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- Lucasfilm and BioWare announced yesterday that the two companies are working on an MMORPG called Star Wars: The Old Republic.
- Students from Rice University have bioenginnered beer with anticancer properties. Its not a tumor!…its a beergut. The students made yeast that produces the same anti-cancer chemical that is found in wine.
- Two Yale students have written “Darq Knight: The Musical” [sic] which takes the plot of the Dark Knight, sets it to U2 and a few other silly tweaks. It so far has only run once, but perhaps someday the batlight will call the stars to the limelight once again, or a bootleg video will appear on youtube.
- NBC has requested 9 more episodes of Knight Rider, making it a go for a full season.
- Incredible Hulk came out on DVD yesterday and the president of Marvel was quoted as saying “To have all of the Avengers going up against a green goliath? I think that would be very cool to see that on the screen” Something to look forward to perhaps or fear.
- Universal Studios has announced a Transformers the Ride. It will be featuring 3D-HD, special effects and the best robotics you’ve ever seen. The audience is Earth’s humans, caught in the middle of an intergalactic war. The robowarriors will transform in front of your eyes. The rides will be arriving in 2011 in Singapore then Hollywood, no word yet on Florida.
- Borders has significantly cut their purchases of new science fiction, and Borders Central decides what to buy so even stores that sold lots of sci fi will not be getting in new stock. This has led several sci fi writers to debate boycotting Borders but nothing official declared yet.
- George Rogers Clark High School student William Poole of Lexington Kentucky has been charged with a 2nd degree felony charge terrorist threatening because of a short story he wrote for English class detailing a zombie attack against his school. Possible over-reaction or does Homeland Security know something we don’t?
- Last weekend NYC’s annual Zombie Con paid special tribute to Wall Street and dessicated retirement plans everywhere as the zombie horde crawled over the Wall Street bull.
- Speaking of the zed-word, Star Trek: The Experience will not die. After it closed down in the Las Vegas Hilton last month, Ted Newkirk (yes thats his real name), owner of the Neon-opolis a shopping and entertainment area is interested in saving The Experience. Negotiations are ongoing but with the opening of JJ Abrams new Star Trek movie, this could be a lucrative deal.
- Bryan Fuller of Pushing Daisies has approached JJ Abrams about a new Star Trek franchise. Fuller also wrote for Voyager, but says it missed the fun of the original 60′s.
- After realizing the reception to the latest Dragonball trailer was more like Dragon Eunuch, Fox has ordered several reshoots for the movie. Piccolo will probably still not be green. The reshoots for Dragonball start on October 30th and they’re seeking Tibetan- and Nepalese-speaking actors.
- As was reported last week, Terrence Howard will not be joining the cast of Iron Man 2, what was not reported was that he found out the same way we did, from a trade publication. That’s the equivalent of your girlfriend changing her facebook status to single.
- After a legal battle, Andre Nortons caretaker Sue Stewart will retain the rights to current published works royalties while Dr. Victor Horadam will gain rights over unpublished works.
- Spamalot is scheduled to play its last performance at the Shubert Theatre Jan. 18, 2009. It will have played 1,582 performances and 35 previews by the end of its Broadway run.
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