Sunday link-o-rama

• Fox has acquired the rights to make a CGI film based on the comic strip Mutts by Patrick McDonnell.
• Weird science: Why can't astronauts whistle while they spacewalk?
• Live-action Marvel Comics television projects in development include The Hulk, AKA Jessica Jones, Cloak & Dagger, and Mockingbird. Animated shows in the works include Astonishing X-Men, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
• Cracked knocks Donald Trump down a peg or 10.

Friday afternoon link-o-rama

• From SDCC, Robert Rodriguez shares his insane plans for world domination Sin City 2, Machete Kills and Machete Kills Again (in space???), a live-action Heavy Metal, and a live-action remake of the Frank Frazetta/Ralph Bakshi animated flick Fire and Ice. Obviously, Rodriguez's plan to become the most important filmmaker in the geek world is under full steam.
• Apple shakes up the online streaming world with reports it may bid for Hulu.
• See new/old deleted scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy. (Deleted scenes from original Star Wars > any scene from the prequels.)
• Translations for "untranslatable" words. [Via Neatorama.]

Midday link-o-rama

• Cabin in the Woods, the long-delayed horror flick co-written by Joss Whedon, has a new (we really mean it this time!) release date of Friday, April 13, 2012.
• Real, honest-to-Cartman Cheesy Poofs-brand cheesy poofs are coming to a Walmart near you.
• We've been spared one unnecessary remake, at least for now. New Line and Warner Bros. have let their option for the Escape from New York reboot to expire.
• Is the "death of superheroes" (in the movies) being greatly exaggerated?

Midday link-o-rama

• Because no one asked for it, Cartoon Network and Transformers franchise producer Don Murphy are planning a live-action Captain Planet movie.
• Because no one asked for this either, a live-action movie of the 1990s Top Cow comic book The Darkness is also in the works.
• Because the Big Two comic companies never tire of retelling their characters' origins, Marvel is launching a series of "original graphic novels" that will go back to its heroes' early days. Zzzzzz.
• The trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man movie reboot is here, and I'm bored already.
• News you can actually use: Amazon video on demand picks up more CBS shows.

Late link-o-rama

• The Americanized, live-action Akira movie isn't dead yet, unfortunately.
• Universal passes on proposed Dark Tower movie trilogy, TV series.
• Brick-and-mortar bookseller Borders could begin liquidation as soon as this week.
• Dynamite Entertainment will revive the cult TV series Dark Shadows as a comic book.
• As expected, Superman and Lois Lane's 15-year marriage will have never happened when DC launches its rebooted comics in September. (But, unlike Spider-Man, Superman didn't have to make a deal with the devil to make his marriage go away.)
• Science: All non-African people are part neanderthal.
• Economist Robin Hanson defends a non-socialist version of the Star Trek future.

Late, late link-o-rama

• David Goyer (The Dark Knight) has been tapped to rewrite the screenplay for the latest attempt at an American Godzilla movie.
• An Evil Dead remake is happening and Diablo Cody is polishing the script. (I know. I don't really believe it myself.)
• MTV has ordered a second season of Teen Wolf. (Firefly fans continue to bemoan the unfairness of life.)
• Look at this: Awesome fake poster for Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
• It's a map! Netflix movie rentals by state.
• It's a map! The U.S. according to a New Yorker.
• Yoda orders pizza. [Cartoon]
• Nickelodeon brings back its awesome '90s shows.
• Science! Wormholes at the movies.
• Bad news, True Blood fans: The 13th Sookie Stackhouse novel will be the last.

Late, late link-o-rama

So many goodies tonight, so little time...

• Disney and Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil are partnering to produce a feature-film version of the 1970s Darren McGavin series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, with Depp in line to possibly star.
• Luke Skywalker finally gets some professional help. [Cartoon]
• Spike Lee is directing a new version of the cult South Korean film Oldboy. There is nothing about that preceding sentence that is not a bad idea.
• Space Trivia: It has been one Neptune year since the discovery of Neptune.
• Father and son recreate 30-year-old space shuttle launch photo.
• This is totally not metal: A Swedish heavy metal fan has had his musical preferences officially classified as a disability.
• The California Highway Patrol has enlisted Erik "Ponch" Estrada to warn L.A. motorists about the upcoming "Carmageddon."
• The classic Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing/Telly Savalas horror flick Horror Express is coming to Blu-ray and special-edition DVD in a handy combo pack from one of my favorite niche home-video labels, Severin.
• Joe Bob Briggs visits Niagra Falls, aka the world's greatest tourist trap. (Related: "Niagra Falls! Slowly I turned, step by step. Inch by inch....")
• Dean Martin's hamburger recipe. Just add bourbon (chilled).
• The new teaser poster for The Dark Knight Rises just reminds me of one of the silliest Batman story arcs of recent years, "Cataclysm." Not impressed.
• The Retroist goes in depth with Re-Animator: The Musical. (Yes, that happened.)

