With everyone buzzing about the revamped DC Universe or the surprisingly sweet Super 8, there’s another super-hero movie coming out this summer that you might not be aware of. A few weeks after Captain America opens, you can try the quirky romantic comedy Griff the Invisible, on August 19. Starring Ryan Kwanten and Maeve Dermody….
A young boy from another world is raised on in the mid-west to use his special abilities for the good of all. He struggles to fit in at high school, constantly hiding his true nature under the watchful eye of his mentor. After Smallville, one would have thought the writing team of Alfred Gough and…
Let’s take a few minutes and clear the decks of superhero film news before we all get wrapped up in Star Trek coverage… Yes, another Wolverine sequel is already in the works. According to Variety, the sequel will focus on the X-Men comic’s samurai storyline, the Japanese locale setup for which is teased after this…
Since Dark Knight hit the screen, the world of superheroes in film may not be the same again. With the inevitable success of Watchmen in 2009 and many more non-cape-wearing heroes on the way to theaters, we’ve collected just where things lie on some of our favorite Vertigo and WildStorm franchises, and how far we…
At Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild 25th anniversary celebration of The Greatest American Hero, creator Stephen J. Cannell confirmed once and for that a feature film version is coming. Disney has carried the project on its development list for several years but the current boom in super-hero movies seems to have moved it off the backburner….
DreamWorks has decided to produce their own animated take on super-heroes with Master Mind. Entertainment Weekly is now reporting that Robert Downey, Jr. may lend his voice as the lead character, opposite Tina Fey. According to IMDB, the film is a “satirical take on super-hero movies, in which a notorious villain loses his oomph after…
“Superheroes in Asia” is the theme for eleven films to unspool at the Pusan Festival in Seoul, Korea. The event, running from October 2-10, will also feature other themes including "Ani Asia! A Leap of Asian Feature Animation 3”, “Romanian New Wave” and “2008 Asian Omnibus Collection” According to the festival’s website, “It seems that…
It’s our weekly trip to the comic shop and we bring out the Big Guns to arm you with all sorts of important info on what to check out. For example: Dan Didio lets the fans have a say on Who Will Be Batman Justin Marks talks on taking Hack Slash from comics to film…
There’s an interesting question posed by the New York Times film critic A.O. Scott in a new piece regarding superhero movies. He surveys the Summer of the Superhero and notes the genre’s success, but then wonders if it might have hit a creative high-water mark. In other words, could the conventions of the superhero limit…
Blockbuster.com has been my preferred movie-by-mail service for more than a few years now, so it was a nice surprise to see them calling out an impressive number of films based on comics in their big summer promotional list. The list is actually pretty comprehensive, and includes a few titles I wasn’t expecting to be…
You know superheroes are dominating Hollywood when the movie trade Variety features an extended ode to Neal Adams. The piece, which includes some quotes from Adams, stresses his role in bringing about more serious superhero comics, particularly on Batman, and how that has influenced superhero movies. Major studios have mounted a corporate takeover of Comic-Con…
It’s one of those weeks. It’s hot, and the elections and other summer cross-over events are not even in second gear yet. Nothing grabs me for an entire column of deep thoughts. So lets skip some stones across the idea pond. • According to io9, two of the summer’s big-deal super-hero movies use sex with…
