Some really cool things have been happening this past week. Continue reading to have your brain stimulated (or something like that).

• Dean Cain to star in Kingdom Come? Yeah, sadly he will not be Superman and it is not an adaptation of one of the greatest graphic novels of all time. (Variety)

• Sir Paul McCartney is trying to release a “lost” Beatles track! The piece is a 14-minute experimental song that features distorted electric guitars, discordant sound effects, a church organ, and McCartney and John Lennon shout random phrases in a completely improvised style. (CNN)

• Yes! Yes! Yes! Sister Act is finally coming to the stage!  Whoopi Goldberg will be producing the film to stage adaptation in London, and we can only hope that it will journey to the states.  (NY Times)

• Ever wonder what films inspired your favorite stars? (NY Post)

• This just might be the… Best. Story. Ever. (CNN)

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!

The story of John Lennon’s childhood and rise to fame is coming to a theater near you. Sam Taylor-Wood will be helming “Nowhere Boy” for Ecosse Films, from a script written by Matt Greenhalgh, the Hollywood Reporter reports.

The biopic “details the story of Lennon as a lonely teenager growing up as his aunt and the mother who gave him up fight for his love. His only escape is music, art and his fateful friendship with Paul McCartney.” Filming will begin later this year in Liverpool, with a release date currently unknown.