Bruce Wayne AND Dick Grayson Are BATMAN This Fall

Source: newsarama.com

We already knew Bruce Wayne was coming back this fall, and let’s face it, Dick Grayson has been doing a pretty good job as Batman. So what to do, DC? This morning the NY Post has confirmed what fans and observers have guessed all along. There will be 2 Batmans … uh, Batmen in November.

Beginning that month, Detective Comics, Batman and Batman and Robin will feature Dick Grayson as Batman (with the black Bat-symbol on his chest) with Damian Wayne as Robin, while Grant Morrison and Yanick Paquette’s Batman Inc. and David Finch’s Batman: The Dark Knight will both feature Bruce Wayne (with the yellow chest symbol) in their pages.

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Fantastic scifi graphic novels (that will get you hooked for life)

Source: io9.com

Comic books can be a difficult to get into, what with their years of serial storytelling and convoluted continuity. Luckily, there are plenty of one-and-done graphic novels out there. Here are some of the best four-color gateway drugs.

In picking these books, I tried to avoid picking from the über-obvious (Watchmen) and those books about familiar superheroes (Dark Knight Returns). We love ourselves some capes here at io9, but the medium goes beyond up, up, and away. Also, I wanted to keep the selection affordable, self-contained, and accessible — you should be able to find all of these books at a fair price online. And with these stand-alone stories, all you need is one hit.

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Huh, Interesting move for DC comics, having both Bruce and Dick as Batman. As a Bruce and a Dick fan, I was always of the opinion that Bruce Wayne was Batman, Dick Grayson was Nightwing – and neither Bruce or Dick wanted Dick to take the Bat legacy. We’ll see how this plays out.

Are you a Batman fan? What do you think of this move?

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Will Inception star be the Riddler in Batman 3?

Source: blastr.com

I don’t think we’ll ever stop talking about Inception, but it’s definitely time to start talking about director Christopher Nolan’s next long-awaited project—Batman 3. An inside source managed to get a peek at a studio casting grid for the film, which revealed two very intriguing facts.

According to the casting grid, which is used in the industry so production companies, agencies and others can keep track of a project’s progress and what roles may be available, the Riddler is definitely down as a character for the Dark Knight sequel. So at last we know for certain (if this source can be trusted, that is) the villain we’ll get to see battling the Batman on the big screen.

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Adrien Brody May Become Ant-Man for The Avengers [Updated]

Source: screenrant.com

Has one of Marvel Studios’ surprise announcements for San Diego Comic-Con 2010 been revealed? Could Adrien Brody be playing Ant-Man in The Avengers?

Oscar winner Adrien Brody is getting a lot of attention in recent weeks, following the recent release of Splice and last weekend’s opening of Predators. In Nimród Antal’s sequel to the original Predator, Brody plays a gruff and silent killer as a bad-ass mercenary and in Splice, he moves to the other end of the spectrum to play a rebellious scientist. If that wasn’t making enough headlines for the star whose acting range knows no bounds, Brody may soon become a superhero as well.

Reports and Twitter buzz indicate that Adrien Brody may be playing Ant-Man for Marvel Studios in The Avengers and in Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man solo film. Nothing is confirmed yet on this front, but it no doubt will be this Saturday at Marvel’s Thor and Captain America panel presentation.

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EXCLUSIVE: Producer Bryan Burk Talks Schedule and ‘Bigger’ Scope Of Star Trek Sequel

Source: trekmovie.com

Last week Star Trek co-writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman told us they (and Damon Lindelof) were just starting to break the story for the sequel due June 29th, 2012. At the same event, TrekMovie also spoke to producer Bryan Burk, one of the other members of Star Trek’s five-member “Supreme Court”, who gave an update on the plans for the production, and also talked about how the team want the sequel to be even bigger than the first.

Bryan Burk Talks Star Trek Sequel

Bryan Burk is a long-time collaborator with JJ Abrams and his producing partner for pretty much everything going down at Abrams’ Bad Robot production company. Although we don’t often hear from him, Burk is the fifth member of Trek’s new Supreme Court along with JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. TrekMovie recently spoke with the producer about his plans and hopes for the Star Trek sequel.

