Nikki Finke has gotten her hands on the book proposal for Jon Peters’ autobiography. Peters was a producer for, among other films, the Michael Keaton Batman film franchise and Superman Returns. The details are unbelievable, if for no other reason that Peters seems to be burning every bridge behind him, including the one that he’s…
It’s a world gone a little mad where we tell you How To Be A Super Villain, plus Terminator falls short, Millie The Model is back and she brought Tim Gunn along in an Iron Man suit and Bazooka Joe is headed to the big screen! PRESS THE BUTTON to Get The Point! And be…
As the 1970s dawned, I was 12 and no longer as interested in Saturday morning fare. There was Little League which was either in the morning or afternoon and I found myself drifting more towards the [[[Bowery Boys]]] shorts that ran on channel 5 after the cartoons wore themselves out. My younger siblings watched, but…
In a popular and academic marketplace where everyone wants and needs to learn better, smarter, faster, we have series upon series of things that have titles that are playfully self-deprecating in the hopes of our being brave enough to channel our inner superhero and dive in and learn something that might have seemed a bit…
Here’s a film you may enjoy: Morgan Spurlock, the documentary maker behind Super Size Me and 30 Days and the upcoming Freakonomics is the distributor of Confessions of a Superhero, a feature length documentary that chronicles the lives of three mortal men and one mortal woman who make their living working as superhero characters on…
WOLVERINE is on movie screens from coast to coast and now it is a wait for the numbers game. we talk to Michael Uslan who recalls what was like waiting for the same a few years ago with a film called BATMAN BEGINS and then great ready for the scoop on what his next super…
Okay, let’s say you were a costumed crimefighter, and you financed your crusade through your own personal fortune. And then, for the sake of argument, you ran out of cash because of a nasty economic downturn, couldn’t pay the upkeep on all those wonderful toys. Sounds like a great idea for a story, right? You…
Ticket sales are already off the charts for this weekend’s kick off of the summer movie blockbuster season. We all take our chances hoping for another Dark Knight and not another Spirit, but what about the creative people who roll the dice risking millions? Meet Michael Uslan who, for over three decades, has been the…
In the 1970s, Chris Claremont was arguably the first comic book writer to advance Stan Lee’s style of writing for the Marvel super-heroes, delving deeper into his characters and exploring what it meant to be born a mutant in a world that feared the different. As a result, much as everyone glommed onto [[[Spider-Man]]] in…
Cartoon Network is growing up… or trying to. And in the process, they’re getting away from the things that make them, well, a cartoon network. That’s the theme that seems to be running through their upfront presentation for the 2009-2010 season. Highlights include entering into the reality TV genre, creating a new sports-centric programming block,…
Kristen Bell may be about to learn how the extreme always seems to make an impression– by possibly starring in the musical adaptation of the darkly beloved 1988 cult classic Heathers, according to Eonline. Kevin Murphy and Andy Fickman, part of the team behind the stage and teleplay edition of Reefer Madness is manning the…
Boy, is this week’s episode going to make Mike Gold happy… In this week’s episode airing on Cartoon Network at 8:00 PM titled “Mystery in Space!”, Aquaman joins Batman in a thrilling space adventure on Adam Strange’s home planet of Rann. There our heroes join forces to battle Gordanian General Kreegaar and his reptilian horde….
