ninjas still exist, are way kooler, can totally kick a pirates ass, and are trained assassins in the marshal arts. And when is Johnny Dept going to be in a drunken ninja movie! Its just not right! Now the pros and cons of pirates vs. ninjas...you know what... no...no this argument has gone on for nerd centuries..(which is i believe half a Television season)..and i am not going to continue it.
To any readers of this blog, (that means you too Jake) i would like you all to go to escapistmagazine.com and Start watching the new show unforgotten realms I find it very funny and entertaining. Unfortunately it hasn't been drawing in a crowd so I'm trying to change that. It's a comedic web series about 2 guys playing a makeshift D&D role playing game. New episodes come out every other Thursday. The creater has sign a contract for 2 seasons and hopefully he'll get more if theres more viewers, so in that tell everyone about it refer it to anyone. randomly just post a link to it in a forum do anything that might get it more fans.
Latino Review has debunked the rumors of David Boreanaz, star of Angel and Bones, playing Hal Jordan in the upcoming Green Lantern movie and has a review of the script.
The rumors a week or two ago about Will Smith playing Captain America, were definnatly not true as Will Smith has never evenheard of the rumors. via MTV Splash Page.
In what might be the WORST NEWS EVER, Warner Bros. is considering a sequel to Watchmen, according to Patrick Wilson in an interview with MTV News.
Marvel may have cast Eva Longoria as Wasp in the upcoming Avengers movie (due out in July 2011). She was seen coming out of Marvel carying a stack of comic book and on top was an Avengers issue. via the LA Times.
Moviehole is reporting that David Boreanaz maybe playing Hal Jordan (the Silver Age Green Lantern) in the upcoming Green Lantern movie (due in 2010).
In other Green Lantern news, concept art for the movie has been released and can be viewed at Movie Web.
TELEVISION NEWS
CW has released a clip from this week's Smallville, the Season 8 premiere.
G4 has released a trailer for their upcoming Spaceballs: The Animated Series, due to premiere on September 21.
VIDEO GAME NEWS
WOW Insider has revealed what is coming with the collectors edition of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, which is to be released on November 13.
The new trailer for Saints Row 2 has been released and features the two presidential canidates, John McCain and Barack Obama. via Joystiq
COMIC BOOK NEWS
io9 has released the first picture of the new Batman and Robin. At this time there has been no identification on who is behind the masks.
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Best Buy has bought Napster for 121 million dollars, according to the Wall Street Journal, to try to compete with Apple.
The second Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld commercial has been released and can be viewed below.
I would ask u via email but im at school and cant really email u. this is the only way. i would address you after school but i will probably forget so. I'm gunna do the spore interview tonight/tomarrow, and frap sux if i want to record my voice while playing it live.
It appears as though Micheal Caine was mistaken when he told MTV about the villains for the third Batman movie or at least the part about Phillip Seymour Hoffman being the Penguin as Mr. Hoffman told MTV that he has not even talked to Christopher Nolan or Warner Bros. about the role.
And while on the subject of false rumors from yesterday, Marvel has come out and said that they have never even thought about casting Will Smith as Captain America. via Slashfilm
Slashfilm has found out why William Shatner will not be in the eleventh Star Trek,and that reason is basically Shatner loves Shatner and will not do cameos.
The theatrical trailer for Quantum of Solace has been released and can be watched below or here in higher quality.
VIDEO GAME NEWS
Microsoft has confirmed the rumors that Ensemble Studios, the company that is making Halo Wars, is closing but a new company is being founded by the managers that will support Halo Wars. via Joystiq
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Apple announced quite a few things today so lets get started, iTunes 8 has been released and includes everything Kevin Rose said it would, NBC shows are back on iTunes, all TV shows can now be downloaded in HD for an extra dollar (via Engadget), Apple will put in-ear ear phones out for sale in October for $79 (via Engadget), the new ipod nano looks just like the picture Kevin leaked and comes in every color of the rainbow plus pink (via Engadget), the shuffle is also getting new colors (via Engadget), and finally the ipod classic will now only come in a 120 GB version (via Engadget).
Sony has signed Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi for Spider-Man 4 & 5 which they are planning to shoot back to back. Kirsten Dunst at this point in time is not signed on for the sequels but Sony hopes to get her. via Deadline Hollywood.
Micheal Caine may have possibly confirmed the rumors that Johnney Depp will be playing the Riddler and Phillip Seymour Hoffman will be playing the Peguin in the second Batman Begins sequel in an interview with MTV promoting his new movie Is There Anybody There?.
In one of the strangest pieces of movie news ever, Will Smith may be Captian America? That is what Derek Luke has said in an interview with MTV promoting The Miricle at St. Anna.
According to Latino Review, Russel Crowe may be playing Professor Moriarty in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movie. For those of you who do not read Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty was Sherlock's main antagonist, he was the Lex Luthor to Holmes' Superman.
Thats right my friend(s) tomorrow is the day. The day I've been waiting for for 3 years...the day when all other video games will be dwarfed of entertainment value and bow down to the new master of all video games.Yes of course I'm talking about Spore...OMG it's coming tomorrow!!!! You can not guess how excited I am. There is no way to describe my excitedness. If i was asked to describe how excited I am i would have to say that that I'm as excited as if I knew that Jesus would come to my house give me all the money in the world, immortality,the answer to the world life and the universe, and any superpower i wanted...
Columbia pictures has hired Gene Stupnitsky andLee Eisenberg, both are writers of The Office (American version), to write Ghostbusters 3. For those of you who have not yet seen the original two yet you can watch them here. via Slashfilm.
The trial to see who owns the rights to produce the Watchmen movie will be held on January 6 according to Variety.
New pictures of the Dragonball movie have been released and contain the first look at Piccolo, picture below. via DBthemovie.
During an interview for his new movie, Bangkok Dangerous, Nic Cage revealed that Ghost Rider 2 is in development and will have Ghost Rider in Europe. via Superhero Hype.
Aaron Eckhart revealed during an interview with Superhero Hype that Two-Face did die in The Dark Knight and will not return in the sequel. I still believe that they will have Two-Face come back in a future film somewhere down the line and he has just been in Arhkam this whole time.
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
The first Sienfeld/Gates Microsoft commercial has been released.
Kevin Eastman has revealed that a new live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesis being planned by Warner Bros. via Superhero Hype.
The Red Band trailer for Zach and Miri Make a Porno has been released and can be seen below or at Rotten Tomatoes in higher quality.
TELEVISION NEWS
Kryptonsite has revealed that that Episode 8 of season 8 will be titled Bloodline, Episode 9 will be titled Abyss, and the Legion of superheroes episode has been moved to be the eleventh episode of the season. Warning clicking on the above link will take you to a page full of spoilers for the upcoming season of Smallville.
IESB is reporting that the Clone Wars cartoon will premiere on Cartoon Network on October 3 at 9 p.m.
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Google has released their own Internet Browser, Chrome. Expect a review of it in the coming weeks.
