Of all the heroes in all of the comics ever made, who is the greatest? While the answer to that one is easy (it’s Rom: Spaceknight, of course), Chicago’s RedEye Magazine seems to think the question merits a bit more discussion. They’ve put together a bracket-style "Best Superhero Tourney" to choose the greatest superhero, and…
Doug Jones is a name that doesn’t get used lightly when it comes to comic book fans. He’s had roles ranging from Abe Sapien in both Hellboy films, to Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four 2. See what Doug had to say when it came to his newly expanded role in the sequel, as well as…
Galactus’ appearance in Fantasic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was a little underwhelming. Then again, so was the entire movie, so it was just par for the course. When people think of Galactus, they think of a giant man in a purple and blue suit eating planets, not a vacuous gassy cloud that threatens…
Over on the online home of ASIFA-Hollywood, a full, scanned story from the inaugural issue of Marvel’s parody series Not Brand Echh is posted in all of its old-school, self-effacing fun. The story, titled "The Silver Burper" is a spoof on a Fantastic Four storyline by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby that ran through issues…
Daniel James Cox, a concept artist for the "Justice League" film, recently commented on the project’s delay over on his blog: It’s unfortunate, but the Writer’s strike has delayed further pre-production on the Justice League movie (i was working on it as a concept artist/illustrator) until later in the year. as a comic fan, i’m…
The summer is now officially over and our minds are already beginning to turn to… the Christmas movie season. But first, let’s take stock and see where we are with comic book-based movies. We have just one left for release this year, the feature version of Steve Niles’ 30 Days of Night, but that’s waiting…
Wild Weather on the East Coast Friday stranded most of the Mondo Marvel panelists in New York (hmmm… wonder how ComicMix‘s E.I.C. made it out that evening), leaving Joe Quesada and C. B. Cebuliski to fend for themselves while sharing with the crowd images and news from upcoming Marvel projects. One other panelist, Rob Liefeld,…
Box Office Mojo declalres Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix the top-grossing film this weekend, with a take of more than $77.4 million and a per-theater average of $18,065. Since opening on Wednesday, Potter has earned more than $140 million. The rest of the Top Ten include Transformers ($36 million), Ratatouille ($18.019 million),…
Box Office Mojo’s weekend movie estimates show that Transformers made a whopping $67.6 million, including $22 million on Friday alone. The total gross so far is $152.5 million since Wednesday. Per theater grosses were $16,853, more than double what the next ranked film, Ratatouille, took in. The Pixar rat did okay, though, with a weekend…
Comic books turned into motion pictures tend to be expensive exercises given the need to create costumes, simulate super-powers and make things sufficiently larger than life to appeal to filmgoers of all ages. The traditional rule of thumb is that a movie has to earn three times its budget in domestic revenue to be considered…
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer debuted in the number one position with $57.4 million in receipts, representing an increase of $1.3 million over the first Four film’s opening weekend two years ago. One might look at this as a giant "screw you" to the movie critics, who, of course, are used to it…
Despite so-so advance buzz and a lack of screening for reviewers, 20th Century-Fox seems to believe in the Fantastic Four franchise. As reported in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, they are already looking to spinoff the Silver Surfer into his own film. J. Michael Straczynski, already writing a Silver Surfer miniseries, Requiem, for Marvel,…
