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1990 Captain America Movie Coming to Blu-ray

Captain America: The First Avenger is coming out this summer and is sure to be a great movie but back in 1990 Marvel released a Direct-to-Video Captain America movie. Starring Matt Salinger as Captain America, the movie follows Steve Rogers becoming Captain America during World War II to battle the Red Skull, being frozen in ice, and subsequently being revived to save the President of the United States from a crime family that dislikes his environmentalist polices. You can check out the original trailer for the movie on YouTube below.

The 1990 movie version of Captain America is coming up on Blu-ray in May, just in time for the theatrical release of Captain America: The First Avenger. The movie will be presented in a director’s cut with 30 additional minutes of footage. According to director Albert Pyun, it will be “more character-oriented and less super hero action.”

Source: Blu-ray.com

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Fringe Renewed for Fourth Season

Another one of my favorite shows that was on the verge of being dropped has been renewed. Executive Producer Joel Wyman posted a tweet last night saying: “Fringe was picked up!!!! Thanks Fringedom!” This has since been verified online by Fox. So Fringe will be back for a 22-episode fourth season next year.

Source: Comingsoon.net

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Captain America: The First Avenger Trailer Now Online

The first full length trailer for Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios upcoming film Captain America: The First Avenger Trailer is now online. Check it out below:

Source: Superherohype

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Lord Of The Rings Extended Edition Trilogy Blu-ray Announced

At long last The Lord Of The Rings Extended Edition Trilogy is coming to Blu-ray this June 28th in a 15-disc Blu-ray release. For more info check out the details HERE.

Source: DVDActive

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Technology

Firefox 4 Now Available

After months of waiting and many beta versions, Mozilla finally released the final edition of Firefox 4.0 today! You can wait until your browser updates automatically or you can grab it over HERE.

The new Firefox offers a redesigned user interface, faster hardware-accelerated rendering, increased JavaScript performance, and much more.

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Television

TNT Renews Southland for 4th Season

TNT has renewed Southland for a fourth season and picked up a new crime drama called Perception.

The network had ordered 10 more episodes of Southland, which averaged 2.9 million viewers this season, up 6% from last year.

Source: EW

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Super is coming April 1st to Theatres

He’s not really a superhero, but he can beat your ass in with a hammer, or possibly a wrench. Plus, he’s got Ellen Page for a sidekick. She’s spunky. Check out the first poster for James Gunn’s “Super”. Now I hadn’t heard of this movie until today but I may have to check it out. It looks like a crazy version of Kick Ass but I won’t let that deter me.

Starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker, Andre Royo, Sean Gunn, Stephen Blackehart and directed by James Gun. Check out the trailer for it below:

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Spider-Man’s First Appearance Sells for $1.1 Million

A copy of Spider-Man’s first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 with a rating of 9.6 sold Tuesday to the tune of $1.1 million. That ranks it’s sale as the second highest amount for a comic sale on record. I gotta say, it must be nice to have that kind of money to invest in a comic. I’ll settle for just reading a reprint and having that on my shelf.

Just one year after selling the comic book with the first appearance of Superman for $1.5 million, the people at ComicConnect.com have done it again, this time with the world’s most famous webhead.

Spider-Man’s first appearance in “Amazing Fantasy” #15 was sold to an anonymous buyer on Tuesday to the tune of $1.1 million. In a press release, ComicConnect.com – an online collectibles marketplace – ranked it as the world’s second most valuable comic book, after the aforementioned “Action Comics” #1, with Superman.

The auction site had previously sold “Detective Comics” #27, where Batman first appeared, for $1.0755 million back in February of 2010. Before last year, sought-after comics like this would never sell for seven figures.

Stephen Fishler, the CEO of ComicConnect.com, said that this sale of “Amazing Fantasy” #15 is a record for the Silver Age of comics from the late 1950s and early 1960s. “The sale of this book crushed all previous records. Up until today’s $1.1 million sale, the record sales price of a comic book from this era was $250,000.”

Fishler first acquired the book 25 years ago, and sold it for $2,500. He later acquired and sold it again for $140,000 in 2000. Fishler also created a widely-accepted grading scale in the years since (driving the prices of highly graded comics skyward), and this book is ranked as a 9.6 out of 10.

“The buyer of this amazing comic wanted to own the very best,” said ComicConnect.com partner Vincent Zuzolo. “The Amazing Fantasy #15 – 9.6 is the definition of the very best.”

Source: CNN

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Thor Trailer #2 Now Online

The second full-length trailer for Thor is now online and loaded with new footage from the upcoming May 6th film. Check it out below:

Source: Yahoo Movies

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Television

Renewal Hopes for Fringe and Human Target

Fringe has been one of my favorite shows since it started almost three years ago. Everyone, including myself, has been worried that it’s move to Friday would be the death of the show. Rating have been overall pretty good but not great so the fear of it being canceled has been high. After a couple weeks of holding on to ratings the past two weeks have dipped slightly.

Human Target has been moved all over the schedule this year with back-to-back episodes airing on two separate occasions. Ratings have been up and down as a result. Looking at the ratings per episode on Wikipedia, some episodes from this year were near last season’s first few.

Check out what EW found out from Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly below:

How does Fox feel about Fringe’s performance on Friday so far?

Quite enthusiastic.

“I’m so psyched about it,” says Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly. “It does go to show you the loyalty of the genre audience, when you get the right show. I’m so grateful to that audience, I’d like to shake their hands. We have a lot of passion for that show here.”

Now, this interview was just before last Friday’s second-in-row dip, but most other shows also fell that night and one rating does not a reputation make. As for Human Target ….

“We have some decisions to make about that,” Reilly says, “and Lie to Me as well. These shows are not being rejected. They’re doing a consistent and solid number. There are networks that would be happy to take those shows. We have to look at our shelf space.”

Translation: We’re going to decide about Human Target and Lie after we see our pilots for next fall. But keep in mind, Fox only programs two hours a night, so that’s a pretty crowded shelf….

Source: EW.com

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Sixx:A.M. – Lies of the Beautiful People

Sixx:A.M. has released their first single/video from their upcoming second album today. Watch the video for Lies of the Beautiful People below:

Source: Sixx Sense

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The Official Title is… The Amazing Spider-Man

Today, Columbia Pictures officially announced the title of the next Spider-Man film to be The Amazing Spider-Man. The studio simultaneously released a photo of Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man in full mask and suit. The film, now in production, is being shot entirely in 3D and will be released on July 3, 2012.

I have to say that it’s great to actually see web shooters on his wrists this time. Click the image to see a larger version of the photo.

Source: Superhero Hype