Liev Schreiber spoke with Moviehole about next May’s X-Men Origins : Wolverine, in which he plays Sabretooth. "I’ve seen some footage, and I think it’s going to be really very good. I’m really looking forward to people seeing it," he said. Playing the feral mutant opponent to Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine was a new kind of…
So Brother Glenn e-mails me with “…we do real well with those ‘stories you should read before you see the movie,’ and if anyone else but you did The Spirit list, you’d probably be insulted.” Maybe. I’m a bit ambivalent towards this movie. I haven’t seen it, but like most of you reading this, I’ve…
Emo Boy, a comic from Steve Emond and published by Slave Labor Graphics, has been optioned by Vanguard Films. Kyle Newman (Fanboys) is said to be directing and will cowrite the script with Emond according to The Hollywood Reporter. Vanguard hopes the film will be in the vein of Napoleon Dynamite “but with a more…
Bluewater Comics has partnered with Lionsgate to developing and release a line of comic books based on the cult/ horror films Leprechaun and Warlock. Bluewater has recently made noise with their celebrity-titled series such as Vincent Price Presents for horror fans and 2009’s promised William Shatner Presents which will adapt his non-Star Trek novels. “Working…
While The Dark Knight dominated the summer movie market, Marvel pulled off something incredible as well: creating the foundations for a Marvel movieverse. From Nick Fury mentioning The Avengers to Tony Stark’s cameo in The Incredible Hulk, Marvel Studios began a new era of crossover events that will culminate in The Avengers in 2011. Most…
“I’m gonna direct The Freshmen, which is a comic book that my friend Hugh Sterbakov and I created”, Seth Green told Moviehole. “We have two graphic novels in the marketplace, and we conceived it as a feature. But that’ll be the movie that I direct.” “It is kids – it’s Revenge of the Nerds meets…
I guess we’ll have to get our superhero fixes from comic books for a while, though I’m not complaining, because isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be? My glances through the various newspapers and magazines that come to this house tell me that there are no superhero movies coming to a theater near me,…
The Tokyo Game Show that starts this weekend is one of the biggest videogame conventions in the world. The ComicMix staff is watching to see what comic game news is announced, but Activision’s Spider-Man: Web of Shadows trailer released at the show made me laugh. Though I don’t think that was the publisher’s intent. A…
With the imminent release of Iron Man on DVD next week, the mainstream public is more aware of the saga of Tony Stark than ever before. When my in-laws start asking me about how accurate the movie was to the comics (because I’m “that” relative who still reads funny books), you know it’s become part…
Since this year’s tragic death of comic creator Micheal Turner, many of his projects that were in production were put to rest, but recent news came through that the film adaptation of Turner’s acclaimed series Fathom may have gotten some new juice. The film has been in production since late 2001, when James Cameron’s Lightstorm…
After laying dormant for nearly a year, Rosario Dawson is ready to kick start The Occult Crimes Task Force back to comics and a film. She tells us why she believes morethan ever in comic based movies, plus: Jimmy Palmiotti takes on Vampire Hunter D Warehouse 13 set for The SciFi Channel Our rundown of…
Remember the comic miniseries Arkham Asylum: Living Hell where a regular guy gets sent to the madhouse for Batman’s criminally insane enemies?Well, now that could be you. Gamestop is sponsoring a contest where your likeness will be put in the Batman: Arkham Asylum game. You’ll get to co-star with Mark Hammil who was recently announced…