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5 Most Maniacal Movie Villains Ever

Source: www.wnem.com

There are so many factors that go into great movie villains. Perhaps it is their speech, their actions, or their generally sinister intent.

After all, an evil villain often needs a devious strategy so that the hero of the film can do their best to thwart that plan.

Of course, it may just be the outfit, because there can’t be a truly evil villain without the proper wardrobe.

When all these factors are combined, some characters stand out as being downright nasty. For whatever reasons, there are some villains that the audience almost ends up rooting for, and there are others that cause people to shiver and cringe.

With that in mind, here are a few of the most evil movie villains of all time.

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Never been a fan of the Riddler as a Bats Villain. However, Joseph Gordon Levitt could be a good choice -although I haven’t seen him in Inception yet (I am dying to), What do you think of today’s movie news?

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Chris Evans Talks Captain America Costume!

www.comicbookmovie.com: Empire Online now has a new article showing what Chris “Captain America” Evans thinks about the suit the guys at Marvel has made for him to attire in the July 22, 2011 film, “Captain America: The First Avenger”.

What Chris Evans had to say:

“It’s an amazing costume. Given the fact that his costume is red, white and blue, and it’s tight, and it could be kind of flash and over the top – and given the fact that the movie takes place in the ‘40s and ‘50s – they’ve done a really good job of making it look really cool.”

“I think everyone that’s going to see it is going to say, ‘Okay, well done. Well done. I think they got the costume right. The casting they completely ruined, but the costume they nailed!’”

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Comic Movies: SUPERHEROES Vs. INDIES

www.newsarama.com: It can fulfill dreams you’ve had since childhood or it can cause you to burn your entire comic book collection in effigy. It’s…The Comic Book Adaptation.

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, comic adaptations are most likely here to stay. Not that I’m complaining. In theaters this year we’ve seen the release of Iron Man 2, Jonah Hex, Kick-Ass and The Losers (Marmaduke too if you want to count comic strips.). And while not all of them were a financial success, one is good enough to keep the engine running.

Of course for fans it‘s all about taste. Not all people read superhero comics and while some read both, not a lot of people read “anything but.” Movies like the Batman or X-Men films are like candy for fans of the superhero genre but can go horribly, horribly wrong for them as well. The adage goes “you can’t please everyone all of the time,” but the Joel Schumacher Batman films and X-Men Origins: Wolverine left many in a Logan-like berserker rage.

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We’ll have to wait even longer to see Matt Damon’s Philip K. Dick movie

io9.com: We loved the paranoid trailer for The Adjustment Bureau, the Matt Damon-starring film based on Philip K. Dick’s story. So it’s too bad that it’s delayed again. This time, it’s been pushed from this September to March 4, 2011.

Will the American mainstream get to let the right one in?

latimesblogs.latimes.com: As fan interest in, and backlash to, the American remake of “Let the Right One In” has streamed in over the past year, its principals have said that fans of the original should hold their judgment. “If I didn’t feel a personal connection and feel it could be its own film, I wouldn’t be doing [a remake],” director Matt Reeves told my colleague Mark Olsen last year. “I hope people give us a chance.”

But last week, in something of a surprise, it was announced that Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett, Overture’s top dogs and co-founders, would be leaving the company. Overture had been on the sales block for nearly a year, as owner John Malone and Liberty Media looked to exit the film business (and a buyer who would help them achieve that). Without that, Malone decided to retool, slim down,  other euphemisms reserved for people who don’t want to be in a business anymore. Chris Albrecht, the head of Overture parent Starz, was stepping in to oversee the film division.

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Watch 5 minutes of Christopher Nolan’s Inception!

A few clips from Christopher Nolan’s mind-blowing new movie Inception have appeared online. They give us the best explanation yet of the trippy career choice that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character’s made, including some intense scenes with Michael Caine and Ken Watanabe!

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11 biggest sci-fi blockbusters that still managed to LOSE money

scifiwire.com: The fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, made more than $938 million worldwide at the box office yet still lost $167 million.

How is that even possible?

Well, it’s all thanks to the magic of what is commonly known as “Hollywood accounting” —a creative way of crunching numbers said to be used by all the studios to make even the biggest blockbusters look like losers. The reason they do this is to minimize, if not outright eliminate, the percentage of net profits they are obligated to dole out in profit participation deals and royalties. After all, how can a studio pay Tom Cruise that 20 percent of the back end that they owe him if the movie has theoretically not made a dime?

