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‘Star Wars Spectacular’ To Be Broadcast Live from Comic-Con In San Diego

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If you’re one of the many Star Wars fans who can’t make the trip to San Diego for Comic-Con this year to see the fan-favorite Lucasfilm panel presentation, don’t worry because the G4 network has got you covered. This year, Lucasfilm is teaming up with G4 to present the first-ever live television broadcast of the event from the San Diego Comic-Con. Cool, right? But wait, that’s not all.

Lucasfilm also promises to screen never-before-seen footage, breaking news, surprise announcements, guest stars and more. The Star Wars Spectacular will air Saturday, July 25th at 2 p.m. ET/PT on G4 and is hosted by Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira. Joining them will be Lucasfilm’s own Steve Sansweet and guests from Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Voice actors from the show will also be present to provide an insider look at the Star Wars universe and perform a live reading of a new Clone Wars script. Additionally, fans will be able to submit Clone Wars questions for the panel through a special G4 site. Now if we can just get Olivia and Megan Fox to wear a “Slave Leia” costume, we might really be onto something.

San Diego Comic-Con runs from July 23 – 26 and The Flickcast team will be there in force. So, be sure to check back right here for all your Comic-Con news and info.

Is This ‘The End’ For Wolverine?

the-end-wolverine-smallMarvel has released a rather confusing image of a Terminator-esque Wolverine along with the criptic message “The End.” Of course, that alone has to fuel speculation as to what this message and image mean exactly. Could it be that Wolverine will finally succumb to some sort of damage or attack even he can’t regenerate from? Or, is it something else entirely?

Marvel is already doing three different stories featuring the future of Wolverine. In case you’re not familiar, they are Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Wolverine: The End and X-Men: The End. This image and message seems to suggest they may be bringing a fourth story to the table that may definitively establish the fate of one of their most popular characters.

Of course, even if it does end up meaning the death of Wolverine, that really doesn’t have to be the end, does it? Its not like characters in comics really stay dead forever these days.

Be sure to check out the much larger promo pic after the break.

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‘Dark Knight’, ‘Battlestar Galactica’, ‘Iron Man’ Take Home Multiple Saturn Awards

the-dark-knightThe Dark Knight was the big winner with five awards at the 35th annual Saturn Awards last night in Burbank, taking home awards for best action/adventure/thriller film, best writing (Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan), best supporting actor (Heath Ledger), best music (Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard) and best special effects.

Other multiple winners included The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Iron Man, with three each. Button won best fantasy film, best supporting actress (Tilda Swinton) and best makeup. Iron Man won best science fiction film, best actor (Robert Downey Jr.) and best director (Jon Favreau).

Other awards winners included Hellboy II: The Golden Army, which won for best horror film, Angelina Jolie for best actress in Changeling, Jaden Christopher Smith for best performance by a younger actor in The Day the Earth Stood Still, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for best costumes, Let the Right One In for best international film and WALL-E for best animated film.

Battlestar Galactica also won three awards in the TV catagories: best actor (Edward James Olmos), best actress (Mary McDonnell) and best syndicated/cable television series. Dexter won two acting awards, Jennifer Carpenter for best supporting actress and Jimmy Smits for a guest starring role.

Click through for a complete list of winners.

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New Preview of ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ Now Online

harry-potter-half-bloodHey there, did you happen to catch the show Merlin on Sunday night? If not, then you missed the awesome extended Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince preview that ran during the show. However, fear not because we here at The Flickast have your back. How? We’ve got the extended preview to bring you right now, courtesy of NBC.

In this clip we’re given a further glimse into the world of this new film and how the gang has changed, and stayed the same, since the last movie. All your favorites are in attendance including Ron, Hermoine, Dumbledore, Snape, Voldemort and, of course, Harry himself. They’re just a bit older, wiser and slightly worse for wear.

We also get to see that this Harry Potter film is pretty dark and the stakes have risen quite high for our heroes. In fact, the fate of their world, and ours, hangs in the balance. It looks pretty good to me, I have to say.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens everywhere on July 15th. Click through to check out the extended trailer. Its worth a look.

