Michael Moran is in all excited and understandably so -- his Blockbuster Buzz spot on The Times Online is going to be hosting Jonathan Ross interviewing Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn live via video link next Tuesday (23rd) at 4pm (UK time). Michael is also taking questions from folks via the comments section on the Blockbuster [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 15, 2010
Back in January Wim reported that a brief teaser trailer was now online for The Strange Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, a film adaptation of the turn-of-the-century adventure comics from the great Jacques Tardi, starring Louise Bourgoin (as the titular Adèle), Gilles Lellouche and Mathieu Amalric (the baddie in the last Bond movie) and directed by [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Via Dan Goldman’s Twitter comes a link to this pretty short but funny remix of the end of the first Superman movie that made me chuckle:
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
(Edinburgh, the West End of Princes Street in the 1950s; the shops and buses have changed but other than that most of this scene looks the same today. From The Illusionist by Sylvain Chomet, (c) Django Films) Long time readers may remember quite a while back I blogged about the brilliant Sylvain Chomet working on a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Its the cinematic collaboration we’ve all been waiting for: Disney’s Goofy working with master of the surreal, the auteur David Lynch. Apparently Goofy has been a huge admirer of Lynch’s work going right back to Eraserhead and Lynch has been keen to use the Hollywood veteran in one of his projects but has been holding [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 7, 2010
This recently released movie poster for the new Losers movie does seem to point out one fundamental flaw in transferring comics to movies. No matter how good the movies are, sometimes you just can’t do it as well as the vision of an artist. It’s a great poster, iconic, striking, everything it needs to be. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 2, 2010
New HD trailer for the Losers movie based on Andy Diggle and Jock’s comics series; DC just released a new version collecting volumes 1 and 2 last week. (via Andy’s Twitter):
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Continuing the annual December tradition of our Best of the Year posts, today we have respected UK indy comics creator Rob Jackson sharing some of his favourites from 2009 with us. FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Rob: ‘Night [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
The great Robert Englund graced our Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham this week and Dave from N&C tells me that he was a real delight, utterly charming his fans and staff alike and telling them some great stories while signing copies of Hollywood Monster. I’m quite jealous, would have been wonderful to meet him, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
On his journal Neil Gaiman notes that the rather lovely animated version of his younger reader’s novel Coraline has won the feature film category at the Children’s BAFTA awards. Lost and Found won the animation category, while the wonderful Bernard Cribbins, soon to return to our screens in the final David Tennant Doctor Who episodes [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Peter Jackson reports that the principal shooting on the Tintin movie is completed – however, we shouldn’t get too excited just yet because he adds that it will probably be another couple of years for the effects and the computer animation to be completed. I’d imagine animating Tintin’s famous quiff alone will occupy some digital [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 20, 2009
One, two, Freddy’s coming for you, three four, better lock your door... Yes, folks, we have horror icon Robert Englund coming soon. Englund has been well known and beloved of SF and horror genre fans for many years, appearing in a large number of productions from playing the good alien in the original V mini-series [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Website Twitch posts five glorious Kirby-esque covers for an imagined Inglorious Basterds comics series spun off from Quentin Tarantino’s last movie. Absolutely pitch-perfect for the material, I think, wouldn’t it be cool to see a whole comic done this way? I think the cover for issue #5 (below) is my favourite. Someone show these to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Kick-Ass Trailer Park | MySpace Video Yep, there is an official trailer for Mark Millar and Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, the unusual superhero movie where the guys went around the traditional studio system and raised finance themselves to fund the film, allowing them to make it as they thought it should be, free of endless notes and memos [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
According to The Hollywood Reporter director Bryan Singer is considering a return to Fox for another installment of the X-Men movies, which I’d imagine would be pretty much welcomed by fans. Singer, who made his name with the wonderfully convoluted noir-esque Usual Suspects, delivered the first two X-Men movies which proved successful with fans, critics [...]
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