John Rozum recently talked about his problems as writer of Static Shock, citing that he was hardly writing the book, the actual work being split between artist Scott McDaniel and editor Harvey Richards, which is why he chose to walk off the book with issue 4, not wanting his name to be associated with work…
The Darkness #100 is on its way… And this is the first you’ll have seen of the Todd McFarlane (above), the Michael Golden (below) and the Marc Silvestri retailer incentive (further below). 48 pages for $4.99 US, it’s out the last day of February. But since the Darkness II game comes out today, it seems…
It was the recent ICV2 interview with Marvel Senior Vice President-Sales David Gabriel that did it. Answering a questionnaire with no followups, he managed to dodge some questions by answering different ones, and throw some googlies at the opposing team. But he’s hardly alone in this, DC’s Executive VP-Sales, Marketing and Business Development John Rood…
Pretty much as premiered last night at Sony’s The Untold Story special events, here’s the first full trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. This time there’s Lizard, there’s more back story and there’s a good sense of the “new” Peter Parker. I say “pretty much” because those of usat the events got to see it in…
Lawrence Grobel is the authorized biographer of Al Pacino and the man who, in 1979, conducted the actor’s first ever interview. Pacino’s foreward to the compiled book of Grobel’s articles, Al Pacino: In Converstion With Lawrence Grobel, suggests the depth of their relationship. It begins: I met Larry Grobel in 1979. He came to interview…
This week, Soda Pictures are releasing the hard-edged rock and roll drama Powder to UK cinemas. We’ll let the film’s trailer do the set-up, then I’ll hand you over to Kevin Sampson, on whose novel the film is based. I sent Kevin some questions by e-mail. Here are those questions, and his replies: Are there…
Keith Davidsen talks for Mike Wolfer for Bleeding Cool; Keith Davidsen: We’ve talked a bit at conventions, and whenever WAR GODDESS was mentioned, you always lit up and talked about how much fun you’ve been having on the project. Let’s start there – what is it about writing WAR GODDESS that has you feeling so…
Out today on DVD and Blu-ray, The Drummond Will is a black (not to mention black-and-white) comedy that puts two young men into a strange, and slightly silly, world of cobwebby archetypes. The film is nothing if not playful and could well end up being a cult piece. Here’s the trailer, which is perhaps NSFW…
If you have even a smidgen of taste in comedy then you’ll already be familiar with Olivia Colman, who played Mark’s on-off (mostly off) girlfriend in Peep Show, PC Doris Thatcher in Hot Fuzz and harassed mum-of-many Harriet Schulenberg in Green Wing. Lately, however, Colman’s career has begun to move into more serious drama with…
If you haven’t yet worked for a boss you hate so much that you want to repeatedly slam their head in a filing cabinet, then you should go and see Horrible Bosses anyway just so you can realise how lucky you are. The film is a dark comedy following the exploits of Dale (Charlie Day),…
There are two very bold, stand-out elements of Holy Rollers, which finally reaches UK cinemas today. The first is its milieu, being an ecstasy smuggling drama peopled with Hassidic Jews; the second is the casting of Jesse Eisneberg, now “that kid from The Social Network,” and therefore hopefully able to draw attention to smaller, more esoteric…
Denis Villeneuve‘s Oscar nominated thriller Incendies is finally released across the UK today. I spoke to its star, Lubna Azabal, last week and, below, she’ll help me give you five good reasons to see the film. First, though, a little set-up. Incendies‘ story starts quietly. A pair of twins at the reading of their mother’s…
Sometime Casualty, Brookside and The Bill director Adrian Vitoria has done his time in the cramped confines of 4:3 melodrama, and is now exploding out with Age of Heroes, a film about the No. 30 Commando Unit, soldiers in the second world war who had none other than James Bond creator Ian Fleming as their…
Today sees the release of Greg Mottola‘s Paul on DVD and Blu-ray across the UK. The film both stars and was written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and therefore represents a pretty pure representation of their relationship as collaborators. I spoke to them last week about this relationship, and their experience of writing together…
Jane Goldman has co-written, with Matthew Vaughn, the screenplays for his films Stardust, Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class, as well as The Debt, an upcoming film that Vaughn passed over to director John Madden. We got to sit down for a good long chat about First Class, as well as a little about some other,…
Jens Altmann reports for Bleeding Cool: Lucas Till started his acting career in 2003, at the age of 13. His best known role to date is that of Travis Brody in the Hannah Montana movie. In X-Men First Class, he plays Alexander Summers, better known as Havok. Bleeding Cool: Are you, or have you ever…
We’ve finally been given a look at Loki’s forces in the new, extended trailer for The Avengers, as premiered online just after a cut-down version graced the Superbowl. Here are four screen grabs from the single shot in which they appear with any degree of clarity: So it’s not the Skrull or the Kree –…
Here’s the new TV spot for The Avengers as premiered during the Superbowl – just, longer now. And that’s a good thing. For those of you who watched the Superbowl just to see this commercial, tell me: was it worth it?
In yesterday’s webchat (referred to earlier), Alan Moore revealed that the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen project to follow the conclusion of Century this summer, is to be called Nemo: Heart Of Ice, and that forty of the forty-eight pages involved have been written so far… and that we’ll see it before the end of…
(Welcome Facebook people… please tell us who has linked to us, because we’re gettng massive traffc and we’d like to say thanks. And you can see more Bleeding Cool Doctor Who coverage here.) The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will tomorrow be playing The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, described in their schedule as: A musical celebration with…
Is it Spider-Man? Or has Iron Man just got a fancy new paint job? This is the costume he’ll be wearing in the upcoming Ends Of The Earth storyline, as the machinations of Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six are made clear. There’s webbing design on the lining as well.
When reporting early rumours about Before Watchmen, almost every name I was given turned out to be true – Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, JMS, Amanda Conner, JG Jones, Andy Kubert, Joe Kubert, Adam Hughes and John Higgins. There was another name that I dismissed as it was denied directly – that of Kevin Smith. His…
