Do not ask how it happened, but for some reason, this news — which seems to have broken in late October — never ever reached our ears, and this pains us. In true “better late than never” fashion, here’s the good news for those of you who also have yet to hear.

On the Playstation blog, Product Marketing Manager of SCEA, Anthony Caiazzo, announced that the realms of video games and movies would finally cross paths in a fashion that did not involve one of them making a terrible adaptation of the other or vice-versa. The big reveal was that when Neil Blomkamp‘s ultra-popular science fiction drama District 9 was released, a playable demo for God of War III would be included exclusively on the Blu-ray edition of the film.

Not that anyone needed more of a reason to go out and buy District 9, but rabid fans of the God of War series will certainly be even more inclined to rush out and buy it now. [...]

Kenneth Branagh‘s upcoming adaptation of the Norse god comic book superhero Thor is showing up in the news more and more often these days, and with each and every new morsel, the excitement for the movie builds up steadily. The latest news announcement from Marvel is that Thor’s Asgardian god friends the Warriors Three — Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun — have now been cast!

Branagh has contracted the talents of Stuart Townsend to play the role of Fandral, Tadanobu Asano for Hogun, and the fantastic Ray Stevenson for the part of Volstagg. Townsend is best known for his work as the vampire Lestat in Queen of the Damned and as Dorian Gray in The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Stevenson recently ended many lives in Punisher: Warzone, but is best used as a brutal warrior, as he has played in King Arthur and on HBO’s Rome. Asano is a Japanese actor who hasn’t done an American film yet, but he appeared in the Oscar nominated Mongol. [...]

The Warner Bros. Home Entertainment division announced today the launch of DVD2Blu.com, a site for consumers to upgrade their current WB DVDs to Blu-ray for a fee.

The DVD2Blu program currently offers an Blu-ray upgrade on 55 of the WB’s home entertainment DVDs for the price of $7.95 to $9.95.

To get the Blu-ray version, visit the site and select the movie(s) you want to trade in (there’s a limit of 1 DVD per title; up to 25 titles per order) and then mail the DVD disc (without case) with special pre-paid postage to WB’s processing center. In 4-5 weeks, you’ll receive that title in Blu-ray. If you spend more than $25 on your order, you’ll get free shipping (otherwise, it’s regularly $4.95 per order).

Some of the films up for swap are Pan’s Labyrinth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Superman II: Richard Donner Cut. Check out the site for all the available titles [...]

Well, Twifriends, we are one day closer to the premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon and I am one day closer to implosion…or possibly explosion…a little of both? Whatever, point is, I’m freakin’ EXCITED! And last night’s look at the stars on the red carpet for the LA Premiere only served to fuel the fire (believe me, it’s burning, like bad vamp James funeral pyre in Twilight). If you missed it, MTV has tons of great pics here of the Cullens, Wolf Pack, Volturi, and of course, the tasty humans. I for one, have a new appreciation for the Volturi…umm, hello Charlie Bewley, I’m talking to you…B I T E M E.

The New Moon cast is all over the tube in recent weeks, and last night was no exception. Jay Leno had the ab-tabulous Taylor Lautner on his couch last night (lucky, lucky man). Yet another New Moon clip was shared, this one highlighting Bella and Jacob at something of a turning point in their relationship…and let me just say, I’d plant a tree outside my bedroom window if I knew that’s what it would take for Taycob to pay me a little visit.

You can watch the interview here below, as well as the newly released clip. We’ve also embedded the video for Kristen Stewart’s appearance last night on the Tonight Show (more on that below) [...]

In the summer, music legend Paul McCartney played the inaugural concerts at New York’s Citi Field, the site of the former Shea Stadium, the same place the musician performed with The Beatles back in 1965 to thousands of screaming fans.

Now, McCartney’s three-night run at Citi Field has been captured in his latest live album Good Evening New York City, which was released today in both standard and deluxe formats.

We here at Geeks of Doom have both formats to give away to some lucky readers!

Two (2) winners will each receive:

— One (1) Good Evening New York City Deluxe 3-disc CD/DVD by Paul McCartney

Two (2) winners will each receive:

– One (1) Good Evening New York City 2-disc CD/DVD by Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney‘s historic three-night musical christening of New York’s Citi Field, witnessed by 120,000-plus attendees and universally hailed as a concert experience for the ages, will be immortalized November 17 when Hear Music/Concord Music Group releases Good Evening New York City [...]

AMC is currently running their miniseries remake of the original 1960s British television series The Prisoner, which will conclude with tonight’s broadcast.

While you don’t have to watch the original series, which starred Patrick McGoohan as Number 6, in order to enjoy the miniseries, I’d recommend checking it out just for your simple enjoyment.

Luckily, AMC has posted the entire original series online for free viewing. You can watch all 17 episodes in their full version, or if you’re low on time, they’ve also provided a one-minute video synopsis for each episode. Watch the pilot episode right here below.

The complete original series was recently re-released on Blu-ray and Collector’s Edition DVD.

Also, there’s still a chance to win a DVD or Blu-ray copy from Geeks of Doom in our Prisoner DVD/Blu-ray Contest [...]

