Yahoo! Movies has debuted this first poster for Marvel StudiosIron Man 2, which Paramount Pictures will release in theaters on May 7. The poster gives you a first official look at War Machine! Directed by Jon Favreau, the anticipated sequel stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling, John Slattery, Kate Mara, Clark Gregg and Olivia Munn.
Fox has aired this new promo trailer for Human Target starring Mark Valley (Fringe) and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen), the television series adaptation of the DC Comics Vertigo-label comic.
The new event drama, HUMAN TARGET, premieres with a special preview Sunday, Jan. 17 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) following the NFC Divisional Playoff game. HUMAN TARGET is a full-throttle, action-packed thrill ride from executive producers McG (”Terminator Salvation”) and Simon West (”Con Air,” “Tomb Raider”). Based on the popular DC Comics graphic novel and starring Mark Valley (FRINGE), Chi McBride (”Pushing Daisies”) and Academy Award nominee Jackie Earle Haley (”Watchmen”), the series follows CHRISTOPHER CHANCE (Valley), a unique private contractor who will stop at nothing even if it means becoming a human target to keep his clients alive.
Entertainment Weekly had some still shots of Hawkman vs. Green Arrow, and Stargirl and Dr. Fate from the Smallville two hour made for tv movie guest starring the Justice Society check out the pics.
The sole reason I bought a playstation 3 is because DC Universe Online is to be exclusive to it and now, once the game hits I have found my training partner. Nightwing has been announced officially check the press release below.
Official Press Release
What happens when Dick Grayson, The Boy Wonder, becomes a man and decides to leave his mentor to take on new adventures? He takes on the name Nightwing and joins forces with the Teen Titans against criminals of the night. Second only to those of Batman, Nightwing's fighting skills and detective abilities are a definite advantage for a hero who also has gas pellets, smoke capsules, and an acetylene torch.
Wearing a bulletproof and fire-resistant costumethat is wired with a single-shot taser, Nightwing can easily incapacitate any attacker. His weapons of choice to combat foes, including the H.I.V.E. (Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Extermination), are twin, shatterproof-polymer Escrima sticks. Keep in mind that you get to play alongside or against Nightwing in DC Universe™ Online, so choose your own armaments wisely.
and just to add a little side note I don't think it was a good idea to have Nightwing become the new Batman, it took him years to discover his own identity and get from under his mentors shadow and once he came into his own it was decided to make him Batman...bull$#!+
Asgard's starting to fill up—at least the "Thor" movie version of it is! True Believers all over Midgard, welcome Idris Elba (HBO's "The Wire")! Elba takes on the role of Heimdall! Verily! In Marvel comics lore, Heimdall stood as guardian of Asgard's Rainbow Bridge and was one of Odin's most trusted servants. Earlier this week, the actors portraying the Warriors Threewere announced as well. Stuart Townsend will be Fandral. Tadanobu Asano takes on the job of Hogun. And Volstaggwill be portrayed Ray Stevenson. Loki, Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Natalie Portman as Jane Foster. Kenneth Branagh will direct.
I have to admit I haven't been keeping up with this season of smallville due to many reacurring themes i.e. clark loosing his powers, love triangles, holier than thou Chloe. But if this episode is everything they are teasing it to be then it just may draw me back in.
Wow Hard hero released a pic of the upcoming Cheetara statue, very nice sculpt to go along with Lion-O don't think they are connectible but that would be a nice touch. next up should be my home boy Panthro, listed are the specs for her:
Cold-Cast Porcelain Statue Fully Painted, Ready for Display Includes Color Collector’s Box Approx. 11" tall Strictly Limited Edition. TBA Releases End of 1st Qtr 2010 Sculpted by Paul Bennett
Peter S. Beagle’s 1968 novel "The Last Unicorn" (which was later adapted into an animated film in 1982) will now be adapted into a six-issue comic book series from IDW Publishing.
The series will kick off in April 2010, and will be adapted from Beagle's novel by writer Peter B. Gillis — who also happens to be the writer behind one of our favorite series around Splash Page HQ, the early-'80s Marvel series "Strikeforce: Morituri" (recently mentioned in our "Scariest Comics We've ever Read" list). Art for the miniseries will be provided by Renae De Liz and her husband Ray Dillon.
