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Christopher Nolan's Inception comes out this Friday, and I know lots of people are excited about it because it looks great (check out Todd's review here). There are, however, groups of fans who are excited about it for an entirely different reason as well -- with Inception out of the way, Nolan can finally devote his full attention to the film Bat-maniacs have been clamoring for since the end of The Dark Knight: a third Batman film.

Over the past few years we've heard countless rumors about the project. They've all turned out to be false, but we do know Nolan is working on prepping the third film. Now, website io9 is reporting that Warner Bros. has registered a slew of new Batman domain names. What does this mean? Is the studio laying the groundwork for a viral marketing campaign for the next movie? It's possible. Read more after the jump ...

When society crumbles, and we end up enslaved by robot masters, my hope is that Sci-Fi Squad will still exist through some network of underground freedom fighters, clacking away on their keyboards, supplying all the science-fiction news, opinions and reviews that our ruined civilization demands. If it doesn't happen, I'll send my own cyborg into the past to protect the Sci-Fi Squad servers from crashing, forever keeping the signal alive. If you haven't been reading, here's what you're missing...

• In the first-ever Sci-Fi Squad Double-Take, Peter Hall and I go head-to-head on Iron Man 2.
• We mourn the passing of Frank Frazetta and celebrate his work on Fire and Ice.
• Brian Salisbury takes a trip on a talking motorcycle with the Warrior of the Lost World.
• Watch the entire Star Wars Trilogy in two minutes -- with Legos!
• Check out the cool Drew Struzan concept posters for the original Back to the Future.
• Why does Jacob Hall want to live in the future from the Terminator series?
• In the latest Sci-Fi Squad Movie Club, we crack open Cube 2: Hypercube.

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The nightmares don't just take place on Elm Street, they also take place in the laboratory of Dr. Heiter. Seems like all eyes were on The Human Centipede this weekend, the must-see shocker from director Tom Six that's slicing audiences right down the middle into "love it" and "hate it" camps. Horror Squad offered one of the first looks at The Human Centipede, way back in October, and that's just one of the reasons you should be visiting Horror Squad -- they've got their finger on the pulse of horror. If you haven't been reading, here's what you've been missing...

• Alison Nastasi cuts right to the core of The Human Centipede in her in-depth review.
• What is "the thing in the cage"? It's easy to explain away, but it's still the stuff of nightmares.
• The Horror Squad Movie Club examines Don Coscarelli's adaptation of the Joe R. Lansdale story Incident On and Off a Mountain Road.
• What characters should have survived in the cult classic The Car?
• The makers of Black Devil Doll return to sink to new levels of cinematic depravity with Bottomfeeder.
• Brian Salisbury gets a Parasite, and only a young Demi Moore can help!

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If you were to "accidentally" stroll upon the NSFW website for Wild Wild Girls you'd think it was just some Girls Gone Wild rip-off. You also might think, if you happened to notice him among all the naked breasts, that Jerry O'Connell has hit really hard times to have to endorse softcore porn like this. But O'Connell's appearance on the site is as his Joe Francis-like character from the upcoming horror movie Piranha 3D. Hard to tell, I know, since there doesn't seem to be any reference to the movie on the site. Unless you count the ad for an energy drink called Piranha. Fortunately (I guess) a Film Drunk reader discovered the site, as well as the Facebook page (featuring some photos of wet t-shirt contest emcee Eli Roth). There's also a Twitter account for those of you who want links to boob-related stuff. Sorry to those of you interested in the prehistoric man-eating fish part of Piranha 3D, maybe there will be a less nudity-filled viral campaign in the months leading up to the movie's August release.