The Lord of the Rings

Budget: $285 million (all three movies combined)

Worldwide box office: $2.9 billion (all three movies combined)

As noted above, Peter Jackson had to sue to force New Line Cinema to allow its books to be audited and get Jackson his proper share of the Rings trilogy’s box office and DVD sales. The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien and 15 of the trilogy’s actors also sued the studio for their cuts of the movies’ profits.

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I’m not that much a fan of remakes and I really liked the original version of Let Me In, so let’s hope for the best. I agree that some adaptations aren’t that; good, comic, book, or manga they always change something that you really liked, especially the endings when it comes to my favorites. And I really didn’t like them killing almost all the iconic X-Mens in the third installment

What do you think of today’s movie news?

Last week Caro and I brought you a Iron Man edition of Fan Art Madness. To go along with the release of the new Iron Man movie we have decided to have a feature all about Comics!

batman. by ~fairie

Lol, I always wondered how he could fit all those gadgets into that belt.  I liked the style the artist used to draw this Batman, it has all the things that represent the original one but personalized. Great work! (Caro)

View the rest of todays Fan Art HERE

What did you think of today’s Fan Art Madness?

Which fan art was your favorite?

‘Dark Knight’ sequel gets official release date

via Khaleej Times

Warner Bros. has set July 20, 2012, as the release date for the third Christopher Nolan-directed Batman movie.

The studio has barely begun the process of developing the movie, which isn’t yet titled. Nolan is in postproduction on the sci-fi thriller “Inception,” which opens July 16, but is hammering out a story with David Goyer.

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Smokin’ Jonah Hex trailer: Megan Fox and gatling guns!

by Patrick Lee at Sci Fi Wire

The new trailer has gone live for Jonah Hex, the upcoming supernatural western starring Josh Brolin and Megan Fox.

Jimmy Hayward directed the movie, based on the comic-book series, which stars Brolin as Jonah Hex, a hideously scarred bounty hunter with supernatural abilities. John Malkovich also stars.

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Chris Hemsworth’s Thor: First official pic makes us believers

by Scott Edelman at Sci Fi Wire

No hammer, no helmet, but still—the guy’s a god, right?

After photos started leaking from the set of Thor, Paramount and Marvel decided there was no point in holding back and so released the first official photo of Chris Hemsworth as the Thunder God.

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Whose Famed Weapon Is Tony Stark Building In Iron Man 2?

By Cyriaque Lamar at io9

This may be soundless, low-quality leaked footage of Iron Man 2, but that’s certainly Tony Stark holding one of the most iconic pieces of superhero paraphernalia in comic book history. Spoilers way on!

It’s a prototype for Captain America’s shield, natch!

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‘Metropolis’ miracle

by V.A. Musetto at the New York Post

IN one of the cinematic events of the year, a newly reconstructed print of Fritz Lang’s silent German sci-fi mas terwork “Metropolis” is making its New York debut at Film Forum.

The new 147-minute print contains almost 30 minutes of long-lost footage discovered in 2008 in Argentina. It’s not Lang’s original 153-minute cut, but it’s the closest we’ll probably ever get to it.

Lang’s original debuted in Berlin in 1927. It was trimmed over the years, and by 1984 was down to 87 minutes. A “definitive” 2002 restoration got the running time to 124 minutes. Then, two years ago, came the almost miraculous discovery of a 16mm print containing 1,257 shots long believed lost forever.

“When the new footage suddenly turned up, we were flabbergasted,” says Bruce Goldstein, the Forum’s director of repertory programming.

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Princes and Princesses

René Walling at Tor

Snow White, The Snow Queen, The Selfish Giant, Little Red Riding Hood, are just some of the fairy tales that have been animated at one point or another. Very often, the tales are reworked, put in a different setting, or mixed together with varying results ranging from lackluster (Hoodwinked) to excellent (Shrek) and some, like Disney’s Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, are brilliantly animated and are now considered animation classics.

Faithful retelling or post-modern remix, many films lack magic and fail to elicit the sense of wonder these tales had when they were originally told, in short, they don’t feel like actual fairy tales. One exception is Michel Ocelot’s Princes and Princesses, a compilation feature of six fairy tales, told with masterful simplicity where wonder and magic are very much present.

