This week, DC steps into the Box Office arena with the movie debut of one of their most iconic characters – GREEN LANTERN. Can Ryan Reynolds hold his own against THOR and X-MEN? We talk to him about the pressures in doing the role, plus what it was like to NOT wear that suit. And would you like to be in a super hero film? Grab a ticket to Cleveland (or Pittsburgh) and you just might be!
Can GREEN LANTERN make it as a film, or is it too “CGI heavy”? Drop us a comment below!
Twentieth Century Fox and MGM Home Entertainment have come up with some cool packages that will make shopping for Father’s Day a lot easier. Below is their press release detailing the television series and feature films that are part of their library and aimed squarely at dads of all ages. Here are the details:
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and MGM Home Entertainment’s twelve-month campaign, Year of A Million Moments, continues by recognizing heroes during the month of June. Between heroes from movies like Oliver Stone’s masterpiece PLATOON, the underdog fighter in ROCKY, or the comedic spy father in TV’s AMERICAN DAD, pay tribute by logging on to www.YearOfAMillionMoments.com for the opportunity to win $1 million dollars!
As an added bonus for Father’s Day gifts, up to $12.00 ‘Hollywood Movie Money’ to see X-MEN: FIRST CLASS will be available for consumers to print at home to use towards the purchase of a movie ticket. This exclusive offer is only available with the purchase of select Blu-ray titles including Quantum of Solace, Mad Max, Escape From New York, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Live Free Die Hard and Max Payne. (more…)
Looks like DC isn’t the only one canceling long-running titles of late, as this October Uncanny X-Men #544 concludes the long running series.
For a while, this was the highest selling title Marvel had, and was the benchmark against which all other titles were measured. But hey, let’s get that first issue sales pop, right?
It’s interesting to watch how time and again, writers, artists, moviemakers, and studio executives struggle to find ways to adapt the very first comic book super-hero. Superman was something readers (and rival publishers) had never seen before, and he served as the template for the heroic fantasy that followed these last seven decades. When you have powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, you need visionaries to bring the character from the printed page to other media. Robert Maxwell figured out how to do that with the popular radio serial. In fact, Maxwell came up with various characters and concepts that seeped into the comics, a symbiosis that made both stronger.
I was given to considering Superman in his many forms when the eight-disc Superman The Complete Anthology Blu-ray set arrived for review. Warner Home Video has taken all the previous versions and spruced them up a bit, added some new features, and placed them in a handsome box. Despite the uneven content, this is a must-have for fans.
When the Fleischer brothers got a chance to animate the Man of Steel, they set the standard that all other animators have emulated or strived to match. It certainly raised the bar when Superman came to the movie serials, with Kirk Allyn looking the part but the low budget and low-tech kept his feats to the above-average, not super-human. Things got somewhat better with the George Reeve television series of the 1950s, imprinting the archetype on two generations of television watchers and comics readers. Again, Maxwell receives credit for his serious translation to the half hour demands of syndicated television before he left and it got dumbed down in subsequent seasons. (more…)
X-MEN:FIRST CLASS didn’t quite ace the box office exam over the weekend, and we examine just how it falls in the scope of other Marvel films. Meanwhile, Greg Grundberg talks more about LOVE BITES with a comparison to another heroic series he was associated with.
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Do you think the lack of Wolverine hurt X-MEN:FIRST CLASS? Drop us a comment below!
Today’s artwork is from Miss Matzenbatzen, Steffi Schütze. Closing windows before I head off for a day of wackiness:
E-Book report: Nook is up, iPad still catching up: What’s interesting about this is that the readership and device of choice for prose is almost the exact opposite for comics. In comics, it’s iPad leading the way, then the Nook, then Kindle. In my opinion this is because of the color screen and a different payment structure that limits the Kindle badly here.
10 Modern Movies That Are Better in Black and White: Not sure, but I’ll give it a try sometime. (I also know that when a cinematographer wants to mute his palette and remove saturation, he can do so whenever he wants.)
Closing windows while waiting on line for X-Men: First Class, so here we go as the foreman looks and the sundial on his wrist and pulls the bird’s tail:
Just in time to blunt the release of X-Men: First Class, new Dark Knight Rises teaser videos have popped on up YouTube, uploaded by “The Fire Rises” who posted even more cryptic videos over the past few days.
One is a news report from GCN from TV anchor Mike Engel (Anthony Michael Hall), with sketchy TV footage that’s labeled “Arkham Breakout?” There’s also a quick flash of a Facebook page URL, which also belongs to The Fire Rises (aka Warner Bros. Entertainment, according to the user info page).
The saying “Lightning Doesn’t Strike Twice” is usually true. So in the case of THE HANGOVER 2, how can the director and stars do it all again?? Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and more talk about the “unfinished business” from the first film, and where they could go from here (HANGOVER 3?). Plus, THOR, CAPTAIN AMERICA, GREEN LANTERN? Careful, do not underestimate X-MEN FIRST CLASS!
Do you think X-MEN FIRST CLASS can be a hit? Drop us a comment below!
We are taking a break on Monday Memorial Day (May 30th) – see you back here on Friday June 3rd!
With [[[Thor]]] taking the number one spot in box office receipts for the second week in a row, we must consider one of two options:
There are a lot of people going back to stare at Chris Hemsworth, Kat Dennings, and Jaimie Alexander, or…
People are hunting for all the Easter eggs and hidden bits in the film.
And so verily, we come to you, ComicMixers, with this list of notes, eggs of Easter, and bits of magic you may have missed when you were recently gazing upon the God of Thunder! Have at thee! Here is the Odin-list of annotations from the recent film released by the Studios of Marvel, of the humble Midgard. Did you catch of these visages, mortal? Let us find out! Huzzah!
Warning: spoilers from this point forward. You’ve been warned.