Late, late link-o-rama

• H.P. Lovecraft's "commonplace book." [Via Open Culture.]
• 1980s comics publisher First Comics (Nexus, Grimjack, E-Man) is prepping for a revival.
• TNT has ordered 10 episodes of a new Dallas series, and original-series stars Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, and Patrick Duffy are back.
• Classic arcade game Space Invaders is being turned into a movie that will presumably involve space and invaders.

Thursday night link-o-rama

• The trailer for the animated Batman: Year One has gone live.
• McDonald's is testing something it's calling an "English Pub Burger." (Will I be able to get a Guinness with that?)
• ABC soaps All My Children and One Life to Live are getting a second chance online. (Somewhere, a Firefly fan is weeping.)
• Sidekick vs. sidekick: Bucky vs. Jason Todd.

Wednesday link-o-rama

• Ten "batshit crazy" sci-fi flicks from Italy.
• Watch a trip to a drive-in movie concession stand turn into a trip to hell! Bwahahaha! [Via Laughing Squid.]
• Is Atlas Shrugged Part 2 really going forward? Seriously?
• Cracked.com looks at seven "ancient" forms of mysticism that are actually recent inventions.
• Submitted for your approval: Star Wars meets The Twilight Zone.

Tuesday link-o-rama

• The dumbest complaint about the MPAA's movie ratings you'll read this week.
• Let's play the Feud: Uwe Boll, arteur of crap filmmaking, attacks better directors.
• Let's play the Feud, Part Deux: Comedy Central will roast Charlie Sheen on the night of Ashton Kutcher's debut on Two and a Half Men.
• Wim Wenders remembers Peter Falk.
• The end of brick-and-mortar bookstores. [Via Kurt Loder.]
• 20 anime films non-anime fans will love. [Via David Brin.]

Independence Day link-o-rama

• Whatever happened to Apollo Smile, the "live-action anime girl" — generally regarded as somewhat embarrassing by longtime anime fans in the U.S. — who hosted anime festivals on The Sci-Fi Channel back when the The Sci-Fi Channel still showed sci-fi? (See also: Apollo Smile's brief music career.)
• Adrianne Palicki, TV's would-be Wonder Woman, has signed to be G.I. Joe 2's Lady Jaye.
• Assigning blame. [Cartoon]
• A Softer World's Emily Horne shares a drink recipe.
• Cartoonist Peter Bagge visits a women's minimum-security prison.

Midnight link-o-rama

• Michael Bay caught recycling explosions from one of his previous movies.
• Netflix reaches the final frontier as hundreds of hours of Star Trek become available for instant streaming.
• The companions of Doctor Who. [Infographic]
• In honor of Canada's birthday, here's William Shatner performing "O Canada." Kinda. [Via Neatorama.]

Lunchtime link-o-rama

• Grant Morrison talks about Batman, Inc., the DC Comics reboot, and why these reboots keep happening.
• National Geographic debunks nine Fourth of July myths.
• '80s nostalgia: The five best and five worst episodes of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.

Late Thursday link-o-rama

• Marvel Studios has announced a July 26, 2013, release date for the sequel to this year's Thor. Kenneth Branagh will not return as director but may serve as producer on the film. Iron Man 3 is already set for a May 3, 2013, release.
• DC Comics fans plan to protest the publisher's upcoming reboot of its superhero universe at this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego.
• Starz has dropped its steamy Arthurian fantasy series Camelot after one season.
• Submitted for your approval: A biopic of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling is in the works.

