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BOOM! Studios has been doing some great horror material but this announcement just brought a smile to our faces, largely because how well cast it is. July 23rd, 2008 – Los Angeles, CA – BOOM! Studios and Disney Publishing Worldwide announced today that they will bring brand new stories from beloved Pixar properties to the… [Continue Reading]
The first Comic-Con International press release kicked things off nicely: Cartoon Network has kicked off development on three much-loved comic book titles: Firebreather, The Vanishers and Mice Templar. Image Comic’s Firebreather, created by Phil Hester, and Mice Templar, by Mike Avon Oeming and Bryan Glass, will be developed as animated original movies. IDW Publishing’s The… [Continue Reading]
Virgin Comics has sold film rights to their graphic novel, The Leaves, to Summit Entertainment. Newcomer Kevin J. Walsh, who wrote the story, will handle the screen adaptation according to Variety. The one-shot’s artwork was from Ashwin Chikerur and the solicitation for the book described it this way, “Inspired by the real-life Naadi fortune-tellers of… [Continue Reading]
In other Top Cow news, their series Magdalena has been optioned by Platinum Studios and Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures. Luke Goss (Hellboy II) and Jenna Dewan (The Grudge 2) have been announced as stars according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dewan plays Patience, said to be a warrior descended from Mary Magdalene and used… [Continue Reading]
For a small company, Radical Comics is making a lot of noise. Last week they announced the film option to their miniseries, Caliber. Today, the trades are reporting that Peter Berg will direct a big budget version of their comic book Hercules: The Thracian Wars. Berg, already attached to direct a new version of Dune… [Continue Reading]
ZMDs: Zombies of Mass Destruction a title from Red 5 Comics and written by Underworld’s Kevin Grevioux has been picked up by Benderspink for development as a feature film. ” ZMDs: Zombies of Mass Destruction is a bit of a return to my horror roots,” said Grevioux in a release this spring. “Prior to creating… [Continue Reading]
Johnathon Schaech (Quarantine) and Jana Kramer (Prom Night) have joined Robert Hall’s Laid to Rest. They were added, he told Fangoria, when they began additional principal photography over the last few weeks. A trailer for the film will be shown at Comic-Con International on Thursday at 2:15 p.m. as part of an Anchor Bay Entertainment… [Continue Reading]
Dynamite Entertainment has been doing a terrific job reinventing classic characters in comic book form, among them Red Sonja, Zorro, the Lone Ranger and now…Thulsa Doom. This time, though, Doom is going to the big screen in concert with actor (Constantine). The character, created by Robert E. Howard for his King Kull stories, starting with… [Continue Reading]
Ancient Squid Media will be offering up Broken Girls, a brand new graphic novel, due out in September for a measly $10. What’s it about? Co-writer Rob Beales told comicmonsters.com, “In a nutshell Broken Girls is badass schoolgirls fighting mutated hordes of blood-crazed lunatics.” His partner, Cuitla Huezo, added, “The story takes place in a… [Continue Reading]
BOOM! Studios dropped us a release about their latest comic release: BOOM! Studios is proud to announce Last Reign: Kings of War, a new four-issue mini-series created by director Walt Becker and written by Fall of Cthulu‘s Michael Alan Nelson. An apocalyptic story of chivalric knights in a techno-nightmare future, Last Reign: Kings of War… [Continue Reading]
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