In Boring Real-Life News: Disney Buys Marvel for $4 Billion

The big news from this morning has the trades reporting that Disney has just announced the purchase of Marvel Studios (home of the Hulk, Captain America, Avengers, and generally cool superheroes) for a princely sum of $4 billion dollars. Marvel shareholders will be getting paid, and the deal is expected...

August 31st, 2009 | Read More

Christian Bale Sabotaged Bradley Cooper’s Green Lantern Audition. Kinda.

Okay, not really, but according to Bradley Cooper, who sounds like an affable bloke if this Conan O’Brien Show interview is any indication, said his attempts to impersonate Bale’s Batman (growling voice and all) during his Green Lantern audition was what sunk him and gave the part to Ryan...

August 30th, 2009 | Read More

First Look at Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet on Priest Set

Here’s your first look at Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet in costume (I don’t know what the hell Paul is wearing) moving back and forth between the set of their latest movie, the horror-actioner “Priest”. The Scott Stewart fantasy Western film has Bettany playing a warrior priest...

August 28th, 2009 | Read More

Magdalena is a Cross Between Wanted and The Da Vinci Code (but Hopefully with Less Clothing)

It looks like Top Cow’s “Magdalena” is really moving along at a brisk pace, with its two leads already cast (Jenna Dewan and Luke Goss) and a director in Japanese wunderkind Ryuhei Kitamura onboard. So what’s next? Um, the script, for one. That’s the job of screenwriter...

August 28th, 2009 | Read More

Seven New Clips From Beckinsale’s Whiteout

In order to get you pumped, jazzed, and/or passionate about Kate Beckinsale’s upcoming Antarctica murder mystery “Whiteout,” seven snazzy little clips from the movie have been conveniently released on-line. Whether or not they’ll stir up any sort of buzz, of course, remains to...

August 28th, 2009 | Read More

Megan Fox as Catwoman in Batman 3? Yes, Claims British Tabloid of Questionable Credibility

Oh, you British tabloids. They make us movie bloggers look good by comparison. Sure, some of us lowly bloggers, what with our stained boxers and smelly undershirts like to make up stories just for the traffic, and God knows I haven’t been discerning enough not to link to even the most obviously...

August 26th, 2009 | Read More

New Whiteout Pics are Still Kate Beckinsale-rific

I know Kate Beckinsale is supposed to play a U.S. Marshal in the new movie “Whiteout”, and we know Kate can kick ass in the movies when required (the “Underworld” films proved that), but is it me or does she look kind of out of her element in all the promos we’ve seen for...

August 26th, 2009 | Read More

David Goyer Updates Magneto: It’s Still Possible

Of all the possible X-Men-related movies that FOX is currently looking at right now, from Ryan Reynolds in a “Deadpool” spin-off movie, an “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” sequel that would take Wolvie to Japan, and a “X-Men: First Class” (aka “X-Men: 90210″)...

August 24th, 2009 | Read More

Todd McFarlane Tweets Spawn Sequel Updates

According to Todd McFarlane, he’s officially started work on a screenplay for a new movie starring his “Spawn” character, based on a story idea he’s had worming around in his mind for the last 7 or 8 years, which is a pretty long time to have something worming in one’s mind,...

August 24th, 2009 | Read More

Priest Adds a Vampire and a 90210 Resident

Paul Bettany and Scott Stewart’s post-apocalyptic action flick “Priest” continues to roll along, adding two more to its cast. The live-action adaptation of the Tokyo Pop comic book has added True Blood vampire Stephen Moyer to the cast — but wait! Instead of playing a vampire...

August 24th, 2009 | Read More

Greg Rucka’s Queen and Country is a Go at FOX

Comic books don’t all have to be about guys with underwear worn on the outside of their tights. Greg Rucka’s comic series “Queen and Country” is an example of that, as well as his “Whiteout”. And just like “Whiteout”, which is coming to you courtesy of...

August 24th, 2009 | Read More

Karl Urban is a God Among Vampires in Priest

We’ve known for a while now that Paul Bettany will be the warrior priest hero in “Priest”, Scott Stewart’s live-action adaptation of the Tokyo Pop comic book of the same name, and recently we learned that Paul will be getting able assist from the ass-kicking Maggie Q. as a female...

August 21st, 2009 | Read More

Shazam! is Not Dead After All, Gets New Writer

The last time we heard about “Shazam!” and his magic lightning bolt, the movie was dead. D-E-D. Dead. Or at least, that was according to screenwriter John August. As it turns out, the old axiom is true, Hollywood really doesn’t tell screenwriters anything, because the movie is still...

August 20th, 2009 | Read More

Scarlett Johansson Talks Avengers, Black Widow Movie

Apparently Scarlett Johansson likes wearing the skintight black costume (shown below) just as much as we like seeing her in it. In an interview with Ireland Online, which we’re assuming is located in Ireland (yes, we’re sharp like that), the vivacious and curvaceous Johansson is said to be...

August 19th, 2009 | Read More

Diora Baird in Thor? We Wish.

Chances are model turned actress Diora Baird won’t get a role in Marvel Studio’s upcoming “Thor”, but even if she did land one, it wouldn’t be a big enough role to warrant a credit in the title sequences. Or maybe she’ll end up on the cutting room floor, as she did...

August 19th, 2009 | Read More

DVD Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Blu-ray)

Even if I were the world’s greatest clairvoyant and had envisioned the coming of Blu-ray only a few years back, I still would not have believed this could have happened: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition.” The mere title sends shivers down my spine — not...

August 18th, 2009 | Read More

Lionsgate Wins the Kick Ass Movie Prize

After going head-to-head with big boys Paramount and Universal, little ol Lionsgate has won the domestic rights to distribute Matthew Vaughn’s sure-to-be controversial “Kick Ass”, his big-screen live-action adaptation of the vulgar, brutal, and cartoonishly violent (or is that comic...

August 17th, 2009 | Read More

Screenwriter hired for Spider-Man 5 and 6

That’s right, even though the 4th isn’t even filming yet, Sony has pushed along with the 5th and 6th by hiring James Vanderbilt (writer of Zodiac) to pen the scripts (according to Empire). Their aim is supposedly to reduce the time between films being released, so there may be a 3-year long...

August 17th, 2009 | Read More

Ratner Wants Robert Pattinson for Youngblood’s Shaft

My original headlines for this article was something along the lines of, “Brett Ratner Wants to Handle Robert Pattinson’s Shaft”, or the alternative, “Robert Pattinson to Show off his Shaft”, but they just sounded, well, so wrong. So what’s the story? Well, when talking...

August 14th, 2009 | Read More

Steve Niles’ Criminal Macabre Heads to Big Screen

Some comic book ideas just sell themselves. Take for example the latest Dark Horse Comics to head to the big screen: Steve Niles’ (of “30 Days of Night” fame) “Criminal Macabre”, which according to Variety, has a supernatural detective that doubles as a hitman, with his...

August 14th, 2009 | Read More