Late Wednesday link-o-rama

• News Corp, which purchased MySpace for $580 million, has agreed to sell the website for between $30 million and $40 million to ad-targeting firm Specific Media and ... Justin Timberlake???
• Reasons to be optimistic about Google+, Google's latest attempt to create a Facebook-killing social network.
• Comic-book and Star Trek writer Peter David is launching a new SF and fantasy publishing company along with fellow authors Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, Aaron Rosenberg, and Howard Weinstein.
• Amazon cancels its Associates Program for California-based participants after the state Legislature passes a bill to tax retailers with no physical presence in the state.
• Let's play the feud: Shia LaBeouf admits Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn't very good. Harrison Ford responds by calling LaBeouf a "fucking idiot." (Am I really going to take LaBeouf's side in this? Yes. Yes, I am.)

Friday link-o-rama

• Peter Falk, the iconic star of Columbo, died last night. He was 83 and had been suffering with Alzheimer's disease.
• Comic-book artist Gene Colan, probably best known for his classic run on Marvel's Tomb Of Dracula, has died. He was 84.
• Two cult-favorite slasher flicks from the VHS era, Killer Party and Night School, finally make their way to DVD.
• MGM has tapped Seth Gordon (The King of Kong) to direct a remake of the 1980s classic War Games, which starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy.
• Screenwriter Dean Devlin finally, and graciously, takes the fall for the 1998 American version of Godzilla.
• Neil Gaiman on the future of his novel-turned-HBO-series American Gods.
• James Spader is in talks to join the cast of The Office. We could get lucky. It could be like that last season of The Practice, with Spader's character destroying the firm and then getting a much cooler spin-off co-starring William Shatner.
• Neil Gaiman demands a Pulitzer for The Onion.

The Late Late Link-O-Rama

• Jason Patric has been cast in the starring role in FX's Powers pilot, based on the comic book. (Really, what are the odds of this thing ever going to series?)
• Will Netflix rival Hulu be sold? (And does it matter as long as it still streams Red Shoe Diaries?)
• Lost's Terry O'Quinn is joining the cast of Hawaii 5-O in a recurring role. (Place your bets now on how long it takes for his character to go bad.)
• The trailer is out for David Cronenberg's upcoming Freud/Jung flick. (Just your usual hysteria, kinky sex, and spankings.)

Midnight link-o-rama

• Comic books on your TV: Showtime has announced it's picking up DC/Vertigo's 100 Bullets for a series. Meanwhile, Lucy Punch has been cast as the female lead, Deena Pilgrim, in FX's upcoming pilot Powers, based on the comics by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.
• If you think the Green Lantern movie we got is bad (and it is), just be glad we didn't end up with the proposed comedy version starring Jack Black. That nearly happened.
• Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl) has been cast as Jeff Buckley in the upcoming biopic.
• Things that will never happen: Drive and Bronson director Nicolas Winding Refn wants to make a Wonder Woman movie starring Mad Men's Christina Hendricks. (They'd probably just insist on changing the classic costume, since that's all the rage now, and putting pants on her, anyway.)
• The future of sex in video games.
• Deregulation in Japan leads to better beer.
• A former congressman, who wants his job back, writes a silly email to his constituents saying Green Lantern is a perfect role model for politicians. (Predictably, he cites, favorably, one of the most embarrassing, over-earnest examples of a 1970s comic book trying to be "relevant.")
• Doctor Who's Matt Smith is Batman... for a comedy stage production.
• Things that happen on the Internet every 60 seconds. [Graph]
• Why am I just now learning there is a grindhouse-movie-themed burger joint in Atlanta?

Saturday afternoon link-o-rama

• J.D. Salinger's son wears rubber ears to fight an Italian Red Skull in the manufacture-on-demand DVD debut of 1990's Captain America. (So, does this mean we'll get a MOD DVD of the Nick Fury TV movie when The Avengers comes out next year?)
• Could Kickstarter be better than government grants for artists? (I also strongly suspect Kickstarter is better for the arts in general, never mind the artists.)
• The Twitter/Peanuts parody mashup @Peanutweeter has been taken down following complaints by Peanuts' copyright holder. This is another case of copyright gone copywrong.
• Tumblr site of the Day: Animals Being Dicks. (Your one-stop shop for all of your anthropomorphized animal hijinks.)
• More nerdrage aimed at DC's reboot/not-a-reboot of its superhero universe.
• Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark finally opens for real (not a preview! not an imaginary story!) on Broadway. It still sucks.
• Doctor Who meets A Softer World.
• Joe Bob Briggs on Rep. Weiner's wiener scandal. Related: Why Weiner's resignation is bad for America.
• America according to Twitter. [Graph]