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Geek Gear: Pee-Wee ‘Mr. Herman’s Bike Adventure Tours’ Shirt
Geek Gear: Doctor Who/Peanuts ‘Whonuts’ Shirt
‘The Darkness’ Gets An International Distributor; Mary Elizabeth Winstead To Star
Naomi Watts To Play Princess Diana In ‘Caught In Flight’
Comic Review: Doctor Who Classics, Series 4 #1
Check Out This Ultra-Cool and Bloody ‘Machete Kills’ Sales Poster
Ridley Scott To Direct Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Counselor’ Next; Michael Fassbender To Star?
Cliff Burton: Celebrate What Would Have Been Metallica Bassist’s 50th Birthday
Remake Of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca’ On the Way
‘Star Wars’ Fans Can Turn To The Dark Side Using The ‘Book Of Sith’
Schwarzenegger & Stallone Ready For ‘The Tomb’ With Shoulder Surgery
George Lucas Says Han Never Shot First; Star Wars ‘Just A Movie’
The Drill Down: A Slippery Path

Geek Gear: Pee-Wee ‘Mr. Herman’s Bike Adventure Tours’ Shirt

Posted: 11 Feb 2012 05:50 AM PST

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is a Pee-Wee Herman-themed shirt called "Mr Herman's Bike Tour Adventures" by Bamboota.

The sale at RIPT began today, Saturday, February 11, 2012, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]

Geek Gear: Doctor Who/Peanuts ‘Whonuts’ Shirt

Posted: 11 Feb 2012 04:50 AM PST

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today takes the 11 Doctors of Doctor Who and transforms them into Peanuts-style characters in "Whonuts" by queenmob.

The sale began at Teefury today, Saturday, February 11, 2011, 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 [...]

‘The Darkness’ Gets An International Distributor; Mary Elizabeth Winstead To Star

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 05:00 PM PST

SDCC 2010: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Panel: Mary Elizabeth Winstead

From Sunshine Cleaning to a hotly anticipated thriller? That's apparently what writer Megan Holley has done with her latest bit of writing.

Screen Daily is reporting that HanWay has picked up the international rights to Holley's thriller The Darkness, which is set to star Mary Elizabeth Winstead with Daniel Stamm aboard as director.

The film follows the story of "a young American student working for a charismatic tutor in an English manor house who becomes convinced that she and the children she is warding are being haunted." [...]

Naomi Watts To Play Princess Diana In ‘Caught In Flight’

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

Nothing says a director is growing quite like jumping from a Hitler biopic to a biography of one of the most beloved princesses the world has ever known.

That's the trajectory for Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel, as he begins to prepare his upcoming Princess Diana biopic, Caught In Flight, now with a brand new actress. Deadline reports that Naomi Watts will be starring in the film, replacing Jessica Chastain. The film is currently being sold at the Berlinale, so more news on this project should be coming fast. [...]

Comic Review: Doctor Who Classics, Series 4 #1

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:00 PM PST

Doctor Who Classics, Series 4 #1
Written by Alan McKenzie
Original Art by John Ridgway
Colors by Charlie Kirchoff
Covers by John Ridgway and Charlie Kirchoff
IDW Publishing
Release Date: February 01, 2012
Cover Price: $3.99

Talk about a blast from the past. Doctor Who Classics Series 4 #1 is a republication of the original Doctor Who comic book series as first released in Doctor Who Magazine. Younger fans of the original television series who have viewed the DVD releases may recall some special features dealing specifically with these comic strips.

Classics Series 4 undertakes the interesting era of the Colin Baker years. During his time as the sixth incarnation of the Doctor, the television series was under threat of cancellation, an ever-increasing strain on budget availability, and a rising dissatisfaction from many fans as their criticisms of the John Nathan-Turner showrunner years would reach their peak [...]

Check Out This Ultra-Cool and Bloody ‘Machete Kills’ Sales Poster

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:00 PM PST

The other day we reported that Robert Rodriguez was working on a sequel to his 2010 action splatterfest Machete called Machete Kills that would reunite the director with his longtime collaborator and Machete leading man Danny Trejo, and that he was planning to begin filming pretty soon.

