Geek News for Thursday, January 8, 2009

MOVIE NEWS

Jimmy Hayward, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has been hired to direct the film based on the DC Comics character Jonah Hex.

Shazam, the planned movie based on the DC Comics' Captain Marvel, has been shelved according to the the writer, John August, on his blog.

20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. have decided to let Judge Feess decide whether or not Watchmen will be released on March 6th. Judge Feess will make his decision on January 20th. via The Los Angeles Times

Some spy footage supposedly from the set of Ghostbusters 3 has surfaced online.





The trailer for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li has been released.



The poster for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has been released.

TELEVISION NEWS

A preview for the second season of Reaper has been released.



The Obama transition team is asking congress to delay the digital TV transitionto an unknown date as the government has run out of couponsa for the converter boxes. via The Washington Post

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

The beta for Windows 7 will be released tomorrow for download at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx.

Geek News for Thursday, September 4, 2008

MOVIE NEWS

Columbia pictures has hired Gene Stupnitsky and Lee 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.