Incase iPhone 4 Cases

Incase makes some of the best iPhone cases available today. Now they’re back once again with their latest iPhone 4 Cases ($TBA)

The colorful cases will come in a variety of styles, including the Dock-friendly Slider Case, the simple Snap Case, the rubberized Protective Cover, and the Perforated Snap Case. The new cases will ship at the end of July.

Due Date Trailer

Here is the first official trailer for The Hangover director Todd Phillips’ much-anticipated follow-up, Due Date.

The buddy-comedy story which has been described as kinda Hangover meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The screenplay by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland (with rewrites by Adam Sztykiel) has Zach Galifianakis as a wannabe actor who becomes the companion to an expectant father / businessman (Robert Downey) as they dash cross-country to (hopefully) arrive in time for the childbirth. The film is due in theaters November 5th.

Apple To Hold iPhone 4 Press Conference This Friday

Apple is inviting select media representatives to a special press conference that will be held on Friday, July 16th at 10 AM (PT). The company provided no information about the conference other than to say it would focus on the iPhone 4.

Comic-Con International: What to Get in Line For Early!

Comic-Con International San Diego has now announced its full programming schedule for the July 21-25 event. Techland is offering their picks of the gigantic events that you’ll want to plan your day around if you want to get into them.

There are going to be some major lines for these–last year’s Twilight panel was attended by a couple of thousand fans who’d formed a tent city, camping out overnight on the convention center’s lawn.

Comic Book Pick of The Week: Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows #6

Crown of Shadows ($3.99) by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez reaches a shattering climax in the standalone tale, ‘Beyond Repair.’ In a terrible night of grief and rage, Nina Locke discovers a new key, one which opens a cabinet capable of mending smashed objects; but some things, she will learn, are beyond repair…

Iron Man 2 DVD To Be Released On September 28th, 2010

Paramount Home Entertainment has announced 1-disc DVD, 2-disc DVD and 3-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo releases of Iron Man 2 for September 28th. The only extra material on the 1-disc DVD will be a commentary by director Jon Favreau. The 2-disc DVD will include the commentary along with 4 deleted/extended scenes with optional director commentary, 2 featurettes (“Creating Stark Expo”, “Practical Meets Digital”), an AC/DC “Shoot To Thrill” music video, and a digital copy of the film.

The Blu-ray release will include all of that, along with a 4-part The Making of Iron Man 2 documentary (“Rebuilding the Suit”, “A Return to Action”, “Expanding the Universe”, “Building a Legacy”), additional featurettes (“Illustrated Origin: Nick Fury”, “Illustrated Origin: Black Widow”, “Illustrated Origin: War Machine”, “Working with DJ AM”), additional deleted scenes, concept art, trailers, and more.

The Trailer For The Supernatural Thriller Devil

Universal Pictures has brought online the trailer for supernatural thriller Devil opening in theaters on September 17.

M. Night Shyamalan wrote the story for the film and is co-producing with Sam Mercer. John Erick and Drew Dowdle directing the film from a script by Brian Nelson. Devil stars Chris Messina, Geoffrey Arend, Logan Marshall-Green, Bojana Novakovic, Jenny O’Hara, Bokeem Woodbine and Jacob Vargas.

Read The Inception Prologue Comic Book Online

Warner Bros has released a 19-page Inception prologue comic book on Yahoo! Movies. Written by Jordan Goldberg, and featuring art by Long Vo, Joe Ng, and Crystal Reid, Inception: The Cobol Job tells the story of the job that Cobb (the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film) and his team take on, which leads to the opening of the feature film.

Click HERE to read the comic in a built in web comic reader or download the PDF file. (Thanks for the tip Don Thompson)

Marc Cohn’s Newest Album, Listening Booth: 1970, Available On July 20th, 2010

Grammy winner Marc Cohn releases his newest album, Listening Booth: 1970, on July 20^th amidst a series of performances on television and national radio shows with additional support from Starbucks, which is stocking the CD in its stores across the country.  Starting with an appearance on Good Morning America on July 22^nd, Marc will perform on syndicated radio shows Mountain Stage and Acoustic Café, as well as the nationally syndicated television shows Daytime, Better TV and the WGN MidDay News through August.  Marc will also be profiled during Nightline’s Playlist segment next month.  In addition to Starbucks, Listening Booth: 1970 will be available at all major retail outlets, iTunes and Amazon.com via Saguaro Road Records.

“I couldn’t imagine how Marc and John Leventhal were going to tie the songs together given the wide variety of artists”, commented Mike Jason, Saguaro Road Senior Vice President, Retail. “Thankfully they did—warm, intimate, and drenched in laid back soul.”

