It was back in January when Sherlock writer Steven Moffat gave some clues as to what to expect in Season 2 of the BBC series.

It’s two main stars — Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson — have been busy working on Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movie, and while the series was originally scheduled to return in Fall 2011, it now appears that new episodes won’t air until some time in 2012.

It’s a long time to wait, if you ask me, but now at least we can get a tiny sneak peek of Season 2 of Sherlock with this new teaser promo for the show. Check it out here below.

Moffat previously stated that the three new 90-minute episodes would be titled “A Scandal In Belgravia,” “The Hounds Of Baskerville,” and “The Reichenbach Fall.” [...]

Many of us won’t remember this, but back in the ’80s, Ted Turner purchased the rights to libraries of old classic movies with intent to add color to the black and white films and re–release them to the masses.

This was considered an outrage by many, including some of the still–living directors of the films, but nothing could be done about it. So a group of spokesmen for Hollywood including George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Stewart, Woody Allen, and John Huston took it to Congress in hopes on instilling laws against the alteration of films in order to preserve their heritage.

But it was Lucas who took the floor and made the speech that’s more relevant today than anyone would have thought it would be. A speech in 1988 that stood strong for the preservation of original films that he himself has broken many times over since that time by changing numerous parts of his classic Star Wars trilogy, including most recently on the Blu–ray release.

Continue on to read the full speech from Lucas. [...]

Ever wonder what really caused Sauron’s Tower to collapse after the One Ring was thrown into the fires of Mount Doom at the end of The Lord of the Rings films?

Apparently, a Redditor put together some photographic evidence that the destruction of the Dark Tower of Barad-dur at the end of The Return of the King must have been an inside job! How could the ring’s destruction on Mount Doom cause a break near the top of the tower? And what about all that ejected debris?!

Check out the full infographic here below which lends support to the conspiracy theory behind the destruction of Sauron’s Tower [...]

A Kickstarter account for a project called This Batman Life hit was launched this week that will give blogger Geoffrey Brett Williams an experience that many Batman fans like myself have wanted to do for quite some time. Becoming Batman.

Williams plans to use donated money from the Kickstarter service to pay his way to study various martial arts fighting styles, private investigation, and the free-running martial art of parkour to train like Bruce Wayne before he became The Bat. In his journey to become The Dark Knight, Williams will be traveling between Chicago, New York City, DC, and Nashville to train and volunteer with various charitable organizations to experience the philanthropic side of the man behind the mask [...]

NBC has acquired the rights to adapt the 1984 Robert Zemeckis action–adventure romantic comedy, Romancing the Stone, into a TV series.

The deal with NBC comes from 20th Century Fox TV and Shawn Levy (director, Night of the Museum 1 & 2, Real Steel) and Marty Adelstein’s (producer, Hanna, Prison Break) 21 Laps Entertainment and Adelstein Productions. Mark Friedman (writer, Home of the Brave, creator/writer/producer, The Forgotten) will write the adaptation, and Levy could step in to direct if no feature film projects (like Night of the Museum 3) become available to him.

The movie followed Kathleen Turner as a romance author who sets off to save her kidnapped sister in exchange for a treasure map, but, after almost being killed by someone else who wants the map, she is saved by an American bird exporter (Michael Douglas), and the duo end up on a dangerous quest to find the treasure, save her sister, and elude the many dangerous people out to find them. [...]

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is a Star Trek-inspired shirt called “Beam Me Up” by artist Diana Sprinkle

The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Thursday, September 1, 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 Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is Daria: The Complete Animated Series DVD box set for only $25.99 (that’s 64% off the list price of $72.99).

Note, this deal is valid only for today, Thursday, September 1, 2011, til midnight PST while supplies last.

This 8-disc DVD box set contains all 5 seasons — 65 episodes plus 2 TV movies — of the animated series Daria, which ran on MTV from 1997 to 2002 and was a spin-off of the Beavis and Butt-head television series [...]

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a mash-up of Battlestar Galactica and the game Battleship called “You Sunk My Battlestar” by artist R Conway.

The sale began at Teefury today, Thursday, September 1, 2011, at midnight EST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]

The first teaser trailer for American Pie 4, titled American Reunion, has been released online by Universal Pictures.

The trailer is about as teaser as they come, only showing a bunch of photobooth pictures of the returning cast to a song all too familiar to American Pie fans. For those who don’t care about this fourth installment in the franchise (not counting all of those unwatchable straight–to–video spinoffs), the teaser will likely be pretty boring. But for those of you (like myself) who were around the same age as the characters when the first movie hit in 1999, there’s a nice little touch of nostalgia to be had here (and hopefully in the final product).

You can read a synopsis and see the teaser trailer for American Reunion by heading on over to the other side now.

SYNOPSIS
In the comedy American Reunion, all the American Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago are returning to East Great Falls for their high school reunion. [...]