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- Ultimate crossover!
- Some screenshots from the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion to World of Warcraft have leaked online.
- Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick says future installments of Guitar Hero will feature a lot of other instruments and vocals. They will also be called Rock Band. OK, probably not, but still. Joystiq has a bit more info on the whole thing; sounds like regular downloadable content is on the way, too.
- Viacom, Paramount, MGM, and Lionsgate have formed a joint venture to create a "next-generation premium television channel and video on demand service" that would broadcast new and classic feature films and original television series from five leading studios. It will launch in the fall of 2009.
- The director of Incredible Hulk, Louis Leterrier, backed up Edward Norton's recent press release, insisting that there was no "creative rift" between Norton and himself.
- Wolfgang Petersen is off the film adaptation of Ender's Game, but the movie is still moving forward, with producers in search of a new director and a cast.
- Thanks to the fact that Sony will soon be able to manufacture smaller versions of the PS3's cell CPU and Blu-ray laser, analysts expect the console could become profitable as early as this August.
- You may have forgotten in all the hub-bub about the Pennsylvania primary, but today is also Earth Day. So maybe... walk to your polling place instead of driving?
- Yay! Fox greenlighted a second season of our favorite new show, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles!
- As a bit of a nod to Alien, Sigourney Weaver will provide the voice of a starship computer in Pixar's upcoming sci-fi flick, WALL-E.
- Mark Johnson, producer of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, claims the movie will be very faithful to the book. But then, he would say that.
- Cinematical has more exciting details about the panels for Wanted and Hellboy II at the New York Comic Con.
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It's actually a nod to "Galaxy Quest," in which Weaver played a female spaceship crewmember whose "job" was repeating whatever the ship's computer said.
If you click through to the article, the producer of the film is quoted as saying of Weaver's casting: "We kind of geeked out at the thought of having a little wink to Alien." But I do remember how Weaver just repeated what the computer said in Galaxy Quest, and I can see how it may very well be a reference to that film, as well.