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Apparently, it’s Bill Murray week. Don’t ask me why. Not that I mind cuz I love Bill Murray. Must ask Derek Eads, he started it (more on that in future posts).

But, for now, the $9 t-shirt deal of the day over at Teefury today is the Steve Zissou-themed “The Ride Aquatic” by artist Teo Zed. The design is based on Murray’s title oceanographer character in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,

The sale at Teefury began at midnight EST (Thursday, November 25, 2010) and will continue for 24 hours, and once it’s over, it’s gone forever.

Here’s what Zed said about the design:

I’m a huge Wes Anderson fan and The Life Aquatic is one of my all time favorite movies (also Bill Murray seriously rocks), so creating a design that had something to do with all these things just felt right. [...]

Every day, Amazon offers up “Lightning Deals,” limited quantities of various products for a discounted price for a 4-hour window of time. You have to be on the lookout for these deals and once the item runs out within that four hours, the sale is over.

Meaning, if you see something on sale that you want, buy it immediately before it’s gone.

Typically you don’t know what will be on sale until the minute it gets posted, but as a prelude to Black Friday, Amazon has released today’s Lightning Deal schedule for Movies & TV on DVD and Blu-ray. See list of today’s deals here below, along with more information on how these special deals work.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2010

4:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. PST

Sex and the City: The Movie
DVD – $1.99

Letters to Juliet
DVD – $8.99

Remember Me
DVD – $5.99

The Tudors: The Complete Third Season
DVD – $14.99 [...]

Amazon’s Blu-ray box set deal of the week is the Alien Anthology Blu-ray Edition for only $70.49 (that’s 50% off the list price of $139.99).

Note, this deal is valid only for this week through November 27, 2010.

This Blu-ray box set includes all four standalone Alien films, which starred Sigourney Weaver: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection.

Along with the two versions of each film are two bonus discs with over 65 hours of special features, with over four hours of previously unreleased exclusive material such as original screen tests of Sigourney Weaver prior to filming the original Alien, unseen deleted scenes, thousands of still photographs from the Fox archives, the previously unseen original cut of “Wreckage and Rage: The Making of ALIEN3,” and more.

Below is an extensive list of what’s included in this Blu-ray box set [...]

The other night, after Tom Cheredar and I finished recording TARDISblend 17, we were talking about some random Doctor Who stuff off-air. One of the things that came up in our ridiculous ramblings was, “What Doctor Who needs is some Muppets.”

It was just a mildly amusing joke at the time, but a couple days later we came across this unexplainable image posted over at the Hell Yeah Tumblr Page featuring the cast of Torchwood meeting the puppets from Avenue Q… with lightsabers! See the image here at right.

Quite simply? This is awesome. The next step is someone to Photoshop in the glow from the lightsabers [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
Directed by: David Yates
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
Warner Brothers
Release Date: November 19, 2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is the seventh installment in the Harry Potter franchise, in which Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and Ronald Wesley (Rupert Grint) are on a mission to find and destroy the horcruxes, mystical objects that grant immortality, so that the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) is unable to use it to his advantage. The focus of this film is really the acting among the three actors who have been together for so long, and how they have made each character they play their own, and that’s really important when you have a setting when there’s not a lot of action going on, overall, but I’ll talk more about that a little later.

I’ve been a fan of the Harry Potter films for quite some time now, and if you haven’t been, The Deathly Hallows Part 1 isn’t going to change your mind. To everyone else, however… well, I hesitate to say that you’re going to love it [...]

Well…let me start by wishing everyone a very happy Thanksgiving. None of these stories or our opinions matter without you visiting every day to check us out, and that is something we’re truly thankful for this year and hopefully many, many more to come.

Now, allow me to ruin your day, sadly.

While talking to MTV recently, Mark Wahlberg confirmed that he will be playing the lead role of Nathan Drake in the upcoming video game adaptation of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and that he and director David O. Russell hope to do that come summer. On the brighter side of things, Wahlberg reaffirmed something broke earlier this week by Cinematical, and that’s that he won’t be starring in the remake of The Crow that was reported recently and had everyone up in arms.

Unfortunately for fans of Drake’s Fortune, the absolute worst thing you could follow up the Crow news with is word that you’re going to play Nathan Drake. We found out last month that O. Russell would be directing the adaptation, and to be honest, it was a very exciting thing to hear about because the game is perfectly set up to become a movie. [...]

Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series
Blu-ray | DVD | Digital Download
(2010)
Starring Matt Smith, Karen Gilian, Arthur Darvill
BBC Warner
Release Date: November 9, 2010

The fifth series of the BBC television show Doctor Who is a refreshing take on the now classic time-traveling adventures of The Doctor and his companions. New show runner Steven Moffat successfully reinvigorates the spirit of every iteration that came before while not alienating newer viewers.

