Season 4 of HBO’s hit vampire drama True Blood has come and gone here in the States, but over in Romania it’s just getting started. And in celebration of the new season, a pretty insane marketing campaign has been put together.

Collider’s Steve Weintraub happened to be in Romania when he came across the campaign, which is quite literally a massive bloody fountain you’d expect to see outside the Overlook Hotel, spurting streams of red high into the air.

Click on over to the other side to check out a video of the fountain, and head to the source link below for more images.

Can you imagine if someone tried this somewhere in America? An army of conservative soccer moms would collectively go into angry chicken mode and we’d all be doomed! [...]

When it comes to incomprehensible titles, we may have just found a new champion.

Originally known as Bop Decameron, director Woody Allen has shifted the title of his next film, a Rome-set picture starring Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, and Greta Gerwig. It’ll now be known as, get this, Nero Fiddled [...]

Part of Amazon’s video game deal of the week is a promotional credit where if you purchase an Xbox 4GB Console with Kinect, you will receive a $75 credit good toward the purchase of items shipped and sold by Amazon.com.

Visit the Video Game Deals page to select the Xbox 4GB Console with Kinect (see lower right listing under the Deal of the Week in Video Games heading).

Note, this deal is valid only for this week through, Saturday, October 15, 2011, until 11:59PM PST while supplies last [...]

Take a look at the two images above. Go ahead, study them a bit…I’ll wait here. All set? OK then—what do you think? If someone were to ask you which of these two images was an actual photograph and which of the two was a demonstration of what the future of video games might look like, would you be able to answer correctly?

Some of you may unleash your eagle–eye skills and be able to tell, but for the vast majority of us (myself included), it’s very, very difficult to discern the difference between the two.

Video game company Square Enix, publisher of the excellent Deus Ex: Human Revolution, was in Japan recently for a press conference where they showed off a tech demo for their Luminous Engine, which they hope will become the future of gaming as we know it.

Continue reading for more and to see a few side–by–side comparisons! [...]

The Blu-ray deal of the week over at Amazon this week is The Omen Collection for $19.99 (that’s 67% off the list price of $59.99).

Note, this deal is valid only for this week through Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 11:59pm EST.

This 4-disc Blu-ray collection contains the original iconic horror trilogy — The Omen, Damien: Omen II, and Omen III: The Final Conflict — as well as the 2006 remake The Omen: 666. All the original movies come with feature commentary, with the first film having several commentaries, including one by director Richard Donner. The Omen also has a trivia track and deleted scenes, as well as features pertaining to the remake.

See below for a list of special features [...]

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is called “Zombie Exit” by artist Lee Byway.

The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Friday, October 14, 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 [...]

Universal Pictures has preemptively acquired the rights to Crime of the Century from a pitch by Chris Morgan through a two–year deal he has with the studio.

The movie is set to be directed by Dan Trachtenberg, co–host of the Totally Rad Show and commercial director who recently made huge waves with his short film Portal: No Escape, which was based on the hit puzzle game from Valve. The project is Trachtenberg’s feature debut.

Morgan is best known for his action–packed resume, which includes writing the scripts for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Wanted, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, and the upcoming 47 Ronin. He’ll also be penning the script for the untitled Fast and the Furious 6 for director Justin Lin, who also recently inked a two–year deal with Universal. The deal is the first sale for Morgan.

Writing the screenplay is Dan Kunka, who came up with the idea for the project with Trachtenberg. [...]

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, the latest installment in the backwoods cannibal horror franchise that began with the 2003 original and spawned two direct-to-video sequels (including the superior first sequel Dead End, directed by Joe Lynch), is coming to DVD and Blu-ray later this month. The movie is a prequel to the first three films which explores the gruesome origins of the flesh-eating mutant hillbilly family who has terrorized unsuspecting travelers with more hormones than brain cells. You can check out the trailer, Blu-ray cover art, and a list of special features here below, along with details on a related cookbook (yes, a cookbook!) [...]

Part of Amazon’s video game deal of the week is Duke Nukem Forever for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for only $18.99 each (that’s 37% off the list price of $29.99)

Note, this deal is valid only for this week through, Saturday, October 15, 2011, until 11:59PM PST while supplies last.

Visit the Video Game Deals to see more of this week’s deals [...]

Back in September we started hearing names that could step in and replace Thor director Kenneth Branagh on the planned sequel after he had decided that he would not be returning. One of the names that was said to be at the top of the list was Patty Jenkins.

Now comes confirmation by Marvel Studios that Jenkins will indeed be taking on Thor 2, which was originally set for a July 26, 2013 release but has since been moved into the November 15, 2013 spot, interestingly enough.

Jenkins is a very curious choice for the job, one might say. Her previous credits include Monster, which nabbed Charlize Theron an Oscar for Best Actress, as well as episodes of Arrested Development, Entourage, and the pilot episode of The Killing. Unless she’s a closet comic book fanatic, however, fans may not know what to think of Marvel’s choice. But then again, everyone thought hiring Branagh was a strange move as well. [...]

Michael Winterbottom is to music what Michael Bay is to supermodels. No one is better at inserting it into a motion picture. Steeping each of his films in a great sense of style both visually as well as sonically (see 9 Songs), it should come as no shock that the filmmaker is looking to direct a picture revolving around one of music’s most iconic entities: The Beatles.

