Marvel Reenvisioning Canon For Japan’s Anime Market (2)
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Marvel is teaming with Madhouse, the respected Japanese animation studio responsible for Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and Ninja Scroll, to reenvision its comic book characters, their origins, and new characters for anime series. Iron Man and Wolverine have been tapped, but others characters were not specified. In a report by the NY Times, Marvel’s International President, Simon Philips, says the venture will create a “parallel universe” to the current canon. He’s not exaggerating. In a ...
What Makes a Fan? | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News (3)
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The other day I posted the claim that There Is No Such Thing As Science Fiction Fandom. It was as I acknowledged in the article, an over-reaching claim. But I basically stand by the point I was making that fandom has splintered into many specialized form and there really isn’t an overall fandom at this point. Over at dashPunk, C. E. Dorsett posted a rebuttal of sorts suggesting that it’s not that fandom is splintering ...
Girl-Wonder announces the Con Anti-Harassment Project (1)
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Remember the Penguicon “Open Source Boob Project”, and the resulting grassroots idea - the “Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Project“? Feminist comics fandom site Girl-Wonder has formalised things a little more, and has just announced the “Con Anti-Harassment Project”, taglined “Conventions should be fun.”: Our aims are to encourage fandom, geek community and other non-business conventions to establish, articulate and act upon anti-harassment policies, especially sexual harassment policies, and to encourage mutual respect ...
Watchmen may be ‘f***ing astounding,’ but will ‘legalistic crap’ keep us from seeing it? (4)
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On Wednesday, Newsarama reported on fans organizing online to demand a three-hour-plus run time for Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Watchmen. However, there’s another Watchmen-related petition — this one following up on threats of a boycott of 20th Century Fox because of the studio’s lawsuit against Warner Bros. over who owns the film rights to the property. Buoyed by a judge’s refusal last week to dismiss the complaint, Fox is playing hardball — for the moment, ...
Three worlds … and a legion of notes (3)
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The Legion of Super-Heroes, with its reboots, threeboots and sprawling cast, can be a little confusing — even for longtime fans. So, how can a new reader expect to untangle all the characters and references in Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds? Don’t worry, Timothy Callahan has you covered. Callahan, editor of Teenagers from the Future, is annotating the miniseries, pointing out who’s who and what’s what in the Legion universe. Or universes, I suppose. ...
TVTropes' "Woolseyisms" (1)
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It's rare that we give much thought to the good men and women who turn our video game text from "YOU LUCKY ARE WINNER!" to something dignified. But where there are exceptions, there is the potential for small wars. By far one of the most controversial names in game translation and localisation is Mr Ted Woolsey. Ted Woolsey translated many of Square-Enix's best-known 16-bit works, including Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy VI and Super Mario ...
There’s No Such Thing as Science Fiction Fandom (3)
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Okay that’s a sweeping simplification. It would be more accurate to claim that there’s no such thing as a single unifying science fiction fandom. I think there’s a strong case to be made that historically there used to be one. The one that formed around the pulp magazines, that essentially created WorldCon and the Hugos. Members of that fandom were at one time a pretty good example of the average science fiction fan. But just ...
Batmobile For Sale (6)
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The Batmobile from Batman Returns is being auctioned off at the 38th annual Kruse International Auction, which will be held on Labor Day weekend in Auburn, Indiana. The car is #3 of 5 Batmobiles actually used on screen during the film. “Other less valuable non-movie promotional Batmobiles have sold for as much as $550,000.00! This authentic movie masterpiece is expected to bring a record price. The Warner Bros. & DC Comics sales approval agreement clearly ...
This is why we left Endor in the first place! (1)
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Lionsgate Gunning For a PG-13 Punisher: War Zone? (1)
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Slowly but surely, Punisher: War Zone is being lowered into a grave of WTF by Lionsgate. First, Lexi Alexander, director of the gorey Marvel actioner, was seemingly kicked off the project. We still don’t know what happened exactly. Her candid, rah-rah website was suddenly wiped clean of all prior updates on the film, save for a cryptic “see, hear, speak no evil” monkey post, which was later replaced by a detached entry about a friend’s ...
