Bryan Singer Wants to Direct X-Men Again, Fanboys Cream Pants

I kid, I kid about the fanboys comment, especially since I’m one of those people who would love to see Bryan Singer make a triumphant return to the X franchise. After hacks like Gavin Hood and Brett Ratner took their turn slashing away at the franchise like blind hobos, it’s human nature...

October 11th, 2009 | Read More

Alex Ross Planet Hulk DVD Cover Box Art

USA Today has debuted the DVD box art cover for Marvel Studios’ upcoming “Planet Hulk” animated movie, due out February 2, 2010. The artwork is by no other than Alex Ross himself, comic book cover artist extraordinaire. And in case you missed it, check out the “Planet Hulk”...

October 9th, 2009 | Read More

Warren Ellis’ Strange Kiss Heads to Big Screen as Gravel

It was only a matter of time before Hollywood started raiding the oeuvre of Warren Ellis. With his “Red” in production with Bruce Willis at Summit and the sci-fi actioner “Ocean” in development over at Warner Bros., Ellis’ latest property to get the big screen treatment...

October 8th, 2009 | Read More

The Flash Game? Oh, What Could Have Been.

Playing The Flash on “Mortal Kombat versus D.C. Universe” is nice, but let’s face it, when all the Flash gets to do is run around the screen punching people in the back and what have you, it’s not really the Flash. So what would a game built around the Flash character be like?...

October 8th, 2009 | Read More

Oh how Pleasant! Gary Ross to Write AND Direct Venom!

Well now ain’t this just out of left field. Filmmaker Gary Ross, writer/director on such inspirational dramas as “Pleasantville” and “Seabiscuit”, was recently tapped to take a swing at the “Spider-Man 4″ script, which got a lot of heads turning. And now the...

October 8th, 2009 | Read More

Zoe Saldana Doesn’t Look Like any Loser I’ve Ever Seen

Oh, EW. Why, oh why? They get all these exclusive movie images and all they do is post shitty medium-sized versions of them on their site. What are they trying to save, bandwidth? Geez, I’ll never understand these people. Anyways, here’s your first look at Zoe Saldana in costume as Aisha...

October 7th, 2009 | Read More

X-Men Origins: Mystique? It’s Already Happened in my Dreams.

In one of those “never gonna happen in a million years” stories that will get fanboys excited but no one else, actress Rebecca Romijn thinks it might be cool to have an “X-Men” spin-off movie focus on the origins of her character from the “X-Men” films, the shapeshifting,...

October 7th, 2009 | Read More

The Flash Movie: Running on Empty?

So what’s the deal with The Flash movie? Ryan Reynolds has wanted to play it for the longest time, but he seems to have moved on to get his superhero jones as Green Lantern and Deadpool (the latter will probably never get made, but Green Lantern is definitely on the way, though for my money I’d...

October 7th, 2009 | Read More

New Iron Man 2 Image, Liam Neeson as Zeus in Clash Remake

Entertainment Weekly has a round-up of exclusive behind-the-scenes pics from some highly-anticipated upcoming movies, though for some reason known only to EW they wasted three spots on Fox’s ridiculously shitty TV show Glee, and two more on Tina Fey and Steve Carell staring up at the sky. But at...

October 5th, 2009 | Read More

Another Comic Book You’ve Never Heard of Gets Optioned

That’s “Cla$$war”, with two dollar signs instead of an “s”. It’s a little-known comic book from 2002 by publisher Com.x, and revolves around a superhero called The American who realizes that his government is rotten and has to fight back, which means going up against...

October 5th, 2009 | Read More

The Green Hornet Boys in Action on the Set

So what are the chances that Michel Gondry’s “Green Hornet” movie is not going to suck? I haven’t a clue. And frankly, I’m tired of saying bad things about the movie. Who knows, it may end up being amazing. You know, like “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” kind of...

October 2nd, 2009 | Read More

McTiegue Talks Superman and More

If comic book films are going to continue to be recycled and reimagined, they must be less reverential, more innovative, more relevant; Batman Begins signaled a shift in this direction. James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, the upcoming Ninja Assassins), who is rumored to be under consideration to direct the...

October 1st, 2009 | Read More

First Look at Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet

Here’s your first look at Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet, mask and all on the set of “Green Hornet”. Or I think that’s Seth Rogen. The pic comes from Splashnews, who has a video from behind the scenes that has an embed function, but apparently it ain’t workin’ right...

September 30th, 2009 | Read More

Purple Crime Fighting Time! Trailer for the SyFy Channel’s new Phantom

Really, he’s wearing purple. If you’re going to go and change the Phantom’s costume completely, shouldn’t you also change the color, too? Why bother holding onto the ridiculous purple if you’ve already chucked the costume? I’m just sayin’. Anyways, that’s...

September 30th, 2009 | Read More

Leo is a Bum (I Tell Ya, a Bum!) in The Deep Blue Goodbye

Leonardo DiCaprio gets attached to a lot of movies, most of which never happens. I’m still waiting for that “Akira” movie, Leo, get on it! Anyways, the latest property with his name attached is the easy-going sounding “The Deep Blue Goodbye”, an adaptation of a series of...

September 29th, 2009 | Read More

Venom Film Gets a Script

It’s probably an idea that sounded practical on paper: in “Spider-Man 3″, the symbiote becomes the impetus for Peter Parker’s aggression toward Harry Osborn and others. And, hey, let’s throw the Sandman in there so that there’s more of an anchor of humanity outside...

September 26th, 2009 | Read More

Iron Man 2 Set Visit Courtesy of Entertainment Tonight

The always subtle kids at Entertainment Tonight took a visit to the set of “Iron Man 2″ and came back with this five-minute, fun-filled package. Lots of scenes of Mickey Rourke lasering things to pieces with his whip and the the reporters obsessing over Robert Downey Jr.’s exercise...

September 25th, 2009 | Read More

McFarlane Promies a Moderately Budgeted, R-Rated Spawn Movie

Todd McFarlane is adamant that he’s going to make his version of “Spawn” come hell or high water, and you gotta admire that kind of commitment. The comic book artist/writer turned toyline wunderkind tells MTV that the reason he’s going with a small, $5-million dollar-ish budget...

September 24th, 2009 | Read More

David Goyer Tapped for Ghost Rider Sequel

“Ghost Rider” may not have won a whole lot of fans when it showed up two years ago, and the critics were their usual hatin’ self toward the comic book movie, but it made plenty of dough. And with star Nicolas Cage more than willing to come back, a sequel wasn’t going to be far...

September 23rd, 2009 | Read More

Rob Liefeld is Really, Really Excited about the Deadpool Movie

Twitter by itself is somewhat retarded, but Twitter with celebrities is great stuff. Reading goofy tweets from celebrities seems to make the whole thing worthwhile, though. Take Rob Liefeld, one of the creators of the Deadpool character (he drew it, but really, Fabian Nicieza was the one who really gave...

September 23rd, 2009 | Read More