A Snap Seen Around the World: What Happens when Superhero Films Get Grim?
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...
When is a movie a graphic novel? David Goyer has the answer
David Goyer, a Hollywood vet perhaps best known for co-writing Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, is going to direct a a new version of...
INTERVIEW: R.M. Peaslee and R.G. Weiner Deconstruct Spider-Man in WEB-SPINNING HEROICS
Spider-Man is hands down one of the most popular characters ever to leap from the pages of Marvel Comics, and is even a strong...
New IRON MAN 3 trailer
"Urgent superhero" music motive? Check
Hero in a wifebeater? Check
CGI helicopters at sunset? Check
Hero questioning the meaning of his role as superhero vs his personal...
ADVANCE REVIEW: Keeping Things Real in THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, Book 2
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...
Watch! Jesse V. Johnson’s Wonder Woman Fan-Trailer
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...
The Beat’s Annual Guide to Winning the Oscar® Pool: Best Animated Shorts 2013
So, once again, Hollywood confabulates and celebrates the best of motion picture arts and sciences tonight, at the 85th Academy Awards. Among the many...
Matthew Vaughn Now Producing The New Fantastic Four Movie
In a development that's not wholly unexpected, but certainly welcome, it seems Matthew Vaughn has joined the team for Fox's rebooting of the Fantastic...
More Super Bowl trailers
Under The Dome
Trailer for the book jacket
OZ The Great and Powerful -- looking forward to this!
Fast and the Furious ^ - Rock meets Diesel
The...
Extended IRON MAN 3 trailer and new stills
Disney has released the EXTENDED (well, really extensive) trailer for IRON MAN 3 a brief snippet of which was shown on the Super Bowl in the posh post Beyoncé spot.
Why you should fund BETTER THINGS: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Okay rarely at the Beat do we issue a direct order but we're playing that card. We want you to STOP reading this post immediately and go to this link and pledge some money for Maria Paz Cabardo's film BETTER THINGS: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones. DO IT. All finished! Great get a cookie!
Ant-Man and Doctor Strange movies are a whole Phase now
It's not that they weren't go before, but now they ‘but now they even have a whole name: Marvel’s Phase Three, as Marvel studio head Kevin Feige told MTV:
