Pop Culture Roundup March 16, 2007

Via Bedazzled: A vintage "Bewitched" TV promo.

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From Booksteve: Bob Hope meets Aquaman!

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Dark Horse is doing a second printing of Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1, which hit stands this past Wednesday. Says the publisher:

Since the book
was announced last summer, Dark Horse has garnered a great deal of attention
both in and outside of the comic market. With high profile press coverage,
buzz among fans, and excitement from direct market retailers, orders
exceeded the initial printing of over 100,000 copies!

The upcoming second printing will feature a full bleed version of the
breathtaking Jo Chen cover, with some of the design elements removed for a
cleaner, and more stripped down look. This new version will be arriving in
stores with an on sale date of March 28, just a week before the release of
issue #2. Dark Horse encourages retailers to backorder Buffy The Vampire
Slayer #1 with confidence, as orders will be filled in full with the new
printing.


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The new documentary on cartoonist Will Eisner by Andrew and Jon Cooke will debut at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.

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Warner Bros. wants to fire up a Sherlock Holmes film franchise.

Warner Bros. Pictures is teaming with producer Lionel Wigram to adapt Wigram's upcoming comic book "Sherlock Holmes" for the bigscreen. Neil Marshall ("The Descent") will helm, while tyro scribe Michael Johnson penned the script.

Exact storyline is being kept under wraps, but creative execs at Warners say they are looking for the "Sherlock" team to reinvent the sleuth and his loyal No. 2 Dr. Watson in much the same edgy way that Christopher Nolan has reimagined Batman for Warners.


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At the moment it's unclear if "Veronica Mars" will be back for a fourth season. But if it is, there'll likely be changes.

"Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas has come up with an idea to fast-forward a couple of years and have Mars studying at the FBI Academy. (As a freshman at Hearst College, Kristen Bell's title character has been taking criminology classes looking to do an internship at the FBI.)

Could be a good move. The show seems a bit adrift at the moment and the quality in both plot and scripts has slipped tremendously this season.

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