By Don Kaye, Source: Blastr.com You know how it’s been said for years that the Mayans predicted the world would end in 2012? Well, forget all that: A new discovery shows that the Mayans did no such thing. A cottage industry has sprung up around the idea that the Mayans—known
by Matt Goldberg, Source: Collider.com In February 2011, we reported that Guillermo Del Toro was developing a 3D stop-motion animated adaptation of Pinocchio with author Gris Grimly and Mark Gustafson co-directing based off Grimly’s 2002 book. Today, Variety reports that Del Toro has now stepped in to co-direct with Gustafson
This week, The Avengers opened nationwide and everyone’s talking about it – including us! Mike, Mike, and Bobby are joined by award-winning artist Mark Maddox for a look at the first and possibly the best of this summer’s big movies. We also offer suggestions for what comics to pick up
By Krystal Clark, Source: Blastr.com There’s no bad blood between Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. The Spider-Men recently sat down for an interview in VMan magazine during which they discussed the pros and cons of being a webslinger. And best of all, Maguire gave some much-needed advice on preparing for
By Trent Moore, Source: Blastr.com A top-quality copy of the Batman No. 1 from 1940 has broken an auction record for the issue, which is one of the most highly sought-after out there. So how much did it bring? The pristine copy of Batman #1, featuring the Caped Crusader and
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com Hey, remember John Carter? It’s the movie that lost as much money as The Avengers just made in three days. But Disney’s epic sci-fi bomb saw a dramatic jump in box office revenue last weekend, and it’s all thanks to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. The weekend
by Christian Blauvelt, Source: ew.com Star Wars fans have been abuzz this week about a potentially big new mystery project in the works dealing with that galaxy far, far away. It all started when tech site Fusible reported that Lucasfilm had registered Internet domains based on permutations of “Star Wars
By: Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com Thousands of people have been brave enough (or crazy enough, depending on whom you ask) to come forward in the last half-century with tales of alien abductions in the dead of night. It’s a widespread phenomenon, but researchers are adding fuel to the skeptic fire
By: Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com Ever since we heard over the weekend that James Cameron is super dedicated to the Avatar franchise, we’ve been wondering what’s to become of his long-awaited big-screen adaptation of Battle Angel Alita. Is the project doomed? Cameron himself has just weighed in, and he says
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com A few months ago, we heard that NASA’s determined to launch some kind of new Mars mission by 2018 regardless of budget cuts. Now a proposed plan for just such a mission has been revealed, and it’s one of the most ambitious searches for Martian
by Stephan Lee, Source: EW.com Beloved children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died today at the age of 83, according to the New York Times. The cause of death was complications after a recent stroke. A true creative force with singular vision, he rose to international prominence in 1963 with
By Don Kaye, Source: Blastr.com Director Guillermo Del Toro has revealed that his personal dream project, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, may finally be dead once and for all. And Ridley Scott killed it. As previously reported, Del Toro spent 12 years developing a big-screen
