The announcement trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now online!

The Peter Jackson film, which is a prequel to his epic award-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy, stars Martin Freeman as the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

Watch it here below.

The teaser trailer will also be running ahead of showings of The Adventures of Tintin starting tomorrow. [...]

Every classic movie star has their calling card: Marilyn Monroe had her skirt blown up, John Wayne swaggered, and Paul Newman had his magical baby blues.

Tom Cruise, on the other hand, just runs. Sure he has that thousand-watt “It’s good to be Cruise” smile but he doesn’t use it on screen as much these days. Time Magazine’s video editor Valerie Lapinski has assembled a montage of some of the world’s most famous Scientologist’s best on-screen running scenes. [...]

What would you say if asked whether you’d like to see Daniel Craig play James Bond in five more films? Which would bring his grand total to eight Bond movies following the release of his third turn in the iconic role, titled Skyfall.

One producer of the franchise, Michael G. Wilson, wants just that. In an interview recently, Wilson talked about Craig in the role, saying “Daniel’s been a terrific Bond, a superb actor, and a terrific man” before going on to why he wants to see him hit that eighth mark. [...]

Amazon and Random House Digital have a surprising deal on the opening tale of the current Star Wars novel series, Fate of the Jedi. Entitled Outcast, the eBook version of the novel is currently available for $1.99! That’s 93% off of the usual $27 price — an excellent deal for the Star Wars Expanded Universe addict.

Also, being so close to the holiday season, it would make a pretty good cheap gift for someone who is just getting into the whole Kindle scene.

Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi – Outcast is the first part of a nine book saga recounting the events following the Second Galactic Civil War. [...]

Blue Goggles Films has put together a bit of a love letter/holiday gift to the makers and fans of Batman: Arkham City with “A Very Arkham City Christmas,” a holiday tale that’s set in the universe of the popular game.

In the short film, writer/director Ben Moody shows us a story in which we see two of The Penguin’s henchman who try to share a Christmas moment with each other after they’ve escaped from a beatdown from The Bat, or so they think. Things don’t go quite as well as they planned, however. In Arkham City, you can never escape The Dark Knight. [...]

During a recent census in the Czech Republic, 15,070 people stated that they were members of the Knights of the Jedi religion, based, of course, on the Star Wars universe created by George Lucas.

While still a small number in comparison to others (over 1 million checked off Catholicism and over half of the country chose not to answer the question) it’s still intriguing to see that number of people who feel that a religion based on something we all know to be fictional is a better choice for their lifestyles than one of the other more conventional religions. [...]

Frequent Broadway events? Would you if it involved Captain Kirk? Well, get your suits and dresses ready people. Shatner is coming to Broadway.

The NY Post is reporting that William Shatner will be bringing his one man show, Shatner’s World: We’re Just Living In It, to New York. The show will run for a three week period in February.

The show is based on “years of Q&As he’s done to hawk his books,” and has been quite popular. [...]

The first trailer for the follow-up to 2010′s Clash of the Titans remake, titled Wrath of the Titans, has made its way online.

The sequel is surprising for multiple reasons, most notable of which is the fact that the original did not perform as well as was hoped both critically and financially (making only a small amount more than its budget domestically—though it did do much better overseas—and being generally panned by critics), followed by the fact that almost the entire cast came back to reprise their roles. [...]

As the first film, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, gets ready to make its public debut tonight (a day early), eyes are pointed on director David Fincher, and what he may or may not do in the future, especially with regards to his future within this specific franchise.

At a press conference, the director revealed that, if he were to shoot the sequels, that since the final two books are “very much one story,” the films would ultimately be shot back to back [...]

Following in the wake of a shockingly intriguing red-band trailer, we’ve got yet another chance to look at the upcoming big screen adaptation of 21 Jump Street, and I must say, it looks quite good.

The film stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, and follows the story of a cop duo who are sent into a high school, undercover, to bust the person behind a recent rash of drugs going around the school [...]

Today December 20, 2011, Peter Criss, the original drummer for rock band KISS, celebrates his 66th birthday!

The original wearer of the ‘Catman’ make-up, Criss was one of the founding members of the band. He had three spells with KISS playing on their revered 1970s albums including KISS, Hotter Than Hell, and Destroyer [...]

