Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Penguin Books has announced it is to publish ‘I Am Number Four’ by Pittacus Lore, the first instalment of The Lorien Legacies, a mind-blowing new thriller series. I Am Number Four is a tale of John Smith (aka Number Four) as he desperately tries to outrun his past, escape his …
Read More »Monopoly Celebration to Honor 75th Anniversary
For the past 75 years, people of all ages from around the world have collected $200 when passing “GO!”, anxiously waited to get out of “jail”, and secretly wished that all of the money in the MONOPOLY game could be real. To celebrate this monumental milestone of a cultural icon, …
Read More »Marvel’s Iron Fist Moves Forward with xXx Screenwriter
After its first try stalled in development years ago, Marvel Studios is finally going forward on a feature film based on Iron Fist and has hired the writer of the original Vin Diesel xXx film Rich Wilkes to draft the script, according to Deadline. For those of you not comically …
Read More »Cast Grows for Syfy’s Three Inches
Syfy has announced more actors for their quirky action-adventure/fantasy pilot Three Inches, according to Deadline. Joining Andrea Martin who was announced yesterday is Noah Reid, who will play the lead character Walter, an underachieving daydreamer who can move objects with his mind…. the catch is he can only move them …
Read More »World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King to Launch in Mainland China
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion for Blizzard Entertainment’s award-winning subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), will launch in mainland China on August 31, 2010. “We appreciate the continued passion and support that Chinese players have shown for World of Warcraft, and we’re working hard to …
Read More »Andrea Martin Joins Syfy’s Three Inches
Veteran comedic actress Andrea Martin has signed on to the Syfy pilot, Three Inches, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Three Inches centers around Walter Spackman, an underachieving daydreamer who develops the superpower of being able to move object using his mind – but only a distance of three inches. He’s …
Read More »The Penguins of Madagascar Come To Gamers
THQ announced that video games based on The Penguins of Madagascar, the wildly popular and Emmy Award-winning series from Nickelodeon and DreamWorks Animation are currently in development for the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DS systems. The first game, which is scheduled to launch in November 2010, will bring the loveable penguins …
Read More »Neverwinter Coming in 2011
Atari and Cryptic Studios announced the development of Neverwinter for PC. Neverwinter is a new online roleplaying game based on Wizards of the Coast’s global property Dungeons & Dragons and the beloved city of Neverwinter. Once a bustling location, Neverwinter has faced a great many disasters in the past hundred …
Read More »“The Expendables” Muscles It’s Way To Number One
The action heroes of “The Expendables” muscled their way past five new films to hold on to the top spot at the box office for a second week. The film added $16.5 million to its coffers, beating Jennifer Aniston, piranha, vampires, nannies and lottery tickets, in their debut week. The …
Read More »Elmer Finds a Roost at SLG
Elmer, the acclaimed graphic novel by Philippine cartoonist Gerry Alanguilan about talking chickens, will finally see print in the United States this November in a new edition released from SLG Publishing. A window into a world where chickens have suddenly acquired the intelligence and consciousness of humans, Elmer tells the …
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