The Beekeeper is claiming victory over Mean Girls at the weekend box office with an estimated $7.4 million from 3,337 theaters, but Mean Girls was hot on its tail. Both films are in their third weekend, and their domination underscores the worrisome situation facing cinema operators as the production pipeline slows to a trickle because …
Read More »‘Cradle’ Book Series Comes To Animated Life
Cradle, the New York Times best-selling fantasy book series that started as a self-publishing operation a decade ago, has returned to its grassroots beginnings in its adaptation for animation – alongside award-winning Lex+Otis Animation Studio – with a Kickstarter designed to give fans even greater connection to the stories, realms …
Read More »Kevin Eastman To Launch New Series ‘Drawing Blood’ This April
The legendary Kevin Eastman—co-creator of the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and former publisher of the popular Heavy Metal magazine—teams up with writer David Avallone (Elvira, Batwheels), artists Ben Bishop (The Aggregate, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin), and Troy Little (Rick and Morty, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) for the upcoming Drawing Blood. …
Read More »Ghost Machine’s Highly Anticipated One-Shot Hits Stores This Week
Ghost Machine #1 is arriving in comic book shops this Wednesday, available for $4.99, the eagerly awaited one-shot from Ghost Machine introduces FOUR UNIVERSES of genre characters across 64 pages and is published by Image Comics: 1) The Unnamed reveals a mysterious group of genre heroes from across history, featuring characters and titles …
Read More »‘Mean Girls’ Maintains Top Spot At Box Office
The Mean Girls musical by Paramount maintained the top spot of the January 19–21 weekend, earning an estimated $11.7 million from 3,826 theaters, bringing the domestic total to $50 million. With a 59% decline, the Tina Fey musical was not as successful as the producers had hoped. I.S.S., a thriller …
Read More »Veeps Streaming Features Shows From SF Sketchfest
For more than two decades, SF Sketchfest has been the premiere comedy festival for showcasing the best in sketch, improv, stand-up, and alternative comedy. This year, the festival is bringing specially selected highlights of SF Sketchfest to comedy fans around the world, streaming five of its featured shows exclusively on Veeps. Triumph the …
Read More »Murewa Ayodele & Dotun Akande Wield The Power Of ‘Akogun: Brutalizer Of Gods’
Oni Press announced AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF GODS #1 (of 3) – the 40-page, prestige format epic from superstars-in-the-making Murewa Ayodele (I Am Iron Man) and Dotun Akande (Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood) debuting in comic shops everywhere this April! In an age thought forgotten . . . when man, monster, and the divine all strode the Earth …
Read More »Dan Watters, Ram V, & Mathew Roberts Rise From The Depths To Launch ‘Universal Monsters: Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives!’
Skybound Entertainment, in partnership with Universal Products & Experiences, announced Universal Monsters: Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives!, a new four-issue limited comic book series from acclaimed writers Dan Watters (Home Sick Pilots, Lucifer) and Ram V (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Batman: Detective Comics), along with artist Matthew Roberts (Manifest Destiny), and …
Read More »Kickstarter For Disney’s Gargoyles Brings Classics To Fans
To kick off the new year, and the 30th anniversary of Gargoyles, Dynamite Entertainment is launching its first ever Kickstarter campaign for its Disney Gargoyles titles, offering fans all over the chance to complete their collections with brand new graphic novels collecting long out of print Gargoyles comic books! The Kickstarter is live now! Dynamite’s new Gargoyles comics …
Read More »‘Mean Girls’ Opens With $32M Weekend
At the domestic box office, Mean Girls’ projected opening of $32 million on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend makes it the clear winner for the weekend. Due to the four-day holiday, an updated count will be released on Monday. However, the movie is doing better than expected. Twenty years after Mark …
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