Geek News - Jan 8

Geek Thursday, January 8, 2009

The "35th Annual People's Choice Awards" went down last night. The biggest non-surprise was the sweep by "The Dark Knight" . . . which won all five awards it was nominated for.

My sources are reporting that both Mickey Rourke and Sam Rockwell are in talks to join Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2! Rourke is in discussions to play a Iron Man's Russian alter ego, Crimson Dynamo, a villain with his own nuclear-powered armored suit. Rockwell would play a British villain named Justin Hammer, a multibillionaire businessman and a rival of industrialist of Tony Stark. (see Crimson Dynamo pic below)

Here’s why Shazamm isn’t happening .Writer John August writes in his Blog: In retrospect, I can point to two summer Warner Bros. movies that I believe defined the real issue at hand: Speed Racer and The Dark Knight. The first flopped; the second triumphed. Given only those two examples, one can understand why a studio might wish for their movies to be more like the latter. But to do so ignores the success of Iron Man, which spent most of its running time as a comedic origin story, and the even more pertinent example of WB’s own Harry Potter series.

Mark your calendars Friday, January 16. Beginning at 10 a.m , Space Channel will be having BATTLESTAR GALACTICA DAY features encores of the first 10 episodes of Season 4, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE TOP 10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW, the broadcast premiere of the Season 4 webisodes, “The Face of the Enemy”, a special FANDOM FORUM edition of THE CIRCUIT and, of course, the greatly-anticipated Season 4 Part II premiere. 14 hours of BSG WHOOO HOOOO!!!!