Moffat does this by including many subtle visual references to the past Whovian story continuity, the first of which is featured at the end of the series opener The Eleventh Hour in the form of an homage to the ten previous incarnations of The Doctor. For children, casual, and new viewers the story opens with a young Amelia Pond who discovers a crashed TARDIS in her garden and a strange man willing to inspect the eerie crack on her bedroom wall.

Matt Smith, the eleventh actor to portray The Doctor, makes his debut on the show and wastes little time asserting a masterful version of the character aside new companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) [...]

Faster
Directed by George Tillman, Jr.
Starring Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino, and Maggie Grace
Castle Rock Entertainment/CBS Films
Release date: November 24, 2010

The ads for Faster would lead you to believe that the film is a simple action movie with a revenge plot, a concept that has been used since the early days of cinema. However, Faster is a revenge plot with more twists and turns than a NASCAR race. Former WWE wrestler Dwayne Johnson plays the character known only as Driver. We see him being released from prison. During his “exit interview,” the warden shows pictures of wounded inmates that crossed his path. This sequence cleverly establishes Driver’s “badassery” and foreshadows the carnage to come. Driver and his brother pulled a bank robbery, but someone close to them set them up to be robbed by another group of criminals. Driver’s brother is murdered while he survives the robbery and goes to jail. While in prison, Driver has had people keeping tabs on the men involved in his brother’s killing. Almost immediately upon release, Driver begins exacting vengeance on these people. In the beginning, Driver is a remorseless killing machine, drawing the attention of Detective Cicero (Carla Gugino), who reluctantly teams up with Cop (Billy Bob Thornton) to track down Driver and end his killing spree [...]

This morning when I checked my Twitter feeds, I noticed that Freddie Mercury was trending — with people celebrating his life on the 19th anniversary of his death. The Queen frontman was most certainly a massive influence, but somebody else important passed away on that day 19 years ago that should also be remembered and honored: Eric Carr from KISS.

On November 24, 1991, KISS fans were shaken to discover that Eric Carr had passed away. The 41-year-old drummer had lost his battle with cancer, and the news shattered the hearts of KISS fans internationally. He had been a major influence on them all, and he is still missed to this day. He was one of the most adored members of the band, and one of the most memorable and talented drummers that emerged in the rock world during the 1980s.

Born in 1950 in Brooklyn, NY, Eric Carr joined the KISS in 1980 while they were still in make-up as “The Fox,” replacing drummer Peter Criss. He was instantaneously welcomed by the fans, and his drumming talents pushed KISS to be a more heavier and modern sounding band in their post-makeup era. Carr can be heard on KISS hits like “I Love It Loud,” “Lick It Up,” and “Heaven’s On Fire.” [...]

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

The t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is a Futurama-inspired shirt called “Good News.”

The tee, by artist Matt Dearden, is on sale at RIPT only for today, Wednesday November 24, 2010 until 1AM EST.

The t-shirt available in both men’s and women’s sizes for $10. Kids sizes are $15; Onsies are $18. You can also get it on a Hoodie for $38 (in Men/Unisex sizes).

If you’re not familiar with the Hypnotoad, just take a look at the video here below.

Dearden is on a roll today, as his Muppets-BSG mash-up design is the pick of the day over at Teefury [Read: Geek Gear: ‘BSG-Muppets’ Frakking Awful T-Shirt]. [...]

Every day, Amazon offers up “Lightning Deals,” limited quantities of various products for a discounted price for a 4-hour window of time. You have to be on the lookout for these deals and once the item runs out within that four hours, the sale is over.

Meaning, if you see something on sale that you want, buy it immediately before it’s gone.

Typically you don’t know what will be on sale until the minute it gets posted, but as a prelude to Black Friday, Amazon has released today’s Lightning Deal schedule for Movies & TV on DVD and Blu-ray. See list of today’s deals here below, along with more information on how these special deals work.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2010

4:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. PST

The Simpsons: Season 7
DVD – $12.99

The Simpsons: Season 8
DVD – $12.99

The Simpsons: Season 9
DVD – $12.99 [...]

The $9 t-shirt deal of the day over at Teefury today is the Battlestar Galactica-Muppets mashup “Frakking Awful” by artist Matt Dearden.

The sale at Teefury began at midnight EST (Wednesday, November 24, 2010) and will continue for 24 hours, and once it’s over, it’s gone forever.

The shirt is a mash-up of the heckling Muppets Statler and Waldorf as Commander William Adama and Colonel Saul Tigh of Battlestar Galactica. The Muppets are in their usual theater balcony box seats, but are wearing the BSG military uniforms. Waldorf is sporting an eye patch like the one Tigh wears after the first season of BSG.

The shirt comes in red and is available in both men’s and women’s sizes [...]

The TARDISblend returns to GeeksOfDoom.com and we take the opportunity to talk about further views of Doctor Who Series 5 and The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 4; as well as discussing some of the news and rumors floating around the web.

