Some Stuff: July 3, 2009

On this date in 1962, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame


Resident Evil: Afterlife is in development for a September 2010 release.


Robert Rodriguez has choosen Nimród Antal, of Kontroll and Vacancy, to direct Predators for Troublemaker Studios and 20th Century Fox.


They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel this time. Universal won a bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids that first debuted in 1979. Yep, that very simple, arcade game involving a triangle shooting various asteroids. It’ll be produced by the same guys that produced Transfomers.


Transformers director Michael Bay ripped Megan Fox for trashing his film. She said, "I don't want to blow smoke up people's a** - people are well aware that this is not a movie (Transformers2- Rvenege of the fallen) about acting." Bay told the Wall Street Journal, "Well, that's Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she's 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do. Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers. I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films."


Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest) has been cast as Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which is due out in two parts, starting in November 2010. When asked if he was a big Potter fan, Nighy admitted that he hadn't actually read any of the books yet.


A new battery has been developed that is so small and thin it can be printed in a process similar to silk-screening shirts. The printable battery is expected to cheap and easy to mass produce and could be used in disposable receipts or cards. German scientists say the goal is to be able to mass produce the batteries at a price of a single cent each.