Suck My App, Apple

In a move that has definite ramifications for the world of digital comics, Apple has rejected Sony’s iPhone application, which would have allowed customers to buy and read content from the Sony Reader Store without giving them the chance to purchase the same material through Apple’s iTunes store. Although an article in the New York Times gave the impression that all content for iOS devices would have to flow through the iTunes store, Digital Daily quoted Apple spokesperson Trudy Miller who clarified the situation: “We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is available to customers from within the app with an in-app purchase.” So it appears that customers won’t have to purchase all their iOS content from Apple, but app developers will have to offer consumers the option to buy through iTunes or face having their app rejected.

Stand and Deliver

Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic horror classic The Stand is heading to the big screen as Warner Bros. and CBS films have joined forces to create a tentpole film based on the novel that was originally published in 1978. King revised and expanded his “good vs. evil” saga about an America ravaged by a deadly flu virus known as "Captain Trips" that wipes out most of its population in a new edition in 1990.

Hideout #180 - Media Talk

On this episode we review: Movies - Easy A, Green Hornet, The King’s Speech * Books - Peter David – Before Dishonor * TV - Hawaii Five-O, Shameless, Castle, Chuck, Harry’s Law, The Cape, White Collar, Fairly Legal, Fringe, Bones, Pioneers of Television – Science Fiction, Being Human, Face Off, Community, The Clone Wars Saga, Young Justice

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Hideout #180 - A Geek Girl's Guide to the Force

As a Birthday gift to Lorrie, we now do the Hideout's take on Star Wars.the movie series that literally change the world, and the much loved, or hated or hotly debate sequels. Enjoy.

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Super Henry

Zack Snyder's SUPERMAN reboot has found its Man of Steel in Henry Cavill, according to Deadline. The website reports that THE TUDORS actor has long been the front-runner for the role, but the decision was only made in recent days.

The Admiral Gets An Actor

Luke Pasqualino has been cast as the key character of the young William Adama in Syfy’s upcoming Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome series, according to EW. The character is a young fighter pilot whose age is between the child Adama in the recently canceled Caprica and the older Adama played by Edward James Olmos in Battlestar Galactica.

Three Writers @ the Movies

Three comic book-based projects took their initial steps toward development as writers were assigned to develop screenplays for War Machine, Brodie’s Law, and Ascend. Actor Don Cheadle, who played War Machine in Iron Man 2, told MTV that a writer had been hired to create a War Machine screenplay, though he didn’t reveal who the writer is.Gary Young, who wrote the screenplay for Harry Brown, has signed on to adapt Daley Osiyemi and David Bircham’s Brodie’s Law. And, Gregory Widen, the creator of The Highlander franchise, will adapt Keith Arem’s Ascend for the big screen.

The Wizard’s Off to See the Reaper

A spokesperson for Wizard World PR has confirmed that earlier online reports of the demise of the print and paper incarnations of Wizard and ToyFare were correct. Wizard World, Inc., a newly formed public corporation headed by Wizard magazine founder Gareb Shamus will begin the production of an online Wizard World publication in February as well as continue to manage the full slate of Wizard World Tour conventions.

Series Suicide

IDW Publishing will launch a comic miniseries based on SuicideGirls, the subscription Website and merchandise featuring nude photos of models with “alternative beauty” - like tattoos and piercings, in March. The series is being created under the direction of SuicideGirls co-founder Missy Suicide. It will be plotted by Suicide, Steve Niles and writer/actress Brea Grant, written by Grant, with art by David Hahn. Cameron Stewart will contribute the covers and mini-historical tales of the SuicideGirls in each issue. Variant covers will feature photos of the SuicideGirls models.

NBC & Wonder G

The new Wonder Woman TV series from showrunner David E. Kelley will air on NBC, according to Deadline Hollywood.. Joseph McGinty Nichol, aka McG, is reportedly the odds on favorite to direct the pilot for the newly greenlit NBC Wonder Woman series being developed by David E. Kelley. McG has demonstrated some prowess with booty-kicking female protagonists—he directed the two Charlie’s Angels movies. McG has directed several TV pilots including initial efforts for Chuck and Fastlane, though both of those projects were developed by McG’s production company, Wonderland Sound and Vision.