Ocelot, uses the exact same techniques pioneered by Lotte Reiniger in films like The Adventures of Prince Achmed: everything is shot on film and no computers are used in any part of the production. The animation is accomplished solely with pieces of black paper carefully cutout with scissors, articulated with bits of wires and moved by hand between shots.

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I’m glad to see animated movies that are made the old fashioned way: by hand. There’s something beautiful about them that just doesn’t apply to CG movies. And I’m even more excited than ever to see Jonah Hex now, and now I have something to convince other people to see it too. And I’m amazed at how great Thor looks, they did a really good job casting!

What do you think of the Iron Man 2 clip? Have you seen Metropolis? Which summer movies are you looking forward to?

New Batman Movie Is Coming in 2012

www.daemonsmovies.com: A release date has officially been set by Warner Bros. for the sequel to the blockbuster Batman film “Dark Knight.” The third film in the “Batman Begins” series is expected to hit theaters on July 20, 2012.

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‘The Hobbit’ release date announced as part of Warner Bros/IMAX pact

www.examiner.com: A release date for the long-awaited, much-delayed prequel to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy has been announced as part of a twenty picture deal between Warner Brothers and IMAX.  According to a press release distributed by IMAX, “The Hobbit,” based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkein, will be released by Warner Brothers in the IMAX format in December of 2012.

The release does not state that “The Hobbit” will be released in 3D.  It also does not address the often stated plan to release “The Hobbit” as two films.

The movie, which will be produced by Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson and directed by Guillermo del Toro (“Hellboy,” “Pan’s Labyrinth”), has been pushed back a few times for a variety of reasons.  Nonetheless, it remains eagerly anticipated.

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Megan Fox Gets Sexy,Sassy In First ‘Jonah Hex’ Movie Trailer

ontheflix.com: Megan Fox gets sexy,sassy in first ‘Jonah Hex’ movie trailer. Warner Bros. Pictures recently released the first movie trailer (below) for their new action/thriller flick “Jonah Hex” yesterday. The sexy Megan Fox is in the movie,and she gets pretty sassy and dangerous in a couple of the scenes. However, the movie does still mostly revolve around character Jonah Hex,of course. It stars: Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, and Michael Shannon.

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Summer-movie mania: What trailers have the most heat?

latimesblogs.latimes.com: Every year as we approach the onset of the noisy summer movie season I get together with a bunch of high school kids to talk about the summer films. I show them the trailers from a dozen or so hotly anticipated films; they decide whether the trailers make them want to see the films — or run as fast as they can in the other direction.

“Iron Man 2″: All I can say is — thank God for Robert Downey Jr. He makes all the material he’s in feel hipper and more irreverent than it probably is. (If only I can could get him to do the audio track for this blog, I’d look a helluva lot smarter.) If he wasn’t in this sequel, it would might be hard to tell it apart from all the other tech-geek superhero movies. Although you have to admit that Mickey Rourke has great teeth.

“The Last Airbender”: Remember when M. Night Shyamalan was going to be the next Steven Spielberg? Now he’s making what looks like a totally generic special-effects movie, complete with such dialogue as “You are the only ones who can control the elements and bring peace to our world.” Yikes. Maybe he should’ve made this movie in 4-D, because 3-D may not be enough to distract us from the impenetrable storyline.

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This is great news for The Dark Knight fans (cough me cough). Heath as the Joker was amazing in my opinion, he reminded me of the comic Joker, but it would be great to see another villain. I would like to see a new Catwoman or Poison Ivy, lets give the ladies a chance now What do you think about this new Batman movie?

I’ve seen M. Night Shyamalan’s movies and there is only one I really like, but this time no matter what critics say I’m going to see The Last Airbender!! After what I’ve seen, he has really been  going along the story and I’ve liked the effects, with all the bending involvedin it, it really needs them. Not to mention that Appa has appeared! (For those who now who he is). Definitely what I was expecting. Will you be going to see it?

What do you think of the summer movies? Any you want to see?

Are you one of the fans waiting for the The Hobbit? What do you think of it?

Will you be going to see Jonah Hex?