Posts from ‘January, 2010’

Books I Always Wanted To Read But Never Got Around To Reading… ’till Now.
“… Today marks the fifth anniversary of the initial outbreak of hostilities between the United States of America and the so-called “Free States.” It is also the third day of a tentative ceasefire, and despite all predictions, it appear to be holding.” [...]

The next chapter in the Spider-Man franchise will be directed by Marc Webb, the director of the Golden Globe nominated Best Picture (500) Days of Summer.  Teen Spidey should hit theaters summer 2012.
Written by James Vanderbilt, Webb will work closely with producers Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin in developing the project, which will begin production [...]

Remember Tarzan?!  Then you’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that Edgar Rice Buroughs’ other well known hero, John Carter, from Burough’s Martian series, will be hitting the movie screens in 2012.
Walt Disney Pictures is shooting the live action film John Carter of Mars in London. As long as the screen play holds it’s own, the [...]

In a bold move, Marvel just announced they will swap one free Siege #3 Deadpool Variant comic for 50 stripped DC covers. (Comes to about $200 retail bucks).  But only for the DC Comics involved in the Green Lantern Rings promotion.
What’s the deal? According to Diamond Comic Distributors (monopoly), towards the end of ‘09, for [...]

Marvel, Sony and Columbia have decided to kill Spider-Man 4.  The film had originally been scheduled for May of 2011.  Now… pfffft. At first the studio stated that production was “Delayed”. But ultimately, Spider-Man director Sam Raimi has actually been let go. Also gone are,  Tobey Maguire/Peter Parker and girlfriend Kirsten Dunst/Mary Jane.
What seems to [...]

Even though superhero movies are birthed from the comic books, we inevitably see the movies diverge on some tangent that is completely separate from the comics. Stuff like… bombs in the Batmobile, 30 caliber
machine guns in the Batmobile, organic web-shooters, raised webbing design on the Spidey suit, Superman has a kid, Catwoman uses dental [...]