Geek News

Geek News: March 25, 2009
We’ve posted a fun little video mocking Cloverfield featuring the Monsters vs Aliens characters.

If you know Michel Gondry and his low budget style of film making you may have some concerns about Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet which he is directing….fear not. Seth says, "He’s approached him with ideas like maybe we could do something like this… you could do some of your weird people made out of string stuff. He's like, 'No, I don't want to any of that. The fact that you think I want to do that drives me crazy and makes me never want to do anything like that again.' He hates being predictable and repetitive and doing what's been done before. As soon as he starts to feel like he's expected to do something he doesn't want to do it at all."

Just last week, SYLVESTER STALLONE announced that he'd cast 50 CENT to replace FOREST WHITAKER in his movie, "The Expendables". Well, that isn't happening anymore . . . because Fiddy had to pass on the role. Terry Crews of Everybody hate Chris is in.

An unusual disguise has helped a Bangkok fireman rescue an eight-year-old boy who had climbed on to a third-floor window ledge. The firefighter dressed up as Spider-Man in order to coax the boy, who is autistic, from his dangerous perch. Teachers had alerted the fire department after the boy began crying and climbed out of a classroom window. It was reportedly his first day at the special needs school. A remark by his mother about his passion for comic book superheroes prompted a fireman to rush back to the station, where he kept a Spider-Man costume in his locker.

A new Neilsen study reveals that Facebook has become the most addictive social network on the planet. Each month, the average user spends three hours and 10 minutes on the site reconnecting with friends and family. Facebook is the world's most popular social network with 108.3 million users, followed by MySpace with 81 million users, Classmates Online with 19.7 million users, Orkut with 17.5 million users and Linkedin with 15 million users.