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
Friday Runaround – The Wrong Dave Gibbons
TweetWatch: Pete Woods: I drew a panel today for Action 900- when I finished it I realized I totally swiped a cover I drew back in 1996. Don’t tell @richjohnston WriteWatch: JG Jones will be writing Doc Savage from April – this is part of a movement that Bleeding Cool previously noted where DC are…
Death’s Head To Return With Simon Furman
It’s written by the original creator, yes? Death’s Head, the origial, returns to Marvel UK newstand kids-aimed comic, Marvel Heroes #33. Hulk Vs Death’s Head, written by Marvel HEroes regular (and top bloke) Ferg Handley and Death’s Head co-creator, Simon Furman, with art by Simon Williams and John Ross.The comic is out on March 24th….
Fred Harper, SCARCE At Angoulême
Bonjour à tous! Angoulême is the largest comic book convention in the world, held in France. SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide). Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing Bleeding Cool with…
Numbercrunching DC April 2011 Solicitations
Here’s the headlines, based on DC Comics solicitation information for new monthly comics for April (minus the reprint, licensed, creator-owned and Vertigo titles).Thanks to some bargain books such as Action Comics #900, and the lack of $3.99 22 page books, DC comics are now 13.9 cents a page, 0ver half a cent per page less…
Clint Eastwood To Direct Beyonce Knowles In A Star Is Born
Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. Judy Garland and James Mason. Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Beyonce Knowles and… Robert Downey Jr.? Eddie Murphy? Jon Hamm? A Star is Born is getting yet another iteration, this time courtesy of director Clint Eastwood. According to Deadline, Beyonce Knowles has won the lead role, previously known as Esther…
Julian Assange To Be The Subject Of Big Screen Thriller
In the midst of our recent Wikileaks media hysteria, there were two pieces of news on Julian Assange that I considered inevitable: one, that he’d taken a nasty “accidental” fall down the stairs and out of a window, probably into a pack of radioactive rotweillers; and two, that a biopic of some kind would be…
Crazy Rumour: Next Bond Film To Be Called Red Sky At Night And Feature Winter Sports
While repeating a recurring rumour that Rachel Weisz will be in the next James Bond picture, The Sun have also let slip a rumoured title for the production: Red Sky at Night. How does that sound? Utterly made up? I’m sceptical, of course, because this is information from The Sun, and they have a history…
Marvel Pick Their Writer For Black Panther Movie
While Mark Bailey’s roots appear to be in documentary filmmaking, he has recently made some movies into fiction films. Last summer, for example, it was announced that Doug Liman would direct The Last of the Tribe from a script by Bailey (adapted, as it happens, from a non-fiction book by Monte Reel). It would seem…
Relativity Media Takes On John Cusack’s The Raven
Kate Atherton writes for Bleeding Cool: The Raven took a step closer to lift off today thanks to the announcement, reported by Deadline, that its US distribution rights have been acquired by Relativity Media. Now in post-production, The Raven tells the fictionalised story of Edgar Allan Poe’s last days, during which he pursues a serial…
Thinkwell Giving England Its Own Harry Potter Attraction in 2012
Kate Atherton writes for Bleeding Cool: Many people who live in Oxford, such as myself, will have a tale to tell of Harry Potter, whether it’s seeing cast members around the place, watching scenes being filmed or visiting historic places that double up for Hogwarts. Some years ago, I saw a set of ornate flagged…
Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium Headed To Sony, Will Follow Up With Chappie
Sony have made the winning bid and will get to distribute Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, a sci-fi film with Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley. As reports of the picture come through, we’re starting to learn more and more about it: It’s “an unabashedly big movie” It’s set 100 years into the future It is…
Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator Gets a Global Release Date Of 11 May 2012
Kate Atherton writes for Bleeding Cool: After Borat and Bruno, where next could Sacha Baron Cohen turn his attention but to The Dictator Saddam Hussein? Or, to be more precise, a heroic dictator lovingly created by Saddam himself in his not widely available novel Zabibah and The King.* Paramount announced today that The Dictator will…
Trending
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…
