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'Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths' DVD details released, including the Spectre!
13 hours ago | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
In case you missed the preview on Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Warner Premiere has offered up complete details including the announcement of an exclusive Spectre short for the special edition. Here's the release:
Burbank, CA (November 23, 2009) – To save our world and all those like it, Superman, Batman and their caped colleagues must go toe-to-toe with their evil mirror images in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, the seventh entry in the successful ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies coming February 23, 2010 from Warner Premiere, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation. The full-length animated film will be distributed by Warner Home Video as a Special Edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-Ray™ Hi-Def for $24.98 (Srp) and $29.99 (Srp), respectively, as well as single disc DVD for $19.98 (Srp). The film will also be available On Demand and Download.
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths is an original story from award-winning »
- Robert Greenberger
Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths Trailer
25 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Warner Home Entertainment’s newest animated effort featuring DC Comics Heroes and villains: Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, arrives on DVD February 23rd, 2010. The film features villains from the classic DC Crime Syndicate. Check out an image and the trailer after the jump.
Created back when goatees marked your obvious ill intent, the Csa is made up of evil, alternate reality versions of Earth’s own heroes, who didn’t wear masks! Though the Csa met it’s end in the original Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline, they none-the-less returned years later in a classic story arc by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.
Like Green Lantern: First Flight and Warner’s other recent DC Comics Home Entertainment entries, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, will carry a rating of PG-13, reminding us that Warner doesn’t just consider these super hero adventures as “strictly for kids”. Though February seems far away, »
- Jonah
Wolverine star Hugh Jackman to take on boxing robots in Real Steel
25 November 2009 7:09 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Fans of the X-Men films have long been wanting to see the Sentinels - giant mutant-hunting robots - on the big screen.
The metal menaces were due to feature in X2 but had to be cut from the script because they would be too expensive. The head of a Sentinel was seen briefly in X-Men: The Last Stand, and the robots were rumoured to be part of an early script for X-Men Origins: Wolverine but never made it to the final draft. (There were Sentinels in the tie-in video game, though).
Whether Sentinels will ever be part of the X-Men movies is anyone's guess, but in the meantime Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman will be taking on robots in his next film.
Jackman is to star in sci-fi movie Real Steel, based on a short story by Richard Matheson in which a fighter has to reinvent himself when human boxers are replaced by machines. »
- David Bentley
Hugh Jackman Hangs With Boxing Robots
24 November 2009 3:10 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Hugh Jackman has played a man with a harder-than-steel skeleton, but he has never really taken on anyone made of steel. At least, not beyond fighting giant steel Sentinels in X-Men as Wolverine. This time though, Jackman will be stepping into robot boxing movie Real Steel for Dreamworks, which is based on a short story by Richard Matheson. Jackman will play a struggling Robot Boxing promoter who finds a discarded robot that always seems to win. He also discovers he has a 11-year-old son, and they bond as the robot brawls its way toward the top. The rest of the story will center on a fighter (still to be cast) who has to reinvent himself when human boxers are replaced by robots. According to a Variety report, the Shawn Levy directed sci-fi film will be made on a budget of $80 million, which is much lower than you might expect from a big robot film. However »
- Neil Miller
Jackman To Fight Robots With Spielberg
24 November 2009 4:16 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Hugh Jackman is set to solidify his status as an action hero - the Australian actor has signed up to fight robots in a new Steven Spielberg blockbuster.
The 41 year old found international fame with his role as comic book creation Wolverine in the X-Men film series.
And he's now ready to swap superheroes for sci-fi in Spielberg's new picture Real Steel, which tells the story of a futuristic boxing industry where robots take over from real fighters.
The big budget blockbuster is the first project for the filmmaker's DreamWorks studio since the legendary director cut ties with Paramount Pictures and secured independent financial backing for his company.
