As a contrast to all the Spider-Man stories this week, Alan Kistler sends us a quick update on other movies in the pipeline: "This is an interesting week in terms of comic book movies and the like. Iron Man director Jon Favreau has confirmed that Jeff Bridges will be shaving his head to play the…
Marvel Entertainment has announced a new sweepstakes, the winner of which will win a walk-on role in an upcoming Marvel Studios movie. Usually these things are only reserved for folks like Stan Lee and Joe Quesada, so it’s nice to see regular ol’ folks given the chance at unpaid, uncredited extra work. Sweepstakes entries…
Writer John August notes, "Ever since I announced that I’m writing Shazam!/Captain Marvel, I’ve gotten some great questions and comments from longtime fans of the character, many with detailed pleas to include a specific cherished piece of the mythology. But when I tell people face-to-face that I’m writing a Captain Marvel movie…their eyes go up…
AP is reporting that Nicolas Cage has signed to star in the movie adaptation of the Virgin comic The Sadhu. The movie’s script will be written by self-help maven Deepak Chopra, the father of Virgin’s chief creative officer Gotham Chopra, and is slated to be directed by Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (The Four Feathers). Chopra…
Comic books continue to lead Hollywood box office business as TMNT, based upon the comics books of the same letters beat out 300 $25,400,000 to a mere $20,500,000 in estimated weekend North American box office receipts. It was the first weekend for the Turtles’ latest movie venture, and the third for the Frank Miller property….
We’ve spent the last few weeks looking at how Hollywood operates, optioning properties, including comic books, which they think might work as a movie or television series. With the success of 300, we also paused to examine how full the calendar was getting the next few years and wondered if a glut was coming. If…
For my money, there’s no manlier comic book-type name out there than pop-culture and political blogger Lance Mannion. Can’t you just imagine what his comic book equivalent would look and sound like? I sure can, and reading Lance is even more fun than picturing his character. This week he presents his musings on casting for…
My wife and I were plowing through our TiVo this weekend, catching up on programs the device trapped for us during the previous week. We happened to catch the current spots for Ghost Rider as well as the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 300 movies. As is frequently the case when I’m on deadline,…
This coming Sunday, March 4, the gamer channel G4 will be airing the fourth episode in its Icons series, this time featuring a look at Frank Miller. The episode "focuses on Miller’s work over the years as a creator of popular comic books, characters and graphic novels, many of which have and are being adapted…
According to Cinematical, writer-director Edgar Wright is currently working on two comic book adaptations on his plate: Ant Man appears to be based on the Marvel title "about a biochemist who develops an instrument that allows him to communicate with and control insects." The other project, Scott Pilgrim‘s Precious Little Life based on the series…
Can a cult phenomenon be manufactured? In the case of Joss Whedon’s "Buffyverse," it helps to have a head start. The series has been off the air for almost three years, but it’s spawned legions of loyal fans salivating over, among other things, the Season 8 comic book debuting next month. And this coming Friday…
Has the Dark Tower launch event made it past the usual insular comics fan circles? Let’s take a look: Four pages via Google News, including articles from Maine Today, the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, the Kansas City Star, the Newark Star-Ledger, the San Jose Mercury News, the Toledo Free Press and Cleveland Plain Dealer (of…
