With Hollywood scooping up as many franchises and rebooting them as possible these days, each of us are bound to see our favorite childhood TV show turned into a multi-million dollar film. For fans of The Smurfs, especially all the members of the Official Smurf Fan Club, that dream is finally coming true.

A few months back, Columbia Pictures announced that they were retooling the 1980s cartoon for not only the big screen, but in 3D as well. Now that some time has passed, the first poster has been revealed, showing us what the new-and-improved smurfs will look like, and if anyone has ever collected the Smurf figures, they know what to expect.

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After the epic week of new releases from 80s rockers Billy Idol and Fleetwood Mac along with icon Tom Petty, Harmonix takes a change of pace with their Rock Band releases and aims for some classics with their Talking Heads Pack 01. With Rock Band 2 already featuring “Psycho Killer”, this pack comes more for the hardcore Talking Heads fan than the casual player. But of the rest being released this week, we are most excited for Rage Against the Machine’s “Guerrilla Radio”.

The following tracks are coming this week to XBox Live on September 1st and the Playstation Network on September 3rd for $2.00 a track (160 points on the Microsoft Store). In addition, all five Talking Heads tracks are available for the discounted price of $8.49 (680 points on the Microsoft Store)

Talking Heads – “And She Was”
Talking Heads – “Crosseyed & Painless”
Talking Heads – “Girlfriend is Better”
Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
Talking Heads – “Take Me to the River”
Rage Against the Machine – “Guerilla Radio”
Avenged Sevenfold – “Bat Country”
The Jam – “A Town Called Malice”
The Jam – “Going Underground”
Oasis – “Supersonic” (Live)

Also available on Nintendo Wii for $2.00 (200 Wii Points) on September 1st (all currently available on the XBox Marketplace and Playstation Store):

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Previously, we brought you info on Marvel’s first motion comic (MOCO) Spider-Woman, which is one of the fastest selling videos at iTunes. Now, not resting on its laurels, Marvel is coming out of the gate with another potentially cool MOCO: Astonishing X-Men: Gifted — based on the story by Joss Whedon with art by John Cassaday. And as if that’s not enough, we’ve got the trailer for the brand new project to share with you today, direct from Marvel.

As a big fan of Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, this MOCO looks awesome and I can’t wait for it to drop on October 28th. Following is more info from Marvel about the project. Be sure to check out the brand new trailer after the jump.

Marvel is proud to unveil the first full-length trailer to the hotly anticipated Astonishing X-Men: Gifted motion comic, based on the seminal comic story by superstar scribe Joss Whedon (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) and renowned artist John Cassaday (Captain America). Now you can get your first look at Marvel’s newest original motion comic (available October 28th on iTunes) as the X-Men embark on a bold new mission! Discover more at www.marvel.com/motioncomics, bub!

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Community, a new Fall sitcom offering from NBC, seems to be shaping up as a very interesting show and one defiantly worth checking out. We’ve brought you quite a bit of news and promos for it in the past, but that won’t stop us from bringing you even more promo videos right now highlighting all that’s good about the new show. Courtesy of the fine folks at NBC, these new clips, some of which are scenes from the show and some interviews, give even more insight into the characters and situations encountered by the eclectic ensemble that have gathered to bring this show to life.

To refresh your memory, Community, which comes from Emmy Award-winning directors Joe and Anthony Russo (Arrested Development), is a smart comedy about higher education and lower expectations. It focuses on a band of misfits, at the center of which is a fast-talkin’ lawyer whose degree has been revoked (Joel McHale of The Soup). They form a study group and, in Breakfast Club fashion, end up learning a lot more about themselves than they do about their course work. Besides McHale, the show also features Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Ken Jeong and Chevy Chase. Yes, that’s the Chevy Chase.

In addition to all these promos and the other info we’ve brought you before, tonight we’re going to be at a special preview of the pilot episode of the show and will also get to ask the cast some questions. So, look for a review of the pilot and the Q/A with the cast right here at The Flickcast. Until then, watch these new videos after the jump and be sure to tune in when Community hits the airwaves on Thursday, September 17th at 9:30/8:30C.

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Previously, we brought you the “Redband” trailer for Rob Zombie’s The Haunted World of El Superbeasto and also news of the film’s potential theatrical release. Now, we’ve got a special clip from the film to bring you today which further demonstrates just how cool and messed up (in a good way) this movie is going to be.

In case you are not familiar or don’t feel like clicking any links right now, the film is based on the comic by Zombie and concerns a retired Mexican-American luchador who takes on the charge of fighting evil alongside his sister Suzi-X. Together they set forth on an adventure and inevitably take on the residents of Monsterland and their ruler, Dr. Satan. The film features the voices of Paul Giamatti, Brian Posehn, Tom Papa, Danny Trejo, Rosario Dawson, and Sheri Moon Zombie.

It will have its worldwide premiere On-Demand and on Pay-Per-View September 7th, 2009.  Then, it will hit theaters September 12th and be available on DVD and Blu-ray September 22nd. Be sure to check out the brand new clip and, because we like you, the “Redband” trailer as well after the break.

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As many of you probably read with our review of Shadow Complex two weeks ago,  the Super Metroid-inspired title is a fun action platformer with a few minor flaws. But according to the XBox Live Arcade community, these flaws didn’t keep Shadow Complex from becoming the top selling game of not only XBox’s Summer of Arcade but the highest first week sales figures and single week sales figures ever on the platform. Reaching over 200,000 downloads in its first week, Shadow Complex has set a new target for all aspiring downloadable games creators.

Scott Austin, director of digitally distributed games at Microsoft was quoted, “Congratulations to Chair Entertainment and Epic Games for creating an outstanding game… As the capstone title of the second annual Summer of Arcade program, Shadow Complex has raised the bar for downloadable games. We’re proud to offer such high-quality content on Xbox LIVE Arcade.”

With great new releases coming out this summer like Battlefield 1943, ‘Splosion Man and Shadow Complex for XBox Live Arcade and Fat Princess for the Playstation Network, downloadable games continue to prove their viability in the gaming marketplace. Hats off to Chair Entertainment for setting this new milestone.

It should come as no surprise that in addition to the big announcements yesterday, especially the Disney Marvel deal, there was other news. One such piece that may please many Marvel fans out there who were less than thrilled with the way the first two movies turned out is the late breaking revelation that Fox is rebooting The Fantastic Four franchise. But wait, don’t get too excited because Akiva Goldsman, the man who wrote the two worst Batman films in history (Batman and Robin and Batman Forever) and the feature film version of Lost In Space featuring Matt Leblanc is in charge of the reboot for the studio.

Fortunately, he’s not actually writing the script and is just a producer. Michael Green, co-executive producer of Heroes, co-writer of the new Green Lantern and creator of the short-lived series Kings is the one tapped to write the new script. So, that may mean good things for the new Fantastic Four franchise. In case you don’t recall, 2005′s Fantastic Four and the 2007 sequel Rise of the Silver Surfer were directed by Tim Story and starred Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis. Since the details of the reboot are still being worked out, it is unclear if any of them will return. Or, if they should.

To be honest, I wouldn’t mind if nobody from the first films returned. I wasn’t a big fan of Tim Story’s direction nor most of the performances except for Gruffudd and Chiklis. Starting over fresh is not a bad idea and now that Iron Man and The Dark Knight have clearly shown the way to make really great comic book movies, maybe Michael Green can turn The Fantastic Four into something great also. Let’s hope so because these characters deserve a better cinematic treatment then they’ve gotten so far.