James Wortman NBC: Heroes’ Future Remains Unclear
If you follow my film/television coverage over at Broken Frontier, you know I have some pretty mixed feelings about Heroes, NBC’s floundering superhero series that, for the past three years,…
NPH Suits Up for The Smurfs
I really don’t have any interest in Sony Pictures’ The Smurfs, which starts shooting next month, but after learning that Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Horrible’s…
Next Wolverine Flick Shoots in 2011
If you saw X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I’m pretty sure you were disappointed by it. If you weren’t, you really need to stop lying to yourself. But even if you loathed…
Tron Legacy Could Lead to More Films, a TV Show and Theme Park Attractions
Can I confess something? I grew up having little to no interest in Tron, Disney’s groundbreaking 1982 film combining flesh-and-blood actors and computer-generated imagery. I was familiar with the premise…
Avatar Spoof Pulled from the Oscars
It’s pretty safe to say at this point that James Cameron’s Avatar is a cultural touchstone. It’s the highest-grossing film of all time, it’s up for nine Oscars, it’s inspired…
Bill Murray Calls Ghostbusters 3 His “Nightmare”
While nursing a leg injury, comedy legend Bill Murray made a hilarious appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman last night, wearing a shiny purple shirt, gigantic snow boots…
Lucasfilm Responds to Admiral Ackbar College Mascot Campaign
“It’s a trap!” Or is it?Last week, students at the University of Mississippi voted on a new mascot to replace Colonel Reb, a borderline offensive caricature of an old Southern…
Batman Beats Superman at Auction
A near-mint copy of Detective Comics #27 (1939), Batman’s first appearance, just sold for $1.075 million. The sale broke the comic book auction record set just days earlier with the…
Batman Begins Writer David S. Goyer to Pen The Man of Steel
Warner Bros. has hired Batman Begins and The Dark Knight scribe David S. Goyer to write The Man of Steel, a new Superman film, Latino Review reports. The franchise reboot…
Our Defense Can’t Repel Outside Runs of That Magnitude!
The Force is apparently strong with the University of Mississippi. I read on Topless Robot earlier today that Ole Miss is in search of a new mascot after retiring longtime…