Amazon just began their weeklong Black Friday sales, which means every day this week new items will be up for sale, along with “Lightning Deals” that are on sale for a few hours at a time. Some new video game deals have gone up today. On happening right now is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Game of the Year edition for $25 – that’s 50% that list price of $49.99. Hurry, this deal ends by 3pm EST today or before that if supplies run out.

Also, Amazon’s exclusive edition of the for Ghostbusters: The Video Game – Slimer Edition for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, or Nintendo Wii is on sale now for only $29.75 (that’s 57% off the list price of $69.99 and is the lowest sale price I’ve seen for the product ever!). Be sure to select the “Slimer Edition” before checkout.

This video game features the voices of the original cast from the classic Ghostbusters films, including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson, with Aykroyd and Ramis providing the script and storyline for the game [...]

Amazon has launched today their weeklong Black Friday Sale, where each day this week, items will be drastically reduced in price.

All the items up for grabs are limited time only and limited supply, which means if you see it and want it, buy it immediately before either the sale ends or all items are claimed.

Each day will have all-day sales, as well as Lightning Deals, which have an even smaller sale window. I’ve listed some upcoming Lightning Deals here below and I’ll add more to it soon.

Check out today’s DVD/Blu-ray Sale, which has several Harry Potter Blu-ray editions on sale, as well as Blu-ray editions of The Boondock Saints, Batman Begins, and Quantum of Solace [...]

It’s being reported that Peter Iliff has been brought in to pen a brand new feature film in which the world famous American Gladiators become superheroes. The movie is said to be based on the TV show we’re all familiar with that began in 1988 and recently came back for a short two-season run. No word on if Gladiators like Nitro, Malibu, Zap, Lace, or some of the newer ones like Crush, Wolf, or Titan will actually star in the film, or if they will cast new faces. It will be produced by Scott Mednick.

Iliff isn’t exactly a household name, but the man has brought us some decent titles over the years. He first wrote the popular action movie Point Break (and a possible future sequel called Point Break Indo), which starred a young Keanu Reeves and the late Patrick Swayze. He then went on to write Harrison Ford’s Patriot Games, the high school football flick Varsity Blues, and Under Suspicion with Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. Mednick also has an impressive resume of producing jobs that includes Superman Returns, Beerfest, 300, We Are Marshall, and Where the Wild Things Are. [...]

Today marks the 46th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. There’s been much speculation over the years about the truth behind Kennedy’s assassination, as well as what the country and its global relations would have been like if Kennedy had lived.

Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived, a new documentary from director Koji Masutani, explores the “What If?” scenario, Would the U.S. have been involved in the Vietnam War if Kennedy was not assassinated in 1963? The documentary, which was recently released on DVD, contains rare and archival footage, and offers insight into Kennedy’s political decisions.

In the coming weeks, our friends over at Movie Geeks United will have Masutani on their show talking about Virtual JFK, so be on the lookout for that. Check out the synopsis and trailer for the documentary here [...]

With the premiere of Twilight: New Moon this past weekend, the film’s stars have been making the talk show rounds in promotion of the Twilight sequel.

Last week, star Taylor Lautner went on the Jay Leno Show to debut a new clip from the film, while Kristen Stewart sat down with Conan O’Brien on The Tonight Show. [Read Video: Taylor Lautner Debuts ‘New Moon’ Clip On ‘Jay Leno Show’ + Kristen Stewart on ‘The Tonight Show’.]

Now, there’s a whole new set of videos — all of which you can watch here below — of the talk show interviews with Lautner and Stewart, as well as with Robert Pattinson, Dakota Fanning, and Kellen Lutz.

Watch the entire episode of the interview with Stewart, Pattinson, and Lautner from Jimmy Kimmell Live, which is especially funny, though if you’re not a die-hard Twilight fan, skip the end part where audience members ask the young stars embarrassing, inappropriate questions. Also, see Part 3 of Lautner’s appearance with on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon where the two of them race mini bikes — seriously, VERY funny, I laughed so hard I got the hiccups [...]

