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• ‘Austin Powers 4′ Officially On The Way; Mike Myers Signs On To Return
• Wait, What? Disney Shuts Down ‘The Lone Ranger’ With Johnny Depp & Armie Hammer
• Digital Comics Deal: The Flash 101 Sale
• Behind The Scenes Of ‘RAGE’; An Extended Look At The New id Software Game
• ‘Harry Potter’ Duo David Yates & Steve Kloves To Adapt Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’
• 10 Real Places From Scifi Adventure Tale ‘The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown’
• One Step Closer To ‘BioShock’ City Of Rapture: Scientists Rewrite Worm’s Genetic Code
• Watch Every Death Sequence From Four ‘Final Destination’ Films

‘Austin Powers 4′ Officially On The Way; Mike Myers Signs On To Return Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:47 PM PDT There's been plenty of whispers of a new Austin Powers movie over the years, but—despite the fact that it looked like we'd be getting the movies in bulk for years to come much like the Saw and Fast and Furious franchises—they just kind of ended after 2002's Goldmember. Yes, it's been almost a decade since the last installment, but it would appear that the time has come for Austin Powers 4 to become a reality. HitFix is reporting that Mike Myers has officially signed on to return to the role(s) for a fourth time, elevating the project from a rumor (that some wanted to see come true and others very much did not want to see come true) to a reality. It's not yet known if other stars will be back to join Myers or if Jay Roach will return to direct, nor is it known what kind of storyline will be used to try and one–up the previous films while attempting to keep things fresh. [...]

Wait, What? Disney Shuts Down ‘The Lone Ranger’ With Johnny Depp & Armie Hammer Posted: 12 Aug 2011 08:40 PM PDT News is breaking that The Walt Disney Company has made the shocking decision to completely shut down production on one of their huge upcoming projects, The Lone Ranger. We've been hearing about the movie for a few years now with Johnny Depp attached to star as Tonto (alongside The Social Network's Armie Hammer in the title role), Gore Verbinski in the director's seat, and Jerry Bruckheimer as a producer—all three of which were integral in bringing billions (plural) of dollars to Disney with the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Apparently Disney didn't want to spend any more than $200 million (around the norm for a blockbuster) on the movie, but it was hovering at around $230 million, cut down from an original $250 million mark. The company is already throwing around big bucks with Andrew Stanton's John Carter running around the astonishing $300 million mark after a bunch of re–shoots were required, and the Sam Raimi Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful, looking at about a $200 million price tag. [...]

Digital Comics Deal: The Flash 101 Sale Posted: 12 Aug 2011 06:52 PM PDT Flash Fact #1: People love cheap comics. Flash Fact #2: You, my gentle reader, are a person. Therefore, you love cheap comics. Okay, I'm prepared to accept that some of you may be robots or talking gorillas or even mad geniuses from the future, but you should still be excited because starting at midnight when it turns Saturday, August 13 and running through 11pm EST on August 14, DC is putting over 100 digital issues of The Flash and Flash-related comics on sale. See below for the list of digital comics included in the sale. So, if you have an iPad or you like reading comics on your computer, be sure to snag some of these issues. You don't even have to run out to get them. You could probably stand to go for a run though. It'll make The Flash happy [...]

Behind The Scenes Of ‘RAGE’; An Extended Look At The New id Software Game Posted: 12 Aug 2011 05:43 PM PDT The latest title from id Software—creators of the first–person shooter and games like Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake—RAGE takes everything the company has learned over the past couple of decades and puts it all into trying to make the best game they've ever made. To prepare for its release, six behind–the–scenes videos have now been released and are here for all to see. The game, which is being published by The Elder Scrolls and Fallout gamemasters, Bethesda Softworks, is not too unlike Fallout as it takes place in a post–apocalyptic setting. Though this catastrophic event was caused by a meteorite striking the planet. The player begins their game by awakening from a cryogenic sleep in an underground facility built to protect important people who might be able to rebuild Earth, only to discover that they're the only one who has survived. Click on over to the other side to check out the videos! [...]

