Marvel X-Men: The DVD Comic Book Collection review
On April 28th, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the animated series Marvel X-Men: Volumes 1 and 2, complete on DVD for the first time ever. The best aspect of this great DVD set release, is that the two sets together consist of the best episodes of the five season show. After The Phoenix Saga ….
The first image from Iron Man 2
USA Today has posted the first image from director Jon Favreau’s upcoming Iron Man sequel. The new film started shooting three weeks ago and opens May 7, 2010. According to reports, Iron Man 2 takes place six months after Stark revealed his identity as Iron Man.
Bruce Willis up for mob pic Scarpa, video game adaptation Kane & Lynch, and a bunch of other action films
Bruce Willis is currently in discussions to appear in three new action films, including a thriller titled Inventory, an espionage film called Red and the mob biopic Scarpa, according to The Risky Business Blog. In Red, the actor would play a former black-ops agent now in retirement, who’s forced back into action when a high-tech ….
Free Comic Book Day this weekend
The plans are set and FREE comics are shipping to shops all over the U.S., as Free Co ! mic Book Day finally hits this weekend, on May 2nd, 2009.
Tempe, Arizona wins hometown premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Tempe, Arizona’s residents, schools, businesses, and a major cinema emporium are pulling out all the stops to prepare for the World Premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, on April 27, at Harkins Temple Marketplace 16. The Tempe Hometown Premiere will have all the trappings of a mega-Hollywood event including red carpet arrivals, klieg lights, screaming fans, ….
Check out this Kick-Ass 11 year old female assassin
Empire has two new images from Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming “indie” teen super-hero movie Kick-Ass, and the magazine has posted one of them on their website. It features actress Chloe Moretz as Mindy aka Hit Girl, a young assassin who’s been trained by her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) since the age of four. Kick-Ass follows ….
30 Days of Night director taking on third Twilight film titled Eclipse
According to The Hollywood Reporter, David Slade, who directed 30 Days of Night, is attached to helm Eclipse, the third adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling Twilight series of books. Summit Entertainment has just signed Slade to the project, which is expected to hit theaters on June 30th, 2010. Twilight and New Moon screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, ….
Sin City sequel rights going up for bid?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, sequel rights to Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City, are being shopped around Hollywood, meaning Dimension Films may have lost screen rights to the graphic novel series. According to reports, The Weinstein Company and Dimension maintain that they hold the rights to any sequels to the film, but producers ….
Underworld co-creator Kevin Grevioux talks live-action monster movie I, Frankenstein
Kevin Grevioux, co-creator of the Underworld series, spoke with Sci-Fi Wire about the upcoming comic and live-action monster movie I, Frankenstein. The writer/actor looked at his own previous work as a model for re-imagining classic fantasy creatures for the new film.
Win one of two complete sets of Marvel X-Men: The DVD Comic Book Collection
On April 28th, 2009 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release Marvel X-Men: Volumes 1 & 2 on DVD. For the first time, all 32 episodes of the cult favorite animated TV series will be available on disc. Discover the origins of your favorite X-Men characters with stories adapted directly from the original comic books. ….
Hugh Jackman giving fans an opportunity to host World Premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in their hometown
In an announcement made yesterday on YouTube, Hugh Jackman, who plays the antihero in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is taking Hollywood and the film’s premiere to the people who made the X-Men film series one of the industry’s biggest – inviting the legions of X-Men fans across the U.S. to be the first to “witness the ….
American Jesus coming to theaters
Director Matthew Vaughn and writer Mark Millar, who collaborated on the upcoming comic adaptation Kick-Ass, are in talks to reteam for another Millar-created comicbook adaptation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Vaughn is considering American Jesus for his next directing vehicle, which would be produced by Vaughn and his Marv Films partner Kris Thykier, and independently ….
Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft coming to big screen
Universal and Imagine Entertainment are developing a film based on the Image Comics’ graphic novel The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft, as a potential directing project for Ron Howard, according to Variety. The studio has already nabbed film rights to the upcoming book, which hits store shelves on April 8th. Universal was apparently attracted to ….
Bryan Singer eyes comic adaptation Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland
New Regency has nabbed film rights to the Radical Publishing sci-fi comic Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland, which will be developed as a potential directing vehicle for Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns, Valkyrie), according to Variety. The movie will be distributed by Fox, which worked with Singer on X-Men 2. Michael Finch – who ….
New behind-the-scenes clip from Tales Of The Black Freighter
Tales of the Black Freighter, the comic-within-a-comic of Dave Gibbons’ and Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen, is getting released on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow, March 24th, and Empire has posted an exclusive clip from its ‘making of’ featurette, along with footage from the animated film itself.
