Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes

• Jason Statham gave up some details about his upcoming film Death Race in a recent interview. Apparently it's more an homage than a direct remake of the original film.
• Your first look at the Smurfs movie. Well, it looks like the cartoon. But the cartoon really wasn't very good so we're not sure if that's good news or not. (Via)
• Watchmen has finished filming. Prepare to be disappointed! And if you're Alan Moore, prepare your black magic curses.
• The Knight Rider TV movie got incredible ratings, which unfortunately means there will probably be a series now. We say "unfortunately" because we watched the first half of the thing and then had to turn it off because it was just completely awful. But hey, we did watch that first half, so we guess we're part of the problem.
• MySpace is currently in talks with the four major record-labels to offer its users an ad-supported music delivery service. It'll be DRM-free, but no word yet on whether the music will be delivered via downloads or streaming. If it's streaming, we're not interested, but the promise of DRM-free music downloads might actually convince us to set foot on MySpace again.
• Looks like they've nailed down a lot more of the cast of the upcoming Street Fighter film adaptation: Kristin Kreuk of Smallville is Chun Li, Michael Clarke Duncan is Balrog, Chris Klein is Nash, and Rick Yune is Gen, with Moon Bloodgood, Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas, Singapore's Edmund Chen, and Hong Kong film star Cheng Pei Pei also starring.
• Cinematical has a pic of the titular object from Richard Kelly's new flick The Box, as well as an image of the logo, a plot synopsis, and some interesting casting news about G.I. Joe. Apparently Jonathan Pryce has landed a "small but integral" role as President of the United States in the film.
• After getting a new director a while back, Astro Boy is apparently now getting a new script. This doesn't seem like a good sign...
• Cinematical has unveiled their Oscar predictions.
• Christopher Lloyd has reprised his role as Doc Brown, complete with time-traveling DeLorean! Sadly, it was just for a music video, and not for a new Back to the Future movie. Still, the behind-the-scenes pics and video are pretty exciting. (Via)

Photo of the total lunar eclipse as seen over New Zealand in August of last year by Flickr user jurvetson