By Dan Roth, Blastr.com Not satisfied with absolutely killing DC at the box office this summer, Marvel has decided to strike at the DCU where it really hurts—the local comic book shop. Both Marvel and DC are midway through their summer event series. For the uninitiated, both major comic book
By MIKE FLEMING Deadline.com Dodgeball director Rawson Thurber is rewriting The Umbrella Academy for Universal Pictures, based on the 2008 Eisner Award-winning Dark Horse comic written by My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way. Mark Bomback wrote the first draft. The comic revolves around an adopted dysfunctional family of superheroes with
by Richard Mitchell, source joystiq.com In an interview with IGN UK, voice actor extraordinaire Mark Hamill — also involved with something called Star Wars, we’re told — revealed that he won’t be revisiting the role of Joker after the release of Batman: Arkham Asylum 2. According to Hamill, he was
By Don Kaye, via Blastr.com The new Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield, didn’t come out for the movie’s Comic-Con presentation in the usual way. He showed up in costume! Well, not quite. But as the moderator was about to introduce the cast of The Amazing Spider-Man after the teaser trailer unspooled on
By Krystal Clark, Blastr.com It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super—oh, no it’s not! Superman’s big-screen return has been delayed. Warner Bros. just pushed back Zack Synder’s Man of Steel, which means we have to wait even longer to see Henry Cavill in that famous cape and tights. The
By Martynthe, Bad Wilf Podcast In an acting master class at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Christopher Eccleston was asked why he left a such a high paid job as Doctor Who. He responded: “I left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior people. I left because
By Dave Maass, San Diego City Beat There will be no justice for the geeks of Hall H. Prosecutors, CityBeat has learned, chose not to file charges against the fan-boy in the Harry Potter “Undesirable No. 1” T-shirt who allegedly stabbed another fan in the face with a pen at
By Evan Ackerman, Dvice.com So much for a galaxy “far far away.” Astronomers have made some detailed measurements of a planet in a binary star system some 40 light years from here, and it looks like it just might be habitable, with one red sun and one orange sun. Sounds
by Hannah Shaw-Williams, Bleeding Cool.com It’s official: the fairy tale adaptation is, like, so hot right now. Not only are we facing two productions of Snow White from Universal Pictures and Relativity Media, we’re also in for yet another adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Daniel Barnz’s bland tweeny Twilight-esque
By Don Kaye, Blaster.com It’s all over, folks: Universal Studios has canceled its ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower over budgetary issues. According to Deadline, the studio has scrapped the entire project—which was to consist of three feature films and two TV miniseries—because it was too expensive and
By Kevin Hall, Device.com Hey, did you hear? Total Recall, the sci-fi action classic that brought us full-body X-ray airport scanners and demanded we get our ass to Mars, is coming back sometime next year with a star-studded cast. These shots from the set offer a glimpse at some of
By Vaneta Rogers, Newsarama Contributor Jeff Smith’s Cartoon Books, one of the most successful independent publishers in the industry, has joined the growing list of comic book creators going digital thanks to the iPad and comiXology. Bone and RASL, Smith’s award-winning indie titles, are both now available through comiXology on
