http://www.geeksofdoom.com Stuff by geeks, about geeks, for geeks. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:00:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Geeks of Doom 2011 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ webmaster@geeksofdoom.com (Geeks of Doom) webmaster@geeksofdoom.com (Geeks of Doom) Comics, Movies, Technology, Video Games, Books, Toys, Geeks, Geek, Television, TV, Music, Film 1440 http://geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2010/04/2010-04-27-geeksofdoomcast144.jpg http://www.geeksofdoom.com 144 144 Your weekly geek infusion The official podcast for all things Geek Comics, Movies, Technology, Video, Games, Books, Toys, Geeks Geeks of Doom Geeks of Doom webmaster@geeksofdoom.com no no http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/deal-buy-lego-pirates-of-the-caribbean-get-half-off-another-disney-game/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/deal-buy-lego-pirates-of-the-caribbean-get-half-off-another-disney-game/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:00:41 +0000 Empress Eve http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137988

Right now if you purchase LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean for Nintendo DS, you can get another select Disney Nintendo DS game for half off.

Visit the main Sale page to select LEGO Pirates of The Caribbean: The Video Game, along with another eligible Disney game like TRON: Evolution, Disney Tangled, Phineas and Ferb Ride Again, Toy Story 3 The Video Game, and more.

Note, this promotion ends at the end of the day today, Saturday, February 11, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/deal-buy-lego-pirates-of-the-caribbean-get-half-off-another-disney-game/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/video-game-deal-buy-the-darkness-ii-get-10-credit/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/video-game-deal-buy-the-darkness-ii-get-10-credit/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:00:42 +0000 Empress Eve http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=131994

Amazon is currently running a video game deal where if you purchase The Darkness II for Xbox 360 or PS3, you'll get a $10 credit

The game is also available for PC and for PC Download [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/video-game-deal-buy-the-darkness-ii-get-10-credit/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/geek-gear-pee-wee-mr-hermans-bike-adventure-tours-shirt/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/geek-gear-pee-wee-mr-hermans-bike-adventure-tours-shirt/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:50:04 +0000 Empress Eve http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137969

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel is a Pee-Wee Herman-themed shirt called "Mr Herman's Bike Tour Adventures" by Bamboota.

The sale at RIPT began today, Saturday, February 11, 2012, 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 [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/geek-gear-pee-wee-mr-hermans-bike-adventure-tours-shirt/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/geek-gear-doctor-whopeanuts-whonuts-shirt/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/geek-gear-doctor-whopeanuts-whonuts-shirt/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:50:10 +0000 Empress Eve http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137963

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at TeeFury today takes the 11 Doctors of Doctor Who and transforms them into Peanuts-style characters in "Whonuts" by queenmob.

The sale began at Teefury today, Saturday, February 11, 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 [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/11/geek-gear-doctor-whopeanuts-whonuts-shirt/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/the-darkness-gets-an-international-distributor-mary-elizabeth-winstead-to-star/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/the-darkness-gets-an-international-distributor-mary-elizabeth-winstead-to-star/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:00:32 +0000 Cinemumra http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137722

From Sunshine Cleaning to a hotly anticipated thriller? That’s apparently what writer Megan Holley has done with her latest bit of writing.

Screen Daily is reporting that HanWay has picked up the international rights to Holley’s thriller The Darkness, which is set to star Mary Elizabeth Winstead with Daniel Stamm aboard as director.

The film follows the story of “a young American student working for a charismatic tutor in an English manor house who becomes convinced that she and the children she is warding are being haunted.” [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/the-darkness-gets-an-international-distributor-mary-elizabeth-winstead-to-star/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/naomi-watts-to-play-princess-diana-in-caught-in-flight/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/naomi-watts-to-play-princess-diana-in-caught-in-flight/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:20 +0000 Cinemumra http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137723

Nothing says a director is growing quite like jumping from a Hitler biopic to a biography of one of the most beloved princesses the world has ever known.

That’s the trajectory for Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel, as he begins to prepare his upcoming Princess Diana biopic, Caught In Flight, now with a brand new actress. Deadline reports that Naomi Watts will be starring in the film, replacing Jessica Chastain. The film is currently being sold at the Berlinale, so more news on this project should be coming fast. [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/naomi-watts-to-play-princess-diana-in-caught-in-flight/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/check-out-this-ultra-cool-and-bloody-machete-kills-sales-poster/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/check-out-this-ultra-cool-and-bloody-machete-kills-sales-poster/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:00:43 +0000 BAADASSSSS! http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137713

The other day we reported that Robert Rodriguez was working on a sequel to his 2010 action splatterfest Machete called Machete Kills that would reunite the director with his longtime collaborator and Machete leading man Danny Trejo, and that he was planning to begin filming pretty soon.

Today we are bring you your first look at a promotional poster for Machete Kills that will premiere at the European Film Market this week.

You can check it out here below. [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/check-out-this-ultra-cool-and-bloody-machete-kills-sales-poster/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/ridley-scott-to-direct-cormac-mccarthys-the-counselor-next-michael-fassbender-to-star/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/ridley-scott-to-direct-cormac-mccarthys-the-counselor-next-michael-fassbender-to-star/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:00:48 +0000 The Movie God http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137819

Back in January it was reported that Cormac McCarthy, author of books that would one day become movies such as No Country For Old Men and The Road, had sold his first spec script, titled The Counselor.

