Nerdlebrity News

New Zealand is proud of its role as the home of the Lord of the Rings movies, and now the Hobbit trilogy. And to...

At the Marvel TV panel at NYCC, Joss Whedon (via video) has confirmed that Clark Gregg will be headlining the SHIELD TV show.  "Phil...

MTV has a few interviews with past and present superhero actors who reveal a bit more of what they were REALLY thinking while on...

By Steve Morris, UK Correspondent This year London Super-Con surprised us all by netting Stan Lee as the guest of honour in only their first year...

Surprise! It's Shia LaBeouf and his girlfriend Karolyn Pho, who handles the business side of LaBeouf's Campaign Book comics publishing company. LaBeouf is making a Lars Von Trier film called Nymphomaniac which may require him to film actual sex acts, which is a step up from the torture and blinding and other miseries which actors in von trier films must often endure. Whatever happens, we're sure Shia will make a comic about it.

-- SUPERMAN RETURNS star Brandon Routh on his new role in Partners, a new CBS sitcom about hilariously mismatched roomates, one gay one straight. Routh actually plays the wacky neighbor as near as we can make out.

Apparently con crud cut a wide swath through the nerdlebrity contingent at this year's show.

Yet another carnival! This one, as we understand it, is set up next to the Gaslamp Hilton in that area where the Scott Pilgrim Experience once stood. It's a video game arcade set up by ShiftyLook. Details below, but the pr notes that the Shifty Look panel will feature Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub and an announcement so...add it up.

We're not going to post every little piece of PR about Comic-Con that's flooding our inbox, but...well...a lot is happening! Here's some of the most unlikely and exceptional events looming. Let's just say does a My Little Pony trolley ring your bell?

Actor Thomas Jane is a nerdlebrity we give a pass to because he's definitely a real comics fan, and gets choked up talking about Jack Kirby and was pals with Dave Stevens and so on. His Raw Studios production company (which is co-owned by Tim Bradstreet)has just partnered with Comixology for digital release of Raw's comics, and to promote it he's doing a pretty cool thing on twitter.

THOR 2 filming begins in August.

Just when you think you've seen it all...