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 Tuesday July 29, 2008

MOVIE NEWS

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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

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Kryptonsite has revealed that the fifth episode of Smallville season 8 will be titled Committed.

VIDEOGAME NEWS

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Superhero Flix has the Spider-Man: Web of Shadows trailer from Comic-Con.

Geek News for Thursday July 24, 2008

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.