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

• Guillermo del Toro indicated he’ll hold contests for fans who want to appear in The Hobbit.
• Screenwriter Carl Ellsworth has been hired to write the Red Dawn remake. Dan Bradley will direct.
• Robert Downey Jr. will star in Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. Marvel has made a deal with Jon Favreau to rejoin Downey Jr. as director of Iron Man 2.
• Check out the kick-ass first trailers for Max Payne, Quarantine, and Outlander, and the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars Webdoc, “The Clones are Coming“.
• The Weinstein Company has restored the original plot of Fanboys and has returned the film to its original director. It’ll hit screens later this year.
• Warner Bros. will adapt the cult comic book Elfquest.
• The Dark Knight will open on a record number of IMAX screens.

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TV / DVD

• Check out the trailer of Hulk vs. Wolverine from the upcoming direct-to-DVD Hulk VS. animated movie.
• Check out spoilers for the upcoming season 3 of Heroes and the trailer for this summer’s Web episodes.
• Showtime and Dexter exec producer Sara Colleton will adapt The Exterminators, a comic series by Vertigo/DC Comics.
• AMC network is mining classic genre TV shows and sci-fi movies for miniseries, movies and remakes.
• Sci-fi freshman shows are likeliest to be the upcoming TV season’s top-rated new shows, according to professional handicappers.
• Production has begun on The Venture Bros. Season 4.
• Courteney Cox will join the cast of Scrubs for three episodes. (Yeah, it’s a real slow news week.)

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COMICS

• Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier) will announce a new project at Comic-Con.
• The Comic-Con schedules for preview night, Thursday, and Sunday have been released.
• IDW Publishing will release its second Doctor Who miniseries starting in August.
• Check out the sneak peek at X-Files #0.
• Orson Scott Card talks about the comic adaptation of Ender’s Game on the latest Marvel podcast.
• FEARnet and IDW Publishing have created a limited-edition comic book adaptation of the upcoming web series 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust.
• Wal-Mart pulled from its shelves a popular Mexican comic book after a Houston customer complained it was racist.

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VIDEO GAMES

• The Wall Street Journal confirmed the impending price drop of the Xbox 360 Pro to $299.
• Check out the first frigging footage from Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and the debut trailer for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
• 505 Games will release an official new Buffy the Vampire Slayer game for the Nintendo DS.
• The merger of Activision and Blizzard has been finalized.
• Konami (Dance Dance Revolution) sued Harmonix over Rock Band.
• Microsoft will announce DirectX 11 within the next two weeks.
• Crysis won’t release a demo for Far Cry 2.

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