‘Harry Potter’ Duo David Yates & Steve Kloves To Adapt Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ Posted: 12 Aug 2011 03:59 PM PDT Drew McWeeny over at HitFix is reporting that David Yates and Steve Kloves, the director and writer team who collaborated on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts I and II, will reteam for a cinematic adaptation of The Stand, Stephen King's epic novel of fantasy and horror depicting humankind's struggle to endure in a world ravaged by a virus and preyed upon by a dark figure known only as Randall Flagg (a.k.a. The Walkin' Dude). The book was first published in 1978, but in 1990 King published an expanded edition, which subsequently served as source material for a television miniseries directed by Mick Garris that aired on ABC in 1994 and starred Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Ruby Dee, Rob Lowe, Miguel Ferrer, Shawnee Smith, and Jamey Sheridan as Flagg. Prior to that, George Romero attempted a single film version with a screenplay by Rospo Pallenberg (Excalibur), but the project never got off the ground. [...]

10 Real Places From Scifi Adventure Tale ‘The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown’ Posted: 12 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT By Paul Malmont The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown, my new novel, is what I like to call faction -- a hybrid of fact and fiction. A fact: Thanks to editor John W. Campbell, golden age science fiction writers Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and L. Sprague de Camp were hired by the Navy to work on military research at the Philadelphia Naval Yard during World War II. A fact: L. Ron Hubbard was a pulp science fiction writer, a friend of Heinlein's, and was court martialed for, well, basically incompetency during the war -- yet he always claimed he was off on super-secret missions in the Pacific. A fact: Nikola Tesla built a strange communication tower at Wardenclyffe, Long Island. A fact: a legend has grown up since the 1960s that experiments in Philadelphia may have led to a ship being transported from the harbor, to Virginia, and back again. A fact: a spring-fed river appears under the Empire State Building and runs underground to Washington Square. Somewhere beyond those facts, my fiction begins. I do a tremendous amount of research preparing for my novels. I have a responsibility to the real lives of the people I'm turning into characters; to plausibly connect what we know about their lives with what we don't. One thing I really like to do, whenever possible, is visit the locations I'm writing about. Two things that I write about often in describing a locale are smells and sounds -- two things that I don't have to imagine if I visit a place. So, I thought for this Geeks of Doom guest blog post that I'd share some of the real world settings I visited and photographed (and one I visited but didn't photograph and had to borrow photos from) [...]

One Step Closer To ‘BioShock’ City Of Rapture: Scientists Rewrite Worm’s Genetic Code Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:55 AM PDT In BioShock, Andrew Ryan had a dream: "No Gods or Kings. Only Man." And from this dream, the underwater city of Rapture was born. A place where people could escape the grasps of government and social guidelines. A place where people could become whoever it is they most wanted to be. You see, in Rapture, a thing called "plasmids" exist, and these plasmids can rewrite your genetic code to give you abilities beyond your wildest dreams. It all sounded too good to be true, and, unfortunately, it ultimately was. But that's just science fiction. We live in reality, of course. Researchers at Cambridge University have successfully taken a nematode worm, and expanded its genetic code. In a living organism, there is 20 amino acids which are assembled in various combinations to make thousands and thousands of proteins. These protein molecules are required to sustain an organism's life. Sebastian Greiss and Jason Chin took this nematode worm, and redesigned its genetic code to include a 21st amino acid, which is found nowhere else in nature. [...]

Watch Every Death Sequence From Four ‘Final Destination’ Films Posted: 12 Aug 2011 06:15 AM PDT If you're familiar with the Final Destination movie franchise, then you know the films are basically good for one thing -- the deaths. Yes, it's one of those horror franchises where you watch and wait for the next grotesque death to occur. If you watch the movies in a packed theater, you can expect a lot of "OH SNAP!"s being exclaimed from your fellow movie-goers. While some of the movies in the series have been less than stellar, Final Destination 5, which comes to theaters [oh snap!] this weekend, promises to be a return to form, from what I hear. But that doesn't leave a lot of time to catch up with the series if you haven't seen the previous movies. So, instead of trying to sit through about 6 hours' worth of Final Destination films, you can instead watch this video here below that contains every death sequence from the first four movies [...]

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