There is no slowing down for The Dark Knight Rises. Following the release of the theatrical poster, the six character posters, and the four banners that were released in the past week, Warner Bros. has released two additional banners featuring Batman and Bane. And In addition to these banners, it was announced earlier that the MTV Movie Awards will be airing special footage from the movie on June 3rd at 9pm.

The banners deliver the same kind of message that the previous four have, that the scale of chaos that Gotham is in is beyond epic proportions. I especially love the banner with Bane stopping Batman’s punch with the city of Gotham in chaos in the background. The banner with Batman’s cape on fire gives new meaning to “the fire rises” logline. These banners for The Dark Knight Rises come courtesy of the people over at ComingSoon. Click on the thumbnails below for full, high-resolution versions.

On this week’s show, Andrew Sorcini and Christopher Burnor discuss: Facebook goes public! Google officially makes things, Microsoft goes social, Zuckerberg gets hitched, and private enterprise launches into space…

Here’s the headlines… Pinterest joins the $1 BN club, Microsoft launches social network So.cl, Comcast tests tiered pricing, SpaceX launches first commercial rocket into space.

Every day here at Doom HQ we receive tons of tips from our readers about really cool stuff from the world of geek, as well as promotional materials for new films, comic books, collectibles, and much more. While we do our best to bring you as much of it as possible, we don’t always have enough geek manpower available to cover it all on a daily basis. But we hate the idea of all of this really cool stuff wasting away in our inbox. How could we NOT cover it? Hence why we’ve resurrected our long-defunct column Bits Of Doom, now rebranded and revamped as Doom Digest, a collection of easily digestible bits of news, videos, photos, and other goodies.

With the release this weekend of the film Men In Black 3, starring Will Smith and Josh Brolin, we’re dedicating today’s Doom Digest to all things Men In Black!

An absolute milestone in cinema history gets reached today as one of the biggest moneymakers and most popular films of all time, Star Wars, celebrates its 35th anniversary!

This “long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” science-fiction epic, which was released on May 25, 1977, was an absolute game changer for Tinsel Town in so many ways. It was the Gone With the Wind of its time, an updated version of Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 film The Hidden Fortress, which also told of a story of rescue, with protagonists who were the lowest beings on the food chain, who turned out to be heroes in the end, much like the now etched in folklore characters and narrative of Star Wars.

What can be said about this film that hasn’t been written, dissected, analyzed, and now blogged by probably 70 percent of the planet here in this technological age we live in? Well for starters, it came during a time in the 1970s when films that were before it were downer, realistic visual treatises that were cynical, with endings where the main characters didn’t always ride off into the sunset or have the easy answers. With the release of Star Wars, the post-Vietnam, Nixon era of the troubled early 1970s got a film in which to root for the hero again, with a slam bang, slapdash ending, with escapist plots, fun characters, and eye popping special effects – a true popcorn classic. There were films which were hinting at that, like the previous years’ Rocky, although not a sci-fi film, but also had a character who was an underdog to root for, just like the main character of Star Wars, Luke Skywalker (played by Mark Hamill), who was going up against a villain to jeer for, in the sinister and unapologetic figure in Darth Vader. It was David and Goliath redux.

May 25th is Towel Day!

On this great day, be sure to carry a towel around with you today in honor of the late great author Douglas Adams and his awesome book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

This international event is now celebrating its 12th anniversary with lots of stuff happening around the globe. Check out towelday.org to find out about Towel Day events.

Today’s not only a great day to carry a towel, but it’s the perfect occasion to donate one, too! For instance, if you’re in or around the Salem, MA area, Mike’s Museum is holding its second annual towel collection for the animal shelter at Front Street Coffee House. So, drop off a towel there, or to any animal shelter – they need them as much as interstellar hitchhikers do!