The tale of a unicorn's quest to discover why she's the only one of her kind, the animated Rankin/Bass adaptation of "The Last Unicorn" was one of the staple fantasy films for children of the '80s. The film featured the voices of Christopher Lee, Angela Lansbury, Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, and Mia Farrow, among others.
“I’m delighted that IDW is doing this adaptation of my book,” says Beagle, “and by the real concern they’ve shown for the integrity of what I wrote. Peter Gillis is a wonderful choice as a scripter — I couldn’t have done a better job myself — and Renae and Ray have brought my characters to vivid life. Together with IDW, they are achieving something I honestly hadn’t believed possible.”
With Thor to start principal photography in just over a month more and more casting news is starting to roll in, and the big one for today is the Part of the Warriors Three: Volstagg, Hogun, and Fandral. Marvel had this to say.
Are you waiting for the hammer to fall on the big screen (Mjolnir, that is)?! Of course you are and so are we! When Thor makes his big screen debut on May 20, 2011, he'll have some company with him—as reported today by Variety.com! Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg, longtime friends and fellow Asgardians who usually work together as a team known as theWarriors Three, are Thor’s allies and companions. Fandral will be played by Stuart Townsend. The job of Hogun goes to Tadanobu Asano. And Volstagg will be portrayed Ray Stevenson. They join the previously announced Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Natalie Portman as Jane Foster. Kenneth Branagh will direct.
Ace showbiz let us know that In the middle of January, the cast members and crew for 'Thor' will start the principal photography in Los Angeles before they move to Santa Fe in New Mexico.
After the president of production forMarvel Studio, Kevin Feige, claimed "Thor" will start filming in early 2010, Production Weekly has obtained new details about the production schedule of the movie. On Friday, November 13, the site reported that the filmmakers have chosen some places as the shooting location.
Beginning in the middle of January next year, the principal photography reportedly will take place in Los Angeles. Later, in March, the crew and the cast members for the superhero movie will move to Santa Fe in New Mexico to continue the shooting until late April.
"Thor" is an epic adventure that spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. It will revolve around Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. As the punishment, he is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans. He later learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
The titular character will be portrayed by Chris Hemsworth, while his nemesis will be played by Tom Hiddleston. Both of them will share screen with Natalie Portman who has been cast to play Jane Foster, a former nurse as well as Thor's first love. Most recently, Anthony Hopkins was reported landing a role in the Kenneth Branagh-directed film to star as Odin, the father of Thor. Paramount Pictures eyes a May 20, 2011 release date for the movie.
Philip Tan draws a stunning cover to Outsiders #27 and DC provided the finished up and polished version for our viewing pleasure. if you wanna check out the pencils take a look here and for the inks check here.
Seems the late great Michael Turner left a little something special for DC which they are dropping on the 50th issue of Supergirl. Mike Turner is at the top of my list when it comes to favorite artist and as you gander at this cover you know why. now what remains to be seen is will DC try to capitalize on his talent by making this a variant cover and trying to squeeze $100 bucks out of us.
Okay seriously WTF? with over 5000 or so characters in the repertoire and Marvel decides to come up with a new character a dual pistol wielding monkey drawn by Frank Cho. yeah it may be a baboon instead of a monkey and Marvel is trying to hype this up by getting superstar artist Frank Cho to draw this but are they really so far out of ideas that the next best thing is this? Marvel released the image Friday afternoon only asking the question "Who Is One Of The Most Exciting New Comic Characters of The Century?", promising an answer Monday afternoon on their website, presumably as part of a preview of their February 2010 solicitations.
Marvel released a new SIEGE teaser image but if you've seen the trailer for this upcoming even that marvel released then you've seen this image before...so its not really new. but here it is all the same.
I've been waiting on this movie since the clips of the film came out of comic-con. big fan of the comic and from what i hear everything follows damn near to a tee. I try to support all comic movies and this is no question, I'm sure the movie will do just like its namesake.
