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Sony Delays Spidey

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As Sony Pictures and series director Sam Raimi reportedly continue to clash over the fourth film’s villain, sources inside the studio have confirmed that the proposed holiday break for the filmmakers has become a full-fledged hiatus. Production had been scheduled to begin in February, but this has been postponed.

Osborn's Dark Reign Ends In Siege

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Marvel’s released a trailer for its Siege event, which will be introduced with the Siege: The Cabal one-shot in December, with the main action happening in a four-part miniseries starting in January. Basically, everything that’s happened since Brian Michael Bendis was put in charge of the Avengers has led up to the current bizarre status… [Continue Reading]

A New Must-Have Marvel: The Expanding Universe Wall Chart

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I remember trying this years ago… not quite like a biologist’s work, but similar–the classification of my favorite Marvel characters. Anatomize each character independently. Cut, sort, rearrange. Time to amalgamate into a single lineage… To say the least, my research was inconclusive, and I’m thankful for Michael Mallory… For all the Marvel Comics fans, I’m… [Continue Reading]

Box Office Roundup

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The Dark Knight continues to rule the box office as it takes the number one position for the fourth weekend in a row, the first time any 2008 release has achieved this.  Its estimated haul of $26,030,000 pushes its domestic take to $441,541,000, faster than any movie in history. In its second weekend Universal’s The… [Continue Reading]

David Goyer: Magneto or Invisible Man Next

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You can’t turn around without seeing an interview with writer/director David Goyer these days.  After all, he’s co-written the hottest movie of the century and has his next project in post-production. With The Dark Knight out and The Unborn being finished, he’s been turning his attention to other scripts.  He’s completed a new draft of… [Continue Reading]

Box Office Roundup

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After a strong Friday showing, it looked as if The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor might topple The Dark Knight from the top of the box office.  However, mostly negative reviews seem to have scared enough people away so it opened at number two for the weekend.  It took in a healthy $42,450,000, under… [Continue Reading]

Venom to get Solo Film?

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Everyone is anxious for details on Sony’s fourth Spider-Man film, already announced for 2011 so fans got surprised when Variety reported this morning that the studio is now focused first on a Venom spinoff project. Jacob Estes (Mean Creek) had been assigned the unenviable task of writing a screenplay featuring the monstrous alien symbiote that… [Continue Reading]

Terror Tidbits

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Transsiberian, which has been performing well on its two screens, will expand starting August 8 in Los Angeles; August 15 in Chicago, Washington DC and San Francisco; August 22 in San Diego, Atlanta, Denver, Houston, Dallas, Seattle; and August 27 in Minneapolis. Chuck Jones’s classic would-be conqueror, Marvin the Martian, is now in development by… [Continue Reading]

Box Office Roundup

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There are probably no surprises with the box office results this weekend with The Dark Knight firmly in first place, earning another estimated $75,630,000. The drop off is interesting in that it’s a relatively modest -52.3%.  To date, the second Batman film from Christopher Nolan has accumulated  $314,245,000, faster than any other film in history…. [Continue Reading]

Mack to Adapt Dick’s “The Electric Ant”

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At Thursday’s Mondo Marvel panel it was announced that David Mack (Kabuki) will write a graphic novel adapting Philip K. Dick’s “The Electric Ant”. Dick’s story first appeared in the October 1969 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Dick said at the time, “Again the theme: How much of what we… [Continue Reading]

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