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Bytes: Helfer on Supernatural
- BATTLESTAR GALACTICIA‘s Tricia Helfer will guest-star in the Feb. 22 episode of The CW’s SUPERNATURAL. [Link]
- NBC has renewed THE OFFICE, MY NAME IS EARL, HEROES, and LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT for the 2007-08 season. [Link]
- Topher Grace will star in the sci-fi thriller film SOURCE CODE. [Link]
- New photos from the upcoming HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. [Link]
- Image Comics will turn Frank Frazetta‘s famous DEATH DEALER painting into a comic book, due out in April. [Link]
- Here’s a Reading Guide to Terry Pratchett‘s DISCWORLD series as well as a review from author James Bow of Discworld novel WINTERSMITH.
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Cylon Babe Bares All
Being a straight, married female, I’m not in the habit of perusing through PLAYBOY. But when a famous cover girl decides to bare all for the mag, I always wonder, will the photos do her justice?
When I found out that Tricia Helfer, who plays the many incarnations of the sexy Cylon model Number Six on the SciFi Channel series BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, would be posing nude in the February 2007 issue, I knew I had to check it out.
The cover shot has Helfer bareback and showing a hint of booty, but her shoulder-length platinum blonde hair and chiseled facial features are the trademark of her Cylon alter ego, which suggests that her feature spread is more of the same. And while Number Six may be incredibly hot, she’s still a toaster with a coldness only a robot could emit.
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Ringo Starr, Superhero
Press Release
Stan Lee‘s POW! Entertainment has forged a joint venture partnership with Ringo Starr to create and launch an original entertainment franchise. Financed, produced and distributed by IDT Entertainment, the new animation will transform Ringo Starr into an evil-battling, earth-saving (though reluctant) superhero with a great sense of rhythm.
Legendary comic book creator Stan Lee and his new company Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment will develop the superhero project with Ringo and his entertainment company Rocca Bella for television, home entertainment/DVD, publishing and all categories of licensing and merchandising. Production on the animated series will begin in 2005 with a planned DVD roll-out first quarter of 2006.
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Spider-Man Is Back in Black
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
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Marvel Press Release
They say clothes make the man, but when Peter Parker dons the Black Spider-Man costume for the first time since the 1980s, it signifies a dark change for Peter following Civil War. And this time, it may be for good.
This February, in the pages of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Sensational Spider-Man, and Amazing Spider-Man, the Wall-Crawler is back”¦in black! And even in the debut of the ongoing Spider-Man Family #1.
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Bytes: Paltrow Joins Iron Man Cast
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
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- Gwyneth Paltrow will join Robert Downey Jr. and Terrence Howard in the Jon Favreau-directed film IRON MAN, based on the Marvel comics and scheduled for release in theaters May 2008. [Link]
- HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin‘s bestselling fantasy series A SONG OF FIRE AND ICE into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. [Link]
- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Terence Stamp are set to join Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway in the big screen adaptation of GET SMART. [Link]
- The full list of the 2007 Golden Globe award winners. [Link]
- The Golden Globe-winning film for Best Comedy BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN will be released on DVD on March 6. [Link]
- Jennifer Aniston will guest star on the season finale of DIRT, the FX show starring fellow FRIENDS co-star Courteney Cox. The episode will air on March 27 at 10 p.m. [Link]
- Porn star Jenna Jameson wants actress Scarlett Johansson to have the starring role in the film adaptation of her book HOW TO MAKE LOVE LIKE A PORN STAR. [Link]
- Director Mark Steven Johnson said that he has finished the first draft of PREACHER, a pilot for HBO based on the Vertigo Comics series created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillonwith. [Link]
- Titles, synopsis, and casting updates for the two upcoming STARGATE SG-1 movies. [Link]
- Reports are that Walt Disney Pictures is currently in negotiations with the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs to turn the author’s 11-volume JOHN CARTER OF MARS series of books into a motion picture franchise. [Link]
- Ewan McGregor and Richard Griffiths have joined the voice cast of JACKBOOTS ON WHITEHALL, a World War II comedy spoof using action figures to imagine what would have happened if the Germans had won the Battle of Britain. [Link]
- Jim Caviezel, who starred in Mel Gibson‘s PASSION OF THE CHRIST, will reprise the role of JESUS in a 25-hour audio edition of The Bible called THE WORLD OF PROMISE: NEW TESTAMENT AUDIO BIBLE, which will be released in October on 20 CDs. The voice cast will also include Richard Dreyfuss, Marisa Tomei, and Terrence Stamp who will provide the voice of God. [Link]
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