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• Deal: Bettie Page Pint Glass Set
• Geek Gear: Star Wars ‘Raiders of the Galactic Empire’ Shirt
• Sullivan Stapleton To Star In ’300: Battle Of Artemisia’
• Morgan Freeman Joins Tom Cruise in Joseph Kosinski’s Futuristic Epic ‘Oblivion’
• Hammer Films Picks Jack The Ripper Thriller ‘Gaslight’
• ‘Smallville’ To Be Revived With Season 11 Digital Comic
• Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn To Become ‘Interns’ For Shawn Levy
• ‘Game Of Thrones’ Star Kit Harington Joins ‘The Seventh Son’
• ‘Makeshift Miracle’ Gets Collected In May By UDON
• Finally! A ‘Star Wars’ Edition of Scene It? Coming In 2012
• Check Out This New One-Minute ‘John Carter’ TV Spot
• New Writers Tapped To Re-Write ‘Karate Kid’ Sequel and ‘The Jetsons’
• Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone Will Co-Star In ‘The Tomb’
• Peter Jackson Adds ‘Boondock Saints’ Star Billy Connolly To ‘The Hobbit’

Deal: Bettie Page Pint Glass Set Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:50 AM PST The deal of the day over at Things From Another World today is a Bettie Page Pint Glass Set set from Dark Horse for only $17.49 (that's 30% off the list price of $24.99). The set comes with 4 pint glasses, each with a different image of the famous 1950s pin-up girl Bettie Page. Note - this deal is only for today, Friday, February 10, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last (and at TFAW, supplies don't last so grab this now if you want it at a discounted price). Looking around TFAW, I see that they have a lot of great Bettie Page items, like this Bettie Page: Girl of Our Dreams Mini Statue by Dave Stevens, which is discounted right now to $35.99 (down from $59.99). Click here for more Bettie Page-related items like shirts, stickers, pens, stationery, coasters, and more, including graphic novels, available at TFAW [...]

Geek Gear: Star Wars ‘Raiders of the Galactic Empire’ Shirt Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:20 AM PST The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is a mash-up of Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark called "Raiders of the Galactic Empire" by studown. The sale began at RIPT today, Friday, February 10, 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 [...]

Sullivan Stapleton To Star In ’300: Battle Of Artemisia’ Posted: 09 Feb 2012 06:00 PM PST First a director, and then a new name, and now finally a star, the upcoming film 300: Battle Of Artemisia has finally gotten some momentum. THR is reporting that Animal Kingdom star and indie darling Sullivan Stapleton has joined the cast of the 300 follow-up, and will star as Xerxes, who leads an army against the forces of Greek general Themistokles. Stapleton will next be seen in WB's Gangster Squad [...]

Morgan Freeman Joins Tom Cruise in Joseph Kosinski’s Futuristic Epic ‘Oblivion’ Posted: 09 Feb 2012 05:00 PM PST Oscar-winning acting legend (and go-to man for stentorian narration) Morgan Freeman has signed on to join the cast of Universal Pictures' Oblivion, the upcoming epic sci-fi adventure from Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski. The film, based on a comic book series created by Kosinski for Radical Publishing, takes place in a future where the surface of Earth has become too irradiated and infested by hostile aliens known as Scavengers to be inhabited by humans. Thus the remnants of mankind have taken to living in the clouds. But when a surface drone repairman named Jak discovers a mysterious woman in a crashed pod he is forced to question everything he has ever known [...]

Hammer Films Picks Jack The Ripper Thriller ‘Gaslight’ Posted: 09 Feb 2012 04:10 PM PST With the recent release of their latest picture, The Woman In Black, Hammer Films is on one hell of a roll. THR is reporting that the company has nabbed up the rights to the thriller Gaslight, penned by writer Ian Fried. The project, which was recently put on last year's Black List, is compared to films like From Hell, and follows Jack The Ripper, who is "secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, is called upon to help Scotland Yard solve a series of murders." [...]

‘Smallville’ To Be Revived With Season 11 Digital Comic Posted: 09 Feb 2012 03:26 PM PST DC Comics announced today that they will be going back to Smallville to bring fans of the show an eleventh season in digital comic book form this April. Smallville: Season 11 will be a weekly digital comic penned by show writer, comic scribe, and personal favorite Bryan Q. Miller that goes deeper into Clark Kent's first year as Superman while still using the mythos set up in the televised series. All of the characters that fans of the show know and love will still be major players in the series including Lois Lane, Oliver Queen (Green Arrow), Chloe Sullivan-Queen, General Lane, and many more [...]

Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn To Become ‘Interns’ For Shawn Levy Posted: 09 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST Fan of Wedding Crashers and have been looking forward to the day to see the pair of Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn back together again? Well, Vulture has just made your day. The outlet reports that the pair will star in the new film, Interns, for director Shawn Levy. The film will be on its way to the big screen thanks to Fox, and will feature a script penned by Vaughn himself. Interns will follow two company men who find themselves laid off, leading them to try and re-route their careers by becoming interns at a Google-like dotcom company. One there, they'll have to compete with eager 20-somethings to get the advancement they're after. [...]

‘Game Of Thrones’ Star Kit Harington Joins ‘The Seventh Son’ Posted: 09 Feb 2012 01:00 PM PST Apparently people love themselves some Game of Thrones. Variety reports that Game of Thrones star Kit Harington has joined the cast of the new fantasy film, The Seventh Son along with Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, and Alicia Vikander [...]

‘Makeshift Miracle’ Gets Collected In May By UDON Posted: 09 Feb 2012 12:00 PM PST Web comics are a wonderful thing. There are a variety of style that show anywhere from a single comic panel, strip, or full page with a host of topics and plots to choose from. One recent approach to web comics was that of Jim Zub (Skullkickers), Shun Hong Chan, and UDON with their recent web based comic Makeshift Miracle: The Girl From Nowhere, which is now getting collected and will be released in May. There's plenty to talk about with the specifics of the story of Makeshift Miracle and the all new hardcover presentation, but before we get into that, I want to tell you why Makeshift Miracle caught my eyes in the first place. [...]

Finally! A ‘Star Wars’ Edition of Scene It? Coming In 2012 Posted: 09 Feb 2012 11:00 AM PST I love playing Scene It?, the popular board/pop culture question game. Why do I love it, you ask? Because, depending on the subject matter of the particular edition played at the time, I DOMINATE! Put in The Simpsons or the Seinfeld editions and I will own your ass and send you crying home to mommy. Which is why I'm so excited that Screenlife, creators of the Scene It? games have announced that they will at long last be producing a Star Wars edition of the game, and yet another edition in which I will dominate. This new edition will see release sometime in the Fall of 2012. [...]

Check Out This New One-Minute ‘John Carter’ TV Spot Posted: 09 Feb 2012 10:00 AM PST Hot on the heels of the recent Super Bowl TV spot Walt Disney Pictures released another preview for their sci-fi adventure John Carter last night during the premiere of the ABC series The River. You can check it out here below [...]

New Writers Tapped To Re-Write ‘Karate Kid’ Sequel and ‘The Jetsons’ Posted: 09 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST Can't wait for a sequel to The Karate Kid or a live action Jetsons film? Well, it appears as though you're going to have to, as they both have gotten a new writer. According to Variety, Sony has tapped Zak Penn to rewrite their upcoming sequel to the huge hit that was the Karate Kid remake, and the pair of Evan Susser and Van Robichaux (the pair behind the Black Listed Chewie) have been hired to re-write The Jetsons. [...]

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone Will Co-Star In ‘The Tomb’ Posted: 09 Feb 2012 08:00 AM PST It's been almost a month since we first reported the rumor that Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, one time rivals at the box office and future partners in the chintzy theme restaurant business, were looking to co-star together in the action thriller The Tomb for director Mikael Hafstrom (1408). Now, the rumor has been confirmed, as an official statement was released regarding the plans for the project, which will be released by Summit Entertainment in North America. [...]

Peter Jackson Adds ‘Boondock Saints’ Star Billy Connolly To ‘The Hobbit’ Posted: 09 Feb 2012 07:00 AM PST Though production began long ago and we already have a wonderful first trailer to watch (a couple hundred times...per day), director Peter Jackson still had some casting to get done for his two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic, The Hobbit. It's being reported that Jackson has brought in Billy Connolly as the final addition to the cast. He'll play the great dwarf warrior and cousin to Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), Dain Ironfoot. [...]

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