Welcome to the weekly recap for the past week (8/24 through 8/31). Here is a list (by section) of some of the news that we covered, just incase you missed something.

Film News

• Robert Downey Jr., from Hero to Villain? Master Mind
• She’ll Be Back? Hopefully! Terminator 4 News
• Maniac Cop 4??? Hell Yeah!
• Another Grease Sequel? Tell Me More!
• John Lennon, the Nowhere Boy

TV News

• Details on Smallville’s 8th Season and New Pictures
• American Idol Adds a Fourth Judge!
• Another Nathan Fillion Show Gets Picked Up, Castle
• The Countdown to the New 90210
• Gossip Girl, First 5 Minutes of Season 2 is Online!

Book News

• Being a Scot, a Book by Sean Connery
• Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer, Book Trailer

Filmmaking Resources

• Make-Up: How to Create the Two-Face Look, Batman
• Affordable Web Hosting, Powweb
• Helpful Book: Film and Video Budgeting

Trailers (Movies, Video Games)

• New Max Payne Trailer!
• Everybody Wants to Be Italian, Movie Trailer
• Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Video Game Teaser
• MadWorld, Video Game Trailer

Reviews

• DVD Review: Superman Doomsday
• Book to Film: Atonement (Archived)
• Book to Film: The Kite Runner (Archived)
  

Best Thing Ever

• Kermit the Frog and Christian Bale are the same person!

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Craig Brewer the writer/director behind “Hustle & Flow” and “Black Snake Moan” has signed up with MTV New Media to create an original webseries for the Online Network.

The series, titled “$5 Cover”, is “an exploration of working-class Memphis, particularly the midtown music scene he knows intimately as a native of the city” according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The episodes will be about 8 minutes long and “instead of hiring actors or building sets, Brewer is calling on his favorite musicians to play thinly veiled versions of themselves in the same haunts where such less-than-household names as Muck Sticky and Amy LaVere rose to local fame. There is no script, only improvised dialogue based on story ideas Brewer drew from his cast’s real-life exploits.” You can read more about “$5 Cover”, including how the series came to life here.

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