Spectre TV Show In The Works

Warner Brothers TV & Fox are working together for a possible Spectre TV show.  Brandon Camp will be scripting as well as executive producer, along with Bill Gerber, producer of Gran Tarino.  They hope to fill the void left with the end of Smallville and the fact that the long talked Wonder Woman tv show now seems dead.  They plan to cross reference the show with a mix of horror, similar to the recent animated short.

Hope Falls comic movie

British company, Future Films, has optioned the rights to the obscure comic Hope Falls.  No production dates have yet been set.

Avengers Together

Avengers - Captain America (in new costume)

Man Of Steel's Daily Planet

Filming of Man Of Steel has moved into Chicago and the site of the Daily Planet has been revealed:  311 South Wacker Ave. will be transformed into the metropolitan newspaper.

Summer Comic Films Of 2011 Recap

Now that the summer movie season has technically ended with labor day, lets take a look back at the winners & losers.  The season may be technically over but the weekend of September 9 - 11 still holds four comic films in the Top 50!  At # 17 is the All-American classic, Captain America bringing in an additional $845,000, followed by Cowboys & Aliens at # 18 with almost $828,000.  The newer released Conan The Barbarian falls to # 31 with $303,000.  Jump another ten spots to # 41, Green Lantern brings in another $115,000.  It may be out of the top 50 and even with its video debut this week, X-Men:  First Class still had a small box office market at $30,000.  With all that said, it may still be a bit premature to give total final numbers for Captain America and Cowboys & Aliens who both took in nearly $1 Million each, but lets take a look anyways.

2011 is another billion dollar year at the box office for comic movies, but no unbelievably massive films like Dark Knight or the Spider-Man films which took over or near a billion dollars themselves, although the top 3 are still respectable blockbusters.  Marvel Comics holds its reign as the new king of comic book films.  Thor and X-Men hold the top 2 spots, but Captain America is barely behind X-Men by a few million.  X-Men is hopeful insight to Sony Pictures regarding its Spider-Man reboot next year.  Audiences still flock to the mutants even after 4 films and a new cast.  Green Lantern unfortunately would be the biggest loser of the expected blockbusters because of its high budget and massive marketing campaign that cost nearly $300 Million, leaving question to its own franchise and the future of DC Comics films beyond Superman and Batman.  Aside from the traditional super heroes, Cowboys & Aliens was the only comic fare to even be noticeable, yet it remains disappointing and worldwide receipts still a few million under its budget.

Foreign results and upcoming receipts could change these numbers slightly.  The nearly final breakdowns are this:

TITLE                                       DOMESTIC                 WORLDWIDE

Thor                                         $181,030,624                   $448,512,824
X-Men:  First Class                $146,358,175                   $352,566,560
Captain America                     $173,459,663                   $348,459,663
Green Lantern                         $116,464,125                  $219,714,125
Cowboys & Aliens                     $98,041,821                  $156,541,821
Priest                                         $29,136,626                    $77,571,419
Conan The Barbarian              $20,920,882                    $48,420,882
Dylan Dog:  Dead Of Night       $1,186,538                      $4,634,062

Possible Flash Movie

Warner Bros. Film Group President, Jeffrey Robinov, recently revealed in an interview that Warner has a "solid script" for Flash, possible in 2014.  It's being weighed if they will go ahead with the Flash film or a Green Lantern sequel.  However, he does say if Green Lantern goes forward, it must have a new director.  Warner execs were very displeased with the work from Martin Campbell.  Their plans for GL would be "darker and edgier."

Article in LA Times

Cliff Robertson Passes Away

Oscar winning actor, Cliff Robertson, passed away saturday, September, 10, 2011, just a day after his 88th birthday.  Robertson had appeared in the Oscar winning film, Picnic, in 1955, and he won an Oscar for the 1968 film Charly.  His career spanned over several decades but comic book fans will always remember him as uncle Ben Parker from the original Spider-Man film trilogy.

Rest In Peace, Cliff Robertson
September 9, 1923 - September 10, 2011

Superman May Get New Costume

It's rumored that producers are considering a new costume for Superman in Man Of Steel after initial reactions seemed to focus on the man of steel's bulging crotch.

Man Of Steel - 1st Look At Superman Costume

At last, the first official pic of Henry Cavill as Superman!  The costume resembles the new DC Comics revamp, losing the traditional red shorts.

And Cavill as Clark Kent:

Superman Man Of Steel - Faora On Set

In Peoria, Illinois, on the set of Man Of Steel.

Amazing Spider-Man Stills & On Set

Here's a few pics of Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone in the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man.