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Geek news: Friday, March 6, 2009

Blog Trailers: Wolverine, Star Trek

Watchmen"
A washed up masked vigilante pulls his old group of superheroes out of retirement after one of them is murdered and they uncover a conspiracy to manipulate world affairs. Themes include: Cold War, Existentialism, conspiracy, truth…

It's directed by Zack Snyder, the guy who did "300", and it's based on Alan Moore's famous "graphic novel" . . . which is just geek speak for "mature comic book". Alan is the same guy who wrote "V for Vendetta" and "From Hell".

A fourth Mad Max film is in the works and will become a 3-D animated feature without any involvement from Mel Gibson.

Despite a ratings decline this season, NBC plans to bring back Heroes for a fourth season. The Hollywood Reporter says the network plans to order 18-20 episodes of the show for next season. That's fewer hours than Heroes first or current third season.

A new study from the University of Turin in Italy has found that a PENILE EXTENDER DEVICE . . . called the Andro-Penis . . . can actually lengthen a man's most intimate of areas by up to 33%.

And it can improve "erectile function" . . . whatever that means . . . by 36%.

But guys . . . before you get too excited, you should know that FIVE of the study's volunteers had to drop out before the trial was finished . . . because they suffered, quote, "pain and penile bruising."