AMC has released a new, action packed preview of The Walking Dead. The show will begin its Sunday night airings on October 31, 2010; this Halloween.

I’ve mentioned it before, but this is based on the excellent comic series by Robert Kirkman. If AMC adapts this well, they have years of shows ahead of them.

AMC has also released a pretty cool looking poster with protagonist Rick Grimes (played by Andrew Lincoln) riding into Atlanta after the outbreak. Click the thumbnail to explode the image.

In this week’s PowetCast, we referred to a news article on i09 suggesting that Emma Stone was likely to play Mary Jane Watson in the rebooted Spider-man film. The more I thought about this casting, the more perfect I thought it was, especially after the poor casting of Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane in the former Spider-man films. In a complete reversal of this news, though, Marvel.com has announced that Emma Stone will, in fact, be playing GWEN STACY, and not Mary Jane Watson. Emma will be playing opposite Andrew Garfield, who will be portraying Peter Parker/Spider-man. You may be familiar with Emma Stone from Easy A, currently in theaters, and the fantastic Zombieland.

It seems that they are doing things right by getting Gwen Stacy in the story first, but I’m disappointed Emma Stone won’t be playing Mary Jane. I think the part fits her quite well. Also, my mind keeps asking the question why they casted a blonde for redhead Mary Jane in the previous films, while casting a redhead for blonde Gwen Stacy? Kind of a moot point, but I needed to type that out loud, or whatever I just did there.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

Things have been relatively quiet on the Green Lantern movie front lately, but Geoff Johns has dropped a treat on us via twitter:

@GeoffJohns0
www.greenlantern.com 🙂

The Green Lantern movie site is now up. Unfortunately, it requires a version of Adobe Flash I do not have and will update far past its usefulness. Let us know what you guys think of the site in the comments!

I had some happy news in my inbox this morning in the form of a press release from Shout! Factory and Rainmaker Entertainment (formerly Mainframe Entertainment). It appears that the first fully CGI animated series, Reboot, will finally be released as a complete series set. Currently only seasons 3 and 4 are available on DVD and go for ridiculous sums of money on e-bay. It looks like we’ll see the complete series box set sometime in 2011, followed by some sort of ‘digital distribution’. That sounds to me like they may put individual episodes up for sale on iTunes/Amazon/Netflix, but thats pure speculation.

You may recall that we covered Reboot in our weekly Powet Alphabet feature here:
R is for Reboot

Press release after the jump
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