Reports have been coating the Internet over the past few days that a new movie is being made based on the multi-platform video game, Dark Void, and that mega-star Brad Pitt could possibly star in the lead role. Reliance Entertainment and Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment have officially acquired the rights to the property and are currently developing the idea.

There’s a tiny bit of a problems with stories like this, however, as none of it is nearly as likely as it sounds through the eyes. First, and most importantly, is the fact that Dark Void is a video game that no one knows much about yet — it could be the greatest game ever made, it could be the worst ever made; no one will really know until the game is released in January. The two studios will do their best to develop a good strategy, for sure, but until they see how it does and how the story plays to audiences, this is still a project that might not even happen. [...]

The Gold Box deal of the day over at Amazon today is the classic 1960s television series The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan, on recently re-released Collector’s Edition DVD and Blu-ray.

The Blu-ray edition is on sale for $40.99 (that’s 59% off the list price of $99.95); the Collector’s Edition DVD set is on sale for $28.99 (that’s 59% off the list price of $69.95).

The Blu-ray release contains a high definition restoration and sound re-mix of the series’ original 17 episodes, and both versions include tons of bonus material like a feature-length documentary, featurettes, rare footage, audio commentaries, and much more.

Note, this sale is valid only for today (Nov. 22) while supplies last [...]

Last month we learned that Eclipse, the third book in author Stephenie Meyer’s popular vampire series Twilight, had heightened awareness of the classic Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights. [Read ‘Twilight’ Gives Boost To ‘Wuthering Heights’.]

In Eclipse it is revealed that Brontë’s 1847 novel is a favorite of Bella’s, the main character in the Twilight series.

Now, Hulu is streaming the 1939 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights online for free to residents of the United States. (You can watch the entire film here below.)

The black and white film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starred Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Catherine. Both the film and the book are worth checking out, but this film takes some liberties, not surprisingly [...]

In their “Countdown to Black Friday” event, Amazon is currently giving $40 store credit when you purchase a qualifying Hero video game bundle from offered in their Hero Bundle Deal.

For a limited time, buy one of the qualifying games on their lists — a version of Band Hero Super Bundle; DJ Hero Bundle with Turntable; or Guitar Hero 5 Guitar Bundle Game — and you’ll get $40 Amazon store credit. Bundles are available for Xbox 360, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii.

The offer is only for qualifying titles shipped and sold by Amazon (meaning, NOT a third-party listing on Amazon), and is limited to one per customer. Offer ends on November 27, 2009 11:59 PM Pacific time [...]

Up until now, we had only seen a mediocre teaser trailer for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, but now the first full trailer is online and it definitely gives you a better idea of what the movie is looking to become.

The movie is directed by Chris Columbus, who also directed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. This is fitting, as The Lightning Thief has a definite Harry Potter vibe to it, only instead of wizardry, we have Greek mythology. It’s definitely aimed at a teen/family audience, but also looks like it could be a lot of fun for all ages. The story follows a teenage boy who discovers that he is the son of god of the sea, Poseidon, and has to help to locate the lightning bolt of Zeus before a war breaks out amongst the gods.

Whether this looks like your cup of tea or not, you can’t deny that Percy Jackson & the Olympians has a fantastic cast. Names include Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) as Zeus; Steve Coogan (Tropic Thunder) as Hades; Ray Winstone (The Departed) as Ares; Uma Thurman (Kill Bill) as Medusa; Pierce Brosnan (The Matador) as Chiron; Rosario Dawson (Alexander) as Persephone; and Catherine Keener (The 40 Year Old Virgin) as the Jackson’s mother, and Kevin McKidd (who has been in the news a lot lately) as Poseidon and Jackson’s father. [...]

