It’s being reported that Famke Janssen (X-Men, House on Haunted Hill) has signed on to join the cast of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the updated sequel of sorts to the old German fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel.

Janssen is set to play the leader of a group of witches who have their hands full with the brother and sister duo of Hansel and Gretel. The story takes place 15 years after the siblings were lured to a wonderful and inviting gingerbread house by a vile witch with plans of cooking and eating them. After escaping their close encounter with the witch, the pair grow up bent on vengeance and ultimately become bounty hunters set on finding and destroying all witches.

Not too long ago, it was reported that Hansel and Gretel would be played by Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker, The Town) and Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Clash of the Titans). [...]

Motörhead
The World Is Yours
Producer Cameron Webb
Future PLC/Motörhead Music
Release date: January 17 (UK) | February 8 (U.S.) 2011

In 1975 Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister was fired from British space-rock group Hawkwind. He wasted no time in getting back on the music horse and quickly formed a new three-piece band which almost as a direct opposite to Hawkwind was loud, fast, and if it moved in next door to you ‘your lawn would die’. Lemmy continued to play the bass (despite having no experience when he joined Hawkwind four years earlier) and a suitable name was chosen. Sadly Lemmy was persuaded against calling his new band Bastard and changed it to the infinitely superior Motörhead.

An incredible 36 years later Motörhead is still going and continues to record new albums at an admirable rate. The World Is Yours is Motörhead’s 20th studio album and sounds as fresh as the first [...]

27 #3
Written by Charles Soule
Art by Renzo Podesta
Cover by W. Scott Forbes
Price: $3.99
Image Comics
Release date: February 9, 2011

27 is a 4-issue miniseries written by Charles Soule and drawn by Renzo Podesta. The series focuses on famous guitarist Will Garland, who has just turned 27 years old. Significantly, 27 is also the age in which many high-profile musicians have died. Will’s left hand has developed a nerve disorder leaving him unable to play guitar again. Will searches for a way to play again through unorthodox means, which leads to a device that allows him to play again for a short time but ultimately leads to a whole other world of creativity.

27 #3 unlocks some of the mysteries of the series. Many secrets are revealed and Will takes an interesting ride to figure out the meaning behind a secret entity that has a tighter hold on his life with every click of the device [...]

Before Red Dead Redemption arrived, very few western games existed, let alone ones that could be enjoyed. Red Dead took it to an entirely different level — something that western fans have been itching to get their hands on for a long while now — but before its arrival only a couple were worth even trying out, including GUN and the duo of Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood.

The Call of Juarez games and GUN certainly aren’t anything that were bound for video game supremacy, but if you’re as much of a sucker for westerns as I am, they’re a ton of fun. Great western settings, stories, and of course music, were all that was needed to offer up a worthwhile gaming experience in the old west.

When Red Dead did arrive and showed how incredible and magnificent a western game could be, one could have assumed that it would push those planning to make their own western games or sequels to existing franchises such as the ones mentioned above to make the biggest and best games they could make. But is that the case? [...]

The original I Spit On Your Grave was easily one of the most controversial films of the 1970s. The plot was simple: a young woman is raped by a group of men and she takes revenge on said rapists. It’s a story that has been told over and over, but this particular version of the story was one of the most visceral and disturbing tellings of that story ever. In 2010, the movie was remade and it hit festivals garnering a similar reaction to the first film. The unrated version of the 2010 I Spit on Your Grave comes to DVD and Blu-ray on February 8.

I sat down for a one-on-one chat with one of the stars, Chad Lindberg, to discuss his experiences making this film and watching it [...]

The t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is a Doctor Who-inspired shirt called “Don’t Blink.”

The tee, by artist The Other Mike, went on sale at RIPT today, Tuesday, February 8, 2011, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

The piece is called “Don’t Blink” and is based on the Doctor Who Season 3 episode titled Blink, which featured the “weeping angels.” [...]

Saturday Night Live alum Dana Carvey came back to the late night sketch show this past Saturday to host the show.

Carvey had a lot of great characters as an SNL castmember from 1986 to 1993, like The Church Lady and Hans the bodybuilder (who wants to pump… you up), but the comedian is best known for playing long-haired metalhead Garth Algar, co-host of the Aurora, Illinois, cable access show Wayne’s World (party time, excellent!). To open Saturday’s show, Carvey reunited with his Wayne’s World counterpart Mike Myers for a special Oscar Picks episode.

Watch the Wayne’s World skit here [...]

Recorded February 6, 2011.

Our February Doom Of The Month will be Volume 1 of Scott Snyder’s American Vampire! If you want to read along with us, head on over to Instocktrades.com or DCBService.com to pick up American Vampire for a super price! Be sure to check back at the end of February for our special review episode.

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Digital designer Warren Dorrington recreated several scenes from Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope using icons. It’s quite adorable.

Check out the full infographic here [...]

If you’re one of the millions and millions who watched last night’s Super Bowl, you saw the many commercials and movie trailers that were shown off. And if you didn’t watch, you can see all of the big trailers right here at Geeks of Doom, of course.

