Comic Based

Samuel L. Jackson joins Matthew Vaughn’s Secret Service

Variety reports that Samuel L. Jackson has joined the cast of director Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming Secret Service. Fox has already locked in its two heroes – Colin Firth and Taron Egerton. Now the production looks one step closer to ramping up production on The Secret Service with Jackson now set to play the villain. Production ….

Fans at San Diego Comic-Con 2013 will help configure a zombified Walking Dead car to be unveiled at New York Comic-Con 2013

Content marketing group Future US and Skybound, Robert Kirkman’s imprint at Image Comics, announced today they are partnering once again at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2013 with a host of experiential activities involving The Walking Dead universe. The partnership celebrates a decade of Robert Kirkman’s groundbreaking Eisner Award-winning comic book series and bestselling graphic novels. ….

Tom Cruise to host free screening and live 9 city simulcast Q&A for sci-fi epic Oblivion

IMAX, Universal Pictures and Los Angeles Times have announced that the next feature in The Times’ Hero Complex IMAX Screening Series will be Universal Pictures’ Oblivion. An interactive, live Q&A with Tom Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski, moderated by Times film writer Rebecca Keegan, will follow the screening in the IMAX® theatre at New York ….