A new Marvel One-Shot – Agent Carter – is set to be release at the San Diego Comic-Con. Starring Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger), it’s supposedly a step up from previous short in both scale and style. Found as extras on Marvel Blu-rays, the shorts feature stories based in the same universe, but […]
Marc Webb on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and beyond
Ahead of Sony’s eagerly-awaited Hall H panel later today, Movies.com caught up with director Marc Webb to discuss his plans for expanding the studio’s Spider-Man franchise beyond next year’s sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which sees Andrew Garfield returning as the wall-crawler to do battle with Jamie Foxx’s bad guy Electro – not to mention […]
San Diego Comic-Con 2013 – Thursday Highlights
We round up Thursday’s big talking points and best coverage from around the web of the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, including Ender’s Game, Divergent, Oldboy, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Sherlock, Dracula, Teen Wolf, The X-Files, Firefly, Batman: Arkham Origins, The Walking Dead, The Superior Spider-Man and Dexter…. …After opening the convention floor to […]
Family Guy heading to Springfield for The Simpsons crossover episode
After years of rivalry between The Simpsons and Family Guy, Fox has announced that its two big animated shows are set to cross-over in 2014 with a Family Guy episode entitled ‘The Simpsons Guy’, which will see Simpsons cast members Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith and Hank Azaria lending their voices to […]
Special Features – Looking Forward to Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man
We complete our countdown to The World’s End as Jackson Ball looks forward to the long-gestating Ant-Man…. Way back in 2006, Edgar Wright appeared at Comic-Con to discuss the possibility of a film adaptation for Marvel’s Ant-Man. Here we are seven years later though, and production still hasn’t begun for the film. Seven years is […]
Shout! Factory announces 98-disc Power Rangers Legacy: The First 20 Years box-set
This is probably going to make you feel pretty old, but the Power Rangers franchise celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, having debuted its first incarnation – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – way back in August 1993. To celebrate this milestone, Shout! Factory has announced that its to release a special box-set entitled Power Rangers […]
Comic Book Review – Sonic Universe #54
Luke Owen looks at Sonic Universe #54, part 11 of 12 of Worlds Collide… Sonic and Mega Man fight for their lives in ‘When Worlds Collide’: Part Eleven of Twelve! The evil doctors Eggman and Wily have completed their ultimate battle-weapon: the Egg-Wily Machine X-Powered by the Chaos Emeralds, it is the most powerful battle […]
Max Landis no longer writing Chronicle 2
Screenwriter Max Landis has revealed that he’s no longer attached to the sequel to last year’s low-budget hit Chronicle, taking to Twitter to state that he’s “been off Chronicle 2 for months now” and that the project “is still probably happening” with the studio having hired new writers, whom he expects to be announced soon. […]
Comic Book Review – What If? AvX #2
Robb Ghag reviews What If? AvX #2… “The biggest event of 2012 is now the biggest miniseries of 2013! We all know what happened to the Avengers and the X-Men. but what if the story had gone differently? The one and only Jimmy Palmiotti brings his signature style to a mind-blowing reinterpretation of a key […]
Movie Review – The Call (2013)
The Call, 2013. Directed by Brad Anderson.Starring Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Michael Eklund, Morris Chestnut, Michael Imperioli and David Otunga. SYNOPSIS: When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the […]