The Brave Interactive Comic — Disney Goes Digital
Disney comics is a complicated topic. Disney bought Marvel, but the BOOM! had some of their licenses. BOOM! lost the licenses, but Marvel didn't exactly come charging out of the gate with a lot of Disney titles. If you were paying attention to job listings, you'd also see Disney was hiring comics editors and digital comics people for their publishing office in White Plains (which is about to move to Burbank). It looks like we're seeing their first product: the "Brave Interactive Comic."
Some Thoughts on "Brave"
Although it is branded as a Pixar movie, "Brave" is more like a Disney feature. Is the Golden Age of Pixar over?
JUDGE DREDD: The first trailer
Karl Urban alert! Although all we get to see of him is his chin.
New Bane-centric DARK KNIGHT RISES trailer from Nokia
For the full effect you'll want to go right to the site, but this trailer has a lot of dark Bane vs Batman footage and less Catwoman.
Any chance this movie will top AVENGERS? Probably not. But it should easily vanquish Spider-Man for #2 comic book movie of the year.
Avengers Stabilizes A Bit, Prometheus Tumbles at the Box Office
What if they released Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler Movies, but nobody cared? That's pretty much what happened this weekend. In what's turning out to be a real Geek Chic summer, the top 10 this week was 4 SF/F films and a cartoon at #1.
"Once creator ownership was on the table, the moviable properties were largely works that...
Nat Gertler has made a chart, and even though his name is not Clarissa, it might just explain it all for you.
The day in superhero crotch architecture Part II: Spidey's piddle problem
Wow, two crotchgates in one day. It seems that Andrew Garfield, who will appear as Spider-Man in the new film which opens on July 3rd, had to learn the hard way that superhero costumes aren't that practical in real life. It turns out that obliging certain natural functions was not that easy in his Spidey suit.
What's behind the new movie Superman's giant…personality?
We were all pretty excited when the first set photos of Henry Cavill as Superman leaked out. It seemed that after years of binding and CGI smoothing, Superman was finally getting super where it counted.
Avengers Starts the Slide Down, #5 This Weekend At Box Office
As the summer's family fare starts to roll out and another SF/F franchise rolls out, Avengers starts the real slide down the box office fire pole. This week, Avengers sank all the way down to #5 for U.S. box office.
Prometheus — Not Half As Clever As It Needed To Be
I took in a screening of Prometheus last night, the much anticipated "is it or isn't it" prequel to Alien and Ridley Scott's "maybe" return to that universe. It was a decidedly mixed bag.
