G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra just completed its second week. According to Box Office Mojo, it dropped to second place in ticket receipts and dropped almost 60% in sales from its first weekend. The Rise of Cobra is ostensibly based on the toy line created by Hasbro. But most older comic book fans know that the toy line and the [...]

It’s almost here! Warner Brother’s Watchmen will finally see the light of day this weekend, and we will get to see if all the Hollywood hoopla is justified. I’ve got a good feeling about Watchmen, and I’m hoping its a movie that lives up to all the hype. Therefore, in honor of the film’s release I’ve decided to [...]

Having plundered comic books for decades, Hollywood is giving a little back. Studios are increasingly turning their properties over to illustrators and writers before movies are released to generate Internet chatter, early fans and anticipation within the all-important comic-book community.
The latest comic comes from Push, the sci-fi thriller starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning that opens Friday. [...]

Mark Wahlberg is packing heat once again as a vengeful vigilante in bullet-fired action flick Max Payne. He talks to Michele Manelis
In an unpredictable world economy, it seems Hollywood studios are hedging their bets on relatively low-risk movies that can guarantee an inbuilt theatre audience from video game and graphic novel fans. But are they any [...]

The profile of the Golden Avenger keeps rising.
Instrumental in the biggest things Marvel has going on right now [Secret (Skrull) Invasion and the earlier Civil War storylines] and the biggest thing Marvel has ever done onscreen (by itself), the comics company continues to let Tony Stark lead them in interesting directions, this time with an [...]

Margaret Cho hopes her new TV foray is more satisfying than her last one — 14 years ago.
The actress and comedian stars in VHI’s The Cho Show (tonight, 11 ET/PT), her first series since 1994’s short-lived ABC sitcom All-American Girl, an experience from which the outspoken San Francisco native still appears to be recovering.
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For every Batman, there’s a Matter-Eater Lad.  For every X-Men, there’s a Legion of Super-Pets.  There are comic book characters and groups who make it big, and there are those who never find a lasting audience.  Only now and then do the obscure characters get noticed, and even more rarely do they get the big-screen [...]

These days, “300″ director Zack Snyder is hard at work perfecting the impossible. As you read this, he is undoubtedly in some dark edit bay, unshaven and chugging a Starbucks, doing his very best to transform “Watchmen” from an unfilmable comic book into the next smash superhero movie.
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Jackie Earle Haley steps inside of the Night Owl’s spaceship, walking gingerly past the pilot’s seats toward the control panel, touching the blinking gauges and dials.
“It’s still a little hard to believe,” the balding, bespectacled actor says, “that I’m playing a superhero.”
But if this year’s Comic-Con convention, which wrapped up Sunday, has demonstrated anything, it’s [...]

Superheroes saved Hollywood this summer, boosting box office to record heights and funneling $1 billion and counting into studio coffers. Now, emboldened by the success of The Dark Knight, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Wanted and Hellboy II, filmmakers are stampeding toward comic books and graphic novels to find bigger-than-life stories for the silver screen.
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