Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More After months of rumors and Hayley Atwell letting the news slip on on a red carpet , Marvel has finally confirmed that Tommy Lee Jones will play Colonel Phillips in Joe Johnston’s Captain America: First Avenger. In a press release regarding the casting news, Marvel mentioned that Colonel Phillips will …
Read More »Marvel Makes Its Move For The Small Screen
Marvel Entertainment appointed Jeph Loeb as Executive Vice President, Head of Television, a newly created division of Marvel Entertainment. In this new role, Mr. Loeb will work alongside Dan Buckley, Publisher & President of the Print, Animation & Digital Divisions, to translate Marvel’s popular characters and stories to the television medium, in both live-action and animation …
Read More »Michael Fassbender is Magneto in X-Men: First Class
X-Men: First Class finally has its lead villain. According to Showbiz 411, the role of the young Magneto has gone to Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds). Fassbender had his choice of Marvel vilains over the last few weeks. He was already in talks to play the lead villain in Marc Webb’s …
Read More »DC Comics Coming to PSP
Sony announced the availability of DC Comics on the PlayStation Network digital comics service for PSP. An initial selection of over 80 DC titles can be downloaded from PlayStation®Store immediately priced from $0.99 to $2.99 per issue that include Batman: Hush, Green Lantern: Rebirth, Fables: Legends in Exiles and Planetary: …
Read More »Dynamite and Liquid Comics Team For John Moore & Richie Smyth’s Dead Soldier
Dynamite Entertainment and Liquid Comics announced a publishing partnership to release Dead Soldier, an original four-issue comic book series from acclaimed filmmakers John Moore (Max Payne, Behind Enemy Lines and The Omen) and Richie Smyth. Artwork for the series was created by Liquid Comics’ Dean Hyrapiet (Virulents, Vooddoo Child, Snake Woman). “Dead …
Read More »Marvel Reveals The Origin of HALO’s Master Chief!
Marvel and 343 Industries announced Halo: Fall of Reach-Boot Camp #1, the graphic fiction event answering the question on the minds of gamers around the world-what’s the secret on the planet of Reach that led to the creation of the Master Chief? This September, fan-favorite creators Brian Reed and artist Felix Ruiz team up …
Read More »A Thousand Arts Kicks Of One Shot Line
From acclaimed writer Stuart (Wolverine Noir; Namor: The First Mutant) Moore comes A Thousand Arts – a kung-fu action thriller unlike any you’ve ever seen! Set in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness, where an archeological dig uncovers a trove of 7,000 year old documents that describe both a lost and ancient Chinese civilization …
Read More »John Lithgow & Freida Pinto Join Rise of the Apes
John Lithgow and Frieda Pinto have joined the cast of Rise of the Apes, 20th Century Fox’s prequel to the Planet of the Apes franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog. Lithgow and Pinto join James Franco, who will play a scientist who is working on a cure …
Read More »Rick Riordan Returns to Camp Half-Blood
This fall, multi-million selling author Rick Riordan takes some beloved familiar faces back to camp. The brand new series The Heroes of Olympus returns to the world of Camp Half-Blood with a new cast of characters, as well as some familiar faces from the blockbuster Percy Jackson & the Olympians …
Read More »Benjamin Walker to Play Beast in X-Men: First Class
Rumors abound on the casting of the new X-Men prequel, but as of last week, the only person signed and ready to go on the project was James McAvoy as Professor Xavier. Now comes word from Showbiz 411 that Benjamin Walker (Flags of Our Fathers) has signed on to play …
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