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HBO Announces Season 3 Start Dates For ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ ‘Treme’

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Boardwalk Empire

HBO has announced the dates that Boardwalk Empire and Treme will return to your TVs, both entering into their third seasons, respectively.

Boardwalk Empire, which stars Steve Buscemi as corrupt politician Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, is set to begin its 12-episode season 3 on Sunday, September 16th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. The show also stars Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham, Jack Huston, Stephen Graham, Michael Stuhlbarg, Vincent Piazza, Paul Sparks, Michael KennethWilliams, Gretchen Mol, and Bobby Cannavale. [...]

New Release Dates Announced For ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2′

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 05:03 PM PDT

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

This new tradition of splitting the final film adaptation of a final book is a great way to rake in some box office returns. Of course sometimes cutting it into two parts may have its drawbacks, but fans will return to see how it all ends.

For a long time, we've known that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay would be split into two parts. Now thanks to Deadline, we know what the release dates are for the film. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will be released on November 22, 2013. Then The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 will be released November 21, 2014 while its follow up, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 will be out a year later, November 20, 2015 [...]

Square Enix Bringing ‘Hitman: Absolution,’ ‘Tomb Raider’ & More To Comic-Con

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Hitman

Gaming giant Square Enix is bringing a video game party to this year's San Diego Comic-Con, which gets started later this week.

The company has a pile of new titles they're excited to show off, including two of the most anticipated upcoming games in Hitman: Absolution and Tomb Raider, which will be made available for hands-on demonstrations, the first time people will get the chance to try the games out for themselves. [...]

Contest: $50 ‘Cash Cab’ Giveaway, Round 2

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Cash Cab Visa prizing

Our last Cash Cab giveaway was such a rousing success that we've been given another opportunity to make one of our smart & sexy Geeks of Doom readers a lil' bit richer! One of you lucky geeks shall receive a $50 Visa Cash Card courtesy of the fine folks at MGM.

Howzaboutdat!? Come for the spectacular entertainment news coverage, stay for a fat stack o' cash! amirite?

One (1) winner will receive:

- One (1) $50 Visa Cash Card, courtesy of MGM

TO ENTER: There's just two simple steps:

(1) Go LIKE Geeks of Doom on Facebook. If you're not a Facebook user, alternately, you can follow us on twitter, or subscribe to the Geeks of Doom email digest. Click here to sign up.

(2) Fill out the entry form here below and submit. (Form is here after the jump.)

Good luck! [...]

Free Listen: Hans Zimmer’s ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Soundtrack

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 10:00 AM PDT

The Dark Knight Rises

With less than two weeks to go before the long-awaited release of The Dark Knight Rises, the epic final chapter in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, the film's Hans Zimmer-composed score - due to be released by WaterTower Music next Tuesday - is now streaming in full online for free thanks to the good folks over at the UK movie magazine and site Empire.

You can listen to the soundtrack here below.

Sounds like Zimmer is bringing the sonic thunder once again with a fantastic score that features many callbacks to his collaborations with James Newton Howard on the scores for Batman Begins and The Dark Knight as well as his score for Nolan's previous film Inception. The most prevalent motif in the score is Zimmer's theme for the character of Bane (Tom Hardy), a symphony of brooding and ominous tones building to a climax of complete chaos. The track "The Fire Rises" at times recalls the "Mombaasa" cue from Inception and it's good to hear Zimmer and Newton's Batman Begins theme about 2.5 minutes into "Despair." [...]

Remembering The Late Great Singer Ronnie James Dio On His Birthday

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Ronnie James Dio

Today is the celebration of the birthday of the late Ronnie James Dio, the heavy metal and hard rock singer and songwriter who carved his own niche into those aforementioned genres to become a figure as beloved as Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath) or Rob Halford (Judas Priest). But in many ways, Dio's sound, fan base, versatility, and flawless voice, which metaphorically could move mountains with its rich high and low registers, stands alone as arguably the greatest heavy metal front man of all time.

