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 Monday, November 3, 2008

MOVIE NEWS

A new trailer for Fanboys has been released.



In other Fanboys news, The Weinstein Company has pushed the release back again to Febuary 6, 2009.

TELEVISION NEWS

NBC has fired Jeph Loeb and Jesse Anderson, Heroes' co-executive producers. via Variety

CNN is reporting that Fox has canceled King of the Hill.

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Microsoft gave out a pre-beta release of Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference
and it is now online on The Pirate Bay and Mininova. Please note that Geek News Today does not support, condone, or take part in any illegal action or conduct. via CNET

Scientists have dicovered how to create vampires. via New Scientist

Geek News for Monday, October 13, 2008

MOVIE NEWS

Just Jared has more Sherlock Holmes pictures but this time of Dr. Watson.

TELEVISION NEWS

Kryptonsite has some spoilers revealing that a certain superhero is returning in episode 10 of this season of Smallville. WARNING CLICKING ON THE AFOREMENTIONED LINK WILL TAKE YOU TO A PAGE OF SPOILERS FOR UPCOMING EPISODES. CLICK AT OWN RISK.

Michael Ausiello has revealed that we may be hearing from a certain hairless billionaire in Smallville's future.

VIDEO GAME NEWS

Engadget has an unboxed PSP-3000.

COMIC BOOK NEWS

Marvel has released a trailer for their upcoming Ultimatum crossover.

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 is officially going to be called Windows 7.

President Bush has just signed a bill into law that allows the federal government to seize all computers and personal media devices in a home/residence if one file on one device is pirated. via Reuters

Geek News for Monday, September 15, 2008

MOVIE 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.

Geek News for Tuesday, September 9, 2008

MOVIE NEWS

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).

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.

Geek News for Thursday, August 21, 2008

MOVIE NEWS

According to Slashfilm, Jon Favreau has started working on the story for Iron Man 2, set to be released April 30 2010, with Justin Theroux, the Tropic Thunder screenwriter, as the writer for the script.

TELEVISION NEWS

In what will be bitter-sweet news for Chickenlord, Ain't It Cool News is reporting that Sci-Fi has cancelled Stargate Atlantis but the series will be continued with direct-to-DVD movies.

Kryptonsite has revealed that the seventh episode of season 8 of Smallville will be entitled Identity. WARNING clicking on the above link, will take you to a page with spoilers for upcoming episodes. Continue at your own risk.

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Microsoft has finally decided to fight back against Apple's Mac vs. PC ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates instead of Justin Long and John Hodgman. via Engadget