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As excited as many Mac users were for the arrival of OS X Lion last week, "Plants vs. Zombies" lovers got a rude awakening if they tried running the game on their new operating system. John Layman, for one, called out with a Darth Vaderian parade of exclamation points when he saw an error message stating that the game is incompatible with Lion.

Reviews for "Captain America: The First Avenger" remain a bit kinder. Skottie Young took issue with one scene, but Dan Slott promptly rose to its defense. Find out whose side you're on, as well as what kind of comic Warren Ellis would like to see, after the jump.

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One of San Diego Comic-Con 2011’s biggest, happiest surprises was the footage from the upcoming “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.” Directed by Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine of “Crank” and “Crank: High Voltage” fame, what they showed this past weekend turned a group of largely skeptical fans into believers, with a darker, high-octane look at everyone’s favorite skullheaded stuntman.

While the footage was impressive enough as is, it will be even more immersive and stunning when “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” hits theaters, as the film will be released in glorious 3D, a format that Taylor and Neveldine have wanted to work in for quite some time.

“We’ve always wanted to make a 3D movie – we wanted to make ['Crank: High Voltage'] in 3D,” Taylor told MTV News. “The way that we move the camera and the sort of manic pace of our action… we always thought it would be sort of amazing and nauseating and fantastic in 3D.”

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The City of New York may have loathed Will Smith's mammoth "Men in Black 3" trailer — casting the two-story, 53-foot-long, exhaust-belching ode to Hollywood overindulgence out of the SoHo set — but costar Alice Eve had a blast hanging out in it during production.

"He was amazing and a very charismatic man," she told us at San Diego Comic-Con, while promoting the upcoming thriller, "The Raven." "He does have a very big trailer. Most people go in and go, 'It's bigger than my house!' I didn't say that, but it is!"

Smith's "like seriously dude?" trailer, though, was the least of the production's worries. Shooting was halted last November and again in February. The reported culprit was the script — namely, problems with the '60s-era, time-travel portion of the threequel. That's exactly the portion in which Eve's character appears (she plays a young version of Emma Thompson's secret agent), and while the British actress didn't deny script problems, she maintained the script work concentrated not on big-picture plot issues but on smaller, scene-by-scene matters of dialogue and the like.

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"The Walking Dead" fans know that no character is sacred in this post-apocalyptic landscape, but perhaps they didn't know that the danger would reach those behind the scenes as well.

Deadline is reporting that "Walking Dead" co-creator and executive producer Frank Darabont has dropped out as showrunner of the massively successful AMC zombie series, news that's bound to shock and surprise any and all of the show's most devoted followers.

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After about two years of silence on the project, Universal is moving forward with their adaptation of "The Umbrella Academy."

Deadline is reporting that "Dodgeball" director Rawson Thurber is rewriting the script and will return it to the forefront of Universal's in-production projects. There's no news yet on whether he will also end up directing the movie, or whether Universal will hire someone else once the script rewrite is complete.

The first draft of "The Umbrella Academy" was written by Mark Bomback back in 2009, but Universal seems to think a rewrite of the version by the "Live Free or Die Hard" screenwriter was in order.

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FROM MTV MOVIES: Though you might not know him by name, if you've seen many of Marvel's recent superhero flicks, chances are you'll recognize Clark Gregg. The actor plays Agent Coulson in three Marvel movies — "Iron Man," "Iron Man 2" and "Thor" — and will reprise the role in next summer's "The Avengers."

Coulson is one of the few prominent roles in Marvel's expanding cinematic universe that isn't based on a pre-existing comic book character. Appearing first in "Iron Man," Coulson is an agent of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, better known by the acronym S.H.I.E.L.D., and has been seen trying to wrangle both Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark as well as Chris Hemsworth's Thor, with a bureaucratic demeanor frequently played for laughs.

In an interview with MTV News, Gregg discussed the future of his silver-screen character in regard to some future television appearances. "It's been revealed today that I'm already doing 'Ultimate [Spider-Man],' " the actor explained, "which is about Spider-Man and a couple other soon-to-be-released Marvel superheroes who are hiding out undercover in a high school in New York, and Agent Coulson is hiding out as their principal, keeping an eye on them and taking things way too seriously."

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One of the breakout television hits of last year was AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” With a trailer just released at San Diego Comic-Con 2011, excitement for the horror survival drama is reaching a fever pitch.

Based on the ongoing Image Comics series of the same name by writer Robert Kirkman and artists Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, “The Walking Dead” is the story of what happens after the zombies take over. The comics and television show follows a small group of survivors, led by Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes, as they struggle to navigate their dangerous zombie-ridden world.

Speaking with MTV News about the new season, debuting on October 16, 2011, Lincoln discussed the show’s constantly shifting settings, including a visit to Hershel’s farm, a location well-familiar to fans of the comic book.

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We shouldn't be surprised that comic book creators continue to adore "Captain America: The First Avenger." However, it seems that some of them are having a tough time finding a screening. If you have any tips, you should pass them on to Mr. Bryan Hitch.

Meanwhile, Mike Oeming apparently had no problem finding the "Powers" set in Chicago. He's been tweeting gasps and pictures of watermelon. Find out what his creative partner from the comics thinks about that, and see who's setting some lofty goals for himself on Google+. All of this and more made the day's rundown.

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It’s no secret that longtime fans of the character were somewhat disappointed by the 2007 “Ghost Rider” film starring Nicolas Cage, and were keeping their expectations in check for the upcoming sequel, “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.” But after the explosive footage shown at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 this past weekend, fans of old Flamehead are finding reason to get excited.

Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the Ghost Rider was once motorcycle stuntman Johnny Blaze, who made a deal with the devil to save his mentor and father figure. Unfortunately, like most deals with the devil, things went awry, as Blaze was transformed into the demonic entity known as the Ghost Rider. The character, created in 1972, combined two separate 70s-era fads: Evel Knievel style daredevils and the occult.

Like the first “Ghost Rider” movie, “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” will star Nicolas Cage, who despite the mixed reception of the first film, remains a committed fan of the character.

“The Ghost Rider is just the coolest looking superhero, and it has to be the one that goes to film and looks the best,” the actor explained. “I think they’ve achieved that with this.”

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After three “X-Men” movies and a prequel, filmgoers are beginning to recognize what comic book fans have known for years: Wolverine is, and forever will be, the coolest member of the superhero team. Of course, it certainly doesn’t hurt that the character is played by none other than Hugh Jackman.

The breakout star of the first three movies (“X-Men,” “X2: X-Men United," and “X-Men: The Last Stand”), Wolverine is one of Marvel Comics’ most popular characters. Born a mutant with superhuman senses, an incredible healing factor and a set of three claws on each hand, the character underwent an experimental medical procedure that grafted an unbreakable metal to his skeleton, as seen in the prequel “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”

Since the 2009 release of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” there has been consistent talk about a follow-up film featuring the near-feral mutant. By the following year, Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”, “The Fountain”) was hired to direct based on a script that draws inspiration from a classic Wolverine story by comic book legends Chris Claremont and Frank Miller.

Just last month, however, Fox announced that the film would have a new director: James Mangold, who previously worked with Jackman on “Kate and Leopold.” According to Jackman, however, Mangold was not the only one gunning for the job.

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