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welcome to geek pop I'm Hollywood and I'm Tom Merritt this is the show where we give you the hot news movie releases premieres in the world of geek entertainment let's get started with movies out this week is nims island an adventure fantasy film based on the book by windy or and starring Jodie Foster abigail breslin and gerard butler it's another child's imagination becomes real or does it storyline but it looks like it might be kind of cool and they're not a sound cool too because the score is being done by Patrick Doyle you might remember him from scoring Harry Potter goblet of fire or Henry the fifth of course a new movie trailer appeared online March 19th for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are undead yes it's a sequel of sorts to the Tom Stoppard play but with vampires poor Julian Marsh directs an off Broadway adaptation of Hamlet that turns out to be written by a vampire starring vampires and the vampires are sexy can't beat that and the Holy Grail is involved too what more could you want IMDb says it's in post-production but has no release date yeah that to me suggests an Internet campaign to build some buzz yeah vampires are probably holding it back too mm-hmm moving on to television did we make it clear that Battlestar Galactica is back this week last week I really hope that we didn't gloss that over last week in case you're the sort of demented Philistine that it tends to jump right into the show without watching seasons 1 2 & 3 sci-fi has put together a pretty funny little recap on their shows web page kind of like that lost in 815 recap that was going around before lost return but Roslin wants good boomer to lead them to the tomb of Athena another TV news Hollywood Reporter says the actor who plays lieutenant Agathon aka hot helo on Battlestar will join Eliza Dushku in dollhouse a new show from Buffy and Firefly creator jossa Whedon dollhouse tells the story of several young male and female dolls who have basically been imprinted with different personalities for various secret agent e-type assignments helo whose real name is mo penikett will play an FBI agent and kind of a twisted romantic foil for Eliza Dushku's character named echo Fox green-lighted the show in november two thousand seven for seven episodes but then the writers strike got in the way supposedly though josh's outlines are so complete that they might speed up production fingers crossed let's do a little DVD news now in DVD release April first the Tim Burton flick Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and PR kind of geeked out on this movie a few weeks back with a pretty interesting story about color correction in the movies basically every movie these days is photoshopped using what's called all digital post-production color correction so these guys at a company called company three worked on Sweeney Todd and lots of other movies they actually color treated every single scene in the movie 306 madness how tedious you could kind of tell yeah apparently Tim Burton was originally opposed to digital color correction but then went kind of crazy for it not surprisingly he was really into having everyone look extremely pale shocking and then he wanted the blood in the movie to look super scary red it's a little messed up you'd think he would have embraced that right out of the gate mmhmm yeah finally a little news from the world of books if you like me are a fan of his dark materials trilogy by Philip Pullman head on over and pre-order your copy of Once Upon a Time in the north it's coming out april eighth and is a prequel to the trilogy that tells the story of how Lee Scoresby got to know York Barisan plus sounds like kind of a shoot-'em-up Western on an alternate earth of course also we just got word that Neal Stephenson author of Snow Crash cryptonomicon the baroque cycle and of course in the beginning was the command line as a new book coming out in September called Anathem about some monk types who will be called upon to save the rest of the idiot world from their infighting boom and bust economy in idiotic selves or something like that it should be awesome though as most Stevenson books are big fan big fan can't wait that'll do it for geek pop thanks for stopping by we'll see you next week you