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Review: 'Superman: The Complete Animated Series' on DVD
22 hours ago
Once Batman the Animated Series became a huge success, a follow-up featuring the Man of Steel seemed inevitable. That it took until 1996, four years later, was the only crime in the process. The equally successful adaptation from the comics lasted four seasons and 54 episodes, helping set the stage for the bets adaptation yet: Justice League/Jl Unlimited.
On Tuesday, Warner Home Video releases a seven-disc Superman: The Complete Animated Series . Much like the just-released complete Jlu series, this merely takes the existing season set discs and repackages them in a nice foil box along with a bonus seventh disc. The companion booklet, therefore, makes the same numbering error by not reflecting the actual discs.
All the love and attention lavished on the Dark Knight was poured into this show, which was brighter and shinier, the villains larger in scope and giving the animators a chance to bust loose. Superman »
- Robert Greenberger
'Twilight Saga: New Moon' takes opening day gross record from 'Dark Knight', midnight record from 'Harry Potter 6'
21 November 2009 12:50 PM, PST
Apparently, some people like people who dress up as bats less than people who should be turning into bats (if they were real vampires).
Taking the record for the biggest one-day and opening gross, The Twilight Saga: New Moon raked in an estimated $72.7 million on approximately 8,500 screens at 4,024 sites, according to BoxOfficeMojo. The Dark Knight was the previous title holder with $67.2 million on around 9,300 screens at 4,366 sites. New Moon also took the midnight opening record, taking in an estimated $26.27 million at 3,514 sites showing the movie starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday. The previous benchmark was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which conjured $22.2 million at 3,003 sites for its midnight opening.
At $158.4 million, The Dark Knight still holds the record for biggest weekend (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) ever... so far. »
- Glenn Hauman
The Point Radio: 'Twilight New Moon' Exclusives
20 November 2009 9:35 AM, PST
Love it or hate it, this weekend Twilight New Moon dominates pop culture. We've got an exclusive visit from stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner direct from this week's whirlwind red carpet premieres, plus new air dates for Lost and Chuck and it's true, a Whedon will be writing Terminator.
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- Mike Raub
Review: 'Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Two'
20 November 2009 8:53 AM, PST
Saga of the Swamp Thing Book Two
By Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben
DC Comics, 224 pages, $24.99
DC’s hardcover collections of Alan Moore’s run on Swamp Thing continues with the release of the second volume next Wednesday. The nicest thing about these releases is that it prompts us to go back and reread the stories to conjure up memories of what it was like the first time we encountered these tales.
By the time these eight stories saw print in 1984 and 1985, the buzz had grown deafening and clearly this was the most talked about series and set of creators at the time. What Alan did was bring fresh thinking to American comic book concepts and played with the readers’ expectations for mainstream storytelling and horror.
Moore’s gift for words crowded the pages with allusions and imagery previously unseen and when we could look at the artwork, it was stunning. »
- Robert Greenberger
Why continuity matters, dammit
20 November 2009 4:31 AM, PST
Doris Egan, former producer on Smallville and current producer on House, sums up why fans care about continuity:
I’ve never forgotten when I was a kid, watching a show called It Takes a Thief. Throughout the series, the hero would say, “I’m a thief, like my father and my grandfather before me.” Then suddenly there was an episode where a woman asked him why he became a thief, and he told a story about having been a geologist and getting into thievery almost accidentally. And this wasn’t presented as a lie. You can tell the difference; even as a kid, I could tell the difference. They expected you to accept this – for this episode. A few episodes later we’d go back to the previous story.
I’ll never forget how betrayed I felt, because I loved that series with a love only a pre-teen can feel. »
- Glenn Hauman
Capcom Announces 'Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition'
19 November 2009 1:27 PM, PST
This morning, Capcom announced that new Dlc (that's Downloadable Content to the layman) for Resident Evil 5 would be hitting not just Xbox Live and Playstation Network, but also be released on a standalone disc with the full game. The content includes two new episodic chapters, as well as an update of an older multiplayer mode.
The game was released earlier this year to critical acclaim, and one pack of Dlc was announced at the Tokyo Game show about a month ago, so the additional Dlc comes as a pleasant surprise. Fans voted on the Capcom website to have the new content only as Dlc (rather than buying the game again with the content included therin) but Capcom also seems to be offering it on disc as an incentive for people who didn't pick it up the first time. You can see the new full press release with details on all the Dlc after the jump. »
- Ian Bonds
ComicMix Six: Best Geek-Themed Games for the Holidays
19 November 2009 5:56 AM, PST
With the holidays fast approaching, the question becomes: what do you get for the comic-loving gamer in your household? Well, here are some of the best releases from this year to satiate their comic-gaming lust and keep you looking like the know-it-all Santa. From purely comic-related titles to one of the year's best surprises for film-fans, this is the collection to make your gamer happy.
