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A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.
- The last Harry Potter book is going to be adapted into two separate movies, to be released in November 2010 and May 2011. We actually meant to post about this yesterday, but somehow we forgot. We suspect a malicious memory charm was cast on us by servants of You Know Who. (Via Sarah, Jill, Cinematical...)
- X-Files 2 has wrapped production, and David Duchovny revealed that that scene of him kissing Gillian Anderson, photos of which popped up online recently, was totally staged for the paparazzi. Aww, man!
- Check out this sweet homage to Spy Hunter in the form of a Pontiac ad.
- Check out this cool interview with the director of Incredible Hulk, where he drops all kinds of interesting details about the movie. General Ross as Captain Ahab! We will see a transformation into the Hulk by minute three!! The fight with the Abomination is 26 minutes long!!! Can you tell we're excited?! (Via)
- Prepare to say goodbye to any free time you might have left: the makers of Puzzle Quest have created an MMO. It's called Warlords Online, and we're afraid to even go there, for fear that it will eat our souls.
- If you must play Warlords Online at work, and/or your boss doesn't like you reading Phillyist, you might want to check out this handy window-hiding utility known as Window Hidie.
- In the near future, we will be making voiceless phone calls. Woah.
- According to a recent study, PG-rated films with less swearing in them do considerably better at the box office than other PG-rated films. Are parents consciously choosing movies for their children based on the level of profanity? We don't see how they could be, but it's an interesting indicator, anyway.
- Pixar superstar Brad Bird is making his first live action film: 1906. It's about the deadly earthquake that hit San Francisco in that year.
- The team behind Forgetting Sarah Marshall will be making the next Muppets movie.
- Gaze with longing and sadness at the Stephen Colbert World of Warcraft: The Trading Card Game card that could have been.
- Dude, Dr. Kervorkian is running for congress in Michigan.
- Yet another trailer for Speed Racer. And we still can't decide whether it's going to be really cheesy and awful, or a ton of fun.
- XPN is at SXSW. Those bastards.
- The '70s sci-fi/fantasy magazine Heavy Metal is about to spawn yet another film consisting of a series of animated segments, each directed by a different person. David Fincher will spearhead the project and direct one of the segments; not all the other directors have been locked in yet, but Kevin Eastman and Tim Miller are two of them.
- Farscape could be coming back as a series of 10 webisodes, and star Ben Browder looks forward to reprising his role as astronaut John Crichton.
- The cast of Race to Witch Mountain is filling out; it now includes Carla Gugino, Dwayne Johnson, and Garry Marshall.
- Capcom has announced that anyone who purchases Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 on Xbox Live Arcade will be eligible to beta test Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Meanwhile, Game|Life has some concept art and screenshots from SFII:THDR and Bionic Commando Rearmed to get you pumped. And here's more on Capcom's plans for this year.
- Rachel Weisz and Max Minghella are going to star in a film called Agora. It's set in Roman Egypt during the fourth century, and Weisz will play the astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who finds herself trapped in the Library of Alexandria, battling to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world as religious riots flare on the city's streets. Meanwhile, her slave Davus (Minghella) is torn between his love for his mistress and the freedom he could attain by joining the rising tide of Christianity. Sounds fascinating.
- Here's a DIY project for you: turn your old NES cartridges into harmonicas!
Image Credit: Flickr user Baboona.
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