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Wanted Game: Decode the Fraternity of the Assassins

Imagine your destiny as a thread, interwoven into the fabric of space and time with the fates of countless others. What if you had the power not only to see “the Weave” but to decode it? Could you handle wielding the power that great men have wanted since the dawn of time? [...]

June 18th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Universal Hops on Board Ghost Train Comic The Last Call

Hey, how’s this for a neaty mosquito movie idea: two teens on a joyride who get hit by a “ghost train,” which is carrying souls from this dimension to another; they wake up on the train and try to solve a mystery that will allow them to return to their regular lives! Not bad, right? [...]

June 18th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Yay! New Watchmen Action Figures

Let’s face it, if you’re still buying movie toys, you better start rehearsing the line, “They’re collectible action figures, and one day I’ll be able to sell them for mucho buckos and buy a rad ‘77 Mustang”, because that way you’ll come across less like a dork and more like the entrepreneuring businessman you want [...]

June 17th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Two-Face Clip from The Dark Knight

Looks like the viral site for “The Dark Knight” (whysoserious.com) has updated again, and this time it features a very short clip (exactly 33 seconds) from the movie featuring Two-Face (aka Harvey Dent, played by Aaron Eckhart) confronting an old guy in a bar. No, that’s not the beginning of a bad, tasteless joke, although [...]

June 17th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

The Downey to Play Cowboys and Aliens

From a guy in a high-tech suit to a wacky white actor playing a black guy in a movie, to … cowboys and aliens? Sure, why the hell not. Trade guys The Hollywood Reporter says that Robert Downey Jr. is currently in negotiations to star in Dreamworks’ wacky sci-fi/Western, “Cowboys and Aliens”, described as “a [...]

June 16th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Watch 7 Minutes of Wanted Now

For your perusal pleasure, here is a 7-minute clip from Russian director Timur Bekmambetov’s Hollywood debut, “Wanted”. It’s nothing you haven’t seen before, but it does extend the supermarket scene where Fox meets Wesley for the first time and informs him about his dear old dead dad. Plus, the car chase that follows.
The film [...]

June 16th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

The Incredible Hulk (2008) Movie Review

Ang Lee’s version of the Hulk was not welcomed by diehard comic book geeks, barely-men who were too busy fawning over the latest Michael Turner sketch drawings of a half-naked Witchblade to watch Lee’s “The Ice Storm” or “Pushing Hands”, and thus had no idea what they were getting into when they stepped into those [...]

June 14th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

ScarJo Spirit Teaser Poster is Demanding

In comic book guru Frank Miller’s big screen adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, Scarlett Johansson plays a villainess named Silken Floss, a character that likes to dress up in a nurse’s uniform and stab helpless old people in hospitals with syringes; that is, when she’s not helping out The Octopus (played by Samuel L. [...]

June 13th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

Leonardo DiCaprio as Captain America? Hell, Why Not.

To be honest with you, these “[Insert A-List Actor Name Here] to play [Insert Iconic Comic Book Character Here]” rumors get floated around the Internet more often than Paris Hilton drops to her knees during Fleet Week. Got a rumor you want to float? Just go ahead and do it, and credit it to an [...]

June 13th, 2008 | Nix | 9 comments | Read More

Adam Beach Eyeballing Turok Movie

According to actor Adam Beach (last seen storming beaches in John Woo’s unfathomable miscalculation “Windtalkers” and Clint Eastwood’s better calculated “Flags of our Fathers”), he and the Powers That Be are planning a live-action “Turok” movie within two years. You know what that means — meetings, script discussions, and “favors” in dark alleyways to potential [...]

June 13th, 2008 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Punisher: War Zone Teaser Trailer is Bulletastic

I got me some high hopes for Lexi Alexander’s “Punisher: War Zone”, even if this first-ever teaser trailer for the flick doesn’t exactly do it for me. Okay, there are some nice shots in there, like the one where Frank (played this time around by Roman badass Ray Stevenson) is gearing up to face off [...]

June 13th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

Warren Ellis’ Red Comics Headed to Big Screen

If Hollywood insists on plumbing the oeuvre of comic book scribe Warren Ellis, a God among comic book reading virgins, they’re gonna have plenty to draw from, cause the dude is what guys with eyewear and pens in their shirt pockets call prolific. With Ellis’ “Ocean” already headed to the big screen, his 2003 three-issue [...]

June 12th, 2008 | Nix | 1 comment | Read More

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