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Fringe Renewed for Third Season

Entertainment Weekly reports that Fox has renewed "Fringe" for a third season. J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are behind the show, which stars Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown and Jasika Nicole.
"Fringe" has been averaging 7.6 million viewers in its tough Thursday [...]

‘Smallville’ Renewed

The CW network has renewed the DC Comics-based Smallville TV series for a 10th season. While many thought that this year would be the last for Smallville, the series has been holding up very well in the highly competitive ratings battles on Friday nights. Smallville joins The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, Supernatural, and 90210 scripted [...]

‘Captain America’ Casting Underway

Casting for Marvel’s Captain America feature, including screen tests, is underway, according to Deadline Hollywood.  The list of candidates for the role of Cap includes John Krasinski (The Office), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Scott Porter (Caprica, Friday Night Lights), Mike Vogel (Cloverfield), Michael Cassidy (Smallville), and Patrick Flueger (The 4400).
Of course, the final [...]

Comic-Con Wooed by Anaheim

San Diego Comic-Con is being wooed by the Anaheim Convention Center, which would provide another half million square feet of exhibit space and many more hotel rooms, for its next contract when its current one with San Diego is up in 2012, according to the San Diego Union Tribune. San Diego, meanwhile, is pitching [...]

‘Doc Savage’ Movie

Columbia is planning a new film based on pulp hero Doc Savage, according to Variety. The film in development is being co-written and will be directed by Shane Black, who’s best known as the writer of the Lethal Weapon films, the Last Boy Scout, and other films. Black directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Doc Savage [...]

Wal-Mart Buys Streaming HD Service Vudu

We do what we can when it comes to keeping you up to date on the latest industry news, the stuff that may not have as much sizzle as plot details from the new Christopher Nolan flick but may impact the way we all watch movies in the near future.

Last fall, we wrote about [...]

Geoff Johns Tweets Confirmation that Mark Strong Will Be Sinestro

Regular Green Lantern comics scribe Geoff Johns has today tweeted about his trip to “Green Lantern town a.k.a. New Orleans!!”. According to his first tweet “Ryan IS Hal. And Mark Strong is going to be a brilliant Sinestro” and according to his second, “Kilowog, the Guardians, Oa…all breathtaking. The age of Green Lantern is upon [...]

Dead Rising Live Action Movie Trailer

Capcom’s announced that a live action Dead Rising movie will be sold exclusively on Xbox Live later this year, but only in Japan:
The Dead Rising movie is real and is directed the creator of Dead Rising himself, Keiji Inafune. The basic story is this: the movie follows brothers Shin and Jouji who must escape [...]

AC/DC Powers IRON MAN 2

When Tony Stark jumps out of an airplane in the cool new trailer for ‘Iron Man 2‘ he did it to the grind of AC/DC’s 1980 anthem "Shoot to Thrill."
Now, Marvel Studios and Columbia Records have announced plans to release the CD compilation AC/DC: IRON MAN 2 on April 19, 2010. It’ll hold 15 classic [...]

‘Powers’ Pilot in the Works

John Landgraf, head honcho at the FX cable network, has confirmed that a pilot based on Brian Michael Bendis’ Powers comic book series is “in the works.” Landgraf also confirmed that Bendis was working with writer/producer Kevin Falls on the project. Falls has a great track record on the small [...]


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