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Joe Illidge looks at HEROES and wonders about the racial message the program is sending.
Busy, busy Mike Catron has video from the opening of...
CATACOMBS trailer
http://www.youtube.com/v/cRkPL8VqF1w
While the lesson to be learned in the marriage of Hollywood and Toontown is that directors make comics writers, the obverse is also beginning...
Japanese toon biz update
Earlier in the week we told you about Itochu and Comic Book Movies possibly teaming to make a CYBORG 009 movie. But that...
Sony Pictures enter CGI glut
Speaking of CGI, earlier this week, the LA Times thoroughly examined Sony Pictures' new animation unit, and their debut production OPEN SEASON, based on...
Who Buried Roger Rabbit?
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? is a film still fondly remembered by some. Melding animation and live action back when it was hard, the Robert...
‘Untitled Mike Judge Comedy’
This is a bit far afield for us, but here on Cartoon Friday, we're giving Mike Judge a pass because he's definitely part of...
Avengers assemble! On the set!
Wait, it's a Marvel two-fer in the trades! The Hollywood Reporter says a live-action Avengers movie is in the works!
Set to pen the screenplay...
Mostow swims to Sub-mariner
The long-brewing Sub-mariner movies has a director again, Variety reports, namely Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3):
Kevin Misher is producing through his Misher Films along...
Total Scuttlebutt: Wonder Bilson
'The O.C.' star Rachel Bilson is reportedly set to play Wonder Woman in the new comic book movie.
The brunette actress - best known for...
Movie tidbits
Variety parses the Comic Book Movies/Itochu pact, boiling it down to a wish to make films based on Shotaro Ishinomori's work.
Itochu's interest in...
Comic Book Movies gains Japanese partner
We can't exactly figure out who's funding what here, but it seems that producer (BATMAN BEGINS) Michael Uslan's Comics Book Movies entertainment co has...
