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• ‘Wonder Woman’ Will Lasso A Pilot This Fall!
• Marvel Teams With ComicsPRO For ‘Ender’s Game’ Prequel Comic
• See The New ‘Crysis 2′ Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer Before The Demo Hits Xbox Live
• Activision Brings In New Team To Help Infinity Ward Develop ‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′
• Wait, What?! Clint Eastwood To Direct Musical Remake Of ‘A Star Is Born’ With Beyonce Knowles
• ‘Borat’ Star Sacha Baron Cohen To Play Saddam Hussein In ‘The Dictator’
• ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ Is Really Happening! Release Date Set
• New ‘RoboCop’ App For iPhone and iPad
• Top Shelf 2.0 Launches Gingerbread Girl!
• New Photos Of Taylor Lautner In ‘Abduction’
• Title Treatment For ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1′
• Comic Review: ‘Steel’ Reign of Doomsday, Part 1: Full Circle
• Are You Buying More DC Comics Titles This Month?

‘Wonder Woman’ Will Lasso A Pilot This Fall! Posted: 21 Jan 2011 10:51 PM PST David E. Kelley shopped a Wonder Woman pitch to the networks late last year only to get the proverbial door slammed in his face over and over again [read: Proposed 'Wonder Woman' TV Series Meets More Rejection]. So fans thought, rightfully so, that their dreams of seeing the heroine on the small screen were dashed, but the new NBC Entertainment president Bob Greenblatt has saved the day by picking up Kelley's script. Kelley's upcoming series Harry's Law and the support of the new President both helped NBC commit to the series and to the steep licensing fee. The series is described as a reinvention of the classic DC Comics comic book with Wonder Woman being a vigilante crime fighter, a successful corporate executive, and modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life. This is familiar territory for Kelley who has had success in the past writing these modern woman types of stories with previous shows such as Ally McBeal and The Practice [...]

Marvel Teams With ComicsPRO For ‘Ender’s Game’ Prequel Comic Posted: 21 Jan 2011 08:37 PM PST Orson Scott Card crafted one of the greatest science fiction saga's of all time with the Ender books starting with Ender's Game. Marvel talent and Card have been bringing Ender's story to comic books and now an all-original story, the prequel to Ender's Game, is coming to comic book form first. The 7-issue miniseries called Formic Wars Burning Earth is written by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston with art by Giancarlo Caracuzzo. Marvel is partnering with ComicsPRO retailers to release the first installment of the miniseries a day early on February 14, 2011. These retailers will be celebrating this story by offering some great sales on the other Ender collections. If you're in Chapel Hill, NC, you may want to head over to Chapel Hill Comics that day where Card and Johnston will be on hand to sign the comic [...]

See The New ‘Crysis 2′ Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer Before The Demo Hits Xbox Live Posted: 21 Jan 2011 06:51 PM PST It's been officially announced that a brand new multiplayer demo for the highly anticipated Crysis 2 will be coming exclusively to the Xbox 360's Xbox Live. While the game will be released on multiple platforms, including the PlayStation 3 and PC, on March 22, 2011, only Xbox Live users will have access to the multiplayer demo set to become available on January 25. The demo will include one map and two game modes to try out. The map is called "Skyline," and the two game modes are called "Team Instant Action," which is the traditional option where two teams see who can kill each other more, and "Crash Site," where teams fight to control and protect alien pods. You can see the trailer for the Crysis 2 multiplayer gameplay by clicking on over to the other side now! Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, had this to say about the multiplayer action: Crysis 2 offers a fresh, new take on multiplayer – one that will stand out and establish the game as a top contender in the first person shooter genre. [...]

Activision Brings In New Team To Help Infinity Ward Develop ‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′ Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:37 PM PST Back in March of 2010, a strange string of events unfolded when news broke that a group of what was described as "bouncer-type" security guards entered the offices of Infinity Ward, the video game developers behind the popular Modern Warfare games in the Call of Duty franchise. Ultimately it was revealed that two of the founders and current heads of Infinity Ward, Jason West and Vince Zampella, were fired by parent company Activision for "breaches of contract and insubordination," leaving the future of the Modern Warfare series in question. While many lawsuits have come of that mess, Activision has re-staffed all of the vacant positions at Infinity Ward and -- even though the game hasn't been officially announced -- they have been working on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ever since, with full expectations to meet their normal November release date...until now. It's being reported by The LA Times that Activision has brought in a new team to help develop the third installment, which means things might not be going so smoothly. [...]

Wait, What?! Clint Eastwood To Direct Musical Remake Of ‘A Star Is Born’ With Beyonce Knowles Posted: 21 Jan 2011 04:15 PM PST Here we are again -- staring at one of those unbelievable headlines that simply has to be an April Fool's joke...only it's January, and this is apparently very real. Deadline is reporting that the legendary actor, director, and producer, Clint Eastwood, will be directing his own take on the musical A Star is Born, with Beyonce Knowles set to star in the lead female role. The script for the movie is written by Will Fetters (Remember Me). This will be the fourth version of the story, which tells the story of an aspiring actress being helped into the industry by an old veteran actor. The first came in 1937 and starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, while the second came in 1954 and starred Judy Garland and James Mason, and the third in 1976, starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. All three previous versions of the film were nominated for Academy Awards, with two of the three winning an Oscar. [...]

