The teaser trailer for the new Fantastic Four movie, The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, is now online.

The Copydesk is turning into an obituary diary this Festive season.

Another living legend, former President Gerald Ford, has died, aged 93.

Only last month, he became the longest-living US President.

Not now though.

Merry Christmas to The Copydesk’s readers, on the day The Godfather died.

How wild does Grindhouse look?

Eddie Campbell, artist on Alan Moore’s incredible meditation of the Whitechapel murders From Hell, remarks on the conicidences in the recent Ipswitch murders:

“I used to think Alan was making too much of the recurrence of names and odd details in the Whitecahpel Murder cases, but here it is all over, with a Police Superintendent Gull, and one of the victims named Nicholls.”

Peter Boyle, the actor who played the monster in Mel Brooks’ hilarious Young Frankenstein and the father in the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, has died at the age of 71 from heart disease.

For me, his best role was in a 1995 episode of The X-Files, called Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose where he played a character who became obsessed with the death of the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and Richie Valens to the point where he could predict the future. He won an Emmy Award for the role as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

Peter Boyle trivia: John Lennon was the best man at his wedding, when he married Rolling Stone reporter Loraine Alterman.

Travel writer, and all-round wit Bill Bryson has been made an honorary OBE for his services to literature.

If you’ve never read The Lost Continent, you don’t know what you’re missing.

Martin Nodell, the man who created the Green Lantern with Bill Finger, has died aged 91.