The Playlist is reporting that Winterbottom (who last helmed The Trip, a film that will be the subject of a DVD review coming to GoD early next week), is set to helm The Longest Cocktail Party, a film based off of a Richard DiLello book of the same name [...]

William Peter Blatty recently brought a revised and expanded version of his blockbuster horror novel The Exorcist back to stores in celebration of the 40th anniversary since his spectacularly chilling story took the world by storm and became the basis of a classic film that to this day remains one of the scariest movies ever made. HarperCollins released The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition in hardcover and eBook on October 4, 2011.

Continue reading for information on the updates in this new edition, as well as a lengthy note released by author [...]

IDW Publishing will be bringing back their Infestation series, with the aptly named Infestation 2. The first Infestation dealt with a zombie invasion attacking some of IDW’s most popular licensed properties such as GI Joe, Transformers, Ghostbusters, and Star Trek. This time around, it’s not zombies, it’s Lovecraftian “Old Ones” gods attacking from across time and space [...]

Totally Rad Show, Diggnation, and former Screen Savers host Alex Albrecht is a man of many talents, director of films among them.

Today, he dropped a short film on YouTube titled Voltron: The End. The short features an older Lance (played by Timothy Omundson, who plays Detective Lassiter on the USA series Psych), pilot of the Red Lion, recovering from an accident. It is short, but sweet and a total treat for Voltron fans.

Check it out here below [...]

Warlord of Mars: Fall of Barsoom #3
Written by Robert Place Napton
Art by Roberto Castro
Colors by Alex Guimsaraes
Letters by Simon Bowland
Covers by Joe Jusko, Francesco Francavilla
Dynamite Entertainment
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Cover Price: $3.99

I’m usually not a big fan of spin-off books, but I was pleasantly surprised by this comic. Set 100,000 years before John Carter arrives on Mars, Warlord of Mars: Fall of Barsoom #3 is actually an interesting story about the history of the planet Mars and its inhabitants.

A lot of spin-off or tie-ins tell the stories set 1 day or 5 minutes before the beginning of the movie, or you’re stuck with between the scenes stuff, where you already know the outcome of the story and immediately think “Wait, why am I reading this again?” But writer Robert Place Napton does a nice job of telling a tale that is very independent from the story of John Carter that we’ve all read before. This is legitimately a fun, exciting story on its own, just set in the John Carter “universe.” [...]

Legendary Mountain frontman Leslie West has been in the news a lot over the last few months. Due to some serious health issues he had his lower right leg removed to save his life. Thankfully back in relatively good shape now, West has been busy promoting his new album, the truly excellent Unusual Suspects featuring guest musicians Zakk Wylde, Slash, Billy Gibbons, Steve Lukather, and Joe Bonamassa.

I spoke to the man whose enormous stature (both physically and musically) in the world of rock has never been in question just as he is about to embark on his latest tour, albeit with some adjustments.

Geeks of Doom: You’ve had some well publicized health issues recently. How are you?

Leslie West: I’m pretty good. I’m doing quite better. Got fitted for my prosthetic the other day and…it’s not as easy as one would think, [you don’t] just snap it on and, ‘Hey, yeah, there we go!’ But I’ll get it eventually. I’ll get it quickly I hope! [laughs] [...]

Elisabeth Sladen may be gone, but she is not forgotten, as her final episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures are released at long last. The fifth and final series begins with a strange knock on the door in the middle of the night, in which Sarah Jane finds an infant abandoned at her doorstep.

Naming the baby Sky, she soon discovers this child has the strange ability to conduct and absorb energy, causing havoc across the area. But Sarah Jane is convinced that Sky was brought to her for a reason – and it turns out that it is central to a galactic war between two civilizations who have now brought their battles to Earth [...]

Remember just a week or so ago when it was announced that Universal Pictures would be offering the upcoming Brett Ratner comedy, Tower Heist, to people in their homes via video on demand three weeks after its theatrical release for an astounding $59.99? And remember how angry movie theater owners were at the very thought of the plan, threatening to boycott the movie? Well, those angry theater owners appear to have won this mini–battle.

It’s being reported that Universal has canceled their plans to offer Tower Heist early. The movie was only to be available in the Atlanta and Portland, Oregon regions to test how well it worked, but theater owners were set to refuse playing the movie in their establishments altogether. It’s unclear exactly what caused the change of heart specifically, but this is likely the reason Universal decided not to continue on and risk losing a sizable chunk of first through third–week profits. [...]

What have we got for you today? Why, it’s a new trailer for the multiplayer mode of Goldeneye 007: Reloaded. That’s right, there’s another new version of Goldeneye, the N64 classic shooter, and it will be out on November 1, 2011, this time for PS3 and Xbox 360. Reloaded is a remastering of the Wii version that was released last year. The game has received a facelift thanks to a new engine and an HD upgrade. The new version also has support for the Playstation Move.

Check out the trailer here below [...]

The Gold Box spotlight deal of the day over at Amazon today is Charmed: The Complete Series DVD box set for only $85.99 (that’s 55% off the list price of $189.98).

Note, this deal is only for today, Thursday, October 13, 2011, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last.

This limited edition 49-disc DVD box set contains all 8 seasons of the television series Charmed and comes with a bonus disc of special features, including interviews with the show’s stars Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, and Rose McGowan, all in a special Book of Shadows packaging [...]