NERD NEWS ROUND-UP

Allison Mack may return for the tenth season of Smallville. I've never understood why Clark had a crush on Lana with Chloe around.

Hugo Weaving will paint the town red as the villainous Red Skull in the upcoming The First Avenger: Captain America film.

It was the strangest Marvel Team-Up ever as Spider-Man, The Flash and a couple of Jedi Knights stopped a shoplifter in Australia during International Free Comic Book Day.

A Planet of the Apes prequel has been announced for summer 2011.

The FBI shut down a comic book piracy website. Let that be a lesson, buy your comic books and support your local comic book store.

NERD NEWS ROUND-UP

Johnny Depp will be in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, due in theaters May 20th, 2011, but Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly are out as well as the original director, Gore Verbinski.

"It's a mad house! A mad house!" That's right, there's a Planet of the Apes prequel in the works.

Can you play video games and chew gum at the same time? Prove it with this Atari Joystick Gum.

Sweet Tooth was the best comic book of 2009. Now you can catch up on the adventures of Gus and Mr. Jepperd with Sweet Tooth Vol. 1 due in stores May 12th, 2010. Stop by your local comic book store and pre-order your copy now!

Stargate Atlantis star Jason Momoa will be playing Conan the Barbarian.

Sony has picked Mark Webb to direct Spider-Man 4.

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MOVIES THAT NEVER WERE

Eddie Murphy in Star Trek? It was considered, as well as Oliver Stone remaking The Planet of the Apes. Darren Aronofsky worked with Frank Miller on a Batman script, where the title character was "insane, overdramatic, barely likeable". Read more about Movies That Never Were here.