{"id":3351,"date":"2009-03-03T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2016-02-25T23:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T04:47:32","slug":"marvel-warner-brothers-make-2010-a-good-year-for-super-hero-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/03\/marvel-warner-brothers-make-2010-a-good-year-for-super-hero-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel, Warner Brothers Make 2010 A Good Year For Super Hero Adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2973\" title=\"greenlantern2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/greenlantern2-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"greenlantern2\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/greenlantern2-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/greenlantern2.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/>If you are a fan of comic book movies, and find 2009&#8217;s slate to be a little underwhelming, be patient. Because 2010 is shaping up to be a great year for comic book movie fans.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Brothers announced released dates for some of their upcoming releases to Exhibitor Relations (as reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=53203\" target=\"_blank\">Comingsoon.net<\/a>) and it seems that they were serious about amping up their comic book inspired output. Both Josh Bolin&#8217;s starring turn as <strong>Jonah Hex<\/strong> and\u00a0the long -awaited<strong> Green Lantern<\/strong>\u00a0film (the script for which\u00a0was reviewed by us here)\u00a0will be hitting screens in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>They join Marvel&#8217;s previously announced <strong>Thor <\/strong>and <strong>Iron Man 2<\/strong>\u00a0films (recently re-confirmed by Marvel&#8217;s fourth quarter 2008 earnings report) and the no-stranger to comics <strong>The Green Hornet <\/strong>to make 2010 a jam-packed year.<\/p>\n<p>Here is your scheduled line-up, so you can clear your social schedules accordingly:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iron Man 2<\/strong>&#8211;May 7,2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Green Hornet&#8211;<\/strong>June 25, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thor<\/strong>&#8211;July 16, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonah Hex<\/strong>&#8211;August 6, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green Lantern&#8211;<\/strong>December 17, 2010<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3352\" title=\"spidermanposter200a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spidermanposter200a.jpg\" alt=\"spidermanposter200a\" width=\"200\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spidermanposter200a.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/spidermanposter200a-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>And for those of you who can&#8217;t wait five months to get your comics-adapted-into-different-media fix, start planning a trip to New York City in February. The long in production <strong>Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark <\/strong>is set to\u00a0open at Broadway&#8217;s \u00a0Hilton Theater\u00a0on February 18, 2010, with previews begining on January 16.<\/p>\n<p>The musical, at least partially inspired by the <strong>Spider-Man <\/strong>film franchise, is directed by Julie Taymor and features songs from U2&#8217;s Bono and Edge.\u00a0My advice to you would try to reserve those tickets early,\u00a0because there&#8217;s no guarantee how long this one&#8217;s going to last. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Tip of the hat to The Beat for inspiring this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">If you are a fan of comic book movies, and find 2009&#8217;s slate to be a little underwhelming, be patient. Because 2010 is shaping up to be a great year for comic book movie fans. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/03\/marvel-warner-brothers-make-2010-a-good-year-for-super-hero-adaptations\/\" title=\"Marvel, Warner Brothers Make 2010 A Good Year For Super Hero Adaptations\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[1479,207,31,174,1480,640,172,1481,821,1423,402,1476,289,378,564,545,297,1477,1478],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"tag-bono","9":"tag-broadway","10":"tag-comics-and-film","11":"tag-dc-comics-characters","12":"tag-edge","13":"tag-green-hornet","14":"tag-green-lantern","15":"tag-hilton-theater","16":"tag-iron-man-2","17":"tag-jonah-hex","18":"tag-josh-brolin","19":"tag-julie-taymor","20":"tag-marvel","21":"tag-marvel-comics","22":"tag-marvel-studios","23":"tag-spider-man","24":"tag-thor","25":"tag-turn-off-the-dark","26":"tag-u2"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}