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Geek news: Thursday, March 5, 2009

On Our Blog: The First trailer for Michael Mann's highly anticipated Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Depp stars as the infamous 1930's bank robber John Dillinger

Watchmen has set its first record before even opening -- its 3,611 theater count will be the most ever for an R-rated film. Early reviews of the Watchmen, which hits theaters tomorrow. Brilliant!!!

Tron2.0 Doesn’t hit theaters til 2011 but rumours are spreading like wild fire my source is claiming, that Daft Punk has signed on to do the score for Tron 2.0! They say that Disney has actually confirmed this with them, which means I'm also going to say that it's accurate until proven otherwise.

Starting next week you can ignore the Facebook friends you're not that excited about. The online social-networking service on Wednesday unveiled a redesign that adds Twitter-like real-time chatter, better filtering of incoming information, and a platform for reaching mass audiences. Facebook currently boasts more than 175 million members and could hit 200 million by the end of this year.

Barbie has come a long way since she was first introduced 50 years ago. Now she's getting a tattoo. The new "Totally Stylin' Tattoos" Barbie has hit shelves just in time for spring and she's already selling out in stores. She comes with a set of tattoo stickers, which can be placed anywhere on her body.

Ever want to smell like Captain Kirk? Now you can. Coming out to promote the new Star Trek movie is a new line of Trek fragrances. The three scents include Tiberius ("difficult to define and impossible to refuse"), Red Shirt ("Because tomorrow may never come"), and Ponn Farr (after a Vulcan mating ritual)