The latest Star Trek film was released today on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download and a few videos from the release are now online.

A few weeks ago, a deleted scene — Prison Interrogation and Breakout — was posted online, as well as a few other clips (which Paramount promptly had taken down).

Now, watch here below 4-minute clip on Zachary Quinto as Spock, which is part of the DVD’s “Casting” featurette, as well as a video on Leonard Nimoy‘s advice to Quinto on playing Spock.

The Blu-ray release is packed with extras, check out the list here below. For a guide to the release’s detail exclusives, check out the previously released list [...]

Recently we were treated by the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) himself to a brand new poster for Alice in Wonderland via his Disloyal Subjects of the Mad Hatter Facebook page. He promised that with 7,500 likes, he would release a second “treat,” which he did, and then promised a the third treat would come after 9,000 more likes. These final two posters have now been released and you can check them out right here. They didn’t exactly reach 9,000 to unlock the final poster, but as we said in the first post, the “likes” didn’t likely matter much, and these were being put out no matter what.

One of the posters features Alice and the White Rabbit at one of the Hatter’s lovely tea parties, while the other features the Hatter and the Caterpillar with a suspiciously familiar castle on the horizon. Looks just a little bit like the iconic Walt Disney castle, does it not?

Click on over to check out these new posters! [...]

[UPDATE: Download the book today for free HERE.]

Shatnerquake — the novel featuring James T. Kirk, TJ Hooker, Denny Crane, Rescue 911 Shatner, Vocalist Shatner, Shakespearean Shatner, Twilight Zone Shatner, Cartoon Kirk, Esperanto Shatner, Priceline Shatner, SNL Shatner, and the man himself Bill Shatner — is offering the book as a free download on Amazon today only.

The 100-page story by Jeff Burk chronicles the battle that takes place at the first Shatner-Con between an army of rabid Bruce Campbell fans and the combined might of every character ever portrayed by Shatner.

Geeks of Doom first mentioned this soon to be classic work of fiction just before the premier of the new Star Trek film. [Read: Ode To An Absent Space Captain - 6 Reasons Why Bill Shatner Is The Greatest Performer of All Time] …

The Gold Box deal of the day over at Amazon today is It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1-4 on DVD for only $44.99 (that’s 62% of the list price of $119.94.)

If you order the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia 4-season combo pack today along with the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Its A Very Sunny Christmas, you’ll save an extra $10 at checkout when you add both to your cart. The Christmas DVD, which was released today, is priced at $15.99 so you’ll only be paying $5.99 [...]

OH HAPPY HAPPY DAY, TWIHARDS! IT’S NEW MOON PREMIERE DAY!

Me, I can’t seem to sit still or stop smiling and I just generally want to jump out of my skin because The Twilight Saga: New Moon is having its official premiere tonight in Los Angeles. Since we can’t all be at the premiere, you can watch the Red Carpet coverage beginning at 5 PM PST/8 PM EST at MySpace.

We’ve embedded the live stream and the chat room here below, so you can watch the coverage and chat about it right here!

If I could, I would totally be on the Red Carpet right now, awaiting the arrival of Rob Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and the rest of the vamps and wolfies. Alas, real life prevents me from doing so, but I have been living vicariously through the many fans who have been camped out since as early as this past Thursday (now that’s devotion folks, I don’t think I’d do this unless, say, Rob was actually sleeping with me in my tent…with Taylor…and Kellan…um, I’d better stop now, the mind…it wanders to dark, dark places).

Oh, and after you’re done watching the live stream of the Red Carpet events, be sure to tune into the Jay Leno Show tonight at 10pm for Taylor Lautner’s appearance, where he’ll be debuting a new clip from New Moon! [...]

Part 1 of AMC’s remake of The Prisoner, starring Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen, aired last night, with Part 2 beginning tonight at 8pm.

If you missed the first two episodes from last night — “Arrival” and “Harmony” — check out the video recaps here below to get you up to speed for tonight’s continuation of the miniseries with Episodes 3 and 4 (“Anvil” and “Darling”).

The miniseries will conclude with Episodes 5 and 6 (“Schizoid” and “Checkmate”) on this Tuesday night at 8pm. Encore presentations will follow.

If you want, there’s also Sneak Peek videos of tonight’s episodes, which you can watch here below as well [...]

[Updated: The interview came and went, so if you missed it, watch it here below. It includes footage from Star Trek, including parts of some of the deleted scenes.]

The folks over at G4 gave us the heads up that Star Trek director JJ Abrams will be appearing on the cable network’s Attack of the Show tonight at 7pm ET/PT.

During tonight’s show, Alison Haislip will interview the director about the Star Trek DVD and Blu-ray, both of which will be released tomorrow, as well as the bonus features on the 3-disc Blu-ray edition. Abrams will also be talking about his favorite deleted scene from the film.

Abrams will also reveal what fans can look forward to in his planned sequel to Star Trek [...]

Fans of the original Star Trek television series already know all the details behind “The Cage,” the original pilot for the 1960′s series. The first pilot did not include William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, and was rejected by the network at the time for being “too cerebral.” Instead of scrapping the show, created by Gene Roddenberry, NBC ordered a second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” which did star Shatner and led to the series’ three-season run.