Listening Booth: 1970 was recorded in the spirit of Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time and Alison Krauss/Robert Plant’s Raising Sand, where brilliant songwriters took on songs created by others and meticulously deconstructed them until they re-emerged as if they always belonged to them. The result is warmly familiar yet entirely fresh, with Marc’s vocals strikingly bare and placed thoughtfully into austere arrangements. “I’m singing in a different place in my voice on this record” explains Cohn. “It was ultimately extremely liberating to just be the singer, not the songwriter, and to try to find the most interesting, unforced way to approach what we already knew were such beautifully written songs.”  Marc collaborated with producer John Leventhal (Roseanne Cash, Shawn Colvin) throughout the recording process and invited in India.Irie, Aimee Mann, Jim Lauderdale and Kristina Train for additional vocals.

Listening Booth: 1970 also stands as a remarkable testament to the groundbreaking songwriting and vastly different musical styles that emerged that year.  From Smokey Robinson’s “Tears of a Clown” to Simon and Garfunkel’s “Only Living Boy in New York,” “The Letter” (made popular by Joe Cocker), Bread’s “Make It With You,” John Lennon’s “Look At Me,” Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed” and Cat Stevens’ “Wild World,” 1970 remains one of the most influential in music even 40 years later, a rare moment in time when a single was as powerful as an LP.  “Looking back, it was a pivotal year in music,” says Cohn.  “It was not only the golden age of the single, but it was a window into the beginning of the golden age of the album, especially when it came to singer-songwriters.  Even while all these deeply personal and poetic records were being released, there was this eclectic mix of pop music on the radio; it was great to be able to explore that range on this record.”

Undercover Karaoke With Jewel

Funny or Die dressed Jewel up as a “mild-mannered businesswoman” named Karen and sent her to a Santa Monica karaoke bar to perform her own songs. Mistaken identilarity ensued.

Sit And Spell

Eric Ku is a 26 years old Graphic Designer who recently graduated from School of Visual Arts in New York. Ku was born in Taiwan and immigrated to USA in 2001. His senior thesis project called Mission Redefinition was a series of exercises that explore the concept of redefinition through the application of graphic design.

The clever designer created this wonderful self-describing chair. The 5 letters that spell the word C-H-A-I-R have been cut out of aluminum and an be assembled to form an actual usable sturdy chair.

To quote the Eric:

“An inspiration from the American contemporary artist Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chair. Instead of giving new definition, I redefined the concept of a chair by using alphabet. One is able to construct a chair by assembling the redesigned alphabets.”

Meeting Knives by Mia Schmallenbach

The ‘Meeting’ is a set of precision knives (price TBD) that have been perfectly designed. It pairs up a carving knife, chef knife, filleting knife and a paring knife. The entire set is sculpted out of one piece of stainless steel. The ancient Fibonacci sequence inspires the proportions with the base size of an average hand.

The Meeting was awarded the First Price of the First European Award for Cutlery Creation. The set will soon be available through the famous knife-smith Deglon in Thiers (France).

TV Guide Magazine’s Special Comic-Con Issue Will Feature 4 Original Covers

TV Guide Magazine and Warner Bros. Television have teamed up for a special edition issue that gives fans everything they want to know about their favorite hit shows such as Fringe, Chuck, V, True Blood and more! Whether it’s Smallville’s Clark Kent, The Vampire Diaries’ Damon Salvatore or The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper.

There will be four original covers with exclusive stories, from a Vampire Diaries’ family tree to must-see Supernatural episodes, Q&As with the casts of many Warner Bros.’ shows and an interview with the man behind the Human Target comics.

Other elements making this issue a must-have for fans include:

A 10-page sneak peek at the all-new Superman “Grounded” storyline, starting in Superman #701, from DC Comics

An exclusive MAD magazine fold-in, created by Al Jaffee, gracing the inside back cover of the special issue, designed specifically for the convention, with a Comic-Con theme

Photo essay of the Warner Bros. booth throughout the years at Comic-Con

Cover gallery looking back at TV Guide Magazine’s prior coverage of the Studio’s Comic-Con series

The ultimate superfan quiz and crossword puzzle

And more…

Warner Bros. Television Group will distribute copies of the magazine throughout the five days of Comic-Con (including Preview Night) exclusively at the Warner Bros. booth, #4545, on the convention floor. The special issue will then be available on newsstands beginning Monday, July 26. Collect all four!

Modern Family Season 1 DVD

Fox Home Entertainment has announced 4-disc DVD ($49.98) and 3-disc Blu-ray ($59.99) releases of Modern Family: The Complete First Season for September 21st. All 24 episodes will be included, plus Deleted, Extended and Alternate Scenes, Deleted Family Interviews, a Gag Reel, Real Modern Family Moments, a Before Modern Family featurette, a Modern Family: Making of “Family Portrait” featurette, a Modern Family Hawaii featurette, and a Fizbo the Clown feature.

