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Joe Johnston, director of Jurassic Park 3, has signed on to direct First Avenger: Captain America, to be released on May 6 2011. No one has been cast as Cap himself at this time. via The Hollywood Reporter
The Geek Files has a plot synopsis of X-Men Origins: Magneto, release date unknown.
McG, director of the upcoming Terminator Salvation and producer of Supernatural (the best show on TV), is rumored to be directing Wonder Woman, release date unknown. via IESB
Beyonce Knowles wants to play Wonder Woman. via The LA Times
Josh Brolin is still thinking of whether or not he should play Jonah Hex. via Collider
TELEVISION NEWS
Djimon Hounsou will provide the voice for the upcoming Black Panther cartoon, which is set to start sometime in 2009 on BET. via Variety
Michael Ausiello is reporting that a villian from a past season of Smallville may be returning this, and it is not Lex. WARNING CLICKING ON THE AFFOREMENTED LINK WILL TAKE YOU TO A WEBSITE THAT CONTAINS SPOILERS.
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.
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
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.
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.
According to Ain't It Cool News, Brett Ratner wants to make a Guitar Hero movie. What the plot of the movie would be or why people would want to see another movie by Brett Ratner is unknown at this time.
TELEVISION NEWS
Superhero Flix has the teasers for the premieres of Smallville and Supernatural.
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Yahoo! News is reporting that Comcast will start to cap most of its subscribers bandwidth usage to 250 GB a month. A warning will be given the first time the user goes over and the for second time the user goes over, within six months, the user could have his or her internet could be cut off for a year.
Laura Vandervoort and Micheal Rosenbaum were both at Fanexpo 2008 for a Q&A, at which point Vandervoort, who played Kara Zor-El (Supergirl), said she will return to the show for one episode this season but Micheal Rosenbaum did not announce any plans to return to the role of Lex Luthor this season and said that he is in negotiations for a film role. via The TV Addict
Kevin Rose posted on his blog a few rumors about an ipod nano redesign and included this picture below. Watch the video after the pic for Rose talking about this information.
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
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sixth episode of Smallville season 8 will be titled Prey, according to Kryptonsite, and Martian Manhunter will appear.
VIDEOGAME NEWS
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Siliconera is reporting that the Next Pikmin sequel could be called Piktura as Nintendo has patented the word.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First up, Superhero Hype is reporting the villain for the Transformers sequel has been revealed to be The Fallen, a transformer who works for Unicron and is on fire. Picture below.
Next up, Superhero Flix has the trailer for Hulk vs. Thor, which is the second part to the Hulk Vs. animated movie.
And finally, Moviefone is the trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
TELEVISION NEWS
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kryptonsite has revealed that the fifth episode of Smallville season 8 will be titled Committed.
VIDEOGAME NEWS
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Superhero Flix has the Spider-Man: Web of Shadows trailer from Comic-Con.
I' to excited to wait until tomorrow to post this. It was just announced at Comic-Con 2008 that Geoff Johns would be writing an episode of Smallville entitled Legion that will introduce the Legion of Superheroes. via SmallvillePodcast.com
First up, the second webisode of Heroes has been released and can be found here or watched below.
In other superhero television news, Kryptonsite has confirmed that Smallville season 8 will preimere on CW September 18 and has revealed that episode 4 of season 8 will be titled Instinct.
Next, some very awesome news, Ain't It Cool News is reporting that today at Comic-Con Disney showed three minutes of TRON 2 or TR2N as it is apparently being called. For those of you who do not know what TRON is watch the trailer for the original below.
And finally, the logo for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has been revealed by Paramount and can be seen below.
I haven't updated in awhile, because I got sick for a while last week, but now I'm back so here is your Geek News.
First up, Ain't it Cool News is reporting that Robert Downey jr. has been cast as Sherlock Holmes in the new Sherlock Holmes film. This Sherlock Holmes film should not be confused with the other Sherklock Holmes film starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell. No one has been cast as Dr. Watson yet.
Next up, Marvel has released a trailer for their next animated movie Hulk vs. Wolverine.
And in DC news, CHUD is reporting that Matrix Producer, Joel Silver, said on German radio the next film the Wachowski Bros. are making is Plastic Man, starring Keanu Reeves. For those of you who don't know Plastic Man click the picture below
There is another Gotham Tonight up that leads into the very begining of the movie that can be found here.
In TV News, Kryptonsite is reporting that the title for episode 3 of season 8 of Smallville will be titled Toxic. Season 8 premieres on September 18 according to TV Guide Magazine while The CW is saying October 2, so expect to be back on one of those dates. (Hoping for the 18th but it will probably be the 2nd)
First up, NBC has released the first Heroes webisode that introduces us to a new character, who seems a little like both an X-Man and Justice Leaguer.
And in other Heroes news, Digital Spy has some Season 3 Spoilers.
And now I will leave you with a Dark knight clip and trailer. (note the trailer contains a spoiler)
First up, there is a trailer up for the remake of the science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still can be found here, in better quality, or below.
Secondly, there are two new Hellboy TV spots that you can watch below that are pretty hilarious.
Next, TV Guide is reporting a couple of Clark's SUPER FRIENDS will be popping up in the Season 8 premiere of Smallville.
And finally, the first five minutes of The Dark Knight can be found online here.
It has been 19 days since I posted the first and only Geek News post on this blog so I thought I'd do one. So without any further or do here is the Geek News for Monday June 23, 2008.
First up The Bad and the Ugly has some some spoilerish pictures of the Heroes Season 3 premiere.
And also in superhero teleivsion news, Kryptonsite has the press release from The CW of the casting of Davis Bloome *cough* Doomsday *cough* and Tess. Davis Bloome will be played by Sam Witwer and Tess Mercer will be played by Cassidy Freeman. Kryptonsite is also reporting that the title for Smallville Season 8 premiere will be Odyssesy.
Next, Louis Leterrier, the director of the Incredible Hulk, told MTV that he wants the fans to choose between the Leader and Doc Samson for the villian of the sequel to The Incredible Hulk.
And also in Marvel movie news the Los Angeles Times is reporting that Spider-Man producer, Laura Ziskin, has said that Spider-Man 4 will be out in 2011. At this it is unknown if Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire, or any of the cast member will be returning.
And in other superhero movie news, there is a very big Dark Knight spoiler in the video on whysoserious.com/myhero.
And finally, some sad news, comedian George Carlin has died at the age of 71. Carlin was best known for his 7 dirty word routine. R.I.P George Carlin.
The first day of news for this blog, and it is a slow news day. Oh well, here is the geek news for June 4th.
First up, Superheroflix is reporting that Donald De Line, producer for Warner Bros., confirmed the studio has plans to make a Green Lantern movie, and not the comedy movie they tried to make 5 or 6 years ago with Jack Black, but a serious Green Lantern movie. The script is being written by Greg Berlanti, will focus on Hal Jordan and has no connection to the attempted Justice League: Mortal movie.
And finally ( told ya it was a slow news day), Kryptonsite is reporting that Justin Hartley has signed on as a series regular for the 8th season of Smallville. Hartley, who first appeared in the season six episode Sneeze, plays Oliver Queen a.k.a The Green Arrow.
