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The wife of actor Nick Stahl, best known for roles in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Sin City and Carnivale, reported him missing this morning, according to Hollywood gossip site TMZ. The actor was last seen April 9, according to a missing person’s report his wife filed with the Los Angeles Police Department. It’s been a bad year for Stahl, whose estranged wife told a judge in February that she was worried he had drug problems, following an arrest
A new viral video promoting Ridley Scott’s upcoming sci-fi epic Prometheus sees Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (played by Noomi Rapace and presumably having no connection to the Dr. Who character of the same name) pitching the Prometheus mission to an audience at Weyland Industries who are either very bored or very experimental. The video, marked classified for Weyland personnel only, sees a split-screen version of Shaw, who makes her presentation while one side of the screen has bits of her face constantly
James Badge Dale, star of TV’s The Pacific, will appear in Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 as a villain named Savin, according to a Deadline report. MTV’s Splash Page figured out quickly that it’s most likely Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Savin, best known to fans as Coldblood. Coldblood is the designation for a cyborg soldier created using Savin’s body after he was killed by a land mine. The character could plausibly tie into The Avengers, because he was investigating super soldiers at the
Marvel Comics has released a preview pack giving fans a look at today’s Avengers vs. X-Men #4, which is on sale at comic book stores everywhere and will be available on the Marvel app and the ComiXology app in the next hour or so. With the Phoenix force drawing nearer and the teams nowhere near an agreement, they’re both doing their best to get their hands on Hope Summers, the fiery (see what we did there?) young mutant at the
In addition to the newly-launched Men at Work and buying Cougar Town from ABC, TBS announced today that they will develop five new pilots for next season, including a comedy about alien invaders produced by Conan O’Brien’s Conaco Productions, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In advance of their upfront presentation today, TBS described their upcoming pilot Zone Lord as “A sitcom centered on three roommates who awake one morning to discover an evil but very hip alien has moved into
Celebrating 100 issues of Robert Kirkman’s fan-favorite series The Walking Dead, Image Comics and Kirkman’s Skybound imprint will take over Petco Park in San Diego during Comic-Con weekend, transforming it into an obstacle course that will simulate the early days of the zombie apocalypse for fans lucky enough to be there. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Kirkman and company have the event (titled The Walking Dead Escape: San Diego) so that fans can participate as survivors, zombies or audience members (although why
Evan Dorkin, the creator of Milk & Cheese, Beasts of Burden (with Jill Thompson) and House of Fun, is a great conversationalist. Personally, I’m a chatty guy. As a consequence, we got exactly two questions into our interview in promotion of next week’s House of Fun story in Dark Horse Presents #12 before we got so far afield of the topic that it only made sense to the two of us. Therefore, mostly for humor’s sake, I’ll be presenting Dorkin’s
It’s no surprise that Marvel’s hoped-for television iteration of The Punisher failed to get any traction; the writing for that has been on the wall for a while and articles reporting on yesterday’s development on the Hulk series that’s in development. AKA Jessica Jones, though, was a sexy, spy-themed story that revolved around a female superhero and that seemed like it could be a good thing for all involved. Apparently, though, that wasn’t quite enough. The series, based on Brian
Earlier this week, DC Comics announced that Justice League International would end with its twelfth issue, shipping in August. That brings (at least apparently) to a close a five-year run during which writer/artist Dan Jurgens has worked on Booster Gold, a character he created in the 1980s and who leads the JLI. The cancellation appeared to fly in the face of earlier comments by DC management that suggested they wanted to keep 52 titles on tap at all times, and
A long-in-development animated series based on the popular Harold & Kumar series of stoner comedies will be one of eight pilots coming to Cartoon Network’s [adult swim] block of programming next year, including projects from Community‘s Dan Harmon and Seth Grahame-Smith of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter fame. An untitled Harold & Kumar project has been floating around since November, when A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas in 3D hit theaters, but looks like it’s finally going to be a reality,
We’re sorry, Jeff Winger, but your dean is in another castle. While the over-arching story of the Greendale Seven’s search for Dean Pelton will undoubtedly provide the backdrop for the series finale, The Hollywood Reporter has images from at least one of tomorrow’s three new Community episodes that depict the study group as a 8-bit avatars, saying that in a quest to save Pierce’s fortune from his late father’s conniving business partner (played by Giancarlo Esposito of Breaking Bad fame),
In a lengthy podcast interview with Nerdist (the site for whom Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick works), AMC’s The Walking Dead showrunner Glenn Mazzara said that the often-criticized slow pacing of the second season’s first half was a byproduct of a writing staff left to their own devices and writing by the seat of their pants following the departure of Frank Darabont, the show’s co-creator and first season showrunner who was ousted after a number of high-profile disagreements with the
Move over, Tony Stark–you’ve got company at the super-rich-guys’ table. According to a story at The Hollywood Reporter, Robert Downey, Jr. will make somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million for his role in Marvel’s The Avengers, thanks to a generous backend deal that his agents negotiated after the success of Iron Man shocked everyone in the industry back in 2008. Due to the hazy math involved, a representative told THR that it might literally be years before anyone can
There’s a tendency when you read about a celebrity or athlete getting a huge paycheck to sigh and wonder what they did to deserve all that money. In Robert Downey Jr.’s case, everyone knows what he did. He was the sparkplug (at least on the acting side) that made the whole Avengers thing possible. If that first Iron Man movie hadn’t been the huge hit that it was, then who knows where Marvel Studios would be today. That’s why when
Could the as yet unannounced second Marvel Studios film for 2014 be Ant-Man after all? Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige has strongly hinted that an Ant-Man movie is getting closer, and director Edgar Wright confirmed as much in an interview with Empire Online. When asked about Ant-Man, Wright said, “I have this thing, though. I think I get kind of superstitious because I don’t feel like I don’t think anybody, reading magazine or reading websites, quite understand how
