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The Unwritten
Written by Mike Carey
Art by Peter Gross
Cover by Yuko Shimizu
DC/Vertigo Comics

In The Unwritten, Mike Carey weaves a fantastic narrative in which Tom Taylor finds his life unraveling one strand at a time when fans of his father’s book series believe him to be the novel’s protagonist come to life.

The premise is brilliant and to put it in our reality’s terms, “What if J.K Rowling had a son named Harold Potter and fans around the world thought the Harry Potter series was real and based on the actual adventures of the real life Harold Potter?” I guess you can say it’s like when kids go to Disneyland and get Donald Duck’s autograph thinking this guy in a duck costume is the same cartoon they marvel at in their home.

DC’s Vertigo website has the the first issue as a FREE download [downloadable PDF – 22MB] and you can also purchase the series’ first five issues collected in one volume — Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity — for $9.99. Check it out for yourself and watch Tom Taylor become Unwritten.

Amazon is currently running a deal where you can get $5 off your order when you purchase Michael Jackson: This Is It on Blu-ray along with another Blu-ray title from a select list.

Visit the Deal page for a list of qualifying Blu-ray titles.

On the Deal page, there’s subcategories listed along the top with names of Jackson’s songs that represent a different movie genre. For instance, movies like Ghostbusters, Hellboy, Dracula are listed in “Thriller”; Resident Evil is in “Bad” (as in ‘badass’, I presume); Casino Royale in “Smooth Criminal”; Across The Universe in “Rock With You”; Groundhog Day in “Off The Wall”; and Ghandi in “Black or White.” There’s more choices in each subcategory, so be sure to click through these.

Remember to purchase the This Is It Blu-ray at the same time as one of the other qualifying titles, and the $5 discount will be displayed at checkout. Offer ends on February 8, 2010.

Back in December, we found out that The Twilight Saga studio Summit Entertainment was developing another vampire movie about the original Dracula, Vlad the Impaler (Read: ‘Twilight’ Vamps Just Don’t Cut It; Summit Developing Dracula Movie). That movie is called Vlad, and it’s being produced based on a script by Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam, but we soon discovered that it wouldn’t have any type of vampire in it at all (Read: Check That: Summit Stays Faithful To “˜Twilight;’ Won’t Use Vampires In “˜Vlad’). Though the movie still seems like it could be really good, this was also sad news because a period film about the first vampire sounded pretty awesome.

Worry not, fans of the nocturnal feeders — with their resurrection of the old 1940s monster movies set to materialize with The Wolfman, Universal Pictures isn’t stopping there. Latino Review first got the scoop that the studio has to decided to go ahead and make that Dracula period movie WITH vampires called Dracula: Year Zero, and it looks like Avatar and Terminator Salvation star Sam Worthington will play the main man with a thirst for blood.

Ni-Hao, Twihards! (for those of you who either a) do not speak Chinese or b )do not have a 5-year-old who watches Ni-Hao Kai Lan so much she’s becoming bi-lingual, that means HELLO).

Did you pre-order your copy of The Twilight Saga: New Moon yet?

As previously reported, the DVD and Blu-ray editions are available for pre-order now through several U.S. sources.

When the pre-order went up late last night, only a few details were known about the bonus features included. Now, more details have surfaced.

The two-disc special edition DVD and Blu-ray, to be released on March 20, 2010, are slated to include the following bonus features…

Hey, remember that time that director Louis Leterrier told us that his upcoming Clash of the Titans wouldn’t do that 3D thing that everyone else was doing? (Read: Director Louis Leterrier Wants “˜The Avengers’; “˜Clash Of The Titans’ Will NOT Be 3D) Yeah, well, we were lied to.

Whether Leterrier thought it would happen or not, Warner Brothers has decided that they will indeed give the film the cheap $5 million 3D makeover before releasing it. The studio has also decided that both parts 1 and 2 of their massive franchise-closing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows would also get a release in 3D. The news was first reported by MarketSaw, who are getting all of the big scoops in this realm of film making, and then later confirmed by the trades, who once again gave no credit.