Cloverfield Monster Reveal

For all you monster fans, The highly anticipated Cloverfield monster surfaces up online in a toy format. Yes, it's here if you want to see it.

UPDATE 1: It appears that the monster is from a "concept" art series and not Cloverfield.
See: http://www.conceptart.org/?artist=Smellybug

Although the Art Director of the film is the Art Director for the Toy concept. its a mystery.

UPDATE 2: Here is some cool info from the movie makers:

The visual effects for “Cloverfield” were produced under the direction of visual effects supervisors Kevin Blank, Eric Leven of Tippett Studio and Michael Ellis of London-based Double Negative. Tippett created all the shots that include the monsters, while Double Negative was responsible for all of the other destruction and sequences which did not include the monster.

The concept for the monster (affectionately known simply as “Clover” in-house) is simple, says Abrams. “He’s a baby. He’s brand-new. He’s confused, disoriented and irritable. And he’s been down there in the water for thousands and thousands of years.”

And where is he from? “We don’t say – deliberately,” notes Goddard. “Our movie doesn’t have the scientist in the white lab coat who shows up and explains things like that. We don’t have that scene.”

Not only is the creature disoriented – he’s downright angry. “There are a bunch of smaller things – humans – that are annoying him and shooting at him like a swarm of bees,” observes Reeves.

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Olga Kurylenko Joins Bond 22 Cast

News that Olga will play a woman called "Camille" in the still unnamed Bond 22 film filters through the wires. She sure looks like a Bond Girl.

Brandon Routh Still Superman

AICN reports about the rumour that Brandon Routh won't play Superman again as false:

I just got off the phone with a very high-ranking mole who is absolutely in a position to know what's happening with this film, and he tells me that it is "absolutely false" that Brandon Routh is out as Superman for the stand-alone series.

The only thing that has been determined is that JUSTICE LEAGUE will not feature the actors from the other films. That's it.

Right now, Routh is still Warner's choice to return if they make another stand-alone SUPERMAN film, and that's based on conversations as recently as a few weeks ago.

Don't believe this one, kids. Routh's still the Man of Steel.

Awesome Indiana Jones LEGO

Word's can't describe how good this LEGO will be. Click here for some brilliant images.

Matthew Fox Talks Lost Season 4

Talking with Entertainment Weekly, "Lost" actor Matthew Fox revealed a few revealing details about what to expect for the mystery drama's upcoming fourth season beginning January 31st.

Originally slated to be sixteen episodes, the show has been truncated to just eight due to the writer's strike. So what will happen to the other eight? "We're not sure if we're going to come back and do more this [season]. The audience only getting eight would really be a bummer. But I'm optimistic."

Much of the season will be dealing with the repercussions of last year's season finale - most notably the 'flash forward' in which we saw Jack and Kate getting off the island. Does this mean others get off as well?

"That's the question for the first part of this year, for sure. Jack gets people off that island, [and] suddenly he and the other people are very well-known -- it becomes this massive story because everybody thought that every person on this plane was lost.... Who are they? What is everybody else doing? Jack's mission was to get all of them off. It's the overriding force behind him. So, the fact that he ends up getting off and doesn't get that accomplished -- I'm very curious to find out how that all goes down. And part of that is going to be part of the reason why he wanted to jump off the bridge in the future" says Fox. Read More here.

James Bond gets his 'Girl'

Although Gemma Arterton has been rumored for the part for a while, producers now officially announce her in Bond 22. She plays a character called "Fields."

She is British too!!! Hurrah for real accents. Unless she is from Canvey Island...

Del Toro for Frankenstein

Great news for Del Toro Fans: This from Dark Horizons:

Director Guillermo del Toro has revealed to MTV News that he is planning a "definitive take" on Mary Shelley's classic "Frankenstein" story.

Del Toro says that his vision, which is in the earliest stages of pre-production, will not be a literal adaptation - "The only way to do the Shelley novel is to actually do a four-hour miniseries. But I think there permutations in which you can tell the myth in a different way.

Superman, Justice League and Batman Happenings

This from Variety: (all very unofficial though)

Speaking of DC Comics pics, it is highly unlikely that Bryan Singer will return to shoot the next Superman movie. (The director is finishing up Tom Cruise's Nazi film Valkyrie, and prepping The Mayor of Castro Street). The next Superman we will see on the big screen will not be Brandon Routh, but a younger Superman among a cast of youthful superheroes in The Justice League. That movie will likely not be shot, however, until after the WGA strike is resolved. Warners is so happy with Dark Knight that their fondest hope is that Nolan will return to do another Batman.

Bond 22 Villain Revealed

Variety has revealed that Mathieu Amalric has been cast alongside Daniel Craig as Bond's main adversary.

Sony have also announced that Jeffrey Wright will return as Bond's CIA buddy, Felix Leiter.

Amazon sell 17 Wii's per Second in the US

News of a sickening amount of Wii sales from Gizmodo

I realise that it’s pretty sickening to hear that Amazon was selling Wiis at a rate of 17 per second over the Christmas period elsewhere while most of the UK and Ireland got zilch, but that’s life.

Extrapolate those figures and Amazon sold a staggering 1,020 Wiis a minute, 61,200 an hour and a frightening 1.46m per day. Of course, none of that’s actually true, just a theory because there weren’t that many Wiis out there – anywhere.

Amazon actually said that at peak, the Wiis old at a rate of 17 per second “when they were in stock”. Not too often then.

Other stats showed that Dec 10th was the busiest day with 5.4m purchases and that 99% of Christmas orders shipped on time.