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Warner Brothers Scrambles For Next Summer’s Blockbusters

June 3, 2008 Rich Drees

While studio execs keep one eye on their current box office business their films are doing, they keep their other eye on the projects in development that will (hopefully) be bringing in the dollars in [click for more]

New WATCHMEN Photo- The Minutemen!

May 27, 2008 Rich Drees

It’s a double dose of Watchmen news today. Earlier, we told you about how the graphic novel’s “Tales Of The Black Freighter” segments were going to be animated and released on DVD just a few [click for more]

WATCHMEN’s "Tales Of The Black Freighter" To Be DVD Spin Off

May 26, 2008 Rich Drees

Next March, comic book fans are getting even more of the gritty world created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in the landmark graphic novel Watchmen. In addition to the live action adaptation hitting screens [click for more]

Back To The 80s, Part Two: Columbia To Relaunch FLASH GORDON

May 21, 2008 Rich Drees

Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures has secured the rights to bring classic pulp hero Flash Gordon back to the big screen in the hopes of launching a new summer blockbuster franchise. OK, I may be cheating [click for more]

The Inmates Of SUPERMAX

May 20, 2008 Rich Drees

Back in April 2007, screenwriter David Goyer announced that he was developing what sounded like an interesting take on the superhero film- Supermax. In it, DC Comics hero Green Arrow is, wrongfully of course, arrested [click for more]

Poster: HELLBOY 2

May 16, 2008 Rich Drees

While everyone seems to be excited by director Guillermo del Toro having been chosen to direct the adaptation of J R R Tolkein’s The Hobbit, it seems like it has been forgotten that he has [click for more]

SGT. ROCK Close To Getting Director

May 12, 2008 Rich Drees

If the box office returns on Iron Man aren’t enough to convince you, you’ll just have to take our word for it that comic book films are a hot ticket right now. (Just look at [click for more]

Vaughn Not Directing THOR

May 8, 2008 Rich Drees

Just a few days after Marvel Studios celebrated the successful opening of their first self-produced feature, Iron Man, their announced plans for their superhero franchise films may be in danger as Matthew Vaughn, the director [click for more]

GI JOE: Eight New (Official This Time) Cast Photos

May 7, 2008 Rich Drees

(Updated: Three more photos added below!) A quintet of pictures from Stephen Sommer’s upcoming G I Joe have hit the web, with the studio dishing them out to various sites. But there’s no need to [click for more]

Frank Miller Delivers Christmas SPIRIT

May 7, 2008 Rich Drees

Frank Miller’s adaptation of the classic comic hero The Spirit will be arriving a little sooner than anticipated. Originally scheduled for a January 2009 release, studio Lionsgate has moved the film’s premier up three weeks [click for more]