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…
Convicted this week for racial assault, Lauren Socha won’t be back for more Misfits.
Hartswood Films, run by Steven Moffat‘s mother-in-law Beryl Vertue and wife Sue Vertue, and producer of Moffat’s Sherlock Holmes, Coupling and Jekyll, has a new comedy show for BBC1, Me And Mrs Jones. It stars Sarah Alexander (Susan in Coupling), Neil Morrissey from Men Behaving Badly (another Hartswood production) as well as Nathaniel Parker of…
Would be young offender super powered types, you better move fast. There are going to be at least three new main characters in the next series of Misfits, and the show’s casting directors are currently accepting applications. But the closing date is today. Here’s how the three roles have been described on the casting call:…
Fellow Brits, riddle me this bit of nonsense: If the BBC is our Aunty and the Americans are our cousins, where in the family tree goes BBC America? Well, whatever the exact genealogy of the matter, BBC America are keeping it in the family, teaming up with some of Blighty’s best producers of genre TV…
This sci-fi horror short was shot entirely on a mobile phone.
When I ran into Iwan Rheon, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Antonia Thomas at last night’s VIP gala screening of Steve McQueen’s new film Shame, I grabbed them and grilled them.
Warning. There are Spoilers for Misfits to follow. It has just started on Hulu.com in the USA, so many Americans are still to catch up. To that end, I’m going to write a paragraph to keep this off the front page of Bleeding Cool and the bit that gets quoted when they post this to…
Tonight saw the final episode of this year’s Misfits air on E4 in the UK. It still has to be scheduled in the US. I hope the success of the first two series on Hulu, and it’s planned remake won’t somehow conspire to prevent you lot from seeing this third series. Because it tried to…
The green light has flickered on at Channel 4 headquarters, signalling the good people of Clerkenwell Films to get stuck into development with the fourth series of Misfits. We’ve been expecting it, and it’s now official. However, there’s not yet been any confirmation of rumours that the series might be extended to thirteen episodes. Not…
Sunday night, another great episode, and only one episode left. Where has the time gone? Well at least we get a whole Misfits episode and a little extra on the side. Those Orange Suits Are There For A Reason “They always send a new probation worker after we’ve killed one”. Without a job, without the…
After tonight’s zombie-heavy episode of Misfits on E4, the website will run a new Misfits mini-episode entitled Erazer. Through the week, the E4 social networking team have had characters from the show posting photos of the word Erazer used as grafitti tags on the South London estate on which the show is set. What it…
We’ve just had another new episode of Misfits in the UK. And naturally there are spoilers if you haven’t seen it. So, you know, do the usual. Don’t Let A Mobile Phone Spoil Your Reality It’s the obvious alternate reality show that occurs to everyone creating an alternate reality show. What if Hitler won the…
Another week, another episode of Misfits. Last week’s episode was a relative superfiction headfuck that this one seems deceptively simple on the surface with a great final reveal. Enjoy, however you get yourself a copy. 1. Simon Says… It’s a Simon episode! The man who is destined to go back in time and die saving…
The second episode of the third series of Misfits. And still they won’t give episodes individual chapter names. Let’s steal one from another show, The Year Of The Sex Olympics. 1. A Week Is A Long Time In Sexual Politics We caught a glimpse last week but now it’s gender bending all over the place…
It’s a way off completion. But at the MCM London Expo, the second volume of the Vampire Academy graphic novel, based on Richelle Mead’s books, adapted by Leigh Dragoon with art by Emma Vieceli, was previewed.
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…