DreamWorks co-president of production Mark Sourian tells Variety, "When we took it with us, we really highlighted it as something we would put the pedal to metal on. It's a project that Steven always wanted to do. It just came together rapidly after we left Paramount." »
Kevin Spacey Wants 'Superman Returns' Sequel
23 November 2009 9:10 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Kevin Spacey wants another crack at killing the Man of Steel.
Now if only Warner Brothers would bite. Recently, the star of The Usual Suspects and American Beauty stated that if he had his way, he’d be reprising the role of Lex Luthor for a Superman Returns follow-up.
"If I ran Warner Brothers I could tell you definitively we’d be making that movie," Spacey said. "But I don’t, and they haven’t called me to tell me."
The 2006 superhero adaptation was heavily-hyped, but not a big money-maker. For a while, Ninja Assassin director James McTeigue had expressed an interest in replacing director Bryan Singer, and subsequently rebooting the franchise.
But DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson recently said the company does not have "any current plans for Superman," and McTeigue has moved on, claiming executives are unsure what direction to take the franchise.
Unfortunately for fans of the character, »
Thanksgiving Special: Stan Lee Tells MTV What He's Thankful For This Year
23 November 2009 1:43 PM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Talking with Stan Lee is always a treat, and our recent conversation about his old-school approach to Twitter, his "Thor" cameo and various other topics was no exception. However, near the end of my conversation with the co-creator of some of comics' most popular characters, I had to ask: With Thanksgiving approaching, what was Stan Lee thankful for this year?
Lee's answer offered a much quieter, contemplative side of the man who helped bring Spider-Man, the X-Men, and so many other superheroes to life.
"Oh, golly, so many things," said Lee. "I’m thankful to still be involved in the things I really care about and still be able to be working on them. I’m thankful that the fans still seem to enjoy the things I’m doing."
"I’m thankful that my wife lets me do all these things I’m doing, and she doesn’t say, 'How »
- Rick Marshall
Mandarin To Be The Villain In Iron Man 3?
22 November 2009 2:24 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
We don't even have a trailer for "Iron Man 2," yet there's already gossip for part 3. Faran Tahir, who played the leader of the Ten Rings terrorist organization that held Tony Stark hostage in "Iron Man," has hinted that his character will become the Mandarin in the third chapter. Here's what he said to Moviefone: "At some point, they want to introduce Mandarin into the storyline and my character, like Mandarin, was the leader of the Ten Rings. We're leaving it open because, partly, it makes good business sense for us to leave a little bit of uncertainty for people to speculate on." "He [Favreau] has known for a long time where he wants to take it and I don't want to speak for him, but my feeling is that the second movie didn't want to just follow a singular storyline. They wanted to expand the characters to show that it's »
Stan Lee Talks More About ‘Thor’ Cameo
19 November 2009 1:45 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Given his history of cameos, (Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, X-Men, Daredevil, etc.) it’s not exactly shocking that Lee will be getting one in Thor. Here’s what the George Washington of Marvel Comics said to MTV about meeting with the film’s director, four-time Academy Award nominee, Kenneth Branagh:
“I had lunch with Branagh, [who's] the nicest guy in the world as well as the most talented… months ago, when he was first starting on the movie, he said he would get a cameo for me.”
There ya have it. In case you’re insane and want to know exactly when Stan Lee will appear in the background of the film selling hot dogs or whatever, he had this to say to those dogged MTV folks when pressed for details:
“I think he has more important things to think of at the moment with the movie — like who he »
- Scott Miller
Exclusive: Stan Lee On His 'Thor' Cameo And Meeting With Kenneth Branagh
18 November 2009 9:21 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Last week, I talked to one of comics greatest living legends, Stan Lee, about his arrival on the Twitter scene and why it makes him feel like he's writing his "Stan's Soapbox" column again. While Lee had some fun stuff to say about the world of micro-blogging, I also had to ask him about a few other things on comics fans' minds these days — namely, whether he'll be making the expected cameos in future Marvel movies.
