Preview Clip & Images From The Series Finale of 'Green Lantern: The Animated Series'

Cartoon Network has released new images and a preview clip from Dark Matter, Saturday's morning's swan song episode of Green Lantern: The Animated Series. Along with Young Justice, the show will unfortunately not be returning for further adventures and will be replaced in the DC Nation line-up by the younger skewing Teen Titans Go! and Beware The Batman.

It's unfortunate that Green Lantern, in either animated form or live action, has failed to click with the masses. This second and ultimately final season not only brought us a solid dark arc involving the Anti-Monitor and the Manhunters, but saw Guy Gardner and Sinestro thrown into the mix as well. The show's longterm future seemed highly in doubt when it was abruptly pulled from Cartoon Network's schedule last fall, with no return date immediately announced.

The darker story lines explored by the show didn't exactly make it ideal fare for the Saturday morning time slot it was given, as the older demo it would ideally target isn't tuning in live at that time. In addition to Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars has also finished it run on the network, with Lucasfilm's recent announcement that it will be 'winding down' production on that series.

Dark Matter synopsis, per Cartoon Network:

In the season finale episode, the Aya Monitor returns to the dawn of time to stop all emotion and all life from ever existing. Now, Hal must find a way to stop her - while Razer realizes the only way to save the universe may mean killing the woman he loves.

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Flock To Unlock Clips To The 'Firefly' 10th Anniversary Special

To all us Browncoats' delight, this Sunday, Science Channel is set to air the highly anticipated Firefly Tenth Anniversary Special, Firefly: Browncoats Unite.

Creator Joss Whedon reunites to reminisce with his crew (Nathan Fillion. Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Adam Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, and Jewel Staite) for the 60-minute round table retrospective special. Highlights include a re-created Serenity set, interviews, behind-the-scenes secrets, and a look back at the Firefly on-stage cast reunion at this year's San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H.

To hold us over until the weekend, Science Channel is offering the opportunity to "Flock To Unlock" four of the best moments that can only be released exclusively to the online community by tweeting @ScienceChannel with #FireflyNov11. For every 5,000 tweets, a new sneak peek video will unlock.

In addition, fans can pre-game on Sunday with a Firefly full series all-day marathon starting at 7AM leading up to the 10PM premiere of Browncoats Unite.

SOURCE: Science Channel

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PREVIEW: 'Robot Chicken' Season Six DC Comics Special

Robot Chicken, Cartoon's Network's hit Emmy Award Winning stop motion animated show, returns to the Adult Swim airwaves for its sixth season premiere on September 9th at midnight with a DC Comics themed special.

Check out the preview trailer below, showcasing the signature humor of the Robot Chicken creative team and the voices of Seth Green as Batman, Robin, and Aquaman, Neil Patrick Harris as Two-Face, Alfred Molina as Lex Luthor, Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern, Megan Fox as Lois Lane, and Breckin Meyer as Superman.

From Cartoon Network:

"Adult Swim announced today that the much-anticipated Robot Chicken DC Comics Special will officially kick off the sixth season of the Emmy Award®-winning series on Sunday, September 9th at Midnight (ET/PT).

In the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, in partnership with DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, brings you the awesomeness of the DC Comics universe of characters as only Robot Chickencan, with amazing guest stars and the stop-motion sketch comedy you've come to love after five seasons of the popular Adult Swim series.

The all-star cast includes Seth Green as Batman, Robin and the put-upon Aquaman, Neil Patrick Harris as Two-Face, Alfred Molina as Lex Luthor, Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern, Megan Fox as Lois Lane, Breckin Meyer as Superman, plus Abe Benrubi, Alex Borstein, Clare Grant, Tara Strong, Matt Senreich, Tom Root, Zeb Wells, and Kevin Shinick as co-producer and narrator.

Robot Chicken uses stop-motion animation to bring pop-culture parodies to life in a modern take on the variety/sketch show format. The Emmy Award®-winning series began airing in February 2005 and remains among the top-rated original series on Adult Swim." 