‘Borat’ Star Sacha Baron Cohen To Play Saddam Hussein In ‘The Dictator’ Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:07 PM PST It's being reported that Sacha Baron Cohen will be playing quite the interesting role in an upcoming movie: infamous Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein. The movie, which is fittingly titled The Dictator, is based on a book called Zabibah and the King. The book is a romance novel (sorta), which is said to have been written (or ghostwritten) by Hussein, painting himself as a hero to a woman (the people of Iraq), who's married to an evil man (that'd be us) that abuses and rapes her. In a press release by Paramount Pictures, they describe the movie as telling the "...heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed." The Dictator is set to be directed by Larry Charles, who has previously directed Baron Cohen in both Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Brüno. [...]

‘Duke Nukem Forever’ Is Really Happening! Release Date Set Posted: 21 Jan 2011 01:50 PM PST Today game developer Gearbo hit us up with a double dose of Duke Nukem Forever via its Twitter feed. First they gave us an official release date of May 3, 2011, just a little before my birthday, perfect timing. It's funny to finally have a release date to a title that was on vaporware lists the world over for about a decade. They also gave us a new trailer which shows some game play footage. It's embedded below for your viewing pleasure. The game is available now for pre-order for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC [...]

New ‘RoboCop’ App For iPhone and iPad Posted: 21 Jan 2011 01:17 PM PST MGM Studios just released a new RoboCop app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch to help celebrate the film's 25th anniversary (and perhaps to bring in some money from all the RoboCop fanboys with a spare buck). Essentially, the RoboCop app is a soundboard featuring all your favorite lines from the last three films. However, since the idea of soundboard apps is a bit exhausted in this iOS handheld exhausted market, they've also built in some other perks to increase the coolness factor. Unlike the previous SFX-only apps, this version has video clips, a Robo-Mouth setting (which is just a Cyborg mouth you can hold up to your face when the memorable quotes are spoken), and the ability to create your own witty, monotone one-liners by speaking into the mic [...]

Top Shelf 2.0 Launches Gingerbread Girl! Posted: 21 Jan 2011 12:06 PM PST Popular comic book creators Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin (Small Favors, Banana Sunday)are launching an all new series titled Gingerbread Girl. The story will first appear on Top Shelf 2.0, indie comic book publisher Top Shelf Comix's free web comic venture. New installments of the story will appear on Mondays and Fridays culminating with the complete story being released in a hardcover graphic novel this Spring. Very little has been released by Top Shelf about the story [...]

New Photos Of Taylor Lautner In ‘Abduction’ Posted: 21 Jan 2011 10:32 AM PST Earlier this week, the first look was released of Taylor Lautner in the upcoming conspiracy thriller Abduction. Liongate has released two more images today of Lautner in Abduction, where he plays a high school senior who finds his baby photo on a missing persons website, and realizes the people who raised him aren't his real parents. Check out the photos here below; one is a behind-the-scenes look at Lautner running (it seems like he'll be doing quite a bit of this in the film); the other is of Lautner with co-star Lily Collins. I also updated the first-look photo of Lautner with a hi-res version [...]

Title Treatment For ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1′ Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:56 AM PST After that nude wedding night photo of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, this is going to seem like a bit of a letdown but... Summit Entertainment has released the title treatment for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I, the first half of the two-part film finale. Part I, which was written by Melissa Rosenberg and directed by Bill Condon, will be released in theaters on November 18, 2011 [...]

Comic Review: ‘Steel’ Reign of Doomsday, Part 1: Full Circle Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:11 AM PST Steel Reign of Doomsday Part 1: Full Circle (One-shot) Writer: Steve Lyons Artist: Ed Benes Cover Artist: Alex Garner DC Comics Release Date: January 5, 2011 Steel #1 is part of a series of one-shots and regular issues that DC Comics is releasing with iconic covers of their heroes. Alex Garner's artwork on the cover immediately catches your eye. The story begins in the middle of a battle between Steel and Doomsday, the vicious creature that murdered Superman in the monumental Death of Supermanstoryline. All of Metropolis' other defenders are unavailable, so it falls on John Henry Irons to defend the city. Irons is recently recovered from a coma, but he feels that it is his duty to stop Doomsday [...]

Are You Buying More DC Comics Titles This Month? Posted: 21 Jan 2011 06:20 AM PST We're well into the first month of DC Comics new initiative to lower (or maintain) prices across the board on all of their regular monthly titles without sacrificing the quality of stories [Read: DC Comics Drops Price On Comics To $2.99]. But in addition to sharing the $2.99 price point, most regular titles have something else in common: white backgrounds. Not only does it make the artwork "pop," but it dominated the new comics wall at my local shop, causing me to consider picking up a few new titles to my mostly Marvel hold file. If you want to see what I mean, check out the thumbnails embedded below courtesy of DC's official blog The Source. Also, let us know which new titles you added this month from DC in our comments section. [...]

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