We made a few special modifications to the Millennium Falcon, called it the USS Enterprise, made the Joker the captain and Bruce Wayne first officer… Hollywood’s latter day obsession with tampering with classics.
Here, in other words, is a long-range backstory – a device that, in the Hollywood of recent times, has grown from an option [...]

I used to read the Batman comics but haven’t picked one up in years. Needless to say I was surprised to learn that Batman is currently undergoing the reboot treatment in a similar fashion to that of Captain America and Superman (and others no doubt).
The “reboot” plays out over a crossover series ominously titled Final [...]

With winter approaching Mars’ northern hemisphere, and soon to blanket the planet’s Arctic region in months of darkness, the Martian Phoenix Lander will probably meet with a freezing demise, says Barry Goldstein of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
It is of course possible, though unlikely, that the probe will manage to reboot itself come springtime though:
Phoenix does [...]