GOTH movie in the works
And speaking of Manga, Fox Atomic has a movie based on the Japanese novel and manga GOTH in the works. JT Petty is slated to write the script. We like Anime News Network's description...
JOHNNY DYNAMITE to green screen
Today's comic book option is JOHNNY DYNAMITE by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty, a hard boiled copper whose adventures once ran in the back of MS TREE. Now, quoth Variety Law &...
Final Blade Runner?
The real, true director's cut of this seminal and prophetic film is coming:
This current "Final Cut" version, Scott said, comes closest to what the film could have been and, in his mind, should have...
Goyer signs on for Baltimore
Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden's just-published (but long gestating) illustrated novel Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampirehas been optioned by Regency in a 7-figure deal, with David Goyer set to direct,...
Sad day: Biel backs out of Wonder Woman
Sad news for Beat readers over the weekend:EW.com reported that Jessica Biel as Wonder Woman is a no-go:
EW has learned that actress Jessica Biel has decided to pass on playing Wonder Woman in Warner...
JLA movie details
Patrick over at UGO has various script leaks on the suddenly fast-tracked JLA movie:
Ever since the JLA movie was announced people have been wondering what the storyline for the film will be about. What...
Picturebox at NY Art Book Fair
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PictureBox will be set up at The New York Art Book Fair starting this Thursday, Sept. 27th, at 6 pm. The fair will the be open Friday and Saturday, 11-7 and Sunday 11-5....
Zot’s back!
PW reports the joyous news that ZOT will be reprinted by Harper Collins:
Acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud will see his classic comics series, Zot!, republished by HarperCollins as an original trade paperback...
Meet Ellen Dolan
Sarah Paulson, lately of STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP will play Ellen Dolan in the SPIRIT movie, it's being reported:
Paulson...joins Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson in the dark supernatural tale about a young...
Superhero movie curse strikes again _REPOST
A special effects technician working on BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT was killed when the vehicle he was driving struck a tree, Reuters reports:
The studio said that none of the cast, which includes several Hollywood...
Salma Hayek has baby!
We almost forget that actress Salma Hayek had a baby girl last week. Congratulations! Valentina Paloma Pinault is the first child for Hayek, 41, and fiancee Francois Henri Pinault, but great training for when...
To Do Tonight, WeHo: Malkasian and Hernandez at Book Soup
Cathy Malkasian (Percy Gloom) and Gilbert Hernandez appear tonight at Book Soup in West Hollywood:
WHO: Gilbert Hernandez & Cathy Malkasian
WHAT: Graphic novel signing
WHERE: Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 25th, 7PM
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