Tag: Movies

Last week WB head Kevin Tsujihara gave a talk to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference and touched on their upcoming slate. You can read a full transcript here (although whoever did it doesn't seem to know Zack Snyder's first name.) Anyhoo, while the J.K. Rowling wizarding news had everyone clicking their heels, it doesn't mean that DC has been left waiting out in the car . Here's the key passage:

Tharg popped round for a biscuit earlier, before thrusting a piece of yellowing paper into my hands and saying "this can run immediately." It appears that 2000AD are endorsing the 18th September as 'a...

Don't call it a prequel. WB and J.K. Rowling have agreed to make more films set in the Harry Potter universe. The first film will be written by Rowling herself and based on Fantastic...

I'm one of the very few people in the world who really enjoyed THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK. Where others saw a confusing storyline, I saw a CGI heavy SF film that had actual imagination and didn't play by predictable rules. Admittedly it was a departure from the tighter, simpler PITCH BLACK, a tense action adventure which introduced Vin Diesel as Riddick, a tough as nails, brutal survivor of an interplanetary criminal. Taken together the films—both written and directed by David Twohy—were one of the odder SF franchises in the CGI era.

Snowpiercer opened in South Korea earlier this month to rave reviews and box-office breaking sales. But the 126 minute film, based on popular bande dessinée Le Transperceneige and starring Chris Evans, is to be cut...

CANCER VIXEN is a very important graphic novel. When it came out in 2006, it earned what must have been the biggest advance ever for a graphic novel, $250,000. The book, by cartoonist...

Here. This is the footage that was shown at Comic-Con and at D23. It's.... Whoa. That's Peter Serafinowicz who voices the "what a bunch of A-holes" line, equalling in one blow his entire dialog quotient in Phantom Menace....

Marvel Kremlinologists got a treasure trove of info in this Wired profile of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige the mastermind of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One of the most interesting things, to me, was this...

I know you are all sick of this comic book movie talk, but this seemed worthy of its own item. Word on the street is that for the upcoming Batman/Superman team-up movie, they are...

Hey peeps, I guess it's just contest week here at the Beat. This time the nice folks at Universal are offering a 2 Guns package that includes: ·         $25 Visa Gift Card to see the...

As the long cinematic slog of Summer 2013 crawls to a close, the summer of the comic book movie, one last battle of comics-based films is ready to play out this Friday: Smurfs 2...

THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK is one of my favorite SF films of the last decade, even though it's a mad jumble of elements: wanted criminal Riddick, last of the Furyons, necromongers, scheming for a...