Warner Home Video has released images of the Smallville DVD & Blu-Ray Rear Box Art.  I also included the season 8 individual DVD Disc Artwork, courtesy of Tom Welling Unlimited.  Both versions will be available on August 25th.

See my earlier post on the “front view” box art images here.

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Box Art Source: TVShowsOnDVD
Disc Art Source: TomWellingUnlimited

Brian Austin Green has been cast on Smallville as the DC Comics villain Metallo, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

That’s right — the Terminator alum is now playing a cyborg himself. That is a pretty freakin’ super bit of casting, right?

Green will appear as the kryptonite-powered villain (alter ego “Daily Planet” journo John Corben) in at least the first two episodes of Season 9, which takes flight Friday, Sept. 25.

Interestingly, Smallville fans were waiting for news on big, bad Zod, given the events of the Season 8 finale, but that role still has yet to be cast. (I suppose you could say the show “zigged” instead of Zod.)

Green’s Smallville gig comes on the heels of the Beverly Hills 90210 alum passing on the role of One Tree Hill sports agent Clayton. (And isn’t this role so, so much cooler?!) Prior to that, Green had been attached to the CW pilot Body Politic, but that series didn’t get picked up for fall.

This past TV season, Green costarred on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which was canceled after two seasons.

SOURCE: TV Guide

Okay, so this is not exactly a Smallville story or news, but what a great story it is!  A Brooklyn special education student who wrote an essay about his personal hero, his teacher, landed both him and his teacher a role in a Superman comic book. 

Thirteen year old Hakeem Bennet, an eighth grader at Public School 36 in Brooklyn, NY won the Stone Arch Books national essay contest that encouraged kids to write an essay about their real life heroes, and Hakeem chose his 8th-grade teacher, Matthew Brown.

“He’s a role model to me,” Hakeem explained. “He helps you if you need help with anything. He’s always there.”

Brown is blind in one eye and has tunnel vision in the other. Hakeem writes in his essay that the courageous way Brown lives his life, despite his disability, makes him a true hero.

The book is called “The Kid Who Saved Superman.”  The glossy, colorful book features Hakeem and Brown as characters and chronicles a school field trip that goes awry when earthquakes rumble through, trapping students in a mountain.  Superman shows up to rescue the students but needs help when he is weakened by Kryptonite.

Enter Hakeem, who saves the day.

Read the full article at the NY Daily News.

The CW announced the Fall schedule premiere dates on Tuesday.  Smallville is set to premiere on Friday, September 25th - which incidentally is exactly one month after the Smallville Season 8 DVD and Blu-ray is released (August 25th). 

Check-out the rest of the premiere dates for the network below:

Tues., Sept. 8

8 p.m.: 90210
9 p.m.: Melrose Place

Wed., Sept. 9

8 p.m.: America’s Next Top Model

Thurs., Sept. 10

8 p.m.: Vampire Diaries
9 p.m.: Supernatural

Mon., Sept. 14

8 p.m.: Gossip Girl
9 p.m.: One Tree Hill

Wed., Sept. 16

9 p.m.: The Beautiful Life

Fri., Sept. 25

8 p.m.: Smallville

SOURCE: E! Online

Here is a video clip of Allison Mack talking about her Iris Theatre Company project titled “Crossed Wires“.  Allison also briefly mentions “Smallville“, and if season 9 will be her last on the show.  Check it out:

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Please, do you have anything — anything — about Smallville? Please? Please! — Gabriela
MATT: I shall reward your repeated use of the word “please” by sharing a provocative bit of intel I just stumbled across. A source tells me that although Sam Witwer was invited back for Season 9 — for possibly several episodes — at this time the actor has no plans to slip back into either deceased Davis’ EMT jacket or presumed-dead Doomsday’s spikey skin.

SOURCE: TV Guide

USA TODAY announced Monday (June 15) that DC Comics will launch a weekly series of superhero comic strips next month, printed on full-size newspaper pages like the old-fashioned Sunday funnies.

The 12-week return to newsprint, called Wednesday Comics, makes its debut at comic-book stores July 8 and will offer 15 different stories for $3.99 in a broadsheet format, 14 inches by 20 inches. (New comic books are released across the USA on Wednesdays.)

All 12 weeks of the Superman strip will appear in USA TODAY as well, beginning July 8 with a full-page installment in the newspaper. The remaining 11 Superman strips will be available each Wednesday at usatoday.com.

Read the full article at USA TODAY.

SOURCE: USA TODAY, io9

Here’s your first look at Kristin Kreuk in Ben Hur, a mini-series coming to ABC sometime next year (2010). Thanks to KristinKreukWeb for the image!

The Teen Choice Awards 2009 nominations have been announced, and Smallville scored 5 nods – check-out the list:

• Smallville for “Choice TV Show: Action & Adventure”
• Tom Welling for “Choice TV Actor: Action & Adventure”
• Kristin Kreuk for “Choice TV Actress: Action & Adventure”
• Michael Rosenbaum for “Choice TV Villian”
• Allison Mack for “Choice TV Sidekick”

Hope I didn’t miss anyone.  Surfboards (in lieu of trophies) for the 11th annual event will be distributed during a two-hour special on Aug. 10 on Fox. Fans, ages 13-19, can vote for the winners at TeenChoiceAwards.com.

Guests and presenters have yet to be announced.  Check-out the full list of nominees in the 75 categories at E! Online here.

French fan site, StarWars-Universe.com recently had the privilege to interview Sam Witwer.  Read what he had to say about his time on Smallville, and if he will return for season 9 “as Davis or another character”:

Q: In Smallville, you played as Davis Bloome/Doomsday. Again, you’re suppose to be the powerful bad guy, why is that?
Sam: Well, I never looked at Davis as a bad guy. In fact, that’s what the Smallville producers sold to me as the concept for Davis Bloome.

Why is that? Well, they said they needed an actor who could go to both extremes. Be incredibly vulnerable and sympathetic, and then go be the devil 3 scenes later. That’s what they said they wanted, and according to them, why they approached me.

Q: Is Allison Mack a great kisser?
Sam:  I must assume she is.

Q: Is there a chance that you make a comeback for the ninth’s season, as Davis or another character?
Sam:  Um… As Davis, unknown at this time. I would imagine he could show up in a flashback if that serves some story they have. Other than that, my task on that show is complete.

Read Sam’s full interview at TheForce.net here.