With few new releases debuting this week,the female-fronted Ocean’s 8 opened over the weekend to a series-best $41.5 million to easily place No. 1 in North America. Overseas, the pic grossed $12.2 million from its first 16 markets, many of them in Latin America, for a global start of $53.7 million. The …
Read More »Wizard World Teams With Sony On Ghostbusters Fan Fest Celebrating Iconic Film’s 35th Anniversary
In anticipation of Ghostbusters Day tomorrow, the anniversary of the classic comedy which released 34 years ago on June 8, 1984, Wizard World, Sony Pictures and Ghost Corps have teamed up to announce an extraordinary live event, the Ghostbusters Fan Fest presented by Wizard World, to be held June 8-9, …
Read More »Principal Photography Begins On ‘Nancy Drew And The Hidden Staircase’
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, A Very Good Production and Red 56 have begun principal photography on Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, an all-new feature film that returns the American icon to filmed entertainment for the first time in more than a decade. The production is based in Georgia filming …
Read More »The Walking Dead 15th Anniversary Special Box Set Announced
Image Comics/Skybound announced a special WALKING DEAD 15TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET stuffed with over 3,300 pages of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s walkers, Survivors, Saviors and a barbwire bat named Lucille—just in time for readers to enjoy in the days leading up to this year’s THE WALKING DEAD DAY on …
Read More »Witchblade Presents A Contemporary Spin On A Classic Comic
Writer Caitlin Kittredge (THROWAWAYS, Coffin Hill) and artist Roberta Ingranata put a contemporary spin on the classic WITCHBLADE—first co-created by Image Comics co-founder and partner, Marc Silvestri, with Brian Haberlin, Michael Turner, and David Wohl—WITCHBLADE, VOL. 1 trade paperback will collect issues #1-6. It will hit stores this July. Gunned …
Read More »Crowded Launches Ten Minutes Into The Future
Eisner-nominated writer Christopher Sebela (Heartthrob, We(l)come Back, Harley Quinn), Ro Stein & Ted Brandt (Captain Marvel, Raven: The Pirate Princess), Triona Farrell (Runaways, Mech Cadet Yu), and Cardinal Rae (BINGO LOVE, ROSE) team up for the forthcoming thriller, CROWDED, set to launch from Image Comics this August. Ten minutes in …
Read More »Kick-Ass Introduces New Creative Team And Launches New Story Arc
Image Comics announced that KICK-ASS #7 will launch an exciting new story arc for the series and introduce an all-new creative team to the KICK-ASS brand—Steve Niles and Marcelo Frusin—who will succeed original series creators Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. “When we sold Millarworld to Netflix, the one and …
Read More »‘Cold Spots’ To Heat Up The Summer
Psychological terror, the undead, and a supernaturally bitter cold come together in this spine-tingling new series, COLD SPOTS, from Cullen Bunn (REGRESSION, Harrow County) and Mark Torres (Zombies vs. Robots: Undercity) launching from Image Comics this August. Ten years ago, Dan Kerr turned his back on his wife and unborn …
Read More »Dynamite Announces The Further Adventures Of Red Sonja
Dynamite Entertainment announced the upcoming release of The Further Adventures of Red Sonja Vol1, to go along with the 45th Anniversary of ‘She Devil with a Sword’. The 200+ page collection features issues from the original Marvel Comics series “The Savage Sword of Conan,” with each page painstakingly re-mastered for …
Read More »‘Solo’ Holds Top Spot Despite Plummet
Solo: A Star Wars Story, in its second weekend, continued to lose altitude, but held the top spot at the box office due to a lack of new competition. The space adventure from Disney and Lucasfilm attracted an estimated $29.3 million in North America, down 65 percent from the $84.7 …
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