You might not expect to hear about such a project again for an extended period of time while it's being developed and pieces are put into place, but instead the movie progresses rapidly. [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/ridley-scott-to-direct-cormac-mccarthys-the-counselor-next-michael-fassbender-to-star/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/cliff-burton-celebrate-what-would-have-been-metallica-bassist%e2%80%99s-50th-birthday/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/cliff-burton-celebrate-what-would-have-been-metallica-bassist%e2%80%99s-50th-birthday/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:52:23 +0000 Obi-Dan http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137929

Today, February 10, 2012, would have been Cliff Burton’s 50th birthday.

The revered Metallica bassist played on the band’s first three albums -- Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets. His charging, finger-picking basslines added much to the early Metallica and thrash metal music sound.

Burton was tragically killed almost 26 years ago when Metallica was on a European tour to support the Master Of Puppets album. The tour bus skidded off the road and crashed in southern Sweden killing Burton aged just 24 [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/cliff-burton-celebrate-what-would-have-been-metallica-bassist%e2%80%99s-50th-birthday/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/remake-of-alfred-hitchcocks-rebecca-on-the-way/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/remake-of-alfred-hitchcocks-rebecca-on-the-way/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:00:14 +0000 The Movie God http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137850

Another day, another remake on the way.

It's being reported that DreamWorks Pictures and Working Title Films will be remaking one of Alfred Hitchcock's many classics, the Best Picture winner from 1940, Rebecca, which starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.

Screenwriter Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) has been hired to pen the script, and he will be going back to the original novel of the same name by author Daphne du Maurier. [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/remake-of-alfred-hitchcocks-rebecca-on-the-way/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/star-wars-fans-can-turn-to-the-dark-side-using-the-book-of-sith/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/star-wars-fans-can-turn-to-the-dark-side-using-the-book-of-sith/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:55 +0000 Greg Davies http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=131661

Back in 2010, Lucasfilm put out a wonderful release called The Jedi Path: A Manual For Students Of The Force. The notion was to make a book that would have been used by Jedi Masters and Padawans as a reference manual – a book contained within an electronic vault that would open at the push of a button "in a wash of light and Star Wars sound effects". For those of you who have a predilection for the Dark Side though, you're in luck: the Sith version is now coming.

Entitled Book Of Sith: Secrets Of The Dark Side, which was released today, is similar in nature to the previous Jedi version. [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/star-wars-fans-can-turn-to-the-dark-side-using-the-book-of-sith/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/schwarzenegger-stallone-ready-for-the-tomb-with-shoulder-surgery/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/schwarzenegger-stallone-ready-for-the-tomb-with-shoulder-surgery/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:38 +0000 Empress Eve http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137833

It was confirmed yesterday that Expendables 2 co-stars and longtime friends Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone would be reteaming for the director Mikael Hafstrom's The Tomb.

The Tomb will be shot in Louisiana this Spring, so how did these two action icons get ready for their next big-screen effort? With some buddy shoulder surgeries!

Schwarzenegger tweeted a photo of Stallone and himself in hospital gowns lying side-by-side hospital beds awaiting their turns for shoulder surgery. Check out the photo, which the former California governor posted to his Who Say account, here below [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/schwarzenegger-stallone-ready-for-the-tomb-with-shoulder-surgery/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/deal-bettie-page-pint-glass-set/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/deal-bettie-page-pint-glass-set/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:50:33 +0000 Empress Eve http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137866

The deal of the day over at Things From Another World today is a Bettie Page Pint Glass Set set from Dark Horse for only $17.49 (that's 30% off the list price of $24.99). The set comes with 4 pint glasses, each with a different image of the famous 1950s pin-up girl Bettie Page.

Note - this deal is only for today, Friday, February 10, 2012, until 11:59pm PST while supplies last (and at TFAW, supplies don't last so grab this now if you want it at a discounted price).

Looking around TFAW, I see that they have a lot of great Bettie Page items, like this Bettie Page: Girl of Our Dreams Mini Statue by Dave Stevens, which is discounted right now to $35.99 (down from $59.99). Click here for more Bettie Page-related items like shirts, stickers, pens, stationery, coasters, and more, including graphic novels, available at TFAW [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/deal-bettie-page-pint-glass-set/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/geek-gear-star-wars-raiders-of-the-galactic-empire-shirt/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/geek-gear-star-wars-raiders-of-the-galactic-empire-shirt/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:20:15 +0000 Empress Eve http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137860

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is a mash-up of Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark called "Raiders of the Galactic Empire" by studown.

The sale began at RIPT today, Friday, February 10, 2012, 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 [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/10/geek-gear-star-wars-raiders-of-the-galactic-empire-shirt/feed/ 0 http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/09/sullivan-stapleton-to-star-in-300-battle-of-artemisia/ http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/09/sullivan-stapleton-to-star-in-300-battle-of-artemisia/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:00:22 +0000 Cinemumra http://www.geeksofdoom.com/?p=137724

First a director, and then a new name, and now finally a star, the upcoming film 300: Battle Of Artemisia has finally gotten some momentum.

THR is reporting that Animal Kingdom star and indie darling Sullivan Stapleton has joined the cast of the 300 follow-up, and will star as Xerxes, who leads an army against the forces of Greek general Themistokles. Stapleton will next be seen in WB’s Gangster Squad [...]]]> http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2012/02/09/sullivan-stapleton-to-star-in-300-battle-of-artemisia/feed/ 0