Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Disney’s 3D Tron: Legacy opened with $43.6 million topping a slow weekend despite heading into what the studios hopw will be a strong holiday season. Unusual stomrs around the country have kept moviegoers home for several weekends. Yogi Bear opened with $16.7 million to place No. 2. The CG/live-action hybrid had …
Read More »“Age of Conan” Web Series in Production
Paradox Entertainment is happy to announce the production of the first episode of “Age of Conan: Hyboria!,” a comedy web series set in the legendary Conan universe. The web series will utilize the characters, locations and graphics engine from the hugely popular and best-selling massively multiplayer online PC game “Age …
Read More »Marvel Resurrects CrossGen
Marvel announced the resurrected Crossgen imprint, launching in March 2011 with two series-Ruse and Sigil. Featuring some of today’s most acclaimed talents and crossing all genres, Crossgen brings Marvel’s incomparable storytelling sensibilities to new characters, new concepts and new audiences. In the war for forever, time is only a small obstacle as the greatest warriors …
Read More »‘Bloodline Champions’ Now In Open Beta
Funcom and Stunlock Studios announced the open beta test of ‘Bloodline Champions’, a player vs. player arena game that has already been embraced by gamers and the gaming press alike. The open beta phase means that anyone can now immediately join the game. Launching in mid January, gamers can now …
Read More »Lara Croft Leaps Into the App Store
Crystal Dynamics announced its LARA CROFT AND THE GUARDIAN OF LIGHT App is now available on the App Store. There are two versions of the app, one for iPhone and iPod touch and a special iPad-exclusive HD version that takes advantage of the device’s large, high-resolution display. The critically acclaimed …
Read More »Scholastic to Publish Brian Selznick’s ‘Wonderstruck’
Scholastic announced that it will publish “Wonderstruck,” a mesmerizing new novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick, the #1 New York Times bestselling author/illustrator of the Caldecott Medal-winning novel and upcoming major motion picture “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.” With over 460 pages of original drawings, “Wonderstruck” will be published in hardcover simultaneously …
Read More »Dejah Thoris Gets The Spotlight In 2011
Spinning off from the incredibly successful Dynamite Entertainment Warlord of Mars series, Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris #1 will arrive in comic book stores March 2011. Martians live forever — everyone knows that. So what was Dejah Thoris doing all those hundreds of years before John Carter arrived? Four hundred years …
Read More »Tonner To Release Marvel Super Heroes
Tonner Doll Company, an award-winning designer and manufacturer of high-end collectible dolls and figures, will team up with MARVEL to create character figures based on classic MARVEL characters. “We were fortunate enough to work with Marvel a few years ago and I am thrilled to be back working with them,” Robert …
Read More »Marvel Knights Animation Presents Black Panther
Deep in the heart of Africa lies Wakanda, an advanced and unconquerable civilization. A family of warrior-kings possessing superior speed, strength and agility has governed this mysterious nation as long as time itself. The latest in this famed line is young King T’Challa, the great hero known worldwide as the …
Read More »Zombies, Werewolves and Vampires Reunite
COMEDY CENTRAL has renewed the animated comedy series “Ugly Americans” for a second season, it was announced today by Kent Alterman, head of original programming and development. The 14-episode new season of “Ugly Americans” will premiere in June 2011. “Ugly Americans” premiered on March 17, 2010 with 2.1 million total viewers and has averaged 2 …
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