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Natalie Portman Is Jane Foster In THOR

July 13, 2009 Rich Drees

We ended last week with some comic book movie casting news and so we start the new week with some more. Marvel Studios has announced that Academy Award nominated actress Natalie Portman has been picked [click for more]

Ryan Reynolds Is GREEN LANTERN

July 11, 2009 Bill Gatevackes

Do you think there is a contest in the Reynolds-Johansson household to see who can do the most comic book movies? Scarlett held the lead with three (Ghost World, The Spirit, and Iron Man 2) to Ryan’s [click for more]

Garth Ennis On Possible PREACHER And BOYS Flicks

July 6, 2009 Rich Drees

Many recent comic book to film adaptations have made it seem as if it were relatively easy to translate their four-color superhero stories to the big screen. But as comics writer Garth Ennis relates, that [click for more]

300 Sequel? 301?

June 26, 2009 Bill Gatevackes

It might be just me, but I think 300 is a fairly self-contained film. The adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel retelling the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartan soldiers faced off against Persian [click for more]

WATCHMEN Directors Cut Gets Limited Theatrical Release.

June 25, 2009 Bill Gatevackes

For those of you eagerly awaiting the July 21st director’s cut DVD release of Watchmen and wished there was some way to see it on the big screen, you are in luck–if you live in [click for more]

Live Action AKIRA Is Dead

June 14, 2009 Rich Drees

Well, here’s a story of a project that has stalled out in Developmen Hell that I won’t shed any tears over. The live action-version of Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic anime feature Akira being developed by Leonard [click for more]

Scrambling To Save GI JOE From Complete Disaster

June 11, 2009 Rich Drees

With just under 8 weeks to go before its release, it is looking as if the big screen adaptation of toy and cartoon franchise G. I. Joe is undergoing some last minute, panicked tinkering, starting [click for more]

First Look: Rourke As Whiplash In IRON MAN 2

June 9, 2009 Rich Drees

The last time an Academy Award-nominated actor followed up their nomination for an Oscar with the role of a comic book villain, we got Halle Berry in Catwoman. Thankfully, I don’t think we have that [click for more]

Brian Blessed To Play THOR’s Dad Odin

June 2, 2009 Rich Drees

It looks as if Brian Blessed has been cast in the upcoming adaptation of the Norse god-turned-superhero Marvel Comic Thor, as the god of thunder’s father Odin. The news comes from the recently launched Bleeding Coolcomics [click for more]

McBride Enters Comic Film Realm With HENCH

May 29, 2009 Bill Gatevackes

Danny McBride might not be the first person you would think of as starring in a comic book film, but star in one he will. Yesterday, Variety reported that Warner Brothers has acquired AIT/PlanetLar’s Hench [click for more]