Month: October 2019

Credit: Kickstart Entertainment Credit: Kickstart Entertainment Taken director Pierre Morel has signed on to direct a film adaptation of the Kickstart Entertainment graphic novel The Blacksmith, according to Deadline. Working from script by Ben Ripley, the film is an adaptation of Malik Evans, Richard Sparkman, and Alberto Muriel’s 2011 OGN for Kickstart – a comic

Credit: Beast Kingdom Press Release Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel is the unstoppable superhero with a heart of gold. A powerful heroine who starts off her journey as a courageous fighter pilot but soon ends up with cosmic superpowers bestowed upon her by the accidental destruction of an otherworldly super engine. With her newfound powers, resonating

Credit: Disney XD Credit: ABC Dove Cameron, the voice of Marvel Rising‘s Gwen Stacy/Ghost Spider, wants to bring her role to live action in the MCU – on one condition. She’s gotta be an “equal match” for Tom Holland’s Peter Parker. “I would love to play Gwen Stacy. I would love to play Spider-Gwen, or

Credit: Jorge Jiménez/Alejandro Sánchez (DC) Credit: Howard Porter/Hi-FI (DC) It began with a Batman Day proclamation: All Elite Wrestling wrestler/executive Cody Rhodes announced that DC’s iconic Dark Knight to be “All Elite.” What followed days later ripplied across both comic book and wrestling circles, as DC and AEW revealed a series of illustrations of AEW

He-Man Credit: Mattel Sony may sell its in development He-Man reboot movie directly to Netflix rather than risk a box office flop, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Citing an unnamed source, THR reports that Sony Pictures Tom Rothman is weighing the possibility of selling the film, based on Mattel’s Masters of the Universe toyline, to Netflix for

Credit: Marvel Comics This week’s Powers of X #6 from writer Jonathan Hickman and artists R.B. Silva, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia, and David Curiel, concludes the lead-up to the upcoming “Dawn of X” line wide X-Men relaunch and puts the final pieces in place for the team’s new status quo. Powers of X #6 also

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Comics Halt and Catch Fire co-creator Christopher Cantwell is no stranger to dark, complex characters – but he’s taking his penchant for anti-heroes to a whole new level in his newly-launched Doctor Doom ongoing series alongside artist Salvador Larroca. In this new series, Doom goes on the run as one

Credit: Machina Corpse Credit: Machina Corpse Press Release Comic Book Publisher Machina Corpse is launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund their first comic book “First Offerings” and to set up operations for future graphic novels. Machina Corpse focuses on all things horror, spooky, creepypasta, and nosleep. The Kickstarter is live until October 30, 2019, you

Credit: Warner Bros. Credit: Shutterstock.com Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been cast in an as-yet-unnamed lead role for Warner Bros.’s fourth The Matrix film, according to Variety. If this report proves correct, Abdul-Mateen would join the returning Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. Variety reports that there have been rumors that a younger actor was being sought

Joaquin Phoenix & Todd Phillips Credit: Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com Joker co-writer/director Todd Phillips has issued a ‘Thank you’ letter to fans following the Warner Bros. film’s success with over $258m at the box office so far. “Thank you to everyone for showing up!!” Phillips posted on Instagram. “It’s been a bumpy ride but reading

Credit: VIZ Media Press Release Multimedia entertainment company VIZ Media, LLC adds the world-renowned Star Wars franchise to its publishing catalog with the acquisition of STAR WARS: THE LEGENDS OF LUKE SKYWALKER: THE MANGA. STAR WARS: THE LEGENDS OF LUKE SKYWALKER: THE MANGA is scheduled for release in early 2020. The anthology will feature a

Credit: Fox Kids Marvel Entertainment, the Walt Disney Company, and others are being sued for copyright infringement over the 1990s theme song to X-Men: The Animated Series due to its similiarities to a 1980s Hungarian cop show’s theme, according to TMZ. The similarities between the two themes have been noted before online, and now a

Credit: Marvel Comics Credit: Marvel Marvel Comics has unveiled a new look at interior art from its upcoming X-Force “Dawn of X” series – foreshadowing a security breach on Krakoa. As for who makes it to the mutant island, well, from the looks of the art by Joshua Cassara and Dean White, it’s the X-Men’s

