The movie rights for 1980s arcade favorite, Missile Command, has been sold to 20th Century Fox. The Atari game will be adapted by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless; the two recently wrote the Flash Gordon reboot and also co-wrote Dracula Year Zero . How the game will translate to film, though, is anyone’s guess as there’s little to work with outside of a simple Cold War-era plot that involves defending a city from being destroyed by hundreds of missiles. Game is the third top title that Atari has set up as a film property, after Universal Pictures acquired “Asteroids” and Sony Pictures Animation picked up “Rollercoaster Tycoon.” It also becomes the latest brand from the ’80s to get the bigscreen treatment, with U readying a number of toy-based properties from Hasbro, including “Battleship,” and Mattel having set up others, including “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” at Sony and “View-Master” at DreamWorks. Read the full story at Variety .

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A New York man is accused of lifting images of a dead Army veteran killed in combat for his Facebook profile, using the handsome photos to pick up women on the social-networking site. Sgt. Roberto Sanchez, the man in the pictures, was posthumously…

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Facebook Fraudster Poses as Dead Vet

Gareth Edwards to Direct Godzilla Apparently studio bosses saw enough in Gareth Edwards’ low-budgeted genre debut Monsters that they wanted him behind the next Godzilla update. Legendary Pictures will co-produce with Warner Bros. (both of whom are behind The Dark Knight, 300 and others), and Edwards will work on piecing together a script written by David Callaham.

Hugh Hefner, who has published nude photographs of women for more than 50 years, is honoured for the articles that accompany the pictures and his commitment to free speech.

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Clyde Butcher talks about how his pictures have helped highlight the importance of Florida’s Everglades.

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Collaged fake album covers by Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard by Noah Armstrong Before Robert Pollard formed the seminal lo-fi band Guided by Voices , he was a high school student making imaginary album covers for imaginary bands. The collage style of these mock album covers would eventually manifest itself in much of the album art for Guided by Voices, and a multitude of his solo and side projects. Pollard regularly visits flea markets and antique shops looking for magazines, posters, and text books—anything old that can be taken apart and re-assembled in two-dimensions. His collages combine type and imagery in a way that seem to recall a bygone era that never actually existed. The resulting aesthetic lies somewhere between British Invasion poster art, B movies and the pictures one might find in a decades old photo album. Eschewing digital mediums, each piece is made entirely of glue and paper. Pollard’s collages and songwriting share many similarities. Both seem shrouded in an esoteric surrealism, lean heavily on accessible pop aesthetics and are delivered with a sense of honesty and rudimentary production. “They both have to do with re-assembling familiar imagery to create interesting landscapes,” he says. “One with sight, the other with sound.” “The Public Hi-Fi Balloon “—an exhibit of Pollard’s recent collages—will show at the 45 Space in New York at the end of this month. Set up to look like a fake record store, it will be comprised of imagined LP and seven-inch covers as well as a rack of fake magazine covers. Mr. Pollard will be present for the 27 August 2010 opening and the show runs until 28 August 2010.

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The Public Hi-Fi Balloon