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Win one of three copies of the Gigantor: The Collection Volume 2 four disc DVD set

He’s returned to save the world from evil criminals, enemy robots and hostile aliens in the final 26 episodes of the classic cartoon series Gigantor, being released in a highly collectible four disc DVD set on September 22nd, from E1 Entertainment. To celebrate the release, Film Fetish is giving away three copies of the complete ….

Could Pixar do a Marvel superhero animated feature film now that Disney’s buying them?

Most of you probably know by now that Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment outright. The deal puts Marvel’s list of comic characters into the stable of Disney’s history, expertise and multimedia infrastructure. Some additional details have been released at ComingSoon, regarding the specifics of the deal, including a meeting with Pixar’s John Lasseter with Marvel, ….

Todd McFarlane writing screenplay for a new Spawn movie

This is seriously exciting. I wonder what inspired McFarlane start hammering out this new script. Whatever it was, it’s about time. Spawn is one of my favorite cult comic characters. I look forward to seeing how this develops. McFarlane recently declared via Twitter that he is finally writing a script for a Spawn follow-up movie, ….

Star Trek’s “Bones” McCoy to become a vampire and piss off a Priest

Karl Urban, who most recently played “Bones” McCoy in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, is attached to play the villain in Screen Gems’ post-apocalyptic horror thriller Priest, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Cory Goodman and based on a TokyoPop comic, Priest, which is being directed by Scott Stewart, is set in a world ….

Details on how to win two Chevy vehicles in conjunction with Paramount’s upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DVD release

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will make its highly-anticipated DVD and Blu-ray debut on October 20, 2009 in immersive, two-disc Special Editions, as well as on a single disc DVD, from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with Hasbro. From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg, in association with Hasbro, Transformers: Revenge ….

New image of Michael Cera from the virtual set of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Director Edgar Wright has posted a mysterious image from the blue screen set of his upcoming film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which looks to be Michael Cera, who plays the title character, rigged up to to a rotating unit of some kind CLICK on the image above to see the full size pic, which ….

Midnight, Mass. comic being adapted into weekly NBC series

NBC has picked up a live-action series adaptation for John Rozum’s comic book series Midnight, Mass., which is published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint. That’s according to a report by THR. Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts will write and produce the project for Warner Bros. television, which revolves around Adam and Julia Kadmons, a sophisticated, ….

New behind-the-scenes images emerge from comic adaptation The Losers

ComingSoon nabbed the above photo of Idris Elba and Jeffrey Dean Morgan shooting an action scene in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico for Stomp the Yard director Sylvain White’s comic book adaptation The Losers, which will be in theaters on April 9, 2010. Hancock director Peter Berg wrote the script for The Losers, based on Andy ….

Criminal Macabre comic headed to big screen

Universal Pictures has nabbed feature film rights to the Dark Horse comic miniseries Criminal Macabre, created by 30 Days of Night creator Steve Niles, according to Variety. Kyle Ward (3 Rounds, Fiasco Heights) is currently writing the screenplay. Criminal Macabre follows a supernatural detective who doubles as a hitman, taking out all the vampires, ghosts ….

Writer of The Usual Suspects to pen Wolverine sequel script

Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote scripts for Bran Singer’s The Usual Suspects as well as X-Men, has been tapped to write the screenplay for Fox’s sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, according to THR. Hugh Jackman will return as Logan, the mutant with healing powers and an adamantium-dipped endoskeleton. Jackman will again produce the film, along with ….

Frank Darabont eyeing zombie comic adaptation The Walking Dead

Cable network AMC is teaming up with writer/director Frank Darabont on a series adaptation of the Image Comics graphic novel series The Walking Dead, originally written by Robert Kirkman, according to Variety. Gale Anne Hurd, who produced The Incredible Hulk, and David Alpert, who produced the film Senseless and the upcoming sci-fi TV series Them, ….

Bone-chilling new poster for the thriller Whiteout released

Warner Bros. has released a new poster for Kate Beckinsale’s thriller Whiteout, which is based on Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber’s comic series about the first murder in Antarctica. This was posted on MTV’s SplashPage. Whiteout was directed by Dominic Sena (Gone in Sixty Seconds, Swordfish), from a script by Jon & Erich Hoeber and ….