"I had lunch with Branagh, [who's] the nicest guy in the world as well as the most talented," Lee told MTV News when asked if he's been contacted about a "Thor" cameo yet. "Months ago, when he was first starting on the movie, he said he would get a cameo for me."
While the details regarding Lee's cameo in "Iron Man 2" have already gone public, what role he'll play in the God of Thunder's »
- Rick Marshall
'Global Frequency' back to TV?
18 November 2009 4:25 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Global Frequency, the DC/Wildstorm comic, might be back in play as a TV series.
You may remember that in 2005, Mark Burnett (producer of Survivor) and John Rogers (who would go on to write the comic Blue Beetle and create the show Leverage) created a pilot for the WB. The pilot wasn't picked up; however, it got leaked to the Interwebs and became the most watched pilot that never got picked up.
Now the industry magazine Production Weekly has just posted the following on Twitter: The CW will again try to adapt Warren Ellis' comic book "Global Frequency," this time Scott Nimerfro will script the pilot. Scott Nimerfro has written for Star Trek: Voyager, Tales From The Crypt, Perversions Of Science, The Outer Limits, Stargate: Atlantis, and Pushing Daisies, and was an associate producer on the X-Men movie.
Warren Ellis, creator of Global Frequency, sent out an email with »
- Glenn Hauman
What X-Men 3 Could Have Been
17 November 2009 7:54 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Mike Dougherty, director of the long-delayed and mistreated Trick ‘r Treat and co-writer of X-Men 2 joined the /Filmcast over the weekend and in their special “After Dark” segment, where they talk about whatever’s on their mind, their conversation hit on the interesting subject of X-Men 3, for which Dougherty and Singer were not a part of, but would have been had Singer not swung over to DC to make Superman Returns (for which Dougherty helped write).
In the audio clip, Dave Chen, Adam Quigley and Devindra Hardawar bring up the subject the X3 and quiz Dougherty on his thoughts of the movie, for which he answered reservedly and professionally. The interesting parts however, came afterward, when Dougherty moved on to explain some of the ideas he pitched to Bryan Singer for what of been their version of the third installment of the X-Men film franchise.
To start, we’ll go »
- Rob Keyes
Shadows of The Dark Knight Pt 2: Is dark the key to success?
16 November 2009 2:25 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
When Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight made a billion dollars at the global box office and became America's second highest-grossing movie of all time, several subsequent action-adventure releases used its dark formula but without the same success.
As everyone now realises, the Warner Bros release did not succeed because it was dark, as Marvel's studio boss Kevin Feige has pointed out.
As Feige rightly says, it succeeded because it respected the source material (and also made it accessible for the ordinary viewer). Admittedly, it was helped along by the interest generated by Heath Ledger's untimely demise.
But hardcore fans do tend to want more violence in films - on superhero fan forums the cry for an adult rating is commonplace. Studios, though, are more wary about shutting out the family market altogether, especially since Watchmen and even more especially in a shaky economy.
Blood, gore and brutal violence often has to be omitted, »
- David Bentley
Star Trek Blu-ray Easter Egg: R2D2 Cameo
16 November 2009 11:40 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Everybody loves a good Easter Egg – both the kind you decorate, hide, then eat and the kind that artists, directors and musicians include in their various works of art for dedicated fans to find. Going way back to 2000 when the X-Men DVD came out, fans were treated to a brief introduction of Spider-Man in the special features section. That was just the first of many eggs to come.
