MARVEL VS CAPCOM 2

For those of you still riding the high from the recent Street Fighter 4 release, Capcom wants to keep the good times going by releasing Marvel VS Capcom 2, the sequel to the 90's smash fighter. Expect this game around the middle of summer 2009 for your Xbox 360 and PS3 complete with online gameplay and over 50 playable characters! Now if we could just get a Marvel VS DC...

Before you demolish your eyes trying to figure out who's in the game from the trailer, I may be able to help you with that. I have a list of many of the players that you can expect to see battling it out:

• MARVEL: Blackheart, Cable, Captain America, Colossus, Cyclops, Dr. Doom, Gambit, Hulk, Iceman, Iron Man, Juggernaut, Magneto, Marrow, Omega Red, Psylocke, Rogue, Sabretooth, Sentinel, Shuma-Gorath, Silver Samurai, Spider-Man, Spiral, Storm, Thanos, Venom, War Machine, Wolverine (Regular & Bone Clawed). Suprisingly, no Deadpool as this point (or for that matter Thor and Carnage).

• CAPCOM: [From Street Fighter] Akuma, Cammie, Charlie, Chun-Li, Dan Hibiki, Dhalsim, Guile, Ken, M. Bison, Ryu, Sakura, Zangief (No Vega?) [From Darkstalkers] Anakaris, Baby Bonnie Hood, Felicia, Morrigan Aensland [From Mega Man] Mega Man, Roll, Servbot, Tron Bonne [Other Capcom Characters] Captain Commando, Hayato Kanzaki, Jill Valentine, Jin Saotome, Sonson, Strider Hiryu (They give us a Jill with no Chris?).

• ORIGINAL CHARACTERS: Abyss, Amingo, Ruby Heart.

By my count, that puts the roll call somewhere in the mid-50's, but I'm still holding out for Deadpool. So many people have hacked in their own versions of Deadpool to play with that I would be surprised if Capcom doesn't take note and give the people what they want even if it's as a skin for another character. Whatever, at least it's a start.

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DVD releases for April 28th

DVD RELEASES:
- American Dad!: Volume 4
- Bride Wars
- Frost/Nixon: Complete Interviews
- Hotel for Dogs
- JCVD
- Jetsons: The Movie
- Legally Blondes
- The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
- Mission: Impossible - The Sixth TV Season
- Never Surrender
- Nothing But the Truth
- S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale
- Sex and Lies in Sin City
- The Spectacular Spider-Man: Volume Four
- Spin City: The Complete Second Season
- Stephen King Presents Kingdom Hospital: The Entire Series

- The Uninvited
- What Doesn't Kill You
- X-Men: Volume 1
- X-Men: Volume 2

COOL BLU-RAY RELEASES:
- Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1

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BEA ARTHUR: 1922-2009

Sad news in entertainment today, as beloved Golden Girl and Broadway star Bea Arthur (born Bernice Frankel on May 13th, 1922) passed away this morning in her Los Angeles home from a long bout with lung cancer. Best known for her breakout role as Maude Findley, Edith Bunker's feminist cousin on All in the Family, which led to her own very successful spin-off Maude. Years later Bea endeared herself to a whole new generation playing Dorothy Zbornak, the no-nonsense voice of reason to a group of gals known as the Golden Girls (Arthur won a 'Best Actress' Emmy for both series). But what many of you may not know is that aside from being an Emmy-winning actress and a Tony-winning Broadway performer, Bea Arthur still found the time to make her mark in geekdom, infamously performing a song and dance in the Mos Eisley Cantina as Ackmena in the rarely seen Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), she also had a brief cameo in Mel Brook's History of the World: Part I, later she would lend her voice to the Femputer in the hilarious Futurama episode 'Amazon Women in the Mood' (2001). She has made such an impact, in fact, that for years she has been an object of affection for Marvel's Deadpool, who has made no qualms about his serious infatuation with the white-haired vixen. Unless the current writers have no idea what they're doing, I would expect a story dealing with Wade (Deadpool) coming to terms with Bea Arthur's passing. Fanboys love them some Bea Arthur, that's for sure. On April 28th, the marquees on Broadway will be dimmed for one minute in memory of Ms. Arthur. When asked about her dear friend's passing, Golden Girls co-star Betty White simply said, "I knew it would hurt. I just didn't know it would hurt this much." Rest in peace, Bea and thanks for making us smile...

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DVD releases for April 22nd

TOP PICKS:
- Freakazoid!: Season 2
- Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
- The Wrestler
OTHER RELEASES:
- The Burrowers
- Caprica
- Dallas: The Complete Eleventh Season
- Dante 01
- Frost/Nixon
- Hawaii Five-O: The Sixth Season
- Hellraiser: Limited Edition Box Set
- iCarly: Season 1, Volume 2
- Into the Blue 2: The Reef
- My Own Worst Enemy: The Complete Series
- Notorious (Single-Disc)
- Notorious (Unrated Director's Cut Collector's Edition)
- The Poker Club
- Rhoda: Season One
- Ron White: Behavioral Problems
- Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy
- Squidbillies, Vol. 2
- Stuart Little: The Animated Series - A Little Family Fun
- Stuart Little: The Animated Series - Going for the Gold
- Voyage of the Damned
- Wolverine and the X-Men: Heroes Return Trilogy
COOL BLU-RAY RELEASES:
- Hellraiser
- Sin City
- X-Men
- X2: X-Men United
- Yes, X-Men: The Last Stand also comes out this week, but let's pretend it didn't.

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Details emerge about Romero's ...Of The Dead

Devonshire Productions has released the official synopsis for the film which inexplicably will not be called Island of the Dead even though that would have made perfect sense.

“On a small island off North America’s coast, the dead rise to menace the living. Yet…the islanders can’t bring themselves to exterminate their loved ones, despite the growing danger from those the once held dear. A rebel among them hunts down all the zombies he can find, only to be banished from the island for assassinating his neighbors and friends. On the mainland, bent on revenge, he encounters a small band of survivors in search of an oasis on which to build a new life. Barely surviving an attack from a mass of ravenous flesh-eaters. They commandeer a zombie-infested ferry and sail to the island. There, to their horror, they discover that the locals have chained the dead inside their homes, pretending to live ‘normal’ lives…with bloody consequences. What ensues is a desperate struggle for survival and the answer to a question never posed in Romero’s Dead films: Can the living ever live in peace with the dead?”

Apparently, the movie is a direct sequel to Diary of the Dead, Romero's one misstep in the series (yeah, I said it). I love the dead films and Romero but I have to admit that this is the first that I'm not truly excited about. My hope is that the documentary gimmick of the last film works better this time around. I've seen the promo trailer (which has since disappeared from the net) and it looks a little bit better. The quality was pretty rough and this is definitely another low budget affair (a good thing).

...Of The Dead is due sometime in 2009

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Movie v2.0

Showbiz Spy is reporting that Sarah Michelle Gellar is in talks to reprise her role as Buffy the Vampire Slayer for a feature film with creator-director Josh Whedon.

Gellar ended her run on the super awesome series in 2003. An "insider" reports, "There is an idea for a script and to pick the story up with Buffy older and maybe even a mother". Wow, Buffy would be older. What a scoop!

As you may know, the continuation of the series has been taking place in a fabulously geeky comic book run "Season 8". Why aren't you reading those?

Stay tuned for more details. This could be friggin' awesome. Kinda makes me wish they'd just cancel "Dollhouse" and get it done.

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