Well I must have done something right. Cryptozoic sent me the Locke & Key card game today. And I opened it. And filmed myself doing it too. Welcome to the new Locke & Key unboxing event…
Why The Hell Isn’t There A My Little Pony Comic Book?
Aaron and Mike of A Comic Show want to help fix what’s wrong with the comics industry, they swear they’ll start a regular bombastic op/ed column here on Bleeding Cool. But first, they feel they must follow their hearts (hooves), and use their connections to get a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic made!…
Jim Lee’s Hidden Tribute To Carla
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…
The First Page Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Revealed At Angoulême
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…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
New Pirates Of The Caribbean Featurette Introduces The Characters, Spills Plot Details – REDACTED
New footage, new mucking about, new Pirates of the Caribbean featurette. It’s a good one, for the fans, because it fills in a few of the blanks in the info we’ve already received and goes some way to giving us a bit of plot set-up. UPDATE: Pulled by request of Mickey Mouse and Company. Shame,…
John Sayles Scripting Carole King, Joni Mitchell And Carly Simon Picture, Girls Like Us
Back on August 2nd I reported: The last time I wrote about Girls Like Us – which was a long time ago in a blog far, far away –House producer Katie Jacobs was developing the project with an eye to direct. It will be an adaptation of Sheila Weller’s gossipy page turner that breathlessly tells of three…
The Intrepids – A Rat Bastard By Any Other Name Would Smell So Sweet
Image’s upcoming-in-March series Rat Bastards has had a name change, as it appears there is a competing comic trade mark with the classic Crucial Comics title Rat Bastard. A similar event happened recently with Utopian becoming Halcyon between solicitation and publication. This has caused some retailers and consumers to misread one book as being another…
Rian Johnson Adds More Names To Time Travel Flick Looper
Josh Hylton writes for Bleeding Cool: Rian Johnson isn’t a recognizable name to most people. Aside from some television work on shows like Breaking Bad, he has only directed two films: the critically acclaimed high school film noir Brick; and the less well received, but nevertheless charming, The Brothers Bloom. Not much is known about…
First Official Blackbeard Image From Pirates Of The Caribbean 4
Josh Hylton writes for Bleeding cool The Pirates of the Caribbean movies may have gotten a bit too convoluted for their own good, but that isn’t stopping Disney from forging ahead with a fourth entry in the bankable franchise. With its May release date fast approaching, the buzz train is heating up and it continues…
Will Britain Spoil Fantastic Four #587 First?
Shops who receive their comics this Tuesday for sale on Wednesday have been informed they are able to sell their bagged copies of Fantastic Four #587, the FF mystery death issue, as soon as they receive them, so as to mimimise spoilage for their customers. They won’t be able to sell the other Fantastic Four…
Paddy Considine To Write And Direct The Leaning, Last Years Of The Locust
Paddy Considine is currently at Sundance for the premiere of his feature-length directorial debut, Tyrannosaur. The film is proving to be a critical hit, and a number of exciting, positive reviews have popped up. While Total Film haven’t published their verdict on the film yet, they have, however, scraped their Considine interview for newsy quotes, and…
Anthony Hopkins Again Negotiating To Play Alfred Hitchcock
The Montecito Picture Company are making a good run at getting a Hitchcock biopic into production, and they’re looking at Anthony Hopkins to take the leading role. I suppose Hopkins could get the manner and the body language bang-on, but the voice? Rarely have there been so well known voices in Hollywood as Hitchcocks and,…
Rebecca Hall Signed On To Stephen Frears’ Gambling Comedy, Lay The Favorite
Rebecca Hall has signed on to topline Stephen Frears’ upcoming adaptation of Beth Raymer’s gambling memoir Lay the Favorite. The book has been adapted by DV DeVincentis, co-writer of Grosse Point Blank and High Fidelity, the latter of which was also directed by Frears. The Wrap don’t offer many more details of the project, but…
Jane Goldman Busy Scripting Kick-Ass 2… In Bed?
Note: That headline isn’t just a variant on the fortune cookie game. The success of Kick-Ass by no means guaranteed a sequel would get scripted, and a follow-up screenplay would in no way confirm that a second film would go into production, but it would, at least, be encouraging for fans to learn that writing…
Eaglemoss Begin Blackest Night/Brightest Day Spinoff Lead Figurine Collection
It’s January. Which means, in the UK, the holiday ads start, the gym membership ads start, the slimming aids start and the partwork publications start. Partworks have, traditionally, been large encyclopaedic volumes sold in weekly exerpts in newsagenst and newstands covering all sorts of topics. In recent years, this has moved away from instructional and…
Saturday Comics Review: CLiNT #5
Very brief numbercrunching. Comics page content: 69 Previously unpublished comics page content: 7 Blimey, that’s not much: Okay, enough with the numbercrunching. A lack of Frankie Boyle’s Rex Royd is blamed on his busy work schedule – though why his co-writer Jim Muir (Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolf III) can’t pick up the slack is not mentioned….
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New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier?
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…
Frank Miller Redraws The Dark Knight
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…
The Amazing Spider-Man Is Tidied Up A Little By An Official Blurb
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…
Joe Madureira Wants To Draw A Zelda Comic Series
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…
The Robins – A New Comic From Jeff Lemire?
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…
Warner Bros. Nix ElfQuest Movie, Pin Blame On The Hobbit
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…
