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

• Robert Rodriguez will produce and his girlfriend Rose McGowan will star in a Red Sonja remake.
• The Korean monster movie hit The Host will get a Chinese sequel.
• Check out a couple of new clips from X-Files: I Want to Believe, an exclusive clip from Hellboy II, and the first (super-whacked-out) trailer for Repo! The Genetic Opera starring Anthony Stewart head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
• Warner Brothers signed Louis Leterrier (Incredible Hulk) to direct the Clash of the Titans remake. Meanwhile, Relativity has tapped Tarsem Singh to direct War of Gods, another 300-style action flick about ancient Greeks and their gods. (Battle of the redundant geek movies, anyone?)
• Paramount won’t host any panels or bring any stars to Comic-Con next month, in spite of a huge presence last year. Meanwhile, an impending SAG strike threatens to keep any actors from showing at next month’s convention.
• Cloverfield and 300 were among the ‘best film’ winners of the 34th annual Saturn Awards.
• The Arrested Development movie is planned for 2009.

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TV / DVD

• Check out five minutes of footage from the direct-to-DVD anime movie Batman - Gotham Knight, dropping on July 8.
• The voice cast of the upcoming Wonder Woman animated DVD movie will include Keri Russell (Princess Diana), Nathan Fillion (Steve Trevor), Alfred Molina, Virginia Madsen, and Rosario Dawson.
• The Simpsons, The X-Files, LOST, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer are among the top ten in EW.com’s list of the 100 best shows of the last 25 years.
• Family Guy, The Office, Pushing Daisies, Dexter, and LOST are among the Emmy finalists.
• Check out the teaser for Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a series of webisodes dropping soon.
• Steve Carrell has signed on for three more seasons of The Office.
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will premiere on September 8, and CBS announced its full Fall premiere lineup.

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COMICS

• Michael Turner (co-creator of Witchblade and founder of Aspen Comics) passed away on Friday night at age 37 after a longtime struggle with cancer.
• Writer Sean McKeever offered up a preview image of the future Teen Titans lineup.
• Check out the preview of Marvel Apes, an upcoming series that reimagines Spidey, Wolverine, and others as “simian superheroes.” (Sigh, and I used to think that monkeys make everything better…)
• Marvel has tapped Mike Perkins to illustrate the adaptation of Stepehn King’s The Stand.
• EW lists Maus, Watchmen, Persepolis, and The Sandman among the 100 best reads of the past 25 years.
• Marvel will release a new slate of What If..? books coming this year.
• Garth Ennis (Preacher) will write a new Judge Dredd series that Dynamite will develop for the US in 2009.

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VIDEO GAMES

• Blizzard officially announced Diablo 3. The official site has trailers, screenshots, and 20 minutes of gameplay footage.
• Lots of sweet media this week! Check out first trailer for Star Wars Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels, the teaser trailer for Crysis Warhead, the trailer for Saints Row 2, 20 minutes of gameplay of Far Cry 2, combat scenes from Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, leaked beta footage from Gears of War 2, and screenshots from Ghostbusters.
• Sony will offer a movie download service on PlayStation 3s in the US this summer.
• Kid Icarus Wii and Doom 4 will appear at E3, and Nintendo Power magazine has a preview of the new Castlevania game (a 3D fighter).
• A supposed Kmart flier indicates a price drop next month for the Xbox 360.
• More details on the upcoming DC Universe Online game have been released. No, you don’t get to play any of the DCU superheroes.
• Electronic Arts will release a line of casual sports games for Nintendo Wii based on Madden and others of their most popular franchises.

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