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San Diego Comic-Con International 2010 brought all kinds of news for movie fans and geeks the world over, not the least of which was the unveiling of the concept art for an updated version of Godzilla.

Via Warner Brothers’ youTube page, here’s some highlights from the GREEN LANTERN panel at the San Diego Comic Con.

Watch to the end to hear star Ryan Reyonlds recite the Green Lantern oath for a young fan.

SFX is featuring an interview with creator/producer Russell T. Davies on the upcoming BBC / Starz co-production of TORCHWOOD.
Davies assured readers that the new international version of TORCHWOOD will reamin true to the often dark and adult-oriented DOCTOR WHO spin-off, though this season will be largely set in America and countries other than the UK.
“For [...]

The new Comic Con Trailer!

Marvel.com featured this picture of Marvel Studios’ THE AVENGERS cast.

Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Clark Gregg (Agent Phil Coulson), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Scarlett Johansson (The Black Widow), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America) as well as newcomers Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk) and Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) . Click Photo for [...]

With theatres offering no new genre films this weekend, The Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Podcast turns  its all-seeing gaze back through the mists of time a 50th anniversary ocular examination of EYES WITHOUT A FACE, director George Franju’s moody masterpiece of art house horror. Imagine a beautiful dream of lyrical black-and-white images, of [...]

Variety reports that Wal Disney Pictures is planning to reboot its stillborn THE HAUNTED MANSION franchise with a new 3-D film, to be developed and directed by Guillermo Del Toro. Disney and Del Toro announced the venture at Comic Con, emphasizing that this version of THE HAUNTED MANSION would be a genuinely scary haunted house movie, not a spoof.

Wild and dramatic action in this fully-rendered preview clip/trailer for the DC UNIVERSE ONLINE game, coming in November from Sony Online Entertainment and Warner Brothers Interactive.
The Executive Creative Director is Jim Lee, with writng from Geoff Johns, among others. Chris Cao (EverQuest) is the Game Director.
Voice cast includes Adam Baldwin, Kevin Conroy, [...]

Deadline is claiming that they can confirm that Mark Ruffalo has signed to play Bruce Banner in Marvel Studios THE AVENGERS.
No official announcement has yet been made. Will update when official comments are forthcoming, perhaps tonight at Comic Con.
UPDATED: Mark Ruffalo was confirmed as Bruce Banner at Comic Con’s Marvel Studios panel, as was Jeremy [...]

David Pirie in his excellent book A Heritage of Horror identified a new kind of horror film that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, namely the Sadian horror film, so-called because it was suggested that they would appeal to sadists only. The initial titles in this trend were HORRORS OF THE BLACK [...]

[ October 29, 2010; ] Lionsgate releases the seventh and allegedly final installment in the popular torture porn franchise – which, they promise, saves the best for last. Tobin Bell is back as Jigsaw, along with Cary Elwes, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flaner, Gina Holden, and Tanedra Howard. Kevin Greutert directs from a screenplay by Marcus Dunstan & [...]

Congrats to Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News! He’s revealed that he’ll be running Famous Monsters.com for new owner Philip Kim.
Knowles has been a devotee of the late Forrest J Ackerman, long-time genre fan, literary agent, and Editor of the original Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, the seminal Horror/Science Fiction publication. Aimed [...]

Variety reports that Sam Worthington (AVATAR) is now offically attached to star in Warner Brothers’ DAN DARE, produced by Basil Iwanyk’s (CLASH OF THE TITANS) Thunder Road Pictures.
Worthington had confirmed his involvment back in March, it looks like things are now firming up.
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future was created by Frank Hampson in [...]