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- According to Electronic Arts, China will be getting an exclusive Dungeon Keeper MMO. Chinese studio NetDragon Websoft has made a deal for the license in China, and will develop the game. No other info was made available at the announcement.
- CBS has ordered the “back 5″ episodes for the new show the Eleventh Hour, giving it a full season of 18 shows, instead of the normal 22. The speculated reason for the odd number is the networks unhappiness at the show’s lack of retention of the CSI lead in audience, however Eleventh Hour still remains the 2nd most viewed new show. The Mentalist is number 1.
- Guillermo Del Toro is going to direct the stop-motion feature adaptation of Roald Dahl’s fantastic novel The Witches, where a small boy gets trapped in a hotel while the annual convention of witches is taking place.
- The new movie Suck follows the misadventures of an optimistically named rock band, The Winners, seemingly doomed to obscurity. Their fortunes change thanks to a meeting with a vampire (played by Dimitri Coats of Burning Brides), and they find themselves enjoying their newfound fame, at least until the bloodlust kicks in. Called “Spinal Tap meets The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” it’s really the cast that makes this one to watch. The Kids in the Hall alum Dave Foley plays The Winners’ manager, and Malcolm McDowell appears as a vampire hunter who’s afraid of the dark. Moby plays on his vegan reputation as the lead singer of a rival band called the Secretaries of Steak (the meat not the wood). Iggy Pop takes on the role of a music producer, and Alice Cooper is a sinister, bloodsucking bartender.
- STOP THE PRESSES STOP THE WORLD. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com, the dvd itself is due out Dec 19, go now to our website and order it through our amazon link.
- Fox is ending its long tradition of saturday morning cartoons and is instead going to be running infomercials in the time slot. But not really infomercials Fox Networks Group chairman Tony Vinciquerra said “These will be longform programs that highlights their product. In that regard, it will have a little better quality.” So….infomercials.
- Alien Western, a sci-fi television film about giant, vicious, alien bugs that come to earth to gorge themselves on the uranium deposits found in the ground of an Old West town, began principal photography this week in Romania starring James Marsters as Sam Danville, an outlaw who is about to be hanged when the aliens land.
- Hey you guys! Corey Feldman has claimed that The Goonies 2 is “just not to be” but to cover his bases, immediately followed with “Course now that I’ve said that they’ll do it.” No word on Lost Boys 3.
- George Lucas’s senior thesis film from USC has been found. A Man and His Car, focused solely on Peter Brock and his Lotus 23 race car. Also knows as 1:42:08, the short is essentially a quickly edited representation of a racecar driver testing his vehicle. You can find it online.
- ABC has scheduled crime drama “Castle,” starring Nathan Fillion, to air Monday nights at 10 p.m. starting March 9.
- Director and former world karate and kickboxing champion, Lexi Alexander has just finished her new film Punisher: War Zone and now has her eyes set on Jonah Hex, a Western comic book anti-hero created by writer John Albano and artist Tony DeZuniga and published by DC Comics.
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