WOW! I was getting annoyed when marvel released yet another teaser image for the upcoming story SIEGE but when I checked it out I think this may be my favorite one yet. Captain "Bucky" American has Iron "Green Goblin" Patriot on his knees ready to bust a cap in his @$$. From this teaser we get the feeling that Bucky gets his due by putting the smack down on Osborn.
Alright we gotta another SIEGE teaser image from marvel which shows the Dark Avengers going toe to toe with Thor and from the image they seem to be winning. Which I'm pretty sure should not be happening. I mean think about it The Dark Avengers get dismantled by the X-Men (read Utopia for full story) and can best Thor who is a "GOD" well, thoughts?
No matter how improbable this may Simone Bianchi still crafts a stunning cover.
On Friday Nov 6th marvel released two more teaser images from the upcoming storyline "SIEGE" beginning in december. The image shows a Norman Osborn on his throne which seems to be a reused cover from Dark X-Men beginnings #3 that dropped Aug 26 2009. The tag for this teaser reads "Who is Normans secret weapon" and has monitor images of (from left to right) Odin, The Beyonder, Scarlet Witch, Diablo, Thanos, X-Man, and Mephisto make of it what you will. Both the cover to Dark X-Men beginnings #3 and The "Siege" teaser image are up for comparison.
On Friday Nov 6th marvel released two more teaser images from the upcoming storyline "SIEGE" beginning in december. The image shows a costume figure coming in to save the day and with the premise for SIEGE being Norman Osborn setting his sights on Asgard my guess would be Thor, not to mention he's one of the few heroes that wears a cape.
With Milestone being integrated into DCU proper they decide to bring the originators to give the characters a proper ending DC Source provided us with Dwayne Mcduffie's interpretation see below for he full story.
What is MILESTONE FOREVER, you ask? Well, we can take a guess, but why slow down the process? Since it’s part and parcel of what we do, being The Source and all, we talked to Milestone founder and MILESTONE FOREVER writer Dwayne McDuffie for the scoop on the new project, along with some essential back story to bring you newbies up to speed. Take it away, Dwayne:
16 years ago this month, industry giant DC Comics and upstart Milestone Media entered into an unprecedented creative partnership, producing 14 interlocking, creator-owned titles including Hardware, Icon, and the multimedia hit that would best be known as Static Shock. The story Milestone chose to tell was an audacious one, larger than life on its surface, character and story-driven at its base, Humanist and multicultural at its heart. For over 250 issues, fans explored a superhero universe like no other.
Today, nine Parents Choice awards, four Eisner Award nominations and one Emmy and Humanitas award-winning hit TV series later, Milestone is back, its continuity mysteriously merged with the DCU. While we saw the DC side of the story in “Justice League: When Worlds Collide,” Milestone Forever gathers the original artists from Milestone’s launch titles: John Paul Leon, Mark Bright, Chris Cross and Milestone Founder Denys Cowan, to complete the tales told in the original runs of STATIC SHOCK, ICON, HARDWARE, SHADOW CABINET and BLOOD SYNDICATE. Milestone Editor in Chief Dwayne McDuffie reveals the final fate of each of Milestone’s launch characters in a bittersweet tale that chronicles the literal end of a universe, and the birth of something new, with major consequences for the future of the DC Universe.
ENI has the dvd specs for Halo Legends due out in Feb 9th 2010 a series of seven short anime films, Financed by 343 Industries, the animation was created by five Japanese production houses: Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, and Toei Animation. Shinji Aramaki, creator and director of Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina, serves as the project's creative director. Warner Bros. will distribute Legends on DVD and Blu-ray in early 2010, Six of the stories are officially part of the Halo canon, with the seventh, made by Toei, is intended to be a parody of the universe.
Go deeper into the Halo universe than ever before with Halo Legends, an all-new, CG and traditional anime PG-13 experience that presents enthralling new stories from one of the world’s most popular video game franchises. Produced by 343 Industries, a part of Microsoft GameStudios, the exciting tales-beyond-the-games will be distributed February 9, 2010 by Warner Home Video as a Special Edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-Ray™ for $29.98 (SRP) and $34.99 (SRP), respectively, as well as single disc DVD for $19.98 (SRP) due date for all versions is January 5, 2010. The chapters will also be available On Demand and Digital Download.