When Iron Man came out, many sharp-eyed fans were quick to point out Captain America’s shield laying on Tony Stark’s work table; Ol’ Cap was then glimpsed frozen in an iceberg in a deleted opening scene from The Incredible Hulk. Just recently Michael Bay inserted a hidden video of himself talking about Unicron in the Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Blu-ray; Bay even put a Terminator reference in TF2 with the words “T-1000” branded onto a destroyed robot’s arm. »
- Paul Young
Bill Belichick's Fourth Quarter Colts Vs Patriots Fumble An Old Story In Hollywood
16 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Everybody makes mistakes, even a three-time Super Bowl winning football coach like Bill Belichick. If a man like Belichick can cause a series of fatal game-changing events due to one bad coaching call — as he did during the fourth quarter of last night's game pitting his New England Patriots against the Indianapolis Colts — then you shouldn't feel too bad about breaking your mother's favorite vase or skipping out on "Drag Me To Hell" while it was in theaters. Alright, maybe you should feel bad about that last one.
But the Patriots head coach isn't alone in his ability to turn a single blunder into a catastrophic calamity — it's a storm that comes into port quite often in the hills of Hollywood. In fact, the following five film franchises have all seen similar collapses due to a fourth quarter fumble.
Batman & Robin
In 1997, the superhero movie genre almost died a dastardly death due to "Batman & Robin, »
- Josh Wigler
X-Men 3 as it Was Originally Intended
16 November 2009 2:05 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
First Showing found an interesting conversation that Slash Films had with Mike Dougherty, who had worked with Byan Singer on the X-Men 2 script. He discussed his work directing Trick ‘r Treat but also discussed the planned storyline that was to be Bryan Singer’s X3. Here’s the full synopsis of the originally intended plot: “The idea – you open up with Alkali Lake but it’s completely barren and dried up and there are these odd reports of strange phenomena going on around the world accompanied by bright lights in the sky.” “The idea would be that both the X-Men and the Brotherhood realize that essentially a very god-like force had entered their reality and that it was causing disruptions around the world – mutant prisons being decimated. I had pitched an idea about a fleet of cargo ships getting torn apart in the Atlantic and you found out that they »
- Jacob
Hopes for 'Magneto' movie dwindle
16 November 2009 12:27 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
X-Men Origins: Magneto scribe David Goyer has said the movie should not be a priority for Fox, further increasing doubts that it will be made. X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner recently claimed that - while Goyer's script is "brilliant" - the film was a lower priority than the planned Deadpool movie, a Wolverine sequel and X-Men: First Class. "I tend to agree with her," FlashForward co-creator Goyer told MTV (more) »
- By Hugh Armitage
The Hobbit Casting Rumors
15 November 2009 9:39 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
In their most recent edition of AICN-Downunder, Ain’t It Cool News included a small item which could be potentially big news for Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson’s upcoming films based on The Hobbit.
A project that’s been in development for a while and eagerly anticipated by a massive crowd of fans and moviegoers alike, The Hobbit has been engulfed in rumors when it comes to casting. So on that note, we have another possible rumor in the form of actor Brian Cox (X-Men 2, Troy, The Bourne Identity) being looked at by the producers as one of the thirteen dwarves in the adaptation.
This news comes on the heels of the John Rhys-Davies (Gimli from Lord of the Rings trilogy) interview with Empire where the talented actor flat out said he won’t be back to play the role of another dwarf, possibly Gimli’s father Gloin. »
- Rob Keyes
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15 November 2009 3:32 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Bryan Singer gains massive support for return to X-Men
15 November 2009 10:19 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
There's been overwhelming support for Bryan Singer in my recent poll asking whether he should return to the X-Men film series.
Thousands of people voted and 79 per cent picked 'yes', while 16 per cent said 'no' and 5 per cent were not sure.
Producers are keen to bring the director back in order to restore the 20th Century Fox franchise to the widely-received consistency and quality of his second film, X2: X-Men United.
X2 was written by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, and Dougherty recently revealed the ideas he had for X3 before they had all left to make Superman Returns instead.
Fox hired first Matthew Vaughn, and then Brett Ratner, to take the reins on the third movie.
There are welcome moves to try get Singer and his team on board for one or more future X-Men movies.
Several films are in the pipeline: a Wolverine sequel being penned by Singer »
- David Bentley
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