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…
So you’re excited for the new movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine. You’re thinking, man, I can’t wait to see the full-out origin of the Canucklehead himself, the guy who is the best he is at what he does even if what he does isn’t very nice. Now, at least, you can see for yourself the truth…
The Dabel Brothers adapted the Paramount Pictures gang film The Warriors and now they have announced plans for an original sequel. Jailbreak will be a four-part event, beginning this July. According to a release, the series picks up shortly after the end of the 1979 film, when the Warriors plan to break one of their…
A round-up of items from the last few days… Somehow, I don’t think we’ve ever linked to Hilary Barta’s Limerwrecks. Sony Registers ‘Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman!’ Trademark. No idea what DC thinks about it. Pixton™ – Create web comic strips online. DreadCentral talks to the director of Eve about Hack/Slash similarities….
Marvel Entertainment, Inc. announced an adjusted release pipeline for its self-produced feature film properties that reflects (choose one): the first time individual super hero characters and story arcs will be inter-woven and culminate in a multi-character motion picture. The ongoing trouble in securing financing to make multi-million dollar movies, thereby delaying and spreading out…
The current era of the super-hero movie can trace its roots to 1989 and the release of Tim Burton’s [[[Batman]]]. For the first time since Richard Donner’s [[[Superman]]], the comic book heroes were taken seriously and adapted for the screen with love and care. In between, there was failure after failure as no one in…
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…
On Sunday, we wrote how inker Arne Starr had gone Hollywood, working on Grey’s Anatomy and Mad Men— except it turns out that with Hollywood gone comics crazy, he hasn’t put comics behind him. I’ll let Arne explain: This all started when I found out from a friend who works on Grey’s Anatomy with me…
The 2009 Oscar nominations are in, and they include a gratifying number of comic book adaptations and other geekly delights. First and most obvious is The Dark Knight. In addition to Heath Ledger’s highly anticipated posthumous Best Supporting Actor nod for his reinvention of the Joker, The Dark Knight has also gathered a slew of…
Today’s installment of comic-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest… * Heidi MacDonald checks in with comics pros for her annual year end survey: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. The big themes: recession, online comics, comic book movies– and how gangbuster movie sales don’t…
…now we can start really compiling the best of the year lists. Dammit, you just don’t do that until you have a full year done. It’s like buying gifts for Jewish kids that haven’t been born yet. We’ll be posting lists in the next few days, and soliciting your opinions for even more lists, but…
Celebrated game designer American McGee’s Grimm, an episodic videogame that debuted on GameTap, offers gamers the chance to create darkness across traditionally lighter fairy tales. And now Grimm, the game’s macabre dwarf who wreaks havoc on these fairy-tale tableaus, will be unleashed in a new comic book series coming from IDW Publishing in April 2009….
