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Leonard Nimoy To Retire From Acting; Won’t Be In ‘Star Trek 2′

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Some depressing news for Star Trek fanatics worldwide. In an interview with The Toronto Sun, Leonard Nimoy apparently revealed that he now intends to retire from acting and even from all of those crazy conventions that have been such a huge part of his career.

Nimoy, who was finishing up his last episode as Dr. Bell on the popular J.J. Abrams TV show, Fringe, basically just explains that he's been doing this longer than most of us have been alive, and it's time for him to step away and enjoy his life.

In regard to his iconic Spock character, specifically, he doesn't think there's anymore for him to do with it now. When talking about Abrams' new vision of that mythos and Star Trek 2, which is expected some time in 2012, he made it clear that he wanted vacate entirely and leave plenty of space for Zachary Quinto to nourish and grow the character as he will. [...]

Taylor Lautner ‘Stretch Armstrong’ Brings In Director & New Writer

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We all know about the swarm of movies being made based on toys and board games, including one about the limber Stretch Armstrong starring The Twilight Saga's Taylor Lautner (Read: 3D 'Stretch Armstrong' Grabs 'The Twilight Saga' Star Taylor Lautner; 'Battleship' Now Set To Strike On Memorial Day ).

The script for the movie was originally put together by Evan Almighty writer Steve Oedekerk, but now Universal has decided to bring in a new writer to join their equally-new director.

The studio has chosen Rob Letterman to direct their Stretch movie, and has also brought in Nicholas Stoller to rewrite the existing script. Letterman has mostly animated film experience, having directed Shark Tale and Monsters vs. Aliens for DreamWorks, while Stoller has written Fun With Dick and Jane, Yes Man, as well as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, both of which he also directed. The two gentlemen recently collaborated on the upcoming Jack Black flick Gulliver's Travels, which Stoller wrote and Letterman is directing. [...]

Coheed & Cambria, Supergrass, The Violent Femmes, Siouxsie & The Banshees Hit Rock Band

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On Friday, Harmonix and MTV games announced a new set of downloadable content for their popular Rock Band video game franchise.

In the upcoming week, a 3-pack of songs from Coheed and Cambria, as well as tracks from Supergrass, The Violent Femmes, and Siouxsie & The Banshees will be available on the XBox 360, Playstation 3, and the Nintendo Wii consoles. All tracks are original master recordings.

With more than 400 artists' downloadable songs available from Rock Band, these new songs definitely round out a wide variety for any fan of music-based games. All single songs are available for $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) and the 3-track pack is available for $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points) [...]

Sam Mendes To Grab Robert Downey Jr. For New ‘Wizard Of Oz’ Movie?

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When it comes to classic titles, people have a zero-tolerance to remakes and reinventions and anything that may taint the integrity of the original.

When it comes to The Wizard of Oz, however, there seems to be a special type of open-mindedness to prospective future titles. Part of this is because the beloved 1939 Judy Garland film was not the first to be adapted from Frank L. Baum's timeless story -- not even close -- and because it's such a perfectly fantastical playground, eternally ripe for creative minds to reinterpret and re-visualize according to the cinematic times.

There's a handful of possible Wizard of Oz films currently in various states of development -- most of which will likely never see the light of day -- and it's only a matter of time before a couple of them get that big green light to go into production.

Disney is one of the studios trying to get into the party with their own take on the classic story, and if things go the way they seem to be going, it could be a very interesting movie to follow. [...]

C2E2 2010: ‘Casanova’ Returns This July Through Marvel’s Icon Comics

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I expected an announcement about the return of Matt Fraction's crazy super-spy epic Casanova to occur during the Image Comics panel on Saturday at C2E2. Fraction has mentioned on his twitter account that he has been working on new scripts for the series, which has not been seen since the end of Volume 2 was released in 2008. Little did I realize that the series had actually moved from Image to Marvel's creator-owned Icon line and that the announcement would happen during Marvel's Cup of Joe panel.

Starting in July, readers will be able to catch up with the series, as the first 14 issues will be re-released in full color (the series was originally released in a green/white and blue/white color palette). According to Fraction's blog, the series will also be repackaged.

The first two volumes will be released in eight single issues. The first issue will contain the original issue as well as a new story drawn by Fabio Moon. From there, each Icon issue will contain two issues that were released by Image, as well as new bonus material, until the eighth issue, which will contain what was originally issue #14, as well as another new story that will lead into Volume 3 [...]

Comic Review: Toy Story #3

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Toy Story #3
Written by Jesse Blaze Snider
Art by Nathan Wilson and Mike DeCarlo
Colors by Mickey Clausen and Eric Cobain
Letters by Deron Bennett
BOOM! Studios
Price: $2.99
Release date: April 14, 2010

Toy Story #3 continues the ongoing series with part four of The Return of Buzz Lightyear. This storyline started with Andy receiving a new Buzz Lightyear toy. When they found out that Andy was going to return the new Buzz Lightyear for a different toy, we see the new Buzz force the old Buzz, or 'Sally', into the box so he doesn't have to return to the shelf of the store. This spurs a rescue mission with the new Buzz and the recently purchased Booster. In the last issue, new Buzz and Sally are in a race to see who should go back to Andy and the new Buzz cheats by releasing a display of bouncing balls to stop Sally from winning the race. In this issue, we see the conclusion of the race and a lot of the backstory of the new Buzz and the end of his adventure.

This new ongoing Toy Story series has been very true to the original source material and fits with the style of both movies. This storyline very much reminds me of the second movie and part of the first where we follow the toys in adventures outside of the house [...]

Listen Now: TARDIS Blend 002 Webcast – ‘Doctor Who’ Season 5 Premiere

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As Doctor Who fans, we ought to adopt a new mantra that is so universally accepted it can even be printed on currency: "In Moffat We Trust".

Moffat, as an author of The Empty Child, The Girl in the Fireplace, and Blink episodes. And now, Steven Moffat is the new lead writer and show runner on the fifth season of Doctor Who, starring Matt Smith as the eleventh actor to portray the Time Lord on television.

Still, despite a track record of producing iconic Who episodes, some remain quite skeptical of the new Doctor: He's quite a bit younger than previous versions. He wears tweed jackets and bow ties. And this is a drastic change, which people generally do not like.

So while I can see why someone might disagree with my logic, I'll just assume they haven't seen the debut episode, The Eleventh Hour, which debuted in America on Saturday [...]

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