The upcoming Warner Premiere and DC Entertainment release of The Dark Knight Returns has been a long time coming, though I believe you heard about it here first. Frank Miller and Klaus Janson’s comic has been divided into two films for this adaptation, the first of which will be released later this year, the second…
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…
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Now we’ve waded out into the sharp, clear waters of digital distribution (to waist deep at least) it looks like the phenomenon of cinematic reissues has gone from benefiting the canon of Sight and Sound-pleasers to being used to promote upcoming DVDs or Blu-ray box sets.
This kind of re-release has happened loads. Just to give you three examples, we’ve seen it with The Godfather, with Back to the Future and just this month with The Lion King. They’ve all been brought back to cinemas just weeks ahead of their home entertainment reissues, each film effectively being employed as its own trailer.
In the case of the latter, the film was upconverted to 3D – and there’s a 3D version of the Blu-ray coming too.
Sure makes a change from the Godard, Kubrick, Wilder and Bunuel I remember coming back around in “Newly Remastered” prints during my teens. I wish we could have lots of both, personally. Well, maybe not the Godard.
Two of the big returners on the slate for the coming months have just been announced: Top Gun and Ghostbusters.
To be fair, only one of them fits the above pattern, the other being getting a big screen rerelease for its own sake. And only one of them is being dimensionalised. Have you guessed which is which?
Time’s up.
It’s Top Gun getting the extra eye screwed on. Four minutes of 3D footage were premiered at Amsterdam’s International Broadcasting Convention today.
The conversion process has been bankrolled by Legend 3D, the company handling the work. It’s a new business model, but Legend think there’s cash to be made from tapping into catalgoue titles this way. I expect they’re right.
The Hollywood Reporter quote Legend’s CEO in saying that Paramount have plans to release the film into US cinemas in early 2012, pending approval by Tony Scott. There seems to be an implication there that, despite him being the film’s director, Scott’s had no input into the upconversion process so far.
Though I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see a 3D version within the next couple of years, the current reissue of Ghostbsusters is no more – or no less – than a new remaster of the film as we knew it.
But, sorry America – this is a UK-only thing, courtesy of the repeat-offending reissue culprits at Park Circus. There’s not a lot of info in their press release, but here’s the most salient bit:
In an all-new Digital Cinema Presentation, 80′s cult classic Ghostbusters is back to save the world this Halloween.
Were this a Sony reissue, designed to hawk a new Blu-ray, then there’d be a lot of marketing musclebeing flex, and I think Ghostbusters would do gangbusters – like Back to the Future did back in 2010. But, sadly, Park Circus don’t have the same resources, nor the same shiny-disc incentive, to mount a huge PR campaign.
So I guess it’s going to have to be a grassroots effort. Who’s with me?
Yesterday, Fox News decided to suggest that because DC have plans to reintroduce one of their iconic characters to the New 52 as a gay man, that meant that Superman might be gay. Today, the closest (and I originally mispelt that as “closet”) thing the UK has to Fox News, the Daily Mail does the…
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“One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June” That’s the comment DC’s Senior VP Publicity Courtney Simmons gave to ABC News from Burbank when asked for comment on the story we ran yesterday, that DC were to reintroduce a preexisting character into the New DCU,…
Thanks to Fox for this one. Honchos at Superman’s comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet unnamed) straight characters will soon be coming out of the closet, according to a report. No, and I was there. Dan DiDio, DC Comics co-publisher said that a…
It seems an age since C2E2. But an interview conducted by CBR with Dan Slott at the show has only just gone online. In which Slott stated that Marvel Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso has been contacting other creators on other Marvel books to ensure they reflect… whatever change is coming with Amazing Spider-Man #700 towards the…
Just as DC Comics is turning the headlines purple with the news at Kapow that a previously established character would be rebooted as a gay person, so Marvel Comics announced they have their own headlines in mind. Tune into ABC at 11a/10a E/C tomorrow as the hosts of ABC’s The View exclusively reveal a major…
