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Metalmachine.net is covering this years happenings at The Pittsburgh Comic Con. With Superman doing his whole Walk Across America, seems he’s taking some time to help one of the greatest comic book artists of all time, the one and only George Perez! Supes seems to have a new gig for this weekend, help Mr. Perez with his charity raffles.  

This years Pittsburgh Comic Con has strated this weekend, and with a list of legendary who’s who at this years event (George Perez, Phil Jimenez, Jim Starlin) get ready for a great weekend in “Steel Town”.  

Phase 4’s bone chilling teen horror film FORGET ME NOT starring Cody Linley (“Hannah Montana,” “Dancing with the Stars,” Cheaper by the Dozen), Carly Schroeder (Mean Creek, Firewall, “Lizzy McGuire”), and Chloe Bridges (Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, The Longshots) arrives on VOD/ Digital and DVD this May. Check out the official trailer below.  

BioWare™, a division of leading video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and FUNimation® Entertainment, the leading distributor of Japanese animation in North America, announced today an agreement to create an anime feature film adapted from one of the video game industry’s most revered franchises, Mass Effect™.  

MINNEAPOLIS, Apr 4, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Navarre Corporation (Nasdaq:NAVR) today announced that it has sold FUNimation Entertainment for $24 million in an all cash transaction. Purchasers in the transaction are a group of entities that were newly formed by an investment group that includes Gen Fukunaga, FUNimation Entertainment’s chief executive officer, as a minority stakeholder.  

A new head wears the crown in Camelot when Morgana and Morgause overthrow King Uther – with the help of an immortal army – in the first half of the MERLIN season finale  

Word on the street is that Batman will get a re-boot after the third film “The Dark Knight Rises”, all to coincide with the pending release of The Justice League movie.   

This summer, fan favorite writer Jeff Parker and “Planet Hulk” artist Carlos Pagulayan are taking the Marvel Universe’s biggest, reddest bruiser off the map and into the unknown when “Planet Red Hulk” crash lands in Hulk #34 & 35!  

A Perfect Circle will tour North America for the first time in six years, kicking off their 2011 tour dates with a headlining performance at Rock on the Range in Columbus, Ohio on May 22.  

VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced their new DVD releases for this month. These include the first episodic volume of VAMPIRE KNIGHT GUILTY (the second season of the hit gothic melodrama VAMPIRE KNIGHT), the latest Box Set for BLEACH, and 3 new releases from the latest installment of POKÉMON, POKÉMON DP GALACTIC BATTLES.  

 AOL’s Moviefone editors had an exclusive with Robert DeNiro to discuss the “The Irishman”, possible “Good Shepherd” sequel and another “Midnight Run”. Moviefone touched on these topics and others while chatting with the legendary actor.   Will we see you back directing anytime soon? I’ve been talking with Eric [Roth] for a long time about doing a sequel to ‘The Good Shepherd’ where it would cover ’61 with the Bay of Pigs and the Berlin Wall going up to ’89 with the Wall coming down, that period of time. And if I wanted to do another one, it would be from the Wall coming down to the present. Wow. God knows if that will happen. But I would really... 

So we all know the much anticipated Battle:LA was released this weekend…well there was another release of a movie called, wait for it…”Battle Of Los Angeles” by that infamous video house The Asylum. Want to see the trailer?  

The crew of True Blood recently had a comic book signing for the True Blood comic book line from IDW Publishing. Check out the video here…  

With the upcoming release of Red Riding Hood, two of its stars, Shiloh Fernandez and Max irons talk the movie and would they be scared of a big bad wolf?