Just a little over a week away and coming off what I think is one of better the clips, the next in what seems like a series of (thus far a lot of ‘would be’ )’09 blockbusters is going to hit theaters. HBO has released their “First Look’, a 12-minute featurette to get us all prepped for the film.

Watch it after the jump . . .

Topics: Clip, Featurette, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, HBO, J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros.

At the BSCreview, Saturday Sunday means Sarah Zettel is back with another Things That Don’t Go Away! Her novel Reclamation won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and also garnered a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel. She is the project manager at the Book View Cafe.

This week she reflects on the death of the King of Pop . . .

Topics: Michael Jackson, Music, Sarah Zettel, Things that Don't Go Away

Elena interviews Gabrielle Faust, author of the Eternal Vigilance series, where they talk about all sorts of things from vampires to football. Check it all out after the jump . . .

Topics: Elena's World, Eternal Vigilance, Featured, Gabrielle Faust

Last month we posted the trailer for the 4th Final Destination film, The Final Destination (or Final Destination 4 3-D). The DVD Forum now has some images from the film up.

Check them out after the jump . . .

Topics: New Line Cinema, The Final Destination

Back overseas to get our Wonderland fix. Earlier in the week we posted some concept art from Art of Disney related to the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland film. Now /Film has directed us to Planeta Disney which posted some news images from a magazine.

Check them out after the jump . . .

Topics: Alice in Wonderland, Disney, Tim Burton

Pretty interesting cast here and I have to admit this is the first me hearing about it the remake. Jim Sheridan is directing a cast that includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, and Natalie Portman and had made great movies led by Daniel Day Lewis (My Left Foot, The Boxer) and ridiculous movies like Get Rich or Die Tryin starring 50 cents.

Watch the trailer after the jump . . .

Topics: Brothers, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lions Gate, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Trailer

This is a review of Thunderbolts#133 written by Andy Diggle and penciled by Miguel Sepulveda. Dark Reign continues, and the team starts feeling like a team, just as they start plotting on each other . . .

Topics: Andy Diggle, Dark Reign, Jan-ken-pon, Marvel Comics, Miguel Sepulveda, Thunderbolts, Thunderbolts#133

Last month we got this snappy Italian poster that showed the Basterds as a group in what I think may be the best poster/one-sheet we’ve seen yet from the film. Today Empire has debuted a quartet of character posters in the same mold, and they are (in)glorious!

Check them our after the jump . . .

Topics: Inglourious Basterds, Movie Poster, Quentin Tarantino

Hilary Duff will be joining the cast of Gossip Girls as a guest star. Find out the details after the jump . . .

Topics: CW, Gossip Girls, Hilary Duff

Hardly ever get to note any cool fandom news in the SF/F world, so I’ve got to dip into my comics side and congratulate Super Ugly for winning the SDCC correspondent prize via G4 and Dark Horse Comics. I don’t know dude personally (and I know he doesn’t know me) but I do listen to the Geek Savants (podcast he is part of) pretty religiously.

Check out the video after the jump . . .

Topics: G4, San Diego Comic Con

Michael Mann is the de facto king of cops and robbers city street shootouts. Public Enemies makes a nice shift to period piece old timey stuff with no loss in crisp edge.

More after the jump . . .

Topics: Christian Bale, Eli's Plot Twist, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann, Public Enemies

Time for another BSC Flashback! Every now and then I just bring back a blast from the past because we are timeless, baby! This was a piece by Brian that gives you the scoop on how to start your life of crime.

Go check out a A Mystery/Crime Fiction Primer, because gloss is for chumps.

THR is reporting that USA has a new show coming (though apparently not officially) and it’s starring Piper Perabo. Ten years ago what USA was doing wouldn’t have mattered to me, but man I do love me some Burn Notice so I’m at least down for the first few episodes.

More on Covert Affairs after the jump . . .

Topics: Covert Affairs, Piper Perabo, USA

Or rather, maybe. Kind of. I hear maybe, kind of. The actress/model who played Becky in the original Sin City film recently talked to MTV and had some info on Sin City 2.

More after the jump . . .

Topics: Alexis Bledel, Frank Miller, Sin City, Sin City 2

Also announced earlier this week was my oh so favorite variety of news: comic book film/tv options. Usually these things announcements are pretty useless and fruitless and often are applied to comics you haven’t heard of, but also one’s that don’t even exist yet (and often related to some tired zombie plot). Out of the former variety, you’d usually count yourself lucky that you haven’t heard of them, but here we have an exception with Alex Grecian and Riley Rossmo’s Proof getting optioned for TV.

More info after the jump . . .

Topics: Alex Grecian, Image Comics, Proof, Riley Rossmo, Samuel L. Jackson

I expect a slow weekend, but ending out the week I’ve noticed some news times that I was hoping would get more coverage, but seems not to have (my back-up content files that are still first string). First, one of my favorite comic creators is Sam Kieth, who I touched on in my first edition of Jan-Ken-Pon. He is the creator of Maxx which was adapted by MTV in 1995 as a feature on their show Oddities.

More info after the jump . . .

Topics: Maxx, MTV, Sam Kieth

The Nerd of Noir reviews Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard.

Check it out…

Topics: Elmore Leonard, Road Dogs, William Morrow

Harper’s Island - Splash is episode 11 of this mini-series on CBS. The last two episodes will be airing together and we get to find out who will actually make it off the island alive.

Topics: CBS, Elena's World, Harper's Island