Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.

Look, sir, droids!

  • MoviesOnline has a ton of clips up from the upcoming Neil Marshall film, Doomsday. (Via)
  • The next group in Hollywood we have to worry about striking is the actors. They're represented by the Screen Actors' Guild, who for some reason don't even want to start negotiating with producers until April. So another union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, is threatening to break away from SAG and start negotiations on their own as early as this month.
  • Geekadelphia keeps us apprised of all the important products available to us, including a bra filled with booze called the wine rack, and a nice warm hat that includes coverage for the bearded and mustachioed amongst us.
  • All that money that artists lost because their music was being traded for free on services like KaZaA and Napster may never get into their hands after all, even after the RIAA obtained millions of dollars in legal settlements with those companies. Apparently, it's taking a long time to divide the money up properly, and a lot of the money may go to pay for the legal fees. (Via Jill)
  • As everyone knows, Mick Jagger refused to continue working with the Hells Angels (why is there no apostrophe? Can anyone explain that?) after the Rolling Stones hired them to provide security at a concert at Altamount, and a fan ended up getting killed. A new BBC documentary claims that the Angels felt betrayed by Jagger and planned to kill him at his home in Long Island by approaching the house from the sea, in a boat. When the boat was hit by a storm, they scrapped the plan and never attempted to kill him again. (Via Jill)
  • Wondering what the polls on Tuesday hold in store for us and for the presidential race as a whole? Download Squad was wondering, too, and decided to see if the internet could predict the outcome.
  • Actors are dropping off of projects like crazy! Okay, not really, we just noticed two instances of it, and decided to put them together into one bullet point. The guy who was going to play a young Logan in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee) has left the project due to conflicting shooting dates, and will instead be heading to the set of the new Cormac McCarthy film adaptation, The Road. In very similar news, Ellen Page, the Oscar-nominated actress from Juno, has left Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, also due to scheduling conflicts.
  • Disney plans to release a 3-D sequel to Tron in spring 2011. Joseph Kosinski will direct. With sequels to both Tron and The Last Starfighter on the way, we guess we're going to be reliving the geekiest parts of the '80s!

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