Another big first look was also shown last night, but this time it was for an upcoming TV series: Terra Nova. The show comes from executive producer Steven Spielberg, and tells the story of a family who travel back in time 85 million years through a portal created by scientists in the year 2149, where life on Earth is facing extinction. The family goes through the portal to the first human colony — called Terra Nova — where they will attempt to set humankind off in a better direction, but will have to deal with some major obstacles, including dinosaurs.

You can see the first trailer for Terra Nova, which is set to debut this fall on Fox, by clicking on over to the other side now! [...]

Paramount has released online the TV spot for their upcoming animated feature Rango, which stars Johnny Depp.

Watch the TV spot here below.

A new image from the film was also released, which you can view above (click for larger view).

Rango, which will be released in theaters on March 4, 2011, also stars Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, and Timothy Olyphant [...]

One of the most talked-about Super Bowl commercials last night was the one for Volkswagen called “The Force” which showed a small child dressed as Star Wars villain Darth Vader, attempting to use The Force to move objects around the house.

The commercial got everyone buzzing, wondering, who is the child behind the mask. The actor appeared on this morning’s Today Show, lifting the mask to reveal an adorable 6-year-old blond boy named Max Page.

Watch the video of little Max on The Today Show here below, and learn about the struggles he’s had to endure so far in his short life. There’s no doubt we’ll be routing for him!

The TV spot shown during the game was a truncated version of the commercial, which I guess did its job in getting the word out about the car (which, honestly, I couldn’t tell you which model it was for), but failed to convey the heart that the full version did. You can watch the full one-minute commercial here [...]

In a recent interview Samuel L. Jackson revealed that he would be reading as Nick Fury in auditions with actresses for an unspecified role in The Avengers. The logical assumption for any comic book fan is that the role must be for Maria Hill, the ruthless hero-hating soldier that eventually took the role of leader of S.H.I.E.L.D. from Fury. Deadline has confirmed those fan boy assumptions.

Deadline reports that Cobie Smulders, best known for her role as Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, is nearing a deal to take the role. Avengers director Joss Whedon actually considered Smulders for the role of Wonder Woman during his short stint working on that project [...]

February 7, 1964: Beatlemania Begins

It was a cold February day at the newly-renamed John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City. At about 1:20PM, Pan Am flight 101 landed to the excitement of the 3,000 screaming fans who had been waiting patiently all morning. Four young lads from Liverpool, England, were about to step onto U.S. soil and change the world forever. The Beatles had arrived in America. The British Invasion had begun.

Timing played a huge role in the Beatles success in the United States. It’s easy to forget that when the Fab Four arrived, Americans were still mourning the loss of their slain President John F. Kennedy, who had been shot down less than three months prior. Violence in Vietnam was escalating rapidly. The country desperately needed a distraction from the harsh realities they had been made to face [...]

The video game deal of the day over at Amazon today is Dead Space 2 Standard Edition for PS3, Xbox 360, or PC for only $39.95 (that’s 33% off the list price of $59.99) and the Dead Space 2 Collector’s Edition for PS3, Xbox 360, or PC for only $59.95 (that’s 25% off the list price of $79.95).

Also, If you purchase the Dead Space 2 Standard Edition for PS3, you can also get the Dead Space: Aftermath Blu-ray Edition for an additional $5 off; if you purchase the standard edition for Xbox 360, then you can get the Dead Space: Aftermath DVD Edition for an additional $3 off. See the Best Value section of the respective product pages [...]

A TV spot for the secretive JJ Abrams‘ film Super 8 was shown during the Super Bowl earlier this evening, and now the commercial is online.

Watch the TV spot here below.

Abrams loves to keep his projects under wraps, and as you’ll recall with Cloverfield, details about that film were slowly revealed through viral websites, leaving fans to speculate what it could possibly be about. Well, expect more of the same with Super 8, which already had people buzzing back in May after the teaser trailer was released.

Abrams spoke with Hero Complex, revealing finally some details about the Steven Spielberg-produced Super 8, which stars 12-year-old Elle Fanning [...]

A few days ago, we posted a 10-second sneak peek of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Super Bowl TV spot.

The TV spot just aired during the third quarter of the game, and now Disney Pictures has posted the full 30-second commercial online.

Watch the full TV spot here below.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hits theaters May 20, 2011 [...]

The Super Bowl TV spot for Marvel’s upcoming film, Captain America: The First Avenger, is now online.

You can watch the TV spot here below.

This contains is all-new footage from the film, and there’s tons shown in this short spot, including Steve Rogers getting ready to become the Super Soldier, as well as Cap in action.

This is a must-watch! Let us know what you think of the footage so far.

Captain America: The First Avenger, which stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America, arrives in theaters on July 22, 2011 [...]

The Super Bowl TV spot for Marvel’s upcoming film, Thor is now online.

You can watch the TV spot here below.

The Super Bowl TV spot for Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, the third installment in Michael Bay’s Transformers film franchise, is now online.

Watch the commercial here below.

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, which stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey, and Hugo Weaving, hits theaters on July 1, 2011 [...]