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The Los Angeles Times reports that Fox and director James Cameron will sneak about 20 minutes of his 3-D sci-fi epic Avatar to theater owners in Hollywood's famed Grauman's Chinese Theater on Thursday—the same footage previously screened at Amsterdam's Cinema Expo—a week before a major preview at Comic-Con in San Diego and six months before the movie is slated to open.
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Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer will voice Boodikka, the most prominent female member of the Green Lantern Corps in Green Lantern: First Flight, the next DC Universe animated original PG-13 movie, coming to DVD on July 28; she previously voiced Black Cat in The Spectacular Spider-Man.
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This week's Entertainment Weekly will feature Iron Man 2 on the cover, with the first look at Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow.
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NBC is pulling the Canadian paranormal drama The Listener from the air, Variety reported; the low-rated drama will be replaced with Law and Order repeats on Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT, starting July 30.
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Agence France-Presse reported that the Vatican has given its approval to the latest Harry Potter movie, The Half-Blood Prince, even though Pope Benedict XVI criticized earlier films in the franchise; on Wednesday, L'Osservatore Romano, the newspaper of the Holy See, wrote of Half-Blood Prince: "The mixture of supernatural suspense and romanticism sets the right balance, making the adventures of the protagonists more credible."
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The fourth airing of HBO's True Blood scored a record 3.9 million viewers for its Sunday 9 p.m. telecast, Variety reported.
By AngryJonny at 2:36 AM ON 07/16/09
I'm not really up on my Green Lantern Corps characters, but there's one actually named Boodikka? So, it's fitting then that Tricia Helfer provides her voice.
Can't wait to see Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow! One of my favorite actresses...
By Paul at 5:51 AM ON 07/16/09
Arisia is a more prominent female Green Lantern than Boodika. So is Katma Tui, but she's dead.
By darkstrad at 6:51 AM ON 07/16/09
how can the vatican approve of any harry potter media since according to the vatican, wizardry is evil.
I love harry potter by the way, just making an observation.
By notListening at 9:35 AM ON 07/16/09
Good to hear about The Listener. I stopped watching a couple of episodes ago. They suggested that a 14 year old leaving home because her parents didn't "understand" why she wanted a sex change to be a good thing. The episode finished up with the main character telling the girl living on the street that she really "had it together".
By Kyle Nin at 9:48 AM ON 07/16/09
Why did they wait until the 7th episode to introduce another person with a paranormal ability? If they would have started doing that earlier, maybe a lot of people wouldn't have given up on it so quickly.
For me, "The Listener" has been adequate. But I guess I'm not too upset by it getting pulled off the air. (I don't think it was pulled off the air in the OTHER countries. Hmm ...)
By a different tim at 9:51 AM ON 07/16/09
Does anyone actually listen to the Vatican anymore? Wasn't it just in 1993 that they finally admitted that the sun was the center of the solar system?
By Zark at 9:56 AM ON 07/16/09
Here's a good rundown of what Green Lantern's all about, including movie news:
http://fusionfilter.com/?p=816
By jmanfortruth at 1:09 PM ON 07/16/09
It is revealing about the catholic church that they disapprove of so many things that it is "news " when they give approval to something. Personally I could not care less what the catholic pope thinks about Harry Potter and can't imagine why it matters
By Scott at 6:15 PM ON 07/16/09
Sorry to hear about The Listener. I really enjoyed it's low-key approach-I'm sick of edgy police procedurals but it was pretty obvious that NBC was always planning to dump it. Is there going to be a second season in Canada?
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