The Hollywood Reporter today has news from the Justice Department that Gilberto Sanchez, the Bronx, NY man who was convicted of being the first to upload an unfinished workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine to the Internet, has been sentenced to one year in prison. The original source of the leak...
There aren’t many directors better than David Fincher working in Hollywood today. It’s actually hard to imagine a director better suited to adapt someone else’s material; films like Fight Club and The Social Network have demonstrated the filmmaker’s ability to retain the tone and flavor that made the originals worth...
MTV’s Splash Page has the new trailer for Columbia’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (courtesy Yahoo! Movies). This time, the trailer has quite a bit of action, and trades out the sense of humor introduced in the first trailer (flaming pee, anyone?) for a sense of grandeur, as Ghost Rider...
That’s a one-size-fits-all headline for the last 12 hours or so, if there ever was one! Last night, Thor 2 director Patty Jenkins pulled out, citing “creative differences” while apparently maintaining a pretty good relationship with Marvel Studios. Deadline had the report first, and their comment that “[Jenkins] will probably end...
Excelsior! Last week, the Producer’s Guild of America announced that the next recipient of their prestigious Vanguard Award (given in the past to George Lucas and John Lasseter in recognition of their lifetime’s contribution to Hollywood) will be Marvel Comics visionary Stan Lee. Lee, credited with creating or co-creating dozens...
Earlier in the week, MTV’s Splash Page interviewed actor Mickey Rourke about his new film, Immortals, and reported that he had very few good things to say about Iron Man 2, the disappointing Marvel sequel he co-starred in last year. The Sin City star told Crave Online that he felt...
According to MTV’s Splash Page, writer Melissa Rosenberg, currently working on AKA Jessica Jones for Disney-owned ABC, has confirmed that there’s a part in her script for Luke Cage. The Hero-For-Hire is married to Jessica Jones in Marvel’s current comics continuity, the culmination of a character arc that began way...
While director Shane Black, who is helming the upcoming Iron Man 3 for Marvel Studios, apparently sees most superhero films as “bland” and intends to reverse that trend by keeping the Iron Man franchise vital, there’s a central, fascinating aspect of Tony Stark’s character he won’t be exploring in his...
Visitors to Amazon’s website yesterday will have noticed that the front page was taken over by the latest digital media announcement. “Today, we’re announcing an agreement with Disney-ABC that adds 800 popular titles from ABC Studios, The Disney Channel, ABC Family, and Marvel,” said a notice posted to the site....
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue announced today that Iron Man 3 will shoot primarily in her state. The film, which was recently announced at the New York Comic Con as beginning to lay the groundwork for the Marvel cinematic universe post-The Avengers, will reportedly shoot at EUE/Screen Gems Studios in...
You know there’s an exciting panel when a famous actor rolls out onto the stage filming the fan response to his own entrance. That’s exactly what happened at tonight’s New York Comic Con panel for The Avengers film. As Chris Evans, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Cobie Smulders and Clark Gregg...
This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly takes a look at the much-anticipated Marvel team-up film The Avengers, and has the first official photos and interviews from the set of the in-production tentpole movie. A gallery is available here and some discussion and analysis of the EW story is available at...
Cobie Smulders, the Canadian model-turned-actress who plays Robin “Sparkles” Scherbatsky on How I Met Your Mother, has revealed that she is not only signed to star as S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill in The Avengers, but seven additional Marvel Comics Movies, according to MTV’s Splash Page. The site reports that Smulders,...
Once more around the Internet for comics movie news too small to be a full story but too neat to ignore: The folks over at Just Jared have made stalking the set of The Dark Knight Rises a full-time gig recently and turned out some pretty cool photos and video...
With DC and Marvel inundating the comics world with news about their actual publications, nobody’s been quite as focused as usual on movie news. That doesn’t mean we’re not still watching out for you, though, and here’s a few of the stories you may have missed. There’s plenty of movement...
