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• Deal: Funko Lord of the Rings Frodo Plushies For $3.50!
• Geek Gear: ‘Quantum Cat Curiosity’ Shirt
• Netflix Review: The Fighter
• New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 2 Video Shows Off Renly Baratheon’s Armor
• Star Wars Image Shows Just How Commercial Things Have Gotten On Tatooine
• Tim Burton Wants To Make A Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ With Robert Downey Jr. As Geppetto
• Disney Grabs Two-Time Oscar Winner Robert Stromberg To Direct Angelina Jolie In ‘Maleficent’
• The ‘Walking Dead’ Episode We’ll Probably Never See Now That Frank Darabont Is Gone

Deal: Funko Lord of the Rings Frodo Plushies For $3.50! Posted: 08 Jan 2012 05:40 AM PST Right now you can get the Funko Lord of the Rings Frodo Plushies for only $3.50 (that's 73% off the list price of $12.99). There's also the Funko Lord of the Rings Orc Plushies for only $3.25 (that's 75% off the list price of $12.99). Not as adorable as Frodo, but still pretty darn cute and at an awesome price, too. If you'd like both items, you can buy them bundled together for only $5.99; plus, then you only have to pay the shipping price one time [...]

Geek Gear: ‘Quantum Cat Curiosity’ Shirt Posted: 08 Jan 2012 05:00 AM PST The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a design by dv8sheepn inspired by Schrödinger's Cat called "Quantum Cat Curiosity." The sale began at Teefury today, Sunday, January 8, 2012, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]

Netflix Review: The Fighter Posted: 07 Jan 2012 05:00 PM PST The Fighter Netflix Streaming DVD | Blu-Ray Directed by David O. Russell Starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Jack McGee Paramount Pictures Originally Released: December 10, 2010 The Fighter is a boxing movie, featuring Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward and a show-stealing Christian Bale acting as Ward's brother, Dicky Eklund. Based on a true story, the film follows Ward's rise in the sport, while focusing on the inner turmoil of his family members – but ultimately is a tale of fall-from-grace, resulting in deliverance and reconciliation. The film opens with an HBO crew following Eklund, who believes they are following him for "his big comeback" in the ring. He lives for his wonder days of when he himself was boxing, and continually bringing up the time he took down Sugar Ray. In fact, the HBO crew is following Eklund for a different reason – they are making a documentary on crack addiction [...]

New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 2 Video Shows Off Renly Baratheon’s Armor Posted: 07 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST A new production diary from the set of HBO's Game of Thrones has been released, and it shows off the stylish armor that Renly Baratheon (Gethin Anthony) will be wearing in season 2 of the hit show. The video is brief but shows off the very real armor and outfit that was put together for Renly, as well as a glimpse of him and Cat Stark (Michelle Fairley) surely before something is about to go down. [...]

Star Wars Image Shows Just How Commercial Things Have Gotten On Tatooine Posted: 07 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST No one seems to know the original source of the above photo, but I think we can all agree, it's pretty awesome. Captioned "The commercial side of Tatooine," the image shows a Sandcrawler on a populated beach on the desert planet of Tatooine. Sandcrawlers are vehicles in the Star Wars films used by the Jawas to transport droids they find and sell, like C-3PO and R2-D2. The Jawas live on Tatooine -- that's where Luke Skywalker grew up and then later faced Jabba the Hutt in Return Of The Jedi [...]

Tim Burton Wants To Make A Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ With Robert Downey Jr. As Geppetto Posted: 07 Jan 2012 12:43 PM PST Warner Brothers is currently developing a live-action version of the beloved fable Pinocchio, which tells the story of a wooden puppet whose nose grows when he tells a lie and who wishes nothing more than to be a real live boy. The script has already been completed by Bryan Fuller, who has previously written and produced episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, and Heroes, but has no feature film experience as of yet. [...]

Disney Grabs Two-Time Oscar Winner Robert Stromberg To Direct Angelina Jolie In ‘Maleficent’ Posted: 07 Jan 2012 09:47 AM PST It's been a while since we heard about Maleficent, the Walt Disney project that focuses on the villain of their classic animated film Sleeping Beauty, but now the Mouse has a director. With names like Tim Burton rumored to be possibly involved, instead it turns out that Disney has chosen Robert Stromberg to direct the movie, which is being developed as a starring vehicle for Angelina Jolie. [...]

The ‘Walking Dead’ Episode We’ll Probably Never See Now That Frank Darabont Is Gone Posted: 07 Jan 2012 08:01 AM PST It's unclear exactly when former showrunner Frank Darabont's influence will cease to be a part of the hit AMC series The Walking Dead. Darabont "stepped down" back in July (it ultimately turned out that he was fired), which was met by a firestorm of negative criticism and rumors of extremely unhappy (and fearful) cast and crew members who were supposedly forbidden from speaking on the topic or face losing their jobs. The first half of the second season was still pretty excellent, but at some point the Darabont effect will wear off and we as fans will be face-to-face with the answer to a looming question: will new showrunner Glen Mazzara be able to deliver the same level of quality we've come to expect, or will it all come crashing down in true apocalyptic fashion? [...]

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