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Posters and Footage from Watchmen!

Sean — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:43:49 +0000

Now that The Dark Knight hoopla is winding down it’s time to start switching our attention to the next potentially great comic book movie: Watchmen. Despite the fact that the movie doesn’t come out for another 7 months, the Warner Brothers marketing machine is already gearing up. They started by showing the trailer in front of The Dark Knight, which means that countless millions of people have seen it. Not a bad way to start off a marketing blitz.

The next phase of the campaign took place at ComicCon, where the cast and crew answered questions, screened some footage, and showed off some posters. The posters are below, and the video is after the jump.

Here’s the footage that was shown at ComicCon, though I have to warn you, the quality is really bad:

Leaked footage from Watchmen at ComicCon

Stay tuned as the marketing machine really gets going. We’ll keep you posted each step of the way. Oh, and go buy a copy of Watchmen now so you can be up-to-speed when the movie comes out on March 3rd.

via SlashFilm, TrailerAddict and Omelete.

Leaked Trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine from ComicCon

Sean — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:00:35 +0000

Comic book fans are still giddy over The Dark Knight, but undoubtedly a few are looking ahead. Well for those lucky folks, here’s the trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine that played at ComicCon:

Trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Now that you’ve watched it, head over to SlashFilm to read about all the details you may have missed.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine tears into theaters May 1st.

Who Watches The Trailer for Watchmen?

Sean — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:02:58 +0000

Hollywood loves comic books these days. There’s just something about folks with super powers that gets them all fired up (ok, it’s probably all the cash these movies bring in). On top of this, it seems like they’re in love with graphic novels, even if they don’t involve super heroes. See 300, Sin City, and V for Vendetta. So it’s really no surprise that Warner Bros. is set to release a movie based on the highly acclaimed Alan Moore graphic novel, Watchmen.

Watchmen is very different from the other recent graphic novel movies in one important way: I’ve actually read it. And it was good. I didn’t find it earth-shatteringly good like many people have, but it had a good story and good characters. And I think it will translate very well into a movie. The first trailer is out, and it seems to indicate that I’m right:

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Watchmen is set to be released March 9th.

via FirstShowing

New Clip of Two-Face from The Dark Knight

Sean — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:33:05 +0000

The release of The Dark Knight is just over a month away, but more and more stuff keeps trickling out. Today, as part of the massive viral marketing campaign associated with the movie, Warner Bros launched a website for Gotham City Pizzeria. Clicking on the “HA” in Gotham on the site takes you to this clip, showing a brief glimpse of Two-Face:

Really it’s not much. You can’t even really see anything. Unlike the picture of Two-Face that came out a while ago. What’s more interesting is trying to figure out how this fits into the movie. Any thoughts?

Teaser Trailer for The Spirit

Sean — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:21:44 +0000

Tell me if you’ve heard this before: There’s a movie coming out that’s an comic book adaptation, shot and directed in a highly-stylized way that makes it look like a comic book. It’s a hard-boiled detective story that takes place in a crumbling city. And it’s brought to us by Frank Miller. Sound familiar? No, it’s not Sin City. This time it’s The Spirit.

The film is an adaptation of the comic dating all the way back to the 40s. Originally created by Will Eisner, it’s Frank Miller’s vision that will appear on the screen. The movie will follow The Spirit, a former detective who rose from the dead to fight crime, as he battles his arch-enemy, The Octopus (played by Samuel L. Jackson, who we all know is a BMF).

The movie doesn’t hit theaters until January 19th, 2009, but the teaser trailer is out now:

New Pics from Iron Man

Sean — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:41:52 +0000

A few new pics from Iron Man are out, and they finally give us a glimpse of the showdown between Iron Man and his nemesis, Iron Monger. Iron Monger looks a lot like the original Iron Man suit that Tony Stark builds. Since I’m not a big fan of the Iron Man comics, I have no idea if that’s what it’s supposed to look like or not. However I do think it’s pretty cool to have the new Iron Man fight the old Iron Man, so I’m going to go with it.

As always click for full-sized goodness.

New Full-Length Trailer for Iron Man

Sean — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:14:01 +0000

A new trailer for Iron Man is out. When the movie was first announced I had very little interest, expecting something like The Fantastic Four. But I have to say, the more of this I see the better it looks. Robert Downey Jr looks like a great choice to play Tony Stark, and the effects look great, without being over the top. I’m starting to really look forward to May 2nd.

Harley Quinn in The Dark Knight

Sean — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:22:06 +0000

Details have leaked about another character in The Dark Knight. British actress Sarah Jayne Dunn is on board to play Harley Quinn, a psychotic clown who just happens to be The Joker’s girlfriend.

IMDB lists Dunn in the cast for the movie, but doesn’t give a character name. Her online resume is a different story however. It clearly lists her as Harley Quinn. There’s no word on whether Harley will get a substantial role or serve only as a henchwoman for The Joker.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Harley Quinn, here’s a brief introduction:

BTW, Kevin Smith likes Harley Quinn so much he named his daughter after her. So that makes her cool in my book.

The Dark Knight is due to hit theaters July 18th.

via FilmSchoolRejects

Van Wilder Playing Deadpool

Sean — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:40:28 +0000

In case you haven’t heard, Hugh Jackman is reprising his role from the earlier X-Men movies in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the first of what are planned to be several X-Men spinoffs. The movie, which is set to hit theaters next year, is just starting production. Details are starting to come out about who else will be in the movie, and the latest is very interesting.

Ain’t it Cool News is reporting that Ryan Reynolds, the guy who played Van Wilder to perfection, is going to play mercenary and anti-hero Deadpool. This won’t be Reynolds’ first chance to deal with comic fanboys, as he starred in 2004’s Blade: Trinity. Despite that role, I really see him as more of a comic actor than an action star, but it seems that early fanboy reactions are positive.

In addition to Deadpool, Film School Rejects reports that morbidly obese villain The Blob will make an appearance.

I couldn’t care less about The Blob, and I stopped reading comics around the time Deadpool was introduced, so anyone want to tell me why this is good (or bad) news? Anyone? Any of my readers happen to know anything about Deadpool?

RIP Steve Gerber, Creator of Howard the Duck

Sean — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:34:56 +0000

Many people only know Howard the Duck from the cheesy 80’s movie. That’s a shame because Howard has his origins in in the comics, where he was a wise-assed, cigar-smoking, pantsless satire of Donald Duck, trained in the deadly art of Quak Fu. This is the incarnation that Steve Gerber had in mind when he created Howard in 1973.

Gerber died Sunday in a Las Vegas hospital after a long battle with lung disease. Gerber created Howard while working at Marvel Comics, and despite several rocky stretches with the company, worked on Howard for more than a decade. He wasn’t a big fan of the movie though, though that’s hardly a surprise, since I’m not sure anyone over the age of 12 actually liked the movie. I was the object of scorn and ridicule for suggesting it for a movie night in college.

Gerber’s friend Mark Evanier wrote an excellent eulogy.

Via BoingBoing