Movie Comics

Could it be that Hollywood's junkie-like reliance on sequels could be coming to an end? A series of so-so-sequels, many based on comics, tallied another disappointing chit with this weekend's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadowstook. Produced by Michael Bay, the film was #1 at the box office but with a moribund $35.25 million, on a production cost of $135 million. X-Men Apocalyse was #2 with $22.3 million, a 66% drop that's typical for sequels but further evidence of a softening market:

Yesterday Alex Zalben had a modest proposal on CBR called For Comics to Survive, They Must Align with Movies & TV and drew a lot of fire on comics twitter. The piece starts out pointing out how DC dropped the ball by not having a Supergirl comic to come out with the Supergirl TV show but unfolds it as a tarp to cover much of the Big Two publishing strategy:

A lot of newish comics companies have launched of late—Double Take, Aftershock, Z2—and I'm guessing they would all like to have films made from...

Firstly, there’s such a thing as a comic called THOR: THE DARK WORLD, “Prelude”, a two-part “limited series” introduced this month which is apparently...

Monsters vs robots in bone crushing Guillermo del Toro-vision? I'm there! Get in the mood as we talk to screenwriter Travis Beacham about his prequel graphic novel.

I'm not going to lie, but my "mjolnir" dropped when I saw the brand-spanking-new Thor: The Dark World movie poster. You won't see the...

With Oblivion—the Tom Cruise SF vehicle—opening next week, we have some official word about the graphic novel that inspired it, via Radical Studio's evp...

We've written before about OBLIVION, the SF movie that seemed to be "based' on a graphic novel by director Joseph Kosinski, adapted by Arvid Nelson and Andree Wallin -- although a mock-up of the project was apparently used to lure Tom Cruise into starring in the film (which opens later this month) -- Ksinski now says it will most likely never be published::

The biggest success for comics over the past five years hasn't actually been comics at all: it's been the movie industry. Superhero films are...

Mike Molcher is the PR Co-ordinator for Rebellion, meaning he is the man directly responsible for promoting their comics, 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine....

Vertigo released Book 1 of its THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning posthumously published Millennium Series novels by...

We all want Wonder Woman to be in a movie. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and say we want...