Ok so it wasn’t that bad an injury, a gash just above the eye, but still, sewn back up by the medics and straight back on set.

TMZ first reported this, but fur­ther details have emerg­ered that is was inflicted by one of the robots dur­ing film­ing, at Hol­lo­man Air Force Base in New Mex­ico.  Here’s what one guy on set had to say about it:

One troop on the set tells WENN, “He was treated at the clinic at the air­force base by Colonel Tor­res and then a local oph­thal­mol­o­gist came by to check on his eye. He was in the clinic for about four hours and then he returned to the set once the swelling had gone down.

“We were all pretty impressed. Shia’s mak­ing a lot of friends on the set of this film — he’s a real guy who smokes like a fiend. To get up from a movie explo­sion, which leaves you injured, and get back in there is cool.

“He’s got bro­ken fin­gers from his car crash this sum­mer (08) and now his eye­lid has been slashed open. I guess he’s lucky he still has his sight.

Hol­ly­wood screen­writer, Stu­art Beattie, who was respon­si­ble for Gears of War screen­play for New Line Cin­ema last year, has writ­ten the new Halo script.  Word says that Microsoft like it and that they are dis­cussing pos­si­ble plans for it to be made.

Bet­tie beleives the old style Halo movie inca­r­a­tion is dead and is ready to release his vision, Halo: The Fall of Reach, a pre­quel to the first game.  John Gau­diosi finds out what this vision is, in his inter­view for game daily.  See the full tran­script below.

And thanks to Blair Allan for send­ing us this news.

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Dell and Para­mount Pic­tures are try­ing to com­pete with iTunes Store when it comes to sell­ing dig­i­tal con­tent.  They are now offer­ing Iron Man pre-loaded on new Dell com­put­ers for the price of $20.  This is the first of many to be sold in this way if they can get oth­ers on board.  We shall see how pop­u­lar this proves to be.

See the full announce­ment below:

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DVD and blu-ray has released in lots of dif­fer­ent ‘exclu­sive’ pack­ag­ing depend­ing on the store you buy from. 

Tar­get — Tar­get Deluxe Edi­tion includes exclu­sive Mark III mask pack­ag­ing. Avail­able on both the Ulti­mate 2-Disc Edi­tion and 2-Disc Blu-ray.

Oth­ers include:

Cir­cuit City — Access to exclu­sive Mar­vel Dig­i­tal Comics fea­tur­ing the art­work of Adi Grano

Cus­tom Lith­o­graph cre­ated by Mar­vel artist Ger­ald Parel.

 Costco — Gift­set includes the Ulti­mate 2 Disc Edi­tion DVD and 3 Iron Man Bob­ble­heads, with all 3 Iron Man suits from the film. Gift­set includes the “Bat­tle Dam­aged Mark II”, avail­able exclu­sively in this gift­set at Costco.

Wal­mart — Two exclu­sive SKUs. Ulti­mate 2 Disc Edi­tion packed with an exclu­sive comic book chron­i­cling the Nick Fury story. The sin­gle disc gift­set is packed with the 1st episode of the new Iron Man ani­mated series 

Bor­ders — On pack col­lectible book fea­tur­ing orig­i­nal sketches by Bob Lay­ton and the top 24 comic cover of Iron Man.

Dur­ing an inter­view with MTV Kirsten Dunst let slip that she is will be in the next Spi­der­man movie. 

When asked if she was in or is she out?  She replied:

 “I’m in,” said the actress mat­ter of factly. How­ever, when pressed to make the announce­ment offi­cial, Dunst quickly changed her tone, and rather cryp­ti­cally added, “I’m not say­ing any­thing, I know there’s rumors…”

Your guess is as good as mine…

At least 3 scenes will be recorded in IMAX for­mat, and thus the film will be released to IMAX cin­e­mas at the same time as the wide release on June 26th 2009.  This news has now been con­firmed by the IMAX cor­por­taion fol­low­ing a recent report in Vari­ety, for the full offi­cial news release see below.

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Ain’t it cool have just released an inter­view with key artist Christo­pher Swift and model shop super­vi­sor David Mer­ritt from a visit to Stan Win­ston Stu­dio.  It is quite a tech-heavy dis­cus­sion but really gets down to the nitty gritty of how the suit we see in the film came into being.  If thats your thing enjoy.…

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The much awaited Iron Man is released on DVD and Blu-ray today. Com​ing​soon​.net has posted deleted scenes, along with the DVD cov­ers.

But more excit­ing news is that Para­mount Pic­tures have just got a new deal with Mar­vel Enter­tain­ment to dis­trib­ute the studio’s next five self-produced film projects which include Iron Man 2 (May 7, 2010) and Iron Man 3 (Date Not Yet Announced)

The deal is an exten­sion of the orig­i­nal agree­ment for Iron Man, and includes world­wide distribution.