Speaking of the actual release, I'm going to go out on on a limb here and guess that Piranha 3D will be Rated R and feature a lot of boobies and wet t-shirts. And all you minors reading this will have to buy a ticket for Step Up 3D in order to sneak into it. But if the nude college girls are all you're interested in, the viral site is pretty easily accessible. And for that, I can see Dimension Films getting some flak from parents. Interestingly enough, exposure of this campaign comes only days after our own Jenni Miller looked at viral promos gone horribly wrong. Such as a recent controversial torture game tied to A Nightmare on Elm Street and a Running Scared-based oral sex game from a few years ago. Is stuff like this Wild Wild Girls site really that necessary for the promotion of a movie like Piranha 3D? I know the trailer doesn't make it look all that great, but who is really going to see it because of a porno tie-in? If anything, fans of the viral site will be wanting the advertised DVDs titled "Panty Paradise" and "Sex Crazed College Co-Eds" instead.

Are you afraid of the dark? Good thing Horror Squad is here to shine a light on all things that go bump in the night. The only thing you should be afraid of is missing a single day of news, opinions, and reviews from some of the most dedicated horror freaks on the planet. If you've been too chicken to check us out, here's what you've missed...

• One of the worst movies of all time spawns one of the best films of 2010. Peter Hall reviews the Troll 2 documentary Best Worst Movie.
• Curiouser and curiouser...Watch the long-awaited teaser trailer for Phantasmagoria, Marilyn Manson's dark riff on Alice in Wonderland.
• Luke Mullen mourns the demise of the video rental store, while Alison Nastasi and Lunchmeat Magazine celebrate the lost art of the VHS box.
• We've unearthed the audio from the real-life exorcism of Annelise Michel. Not for the faint of heart.
• Check out the brand new trailers for Kiss the Abyss and Mutant Girl Squad.
• Be patient, zombie fans! World War Z is still coming to a theater near you.
• In this week's Horror Squad Movie Club, we take a look at the original 1958 version of The Fly. Does it still hold up after all these years?

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Want to see something really scary? Then you should probably steel your nerves, grab a flashlight, and creep on over to Horror Squad, where some of the most rabid horror writers on the internet are churning out news, reviews, and opinion pieces guaranteed to keep you up at night. Here's a look at what's been going on lately...

• We've got all the bears you can bear! Brad McHargue reports on the upcoming thriller Bear, while Brian Salisbury reviews 1976's Grizzly.
• What did Horror Squad watch recently? One of this year's selections from the 8 Films to Die For, Lake Mungo, the Japanese freak-out, Hausu, and cannibal cult-favorite, Ravenous.
• Alison Nastasi leads the Horror Squad Movie Club in a (literally) mind-blowing discussion on David Cronenberg's Scanners.
• What character would we save from the horde of unholy flesheaters in Lamberto Bava's Demons?
• Is our planet infested with reptilian overlords disguised as humans? Jason Murphy has the video -- but does it prove anything?
• Italian horror makes a comeback with the trailer for Shadow.
• A trip to The Shining's Overlook Hotel wouldn't be the same without its bone-chilling theme music.

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• Why can't an 8-bit video game based on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog be real? You're such a tease, Internet.
• Gholson examines the current production state of three potential giant robot movies: Voltron, Robotech, and Gaiking.
• If you're a Battlestar Galactica fan, you may want to check out this totally street legal Colonial Viper car. I'll give $20 to the first person who turns a minivan into a Colonial Raptor. Don't worry, I won't be a stickler about a working FTL drive.
• Jacob Hall throws some positive thoughts toward Robert Zemeckis' Dark Life and the hope that it won't end up being another motion capture movie.
• So far this week Micah has shared with us VHS cover art for Alien Terror, Time Walker, 2019: After the Fall of New York, and MegaForce.
• Maxim has a very in-depth interview with Geoff Marslett, writer/director of the animated sci-fi film Mars, which recently premiered at SXSW.
• And if you loved that 70+ minute long video review of The Phantom Menace that was all the rage months ago, Red Letter Media is back to eviscerate Attack of the Clones.

