Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Dark Horse Comics announced they have entered into a joint venture to add the newly formed Kitchen Sink Books as an exclusive and independent publishing imprint. Kitchen Sink Books will begin a publishing program in late 2013, focusing on large-format, heavily illustrated art books, archival reprint collections, and original graphic novels. …
Read More »The Walking Dead: 400 Days DLC Now Available
Telltale Games and Robert Kirkman, the Eisner Award-winning creator and writer of The Walking Dead for his Skybound imprint at Image Comics, announced today that The Walking Dead: 400 Days , DLC for The Walking Dead: Season One , is now available for purchase on PlayStation Network in North Americafor PlayStation 3. Release follows on PC/Mac via Steam …
Read More »Lion Forge Comics to Develop NBC Digital Comic Books
NBCUniversal has partnered with digital publisher Lion Forge Comics to develop licensed comic books based on popular TV shows from the 1980s and 90s. Under the agreement licensed through the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group, Lion Forge will write, develop and publish digital comics based on the following shows: “Airwolf” “Knight Rider” “Miami …
Read More »‘Man of Steel’ Hits the Half-Billion Dollar Mark
After flying into the record books in its opening, Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ “Man of Steel” continues to soar at the box office. The film crossed the $500 million mark on Saturday, June 29. The announcement was made today by Warner Bros. Pictures President of Domestic Distribution, Dan …
Read More »Dark Horse Launches On Apple’s iBookstore
Dark Horse digital graphic novels are now available for purchase on the iBookstore, featuring over two hundred top titles, including Mass Effect, Hellboy, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Sin City, and more. Plus, iBooks users can put Star Wars comics on their bookshelf next to all of their favorite Star Wars novels. Through Apple’s iOS devices, readers are guaranteed …
Read More »Starz Greenlights “Outlander” Series
Starz Chief Executive Officer, Chris Albrecht, announced that Starz will partner with Sony Pictures Television to greenlight “Outlander,” an original series adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s international bestselling books. The network has ordered 16 episodes of the series which will begin filming in Scotland this fall. It is slated to premiere in 2014. The series adaptation …
Read More »Marvel Lauches Licensing For Guardians of the Galaxy
Marvel teams with licensees Hasbro, Disguise and Sideshow Collectibles for toys and products tied to the upcoming film, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. “As we’ve seen with Marvel’s The Avengers and Iron Man, Marvel Studios is expert in developing comic-based properties into major blockbuster events and bringing them to the forefront …
Read More »Jolley Resurrects Bloodhound
Dark Horse Comics announced the long-awaited return of the beloved series Bloodhound, from writer Dan Jolley (Prototype 2) and artist Leonard Kirk (X-Factor)! Previously published by DC, Bloodhound begins a new five-issue series, Crowbar Medicine, that will take our hero, Travis Clevenger, to new intensities the Big Two would have never allowed—establishing Clev as the …
Read More »Look, Up In The Sky…It’s Super Kitty
DC Entertainment and Sanrio have teamed up for a Hello Kitty x DC Comics cross-over. The new brand collaboration will feature Hello Kitty dressed up as DC Comics Super Heroes including Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman. “Character cross-overs have been a classic Hello Kitty spin off for years and our fans are always …
Read More »Paramount Announces “World War Z” Licensing Program
Paramount announced its slate of worldwide licensing partners in support of the highly anticipated film “WORLD WAR Z,” which opens in theaters nationwide on June 21 st. To extend the excitement of the summer film event, Paramount is rolling out a robust in-theatre merchandise program highlighted by mobile pop up stores in …
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