ABC has officially announced that its ultimate milk and honey show, Lost, will begin its final season on February 2, 2010. The station will attempt to make an event out of the evening by airing one of their hour-long recap episodes right before the two-hour Lost premiere airs. The final season is set to air 18 episodes, with the premiere and likely two-hour finale counting as four of the total episodes. There have been talks of the show possibly taking a short break when the upcoming Winter Olympics take place, but that is still unknown for sure.

The sixth season has the ultimate of challenges ahead of it. The show has consistently delivered some of the best writing and most compelling television in the history of the medium, but with so many questions left to answer, the task at hand is for them to remain as flawless as they’ve been while still answering most of the mysteries that remain. And with one of the mysteries being the random “sightings” of deceased characters, expect to see many familiar faces within the final run. [...]

OK, so this isn’t exactly the geekiest of news, but it is potentially one of the more earth-shattering entertainment news stories to break in a long time, and so here it is. Oprah Winfrey‘s label Harpo put out the press release today, officially announcing that on September 09, 2011, the very last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show would air, which will cap off the universally popular talk show’s 25th season. It looks as if Oprah plans to concentrate on her network, OWN, when the show reaches its closure point.

Rumors of the show’s end have risen and faded, risen again and faded again, but never have they ever come to this kind of finality that her seven million daily viewers feared so dearly. As those of us who are not fans and do not watch know, Oprah is about as close to a god on Earth as there is when it comes to her loyal following, so expect many a hearts to be broken by the news. Lives have been changed, perspectives and paths and physical appearances altered, and books — good and bad — have been made into super-hits all by this woman’s hand. Love her or hate her, the end of Oprah is an occurrence of epic proportions. [...]

For as long as the Jackass crew has been doing what they do, fans have had to assume it was only a matter of time before they just couldn’t handle that kind of damage anymore. Even so, after the success of Jackass: Number 2, it was all but guaranteed that if they could take the hits, there would be a third film eventually, and it appears that that time is now. Cinematical is reporting that a list of Paramount Pictures’ 2010 slate of movies includes not only a third movie in the franchise, but specifically a Jackass 3-D!

Since the last movie, the gang moved on to many different projects of their own. Bam Margera has had a few TV shows added to his resume with regulars like Ryan Dunn appearing often. Steve-O and Party Boy Chris Pontius had their show Wildboyz for a while, and Pontius has unexpectedly moved on to more serious acting roles, recently snagging a part in a future Sofia Coppola film. Johnny Knoxville hasn’t appeared in nearly as many movies as it looked like he was building toward, but he and some other members of the cast and crew have begun other TV shows like MTV’s Nitro Circus, which is just like Jackass, but with professionals, and just as entertaining if you’re into that kind of “humans doing incredibly stupid things” kind of humor. [...]

Gentle Giant will release a fully-loaded deluxe version of R2-D2 complete with eight accessories.

The ever-popular astromech droid from the Star Wars saga will come with a periscope scanner, mechanical gripper, utility saw, Luke’s Return of the Jedi lightsaber, and more, all of which can all be assembled into the statue’s exposed chest or dome panels.

The 7-inch-tall, 1/6th scale Poly Stone statue is hand painted and will be a limited edition.

This deluxe R2-D2 will be available Spring 2010. No word yet on price or pre-ordering [...]

In the same interview with the NY Post that revealed the possibility of a Call of Duty movie being made, Scottish actor Kevin McKidd also talked about HBO’s Rome and the rumored feature film that its producers are hoping to make of it.

Since Rome was canceled WAY too soon, not much has been spoken of it; but within the past year or so, Ray Stevenson began speaking of a possible movie that producer Bruno Heller wanted to make that would be based on the show. The very thought of this is immensely exciting for fans like myself who thirst for more of this merciless, graphic, semi-historically accurate series, but the situation would also be a tricky one as Rome was one of the most expensive shows ever made (the reason why HBO killed it so quickly), and most of its sets were destroyed (supposedly). Another tricky aspect would be the content — as I’ve said before: the content on HBO included countless things that you would NEVER see in a theatrical production, so it would be difficult indeed. [...]

