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Now Is The Time To Stock Up On Some Criterion Collection Movies

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Brendon Connelly

The sale titles include Brazil – which is the greatest film ever made in the history of cinema, as we all know. There’s also Rosemary’s Baby, Rashomon, In The Mood For Love, The Game and The Royal Tennenbaums…

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VIDEO: A Burlesque Remake Of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

What Brazil always needed was a bit more burlesque, right? Well, wrong. But here we go anyway.

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A Brazilian Sleeping Beauty

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Paula Mastroberti is a Brazilian comic book creator with a new graphic novel planned of her own for next year. Adormecida: cem anos para sempre is a reinvention of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, from  8INVERSO Graphics. The book tells …

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When Brazilian Creators Working For American Publishers Set Up On Their Own…

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

While comic book companies have often used South American artists on their books, sometimes because they were cheaper, more reliable, better trained and less likely to cause trouble, there has been a real boom of late, at both Marvel, DC, …

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Mauricio De Sousa’s First Graphic Novel

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Rich Johnston

After a long development, Brazil’s Mauricio de Sousa Productions have put out its first original graphic novel, through Panini. By Danilo Beyruth, these ate the same people being Monica’s Gang, Brazil’s best selling comic. Though this is aimed an an …

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Frank Miller Running For Council. In Brazil.

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We’ve had Paul Ryan running for Vice President of the USA. Now we have Frank Miller running for Vereador in Sao Paulo in Brazil. Basically, that’s a town councilman. “Something tells me to stop with the town. I don’t listen …

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The Brazilian Superman Running For Office

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

There are many political parties who fight elections in Brazil. Sometimes, lesser-known candidates choose weird and wonderful aliases to stand out from their competition. Take Ewerson Alves da Silva. He has closen the alias of Clark Crente, with “crente” meaning …

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Brazil To Boycott Green Lantern?

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

One Brazilian blog which has previously shown a rather homophobic view of the recent gay marriage plotline in comic books, is claiming that there will be a retailer boycott of Green Lantern products in the country, Specifically citing Fantastico, a …

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The Avenger – A New Burger For Brazil

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Rich Johnston

In Brazil, a fast food restaurant called Habib has beaten the likes of MacDonalds and Burger King to closing a deal with Marvel/Disney for a new hamburger named Avenger. That’s a 200g beef burger patty, egg, bacon, tomato, lettuce, mayonnaise, …

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Obey! Graffiti Artist Shepard Fairey Trying To Get New Movie Of 1984 Off The Ground

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

When I think of Shepard Fairey, two things come to mind immediately: the Obey! images, with the face of Andre the Giant; and the Barack Obama Hope posters. It’s fascinating that he’s now trying to get a new movie of …

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BBC Jumps On Brazilian Batman

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Rich Johnston

BBC News has run a piece on the Brazilian Batman. Or rather, André Luiz Pinheiroan ex-soldier recruited by the Brazilian military police to help out in areas of high crime, while dressed as Batman. Bleeding Cool was the first to …

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The Brazilian Military Police Recruit Batman. Seriously.

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

I don’t know if they used a Bat Signal or not. But Brazilian military police in Taubaté have invited retired soldier André Luiz Pinheiro, aged 50, known for dressing as Batman, to help pacify city neighbourhoods suffering high crime levels. …

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Duncan Jones Goes Back To Space And Model Effects For A New Commercial

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

There was a teaser clip uploaded to YouTube before Christmas promising something at 8.15pm on Sunday 8th January for viewers of ITV. Earlier today, Duncan Jones shared a link to that tease on twitter, immediately linking himself to it. A …

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The Biggest Comic Convention In America… Is In South America?

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Rich Johnston

The statistics are released. The FIQ – International Comic Book Festival, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil last month is the largest comic convention in the American continents. With 148,000 beating San Diego’s capped 130,000 attendees. It may pale against the …

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Dear Sid Sheinberg, When Are You Going To Release My Film Brazil? Terry Gilliam

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

It’s Terry Gilliam’s 71st birthday today, so Criterion posted the following image to their Facebook page. That’s a full page ad that Gilliam took out in the otherwise spiderishly dense Variety after Universal refused to release his film Brazil in …

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That Brazilian Marvel Panel On Video… Including Iron Fist Hint Hint

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Rich Johnston

There may have been a hundred and fifty thousand people at Brazil’s FIQ Comic Con. but at the time of writing, only twelve have seen this video of the Marvel panel since it was uploaded two days ago. I think …

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Leinil Yu To Draw Avenging Spider-Man #5

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Rich Johnston

As Stephen Wacker tweeted today; Here’s a “scoop”! Issue 5 has another huge artist! Just as we planned! He didn’t say who though. I think that’s Bleeding Cool’s job. Leinil Yu, fresh from finishing his run with Mark Millar on …

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This Is What A Half-Million-Selling American Comic Book Looks Like

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Yesterday, announcing over 200,000 sales of Justice League #1, DC declared it the best selling comic book of the year. I took issue with that, citing other graphic novels, trade collections, BD albums, manga volumes and digital comics. And got …

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