At Kapow in London, during the Avengers Vs X-Men panel with Kieron Gillen, CB Cebulski and Joe Quesada, they showed off some upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men pages… one of which seems to show a certain Professor X returning for issue 6… We also got a teaser that Illyana and Black Widow will star in an…
One question asked at the DC panel today at the Kapow comic convention in London, was about DC co-publisher Dan DiDio’s interview with The Advocate. Specifically over the decision not to change any character’s sexual orientation when relaunching the DC Universe. At the time Dan stated they would introduce new LGBT characters rather than switch…
At Kapow’s Image Comics panel this morning, with Eric Stephenson, Nick Spencer and Bryan Hitch, Jonathan Ross stated that he had plans to launch a comic book podcast, because of his contacts in media and comics. He also talked about planning new comic books with current collaborators Bryan Hitch and Tommy Lee Edwards but also…
Warren Ellis has been talking plenty at Kapow, in London today. Lots of questions, lots of answers, lots of laughs, an unlit cigarette and a can or three of Red Bull. Amongst the jollity, he talked more about Gun Machine, his upcoming novel. That it is centred on a cop who discovers an apartment full…
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Time to cue up Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and find out Who’s Zooing Who in Movieland tonight.
Perhaps derailing her supposed appearance in Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson is now in “final negotiations” for a lead role in Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo. Amy Adams had been in the running for the same part, but she’s gone off to meet Walter the Muppet instead.
Johansson will be playing the wife of Matt Damon’s character, and without knowing how faithful to Benjamin Mee’s memoir the film will be, or how fictionalised the characters and situations might end up, I don’t know anything else about her role. In life, however, Mee’s wife was dying of brain cancer when her husband decided to buy a UK zoo and relocate from the US in order to run it. Trying times.
Meanwhile, the trailer and poster for Zoo Keeper have been unveiled. Kevin James seems to be going through a “blue collar vocations” phase in the same way that Will Ferrell got hooked on sports movies. What’s next for James? Nightwatchman maybe? They do seem to like him as guard of some kind.
I don’t think Zookeeper is one for me.
Jenna Fischer,Topher Grace, Malin Akerman and Chris Messina have all been cast in writer-director Lee Kirk’s The Giant Mechanical Man. The Wrap haven’t convinced me that any actual giant mechanical men will feature in the film, but do at least explain why I’ve included the film in my zoo-movie round-up:
The story follows a soft-spoken zoo worker (Fischer) who falls for a misunderstood street performer (Messina). Akerman will play Fischer’s well-meaning sister who pushes her towards dating a pompous motivational speaker (Grace).
I’m fully in support of more Jenna Fischer in the movies, and I’ve never said no to a bit of Chris Messina either. Grace and Akerman, not so much, but we’ll see…
Today at Kapow, DC announced that they would be taking an existing character and rebooting them as a very prominent gay DC character. I wonder if Kapow cosplayers beat them to it? There was alos a lot of Cosplay gone right though, as the cosplay competition hit the Kapow stage… Thanks to Chris Metcalfe for…
At Kapow in London, during the Avengers Vs X-Men panel with Kieron Gillen, CB Cebulski and Joe Quesada, they showed off some upcoming Avengers Vs X-Men pages… one of which seems to show a certain Professor X returning for issue 6… We also got a teaser that Illyana and Black Widow will star in an…
One question asked at the DC panel today at the Kapow comic convention in London, was about DC co-publisher Dan DiDio’s interview with The Advocate. Specifically over the decision not to change any character’s sexual orientation when relaunching the DC Universe. At the time Dan stated they would introduce new LGBT characters rather than switch…
At Kapow in London this morning, DC co-publisher Dan DiDio clarified the company’s publishing schedule, by numbers at least. He confirmed that the company will stick to publishing fifty-two ongoing titles in the DC Universe but they will always be “new” and constantly refreshing. So, basically, we can look forward to September and those zero…
Warren Ellis has been talking plenty at Kapow, in London today. Lots of questions, lots of answers, lots of laughs, an unlit cigarette and a can or three of Red Bull. Amongst the jollity, he talked more about Gun Machine, his upcoming novel. That it is centred on a cop who discovers an apartment full…
Having been moved to the verge of a standing ovation by Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner in The Avengers, Rizzoli & Isles star Angie Harmon has decided she has to be She-Hulk. HAS TO BE. In her excitement, Ms. Harmon posed for a photo as though smashing the pavement. When she tweeted the picture, it…
