This past Saturday, March 31st 2007, Doctor Who’s 3rd series premiere, “Smith and Jones”, aired on BBC One. This marks an important turning point in the series, as the Doctor — no longer with Rose, his counterpart for the past 2 seasons — has now found a new companion in Martha Jones.

Please note: the following episode summary contains spoilers. Those who wish to see the show for themselves need to either put on an eye patch and get online, or wait until their local affiliates air this series.

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The latest Lying In The Gutters article (the popular comics-related rumor column that’s right far more often than not) has a little segment, all the way near the end, titled “ROBOTS IN DIS GUISE” where Rich Johnston has this to report:

“Transformers 2” is being prepped for 2009, as is a new cartoon series to spin off the upcoming movie.

The reason given to licensors as to why the robots look so different in the film is so that hardcore fans will stay loyal and keep buying the old toys, which they’re relaunching, even if they hate the new movie.

Licensing has explicitly stated that companies doing merchandising have to avoid doing anything too similar to the original Transformers line, so as not to mix the two separate and profitable properties.

That last comment is interesting, in that the Transformers Movie and original Transformers are being viewed as separate lines.

Also, gotta love the second statement about “hardcore fans.” Partly because of the businesslike flippancy, partly because of the accuracy.

Legendary Superman director Richard Donner recently teamed up with Geoff Johns to write a Superman story in Action comics – a story that came is still coming out at a glacial Civil War-like pace. This summer, Donner and Johns are teaming up again, to put out a 5-issue sequel to another nostalgia-ridden film property that Donner directed – The Goonies. The story picks up only a few years later for the characters, with the story centering on Sloth’s disappearance … on the exact same day those evil genius Fratelli brothers escaped from prison. Expect the book to be finished sometime around spring, 2012. (I kid, I kid.)

Wizard has the full story here.

We here at Powet have come across a news source which has exclusively supplied us with a number of upcoming Marvel storylines! In fact, I can personally PROMISE you proof of these upcoming stories from Marvel:

• Daredevil: Agent of SHIELD!
• Wolverine vs. Hulk… To the death… OF BOTH OF THEM?
• AND THEN, Wolverine comes back… as a vampire!
• The Surfer is Galactus’s herald for now… Until he’s replaced by Dazzler!
• The new Thor series puts the hammer in the hands of someone new: Rogue!
• When Punisher becomes the new Captain America… Venom will become the new Punisher!

All the proof you could ask for AND MORE … After the jump!
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JustJared is playing host to a few of the first pictures to leak from the Iron Man set.
We see Robert Downey Jr wearing a swank tuxedo, taking direction from Jon Favreau, locking lips with Gwyneth Paltrow, and then Gwyneth caught in what might be a scream or a yawn.
I’m going to go with yawn since these aren’t action scenes, just some kind of dinner party. Still, its the first good look at Downey in full Tony Stark mode, and thats kinda cool.

Two new television commercials for Transformers appeared online today.

The first, came from IGN. I’ve provided a Youtube mirror above. You can download it if you choose here. This spot contains new footage of Prime, Frenzy, Ironhide, Starscream, Jon Voight, and Megatron. Also of note is original Transformers narrator Victor Caroli voicing the ID at the end.

The second appeared on alternate reality site SectorSeven.org. Access it by using this link and double-clicking the red hard drive icon in the top left corner. You’ll get a different 30 second spot with Bumblebee, Bernie Mac, and Starscream. Keep an eye on the car lot for a yellow bug that isn’t Bumblebee.

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Remember that recently released “final” trailer? Well, turns out it wasn’t so final after all. Less than a week later, they’ve released a new international trailer. It’s mostly recycled footage from previous stuff, but there’s a couple brief villain-centric scenes that haven’t been shown before. Check it out, in all its Windows Media Player streaming glory, in flavors hi-res, med-res, and lo-lo-lo-res. This is great, because what we really need right now is four hundred trailers for the film. Splice them together, and you almost won’t have to go to the movie.

Keep on after the jump for new wide images, Venom design notes, and why China gets the movie before North America. (Huh. So much for my trailer-splicing plan – looks like Chinese bootlegs will be the way to go.)
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This has been a long time coming. The countdown clock to the first look at the proper sequel to Grand Theft Auto III has been running at Rockstar’s site for a while, leading up to this final moment.

Check it out. Hopefully it was worth the wait. I don’t know myself yet because I wrote this post a while ago and programed it to appear when the countdown clock reached zero.