Trailer for Rob Reiner’s Coming-of-Age Movie Flipped

Nickelodeon actress Madeline Carroll stars as Juli Baker & newcomer Callan McAuliffe stars as Bryce Loski. Flipped is directed by Oscar nominated filmmaker Rob Reiner, of many great films like This Is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, and The Bucket List. The screenplay was co-written by Reiner & Andrew Scheinman (of Mother Lode, North, Bait and the director of Little Big League). This was based on Wendelin Van Draanen’s novel Flipped, first published in 2001. Warner Bros is bringing Flipped to theaters starting on August 6th later this summer.

The Spectacular Superhero Poster Art of Tom Whalen

Tom Whalen has some incredible poster art on display at his site, including some highly-stylized Marvel and DC Comics inspired fan works that blew me away. Check out some of his heroic images below and then go to his site to view his tributes to Star Wars, Transformers, and vintage horror movies.

Secret Identity Eyeglass Kit

Are you a Superhero seeking inconspicuous movement in the civilian world? The Secret Identity Eyeglass Kit ($40) is an ideal aid, lends ‘poor vision’ authenticity while providing legitimate fashion credibility to any outfit.

Project Selima & Matt have created this exclusive Secret Identity Kit in collaboration with the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.

The Text on the interior arms read, Project Selima & Matt for 826NYC. Ever Vigilant, Ever True.

Each kit contains a pair of custom eyeglasses and a hard shell case with SECRET IDENTITY debossed onto the exterior and STRIVE TO BE BORING printed on the interior.

The black frames come with clear plastic lenses that can be replaced with prescription or UV sun lenses. Visit your local eyewear professional or Selima Optique to have alternate lenses installed. Size 50mm wide/42mm high/130mm from temple to temple.

All proceeds benefit the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company.

Classic Disney Movies Coming to Los Angeles ArcLight Cinemas

D23, Disney’s official fan club, and ArcLight Cinemas, the premier moviegoing venue in Southern California, will present classic Disney movies every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday throughout the month of August, giving movie lovers the rare opportunity to revisit some of their favorite Disney characters and stories on the big screen.

Adding to the Disney excitement at ArcLight Cinemas, D23 and The Walt Disney Archives have assembled an exclusive collection of classic movie posters from more than 70 years of Disney history. This amazing Disney-themed poster wall will be displayed from July 14 to Aug. 31 at ArcLight Sherman Oaks and ArcLight Pasadena.

Beginning August 2, ArcLight Cinemas will present the Disney classics selected by D23 every Monday at ArcLight Hollywood, Tuesday at ArcLight Sherman Oaks, and Wednesday at ArcLight Pasadena.

The focus is on Disney science-fiction and fantasy films at ArcLight Hollywood, with the following schedule:

•Monday, Aug. 2: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

•Monday, Aug. 9: The Rocketeer (1991)

•Monday, Aug. 16: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

•Monday, Aug. 23: The Black Hole (1979)

•Monday, Aug. 30: Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Disney animated classics are in the spotlight at ArcLight Sherman Oaks all throughout August:

•Tuesday, Aug. 3: Cinderella (1950)

•Tuesday, Aug. 10: Pinocchio (1940)

•Tuesday, Aug. 17: Alice in Wonderland (1951)

•Tuesday, Aug. 24: The Jungle Book (1967)

•Tuesday, Aug. 31: Peter Pan (1953)

ArcLight Cinemas newest location in Pasadena will be home to tune-filled Disney musicals every Wednesday in August:

•Wednesday, Aug. 4: Newsies (1992)

•Wednesday, Aug. 11: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

•Wednesday, Aug. 18: Pete’s Dragon (1977)

•Wednesday, Aug. 25: Mary Poppins (1964)

Guests can purchase tickets, reserve seats and print their tickets at home by visiting ArcLightCinemas.com. Tickets are $12.50 at ArcLight Sherman Oaks and Pasadena and $13.50 at ArcLight Hollywood. ArcLight members will receive $1 off each ticket when purchased online and printed at home.

At each screening, moviegoers will be treated to Disney trivia and prizes courtesy of D23, the official Disney fan club.

The Carl’s Jr. Footlong Cheeseburger

The fast food chain Carls Jr. is testing a foot-long cheeseburger in some of it’s Los Angeles based locations.

The elongated beefy sandwich has been spotted at this Orange County restaurant: 1943 E. 17th Street in Santa Ana. (Note: This is the same restaurant that tested the Grilled Cheese Bacon Burger before it rolled out in stores across the country.)

The regular “Footlong Cheeseburger” sells for $4; the deluxe version (with lettuce and tomato) costs $4.50.

The sandwich contains 3 beef patties not a single 12 inch patty.

