Every week, I stick my fingers into the dark and varied crevices of the internet tubes to pluck out nuggets of geeky news. Every weekend, I share with you–the fortunate reader–the top seven gems in movies, TV, comics, and video games.

MOVIES

• The director of The Incredible Hulk implied that Captain America will appear in the film.
• Seth Rogen’s The Green Hornet has been greenlit for 2010.
• Director Ridley Scott returns to sci-fi with an adaption of Brave New World, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
• Transformers won Best Movie at the MTV Movie Awards. Because apparently MTV panders to mental-deficients.
• Latino Review gave a glowing review to the Grayskull: The Masters of the Universe script.
• Bryce Dallas Howard is in talks to play Kate Connor in Terminator 4, Leonardo Dicaprio will star in a biopic on the founder of Atari, Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley joined the Prince of Persia adaptation, and Bruce Willis in in talks to star in the adaption of the Kane & Lynch video game.
• The Corpse Bride team of Tim Burton, John August, and Johnny Depp will reunite for an adaption of the 60s supernatural TV show Dark Shadows.

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TV / DVD

• Superbad writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are penning an episode of The Simpsons. Meanwhile, the principal voice actors on The Simpsons have signed new four-year deals.
• Torchwood will return in Season 3 as a five-episode mini-series.
• Arrested Development’s Tony Hale joined the cast of Chuck, and Justin Hartley (Green Arrow/Oliver Queen) joined the cast of Smallville as a series regular.
• Check out the Japanese trailer for Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, which is apparently just like the first movie, but without Diz’s topless scene.
• Photos of the vampires from Lost Boys: The Tribe have been released.
• A trailer was released for Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control, a companion film to Get Smart being released direct-to-DVD on July 1 and starring Heroes‘ Masi Oka.
• The Sci Fi Channel will create a new franchise that is both a television series and a massive multiplayer game on the Internet.

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COMICS

• Marvel confirmed The Stand comic book based on Stephen King’s novel and announced the creative team.
• D.J. Coffman, who won Platinum Studio’s first Comic Book Challenge in 2006 with his creation Hero By Night, suspended the title “due to financial issues at [the] publisher.”
• Marvel Zombies will return in time for Halloween with a new mini-series.
• A What If? Fantastic Four book–a tribute to the late artist Mike Wieringo–will premiere at HeroesCon on June 20.
• Writer/artist Terry Moore took his readers through the anatomy of a comic book cover.
• Hulk #4 will feature a battle between the Hulk and the new Red Hulk.
• Marvel unveiled artist Lee Bermejo’s variant cover for Astonishing X-Men #25, premiering at Comic-Con International in July.

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VIDEO GAMES

• Crytek announced the next installment of Crysis, Crysis Warhead, a shooter built on CryENGINE(R) 2 technology being released exclusively to PCs this fall.
• Activision plans to launch Guitar Hero: Metallica in the first quarter of 2009.
• New, sneak preview footage (forward to 4:18) of Duke Nukem Forever has been released.
• Street Fighter IV got a bad-ass trailer, and FPS Fracture got one, too.
• Despite laying off 75-100 employees this week, LucasArts confirms development of the next Euphoria-engine-powered Indiana Jones game is on track and won’t be outsourced.
• Fewer than ten games have sold 10 million units since 2000. Now Call of Duty 4 has sold 10 million, and Grand Theft Auto IV has sold 11 million.
• The upcoming game based on James Cameron’s Avatar will only feature 3-D on a specific type of TV and with special glasses.

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