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…
Phonogram: The Singles Club, the second volume of the series from Image, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, has now hit digital. The first issue is free, downloadable on ComiXology, but we also took this opprtunity to make it available free on Bleeding Cool as well, below. Open publication – Free publishing – More bleedingcool…
Joseph Glass writes for Bleeding Cool; So, this Sunday just gone, a question was asked at Kapow Comic Con in London; a convention that aims to be as big as the US conventions, but over in sunny old Blighty (though I did notice the sun pretty much eluded us this year). It’s a good show,…
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…
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…
This weekend EXCEL London is once again hosting comic convention London MCM Expo. It’s a convention that I have a bit of personal history with, and somewhere on the internet I’m sure there exist photos of me as a grubby, excitable teenager, queueing for an hour to get Ray Park’s autograph. I regret nothing. Ray…
Screenings of Leos Carax’ Holy Motors have been met with extended ovations and symphonies of whooping over in Cannes. I’m sure Peter will be along soon enough to tell us what he thinks about it, but if he’s anything like the average, he’ll be in love. And he’ll probably compare it to Mulholland Drive, Being…
Look closely and you’ll divine some bits and pieces of where Pixar’s Brave will be heading in its later sequences. Pay less attention and you’ll still see some ideas that were kept out of the main, theatrical trailers – there’s even a bit of Julie Walters’ largely secret but thoroughly instrumental old witch character here,…
Baz Luhrmann has created some incredible visuals for his 3D, CG-enhanced retelling of The Great Gatsby, but that’s hardly unexpected. What remains to be seen is how well it operates as drama. You may pick up on some clues to that end in this first trailer for the film, but just clues. Will the performances…
Peter Willis writes for Bleeding Cool. Killing Them Softly, from Jesse James helmer Andrew Dominik, made its debut this morning on the Croisette to a full-house at the 8.30am screening. It’s conclusion was greeted by an almost silent crowd, though that usually means you’ll be seeing five-stars blazed across all the major outlets. We are…
I’m reminded once again of the poster for Gambit, the brilliant comedy caper (with imminent Coens-scripted remake) that came with the tagline: Go ahead – tell the ending – it’s too hilarious to keep secret – but please don’t tell the beginning! A new interview with a cast member of Prometheus gives away his big…
What would you do if you met a visitor from another time? Michael Moran finds out when he sees a movie sequel that’s at least a decade overdue. Has time been kind to Earth’s shadowy guardians?
Believed to be fictionalised portrait of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, The Master is the next picture from There Will Be Blood overlord Paul Thomas Anderson. Judging from this first trailer, it seems to be structured around the experience of Joaquin Phóenix´s character, a young fella who becomes the right-hand man to Philip…
This first promo for Walking Dead season 3 comes with the promise of new characters both announced and unannounced, a look at zombie bits and bloody weapons and… that location, and much talk of how they´re going on to BIGGER and BETTER. It´s pretty bloody puffy, truth be told. And, for international viewers, while it´s…
Get ready for some movie marketing history in the making. Not a single frame of Anchorman 2 has been shot yet, but already there are two different teaser trailers doing the rounds. Okay, 1.5 different trailers. Or 1.2. They´re pretty similar. But here we see how the riffing, improv-led style of this particular strand of…
After the colossal scale of The Way Back, Peter Weir is planning something very different for his next picture and will adapt Jennifer Egan‘s 2006 novel The Keep. Variety‘s description of the book is as good as useless, but I asked a friend who has read it and they said: It´s going to need a…
While we´re all waiting (forever) for David Cronenberg to remake Alien from the point of view of the facehugger, here´s “the next best thing.” Film critic Anne Billson has written, and published as a free e-book, My Day by Jones: A Cat’s-Eye View of Alien. It does precisely what she promises. Here´s the opening passage:…
A quote in this trailer for Polisse says that it´s like a whole season of The Wire crammed into a single feature film. You could read that to mean that it will be utterly incomprehensible. Or, on the other hand, that it´s a complex, multifacted look at the crime from both sides of the thin…
What took them so long? Fox have released the first trailer for The Longest Daycare, a Maggie Simpson’starring short that is going to play in cinemas, in 3D, ahead of Ice Age 4. Nice to see it´s been hand drawn in the typical Simpsons style. You know, if this is funny, and more funny shorts…
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…
What would you do if you met a visitor from another time? Michael Moran finds out when he sees a movie sequel that’s at least a decade overdue. Has time been kind to Earth’s shadowy guardians?
“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…
