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Green Lantern Man-hunted on June 7th
Green Lantern strikes cinemas next month, and true to tradition a video game tie-in is also set to hit consoles on June 7th Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters. Continue reading
Posted in Video Game News
Tagged comic book movies, DC Comics, Green Lantern, superhero movies, video games
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Why do Comic Books Rule the Box Office?
Of course, there are many successful films these days that didn’t start off in the world of comic books. But if we take a close look at the box-office results over the last five years, each year we find that a comic based film is in the top ten. The only exception was 2009, which while dominated by genre films like … read more
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Tagged comic book movies, comic books, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, superhero comics, superhero movies
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Is New Green Lantern Movie Trailer Cause for Concern?
This is a few days late, but I thought I’d share the new Green Lantern Wondercon trailer that’s given us a considerable idea of how Martin Campbell’s slightly worrying blockbuster is shaping up.
I’ve had my doubts about this one (as have many), but there’s some really impressive visuals on display here, Mark Strong’s Sinestro looks spot on, and Campbell … read more
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Tagged comic book movies, DC Comics, Green Lantern, superhero comics, superhero movies
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New X-Men: First Class Posters are Second Rate
With so many Marvel movie projects on the go at once, nary a day goes by where we’re not treated to another intriguing publicity image or poster. These two new X-Men: First Class posters, however, are anything but a treat. Continue reading
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Tagged comic book movies, Marvel Comics, superhero movies, X-men, X-Men: First Class
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Dominic Pace Demands Role of Lex Luthor in New Superman Movie
It’s hardly new for the fanboy uni-mind to decide that, technically, it owns the comic franchises it so loves and therefore has the right to dictate how Hollywood produces all comic adaptations, and Zack Snyder’s recently announced Superman: Man of Steel is likely to attract more scrutiny than any other superhero movie in development.
Actor Dominic Pace is currently campaigning … read more
Posted in Comic Movie News
Tagged comic book movies, DC Comics, superhero movies, Superman, Zack Snyder
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Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Review
2008, Optimum Home Entertainment
Director: Jérôme Salle
Writer: Julien Rappeneau
Cast: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélanie Thierry, Bojana Panic, Karel Roden, Miki Manojlovic, Benedict Wong
With western economies still struggling to recover from one of the fiercest recessions in the last hundred years, Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge, the movie adaptation of the popular billionaire businessman, couldn’t have come … read more
Posted in Movie Reviews
Tagged comic book movies, films / movies, Franco-Belgian comics, graphic novels
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Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge DVD Released 23rd August
Optimum Home Entertainment has announced that the 2008 French action flick Largo Winch: Deadly Revenge will be released in the UK on DVD on the 23rd August. This is just one of several adaptations of Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme’s popular and enduring Belgium comic character of the same name, who also saw a TV series in 2001 … read more
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Tagged comic book movies, films / movies, Franco-Belgian comics
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Iron Man 2 Movie Review
2010
Director: Jon Favreau
Script: Justin Theroux
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson
The finer superhero movie franchises have so far followed a pretty rigid formula. The first instalment acts as an origin story, the superior sequel throws a greater and/or more personal threat upon our established here, and … read more
Posted in Movie Reviews
Tagged comic book movies, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, superhero movies, Thor
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First Edition Announces First Comic Industry Web Comedy
Given the success of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and The Guild, I’m surprised that there haven’t been more cult web shows created with comic geeks and/or gamers in mind. At least, I’m assuming those shows were successful, as in someone, somewhere eventually profited from them…
First Edition is a new web comedy by Sam Weller and Canyon Prince, and … read more
Dominic Cooper Confirms Captain America
SuperHeroHype has confirmed that Dominic Cooper will play Howard Stark, Iron Man’s father, in Joe Johnston’s 2011 superhero flick Captain America: The First Avenger.
Howard Stark recently made an appearance in Iron Man 2, played by John Slattery. Cooper will portray the pioneer some thirty years before Slattery’s Stark Expo footage, in the film’s World War II segment.… read more
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Tagged Avengers, Captain America, comic book movies, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, superhero movies
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