The Many Voices of The Simpsons

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Stan Lee To Sign Ultimo Volume 2 At Los Angeles Barnes And Noble On June 16th, 2010

VIZ Media has announced a very special personal appearance by comic book legend Stan Lee on Friday, June 16th at 7:00pm at the Barnes & Noble bookstore at The Grove at Farmers Market in Los Angeles, located at 189 Grove Drive Suite K 30, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Lee is the co-creator of comics’ most iconic superheroes including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men. His Barnes & Noble appearance celebrates the release of Volume 2 of his latest co-creation – ULTIMO, and he will be autographing copies of ULTIMO Volumes 1 and 2.

ULTIMO (rated ‘T’ for Teens) is a historic East-meets-West collaboration between Lee and famed Japanese manga creator, Hiroyuki Takei, the creator of the popular SHAMAN KING series. ULTIMO, Volume 2 is available in stores now and is also serialized in VIZ Media’s SHONEN JUMP Magazine.

VIZ Media will also welcome Stan Lee for a special appearance in the company’s booth #2813 on Saturday, July 24th at Comic-Con International 2010, the nation’s largest comic book convention taking place in San Diego, CA.

The ULTIMO back-story: High above Farmless City, citizens are stunned by the sudden appearance of two floating figures. Are they human boys, monolithic robots, or something much more strange? As the battle ensues between them, destruction and devastation falls on the hapless city. One figure is Vice, who seems to be as evil as his name implies. The other is Ultimo, intent on trying to stop Vice from wreaking more havoc. But who are Vice and Ultimo really? Where did they come from? In Volume 2, with girl and money troubles, life is hard enough for high school student Yamato, but then he stumbles upon Ultimo, a peculiar-looking puppet. Things only get stranger when Ultimo awakens and his archenemy, Vice, shows up. Ultimo and Vice are Karakuri Dôji, the mechanical embodiment of pure good and pure evil, devoid of human emotions that can cloud one’s judgment. Their purpose: to battle to the death to prove once and for all whether good or evil is the most powerful force in the universe.

Batman: Under the Red Hood DVD

Warner Home Video has announced 1-disc DVD ($19.98), 2-disc DVD ($24.98), and Blu-ray ($29.99) releases of Batman: Under the Red Hood for July 27th. No extra material will be included on the 1-disc DVD. The 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray will include a Next Upcoming DCU Sneak Peak, a DC Showcase: Jonah Hex animated short, a Robin: The Story of Dick Grayson featurette, and 2 bonus episodes from Batman The Animated Series Season 1 handpicked by Bruce Timm. The Blu-ray release will also include Robin’s Requiem: The Tale of Jason Todd featurette, and a digital copy.

No Avengers For Ed Norton

Marvel Studios has confirmed that Edward Norton will not reprise his role as Bruce Banner in The Avengers. Instead, another actor is being sought to join the ensemble cast.

In a statement sent from the London set of Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel Studios President Kevin Fiege wrote:

“We have made the decision to not bring Ed Norton back to portray the title role of Bruce Banner in the Avengers. Our decision is definitely not one based on monetary factors, but instead rooted in the need for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our other talented cast members. The Avengers demands players who thrive working as part of an ensemble, as evidenced by Robert, Chris H, Chris E, Sam, Scarlett, and all of our talented casts. We are looking to announce a name actor who fulfills these requirements, and is passionate about the iconic role in the coming weeks.”

Presumably that announcement will be made July 24th during the Marvel Studios panel at Comic-Con International.

Hot Tub Time Machine DVD

MGM Home Entertainment recently released the DVD ($29.98) and Blu-ray ($39.99) releases of Hot Tub Time Machine. The DVD release includes deleted scenes and the theatrical trailer. The Blu-ray release contains that, along with Theatrical Promotional Spots (“Production: Acting Like Idiots”, “Chevy Chase: The Nicest Guy in Hollywood”, “Totally Radical Outfits: Dayna Pink”, “Crispin Glover: One Armed Bellhop”), and a digital copy of the film.

Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek by Olivia Munn

Today’s hottest geek and host of G4′s Attack of the Show dishes her unique brand of humor in her first book, Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek ($17.27). Olivia Munn is an actress, comedian and television host, best known for being the face of the G4 network. She also occasionally likes to get dressed up as Wonder Woman.

Suck It Wonder Woman is her homage to Geeks everywhere. Using her trademark humor she skewers what it’s like to live in Hollywood. Olivia offers valuable information on… what to do when the robots invade. This book also includes an Olivia Munn timeline of great moments in Geek history and her answers to the Unofficial Geek FAQ.

Is it any wonder that Olivia Munn is quickly becoming the most powerful Geek on the planet? Suck It Wonder Woman is a humorous look at geeks, gadgets, Hollywood, and huge heapings of banana cream pie.