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Robert Downey, Jr. will not be reunited with his Iron Man director, John Favreau for the Dreamworks/Universal sci-fi flick Cowboys & Aliens.  Sources involved with the film say that Downey Jr. had to drop out due to a possible scheduling conflict with the sequel to Sherlock Holmes. The sequel to …

Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox and Michael Fassbender have assembled for a roughly 10-day reshoot in the Los Angeles area for the summer tentpole movie, Jonah Hex beginning at month’s end. Although no test screenings have taken place, the studio has decided to work on story and action during …

Marvel is suing to keep the rights to superheroes including The Hulk, the Fantastic Four and X-Men. The federal lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan asks a judge to invalidate notices sent by the heirs of artist Jack Kirby to try to terminate Marvel’s copyrights. The heirs sent notified several companies last …

Blake Lively has nabbed the female lead opposite Ryan Reynolds in Warner Bros.’ “Green Lantern.” Lively, best known for her roles in Gossip Girl and Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants,  will play Carol Ferris, who runs her father’s aerospace company and hires cocky test pilot Hal Jordan (Reynolds), who later …

With the highly anticipated sequel to the 2008 “Iron Man” movie scheduled for release this year, Sakar International is gearing up for a complete line of branded “Iron Man 2” spy gear inspired by Robert Downey Jr.’s billionaire industrialist turned Super Hero. The line is expected to include over a …

The Vulture and The Black Cat are battling it out to be in the latest installment of Spider-man. Sony Pictures wants the script to include a romantic sub-plot with The Black Cat while director Sam Raimi is against the idea. He is pushing for the Vulture to be the featured …

Building on an already successful three year creative and business relationship, POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment Inc. (Pink Sheets: POWN), the advanced media and entertainment company led by comic book and motion picture icon Stan Lee, announced today it is deepening its ties with The Walt Disney Company. “Enhancing our …

Marvel Entertainment announced that at a special meeting, Marvel stockholders approved the adoption of the Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into by Marvel and The Walt Disney Company (“Disney”), which provides for a merger in which Marvel will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney. Marvel anticipates that the merger, …

In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Stan Sakai’s best-loved character, Dark Horse brings this fluffy, badass bunny to life with an all-new plush toy, with art direction by the creator himself! Usagi Yojimbo is a long-running comic set in seventeenth-century Japan, with anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, featuring the lovable …

With his trusty ray gun and jet pack, trailblazing hero and sci-fi icon Buck Rogers finds himself out of his time in into the future! The inspiration for countless sci-fi heroes finds new life in Dynamite Entertainment’s Buck Rogers, written by Scott Beatty and illustrated by artists Carlos Rafael and Carlos …