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NEW YORK CITY -- After months of anticipation, regret, denial, and self-sacrifice, Cinematical has decided not to run an April Fool's Day joke this year. The decision was made a little before midnight on March 31st, with word coming from Managing Editor Scott Weinberg by way of a press release that was never actually sent out to anybody. He says, "I fully support Cinematical's anti-4-1 campaign. I believe that what we do at this website is of the utmost cultural importance, and I'd hate to send a reader away believing that Skeet Ulrich was just cast as Rhett Butler in the sci-fi Gone with the Wind reboot. "Wit" has its place, I suppose, but it certainly does not belong on a publication that celebrates the fine art of cinema."

Let's face it: April Fool's jokes are lame. For the first couple hours, you're hit with all these fantastical headlines full of stories you may have wished for during your last acid trip at a Blockbuster video. You click in, absorbing the text -- re-tweeting it like crazy to your friends before realizing -- d'oh! -- you've been had. (If only you'd looked at the calendar.) J.J. Abrams really isn't making the Cloverfield monster the villain in the next Star Trek movie. It sucks; your Twitter followers will think you're kind of an idiot, and you'll feel ashamed for maybe getting excited at the possibility of John Cho hanging from the Cloverfield monster's neck, swinging through the air while another character yells from the distance, "Hold on! He has to have a weak spot!"

We here at Cinematical want our readers to know that you're our weak spot. We don't want to waste your time trying to be funny or insightful or snarky-smart; we just want you to know that we value your attention and think it would be a shame wasting it on some dumb fake news story. We're also urging other movie websites to follow along and end this stupid annual tradition once and for all. This isn't fun. We're not funny. Let's stop lying to people; it's not right. Would Mad Magazine run an April Fool's Day joke? I rest my case.

We're better than that ... so let's prove it. Seriously, sign our petition!

While we're all impatiently waiting for titans to clash in 3-D, Sci-Fi Squad continues to offer up a daily dose of excitement in glorious 2-D! There's no inflated ticket price and no special glasses required to participate in the daily thrills and spills over on our sister site. We're covering every corner of the sci-fi/fantasy world, so go ahead and put your feet up on the seat in front of you, relax, and get ready for the show. What have we covered lately?

• With a new episode of Lost on tonight, check out some of the ways in which the Bible plays into the final story reveals.
• Mike Moody leads the discussion on Twelve Monkeys, part of our weekly Sci-Fi Movie Club.
• AVP? All this time I thought it stood for Alien Vs. Predator, not Alien Vs. Pooh.
• You can't stop the signal! Die-hard Browncoats are making their own Firefly feature film.
• Just how sci-fi is Hot Tub Time Machine?
• Check out our reviews of SXSW's Cargo and Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission.
• Micah Matthews has decided you must own Supervan on DVD, no matter what.
• What's going on with Hugh Jackman's robot boxing movie, Real Steel?
• Sci-fi Scenes We Love: Dr. Pretorius unveils his homemade mini-humans in Bride of Frankenstein.
• Is this the best Lost video ever?

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If you followed our SXSW coverage then you know that science-fiction played a big part in the programming. I think it's a sign of the times, and sci-fi appears to be the hot genre right now (thank you, Avatar). Come join us on Sci-Fi Squad and check out all the hubub, bub.

• We've got new reviews from SXSW including Hubble 3-D, Monsters, The People Vs. George Lucas, Life 2.0, and Mars.
• Is Battlestar Galactica getting another spin-off series?
• Make your own papercraft Back to the Future DeLorean!
• Scruffy-lookin' nerfherder Peter Hall has an unhealthy obsession with Han Solo, and this week he shares the videos for 'Han Solo, P.I.' and 'Han Solo's Mind Is Blown'.
• Neil Patrick Harris talks about the potential future of Dr. Horrible.
• DC Comics is bringing back fan-favorite Batman Beyond.
• Micah Matthews digs up long-buried VHS oddities you've probably never seen, like Gremloids and Star Crystal.

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