Right now Amazon has a deal where if you purchase an Xbox 4GB Console with Kinect, you will receive a $100 Amazon credit good toward the purchase of items shipped and sold by Amazon.com.

To receive the credit, go to the product page and click on the link under the “Amazon.com $100 Credit Offer” banner and follow the instructions there [this is important to do, otherwise you won't get the credit].

See more details about this promotion here below. Also, if you want this item for Christmas, there’s still time! See Amazon ordering deadlines here below [...]

Logan’s Run: Aftermath #4
Written by Paul J. Salamoff
Art by Mike Dorman
Colors by Aurelio Alfonso
Letters by Bernie Lee
Graphics by Jason Brock, William F. Nolan, Paul J. Salamoff
Logo Design by Patrick Foster
Cover by Mike Dorman
Bluewater Comics
Release Date: December 21th, 2011
Cover Price: $3.99

I have to admit, Logan’s Run: Aftermath #4 took me by surprise. It was actually a really good science fiction story, that, like all good Sci-Fi stories, is routed in humanity.

This issue is basically the story of Tara, the main character’s long-time rival. Instead of making her a villain just for the sake of having an antagonist, writer Paul J. Salamoff gives her a very credible “origin” story that shows her slow descent into conflict with Logan [...]

The video game deal of the day over at Amazon today is when you buy the PlayStation 3 320GB/Uncharted 3 Bundle, you’ll get the Uncharted Greatest Hits Dual Pack free at no additional charge and a $50 Amazon Credit.

Visit the Playstation 3 Savings sale page to add the items to your cart.

- PlayStation 3 Uncharted 3 Bundle
- UNCHARTED Greatest Hits Dual Pack
- The $50 promotional code will be sent via email within two days after your qualifying order ships [...]

Ariel Segall has created a step-by-step tutorial on how to make your own Dungeons & Dragons-style dice out of chocolate.

Yes, chocolate D&D dice. So now your +2 to damage roll is also a yummy chocolatey snack [...]

There’s a lot of great works of art out there, many of which reside in public places for all the world to see.
long as it’s not damaging to said works of art.

And while we all have much respect for said works of art, there’s not a thing wrong with wanting to geek things up a bit from time to time, so long as it’s not damaging to said works of art.

Which brings us to Astor Place in New York City’s Manhattan borough, home of the sculpture called Alamo (seen here). Sometimes also called “The Cube,” this work of art was all but begging for a geek makeover in the form of a Portal Weighted Companion Cube costume. [...]

Batman 66‘s opening title sequence has been recreated by YouTube user lgfb1film through the magic of Legos and stop-motion animation. And it is glorious. Watch the video here below.

In what could possibly be described as the greatest thing that you will see today, the Lego adaptation of the classic series’ introduction has painstakingly been recreated down to minor details including a cloth cowl and mask for both Batman and Robin, as well as a Bat-symbol and Bat-mobile created with Legos. Each one of these Legos has been modified by the creator of this video to capture the essence of the 1966 television series [...]

Come this Thursday, the first trailer for Ridley Scott‘s Alien prequel, Prometheus, will be released online.

Until then, however, we are lucky enough to have this brief preview to tide us over. The preview involves a few words from Ridley and some very quick peeks at the trailer that will be released later this week.

You can see the Prometheus preview by heading below now. [...]

Another young actor has been added to the cast of Ender’s Game, the adaptation of the Orson Scott Card science fiction novel.

Brendan Meyer, star of the Disney XD TV series Mr. Young, has been chosen for the role of Stilson, a classmate of Ender (played by Hugo star Asa Butterfield) who bullies and taunts him while they are at Ground School. [...]

Dark Horse Comics released a time lapsed video on Monday through io9 that shows the artistic process of creating the cover for the third issue of the upcoming Star Wars: Blood Dies – Boba Fett Is Dead #3 by artist Chris Scalf.

Time-lapsed art videos are always really cool to me, especially with digital art as it’s something that greatly interests me. And this video from Chris Scalf is no exception. In the video we see the cover grow from a digital sketch to a fully realized comic book cover through the process of digitally inking and colors all of the minute details. [...]