News of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is everywhere this week at Comic-Con in San Diego. We’ve been covering this movie quite a bit and even brought you the first stills of the character from the film.

This time around we’ve got the brand new trailer for the film that pretty much everyone is buzzing about around the Internets. What can you say about a trailer for a film directed by Tim Burton other than it look amazing.

The trailer does look amazing and really showcases the care and attention to detail, character and story Burton is trying to provide here. The Flickcast is here to provide you with the first Alice in Wonderland trailer, straight from Wired, that must have hit the internet right under everyone’s noses.

You can watch the trailer right here after the break.

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Felicia Day will be penning a new comic based on her hit web series, The Guild for Dark Horse Comics! The Guild, written by and starring Felicia Day (Dr. Horrible, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, House) is the Winner of the 2008 Greenlight Award at SXSW as well as the 2008 YouTube Best Series and Yahoo! Best Series awards.

The show has racked up over twenty million viewers at watchtheguild.com. The Guild follows six World of Warcraft players, or “Guildies” Bladezz, Codex, Vork, Tinkerballa, Zaboo, and Clara, and their adventures both in the game and in real life.

Senior Dark Horse Editor Scott Allie came up with the idea to turn The Guild into a comic at last year’s Comic-Con. “Felicia’s amazing, and her writing will translate smoothly into comics,” Allie said.  “It’ll fit great alongside our webcomics and our Whedon books.”

While the three-issue miniseries currently has no artist, Day is psyched to be on board. “The comics will be a great way for fans to become more involved with the characters, and see the characters interact in environments that we can’t afford to show in the web series,” she said. “I can’t imagine working with a better company than Dark Horse. It seems like a perfect match for the show. Indie cred to the max!”

Season 3 of The Guild comes out on Xbox, MSN, and Zune on August 25.

Here at The Flickcast, we’re really excited about Spike Jonze’s new film, Where The Wild Things Are. Warner Bros. just showed an exclusive featurette on the making of the movie at their panel at Comic-Con, but if you weren’t there to see it we’ve got you covered.

Coming Soon reported that  WB has just posted the clip on the Apple trailer website. Starring Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara and Forest Whitaker, Where the Wild Things Are hits theaters and IMAX October 16th.

You can watch the featurette here.

A few months ago a mysterious ad appeared on ABC with stars Patrick Dempsey, Courtney Cox, Ed O’Neill, and Dominic Monaghan playing foosball. Not so mysterious, until viewers realized that Monaghan wasn’t currently cast in any ABC shows, after having left the cast of Lost. Rumors swirled. Well Lost fans, it doesn’t look like Dominic will be coming back to the island.

Instead, Monaghan will be joining the cast of the new ABC show, FlashForward, AP reports. The show takes place after the world suffers a massive blackout where everyone gets a glimpse of their future, and now have a choice to fight or embrace their fate.

Monaghan will star alongside Joseph Fiennes, Courtney B. Vance and Sonya Walger. The show premiers on Thursday, September 24th after Grey’s Anatomy.

At the Astro Boy panel, Kristen Bell and Freddie Highmore were in attendance to give fans their first look at the manga hero’s origin story. IGN reports that the footage, created exclusively for Comic-Con, sets up a movie that is largely geared toward younger comic fans.

The trailer begins with a slick montage and voiceover depicting Astro Boy’s construction, races into an action montage that sets up Nicolas Cage as Astro Boy’s dad, and concludes with Astro Boy’s confrontation with the Peacemaker. The trailer also featured Astro Boy unloading machine guns from his butt, so that might make it worth the price of admission.

The biggest surprise at the panel was the announcement that both Samuel L. Jackson and Oscar-winner Charlize Theron will lend their voices to the film. Astro Boy is slated for an October 23, 2009 release, is directed by David Bowers and also stars Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Moises Arias, Matt Lucas, Eugene Levy and Nathan Lane.

XBLA and PSN players of the world, pat yourselves on the back. Electronic Arts has officially sold more than 600,000 digital copies of Battlefield 1943, a record for both consoles.

The download only game, developed by DICE, was released on July 8 for an economical $15. The download included a map and a mode that could only be unlocked through the communal effort of everyone playing the game.

“We are honoured by the reception that the game has received so far,” says Gordon Van Dyke, producer on Battlefield 1943. “Watching and participating in this non-stop multiplayer action has been a real treat for us and we can’t believe how fast our fans reached 43 million kills. We can now truly say that we have set a new standard for what can be done in the downloadable games category and gamers recognize the endless value that Battlefield 1943 provides for just $15.”

The worldwide challenge to unlock the Coral Sea map began on Friday, July 10 at 19:43 CET. The Xbox LIVE community reached the goal of 43 million kills in an impressive five days, while the PlayStation community hit the mark in eight.

The full press release can be read here.

