The digital movie rental deal of the day over at Amazon today is the Ryan Reynolds-starring superhero film Green Lantern for only .99.

Once you activate the rental through Amazon’s Instant Video service, you’ll have access to the movie for 48 hours. If you’re interested in purchasing the digital version, the cost is $14.99.

Also, if you’d like to own a physical copy of Green Lantern, the Blu-ray/DVD Combo is on sale right now for $13.95, the Blu-ray is $19.99, and the DVD is $9.99. The DVD is part of Amazon’s “Buy This DVD and Watch it Instantly” program — you get the film as a FREE digital rental you can watch immediately when you purchase the physical copy [...]

The video game deal of the day over at Amazon today is a $50 credit when you purchase an Xbox 360 4GB Console. Add the item to your cart from the main Sale page and purchase to receive the credit [...]

Amazon is running a 19 Days of Deals sale on video games this month, with today’s entry being Kid’s Playtime Day, where you can save up to 33% on select video games and accessories like, Monster High: Ghoul Spirit, Nickelodeon Fit, Sesame Street: Ready, Set, Grover!, PS3 Move Quad, and more.

Here’s a sample of some of the sale items:

- Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure Starter Pack Wii – $59.99
- Monster High: Ghoul Spirit DS – $19.99
- Wii Fit 15-in-1 Family Pack – Black – $14.44
- PS3 Move Quad Dock Pro – $16.50 [...]

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is the Star Wars-themed shirt called “Jabba’s Gentleman’s Club” by Kpop.

The sale at RIPT began today, Wednesday, December 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 [...]

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today is a Ghostbusters-themed shirt called “Busted” by Ste7en Lefcourt.

The sale began at Teefury today, Wednesday, December 14, 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 [...]

I saw this artwork by DeviantArt user Kinjamin of the cast of the NBC sitcom Community as Batman villains and thought, hey, pretty cool.

So, I emailed the link to our Batman expert MK2FAC3 figuring he’ll dig it and maybe want to write something up about it. His response was “Something about this kinda makes me want to kill something.” I think it had something to do with the Batman Returns catsuit, it made him see red [...]

Did you know they were making a movie based on the video game Just Cause? If not, surprise!

Producers Adrian Askarieh and Eric Eisner have reached out to Bryan Edward Hill to rewrite the script for the movie, which is currently titled Just Cause: Scorpion Rising. Michael Ross (Touristas) wrote the first draft of the script, which is being developed Askarieh and Eisner’s Prime Universe Productions and Double E Pictures before being shopped out to potential studios. [...]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes arrives on DVD and Blu-ray today. In conjunction with the release, street artist Anthony Lister created a huge Apes-inspired mural in Los Angeles.

The Australian-born street artist worked throughout the nights over this past weekend to complete the piece.

Check out the time-lapsed video here below of Lister’s creation of this mural from start to finish; there’s also a video of Lister talking about his mural and the film that includes some b-roll footage and soundclips from the film [...]

The promotional machine for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is up and preparing to crush the competition in the run-up to its theatrical bow next week and Entertainment Tonight, the show that once gave Cosmo Kramer seizures, has a preview of the forthcoming film. You can watch it here below.

There’s a bit of footage from the David Fincher-directed film along with interviews with stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in the two-minute preview. If you’ve seen the various regular and extended trailers you won’t find anything new here. Mara discusses how she approached the character of Lisbeth Salander and Craig talks about shooting in the frigid climate of Sweden [...]

Occultist #2
Story by Mike Richardson & Tim Seeley
Script by Tim Seeley
Art by Victor Drujiniu
Colors by Andrew Dalhouse
Letters by Nate Peikos of Blambot
Cover by Steve Morris
Dark Horse Comics
Release Date: December 14th, 2011
Cover Price: $3.50

The Occultist #2 is wall to wall action. It gets going on the first page and doesn’t stop until the last. Unfortunately, I was left a little confused by the issue.

While I read and enjoyed the first issue, this issue would’ve benefited greatly by some introduction of the characters as you go footnotes or panels. There’s a lot of characters in this book, and it’s very hard to keep track of them at some points in the issue [...]

The first trailer for Rock of Ages, the latest movie musical based on a Broadway sensation, has been released. You can watch it here below.