HBO Considering Series Based on Trent Reznor’s Year Zero? (5)
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The dystopian future imagined by Trent Reznor is synergy-friendly. Some have argued that it’s cliche. The savvy Nine Inch Nails frontman tells the LA Times that he recently met with HBO about adapting the themes of his Year One concept album (and cultish alternate reality game) into an ambitious sci-fi series… “I just pitched it to HBO two weeks ago in L.A. It went great. Ideally, we’re trying to get them to do a two-year ...
Discuss: How Into Moviegoing Are You Getting? (1)
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Filed under: Fandom, Newsstand Going to the movies is becoming an elaborate thing these days -- not only are people willing to pay big bucks for tickets to The Dark Knight (because, you know, it was never going to play again ever), but they camp out, dress up, cheer the appearance of Batman, and applaud at the credits. (Or even at the trailers!) At least, that's the phenomenon according to The Independent and, honestly, I've ...
Watchmen hits No. 15 on USA Today list (1)
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The 22-year-old Watchmen continues its climb up the book charts, fueled by the trailer for Zack Snyder’s upcoming adaptation. The collection of the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons miniseries pushed another 14 places up USA Today’s Top 150 list to No. 15. Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket reached the same spot in April 2007; that may be the highest position held by a graphic novel. USA Today’s chart tracks all genres and formats of books sold ...
‘You Tried before and it sucked’ (2)
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Apparently not everybody is looking forward to Neil Gaiman’s upcoming Batman two-parter, announced over the weekend at Comic-Con. As evidence, Gaiman posts this exchange on his blog: I hope this reaches neil himself. Never have i ever known of anyone as full of himself as well as shit, than you. Now another milestone in your over-hyped career, Writing Batman. Not only are you under the impression you can write, but write batman? F**k You. You ...
Trailer drives Watchmen up book list (2)
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The Watchmen “trailer effect” continues to be felt in the book market as the collection of the 22-year-old miniseries leaps 54 places up USA Today’s Top 150 list to No. 29. USA Today’s chart tracks all genres and formats of books sold in some 4,700 brick-and-mortar and online stores. Released July 17 with The Dark Knight, the teaser for Zack Snyder’s film adaptation quickly boosted sales of the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons trade paperback. ...
The Dark Knight to Cross $300+ Milllion By Monday! Would Make TDK 2008’s Top Movie in 10 Days (2)
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Watch out Billy Zane! Fantasy Moguls reports that The Dark Knight is on track to gross $77 million this weekend—only a 50% drop from last weekend, the largest opening on record. If so, the film will have grossed $315 million by Monday, surpassing the total domestic grosses of both Iron Man and Lame Indiana Jones Sequel to become 2008’s toppity top movie in a mere 10 days. Indeed: that’s another record. Repeat viewings are holding ...
Director Lexi Alexander Booted Off Punisher: War Zone by Lionsgate? (1)
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I’ve put out the word for further confirmation from our staff—against terrible odds of hangovers and lipstick shenanigans—but a rumor is quickly circulating that Lionsgate/Marvel has kicked director Lexi Alexander off Punisher: War Zone. The film, which opens this December, is finished filming but apparently HUGE creative differences arose over…final cut? There’s a lot of speculation going around. Over at AICN, Knowles says the film’s composer is off the project as well, and Lionsgate is ...
Harold and Kumar 3 Announced (3)
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While Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay had it moments, ultimately Slashfilm was let down, graphing it as a 4.5/10 (and later a 3.5/10 for the inclusion of a 311 song in 2008). The profitable sequel hits DVD on Tuesday and today Harold and Kumar 3 was given the greenlight for John Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, the writer/directors of the previous film, who also penned the funnier White Castle. Kal Penn and John Cho ...
