The Development Slate Episode 20 – The Phantom w/ Thomas Pound
Writer Thomas Pound joins us to talk about how he would reboot one of his favourite comic book properties: The Phantom!
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The Development Slate Episode 19 – Hancock
James and Yaw pitch the superhero action-comedy Hancock.
Thought Bubble: What Do We Want From Old Friends?
A glut of 1990s TV revivals are upon us. What do these Friends, X-Files, and Full House reunions hope to accomplish – and what should we as viewers expect from them?
News Shelf: 18/01/13
And now, all the film, game, and comic news that’s fit to print. Gremlins might be getting the reboot treatment, Cuarón's Gravity gets a release date, Dead Island: Riptide offends with crass Collector's Edition, fan campaign gets JRPG localized, the X-Men become an all-female team and the internet loses its shit, and DC Comics cancels a boatload of titles.
Andrew Garfield is Spider-Man
Little known British-American actor Andrew Garfield has snagged the starring role as Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot after an exhaustive casting search. Garfield recently appeared in small roles in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and The Other Boleyn Girl, he has also starred in Lions and Lambs and Boy A, for which he […]
Spider-Man: Never Too Old to be Young Again
I have a lot of sympathy for Spider-Man. After a remarkably successful eight-year run, hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars grossed, three major villains vanquished (along with a few minor ones to boot), and tolerating Kirsten Dunst for three whole movies, he’s finally been exposed. Peter Parker never finished high school. We know what […]
Retro Kick: Growing Up with Canadian TV
We Canadians often take for granted or mock Canadian TV programming. Our television tastes have broadened so much in the last decade or so, that we often see our own television industry as producing shows that are too hokey, too corny and even too Canadian for our sophisticated TV palettes. This is not to say […]
8 Life Lessons We Can All Learn From Predator
With the recent announcement of the Robert Rodriguez produced sequel/reboot of the Predator franchise, Premiere Magazine went back and took a look at the film that started it all. They learned that the original Predator isn’t just a movie featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger in top form, or even an above average 1980’s action film. No, Premiere […]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles To Get Batman Begins-Style Reboot?
MTV’s Splash Page Blog recently sat down with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Peter Laird to talk about the now confirmed live-action TMNT reboot. The Turtles are set to return to the silver screen in 2011 and Laird had this to say about the project: “I can say that at this point there are a lot […]