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WEEK IN GEEK: Comic-Con News • 'Firefly' Reunion • 'Wolverine' • 'Skyfall' • 'Thrones' • 'Walking Dead' • 'Fantastic Four'

Firefly had its long awaited reunion at Comic-Con yesterday, much to the delight of the thousands of rabid Browncoats in attendance. Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive photo shoot with the cast and creator Joss Whedon, CinemaBlend posted a great live blog of the panel, and Collider has a nice wrap up and video of the emotional question that had the crowd on their feet cheering, and brought both Joss Whedon on Nathan Fillion to tears. Science Channel was on hand to cover the event and will air a Firefly Reunion Special on November 11th.
(EW, CinemaBlend, Collider)

Although Jessica Biel is reportedly set for the female lead opposite Hugh Jackman in The Wolverine as Viper, she held firm at Comic-Con while promoting Total Recall that "It's a little bit too soon for that kind of an announcement," in an interview with Hitfix.
(Deadline, Hitfix)

Game of Thrones will feature 14 new characters next season, and HBO released a video introduction to all the actors joining the cast, which includes Diana Rigg, most famous for her role as Emma Peel in The Avengers (as in the 1960s British spy television show). Season Three will be based on George R.R. Martin's massive A Storm of Swords novel, an adaptation that will run the course of two entire seasons. The hit show is set to return to HBO on March 31, 2013.

(Entertainment Weekly).

Sony released their first official picture of Ben Whishaw as Q from the upcoming 23rd James Bond film Skyfall starring Daniel Craig. CinemaBlend also has a detailed description of the new IMAX trailer that screened at Comic-Con this week.
(NRS, CinemaBlend)

AMC released a trailer for The Walking Dead 's upcoming third season following its Comic-Con presentation, and has confirmed its season premiere for Sunday, October 14, at 9pm. The sixteen episodes will be split into two parts, with the show returning on February 13, 2013 for the remaining eight episodes
(AMC).

Following his inadvertent loose lips slip last week of the super secret identity of the villain played by Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek 2, Karl Urban revealed to Ain't It Cool News exactly how director J.J. Abrams reprimanded the actor, and what he is is to do if asked anything further regarding the sequel while promoting Dredd at Comic-Con.
(SFX, Ain't It Cool News)

Here is a hot trailers and clips Comic-Con roundup from Oz The Great And Powerful, Frankenweenie, Dexter, and Dredd.
(NerdyRottenScoundrel)

20th Century Fox is fast tracking their reboot of The Fantastic Four, setting both a director and screenwriter this week. Chronicle helmer Josh Trank has been confirmed to direct the reboot of the Marvel Comics super team. The now done deal follows the rumors regarding Trank inheriting the franchise that started hot on the heels of the success of his found footage 'teens with superpowers who go bad' hit for the studio. In addition, Fox has tapped Jeremy Slater to pen the script.
(CinemaBlend, The Hollywood Reporter).

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Nathan Fillion & Tim Daly Spoof Their Roles As Green Lantern and Superman

On the heels of the release of Justice League: Doom yesterday comes this episode of The Daly Show starring Tim Daly and Nathan Fillion, who provide the voices Superman and Green Lantern in the animated feature. I can't think of a better pep rally video in favor of the "Nerds Rule" movement.

Daly has voiced the Man of Steel in various projects since 1996, while Fillion, in addition to being an early fan favorite to play Green Lantern in the live action film (check out this amazing fan made trailer from 2009), has played the character in two animated features since 2011.

Check out this episode entitled "The Daly Superheroes," where obviously the two popular television actors are not only great buddies, but have fun affinity for playing out their superhero alter egos in real life. And stay tuned for an additional clever cameo at the end.

The Daly Show is a web series starring real life father and son Tim and Sam Daly, produced by filmmaking brothers Ben and Josh Shelton at Shelton Films.

SOUCRE: The Daly Show, Shelton Films

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