The first Superman cartoon from the famous Fleischer brothers was in cinemas in 1941. Not only did it successfully adapt Superman into movies for the first time, but it did so in full colour, with painstaking animation, and invented aspects that would stick with the character over the decades, including "Faster than a speeding bullet! […]
Yesterday, it was announced that the comic book superhero series Black created by Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3, set in a world in which only Black people are developing superpowers, had been picked up by Warner Bros as a movie, with a script written by Batman And The Outsiders writer Bryan Edward Hill. The movie […]
This is in line with all WarnerMedia employees around the world who are able to, being encouraged to work from home until further notice.This is in line with Bleeding Cool reports on fellow comic book publishers Oni Press and Boom Studios shutting their doors and Marvel encouraging people to work from home - though like[...]
Heath Ledger won an Oscar for playing The Joker in Dark Knight, but that was a Best Supporting Role. To date no actor has won an Oscar for playing the lead in a comic book-inspired movie. But today the bookmaker Betway has placed Joaquin Phoenix as theri favourite to win the Oscar for Best Actor […]
Just out of a screening of Joker, the new Warner Bros movie based on the character from the Batman comic books. And despite reports that the movie is not based on any actual comic books, that might not be entirely true. Now Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, original writers and artists from those […]
It’s really been eye-opening for me.”But with one of the mothers replying to CBS News' questioning if she was concerned that a movie like Joker could trigger someone else to mimic what happened in Aurora, saying "Oh absolutely, I believe there's all kinds of reasons and I don't think we can stop all of the[...]
DC Comics has exhibited at San Diego Comic-Con for decades. When Warner Bros turned up, like other media companies, they set up their own booth. Booths that have got bigger and more elaborate over the years. But this year, for the very first time, the Warner Bros booth… IS the DC Comics booth. Or vice […]
It's a phrase that Warners has used in plenty a press release picked up by press reports. It also bears similarity to the theme park title "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter"But now it's getting a more physical presence As Warners and JK Rowling have, together,trademarked the words and have now created a logo for "J.K[...]
This is the official poster show art for Wondercon 2016, the comic book show in Los Angeles later this month brought to you by CCI, the folk that also put on San Diego Comic Con. And apparently there's a movie coming out soon, which Jason Fabok's artwork might just tie into. Oh yes, and there's a T-shirt as well…
and DC Comics.Siegel's daughter Laura Siegel Larson, had brought a case against Warners in 2004, three years after making a deal with Warners over termination rights to the character, stating that there was no binding contractHowever, in 2013, the Ninth Circuit ruled that Warners owned that character, decided that a letter signed in 2001 sent my attorney[...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlJLw8NvexsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Revealed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlJLw8Nvexs) Warner Bros have announced LEGO® Star Wars: The Force Awakens! a new game that smashes together Lego and the new chapter in the Star Wars movie franchise together. Well it was only a matter of time. But it will also fill […]
Published by Nikki Finke on her Hollywood Dementia site, a place for fables, and fiction and parables in and around the movie business, comes Abraham's Gun, written by, well, me. A story about a man with a plan, beset by devils around him. So it begins… Abraham Zimmer felt the weight against his chest as […]
Remember, remember the 5th November, that's when Anonymous are attempting their latest Million Mask March, in which anywhere up to a million people will descend on government institutions wearing the Guy Fawkes mask made famous by the V For Vendetta comic and movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGqs_Qw8V5k That is the mask that is licensed for production by Warner […]
David Walker, writer of DC's Cyborg, the recent Shaft comic book and the recent Shaft sequel novel argues against the making of a comedy remake of Shaft given the news that the creator of Black-ish, Kenya Barris has been hired by Warner Bros' New Line to co-write the script. In an open letter, he uses reasons […]
It's Licensing Expo this weekend. And Warner Bros is stepping up big time… and it's a canny way to see what they are most interested in pushing, promoting and licensing. Heavy On The Potter. —————- WBCP arrives at Licensing Expo with an unmatched portfolio of content and product offerings, led by the most anticipated feature […]
We let you in on DC's plans to put DVDs and Blu Rays in comic books earlier this morning… and now we know what they'll be looking like. Worth finding space on the shelf for?
Also coming through the pipeline and Warners, and pushed through after the success of Guardians Of The Galaxy, is a Legion Of Superheroes film, being pushed through with an Avengers-Meets-Guardians tag.Based on the long running DC Comics book of the same name, the Legion Of Superheroes film will be set in the far future, with a massive[...]
Last year, Fox commissioned a "put pilot" for a TV series from Warner Bros based on the DC Vertigo series Lucifer, by Mike Carey and Peter Gross, itself based on the character developed by Neil Gaiman on Sandman. That means the network promises that the pilot will air, or pay a stiff penalty. It is to […]
Jason Momoa, the man playing Aquaman in the upcoming DC Comics movies, has been talking at CCXP, the big Brazilian comic convention taking place this weekend. He has talked about signing up for four DC movies… at a guess that would be Batman Vs Superman, Justice League, Aquaman and either Aquaman 2 or Justice League […]
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