One of my favorite games of last year, Left4Dead, already has a sequel in the works. Valve showed off some new Left4Dead 2 areas, Swamp Fever and The Parish, at Comic–Con yesterday.

Valve also revealed two new breeds of zombie. The first, Spitters according to Kotaku, are fat zombies with pigtails that spew orange liquid that provided players with quite a challenge. The other new breed is currently unnamed, but Kotaku reported that they’re bullet-proof, which will be difficult to contend with.

Left 4 Dead 2, much like the first game, is a cooperative survival horror game. Players can choose to play alone or online with friends while fighting off screaming thrashing zombies in the zombie apocalypse. The sequel will take place in the Southern United States, starting in Georgia and ending in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A lot of fans have been complaining about how quickly a sequel has been developed, as Valve did promise a lot of DLC for the first game. But these new developments should give those unhappy fans a lot to be happy about.

Left4Dead 2 will be infecting PCs and XBOX 360 consoles November 15^th.

According to Gary Oldman, the next installment of the Batman franchise will begin filming next year. The news was broken at the Book of Eli panel this morning, according to Coming Soon. When a fan asked him about a follow up to last year’s smash hit The Dark Knight, Oldman replied, “We start shooting next year. You didn’t hear that from me.”

This is huge news, as we had previously reported that Nolan wasn’t even sure they had a story for Batman 3. And while we won’t know for sure until Nolan or Warner Brothers confirms the announcement, this is huge news for Batman fans everywhere.

Scholastic has announced that Jeff Smith will soon be expanding the popular Bone graphic novel series. The first book, Bone: Tall Tales, will be released Summer 2010, and will be a collaboration between Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski. The book will feature new art and stories about favorite Bone characters.

The duo will also collaborate on the highly-anticipated Quest for the Spark Trilogy, an expansion of the Bone world. The books, Bone Quest for the Spark: Book One (Fall 2010), “Bone Quest for the Spark: Book Two” (Spring 2011), and “Bone Quest for the Spark: Book Three” (Summer 2011) represent the first time Smith has continued the adventures set in the valley since the publication of Rose, the prequel to the Bone series, which will be released by Scholastic/Graphix in August 2009.

“I always said I would find a way to draw more Bone stories, and now I have,” said Jeff Smith. “Tom is great to work with and we’re going to have a lot of fun!”

With all the movies, TV and comics news this week at Comic-Con in San Diego, let’s not forget that the video game industry has also descended on the Con with a vengeance this year. One of the many game companies with a presence at the show is Activision, who are debuting clips and new gameplay from their upcoming games Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 and Singularity.

Previously, we brought you some cool video for both of these games and now, after attending an exclusive Activision event on Wednesday night, we can bring you these brand new videos of Gambit and Jean Grey, who figure prominently in the game. The game itself debuts in September, but in the meantime, these videos are pretty kick-ass.

Check them out after the jump.

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Reporting from Comic-Con, SciFiWire revealed that star Taylor Lautner spoke about his transformation into a werewolf during the press conference for The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the sequel to the mega-hit Twilight.

Readers of the Twilight series already know what is in store for Jacob this time around, even though his part was minimal in the first film. (Spoiler alert ahead!) Lautner marveled at his “wolf out” transformation from the second film.

“I thought they did a pretty good job with the wolf transformation,” Lautner told reporters. “I’m excited that there are werewolves involved now, because the werewolves definitely step up the action in the movie. There’s double the action in this movie than there was before.”

Although Visual-effects wizards handle the heavy lifting on werewolf transformation, Lautner had to buff out for the role. Early rumors even suggested recasting for a bulkier actor, but Lautner refused to let the part slip away from him.

“I knew when I was filming Twilight that Jacob’s character changed a lot, so if I wanted to continue portraying him directly,” Lautner continued. “I had a lot of work ahead of myself.”

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It seems rather fitting that the Mad Hatter would show up unannounced in the middle of the Alice in Wonderland panel, especially when said hatter is Johnny Depp. MTV has reported that Johnny Depp surprised fans at the Disney 3-D panel at San Diego Comic-Con by showing up at the end of Tim Burton’s presentation of footage from the film.

The addition of Depp to the stage was a memorable end to the panel discussion, which began with filmmaker Tim Burton getting cheers from the crowd. The presentation included a teaser trailer of various footage from the film in 3-D, with Burton laughing about all the wacky characters included in his version of Alice in Wonderland.

“Looks like a freak show, doesn’t it?” the director laughed while the character images graced the screen.

Burton said the Alice in Wonderland film isn’t a faithful adaptation of the classic book by Lewis Carroll, but instead takes the characters and various scenes from the book and molds them into an updated story.

Alice in Wonderland stars Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Alan Rickman and Mia Wasikowska and is scheduled for a March 5, 2010 release. Our coverage of Alice in Wonderland continues tomorrow right here at The Flickcast.