While the "Angry Birds" franchise has been doing more than fine for itself in theaters, Cake and Rovio Entertainment are teaming up once again to bring the story of Red, Bomb, and Chuck to the streaming screens of Netflix in Angry Birds: Summer Madness. Our trio are tweens in the middle of a summer camp […]
Despite newer games launch in the Angry Birds series, Angry Birds 2 is still the top-selling game for Finnish developer Rovio. From Gamasutra: Rovio's latest launch Angry Birds Dream Blast saw €6.9 million (~$7.7 million) in gross bookings during its first three months out, an income boost that helped the company report a 12.3 percent increase in gross bookings for its […]
Rovio has announced that Angry Birds is getting a VR experience next year called Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs. Angry Birds time in the limelight seems to have died down a little. At one point, it was quite easily the biggest video game in the world, with various brand spin-offs, and of course, a movie. […]
As a movie critic you get to see good movies early but it also means that you have to sit through a lot of crap, too. Those reviews can be cathartic to write but it also hurts to see potential flushed away on bad decisions. 11. Zoolander 2 One of the downsides to the modern […]
When a big budget, Hollywood blockbuster opens with $24 million and negative critical reviews, it's instantly called a flop. And if it has an opening weekend of $156 million and gets an 83% positive review from audiences, we call it a success…. So what if the same movie did both? The Legendary Pictures film Warcraft, […]
Today brings the relaunch of IDW's Angry Birds Comics, so if you haven't had enough of the game, or the previous Angry Birds comics, today is your lucky day. Angry Birds Comics #1 contains a few stories. The first one is entitled Angry Bird, and it's written by Paul Tobin, with art by Paco Rodriques, and the second one is Masterpig Theatre Presents: […]
I know a lot of people who felt like the Angry Birds craze was dying out, tempering from the seeming world domination the mobile game had garnered at one point. Well, if the idea of going to a supermarket and not seeing a lot of Angry Birds merchandise everywhere sounded good to you, I have […]
The Angry Birds craze seems to have subsided of late, but don't make the mistake of thinking the franchise isn't still popular The game can do serious numbers, and with a fully animated movie coming, we might be on the precipice of a second wind. That could all start with Angry Birds 2. It seems […]
The Angry Birds craze has died down a fair bit since it absolutely exploded across every mobile platform it could possibly get its hand on. The popularity of the franchise hasn't kept up to the insane demand it once commanded, but that is probably to be expected. Nothing could stay that popular for too long. […]
IDW's solicitations for May comics from the upcoming Diamond Previews also now incorporate Top Shelf. I wonder how they enjoy being in the front of Previews with their new friends, launching You Don't Say, collecting any unseen comics by Nate Powell? There's also the launch of a certain Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and the new […]
Angry Birds fans had a chance to unlock the cast information and a look at the new characters for the upcoming feature film over the last 48 hours by slinging one billion birds Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses) will be Red, Josh Gad (Frozen) plays Chuck and Danny McBride (This is the End) portrays Bomb. Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live) is one […]
Well, X-Files Year Zero, I just bought some comic books. Let's see what's going on? Well, we seem to have another confluence between Marvel and DC, with the Justice League and the Fantastic Four looking at the good guys and the bad guys teaming up to change the world for the better. First, we have […]
Patrick Dane writes for Bleeding Cool: Hey gang. Patrick Dane here. As you may or may not know, I've been kicking around pop culture for a couple years now. We get a lot of news down here over at Bleeding Cool. So much that there is literally no way of covering it all and even […]
Okay, so it's been gone a while. A mix of conventions, surgery and seeing to the kids during the summer holiday. But X Thoughts About X Comics is back… so how about we start looking at today's comics on a positive note? Or… possibly not. Bobby Drake there in Uncanny X-Men, showing why he is […]
November sees the launch of the Transformers/Angry Birds comic from IDW, who happens to own both the comics license for Transformers from Hasbro and Angry Birds from Rovio. So why not show all they have to offer for November? Firstly we have the first issue of Angry Birds/Transformers by John Barber, Marcelo Ferreira and Livio Ramondelli. […]
IDW Publishing was all over the place this weekend and we have 13 different articles to prove it from Star Trek crossing over with Planet Of The Apes to more Artist Editions. The home town publisher made excellent use of the Comic-Con crowd to announce there upcoming year. IDW Replaces Doctor Who With Orphan Black […]
Spinning out of the IDW/Hasbro liveblog… Angry Birds Transformers crossover! Written by John Barber and artist my Marcelo Ferreira. Covers by Livio Ramondelli, and Casey W. Coller & John-Paul Bove, the All-spark fall to Piggy Island. The personalities get grafted onto them. A minion to the pig starts speaking like Starscream. One of the funniest […]
Scooby Doo goes to Comic Con and meets… an old British fellow with a long scarf. I wonder who he could be? And did he steal all the backgrounds from this comic? Because, yes, even if you set a comic at a comic convention, it's probably a good idea to show some of that comic […]
Hallowe'en Comic Fest is the Diamond Comic Distribution owned-and-organised event in Hallowe'en to act as a counterbalance to Free Comic Book Day in the spring. With a bunch of comics to be ordered to be given away for free, over the Hallowe'en period. With less of an emphasis on new comics, or the promotion of […]
There has, naturally, been some debate on Bleeding Cool message boards on the merits of racebending when casting roles in movies based on comic books from the sixties. With Louis Falcetti saying: I now realize that "diversity" isn't a bad word, and choosing to look at the casting of a black actor in a traditionally […]
