FANDOM FIVE: Top Geek News of the Week

A roundup of what’s making fanboys and girls sweat. This week: “Tintin”, “Transformers”, and more
We now present the Fandom Five, tracking the most important new developments in the world of comic book films/TV and other fanboy-oriented media. Are people Ka-wowed or Persnickety-Snick’d?

1) Tintin is like soccer

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson unveiled the first moving pictures from their CG adaptation of the globe-trotting hero Tintin based on the comics by famed Belgian artist Hergé. The trailer immediately set off a polarizing debate between fans who bickered over whether the motion capture used was giving off a Robert Zemeckis creepy-dead-eyes effect, or whether it was faithfully rendered. Also in debate was

Disney’s ‘Pirates’ Opens to $346.4 Million Worldwide

The Johnny Depp tentpole smashes records overseas, where it earns $256.3 million to become top international debut of all time; bows to a softer $90.1 million in North America

Fueled by foreign moviegoers, Disney’s 3D Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides opened to

‘Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’: Cannes 2011 Review

The Bottom Line

A long, slow haul but for the willing, a haunting journey into the heart of darkness in Turkish Anatolia
Cast:

Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Mumtaz Tayulan, Firat Tanis
Director:

Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Screenwriter:

Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer:

Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan
A search party hunts for a missing corpse in the drama from Turkish writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

In the last decade, the Turkish cinema has basked in the light of filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan. With

Pirates Review: ‘On Stranger Tides’ Shows Johnny Depp in Strong Form

The Bottom Line

Jack is back, and this time he has a genuine love interest amid all the action.
Opens:

May 20
Cast:

Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane

Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga to Pay Tribute to Beyonce at Billboard Music Awards

Bono, Stevie Wonder and Barbra Streisand also among those to honor the singer Sunday in Las Vegas.

Beyoncé will receive a star-studded tribute during Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards.

Justin Timberlake, Andy Samberg, Lady Gaga in Three-Way on Saturday Night Live Finale (VIDEO)

The show’s 36th season wraps up with a sequel to “Mother Lover” and “D*ck in a Box” and cameos by Bradley Cooper, Susan Sarandon, Patricia Clarkson, and Jimmy Fallon.

NBC’s Saturday Night Live called back Emmy winner and three-time former host Justin Timberlake to close out its 36th season, and despite opening the show with a song titled “I’m Not Gonna Sing Tonight”, Timberlake could be seen stretching his vocal chords in nearly every sketch. He and Andy Samberg teamed up to reprise their “Mother Lover” and “D*ck In A Box” characters for the Digital Short “Three-Way”, an ode to the ménage à trois that featured the night’s musical guest, Lady Gaga.

Sara Rue Is Married

Sara Rue and Kevin Price are man and wife.

The longtime couple tied the knot in a sunset ceremony overlooking the Pacific Oean at the Bel-Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on Saturday.

Rue, 33, and Price, 35, exchanged vows under a chuppah in front of about 100 guests. The 20-minute

David Cook’s ‘The Last Goodbye’ video first look — EXCLUSIVE

David Cook’s second major-label album This Loud Morning hits stores on June 28; On Monday, Cook pulls back the curtain on the tongue-in-cheek video for lead single  “The Last Goodbye,” and the image above is the exclusive first look at the clip.

New ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ 3D Trailer Hits(Video)

Paramount showed about 15 to 20 minutes of the movie as a special presentation Thursday night and what people saw left folks buzzing.
And this one can be seen in 3D. How, you ask? One way to see it is to get the new handy-dandy My 3D device that Hasbro just put into stores. You slide your iPhone or iTouch into what is essentially a ViewMaster and voila, stuff made for 3d viewing will be in 3D. (You gotta download an app first though, but it’s free.)

Transformers 3, by the way, is looking like it’s going to blow people away. Paramount showed about 15 to 20 minutes of the movie as a special presentation Thursday night and what people saw left folks