In the crossover we’ve all be waiting for, the US Postal service is teaming up with Star Wars, doing everything in their power to put an R2-D2 unit on every street corner. They even have a website.

Image mirrored from ohgizmo.com

The website doesn’t have much on it yet, aside from a brief clip from Star Wars, but the one thing they do mention is that March 28th is the date to watch. Not for the arrival of the mailboxes – they’re already everywhere. What the date celebrates is new Star Wars stamps, which in turn celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars.

If you want to see something really cool, check out the artist’s site HERE, where he describes the process of getting the job and creating the design.

Maybe you’ve been listening for the last several weeks to the radio program, and actually sat through the credits. Or perhaps you visit the website for archives, and came across one of the various available YouTube trailers. Or, if you’re like me, you just so happened to be watching watching basic cable when one of their spots came on. If not, you probably had no idea that Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life is making the jump to television, airing the first of six episodes tonight at 10:30 pm ET on Showtime.

The most surprising thing to me? Ira Glass, far from having “a great face for radio”, is somewhat evocative of David Foley (if he had aged much better), maybe with a dash of John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants thrown in there for good measure. It’s gotta be the glasses.

Earlier I said it airs tonight, but — if you have a Digitial TV service with OnDemand — the first episode has actually been available since March 1st. I took at look at it yesterday.

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It’s recently come to our attention that there’s some crazy awesome merchandise hitting the Hasbro online store, starting this Saturday, March 24th. Continue after the jump for the highlights, from the tater-tastic Spider-Spud to the musical Spi-Dog to the … exciting all-weather footballs.
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Midway has sent out a press release concerning the long-awaited video game version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

This is of course the “combat golf game” we heard about last month. Its not due out until fall, and theres no screen shots yet, but we can’t blame Midway for wanting to strike while the iron’s hot for Aqua Teens with the movie.

I only hope and pray the game fully respects the show’s low budget quality. I want sprites and limited animation!

Keep reading for the full announcement and the box art.
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Hellboy was one of the best superhero movies in recent years, and cerainly deserves a quicker follow up than its taking. The original came out in 2004, the sequel is now due August 1, 2008. They had to jump ships from Sony to Universal in the process, but Hellboy should feel at home given the massive Universal monster movie archives.

SuperheroFlix has some details released by Universal on the movie. The immediate good news is the return of the principal cast and director Guillermo del Toro, working from a story by del Toro and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.

Hellboy, if you don’t know, is based on a Dark Horse comic. He’s a demon from Hell, summoned by the Nazis as a baby, but recruited into work for the US as a paranormal investigator. He files down his gigantic horns to stumps, eats immense amounts of food, has a giant revolver in his left hand, and a giant fist on his right.

Filming should begin in May on location in Budapest.

Get the rest of the fact sheet and a synopsis of the movie after the jump!
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My review of the new movie based on Frank Miller’s "300" graphic novel.

This coming Saturday, March 24th 2007, is the 12th Anual International Kris Kross Day. On this day I urge all the free people on this Earth to cast off their forward facing shackles and embrace the backwards dressing freedom that majestically encompases the wonder that was 1992.

The unrivaled best game of 2006 may become a motion picture.

Epic Games has auctioned the rights for Gears Of War along with a 21 page treatment by Stuart Beattie (Collateral) to New Line pictures. The studios hope to have a feature film ready for 2009. Lead designer and metrosexual man about town Cliff Bleszinski will serve as executive producer.

Gears Of War‘s actual in game story was somewhat slim, but the slew of pre-release trailers and the massive backstory created to support the supposed trilogy are more than enough to support a feature film. On a somewhat related note, a series of novels are likely to appear to further flesh out the fate of Sera and the Coalition of Governments against the Locust Horde.

Casting is a long way from being discussed, but fans already calling for Lester Speight to reprise his role as Augustus Cole a.k.a. The Cole Train. “Whooo! The Train is home on the rails!”

Via Variety