Suddenly, Jon Kent is five years older than Damian Wayne – and that means a lot of changes for the Super Sons in this preview of this week’s Superman #16. SUPERMAN #16written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDISart by DAVID LAFUENTEcover by IVAN REIS and JOE PRADOvariant cover by JASON MASTERSThe Super Sons are back! But now

Check out a preview of this week’s The Batman’s Grave #1. THE BATMAN’S GRAVE #1written by WARREN ELLISart by BRYAN HITCH and KEVIN NOWLANcover by BRYAN HITCHcard stock variant cover by JEEHYUNG LEEblank variant coverThe World’s Greatest Detective must try to inhabit the mind of a murder victim to solve a case—without filling the empty

Credit: Floating World Comics Credit: Floating World Comics Press Release Night Hunters is cyber punk comic book about life on the streets of Venezuela’s dystopian police state 100 years in the future, created by Alexis Ziritt ( Space Riders, Tarantula) and Dave Baker (Fuck Off Squad, Action Hospital) and published by Floating World Comics (Revenger,

Simon Curtis Credit: Legendary Comics Press Release Legendary Comics announced today a new graphic novel, THE WITCHES OF SILVERLAKE, from singer-songwriter and actor Simon Curtis, with art by Stephanie Son, set for release in early 2021. The original story follows Elliot Green, who, after his dad dies, moves across country to Los Angeles where his

Credit: Lee Weeks (Marvel Comics) Credit: Lee Weeks (Marvel Comics) No one said Daredevil ever had it easy. By the early 1990s, ol’ hornhead had been stripped of his law license, sanity and girlfriend in Frank Miller’s classic “Born Again” arc, lost his love Elektra and possibly found her a few years previous and had

Daimon Hellstrom Credit: Kev Walker (Marvel Comics) Sydney Lemmon Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com The core cast and plot of Hulu’s upcoming Helstrom series has been announced via Deadline. Tom Austen and Sydney Lemmon will play Daimon and Ana Helstrom, the children of long-incarcerated serial killer Victoria Helstrom, played by The Crown‘s Victoria Marvel, who travel the

John Cleese Credit: Planet Comicon Excerpt from Superman: True Brit Credit: John Byrne (DC) Press Release Planet Comicon Kansas City, the largest and longest-running comic book convention and pop culture event in the region, returns to Bartle Hall for its 21st annual event March 20 – 22. Tickets for the pop culture extravaganza are on

Credit: Marvel Studios Nothing against Alan Silvestri’s score for Avengers: Endgame, but it needed more of Stan Bush’s “The Touch.” Don’t believe us? Check out this remix of the scene where Captain America picks up Mjolnir, using “The Touch.” You can thank us later. [embedded content] I remixed Cap lifting Thor’s hammer with The Touch

By Mindy Weisberger, Live Science Senior Writer October 8, 2019 08:00am ET Credit: Randall Munroe (Penguin Random House) Credit: Randall Munroe (Penguin Random House) Have you ever wondered how to predict the weather, land an airplane onto a moving train, or knock a drone out of the sky with sports equipment? Randall Munroe, creator of

Credit: The CW The CW’s Batwoman debuted Sunday, October 6 with 1.8 million live plus same-day viewers, according to TVByTheNumbers. That would be the lowest Arrowverse series premiere to date, but the highest CW non-Arroweverse series premiere in 22 months – going back to January 2018, when the last Arrowverse show debuted: Black Lightning. Those

Credit: IDW Publishing Alonzo Simon Credit: IDW Publishing IDW Publishing has promoted four people within its Editorial Department, with one moving over from Marketing. Editor Alonzo Simon has been promoted to Senior Editor. Simon joined the company in 2006 as an Editor, working primarily on IDW’s Hasbro and Nickelodeon titles. David Mariotte Credit: IDW Publishing

Michael Allred Credit: AAA Pop Mike Allred has been a major name in comic books for going on two decades, but between Madmen, The Atomics, X-Force, X-Statix, iZombie, and everything else he’s done… do you really know him as a person? Newsarama is looking to answer that by delving into Allred’s early days as a

Read the first full issue of Battlestar Galactica: Twilight Command ahead of theOctober 9 TPB release from Dynamite Entertainment. Battlestar Galactica: Twilight Command TPwriter: Michael Moreciartist: Breno Tamuracover: Brent SchoonoverFC  |  120 pages  |  $19.99  |   Science-Fiction  |  Teen+It’s a dangerous time for the last remaining humans. Captured by the Cylons on New Caprica, the