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Victor Frankenstein Trailers And Poster Released

August 21, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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Earlier this week we saw the first trailers for the much anticipated Victor Frankenstein. The first features an introduction from leading men James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe. Check it out below: The second is narrated by Igor (Radcliffe): This iteration of the Frankenstein myth is to focus on the relationship between Victor and Igor. If that wasn’t already clear […]

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Hugh Jackman In Talks To Play Odysseus In Odyssey Adaptation

August 21, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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Writing for The Wrap, Jeff Sneider reports that Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in a big-budget adaptation of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey by director Francis Lawrence. Lawrence‘s recent work includes the final instalments of The Hunger Games. Jackman, of course, is best known for his live-action depiction of X-Man Wolverine. Both have experience in […]

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ABC Order Pilot For Marvel’s Most Wanted

August 21, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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Variety reports that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will get a spin-off. Elizabeth Wagmeister reports that, “the drama will focus on popular S.H.I.E.L.D. characters Adrianne Palicki‘s Bobbi Morse (also known as Mockingbird) and Nick Blood’s Lance Hunter. The two actors will topline the pilot and prospective series” with the title Marvel’s Most Wanted. According to Wagmeister, the […]

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Whatever Happened To The Man Of Yesterday? Are Superheroes Old Hat?

August 20, 2015 ArcadeAdmin

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Alan Moore, celebrated writer, occasional magician and all-around wacky uncle of the comic book industry has rocketed into the public eye once again for a statement made more than a year ago. A 2014 interview with our favourite Rasputin-lookalike has been circulating the internet thanks to The Guardian, in which he referred to superheroes as […]

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Back Issues: Awesome Adaptations

August 19, 2015 Mary McFadden

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Many of us have grown up surrounded by our favourite comics; whether you started off with something as simple as a Beano and worked your way up through the ranks of Marvel, you probably singled out one or two characters and story lines that would become your all-time favourites. When such a bond is formed, […]

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The Crow Reboot Still In The Works

August 18, 2015 Emma Grimes

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At this point, The Crow may well in fact be the albatross of movies. From the tragedy of the first and now the financial collapse of Relativity Media, a collapse that sadly toppled quite a lot of movies already in pre-production, it just seems like it can’t catch a break at all. However, like Eric Draven himself, it […]

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Kickstarter: Hound Book 2

August 16, 2015 Marcus Deehan

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Last year Paul Bolger, who was one of the special guests at ArcadeCon a few months ago, launched a Kickstarter campaign for book one of the planned trilogy Hound. It was a great success and all first editions sold out almost immediately. Now with a new Kickstarter campaign, the team behind volume one are looking to […]

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Tom Hardy To Produce 100 Bullets

August 16, 2015 Marcus Deehan

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In an exclusive release by The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed that Tom Hardy, star of Mad Max: Fury Road, will be taking on the role of producer in New Line Cinema’s production of 100 Bullets. The report also stated that he has an interest in starring in the production. 100 Bullets is a multi Eisner Award […]

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Indiegogo Counter Campaign Launched To Destroy Minas Tirith

August 15, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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The Indiegogo campaign to raise Minas Tirith has reached £61,700. It’s fair to say that it’s an unprecedented amount! Whether a counter campaign was more predictable or not is difficult to say. In either case, one has sprung up. The attempt is clearly a spoof of one sort or another. The campaign is notionally a bid to […]

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Gallery: Comiket Cosplay 2015

August 14, 2015 Andy Kavanagh

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Comiket or Comic Market is the bi-annual manga festival that took Japan by storm. Since it’s origins in 1975, the show has become one of the largest gatherings, drawing in nearly half a million people per event and a lot of the audience comes in elaborate cosplay. The August show which is currently under way […]

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