1: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (DS, PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii)
Playing the previous title in this series isn't necessary, as the events that unfold herein are actually the video game adaptation of Marvel's 'Civil War" event from a few years ago. As players traverse the games environments, you're tasked with choosing Pro- or Anti-Registration stance as you recruit new team members for your cause. Gameplay is multiplayer-centric, as 4 players can team up together to take on all foes in this combat rich title. As players »
- Ian Bonds
Review: 'Logan's Run' on Blu-ray
18 November 2009 2:34 PM, PST
What a difference a year makes. In 1976, MGM released a film based on William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson’s 1967 novel Logan’s Run. Generally lambasted by the press, it may have been a nadir in science fiction films putting studios off the genre until the following May, when 20th Century Fox looked forward with Star Wars.
Warner Home Video has just released Logan’s Run on Blu-ray and it finally gave me a chance to see the movie, something that somehow eluded me back in High School. It has most certainly not aged well and I can see why Roger Ebert called it a "vast, silly extravaganza", which changed the novel in some ways for the better but failed to visually interest us in the society.
In the film, directed by Michael Anderson, the biggest change was in the location of society: domed and hermetically sealed as compared »
- Robert Greenberger
ComicMix and Idw on the iPhone and iTouch
18 November 2009 5:54 AM, PST
We are proud to announce that our publishing partner Idw has launched new iPhone apps that will allow it to sell digital comics in dedicated storefronts; one for all Idw and ComicMix titles, and others specifically for Transformers, Star Trek, and G.I. Joe comics. Each app is free, and comes with different free comics. Consumers can then buy other Idw titles from within the apps.
ComicMix titles currently available are:
GrimJack: Old Friends (available for free)GrimJack: Killer Instinct #1-6 (issue #1 available for free)GrimJack: The Manx Cat #1-2Jon Sable Freelance: Bloodtrail #1-6 (issue #1 available for free)
We'll be adding more in the future, of course. The app also has everything from Astro Boy and Bloom County to The Rocketeer and Tank Girl.
Idw is the first comic publisher to offer in-app purchases (although several third party companies, including Comixology, Panelfly, and iVerse, all offer in-app purchases of »
- Glenn Hauman
'Global Frequency' back to TV?
18 November 2009 4:25 AM, PST
Global Frequency, the DC/Wildstorm comic, might be back in play as a TV series.
You may remember that in 2005, Mark Burnett (producer of Survivor) and John Rogers (who would go on to write the comic Blue Beetle and create the show Leverage) created a pilot for the WB. The pilot wasn't picked up; however, it got leaked to the Interwebs and became the most watched pilot that never got picked up.
Now the industry magazine Production Weekly has just posted the following on Twitter: The CW will again try to adapt Warren Ellis' comic book "Global Frequency," this time Scott Nimerfro will script the pilot. Scott Nimerfro has written for Star Trek: Voyager, Tales From The Crypt, Perversions Of Science, The Outer Limits, Stargate: Atlantis, and Pushing Daisies, and was an associate producer on the X-Men movie.
Warren Ellis, creator of Global Frequency, sent out an email with »
- Glenn Hauman
Review: 'Kevin Smith 3-Movie Collection' on Blu-ray
17 November 2009 2:46 PM, PST
You have to admire Kevin Smith. Growing up in New Jersey, he found himself a circle of likeminded friends who took his scripts and performed them in a sort of comedy revue that wowed audiences in Red Bank. Inspired, he went on to Vancouver and film school where he met his producing muse, Scott Mosier. Back home, they scraped together $27,500, recruited Smith’s friends and shot the semi-autobiographical Clerks. The black and white film, mostly a series of vignettes tied together by the two leads, wowed audiences and became a cult hit.
From there, Smith got hired by Universal to make a second film, the $5 million Mallrats but Smith and the studio system clashed and the result was a critical and commercial dud. Still, Smith used many of his friends and made new ones, casting with a keen eye towards nascent (and cheap) talent. He also found a girlfriend, Joey Lauren Adams, »
- Robert Greenberger
Ken Ober: 1957-2009
17 November 2009 7:49 AM, PST
Ken Ober, best known as the host of the MTV game show Remote Control, has died at the age of 52. No cause of death has been identified as yet.
