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- The Wolverine prequel raked in 87 million opening weekend and is getting a sequel. The next chapter in Wolverines life will follow the Japan story arc established in the comic.
- Actor Dom Deluise passed away in his sleep last night, he was 75.
- The Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas is slowly reopening. The entertainment plaza shut down last year, but due to the resurgence in Trekkies, it will see new life, starting this week just in time for the movie debut. It will open in stages, becoming fully active in 2010.
- Majel Rodenberry, late widow to Gene Rodenberry, has established a 4 million dollar trust fund for her dogs. The money comes partly from her voice work on the Star Trek light dimmer.
- 30 Days Of Night director David Slade is learning the fine art of back peddling. He signed on to direct the Twilight sequel, after admitting in an interview that he wouldn’t see Twilight at gun-point. Now his tune is “Of course, I have since seen the movie and read the books and was quickly consumed with the rich storytelling and the beautifully honest characters that Stephenie Meyer created.”
- Two physicists have published an academic paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist, since they would almost immediately deplete their entire food supply (a.k.a, all of us).
- Hugh Jackman is staying with comic books for his next project: an adaptation of a graphic novel by the creator of Earthworm Jim. Jackman is teaming with Disney for a movie version of Ghostopolis, an upcoming graphic novel by Doug Tennapel that centers around a man who spent his life sending ghosts back to the afterlife having to rescue a living child from there, instead.
- Chuck is still on the NBC bubble for next season. The shows fate has yet to be undecided due to the tragic sudden death of an NBC executive on the set of a new pilot. The death has caused several delays in announcing next seasons schedules.
- Warners have picked up the rights to adapt Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s suspenseful 12 volume series about a teenager who ends up in possession of a notebook that allows him to murder anyone anywhere in the world, as long as he has seen them and knows their real name, according to Variety, and are clearly looking at the potential for a franchise; the movie will, apparently, only adapt the first quarter of the series.
- Yesterday was Star Wars Day, happy belated May the Fourth be With You.
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