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Geek News: Wednesday, February 25, 2009

1940: A hockey game was televised for the first time. The New York Rangers beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-2 at Madison Square Garden.

Michel Gondry the mind behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind and Dave Chapelle’s Block Party has signed on to direct Seth Rogens Green Hornet.

It's official – Warner Brothers has just set the release date for Green Lantern as December 17th, 2010. In addition , WB has also announced new release dates for a bunch of major upcoming projects. Christopher Nolan's new sci-fi project Inception has been set for July 16th, 2010, and Zack Snyder's next project Sucker Punch will hit on October 8th, 2010. Additionally, Louis Leterrier's re-imagining of the classic Clash of The Titans will hit theaters early, on March 26th, 2010.

Finally here is an update on the Spiderman musical. "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" will open February 18, 2010, in New York City The musical will feature a score by Bono and The Edge, both of U2. The director is Julie Taymor, who was the creative force behind The Lion King, Disney's long-running musical, now in its second decade on Broadway.

If someone you know emails you and says the converter boxes we're buying so we can get digital TV have been bugged, it's a hoax. Someone posted a supposedly real video on YouTube purporting to show the guts of one of the boxes, and where the government had hidden a mini-camera and microphone. Again Hoax…. Or is it?!