Ober was the host of the series for five seasons on MTV, airing first in 1987. The series helped launched the careers of several notables, including Colin Quinn, Kari Wuhrer, Denis Leary and Adam Sandler. He followed the series as producer of Mind of Mencia for Comedy Central and also as a consulting producer for several episodes of The New Adventures of Old Christine on CBS. Ober got his start as a stand up comedian on Star Search in 1984 where he was named the Comedian Champion.
If you want to get a bit nostalgic with us, come on along with us back to the late 80's... and yes, there may even be an odd comic book tie-in for this episode:
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- Glenn Hauman
ComicMix Six: Classic 'Star Trek' comics you should read
17 November 2009 6:57 AM, PST
After growing up from the little science-fiction show Gene Roddenberry created in the 1960s, the venerable Star Trek franchise in recent years had just about worn out its welcome in the eyes of all but its most devoted followers. Enter J.J. Abrams and his high-octane, supercharged re-imagining of the classic series, resulting in one of 2009’s most commercially and critically successful films, released today on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Star Trek’s unprecedented popularity at the box office has also revitalized interest in past adventures of Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Many such tales have been chronicled in comics form since the 1960s—while the classic series was still on the air! After boldly going into our vast archives, we have emerged with six stories that we consider worthy representatives of the more than four decades of Star Trek comics history.
In order of publication: »
- Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore
Review: 'Gone with the Wind' 70th Anniversary DVD
16 November 2009 6:57 PM, PST
Since Gone With The Wind’s release in 1939, David O. Selznick’s adaptation has become one of the most hailed and loved feature films of all time. Adjusted for inflation, it remains today the number one box office champion with a total gross of $1,450,680,400. It deservedly won 10 Academy Awards and continues to be included in Top 10 lists with many catch phrases entering the public lexicon followed plus a score that is instantly recognizable.
On Tuesday, in time for your holiday shopping needs, Warner Home Video is releasing the 70th Anniversary edition of the film in a variety of formats. What was provided to ComicMix was the standard two-disc “plain vanilla” edition. We can tell you that it looks and sounds great and we suspect looks even more spectacular in its Blu-ray format.
Is there anything left to say about this beloved film? I had heard of it growing up but »
- Robert Greenberger
The Point Radio: Scott Wolf Checks In From 'V'
16 November 2009 11:14 AM, PST
We are halfway through ABC's first run of the V mini-series and series star, Scott Wolf, tells us how they plan to keep the momentum going so you'll come back to the show in March. Meanwhile, disaster is big business at the box office and what's with all these new Dollhouse websites?
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- Mike Raub
'Least I Could Do' creators offers webcomic scholarship
16 November 2009 8:21 AM, PST
It seems the least Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza could do was offer a full scholarship.
Ryan announced on the Least I Could Do website on Friday that they have created "The Rayne Summers Webcomic Scholarship", at The Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont:
Beginning in the fall of '10, we will be covering the full tuition for the selected applicant. The applicant who, I might add, is working towards a career in webcomics. Over the course of the next 5 years, we plan on adding 1 student per year, thus by 2015, the Scholarship will be putting 5 students through the program per year.
This scholarship will be managed by Blind Ferret, though there will be heavy involvement from others in our field, in the form of a board of Directors and a selection committee.
More information will be forthcoming in the next couple of weeks, including fund raising events, application rules and deadlines and more. »
- Glenn Hauman
Review: I'm disappointed by Mark Waid's 'Strange' #1...
16 November 2009 6:20 AM, PST
Oh, not by the comic itself. The book reads well, is entertaining, puts our boy Stephen in a different place than he was, and the art by Emma Rios is fun and quirky, calling to Ditko without ever calling to Ditko.
It's just that Mark didn't do what clearly needed to be done... the tale should have been titled "Strange Sports Stories".
Really, guy, you're slipping. »
- Glenn Hauman
'The Looking Glass Wars' movie adaptation in the works
16 November 2009 4:37 AM, PST
A movie adaptation of author/producer Frank Beddor's young adult book trilogy The Looking Glass Wars is in the works. During an appearance to promote the third book in the series, ArchEnemy, on Good Morning America on Friday, Beddor said he was working with producer Charles Roven (The Dark Knight, Rex Libris) to bring The Looking Glass Wars to the big screen.
The series has already spun off a graphic novel version and the spinoff series Hatter M, written by Beddor and Liz Cavalier with art by Ben Templesmith in volume 1 and Sami Makkonen in volume 2. A lengthy preview of the series can be found at HatterM.com. »
- Glenn Hauman
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