Halo Legends is a seven-story anthology – told across eight spectacular episodes – that explores the origin and historical events of the Halo universe and its intriguing characters. Halo Legends has been created in the same breakthrough format as The Animatrix and Batman Gotham Knight with each individual episode imagined by a cutting-edge, renowned Japanese anime director/animator, including Shinji Aramaki, Mamoru Oshii, Hideki Futamura, Tomoki Kyoda and Yasushi Muraki. The stories are inspired and produced by the creative minds of 343 Industries, including Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor and managing editor Kevin Grace.
The individual episodes fall within Halo’s 26th Century mythology as the battle between humanity and aliens rages on in an attempt to protect Earth and mankind’s expansive number of space colonies. The dramatic, action-packed stories feature characters and locales familiar to Halo fans, and episodes range in length between 10 and 17 minutes – resulting in nearly two hours of animated adventures.
The episodes are animated by some of the world’s most respected studios and directors in anime today. The studios range from Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell, Batman Gotham Knight), Bones (Cowboy Bebop, Fell Metal Alchemist) and Toei Animation (Dragonball Z, Digimon) to Studio 4oC (The Animatrix, Batman Gotham Knight) and Casio Entertainment. The stellar roster of animation talent on Halo Legends is highlighted by creative supervisors Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed) and Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell); directors Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed), Hideki Futamura (The Animatrix), Daisuke Nishio (Dragonball Z), Hiroshi Yamazaki (Karas), Toshiyuki Kanno (Black Lagoon), Koichi Mashimo (Blade of the Immortal) and Koji Sawai (Patlabor); directors/action designers Tomoki Kyoda (Eureka Seven, Evangelion 1.0) and Yasushi Muraki (Macross Plus, Vampire Hunter D); and writer Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop).
Halo is a centerpiece in the world of video games, selling more than 27 million units to a devoted legion of fans – including the latest hit Halo 3:ODST. The Halo franchise has driven more than $1 billion in revenue from its award winning Xbox games, New York Times best-selling novels and comics and a wide variety of other merchandise.
Halo Legends - 2 Disc Special Edition version will have several hours of incredible bonus features, including:
• The Making of Halo Legends – An introduction to Halo Legends followed by a making-of segment for each episode.
• Halo: Gaming Evolved – Explaining the Halo phenomenon from its inception as an Xbox video game to a present day entertainment franchise.
• Audio Commentary with directors Frank O’Connor and Joseph Chou
• Widescreen (1.78:1)
Halo Legends Blu-Ray versions will be loaded with bonus materials, including all the great extras from the 2-disc Special Edition as well as Halo: The Story so Far, an overview of the Halo universe up until the end of Halo 3
“Halo Legends offers fans stunning, new creative visions of the popular video game’s expansive universe, providing added depth and perspective to these beloved characters and thrilling environments,” said Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor. “Halo Legends is a perfect complement to the game’s growing canon of ancillary entertainment options.”
“Warner Home Video is proud to partner with Microsoft to bring this video game phenomenon to fans in an altogether different entertainment medium,” said Amit Desai, WHV Vice President of Family, Animation & Partner Brands Marketing. “The great storytelling, memorable characters and truly astounding CG/Anime make Halo Legends a must-have for the fans.”
Marketing Support Halo Legends will be extensively marketed with a major national TV, Print, Radio and Online media campaign.
The campaign will also include trailering on WHV titles to garner an additional 10 million impressions. Exciting promotions with Xbox LIVE, iTunes, Amazon and other related partners will drive strong consumer awareness and demand amongst the core fan base. Additionally, the dedicated Halo Legends website URL halolegendsdvd.com will include an enticing sweepstakes offer to drive traffic and viral activity. More information about Halo and Halo Legends can be found at halolegends.com.
Exclusive previews of Halo Legends will be available on the new Xbox LIVE experience, Halo Waypoint, starting November 7, 2009.