Kevin McKidd is one of those actor who is incredible in all that he does, but isn’t really known among those who haven’t seen his works. The Scottish actor is best known as the main character of HBO’s Rome, Lucius Vorenus, but he’s been making a decent mark on more mainstream television series like Grey’s Anatomy and the canceled Journeyman. Next year, he will play Poseidon in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, but right now, he’s appearing in a less-visual role: Captain “Soap” MacTavish in the video game mega-hit Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Recently, McKidd spoke to the NY Post about his current prospective projects, and Call of Duty came up. He confessed that he had no idea that the game would be so popular, and that now they’re apparently toying with the idea of a movie based on the title. This comes as no surprise to anyone considering how popular the games are, and considering the genre, it could absolutely work well in movie form. [...]

Pre-ordering is now open at Steeles Publishing for the standard and deluxe editions of The Art of Tim Burton book.

The 430-page hardcover book contains film concepts and over 1000 illustrations, including those from Tim Burton‘s personal archives and some which have never before been shown to the public. The Deluxe edition contains a signed inside cover and comes with cloth slipcase, as well as a numbered and individually signed lithograph – ready for framing, not folded.

The standard edition is $69.99, while the deluxe is $299.99; both ship in 2-4 weeks.

See below for more details on the book and check out the publisher’s site for samples of the artwork included in the book [...]

In conjunction with Monty Python‘s 40th anniversary, Universal CityWalk at Universal Studios Hollywood will become “SillyWalks” tomorrow night for a live event that will attempt to set the world record for the most people ever to do “silly walks” at one time in one place.

The event, which is the first-ever SillyWalks for Hunger, will go to benefit the hunger relief organizations Feeding America, the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank, and the Global FoodBanking Network. Check in for participants begins at 5:30pm, with the event is scheduled to begin promptly at 7pm, and will be broadcast worldwide across television, radio and the Internet.

“SillyWalks” derives from the classic skit from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, called “The Ministry of Silly Walks,” about a government agency dedicated to the development of new ways to walk silly. In the sketch, John Cleese played the head of the agency. (Watch the skit here below.)

Comedian and SNL alumni Jon Lovitz, who is producing the event with MashCast and choreographers Rich & Tone, will serve as the the Minister of SillyWalks for the day [...]

Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that Stephen Susco (The Grudge) has been hired to write the script for Hack/Slash, the upcoming movie based on the Tim Seeley comic book. Back in April of 2008, the project had Justin Marks writing the script that was to be directed by Todd Lincoln. Lincoln was also replaced back in July when Fredrik Bond was brought in to helm the movie (Read: ‘Hack/Slash’ Gets A New Director In Fredrik Bond)

Hack/Slash follows Cassie Hack, a girl who never had it easy growing up. When her evil Lunch Lady mother — who was murdered after it was discovered that she had been killing children and processing them into the food — comes back from the dead and resumes her murderous habits, Cassie takes her own mother out. After that, she begins her life as a slayer of Slashers, the vicious living and dead beings who walk the Earth, slaughtering all who cross their paths. She is joined by a giant named Vlad who acts as her bodyguard and strength. [...]

Not much was known of the new Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie that was well on its way to us, but one might imagine that Disney had plans of bringing another massive water-filled adventure much like their Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. They had gotten so far as to hire Terminator Salvation director McG to helm the flick, and names like Will Smith were rumored for the role of Captain Nemo. None of this matters anymore now, as Disney has slammed the brakes on with force and stopped all forward progress on the project.

The movie was set to tell an origins tale of the fabled Captain Nemo and the building of his ship, the Nautilus. It was actually on the fast track at one point, but it appears that the controversial firing of popular chairman Dick Cook may have knocked it off its course for the time being. The original 1954 film starred Kirk Douglas and it was Disney’s very first live-action film production. [...]