Along with changing their name to Marvel Entertainment (from Marvel Enterprises), the company has gotten financing from Merril Lynch to begin making movies in-house and then having someone else distribute them for a fee, similar to how Lucasfilm and Pixar (as of next year) work. Sci-Fi Wire has some more details. Titles that may be produced include: Captain America, the Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak and Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack and Shang-Chi.
MSNBC/Newsweek on the Set of "Superman Returns"
joe__gee writes, MSNBC and Newsweek this week have a peek at Superman Returns, which is due for a Summer 2006 release. The reader gets a little back story on the eleven year journey to revive the Superman franchise, and there’s a bit of reveal about the setup for this film. Do we have any bets on Lois Lane’s son’s name – will he be named Lars, Leroy, Lance, or Larry?
CoMers: Episode 10: Assault is live
tgreco
writes, much to the dismay (or should I say
discomfort) of babasyzygy; CoMers Episode 10: Assault
is finally finished.
Thanks again, and as always
Stay Tuned
New Serenity Site Up
And very shiny. Be sure to play the Browncoats trivia game to see a sneak preview clip.
Twenty-nine days and counting people!
Movie Review – “Species 3”
My masochistic streak has shown its ugly head once more.
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Weekly Comics Discussion – August 31, 2005
This week’s shipping
list includes a reprint of Serenity #1,
Green Lantern #4 (a series that I’m behind on
reviewing), Astonishing X-Men #12 (a series
I’ll review in TPB form for a while), Essential
X-Men Vol. 6 (one of the last Essentials I’ll get
for this series, as I’ll be getting the DVD-ROM
collection in October), New Avengers #9,
Supreme Power #18 (which wraps up the MAX
line issues, and which will be reviewed with issues 13
and up), as well as TPB versions of Ultimates 2
#1-6 (similar in tone and quality to the first
round) and Strange: Beginnings and Endings (a
well written miniseries that updates an origin that
didn’t need updated.)
The Brothers Grimm
Terry Gilliam has crafted a bizarre, baroque film (does he make any other kind?) around the stories collected and popularized by the Brothers Grimm.
Century City Review – “Only You”
This was the series finale. It had a good run, and a
chance to end things properly, but the show could have
lasted longer had the audience found it. This show
did a very good job of the predictive social
commentary that science fiction is so good at.
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Sunday Double Feature: Naked Lunch
Our summer Sunday film reviews wind down with Movies on Drugs.
Naked Lunch isn’t SF but, chances are, you’ll find it in the SF/Fantasy section of your local video store, and it is fantasy of a sort. Based on William S. Burroughs’ memorable experimental novel (available at Amazon.com or
Amazon.ca), the film depicts the writing of that novel, adding some order to the chaos of the non-linear book. The viewer enters Burroughs’ mind, during a time when he was addicted to heroin. Drugs aside: if you can stomach it, this film may be the best ever made about the creative process.
Sunday Double Feature: Liquid Sky
“Few movies are specifically tailored for appeal to those on controlled substances….”
–Andrew Borntregger, Badmovies.org.“A bunch of people got really fucked up on drugs and made a movie.”
—Some Guy at a Party, the 1980s.“I’m from Connecticut. I kill with my cunt.”
–Margaret, Liquid Sky
Our second summer Sunday feature, an 80s cult film, has found faint new life on DVD. No film about alien contact has ever played quite like this before or since. Warning: content may be unsuited to all kinds of people. I dispense entirely with spoiler/censorship tags in the main body of the review.