Tag archive: Marvel

This July, Spider-Man swings back into theaters with a new cast, director, and vision for the famous web-slinging superhero. Rather than continue the franchise after 2007′s overcrowded, budget-busting Spider-Man 3, Sony chose to reboot the franchise with British actor Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, Never Let Me Go) as teenage hero Peter Parker and 500 Days of Summer director Marc Webb behind the camera for The Amazing Spider-Man… Read More

Marvel's arch nemesis DC comics, the largest English comic book publisher in the world, is bringing its comic books to the digital world beginning this week. Their entire line of comics is getting a relaunch and titles will be available to be purchased online alongside the release in print. 52 comics will be getting new number one issues in the upcoming fall months. Justice League #1 is first up with superstars Geoff Johns writing and Jim… Read More

Marvel continues to push forward with its unwritten agenda of bringing every single character in the Marvel universe to the big screen. All of the heavy hitters have been spoken for, and due to legal shenanigans, some of the biggest properties like X-Men, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four are out of reach of Marvel Studios for the time being, but they too will all soon return to the big screen. But there are still plenty of Marvel characters… Read More

If you ask someone who’s never picked up a comic book in their life who Stan Lee is, the odds are pretty good they’ll know. Lee has become synonymous with comics. He’s the man behind some of the most successful comic book (and now movie and video game) franchises of all time, including Captain America (now playing in a theater near you in 3D), Thor (coming home September 27 on Blu-ray 3D) and The Amazing Spider-Man (rebooting next summer in… Read More

Walking into Captain America: The First Avenger was something of a daunting prospect for me. As a long-time comic book geek that now earns a few coins reviewing movies, I feel an attachment to comic book flicks. When they are good, shazam! I happily soak up the comicy goodness and go about my merry way, safe in the knowledge that a beloved property from my childhood (and on) has been honored. When it is bad, I take it somewhat personally… Read More

For those that went out and purchased Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and have played it to the point of insanity—and there are plenty of you out there—there’s some good news and bad. The good news is that Capcom is working on 12 new characters, 8 new stages, and some technical refinements to both the fighting and the online side, including the introduction of a spectator mode to watch fights with other gamers. All together this will… Read More

Captain America: The First Avenger won’t hit theaters until later this week, but for whatever reason, the film seems to have great buzz surrounding it. The reviews aren’t even out yet (with a few exceptions), but unlike some other superhero films that were doomed form the start because they looked awful <cough>Green Lantern<cough>, there seems to be some genuine excitement for Cap. It may not do Harry Potter numbers—ok, it almost… Read More

It has been a big summer filled with huge hits and major flops, and it is only June.  And still on the docket, one of the biggest releases of the year is due next month when Captain America jumps to the big screen to beat on some Ratzis with his shield and super soldier infused fists. And with just under a month to go before the release of Marvel’s final pre-Avengers outing—and arguably the most important solo movie—the advertising blitz (pun… Read More

Gazillion Entertainment and Marvel have announced that the long-awaited Marvel Universe MMO will be free-to-play, and the lead writer will be none other than comic writer mainstay Brian Michael Bendis. David Brevick, game industry veteran and creator of Diablo I and II, will be heading the MMO's development. Marvel had previously been in bed with Microsoft and Cryptic studios to create a Marvel online universe game, but the project was… Read More

Behold the power of the intertubes. Entertainment Tonight had originally planned to release this trailer online this Thursday, but it somehow found its way to the hungry eyeballs of fans before that, and so naturally it was everywhere within minutes. The trailer below is the first full length trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger, and is not to be confused with the teaser trailer released for the Super Bowl. The film stars Chris Evans… Read More

It is a sad day for comic book fans. Of all the upcoming superhero-inspired films coming soon—and there are many—few piqued the interest of fans more than the possibility of Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream) directing The Wolverine, the sequel to 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The story was said to be based on Frank Miller’s Wolverine mini-series, which was a fairly dark look at the mutant superhero that redefined the… Read More

Up to this point, although there have been plenty of clips and stills of the upcoming film Thor, there really hasn’t been much of a look at what the film will be like. Sure you have a guy with a hammer, Natalie Portman looks hot and Anthony Hopkins gets mad and grounds Thor to Earth, but beyond small hints and ideas, it hasn’t been all that easy to get a feel for the upcoming Marvel Studios film. In the trailer released earlier today, the film… Read More

It is more or less inevitable these days–if you make a movie that has some form of superhero angle, a video game adaptation will soon follow. It doesn’t even have to be a comic book superhero, just any hero that does extraordinary things (Tron: Legacy and Harry Potter for example). Thor: God of Thunder is the most recent example of that trend, but certainly not the last. In fact, a Captain America game should be released about a month… Read More