• George Takei will guest star starting in January on NBC’s HEROES as time-travelling Star Trek-loving Hiro Nakamura’s father. [Link via Club Jade]
• The teaser trailer for HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX will debut online on Monday, November 20th at 12:00 p.m. PST / 3:00 p.m. EST on the official HAPPY FEET site. Comingsoon.net has a 10 second preview of the trailer as well as 10 new photos from the movie, which opens July 13, 2007. [Link]
• Strike Entertainment and Universal Pictures will remake John Carpenter‘s scifi horror movie THE THING, with BATTLESTAR GALACTICA executive producer Ronald D. Moore writing the script. [Link]
• The CW Network has ordered 20 episodes of VERONICA MARS this season, the show’s third for which the network originally committed to 13 episodes. [Link]
• Variety says good-bye to the VHS cassette. [Link]

• Warner Brothers has released a new onesheet poster featuring villainous Lord Voldemort for HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, which arrives in theaters July 13, 2007. [Link]
• The PlayStation 3 game system will available this Friday; and the Nintendo Wii game system will be available this Sunday.
• Christopher Eccleston, who played the Doctor on the first season of the current SciFi/BBC series Doctor Who, will join the cast of the NBC superhero drama HEROES in January.
• TRANSFORMERS star Shia LaBeouf has signed on to appear in two more sequels. [Link]
• Devil’s Due Publishing is doing a new comic book series with Chucky, the killer doll from the CHILD’S PLAY horror franchise. [Link]
• Tom Cruise will star in LIONS FOR LAMBS, a drama directed by Robert Redford and co-starring Meryl Streep. [Link]

• Production has started on BABYLON 5: THE LOST TALES, a made-for-DVD movie containing two new stories collectively entitled “Voices of the Dark” as well as exclusive behind-the-scenes content. The new stories will be written and directed by J. Michael Straczynski — the executive producer and creator of the scifi television series — and star BABYLON 5 returning cast members Bruce Boxleitner (President John Sheridan), Tracy Scoggins (Captain Elizabeth Lochley), and Peter Woodward (Galen). [Link]
• WORLD OF WARCRAFT: THE BURNING CRUSADE, the latest expansion in the multiplayer online roleplaying game, arrives in stores on January 16, 2007, in North America and Europe. [Link]
• Joel Silver‘s Silver Pictures has optioned EMPIRE, an upcoming book and video game series from Provo, Utah-based intellectual property developer Chair Entertainment Group and best-selling sci-fi author Orson Scott Card. [Link]
• The New York Times MONEY section takes a look at the financial success and longevity of Dark Horse Comics, the third largest comic book publisher. [Link]
• Colin Firth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Shepard, Isabella Rossellini, Lindsay Sloane, and Justina Machado have joined Uma Thurman in the romantic comedy THE ACCIDENTAL HUSBAND. [Link]

The Da Vinci Code
Accepted
Oldboy (3-Disc Collector’s Edi.)
John Tucker Must Die
Strangers With Candy
Forbidden Planet (Collector’s Ed.)

Family Guy, Vol. 4
Friends – Complete Series Collection
Six Feet Under-Complete Series Gift Set
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (S4)

Tony Loco
Art by Mark Teague
Written by Mark Teague, Derek McCaw
and Mitchell Peterson
Illusive Arts Entertainment
Release Date: November 2006
Cover Price: $3.50

What exactly is reality?

Exploring what is real and what we only think is real has always been a popular topic in pop culture. In the movie The Wizard Of Oz, the great and powerful wizard is really just a carnival huckster behind a curtain and the land of Oz only a dream. In the movie The Matrix, reality is manufactured by souless machines. In Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods, an old man named Wednesday takes his friend Shadow “behind the scenes” of reality — and Shadow discovers a giant mechanical spider “search engine” squatting over small piles of flaming bones.