CATACOMBS trailer
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While the lesson to be learned in the marriage of Hollywood and Toontown is that directors make comics writers, the obverse is also beginning to be true, as comical types like Sam Kieth,...
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 is not all that's been going on in Anime-land this...
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 the cartoons of IN THE BLEACHER'S Steve Moore. It's just...
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 Zemeckis-directed movie also had fine performances by a cult-friendly cast...
‘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 the Cartoon Mafia. Judge is the autuer behind Beavis and...
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 is Zak Penn, the writer behind the last two "X-Men"...
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 with Marvel Studios. U's Peter Cramer is overseeing for the...
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 playing ditzy Summer Roberts in the hit teen series -...
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 the deal mostly derives from CBM's plans to make live-action...
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 a new strong Japanese partner in Itochu Corp. which is...
Warners not happy with Reeves biopic
A potentially interesting comic-book themed film is opening this weekend, HOLLYWOODLAND, starring Ben Affleck, Adrian Brody and the ever radiant Diane Lane in a film covering the still-mysterious death of actor George Reeves, who...
