Smurfs, Cowboys and Aliens tie for top box office
Two comic related big screen movies squared off this weekend and came up with a tie. Cowboys & Aliens and The Smurfs both earned $36.2 million. I saw Cowboys and Aliens on Friday night and thought it was a great adventure western mashed-up with a sci-fi. I’ve never read the graphic novel, so I don’t [...]
Posted on: Aug 1, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 0 Comments
Artistic interpretations of Captain America
The new Captain America movie opens up this weekend. Jennifer Moline over at Inspiredology has posted 17 artistic interpretations of the Captain America character. Here’s one of my favorites from the list by Chris Uminga. Other include: Olly Moss, Tyler Stout, pnutink, Skottie Young, Konjour, Mattia Sensi, John Drogalis, Eric Tan, Ed Foychuk, Danny Wake, [...]
Posted on: Jul 20, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 1 Comment
Are we experiencing superhero movie fatigue?
From Beehivecity.com Green Lantern is not the only superhero offering to suggest that interest in men-in-tights in waning. Kenneth Branagh’s Thor opened with $66 million last month, a satisfying result for Paramount and Marvel comics but no match for the $115 million pocketed by the 2002 Spider-Man reboot in its first days. Matthew Vaughn, director [...]
Posted on: Jun 28, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 8 Comments
Ron Howard to direct live-action Spy vs. Spy movie
Ron Howard is rumored to be direct a live-action movie adaptation of MAD Magazine’s Spy vs. Spy. According to Deadline.com reports that the “film will be a physical and highly visual action comedy with two spies going mano a mano in ruthless fashion.” No date has given. Other names attached to the project include David [...]
Posted on: Jun 23, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 6 Comments
Disappointed art review for Tim Burton exhibit
The LA Times reviewed the traveling exhibit of The Art of Tim Burton that originated at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In all 700 or so artifacts from his original sketches and movie memorabilia are on display. The LA Times wasn’t that impressed Art museums often have a tough time with [...]
Posted on: May 31, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 3 Comments
Check out new Tintin movie posters, trailer
The Adventures of Tintin is set to hit theaters this December. The 3D motion capture movie is produced by legendary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson. Posters (see below) have been released as well as the trailer. Tintin is based on the be French comic by Belgian artist Georges Rémi (1907–1983). It is one of [...]
Posted on: May 17, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 12 Comments
Wimpy Kid rules at box office
The second installment in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie franchise took top billing at the box office this last weekend taking in $24.4 million – beating the original Wimpy Kid movie by $2 million. Other comic/animated related films still in the top 10 include Rango (#5) and Mars Needs Moms! (#10)
Posted on: Mar 28, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 1 Comment
Warren Beatty wins suit against TMS
The ongoing lawsuit between Warren Beatty and Tribune Co. over ownership to the rights TV and movie rights for Dick Tracy has been tilted in Beatty’s favor after a judge last week ruled that Beatty had satisfied a requirement to begin a Dick Tracy movie or TV show. From Bloomberg: The actor said he started [...]
Posted on: Mar 28, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 0 Comments
Early review of 2nd Wimpy Kid movie not so good
The second installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid will be opening in theaters today. Early reviews are mixed when looking at top critics over on RottenTomatoes.com. Michael O’Sullivan of the Washington Post wasn’t that impressed: The problem doesn’t really lie in the acting but in the writing. There’s too much effort expended on [...]
Posted on: Mar 25, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 0 Comments
New Captain America trailer released
Another character from the Marvel Universe is hitting the big screen.
Posted on: Mar 24, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 2 Comments
Nicholas Gurewitch produces western serial
Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch has launched the first of a 12 part series of online western movies. First is embedded below. Black Coffee: Chapter 1 of Trails of Tarnation from New Picture Agencies on Vimeo. HT: Robot 6
Posted on: Mar 16, 2011, Section: Movies, web comics, Comments: 1 Comment
Iron Man 3 news round up
Here’s a round up of some of the buzz around Marvel’s Iron Man 3 movie franchise. Some of it’s old new, some newer. Shane Black is taking the helms as writer-director for the third installment. Black wrote the first two Lethal Weapon films and The Last Boy Scout. He’s proven he can do action movies. [...]
Posted on: Feb 25, 2011, Section: Movies, Comments: 1 Comment
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