Awwwww… Jim Lee finished the most recent issue of Justice League #5 just before his new child was born, and while his wife Carla was rather heavily pregnant. He’s written that the new arrival held out until he’d finished his deadline, which was appreciated by all, I’m sure. But what tribute could Jim Lee make…
We know from the publicity that DC Vertigo are publishing graphic novel adaptaions of the Millenium Trilogy, with Denise Mina and Leonardo Manco adapting the first book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo into two parts. And in April they’ll be publishing a free teaser of the first graphic novel. But Bleeding Cool (alone it…
Recently, Bleeding Cool ran an article on how Marvel were looking to get certain creators out of their exclusive deals with Marvel, in an attempt to save money. And how Ariel Olivetti may have been a good example, locked into a two year excluisve deal with Marvel but suddenly appearing on the rejigged Men Of…
Toy News International ran these scans of images of DC toys and statues for 2012. But did they miss the headline story? Or is it a case of one side of DC not knowing what the other is doing? Because in May 2012, as part of the New 52 Cover Girls Of The DC Universe,…
Big Helium Dogmaster Brian Lynch is the man behind the screenplay for Hop, so I can’t help but be a little optimistic, even while director Tim Hill’s later scorecard – Garfield 2, Alvin and the Chipmunks 1 – would hardly fill me with confidence in its own right. According to Hop‘s official Facebook Page, the film…
Larry McMurtry wrote five novels set in the fictional town of Thalia, Texas: The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Duane’s Depressed, When The Light Goes, and Rhino Ranch. The first two were filmed by Peter Bogdanovich, in 1971 and 1991, some twenty years apart. It would seem that, with 2011 just around the corner, the time…
Well, what a surprise: Moon maker man Duncan Jones‘ new sci-fi film has a stylish, well-staged trailer with a good cast and an alluring premise. That’s two for two, then, by the look of things. Source Code is due to hit UK screens in March and April in the US. Here’s the official blurb: Captain…
Working Title’s Tim Bevan has told The Daily Mail that he’s developing “a lot of projects” with Joe Wright, and that one of them is a new film version of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Joe Wright being Joe Wright, Keira Knightley is already being touted for the lead role. Bevan said: I’m not saying I’ve…
Coming hot on the the heels of our spy’s first review of The Green Hornet comes a new trailer for Michel Gondry’s first big-budget tentpole picture. I’d say that this looks pretty good, but word keeps coming forth that the film is much better. Roll on January 14th.
From an anonymous internet bidder, the first page of Watchmen has sold for $33,640. 21 bidders and no reserve. This is the highest a Watchmen page has sold for to date. And you know what? I think it’s a good investment. It arguably formalised a new language to comics, and showed people what could be…
From the trailer to Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, airing on BBC1 and BBC America on Christmas Day, starring Michael Gambon.
Mark Millar met Vincent Deighan (better known as Frank Quitely) for a pint last night. As you do when you’re in Glasgow. But it did rather set tongues wagging. Vincent’s DC exclusive deal is currently scheduled to come to an end with his Pax America comic with Grant Morrison. They have worked together before, most…
Two publishers. Two TV shows. Two comics. Warehouse 13 is a kinda blander-than-Torchwood, even-blander-than-Fringe show with people investigating odd stuff, from NBC broadcast on Syfy. And Dynamite are prepping to publish a bunch of comics based on them. NBC’s Chris Lucero is quoted as saying “With Dynamite’s stable of thrilling storytellers and talented artists, we’re confident that Warehouse 13…
The Diamond sales figures often bandied about are often estimates. They ignore non-North American sales, they ignore sales from subsequent months and they ignore newstand and subscription numbers. And they are estimates based on limited data, which can vary month on month. What can’t be buggered about with, however, are the chunks of information posted…
It’s alive! Steven Spielberg’s long-in-the-works Honest Abe biopic, Lincoln, is finally set to go before cameras, with Dreamworks just now telling the press that Daniel Day Lewis will be taking the lead role. What more is there to say about that? Can’t you just see his performance now? The plan is still for Spielberg to…
I do this every now and then for American friends. Basically a list of cool British TV DVDs of stuff, the majority of which is not available in the US normally, or if they are, in in a diluted form. What with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, consider this a handy dandy way to be…
Below you’ll see a photo of a poster, hanging on a bus shelter. It was taken by Little Bleeder Ian, who wondered: I don’t know if this is genuine viral marketing or just a bunch of students. You can see a #believeinsherlock hashtag on the bottom right hand corner. I went to Twitter and searched…
The above is a commission by Frank Miller, recreating the splash page from The Dark Knight, below, for one Felix Lu. Such a detailed commission from Miller, it would be quite a rarity these days and rather expensive. Albeit not quite as expensive as buying the original art, recently selling for almost half a million…
Here’s an orderly and dependable plot blurb for The Amazing Spider-Man, as issued by Sony and piling up across the net (and in my inbox) like wildfire right now. There may not be any bombshells in here, but the strands come together pretty clearly. You know – like a web. The Amazing Spider-Man is the…
The last time I remember reading a Legend Of Zelda comic was back in the nineties, from Valiant Comics before they decided to move into superheroes. There’s were also a few manga books tied into specific game releases but no US licenced comics for quite some time. This could change if Joe Madueira gets his…
He’s done gangbusters for DC Comics, taking C-list character Animal Man, whose return to the DC Universe from DC Vertigo had been lacklustre at best, and turned him into a surprise critical and commercial hit as part of the DC New 52. So it’s only natural that DC might tap him for any other bright…
I would assume that the success of The Lord of the Rings and the huge interest in The Hobbit, not to mention the extraordinary, eight-film success of the Harry Potter series, would encourage Warner Bros. to look seriously into all of their similar options, but the studio has not to move ahead with a long-developing…
