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- James Whitmore, President of the Assembly in the original Planet of the Apes, passed away Friday afternoon from lung cancer. He was 87.
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. The parody of the English novel is due to be published in April with Hollywood studios already bidding to turn the new book into a blockbuster movie.
- Michael Bay claims that the Transformers sequel will be “darker and more epic” than the first and that the crew has been working hard to make the robots emote more.
- Original Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama says he said “Huh?” when he first read the new movie’s script but says good people are working on it.
- The most long-awaited movie in science fiction, James Cameron’s decade-in-the-making Avatar, is hitting France and Belgium on December 16. It only opens in the United States two days later, on the 18th. In the tradition of Psi Phi – French enmity this must not stand!
- Using just $350 of off-the-shelf technology, Pranav Mistry created a wearable computer for the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab. His device converts any surface – including the human body – into a touchpad that controls a mobile computer in your pocket.
- The team behind kickass Vikings vs. aliens flick Outlander, Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain, have been hired to write Zombies of Mass Destruction, a flick about an army of zombies in the Middle East. Based on a comic book by Underworld’s Kevin Grevioux it is being produced by the Benderspink company which is also working on Y the Last Man.
- Hayden Panettierre is denying rumors that she intends to leave Heroes before her contract is up. The rumor was that either she or Ali Larter wanted out. Larter has not responded to the rumor yet.
- NCsoft’s doomed MMO Tabula Rasa may only have weeks to live, but the developers are making those weeks count, with giant player-controlled mechs storming the title’s final moments. The game’s deathday is February 28th, but the team behind the title continue to show their dedication to the game’s dwindling fanbase by patching in the promised player-controlled mech robots at the last moment.
- Valve announced today that the recently unveiled Left 4 Dead Survival pack for the 360 and PC will be free. The pack, due this spring, introduces a new multiplayer game mode entitled, Survival, plus two complete campaigns for Versus Mode (Death Toll, Dead Air). A Critic’s Choice Edition of the game will be heading to retail stores this spring, and will include access to all the content introduced in the L4D: Survival Pack.
- Cartoon Network has picked up a second season of animated hit series “Star Wars.” The half-hour show debuted to the Network’s highest ratings ever and has since been the top-rated show in its Friday-evening time period in all of television for all boys demographics.
- Warner Brothers has purchased the right to “Inception” a science fiction script written by Batman’s Christopher Nolan. Nolan will produce with Emma Thomas, his longtime producing partner.
- Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Eddie Izzard, Jason Priestley and Vanessa Redgrave have signed on to star in the BBC miniseries “Day of the Triffids”. Law and Order writer Patrick Harbinson penned the script based on John Wyndham’s bestselling 1951 novel. Triffids is set in the not-too-distant future, when scientists create and cultivate a plant called the triffid that provides an alternative fuel supply with devastating results.
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