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Rumors, spin-offs, cameos and behind-the-scenes art dominated this week's headlines, and the week's top stories reflected that trend. From "Spider-Man 4" and "Thor" to "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and, yes, Chuck Norris, it was a week of varied projects.
Here's how the week's most popular stories ...
Marvel
Spider-Man
Superman
Chuck Dixon
Thor
Tim Burton
Apparently Odin's chamber for ' Thor ' wasn't the only Marvel movie peek Brian Michael Bendis got this week. He also says he saw " Iron Man 2 ." That must mean Jon Favreau 's overtime editing hours are paying off. The film's director has been so busy during barbershop business hours lately that ...
Marvel
Iron Man
Scott Pilgrim
Brian Michael Bendis
Jon Favreau
Stan Lee
Bill Willingham
By now you've all heard the latest "Spider-Man 4" casting rumors — depending on which source you read, both Julia Stiles and Anne Hathaway are up for the role of Felicia Hardy, the burglar known as Black Cat. We offered up our own suggestions for the role a while back in our weekly Secret ...
Marvel
Spider-Man
Black Cat
Sue Storm
The Fantastic Four
FROM MOVIES BLOG : As long as Hollywood is turning board games into movies, why not also mine game shows? I'd love to see movies made out of "Press Your Luck" and that Japanese show where contestants had to guess what dangerous animal was atop their head. In a way, "Who Wants to Be a ...
Other
When "Shaun of the Dead" director Edgar Wright was first announced for the big-screen adaptation of of Bryan Lee O'Malley's "Scott Pilgrim" series, you could practically hear the collective sigh of relief around the 'Net. For many fans, the belief was that if anyone can successfully bring the ...
Indie
Scott Pilgrim
Edgar Wright
Oni Press
With filming of “ 30 Days of Night: Dark Days ”, currently underway in Canada, Steve Niles — the writer and creator of “ 30 Days ” — is hinting that more sequels may follow.
"Right now we’re just trying to get this one in the can," said Niles in an interview with Bloody Disgusting . "If that ...
Other
As production on director Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of “ Thor ” continues to heat up, Idris Elba is the latest addition to the cast.
According to The Hollywood Reporter , Elba will portray Heimdall, the guardian of the Bifrost bridge to Asgard. In Marvel’s “Thor” mythology, Heimdall is ...
Marvel
Thor
Mining the multitude of fan-made trailers on the 'Net occasionally yields a real gem (for example: " Thundercats: The Movie "), and that's definitely the case for this "Batman 3" mash-up trailer that offers up a hypothetical brawl between Christian Bale as Batman, Johnny Depp as The Riddler and ...
DC
Batman
Johnny Craig
Philip Bond
The cat is out of the bag for Rachel McAdams, who recently debunked rumors that she'd appear in "Spider-Man 4."
However, that hasn't stopped the rumor mill from speculating on other actresses who could play Black Cat , but it has seemingly dashed McAdams' comic book movie prospects.
And ...
Marvel
Black Cat
By Steven Roberts
It’s not every day that an Eisner Award-winner teams up with a Los Angeles streetwear company, but judging by Stan Sakai’s collaboration with The Hundreds, it might not be a bad idea. The Hundreds will release two t-shirts Saturday, November 21 at their flagship store in ...
Dark Horse
Usagi Yojimbo
Stan Sakai
The worlds of comic books and "Twilight" overlapped unexpectedly back in August when "Youngblood" director Brett Ratner mentioned a desire to see "Twilight Saga" star Robert Pattinson in the lead role for the superhero team-up movie. Now, on the eve of the "New Moon" premiere, we have another ...
Image
Badrock
Youngblood
Rob Liefeld
Something unthinkable is happening in Hollywood, as Mandalay Pictures has picked up the rights to "Unthinkable," a comic book series from Boom Studios.
According to The Hollywood Reporter , writer Mark Sable's "Unthinkable" will be produced by Mandalay's Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman, with ...
Other
This one veers off our normal subject matter a bit, but it's so full of awesome I had to pass it along. Boing Boing 's Xeni Jardin alerted me to the recent debut of an animated music video for "Spacious Thoughts," a collaboration between Tom Waits and Kool Keith (no, seriously!) created by the ...
Other
Keith Giffen
The last 24 hours have been exciting for comics-related movie watchers on Twitter. Not only did some behind-the-scenes posts pop up from " Thor " and " Scott Pilgrim vs. The World ," two of the biggest upcoming releases in the genre, but Rob Liefeld dropped an eye-opening bomb about his defunct ...
Marvel
Thor
Rob Liefeld
Brian Michael Bendis
Badrock
Simon Pegg
Terry Moore
Sure, Anne Hathaway is the latest in a long line of rumored contenders for the role of Black Cat in "Spider-Man 4" (even though there's no confirmation the character is even in the film), but does anyone remember another rumor from a few years back that cast an entirely different actress in the ...
Marvel
Black Cat
Spider-Man
Marvel Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada and “New Avengers” writer Brian Michael Bendis have offered first hand accounts of their recent visit to the set of director Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of “ Thor .”
“I could listen to Branagh talk about ‘Thor’ all day long,” related Quesada on Twitter . ...
Marvel
Thor
Brian Michael Bendis
Joe Quesada
Kenneth Branagh
The superhero rumor mill is getting awfully catty these days when it comes to "Spider-Man 4." Even with the Rachel McAdams as Black Cat rumor effectively squashed , there are still other reports pegging high-profile actresses for the potential "Spider-Man" nemesis — like Anne Hathaway, for ...
Marvel
Spider-Man
Black Cat
“Terminator: Salvation” star Sam Worthington has signed on to appear in the film adaptation of Rick Remender 's upcoming miniseries “The Last Days of American Crime."
Created and written by Remender with artist Greg Tocchini, “Last Days” takes place in the near future where the U.S. ...
Dark Horse
Sam Raimi
Rick Remender
Last week, we gave you an exclusive peek at "Transformers: Continuum," the one-shot comic that catches readers up with the current Transformers continuity before IDW Publishing kicks off its new, ongoing series featuring the robots in disguise. The first issue of "Transformers" #1 arrived on ...
Indie
Transformers
IDW Publishing
Over on MTV Movies Blog , they have a nifty little weekly feature called " Sick Day Stash ," in which they highlight a lesser-known, older film that our writers hold near and dear to their hearts. While they're always a fun read, this week's author is regular Splash Page writer Josh Wigler , ...
