Yes, yes. Highest grossing movie of 2008. Second highest of all time. A billion dollars in box office when all is said and done. And yet– it could have made even more money, if only they’d worked with the studio with the best batting average in the business…
We all know it’s about the toys anyway, right?
Hat tip: Mark Waid.
AP News reports that Pat Hingle, the actor whose career included a recurring role as Commissioner Gordon in four Batmanfilms from 1989 to 1997, died at his home in Carolina Beach shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday after battling blood cancer. He was 84.
His career in movies and television spanned six decades, and he was also nominated for a Tony Award in 1958. Hingle’s last movie was "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," which was released in 2006.
I was lucky enough to see him perform on Braodway a decade ago, playing Ben Franklin in 1776 opposite Brent Spiner as John Adams. And much to my surprise, he was the original choice to play Elmer Gantry in the movie, before an accident knocked him out of the role and handed it to Burt Lancaster.
He will be missed.
Kenneth Branagh can stop looking for who to cast for his Thor movie. From the London Daily Mail: Burglar flees in terror after homeowner returns from New Year party… dressed as Thor, God of Thunder
A muscle-bound building boss who came home from a New Year’s Eve fancy dress party kitted out as Thor scared off a burglar by charging at him in his superhero outfit.
Six-foot-tall fitness fanatic Torvald Alexander, 38, was wearing a full God of Thunder outfit – complete with flying red cape and tinfoil silver-winged helmet – when he spotted the raider in his front room rifling through a desk.
Mr Alexander, who runs building firm Alexander & Summers in Edinburgh, Scotland, said the burglar threw himself out of a first-floor window of his £350,000 home in the Inverleith area of the city when he opened the door and confronted him.
Lucky Ken. He doesn’t even need a costume designer anymore.
As Kyle notes, "This joke will be old fast." So we’re spreading it before it dies.
In the meantime, go visit Kyle Baker‘s site. Spend money. His kids need kid stuff or something.
Should we put this behind the cut because there are spoilers? Nah…
We’ve just saved you weeks on your NetFlix queue. You’re welcome.
We knew they wouldn’t be gone long, the only question was where they’d end up and how quickly they’d return. And now we know– Kevin Melrose, JK Parkin, Lisa Fortuner, Tom Bondurant, Michael May, Melissa Krause, Stephanie Chan, Tim O’Shea, Chris Mautner, Jennifer de Guzman and Larry Young are now all over at CBR, under the brand Robot 6.
Which of course leads to the new question: what happened to Robots 1 through 5?
Robot 1 sank into the swamp.
Robot 2 sank into the swamp.
Robot 3 burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
Robot 4 disappeared 24 hours after it went online.
Robot 5 was turned off after being deemed a hazard to interstellar navigation. It was exploded, sent into atmosphere, crashed into the planet, and sank into the swamp.
But the sixth robot stayed up…!
A year after the events of One More Day, Spider-Man has gone back to unmarried status in the newspaper strip.
So for all of you who thought this might just be a passing phase– like me– your hopes have finally been dashed. At least, until the next reboot.
One of these days I have to write that blog post on how to save One More Day and make Peter’s actions heroic…
Hat tip: Blog@Newsarama.
…Matt Smith?
Yes, apparently. Putting an end to all the rampant speculation, the 26 year old will be taking over the role of the Doctor in 2010.
A relative newcome to the scene, Smith already has experience working opposite companions to the Doctor, having played opposite Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) in TV adaptations of Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart novels The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow of the North as Jim Taylor, and again in Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
Now let the ritualized mocking of Rich Johnston commence.
…going to be revealed in exactly 12 hours from now as part of a special edition of Doctor Who Confidential to be aired on BBC ONE today at 17:35 Greenwich mean time, 12:35 PM Eastern standard time.
Following the announcement in October that David Tennant would be stepping down from his role as the Doctor at the end of 2009*, speculation has been mounting as to who would take over from him for the fifth series of this iconic BBC drama that will air in 2010.
Who do we think will get the job? Well, there’s a reason William Petersen is leaving CSI…
Check back in half a day on ComicMix and see if we’re right.
Don Heck. Today would have been his 80th birthday.
I first met Don twenty-seven years ago at his house in Centereach. He and my dad frequented the same bar, the Emerald Pub. My dad knew I was a fan of his on The Flash, and thought I should meet him, and finagled an invite.
It was the first time I’d ever seen a comic artist’s studio– and to this day, the best analogy is the scene in the movie where the young boy visits the wizard’s cave and sees the dimly-lit wonders, or the hacker’s technical sanctum and all the neat knick-knacks, you know the scene.
It was magic.
And like any good magician, he gave a gift to the audience– the page to the right, from The Flash #292, was one of them.
Don still hasn’t gotten the appreciation he deserves– for creating Iron Man, Hawkeye, and the Black Widow; for his runs on Avengers, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Justice League of America; for hundreds of stories without a single costume in them– but there are those of us who still remember.
Thanks for the magic, Don. Happy birthday.
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