Weekend Superhero Movie News Wrap-up

Daredevil reboot underway
What's good for one superhero franchise must be good for another, or evidently so thinks Fox as it was revealed this weekend that the studio has screenwriter David Scarpa working on a reboot of Daredevil. Deadline Hollywood makes this interesting comment about the reboot:

The reason this is happening is simple: Hollywood studios with Marvel superheroes need to keep reinventing these Marvel movie franchises or the rights revert back to Disney-based Marvel. Fortunately, the properties are as resilient as the indestructible superheroes themselves.

[via Deadline Hollywood]

Captain Awesome as Captain America?
Ryan McPartlin (Captain Awesome from Chuck) in an interview for Moviehole revealed that he has indeed auditioned for the role of Cap in Marvel/Paramount's The First Avenger:Captain America film slated for next summer.

 “The one thing I can't stand are these actors that are twittering about auditioning for Captain America. It's really tacky. With that said, it is in the casting process and like many other actors, I read for it, so we'll wait and see what happens. Regardless, I'm pretty psyched to be Captain Awesome for the time being.”

[via Moviehole]

Logan Lerman wants to be Spidey
Just a few days ago Logan Lerman let slip that 'preliminary discussions' were under way in which he was being considered for the lead role in Sony's Spider-Man reboot. But hold on there, Percy Jackson. The next day a Sony rep stated "No offers have been made, nor have any business discussions been made with Lerman."  The young actor's tone changed a bit during press interviews for his current film:

It was clear that junket day for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief was dedicated to damage control. During the press conference Lerman clarified, “To be totally honest, it’s a role that any young actor would die to play and I’m just hoping to be considered for it more than anything.” He delivered an identical response in an interview with MTV. Think Lerman has had some coaching since slipping up with Access Hollywood?

[via CinemaBlend]

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Mystery Flare Photographed In Aurora Over Norway

Another weird phenomenon photographed in the creepy Norwegian sky...

On Jan. 20, 2010, Per-Arne Mikalsen was photographing a vast aurora erupting over the northern Norwegian town of Andenes.

Because solar activity is on the increase, aurora spotters have many opportunities to see the Northern Lights. On this particular night the aurora was intense, stretching toward the southern latitudes of Norway.

In one of the photographs taken by Mikalsen was an "object" that couldn't be identified. Although Mikalsen had taken several images at the same location, just one photo showed a mysterious green parachute-like object hanging with the main aurora. (This time, it appears that the Russian military was not involved in the making of this strange shape in the sky.)

[via Discovery News]

McAfee: Cyber Attacks, Extortion 'Common' In Business World

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Switzerland, McAfeeannounced the results of a survey of 600 IT security execs in "critical infrastructure enterprises worldwide": that is, in places such as utility companies, banks, and even oil refineries. And apparently, they're constantly under cyber attack and also extortion related to those attacks.

The report, written by the Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS), says that 54 percent of those surveyed have already been attacked. The culprits behind the cyber-attacks are listed as "organized crime-gangs, terrorists, or nation-states."

Only one-fifth of the IT execs surveyed believe their systems are currently secure. One-third say things are worse now, vulnerability-wise, than a year ago, due to budget cuts.

What constitutes a cyber attack? A distributed denial of service (DDoS) is the most typical. 64 percent of those surveyed have experienced one that disrupted operations; 29 percent get them multiple times per month. A DDoS attack is, of course, conducted by bot-nets--robot networks of infected computers--so if you get malware on your PC, you might be doing your part to bring down foreign (or local) utilities and corporations.

[via PCWorld]

Rome's Ancient Aqueduct Found

The long-sought aqueduct that delivered fresh, clean water to Rome nearly 2,000 years ago, is found beneath a pig pasture northwest of the Italian city.

The long-sought source of the aqueduct that brought clean fresh water to ancient Rome lies beneath a pig pasture and a ruined chapel, according to a pair of British filmmakers who claim to have discovered the headwaters of Aqua Traiana, a 1,900-year-old aqueduct built by the Emperor Trajan in 109 A.D.

[via Discovery News]

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