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HALO LEGENDS - Single Disc Street Date: February 9, 2010 Order Due Date: January 5, 2010 Languages: English and Spanish Audio: Dolby Surround Stereo Rating: PG-13 Runtime: Estimated 119 min. Price: $19.98 SRP / No MAP UPC: 883929099245
HALO LEGENDS – 2 Disc Special Edition Street Date: February 9, 2010 Order Due Date: January 5, 2010 Languages: English and Spanish Audio: Dolby Surround Stereo Rating: PG-13 Runtimes: Disc 1 – Estimated 119 min. Disc 2 – Estimated 89 minutes Price: $29.98 SRP / No MAP UPC: 883929099207
HALO LEGENDS – Blu-Ray Hi-Def Street Date: February 9, 2010 Order Due Date: January 5, 2010 Languages: English and Spanish Audio: Dolby Surround Stereo Rating: PG-13 Runtimes: Estimated 223 min. Price: $34.99 SRP / No MAP UPC: 883929099023
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 downloadable content hits today and over at marvel.com the released the final character available none other than the mutant master of magnetism himself...Magneto. Marvel had this to say
The wait is over, Marvelites! The newest additions to the smash hit game "Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2" are finally available for download on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3!
Have you already blasted through the game as your favorite Marvel heroes and villains? Well, pop that disc back into your favorite system and get ready to experience the whole thing again with new characters and missions.
Fan favorites Black Panther, Cable, Carnage, Magneto andPsylocke, along with new simulator missions and extra boosts, are available for $9.99 on PS3 or 800 Microsoft points on Xbox 360.
And can you believe it? There's more! Fans who missed out on the pre-order offer to play as the unstoppable Juggernautwill also be able to download him for $1.99 on PS3 or 160 Microsoft points on Xbox 360.
What are you still reading this for? Fire up your consoles and download these great additions to an already jam-packed game!
Marvel released a third teaser image pushing the upcoming story event "SIEGE" which depicts our friendly neighborhood Spider-man putting the foot in the ass of arch nemesis Norman Osborn check it out.
Marvel released a second teaser image pushing the upcoming story event "SIEGE" which depicts Wolverine spending some quality time with son...uhm Wolverine. with art by poor little Billy Tan
And Marvel not to be outdone has released a teaser image to next years end to Dark Reign also being billed as the fall of Norman Osborn and a lead in to The Heroic Age. The solicitations reads as follows.
SIEGE: THE CABAL [Prologue to Siege] (OCT090467) Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Penciled by MICHAEL LARK Cover by DAVID FINCH Rated T+ ...$3.99 FOC-11/12/09, On-Sale-12/2/09
SIEGE #1 (of 4) Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Pencils & Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL Variant Cover by GABRIELE DELL'OTTO Variant Cover by JOE QUESADA Sketch Variant by OLIVIER COIPEL Rated T+ ...$3.99 FOC-12/10/09, On-Sale-1/6/10
Simone Bianchi does a knockout job on art as to be expected.
DC was kind enough to post a sneak peek at Philip Tan's cover to Outsiders #27. It seems some new villain's will be plaguing The Outsiders by the name of Dust Devil and Mudslide (isn't that a vacuum cleaner and a drink?) not mention a few unknown in the background but Philip Tan gets a kudos for the kick ass cover.
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Seems the late great Michael Turner left a little something special for DC which they are dropping on the 50th issue of Supergirl. Mike Turner is at the top of my list when it comes to favorite artist and as you gander at this cover you know why. now what remains to be seen is will DC try to capitalize on his talent by making this a variant cover and trying to squeeze $100 bucks out of us.
Okay seriously WTF? with over 5000 or so characters in the repertoire and Marvel decides to come up with a new character a dual pistol wielding monkey drawn by Frank Cho. yeah it may be a baboon instead of a monkey and Marvel is trying to hype this up by getting superstar artist Frank Cho to draw this but are they really so far out of ideas that the next best thing is this? Marvel released the image Friday afternoon only asking the question "Who Is One Of The Most Exciting New Comic Characters of The Century?", promising an answer Monday afternoon on their website, presumably as part of a preview of their February 2010 solicitations. 
Alright we gotta another SIEGE teaser image from marvel which shows the Dark Avengers going toe to toe with Thor and from the image they seem to be winning. Which I'm pretty sure should not be happening. I mean think about it The Dark Avengers get dismantled by the X-Men (read Utopia for full story) and can best Thor who is a "GOD" well, thoughts?
