Monthly Archives: July 2011

Alexandre Aja Bringing Scanners To TV

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What the world needs now is a bad Scanners TV show like I need a hole for a head. A good Scanners TV show, though? Well, of course. Who doesn’t love the world created in David Cronenberg’s classic movie of psychic warfare? Or, perhaps more properly, love to hate it? According to Deadline, Dimension have…

Lots More DC New 52 Art, With Hawk And Dove, Teen Titans, Legion Lost, And More

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DC’s ambitious schedule of panel talks and art releases continues: Today’s DC Comics-The New 52 panel at SDCC saw the debut of even more interior art. Couldn’t make it? Worry not. Check out what you missed in the gallery below, including art from BLUE BEETLE, DC UNIVERSE PRESENTS, HAWK AND DOVE, LEGION LOST, STATIC SHOCK…

Henry Cavill Says Almost Nothing About The Man Of Steel, But It’s The Best On Offer

Asked by chair Geoff Boucher at the Comic-Con Immortals panel, just over in Hall H, star Henry Cavill said he couldn’t say much about Man of Steel, in which he’ll be playing Superman. The best he could give us was the promise: It’s one of the best scripts I’ve ever read. Now, I don’t have…

Tarsem Singh: “I Start With A Good Visual… And See If The Story Will Fall In”

As you might expect, Immortals director Tarsem Singh has just told the crowd in Comic-Con’s Hall H that he starts with the visuals and just sort of wings it regarding story and characters. Critics prefer a good story… I start with a good visual… and see if the story will fall in. Anybody who has…

Coppola To Go On Tour With Twixt, Film Different Every Night, Edited In Realtime

Apparently, Coppola is going to take his film Twixt on tour and play it “live”. He’s telling us that the musicians, presumably Dan Deacon, will be live but also, he’s interested in making the film a bit “choose your own adventure”. He’s got a console and will make changes to the flow of the film,…

Coppola Says He’s Writing A Big Expensive Movie Right Now…san diego, comic con

…but he doesn’t know he’ll be able to fund it. Coppola has told the crowd at Comic-Con’s Hall H that he’d like to make big budget pictures but with the stringency and control he’s been able to enjoy on his lowe budget pictures of late. He genuinely seems to believe that he’s writing something big…

Live From The Twixt Panel With Coppola, Val Kilmer And Dan Deacon

Francis Ford Coppola entered to a three-quarters of the crowd standing ovation, whoops and cheers. He took a seat next to a camera on a tripod. He may film us. He’s asked for the lights to be put up. He’s referring to all of our masks as “the program”, comparing this to the program the…

Superman And His Linus Blanket – Live From Saturday’s New 52 Panel At San Diego Comic Con

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It’s moving day for Geoff Johns, into his new apartment, and he’s here at San Diego Comic Con. Which may explain his abscence for some of the show. Seriously, I think his good lady think he’s just popped out for some packing tape or something. Indeed, wuth Hal Jordan getting evicted from his own apartment,…

Marvel To Announce Cable Reborn #1 By Jeph Loeb And Ed McGuinness At San Diego Comic Con

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Bleeding Cool has just been told from a source who should know (and is pretty sure) that the Reborn teaser for San Diego Comic Con, a new book to be writted by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness is…. Cable Reborn. Let’s find out if said source is right. I’d go with a 99% on this…

Francis Ford Copolla’s 3D Mask From The (Yet To Start) Twixt Panel

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As we previously leared, some of Francis Ford Copolla‘s Twixt is to be presented in 3D. It’s looking like some of that portion is going to be previewed in Hall H this morning, as we’ve all been handed odd, 3D-lens equipped paper masks on the way in. Here are a couple of pictures, courtesy of…

Now Viz Media Takes Their Manga On The Web

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US and Canadian audiences can now enjoy VizManga.com, a new website launched at San Diego Comic Con, launching witb forty currently available digital titles on the exisiting Viz Manga app for the iPad including Naruto, Bleach, Blue Exorcist, Ouran High School Host Club and Vampire Knight. Indeed, the two meet up so that users can…

No Brown Lanterns From Uranus – Live From The Green Lantern Panel

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A look at Green Lantern #1, with Sinestro fighting the Sinestro Corps… “For a start you really need to change your name.” Exploring the universe of the green lantern rings themselves. We have Kyle Rayner in the New Guardians… but there wil be no Brown Lanterns. Not even when an audience member shouts out “From…