It’s official: Fox has picked up Human Target, the DC Comics series created by Len Wein, Carmine Infantino, and Dick Giordano, as a new drama series this fall. The show was apparently the best-received pilot at the network’s screenings last week. The show centers on Christopher Chance (Mark Valley from Keen Eddie, Boston Legal, and…
Waiting For Godot, the classic Samuel Beckett play of futility and alienation, is coming to Marvel Comics, courtesy of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Alex Maleev. “It’s a natural,” says editor-in-chief Joe Quesada. “In all my years in the business, I have rarely seen a more natural fit of talent and material.” Godot, for…
Pop culture is influenced by so many different factors and timing determines what will catch on and endure while other things, quality be damned, wither and die. A perfect example is the Award-Winning darling of 2008, Slumdog Millionaire. Based on the 2005 novel by Q & A by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup, it…
Mending their relationship, Twilight production company Summit Entertainment and director Catherine Hardwicke are coming together again for the new fantasy/drama movie If I Stay, according to Variety. The movie is based on author Gayle Forman’s young adult novel If I Stay, which will be published this spring by Dutton children’s Books. Additionally, via ICv2, Hardwicke…
A while back, there was a spate of Marvel characters that were having their stories retold for different countries, for example Spider-Man India, with Pavitr Prabhakar, his uncle Bhim and aunt Maya. Now Nikki Finke tells us that Marvel may be doing the same for their movies: Marvel Entertainment announced today that it’s forming an…
Okay, Watchmen. It’s a movie based on a comic book. And who’s doing in-depth coverage? TV Guide. No, I don’t quite understand it either, but then, I don’t understand what the M in MTV stands for anymore. Regardless, TV Guide did get access and the interviews are good. UPDATE: And now the players actually work,…
Slave Labor Graphics’ comic The Ghouly Boys is coming to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Ghouly Boys comic book series was created, written and illustrated by Christopher (he goes by just the one name) and was originally published by SLG Publishing (Slave Labor Graphics) in 2004. Lindsay Doran (Nanny McPhee) is…
Great, another British comics invasion, only this time it’s on television. ABC, jazzed from its success transplanting Life On Mars, has okayed a single-camera comedy based on a British series called No Heroics about superheroes with limited powers hanging out in a bar. Jeff Greenstein (Will & Grace) wrote the pilot along with original show…
Not content with having a Newbury Award, the the top-debuting, wide-release, stop-motion film in movie history, and throngs of adoring fans dressed in black, now Neil Gaiman is trying for a Obie Award. Coraline the musical goes into previews on May 7 at the Lucille Lortel Theater, off-Broadway in Greenwich Village, where it will run…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WNETpX2Jd0 Hooooooo boy. If nothing else, it highlights the difference in how they’re marketing this… even more paranoid than the original, if that’s possible. And if you’re like me, you caught even more places where the screen matches the page. What do you think about it?
Eagle Eye director D.J. Caruso, promoting the film’s DVD release, said of his next project, Y the Last Man, “I think it’s one of those that the source material is fantastic stuff, it’s great, but it’s a tough one to lick into getting into a screenplay. I’ve tried to feel like it’s a trilogy of…
Studio 407 has announced a deal for its Hybrid series to become a motion picture to be directed by Ernie Barbarash (Cube Zero). The four issue miniseries has garnered good reviews and a trade collection will be released from Bluewater Productions on February 25. The deal is part of an earlier agreement granting Myriad Pictures…
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