Sneak Peek "Gotham City Imposters"

Thanks to BigGameHunter, Sneak Peek the new trailer, supporting developer Monolith Productions, upcoming Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment/DC Entertainment , download-only, multiplayer 'first-person shooter' game, "Gotham City Imposters".

Set in the universe of DC Comics' "Batman", the downloadable game will be played from the perspective of two teams each trying to kill the other: one with people dressed like 'Batman' and the other with people dressed like his archenemy, the 'Joker'.

The game will be playable for up to eight players simultaneously, with the ability to customize costumes and gadgets, featuring settings that include an amusement park.

In addition to guns and knives, players will also be able to use other gadgets such as grappling hooks, glider wings, rollerstakes and explosives.

One 'capture the flag' style mode of the game, titled "Psychological Warfare", involves the two teams trying to bring a battery back to their base and defend it long enough for it to allow a machine to brainwash the other team.

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Gough & Miller Head For "Homelanders"

The "Smallville" creative team of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar will script "Homelanders" as a feature for Summit Entertainment, based on the young adult book series by author Andrew Klavan.

In the first book, "The Last Thing I Remember" :

"...'Charlie West' went to bed one night as an ordinary high school student, but he woke up a hunted man, with terrorists trying to kill him and the police looking to arrest him for the death of his best friend.

"Charlie doesn't know whose side he's on or who he can trust. With his pursuers closing in on every side, he makes his way back to his hometown to find some answers. There, holed up in an abandoned mansion, he's joined by his friends in a desperate attempt to discover the truth about a crime he can't remember—and the love he can never forget..."

Other books in the series include "The Truth of the Matter" and "The Final Hour".

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"Spider-Girl" Gets Her Powers Back

Marvel Comics' "Spider-Island: The Amazing Spider-Girl" #1, available August 17, 2011, is written by Paul Tobin, with illustrations by Pepe Larraz and a cover by Patrick Zircher :

"...'Spider-Girl' gets her powers back. But she's not the only new web-slinger in Manhattan, as her oldest and deadliest foes, the spider-hating 'Society of Wasps', have declared a 'War on Spider-Island'.

"Can even Spider-Girl's powers save her against an entire army of 'Hunter Wasps'? And why does Spider-Girl find herself fighting on the same side as the 'Hobgoblin' and 'Kingpin'...?"

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Leonardo DiCaprio Is "J. Edgar"

Sneak Peek actor Leonardo DiCaprio as FBI head 'J. Edgar Hoover' in director Clint Eastwood's upcoming biographical drama "J. Edgar".

Screenplay is by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black ("Milk"), focusing on the career of Hoover, including an examination of his private life.

Cast also includes Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Damon Herriman and Jeffrey Donovan.

"He was a very complex person," Eastwood said about the real J. Edgar Hoover.

"He was also very clever.Whether rightly or wrongly, he was clever about keeping himself in a certain position in life, so it is an interesting study."

"'J. Edgar' is not as linear and traditional as 'Milk' – but it didn’t need to be," said screenwriter Black.

"People know Hoover – or think they know Hoover – and that’s great as a writer because you’re free to explore other stuff…"

A life-long bachelor, Hoover was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation, predecessor to the FBI in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972.

A devoted 'freemason', Hoover was instrumental in building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, including a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.

His critics accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI, using the government agency to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders for blackmail and to collect evidence using illegal methods.

With Hoover's backing, the FBI spied on thousands of suspected radicals. According to documents declassified in 2007, he maintained a list of 12,000 Americans suspected of 'disloyalty'.

He also relocated agents who displeased him, including Chicago FBI Bureau Chief Melvin Purvis , the glorified nemesis of public enemies John Dillinger, 'Pretty Boy' Floyd and 'Baby Face' Nelson, who was forced out of the organization by Hoover.

Purvis underwent electro-shock therapy, became a morphine addict and was killed by a single gun-shot wound to the head, that an FBI investigating team said was self-inflicted.

"J. Edgar" will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures November 9, 2011.

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The Hand Of '"Ka-Zar" Is Forced In Battle

Marvel Comics' "Ka-Zar #3, available August 17, 2011, is written by Paul Jenkins, with illustrations and cover by Pascal Alixe :

"..Ka-Zar's hand is forced in his battle against an enemy he cannot see, tipping the scales of a clandestine war. 'The Outsiders' are coming back, preparing for this moment and there is nothing the 'Tribes of the Savage Land' can do to stop them. Ka-Zar will have to think of an unconventional response, and soon...or the battle for 'Pangean' freedom will be lost before it even begins.."

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