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It’s official — the entire voice cast of Futurama has just signed a new contract with Fox after weeks of intense salary negotiations.

As late as last week, the network was threatening to replace the original voices of Matt Groening‘s cult-hit cartoon, to the point of actually announcing a casting call for voice actors to replace them.

The Futurama voice cast includes John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Billy West, Tress MacNeille and Katey Sagal.

The compromise agreement, with the studio paying more and the actors accepting less, comes after the announcement of a 26-episode pick-up here by Comedy Central. Futurama also airs internationally in syndication, has produced four bestselling straight-to-DVD movies (later cut into episodes) and an upcoming feature film.

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Interesting news for you Lost fans out there– so don’t read forward if you don’t want any details. It’s sounds like Jack’s crazy plan worked. In May’s finale, the castaways detonated a bomb on the mysterious island in hopes of resetting the last several years of their lives. During Comic-Con this year numerous sixth season reports were made including the announcement of the return of Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet Burke), Jeremy Davies (Daniel Faraday) and Dominic Monaghan (Charlie Pace),  as well as the inclusion of Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert) as a main character. Josh Holloway stated his character Sawyer would revert back to his old self after the loss of Juliet.

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District 9 is an upcoming science fiction film produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Neill Blomkamp. I remember seeing an earlier trailer for this movie and not knowing what to make of it — this new trailer looks great.  This new movie is based on Alive in Joburg (video), a short film directed by Neill Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley, Simon Hansen and Shanon Worley. The title is influenced by real life District Six, Cape Town. Copley also portrayed one of the interviewed policemen. The short film is about aliens landing in South Africa and becoming confined to a specific area and forced to work.

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If you’ve not already heard the news — Tim Burton has been working on an adaptation of the classic film Alice in Wonderland . It is based off the Lewis Carroll novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter,  Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum. The film will use a technique combining live action, motion capture technology, and stop motion.

A teaser trailer was just released and it looks pretty crazy– definitely what you’d expect from a Tim Burton film. But don’t take my word for it, have a look for yourself:

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Much like that gas station burrito you thought tasted great at the time — the news of Futurama returning in 2010 to please starving fans has turned horribly crappy.

20th Century Fox TV is producing 26 new episodes for a mid-year cable run on Comedy Central, but talks have broken down with voice stars Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, and Tress MacNeille over money. Fox is trying to cut costs for the move to cable and has offered the cast much less than they were asking (believed to be around $75,000 per episode).

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Curb Your Enthusiasm is slated to make it’s season 7 premiere September 25th 2009. The announcement was recently made by Jeff Garlin on the Adam Carolla podcast. The Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning  comedy series starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David as himself, and produced and broadcast by HBO.

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Let’s be honest– with over 65,000 apps now available on the Apple App store there is alot of crap to sift through to find the quality. We’re here to lend a helping hand and save you a few dollars and some time. Keep your iPhone and/or iPod Touch happy with some of these great apps.

Gas Buddy

Save money at the pump! Gas Buddy will show you up-to-date gas price listings for all the gas stations in the US and Canada. Even if you’re out of town, just hit the “Find Nearest” button to show you a listing of all the gas stations around you sorted by price and distance. You can now easily find the best bargain for your next fill-up.

Sign up for an account and send gas prices listings from your local gas stations to Gas Buddy for points you can then use to enter raffles for prizes like $250 gas cards. Gas buddy has a great UI and a ton of features. The Gas Buddy is $2.99 in the Apple App Store. This app easily pays for itself. For more information visit http://www.gasbuddy.com

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Erik Schrody, better known by his stage name Everlast, is an Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter, best known for his hit “What It’s Like“, and for his unique genre-crossing mix of hip-hop and acoustic-based rock music. Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford is the fifth solo album released by Everlast. The album was released on September 23, 2008. So why am I reviewing it now?

The album went fairly un-noticed or reviewed by the mainstream media, which is unfortunate because it may be Everlast’s greatest work. With the exception of opening track “Kill The Emperor,” the album largely abandons any hip-hop influence one might expect, instead delivering dark tales and gritty personal musings all threaded together by Everlast’s baritone crooning and a gang of live instruments.

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There’s no official splash page for Firefox 3.5 yet, but it’s on Mozilla’s FTP (Windows, Mac) and other sites. It’s worlds better than 3.0 with powers like geo-location, tab tearing, keyword and AwesomeBar filters, smarter session restore, private browsing mode, one-click bookmarking, full zoom,  and serious speed increases.

For a full list of some of the best new features, go here.

So grab it now. [Softpedia via Download Squad]

It’s official, your shiny new iPhone 3GS is fully jailbreakable… BUT YOU CAN’T HAVE IT! Well not until Apple releases the iPhone OS 3.0.1 update anyways. Why can’t I have it now? Well according to the iPhone Dev Team blog there’s a very good reason. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…” they quote Spock. “We can jailbreak the 3GS right now.  But making our jailbreak public at this point in time would benefit relatively few people.  It would in fact be detrimental to many more people than it would help.  So we feel it’s best to keep our version of the jailbreak out of Apple’s sights for the time being.”

Basically, if they release the jailbreak now it would be handing exploit to Apple on a silver platter allowing them to easily and quickly patch it. This is a big problem because jailbreaking the iPhone 3GS requires some special information (ECID code) you need to extract from your phone. You need this information for all future jailbreaking endeavours. Long story short— if you don’t get this information before Apple patches it, you might be unable to EVER jailbreak your iphone 3GS.

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