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Review: NBC’s ‘The Philanthropist’

james-purefoy-philanthropistI got a chance to watch the pilot for NBC’s new show The Philanthropist, which debuts tonight at 10PM/9C, and I have to say while I was quite entertained for most of it , I was also somewhat underwhelmed as well. Its not that the show is bad or anything, quite the contrary. It has great production value, lots of action, a mostly engaging cast and even a morale. I just prefer my morals slightly less “in your face.”

By way of backstory, The Philanthropist follows the adventures of Billionaire playboy Teddy Rist, the “99th-richest man in the world” and his search for the meaning of it all after his son dies tragically a year prior. Teddy is undergoing a “crisis of conscience” and realizes that just writing a check isn’t enough anymore, he needs to “do something” in order to make a difference in the world. While I applaud that sentiment, more people should really feel that way, I question what follows and how Teddy decides to satisfy this need.

During the course of the show, Teddy decideds that the only way he can help is by personally delivering a much needed vaccine to a village in Nigeria. The village, coincidentally, where a boy he thought he saved during an earlier flood but is now missing, lives. So, Teddy decides he will deliver the vaccine to the boy’s villiage and make sure the boy is alive and well in the process. You get it, right? He couldn’t save his own son and now he must save this child in order to be redeemed.

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Marvel Urges You to Experience ‘X-Factor’

X-Factor_45_CoverIn addition to the fantastic X-Force, one of my other personal favorite comics of late is Peter David’s excellent X-Factor. His take on some of the more peripheral X-Men characters is always interesting and he manages to put his own spin on them and take them in new and different direction. Plus, David is just a great writer, which help immensely.

Marvel hasn’t pushed the series as much as they maybe could have but now it appears they are going to give it some love as the series hits issue #45 today.

Here’s all the scoop directly from Marvel via an official press release:

One of Marvel’s most critically acclaimed series continues in X-Factor #45, on-sale today, and if you haven’t tried this series, now’s the time! Superstar Eisner Award winning writer Peter David, along with the fan favorite artistic team of Valentine De Landro and Marco Santucci, present the perfect jumping on point for new readers.

Doctor Doom and Madrox meet in the future! Shatterstar battles X-Factor! And just what is the Cortex? Now’s your chance to find out why X-Factor is so red hot with fans and critics alike!

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Weblink Wednesday: PigTones.com – Custom Voices For Your GPS

With the number of GPS owners in the country growing at a substantial rate, more and more people are trying to do cool things with their navigational devices, from downloading custom avatars to now custom turn-by-turn voices and points of interest.

P.I.G.Tones, The Politically Incorrect GPS, is, according to their website, “a software company that offers Garmin and Tom Tom users the ability to download cool, funny, and irreverent new voices to their devices, replacing the boring standard voices that come with the units.”

Voices range from Stewie and Peter from Family Guy, to “The Governator”, Sean Connery, Homer, Cartman, and a slew of hilarious others. Granted, these aren’t licensed, which means you won’t get Seth McFarlane doing the official voices of Stewie or Peter, but the impression is pretty spot-on.

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Megan Fox Wants to Dress as ‘Slave Leia’ for Comic-Con

megan_foxSometimes, if you’ve been good, you get what you wish for. This is one of those times. Why do I say that? Well, read on. In an interview with Megan Fox the, shall we just say very attractive, star of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, she revealed some very interesting bits of info sure to delight fanboys (And girls too, we’re all equal here).

One such bit of info of particular interest to yours truly was that Fox really wants to go to Comic-Con in San Diego next month and, not only that, being the big Star Wars fan that she is, she would really like to go dressed in a “Slave Leia” costume. Oh boy. You hear that sound? That’s the sound of millions of fanboys (And yes, still girls as well) heads exploding.

I don’t know if Fox is really going to attend Comic-Con dressed that way but now any reluctance I had about going next month has miraculously disappeared. See you in San Diego!

Oh, by the way, Fox also talks about some other stuff in the video but really, she had me at “Slave Leia.”

Check out the full video after the jump.

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