Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Star Wars: The Force Awakens shattered numerous box-office records over the weekend, grossing $238 million in North America — the biggest opening of all time, not accounting for inflation — for a global launch of $517 million. The previous biggest domestic opening was this summer’s Jurassic World with $208.8 million. The top 12 films …
Read More »Dark Horse Explores The Worlds Of ‘Broken Age’
Dark Horse Books partnered with Double Fine Productions to offer an intimate look into the worlds of Broken Age in The Art of Broken Age! With Broken Age, adventure-gaming auteur Tim Schafer returned for the first time in sixteen years to the genre that he helped create, and after a historic, record-breaking crowdfunding campaign, the …
Read More »Paramount Pictures and Hasbro Combine Forces to Establish Cross-Property Film Universe
Paramount Pictures and Hasbro announced a groundbreaking deal today to collaborate on feature films for five of Hasbro’s iconic properties. Under the agreement, Paramount and Allspark Pictures, Hasbro’s film label, will establish a cross-property interconnected onscreen universe, featuring the deep stories and great characters from Hasbro brands G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. …
Read More »Moon And Ba Adapt Neil Gaiman’s ‘How To Talk To Girls At Parties’
In June 2016, Dark Horse Books will offer How to Talk to Girls at Parties, a brilliant new graphic novel adaptation of an award-winning short story from Neil Gaiman—one of the most celebrated authors of our time—by award-winning artists Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá. Originally published in Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things: Short …
Read More »FUNimation Reveals Plans For New Cable Channel
FUNimation announced that it is ending its content and brand partnership with Olympusat on December 31, 2015, to distribute the FUNimation Channel. After that time, Olympusat will no longer be broadcasting FUNimation titles. FUNimation confirmed that it will be relaunching the FUNimation Channel in 2016 with a renewed focus on delivering fans the …
Read More »‘Hunger Games’ Tops ‘In The Heart Of The Sea’
Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2 narrowly beat In the Heart of the Sea to stay at the top of the box office. Ron Howard’s seafaring epic starring Chris Hemsworth capsized at the box office, opening to $11 million from 3,103 theaters. The big-budget film cost roughly $100 million to make, excluding marketing costs. The top …
Read More »VIZ Media Opens 2016 With The Launch Of Shojo Manga Series ‘Honey So Sweet’
VIZ Media delivers its first shojo series of the year with the launch of Honey So Sweet on January 5th. Manga creator Amu Meguro delivers an endearing romantic comedy about an unlikely relationship that blossoms between a pair of seemingly mismatched high school students. Honey So Sweet is her first title to …
Read More »Cullen Bunn Discovers ‘Remains’ In ‘Death Follows’
This spring Dark Horse Books is offering a graphic novel collecting never-before-printed material from Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Sixth Gun) in Death Follows! Originally debuting digitally through Monkeybrain as The Remains, Death Follows is horrifically and beautifully realized by A. C. Zamudio and Carlos Nicolas Zamudio. The print collection contains the original prose …
Read More »Ant Man Comes Home
The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe brings a founding member of The Avengers to spectacular life for the first time in Marvel’s “ANT-MAN,” the pulse-pounding action adventure now available to own on Digital 3D, Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere, and on Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray, DVD, …
Read More »The Justice League Battles Brainiac LEGO Style
It will take all the efforts of the Justice League – and a few of their super pals – to keep Brainiac from adding Earth to his miniaturized collection of planets in the all-new animated feature, LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes – Justice League: Cosmic Clash. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, …
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