Today we are bring you your first look at a promotional poster for Machete Kills that will premiere at the European Film Market this week.

You can check it out here below. [...]

Ridley Scott To Direct Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Counselor’ Next; Michael Fassbender To Star?

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:00 PM PST

Back in January it was reported that Cormac McCarthy, author of books that would one day become movies such as No Country For Old Men and The Road, had sold his first spec script, titled The Counselor.

You might not expect to hear about such a project again for an extended period of time while it's being developed and pieces are put into place, but instead the movie progresses rapidly. [...]

Cliff Burton: Celebrate What Would Have Been Metallica Bassist’s 50th Birthday

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:52 AM PST

Today, February 10, 2012, would have been Cliff Burton's 50th birthday.

The revered Metallica bassist played on the band's first three albums -- Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets. His charging, finger-picking basslines added much to the early Metallica and thrash metal music sound.

Burton was tragically killed almost 26 years ago when Metallica was on a European tour to support the Master Of Puppets album. The tour bus skidded off the road and crashed in southern Sweden killing Burton aged just 24 [...]

Remake Of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca’ On the Way

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:00 AM PST

Another day, another remake on the way.

It's being reported that DreamWorks Pictures and Working Title Films will be remaking one of Alfred Hitchcock's many classics, the Best Picture winner from 1940, Rebecca, which starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.

Screenwriter Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) has been hired to pen the script, and he will be going back to the original novel of the same name by author Daphne du Maurier. [...]

‘Star Wars’ Fans Can Turn To The Dark Side Using The ‘Book Of Sith’

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:00 AM PST

Back in 2010, Lucasfilm put out a wonderful release called The Jedi Path: A Manual For Students Of The Force. The notion was to make a book that would have been used by Jedi Masters and Padawans as a reference manual – a book contained within an electronic vault that would open at the push of a button "in a wash of light and Star Wars sound effects". For those of you who have a predilection for the Dark Side though, you're in luck: the Sith version is now coming.

Entitled Book Of Sith: Secrets Of The Dark Side, which was released today, is similar in nature to the previous Jedi version. [...]

Schwarzenegger & Stallone Ready For ‘The Tomb’ With Shoulder Surgery

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST

Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger

It was confirmed yesterday that Expendables 2 co-stars and longtime friends Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone would be reteaming for the director Mikael Hafstrom's The Tomb.

The Tomb will be shot in Louisiana this Spring, so how did these two action icons get ready for their next big-screen effort? With some buddy shoulder surgeries!

Schwarzenegger tweeted a photo of Stallone and himself in hospital gowns lying side-by-side hospital beds awaiting their turns for shoulder surgery. Check out the photo, which the former California governor posted to his Who Say account, here below [...]

George Lucas Says Han Never Shot First; Star Wars ‘Just A Movie’

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:01 AM PST

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Star Wars creator George Lucas talked about his view on making changes to his fan favorite films, and goes so far as to say that "it's just a movie."

The filmmaker, who is the mastermind behind the Star Wars mega-franchise, which includes six big-screen live-action movies, has come under fire for decades now due to his propensity to make changes to the films, much to fans' dismay. In the interview, Lucas said while other movies gets revisions over time without backlash, when he makes "the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world."

One of the most controversial alterations Lucas made was having Greedo the bounty hunter shoot first in his confrontation with the smuggling space pilot Han Solo in the first Star Wars film (Episode IV: A New Hope). Now, Lucas is saying that it was always Greedo who shot first, we just didn't see it [...]

The Drill Down: A Slippery Path

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:00 AM PST

This week, The Drill Down team talks about online services that collect personal information to provide a more customized experience (including mobile app Path, which was recently discovered to upload your mobile address book to its servers without permission)...and the fine line between personalization and invasion of privacy.

But first, this week's headlines: We talk about a Best Buy ad featuring notable innovators of tech, Avid brings its editing software to the iPad, leaked features of Windows Phone 8, Amazon plans to open a chain of brick-and-mortar stores, Apple sued in China over use of the name 'iPad', Google develops HUD IP-connected goggles, and Slate gets more views by publishing less [...]