Listen to Episode 17 of the TARDISblend here below in our podcast player.

Co-host Tom Cheredar gives us the rundown of what you can expect in the new Doctor Who Series 5 Box Set. We discuss some of the cool extras thrown in, including some new footage Steven Moffat filmed with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan specifically for this DVD release.

Later, co-host Greg Davies takes a look back at Series Four of The Sarah Jane Adventures, and delivers his evaluation of the season. We take a look at the special episode from this series that featured Matt Smith, as well as Katy Manning reprising her role as former companion Jo Grant for The Death of the Doctor, and discuss the special revelations of Time Lord lore and Doctor Who continuity that came out [...]

Happy Doctor Who Day!

It was on this day, 47 years ago, the British public was first exposed to an eccentric old Time Lord known only as the Doctor in Doctor Who, with William Hartnell being the first man to take on the moniker in the first episode of the series, titled An Unearthly Child.

Initially designed as a science fiction television show for children that would focus on history and science, nobody behind the scenes back in 1963 could have possibly conceived how much of a phenomenon that Doctor Who would become.

In the years since its initial launch, the universe of Doctor Who has expanded significantly, giving rise to a detailed mythos that would form to become the lore and legends of the Time Lords of Gallifrey — a foundation to the Who saga that rivals many other science fiction tales around the world that people have followed [...]

In case you didn’t know, Slayer is one of my favorite bands in the world. As much as I love them dearly, I’ve never found a way to incorporate their headbanging music into my holidays.

But a Southern California Slayer fan did manage it — by setting up a Christmas light show on the front of his house synchronized to Slayer’s “Raining Blood.”

See below for the video of the greatest holiday light show ever.

First of all: best neighbor ever.

As if it wasn’t already the coolest shit when the double-bass drums kick in on the song, now to experience it with holiday visuals? I have to say: so fucking awesome!

To the people who live directly across the street from this guy: Please sell me your house.

Happy Christmas in Purgatory!

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For a while now, director Gore Verbinski has been hovering around Disney’s new feature take on the tale of The Lone Ranger. According to Deadline, who first heard word of Verbinski’s possible involvement, rumor has become fact, and he will indeed be directing the movie.

We first heard of a new Lone Ranger movie in March of 2008, and later that year during a big Walt Disney event it was revealed that Johnny Depp was also involved, set to play the Ranger’s faithful sidekick, Tonto.

Verbinski directed the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy for Disney, but decided not to take on their upcoming fourth installment in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, so that he could take on the proposed video game adaptation, BioShock. That project ended up having quite a few complications and Verbinski stepped away from it too to direct his animated feature, Rango, which also features the voice of Depp. [...]

Here’s a real treat for all of you Anglophiles!

The BBC America Shop has a bunch of great holiday gifts for sale, including BBC movies and TV series on DVD and Blu-ray; books; t-shirts; and unique British collectibles.

We here at Geeks of Doom have a really great prize pack filled with BBC America items from the Shop, like DVDs and this Big Ben Ornament (love it!), to give away to one lucky winner!

One (1) winner will receive:

- One (1) Top Gear Season 13 DVD
- One (1) Charlie & Lola: I Really Need Actual Ice Skates DVD
- One (1) Last of The Summer Wine DVD
- One (1) Life DVD
- One (1) Sherlock Season 1 DVD
- One (1) Big Ben Ornament [...]

Elf
Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray
Directed by Jon Favreau
Starring Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel, James Caan, Peter Dinklage
Warner Bros Home Entertainment
Release date: October 26, 2010

Ask any Will Ferrell fan about his movies, and they most definitely will be able to quote lines from it, almost verbatim. Some like his wacky turn as news reporter/lothario Ron Burgundy in Anchorman. Other prefers him as Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights. For me, my favorite movie from the Ferrell library is Elf, his first major movie and box office success. So, with the holidays right around the corner, it is no surprise that the movie would be re-released on Blu-ray as an Ultimate Collector’s Edition.

Elf stars Will Ferrell as Buddy, a human who when he was just a baby, hopped into Santa’s sleigh and was whisked to the North Pole. Because he was an orphan, an old wise elf (Bob Newhart) decides to raise him as his own. Fast forward 30 years, when Buddy discovers that not only is he not an elf, but his real human father is in New York City. Hoping to reconnect with the father he never knew he had, Buddy embarks on a quest to the Big Apple one special Christmas season [...]

For chronic procrastinators wishing to attend the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con, there is some good and bad news. The good news is that there are plenty of badges left but the bad news is that no one can currently purchase them because the official registration page has crashed.

This is the second attempt at opening up registration, the first being a little less than a month ago, which was scraped due to an initial crash. Whatever issues they have with the process is apparently dire enough this time that the organization hasn’t rescheduled.

Comic-Con issued the following official statement via their website [...]