Apparently, there was an alternate version of the second pilot which was completed in 1965 that was never aired and never released to the general public. This version of “Where No Man Has Gone Before” was completed in 1965 and features archived footage never shown before and is believed to be what was originally screened for NBC.

The alternate second pilot will be included in the release of the Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 3 Blu-ray, due out on December 15, 2009.

According to THR, the newly discovered pilot will be presented in three parts with 1970s-style act breaks and contains an entirely different version of Captain James T. Kirk’s opening monologue (“But now a new task. A probe out into where no man has gone before”) with music that contrasts from the famous opening theme and an extended action sequence.

Check out the video here below which contains some clips from the unreleased alternate pilot, as well as the full list of Blu-ray extras from the upcoming Season 3 release [...]

Over the weekend, head geek of Ain’t It Cool, Harry Knowles, posted to his Twitter account links to images of what he called “Jack Kirby’s Premiere ish of a 5-issue INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS mini-series from the 70s.”

While I saw the original tweets — one each for each of the five covers — I was waiting for a follow-up tweet or post on what exactly these covers are, but one never came. Like, where did these covers come from? And will there be a comic book adaptation of Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds? One can only hope.

But for now, all we have are these five Jack Kirby-inspired covers to drool over. Check them out here below (click for full, larger view).

Oh, speaking of Inglourious Basterds, an awesome awesome movie, it will be released on DVD and Blu-ray, and as a digital download on December 15, 2009, and is available for pre-order now [...]

Broken Lizard became an instant legend amongst the 18-29 age range when their brilliant 2002 indie comedy Super Troopers was unleashed in 2001. Since then there have been many whispers of a possible sequel, but Broken Lizard moved on to movies like Club Dread and Beerfest — both of which continued their wacky comedy style, but never quite reached the Super Troopers plateau. It is safe to say that the team could never make a sequel and everyone would be okay with that, but you, you, and I all know we would take it in an instant!

While speaking to Movie Cultists about their brand new movie The Slammin’ Salmon, the gang was wooed into spilling some details on the possible Troopers sequel. To their surprise and to our very great joy, they shared that the movie was much further along than we were currently aware of! They confirmed that not only do they have multiple drafts of the script completed, but that they already have money in place and some cast ready and willing to return. [...]

R2-D2, it is you, it is you!

Gizmodo has discovered the location of the hidden R2-D2 in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek.

Check out the cropped image here above of an R2-D2 floating in space during one of the battles, and head over to Gizmodo to check out the full hi-res image.

George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic did the visual effects on Star Trek, which will be released on DVD/Blu-ray tomorrow, and they oftentimes like to insert the iconic Star Wars droid into their work. (They did it in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as well — see here.) It’s a cute little Easter Egg for us nerds [...]

Part 1 of AMC’s remake of The Prisoner, starring Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen, aired earlier this evening, with Part 2 airing tomorrow at 8pm on AMC.

If you didn’t get a chance to watch tonight’s premiere, I hope you got to record it, because it was surprisingly good. I say surprisingly because I’m a fan of the original show and I just assumed the remake couldn’t live up to it (my general feelings on most remakes), and also because nearly every advanced review of the miniseries I’ve read was negative.

Anyhow, definitely check out the new Prisoner, and also, there’s a tie-in online graphic novel (well, really more like a motion comic) to accompany the series. Check out Book One: As the Air, Invulnerable, chapter 1 of a 10-chapter story. In Chapter 1, we’re introduced to Rebecca, who’s looking for her missing sister. Chapter 2 will be posted online immediately following Tuesday’s television finale on Tuesday, November 17 [...]

Metal Queen Lita Ford broke her silence regarding the bio-pic about The Runaways, the bio-pic based on the 1970s all-girl band of the same name of which Ford was the lead guitarist.

“Most people would want to be in a movie, but I sure didn’t want anything to do with this one,” admits Ford about the film, which has the working title of The Runaways. “They’re using my name and that makes me nervous as some of the people involved have tried to destroy my career since 1980.”

The film, written and directed by Floria Sigismondi based on Runaways singer Cherie Currie’s memoirs, stars Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie, and Scout Taylor Compton as Lita Ford, and is scheduled for theatrical release in 2010

Apparently, Ford’s apprehension about The Runaways has changed a bit now that she’s actually met the 20-year-old actress who will portray her in the movie. Compton made a special trip out to Harrah’s in Lake Tahoe, Nevada last week to see Ford perform with Queensryche and to meet the musician. (See pictures from the meeting here.) [...]

I love metal and I love the holidays. Put them both together, and I am in all my glory.

And glory be, because Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford has just released a holiday album with his solo project Halford!

Halford III: Winter Songs is a collection of classic holiday songs given a heavy metal arrangement, like on “Oh Holy Night” and “What Child Is This?”, along with new holiday songs written and arranged by Halford (“Get Into the Spirit”).

Seriously, do I need to explain any further why this album is a must-have? I didn’t think so.

I’d say this is going on my Christmas wish list, but I can’t wait that long. I’m buy it right this minute on MP3 [...]