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Author: Glenn Hauman
Lex Luthor On Plans For Justice League, Flash, Wonder Woman Movies In 2013
Lex Luthor, evil genius and president of the DC Universe, spoke today on his plans for Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, the Justice League, and of course, Superman…
…our mistake. This is actually Jeff Robinov, evil genius and president of the Warner Bros. motion picture group, which owns the DC Universe, who spoke today with the Los Angeles Times on his plans for Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, the Justice League, and of course, Superman…
The first priority for the man with the ultimate say on what films get made at Warner Bros.: Finally getting the Justice League, DC’s team featuring all its top characters, on the big screen in 2013. The picture had been very close to production in late 2007 and early 2008, but was killed by the Writers Guild of America strike, tax credit issues in Australia, and concerns by some at Warner about presenting a competing (and conflicting) version of Batman while director Christopher Nolan’s films were breaking box office records.
But Robinov said a new Justice League script is in the works. Also being written for Warner are scripts featuring the Flash and Wonder Woman, who could be spun off into their own movies after Justice League.
We apologize for the confusion. And we suddenly understand why no one is talking about having Luthor in the next Superman film.
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Mix March Madness: Final Four! Erfworld vs. Questionable Content!
We’re down to the Final Four– and the second semi-final contest is down to the two giant sluggers, mano a mano…
Erfworld vs. Questionable Content!
Vote now!
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Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time TONIGHT!
Click here to see all the webcomics and their standing in the tournament!
Mix March Madness: Final Four! Kawaii Not vs. Gronk!
We’re down to the Final Four! In surprise upsets, Penny Arcade and A Distant Soil got knocked out, so the first semi-final bout is…
Kawaii Not vs. Gronk!
Vote now!
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Polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time TONIGHT!
Click here to see all the webcomics and their standing in the tournament!
Borders Executives Want $8.3 Million In Bonuses From Bankruptcy Court
Okay, now I’m pissed.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Borders executives want the bankruptcy court to approve more than $8 million in executive bonuses:
Seventeen top executives are covered by the largest program, which could add as much as $7.1 million to the pay packets of leaders who stick with the company in bankruptcy. Court papers say 70% of the group have been with the company less than 18 months, and many joined Borders less than a year ago.
Bear in mind that Borders owes hundreds of millions of dollars to publishers and distributors, including $4 million to Diamond. They just closed another 28 stores last week, adding to the 200 they’d already announced. Friends of ours have lost their jobs, and more are coming as it ripples through publishing. And the folks who put us into this mess want bonuses for this?
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Amy Adams Cast As Lois Lane For New ‘Superman’ Movie
Wasn't Lana Lang the redhead?
This time around, L.L. will be played by A.A.
Three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams will play Lois Lane in the new Superman movie, according to the LA Times’s Hero Complex blog.
Director Zack Snyder reportedly called Adams yesterday in Paris to congratulate her. Somewhat surprisingly, Snyder did not use any of the actresses from his new film Sucker Punch, a $82-million action flick that made $19-million in its opening this weekend.
Earlier this year, Henry Cavill was announced as the Man of Steel. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane were recently cast as Superman’s adoptive Earth parents, the Kents.
This isn’t Adams’s first time with an on-screen Clark Kent; in 2001, she appeared in the first season of Smallville… because somebody from Smallville should make it into the movie.
Lois Lane has previously been played on screen by such actresses as Phyllis Coates, Noel Neill, Leslie Anne Warren, Margot Kidder, Teri Hatcher, Erica Durance, and Kate Bosworth; and has been voiced by Anne Heche, Christina Hendricks, Dana Delany, Kyra Sedgwick, Ginny McSwain, and Joan Alexander.
Joanne Siegel, the inspiration for Lois Lane and wife of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, passed away last month at age 93.
The Warner Bros. film is scheduled to be released in December 2012.
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Monday Mix-Up: ‘The Wizard of Id’ meets The Muppets!
In the late 1960s, Jim Henson and cartoonist Johnny Hart teamed up to produce a pilot for a TV series based on Hart’s and Brant Parker comic strip The Wizard of Id. According to the Henson Company blog, the response was pretty positive, but by the time ABC made the decision to move on it in 1970, Henson had already moved on himself to work on Sesame Street.
Take a look and see what you think. Although it does remind me a bit of King Friday XIII from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, it works suprisingly well, doesn’t it?
Hat tip: cartoonbrew.
Hello, Spider-Kitty…
Yes, we’ve had one of those days too. Wake me up tomorrow, please.
Lois Lane, Girl Reporter
This may be one of the best proposals I’ve heard in a while– which of course means that DC will have to be shamed into actually doing it.
Here a pitch for Lois Lane, Girl Reporter illustrated young adult novels written by Dean Trippe, with art by Daniel Krall.
Growing up with two younger sisters, I’ve often found myself attracted to cool female leads whose stories I could share with them (Nancy Drew, Veronica Mars, etc.), but while the superhero industry has always done good by me in providing excellent male heroes (chief among them, Batman and Superman), its treatment of their similarly iconic female heroes like Wonder Woman, Supergirl, and Batgirl has always been mixed at best. Too often these spandex-clad heroines have been marketed towards post-adolescent men rather than to their own gender. There’s room for this in the spectrum of superhero fiction, of course, but without a positive female role model for me to share with my sisters, that they could see themselves in, they both grew up with only a portion of my comics fandom. (Don’t get me wrong, they both still dig Batman!)
But then I found a secret window into the DCU that I don’t think anyone else knows about: Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Lois Lane…at eleven years old.
At eleven years old, Lois has discovered her calling: investigative journalism. She sets out to right wrongs and help out her friends. This series explores Lois’s character, reveals her surprising early influence on the future Man of Steel, and introduces fun new elements into this enduring character’s back story.
In each book, Lois will tackle a problem or mystery affecting the members of the community she finds herself in as she travels around the country. The investigations in this series will not be mystical or supernatural (though some characters may suspect such sources), but real world problems that Lois works to set right.
Read the entire proposal. Then ask why DC isn’t doing this one. Somehow, I don’t think Zack Snyder will find a way to work it into the next movie.
Mix March Madness, Round 4: Quarter-Finals Play-by-Play! Polls close in Four Hours!
This month we took sixty-four popular webcomics and put them head to head in a single-elimination tournament. We’re now in round four– the Quarter-Finals!
We’re down to the Elite Eight… Penny Arcade, Kawaii Not, A Distant Soil, Gronk, Erfworld, Wondermark, Girls With Slingshots, and Questionable Content! Erfworld is continuing to clobber all comers, and the closest contest is between A Distant Soil and Gronk, with Gronk ahead by a 3-2 margin.
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Remember– polling closes at 11:59 Eastern Standard Time Saturday, March 26! That’s four hours from now, so get those votes in!
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