Set in Los Angeles circa 1987, the story centers on a romance between two fame-hungry lovers (Diego Boneta, Julianne Hough) looking to break into the music industry in the decade where hair metal dominated the charts. Among the characters they encounter on their journey through the highs and lows of stardom are Alec Baldwin as a club owner, Mary J. Blige as another club owner, Bryan Cranston as the mayor of L.A., Catherine Zeta-Jones as the mayor’s wife and an anti-rock crusader, Tom Cruise (pictured above) as rock star Stacee Jaxx, and Paul Giamatti as Jaxx’s manager. The cast also features Russell Brand, Malin Akerman, and Will Forte [...]

While any and all tentpole projects can get a fair bit of funding, it’s the more intriguing pieces that appear to be getting the bad end of their respective deals.

The latest project to get delayed is, according to Deadline, Legendary Pictures’ upcoming film, Paradise Lost.

Helmed by Alex Proyas, the film is set to star Bradley Cooper, Djimon Honsou, Casey Affleck, Camilla Belle, and Callan McAuliffe, and will obviously be based on the John Milton poem, which follows the story of “the battle between good and evil.” [...]

This year marked the 30th anniversary of the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the original (and still the best) of the Indiana Jones series. To celebrate the occasion animator Jeff Gurwood decided to pay homage to the movie that first brought together Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Harrison Ford with a stop-motion animated recreation of Raiders‘ famous opening sequence.

You can watch Gurwood’s video here below [...]

When James Cameron’s Avatar took movie theaters by storm, obliterating every record in sight including the seemingly untouchable $600 million mark set by another Cameron movie, Titanic, very few people thought a day would soon come where that new record fell.

Shockingly, though no movie has or likely will come close for a long time, it’s a video game that has nudged its way into Avatar‘s personal record bubble. Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has reached $1 billion, and it has done so in only 16 days. That tops Avatar, which pulled it off in 17 days. [...]

DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment revealed the February 28 release date and box cover art for the next DC animated feature, Justice League: Doom.

Justice League: Doom, an animated film based off of the events of Mark Waid’s Tower of Babel story, is the next movie in the popular line of animated films featuring the characters of DC Comics [...]

Amazon is currently selling the MP3 version of the album The Greatest Video Game Music by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Skeet for only $5.

If you’d like to own a physical copy of The Greatest Video Game Music, it also comes in CD for only $9.99.

The album contains 22 tracks of classical versions of some of the most popular video games like Super Mario Bros., Grand Theft Auto IV, Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare, Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, and many more [...]

Amazon is running a 19 Days of Deals sale on video games this month, with today’s entry being Assassin’s Creed Day, where you can save up to 50% on select Assassin’s Creed video games like Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, and more.

Here’s a sample of some of the sale items:

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Xbox 360 & PS3 – $35.99

Assassin’s Creed II: Platinum Hits edition
Xbox 360 & PS3 – $14.99 [...]

The first trailer for Paramount/MGM’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation, the long-mooted sequel to 2009′s, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, has been released today and you can check it out here below.

While The Rise of Cobra didn’t bring in the beaucoup bucks the Transformers franchise has been reaping, that didn’t stop the studio from putting a sequel into production. Stephen Sommers, the director of Rise, was not offered the job of helming Retaliation [...]

Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 2: The Blast Of War
Created and Written by Conor McCreery, Anthony Del Col
Art by Andy Belanger
Colors by Ian Herring
Lettering by Chris Mowry, Neil Uyetake, and Shawn Lee
Collection Cover by Kagan McLeod
Collection Design by Chris Mowry
IDW Publishing
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Cover Price: $19.99

Imagine if you will, all of Shakespeare’s creations brought to life and populating one world, interacting with one another and thinking of him as their (rightfully so) creator. That’s exactly what Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col did in their graphic novel Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 2: The Blast Of War. It had been quite some time since I read the first volume, but I caught back up pretty quickly [...]

Oh, fa-la-la! It’s that time of the year again and we can hear you hyperventilating all the way over here at Geeks of Doom HQ. Don’t sweat it. Your Geek brethren have got you covered with our annual gift giving guide for all those lovable geeks on your list. We make it so darned easy to get through that daunting list, you won’t even have to pull your face out of your favorite internet-capable device for a hot New York minute.

We’ve been posting our Gift Guides all month, so to round it out, a bunch of us book lovers got together and came up with some great reads for you to get for that book lover in your life. Whether your gift recipient prefers a physical book or reading via computer or ebook reading device, we’ve got you covered. Also, if you’re new to ebooks and are unsure on how to gift them, fear not! We’ve got you’ve cover there, too. See below for our Holiday Geek Gift Guide 2011: Books & eBooks [...]