Johansson is “Spirit”ed
Oboy! Lots more pictures of ScarJo to be featured on The Beat as she's just been cast in Frank Miller's Spirit Movie as a...
Steve Bissette on STARDUST
Prolix Steve Bissette has a very very long review of STARDUST and observations on the role of illustrators in film and great links and...
Time for Thor to “play the game?”
IGN.com has a story about the upcoming THOR movie, which just had STARDUST'S Matthew Vaughn sign on as director. But who will play...
Morning briefing: Cerenzie-Peters, Ice Cube, Slade
A new production shingle, Cerenzie-Peters has just launched and they make their intentions CLEAR:
Producers Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters have formed Cerenzie-Peters Prods., aimed...
St. Trinian’s attacks!
Here's another copmics-based movie winging its way to us: a remake of St. Triniam's based ona serie sof cartoon by Ronald Searle. Set...
STARDUST lags at box office
Despite generally excellent reviews -- 73% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes -- STARDUST was a non-starter at this weekend's box office:
The weekend's other significant...
300 tramples opposing DVDs
ICv2 updates the sales of the 300 DVD, which topped both the sales and rental charts.
The 300 DVD sold over seven million units during...
Studio briefing: Thor, Punisher, Maintenance
Stardust helmer Matthew Vaughn has been tapped to direct Marvel's THOR Variety reports. Vaughn was once slated to direct X-MEN 3 so he's...
Morning briefing: Gugino, Hulk
§ Sexy Carla Gugino will play Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre in WATCHMEN.
Gugino will play Sally Jupiter, a burlesque dancer-turned-costumed heroine and sex symbol the...
Jonny Quest movie planned
Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter (HITMAN) are producing a live action version of JONNY QUEST.
We suggest they use the Bill Loebs/Dan Spiegel comic...
Variety: Dark Horse, Oni, Devils Due wannabes
IN an unfortunately named articlem Variety runs down all the comics in studio play at all the comics companies with special attention to...
OCEAN optioned
Variety has the latest comics-to-movies deal: 300's Gianni Nunnari and Nick Wechsler have optioned OCEAN by Warren Ellis and Chris Sprouse.:
Nunnari and Wechsler will...