He was born Ronald James Padavona on July 10th, 1942 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Italian parents. Music ran through his veins early on in his life, learning brass instruments first such as the trumpet and French horn. [...]

Image Comics Advance Previews, July 11, 2012

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 08:30 AM PDT

Image Comics Previews, July 11, 2012

Check out these 7-Page advance preview galleries of the Image comics hitting store shelves tomorrow, July 11, 2012 - including 8 covers for The Walking Dead #100!

Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #6
Chew: Secret Agent Poyo #1
Dancer #3
Enormous (one-shot)
Hoax Hunters #1
Li'l Depressed Boy #12
Peter Panzerfaust #5
Planetoid #2
Revival #1
The Walking Dead #100
Wild Children (one-shot)
Youngblood #72 [...]

Love ‘The Walking Dead’? Going To Comic-Con? You Might Want To Read This

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 08:00 AM PDT

The Walking Dead Walker Ear Necklace

AMC's fantastic horror series The Walking Dead is aiming to have a huge presence at the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con as they try and inject fans with more excitement for season 3 of the show, which arrives this October.

For those who missed it, Activision recently announced that they would be publishing a brand new first-person Walking Dead video game currently being developed by Terminal Reality where you'll play as Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) as he and his brother Merle (Michael Rooker) make their way to Atlanta before most of the events of season 1.

Now comes a couple more announcements that should be exciting to those of you heading to Comic-Con---one related to the game (for a very lucky few), and another related to Michonne. [...]

Christopher Nolan Says He Will Not Produce ‘Justice League’ Or Reincarnated Batman Films

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 07:00 AM PDT

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan has changed the way we look at Batman now and forever. A more grounded approach gave audiences a more believable hero that can exist in the real world. Previously the director has said that The Dark Knight Rises will be his last film in the Batman trilogy. Now Nolan has gone on to say that he won't be producing any more Batman-related films or the Justice League movie.

Entertainment Weekly asked Nolan if he was interested in at least producing future incarnations of Batman, to which Nolan replied no, and added, "We're finished with all we're doing with Batman. This is the end of our take on this character." [...]

IDW Advance Previews, July 11, 2012

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 06:15 AM PDT

Geek Gear: Batman ‘Bat Country’ Shirt

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 05:50 AM PDT

Batman Bat Country shirt

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a Batman-themed shirt with a nod to Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas called "Bat Country" by harebrained.

The sale began at Teefury today, Tuesday, July 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 for $10 anymore, though it might continue into the next day for $13 (look for the After Hours bar at the top) [...]

Geek Gear: Portal Meets Madmen In ‘Portal Men’

Posted: 10 Jul 2012 05:30 AM PDT

Portal Madmen Portal Men

The t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is a mash-up of Mad Men and Portal called "Portal Men" by shumaza.

The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Tuesday, July 10, 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 [...]

Gloriously Gruesome Preview Of ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 3 Shows Michonne In Action

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 06:17 PM PDT

The Walking Dead Michonne

Anyone who's a fan of Robert Kirkman's comic book The Walking Dead and the hit AMC series of the same name was given a jolt of excitement at the end of season 2 with the reveal of Michonne (being played by Danai Gurira) and the prison.

Last night on a special summer episode of The Talking Dead, season 3 of the show was previewed before AMC aired the pilot episode in black and white. [...]

How Charles Dickens’ ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’ Inspired Script For ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Posted: 09 Jul 2012 02:39 PM PDT

The Dark Knight Rises

We are a little under two weeks away from the release of The Dark Knight Rises and needless to say, we are all very anxious about what we will see. But if you want to know how the story of the film came to be, all you have to do is grab a Charles Dickens' book.

This past weekend, the press junket for The Dark Knight Rises was held, and during an interview with Coming Soon, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan spoke about how Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, not the Occupy Movement, was the inspiration for the script for The Dark Knight Rises [...]

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