It’s been less than a week since Trent Reznor won an Academy Award alongside Atticus Ross for their score to The Social Network, but a handful of new projects are already in the works, being negotiated, or slated for release from the NIN mastermind.

First up, we held off on picking up a story about Reznor scoring music and starring as “the vampire who kills Lincoln’s mom” for director Timur Bekmambetov’s adaption of Seth Grahame-Smith’s book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter posted by Badass Digest earlier today (as I’m not familiar with the site or their source), but Entertainment Weekly has since confirmed their report… sort of. According to a spokesperson for 20th Century Fox, Reznor hasn’t sign on for the gig just yet, but he is in talks with the studio for the aforementioned score contribution and role as Jack Barts in the film.

As fun as this project sounds, we won’t hold our breath just yet (I mean, he’s also still in talks over a Fight Club musical), but there are plenty of releases on the way in the meantime: a debut How to Destroy Angels LP set for later this year, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo score, and a mystery project involving former NIN keyboardist Alessandro Cortini.

Not a bad start to the year, right?

Had a feeling this news was on the way after Trent Reznor offered a cryptic response to EW’s Music Mix earlier this week on the question of whether he was teaming up with director David Fincher again for a follow-up to his Golden Globe-nominated The Social Network score. Now confirmation has arrived: Reznor and Atticus Ross are writing, performing, and recording the score to Fincher’s film adaptation to the late Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Former PiL, Ministry, Pigface, and NIN drummer Martin Atkins currently owns possibly the rarest item in Nine Inch Nails history, but that won’t be for long: According to an eBay listing (currently fetching around $1k with 4 days left), Atkins is selling his cassette copy of Trent Reznor’s demos for what would become his debut Pretty Hate Machine LP, and giving part of the profits to charity. Perfect timing, no?

Atkins says he first met the future Golden Globe nominee around 1983, when Reznor was recruited to play trumpet (!) with his then band. Atkins writes:

It was at a barbeque… where I spent a little time with Trent and remember him telling me about some music he was working on. John Malm, who was to become Trents manager was also there. I’m not sure exactly when I received this cassette, it must have been before 1988 when I left New Jersey to move to Chicago.

And now for the best part: The NIN Hotline, who first uncovered the listing, have posted streams of two 52-second snippets of “Terrible Lie” and “Sin” from the cassette, which were originally uploaded by Atkins himself to his Facebook page. They sound pretty great — even for demos — so hear a taste of both samples over at NIN Hotline.

The newly remastered, repackaged, and reissued version of Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, hits shelves this week, but Trent Reznor and Co. are giving us a free preview of the LP’s “greatly improved sonic experience,” before making the purchase, as well as our first listen to their cover of Queen’s “Get Down, Make Love,” since its 1990 release as the B-side to “Sin.” Streaming over at NME or below, is the full album and Queen cut, remastered and modernized from the original mixes by the T-Rez himself and engineer Tom Baker:

After years of record label limbo, a few publishing firm acquisitions, going out of print, and general music industry WTFery, Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 debut will be reissued on November 22, complete with remastering from the original mixes by Trent Reznor and engineer Tom Baker for “a greatly improved sonic experience.” Reznor himself announced the Pretty Hate Machine reissue on NIN.com yesterday:

It’s been an interesting trip watching the fate of this record float from one set of hands to another (a long and depressing story) but it’s finally wound up in friendly territory, allowing us to polish it up a bit and present it to you now. We had fun revisiting this old friend, hope you enjoy.

In addition to updated mastering, longtime NIN collaborator/artist Rob Sheridan has reinterpreted Gary Talpas’ original album art (shown above).

*Update* Stream the reissue here.

It’s been at least 3 years in the making, but don’t count Trent Reznor’s sci-fi television series based on his 2007 Nine Inch Nails concept album/alternate reality game, Year Zero, out just yet. LA Times’ Hero Complex reports that Reznor and Co. are currently “in pre-production with HBO and BBC America to do a miniseries,” enlisting Carnivàle writer Daniel Knauf to help pen the script and revise “the overall world Bible.”

”[Year Zero] cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we’re writing drafts back and forth,” said Reznor. So who are “we”? Film producer Lawrence Bender’s team, which boasts production credits that include Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, and former WB series Roswell, have backed the project, as well.

Update: The EP is available now.

Keep an eye on the following website today, (Friday, 9/17), as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will be posting 5 free tracks from their score to the Jesse Eisenberg-starring “Facebook movie,” aka The Social Network, there at some point in the next 24 hours. According to Mashable, the full digital OST (tracklist below) will be sold for only $2.99 on Amazon, as well, with an official release set for September 28. Physical copies can be pre-ordered at other pricing tiers, which will ship out in October.

Back in 1995, David Bowie hit the road in support of his recently released concept album, Outside, bringing along a band whose The Downward Spiral was spinning in virtually every modern rock fan’s CD player at the time to co-headline dates on the U.S. leg: Nine Inch Nails. As proof that Trent Reznor and Co. weren’t there to simply open for Bowie (or perhaps help showcase his new experimental songs for a younger audience), the beginning of Bowie’s set and end of NIN’s involved a seamless — and stunning — collaboration between the two acts. (Their stop in Hartford, CT that year is among my most regretted missed concert opportunities.)

Over the weekend, the NIN Hotline (via Slicing Up Eyeballs) made an amazing discovery: film editor David Williams uploaded 4 pro-shot videos of the Bowie-NIN collaboration to Vimeo earlier this summer, complete with stereo soundboard audio. Note the brilliantly reimagined guitar part by Reeves Gabrels as you watch Reznor, Bowie, and friends perform “Hurt” below (3 more videos are over at SUE as part of their excellent “Vintage Video” series):