Tag Archive | "superhero"

Electroshock therapy!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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Darren at the Genre Files points us to this fabulous short animation in French (with English subtitles) from the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques‘ Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Valentin Michel, Bastien Morteleque and Elliot Maren. In time honoured tradition a hapless dweeb has a serious accident that gifts him with superpowers – he determines to [...]

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Night is Day – superhero series from Scotland goes filmic

Monday, August 1, 2011

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Night is Day Movie Trailer 1 – HD from Fraser Coull on Vimeo. Fraser Coull drops us a line to tell us that his own superhero web series, which follows the adventures of a Scottish superhero, Jason Mackenzie, who has the power of foresight and lightning after a demon is placed inside him, has now [...]

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Cheddar Cheeseman, a superhero with a fatal weakness…

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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All superheroes have a crucial weakness or two, even the mightiest ones – after all if Superman had no vulnerabilities at all, for example, he’d be pretty impressive as a hero but bloody useless as a dramatic character in the comics. So he has magic and Kryptonite, Green Lantern has trouble with the colour yellow, [...]

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Captain Awesome

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Another cool offering from the Animation Workshop, this time we go down the superhero route with the highly enjoyable Captain Awesome from the team of Ercan Bozdogan, Mikkel Aabenhuus Sørensen, Andreas Husballe, Jonas Mølgaard Jensen, Ninni Munch Pettersson, Lars Kramhøft: Captain Awesome from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.

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The Mighty Thor

Sunday, February 20, 2011

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The second trailer is out for the upcoming Thor movie and looks like fun:

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What if the superheroes were hipsters?

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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(from College Humor, via Pete’s Basement)

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Green Hornet trailer

Thursday, June 24, 2010

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The interwebs is offering us up a first trailer for the Seth Rogan-starring Green Hornet flick a couple of days after some of the first official pics were released (via Guy Kawasaki):

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Shazam!

Friday, May 28, 2010

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Juan Ignacio Rodriguez de Leon shows how he created and coloured a basic 2D animation of the Big Red Cheese: Shazam! Ejemplo de animación 2D from Juan Ignacio Rodriguez de Leon on Vimeo.

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Electric Man – open casting for comics themed movie

Friday, March 5, 2010

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The Edinburgh Evening News reports that Dugbus, the producers of an independent film involving superheroes and rare comics, Electric Man, are holding an open casting day today in the Braid Rooms at the Pleasance in Edinburgh (a short walk from the Edinburgh FP, as it happens) from 10am to 4pm. The story apparently concerns a [...]

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Kick-Ass trailer

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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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 [...]

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Capes at the Fringe

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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The planet’s biggest arts festival is kicking off in Edinburgh this month and among the huge array of plays, stand-up performances and shows of just about every conceivable type there is also superhero-themed stage antics; Super Situation starts with preview shows (at a bargain rate) this very day in the Bongo Club and runs throughout [...]

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Natalie Portman joins Thor cast

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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V For Vendetta star Natalie Portman has been announced as the female lead for the upcoming Thor movie, which will be directed by heavyweight thespian-director Kenneth Branagh. Portman will play Jane Foster, a character who featured heavily in earlier Thor comics as the nurse assistant to Thor’s alter-ego Doctor Donald Blake and was more recently [...]

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