Disney to acquire Marvel for $4 billion

The world is crumbling apart... fire from the skies, the seas boiling... cats and dogs living together... Disney is buying Marvel!

Check it out - http://corporate.disney.go.com/news/corporate/2009/2009_0831_disney_and_marvel_entertainment.html

Assuming everything goes as planned Disney will walk away with the 5000 characters off Marvels stable and be able to leverage their significant marketing power behind the comic book goliath. Not sure of the speed of the acquisition or how Disney will handle the various properties but it definitely is big news.

Question: is this a bad thing? Really... I'm not sure. I want to think that it could be good. I mean Marvel is wonderful and all, but there's no denying they've got a problem with focusing their direction. Maybe some of the mouse house's bureaucracy will help Marvel. At the least Marvel will hopefully stop just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. And really even with the success of Marvel Studios, all it would take is a few mistakes on some of their bigger properties to bring them back to square one, bankruptcy. So is this a good move? I know I hope so. We'll have to see how it all shakes out

A few things to consider, will Marvel keep their name / branding? What happens to Kingdom comics? How exactly does Disney integrate Marvel into their unique style? What does this specifically mean for Marvel comic books, Marvel films, and Marvel licensed products?
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Iron Man and Wolverine anime trailers

Wow, check these awesome trailers out. These are for new tv series slated to air in Japan in 2010. But since the properties are so huge, the art looks amazing, and they've been written for tv by none other than the amazing Mr Warren Ellis I have zero doubt that they will make their way to our shores very quickly. In fact we'll probably see fan subs online within a few days of broadcast...

Check the trailers :)

I know. very different, but pretty damn cool too.
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G.I. Joe Resolute

A few days ago I watched G.I. Joe Resolute, the newest G.I. Joe story in this post Valor vs Venom age, and I have to say it was really great! I am excited and kinda scared about the new live action movie set to come out this summer, but in the meantime the cartoon side of things look like they're on the right track. I hope we'll get to see more cartoons in the Joe universe like Resolute. And with the re-spawned interest, the 3 new comic books, and the movie this summer I think we're in for a pretty good ride. 

Resolute picks up with the Joe team in modern day, but keeps all of the same stuff we loved abut the classic series. That said, it actually works in a modern sense. This isn't any Sigma Six bullshit, this is seriously just a good time. Joes are bad asses, COBRA are really evil messed up terrorists, and finally people can die, as evidenced by the two surprising deaths in the very first part.

The entire 'film' is about an hour long, maybe an hour and change. It aired all together on Adult Swim a few weeks ago, but has also been split into webisodes for your convenience. No doubt a dvd will come out soon enough. But you might as well watch it here, because its awesome and I said so. Oh and if that doesn't convince you, it was written by comic genius Warren Ellis. Here is part one of eleven...

And here you go with the rest

G. I. Joe Resolute - part 02

G. I. Joe Resolute - part 03 and 04

G. I. Joe Resolute - part 05

G. I. Joe Resolute - part 06

G. I. Joe Resolute - part 07

G. I. Joe Resolute - part 08

G. I. Joe Resolute - part 09

G. I. Joe Resolute - part 10

G. I. Joe Resolute - part 11 

Pretty sweet stuff, and well worth the time. I hope our liked it as much as I did. Doesn't it make you want to see even more :)

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D9 trailer and more

So Neill Blomkamp, the man Peter Jackson had picked to direct the Halo movie now has this District 9 movie coming out. If you'll remember a few years ago, Neill had made a short film about this very same subject, called Alive in Joburg. Well I'm really happy to see this make it in the world of the feature. Check out this trailer for District 9.

Oh, and if you think the aliens are all bad, think again. Watch the end of this trailer, unblurred, and translated. Then hed over to MNU Spreads Lies and have your voice heard.

District 9 comes out Aug 14th, and I think it looks great. Here's hoping Blomkamp's next film is based on another of his shorts Tetra Vaal.

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A Wild trailer

CHeck out the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are. Looks like its really finally going to come out. Very cool news. Although that said, I'm still a bit thrown off by what we actually see here.



Like I can't decide if its great or just worrysome. I like that it already feels like a Spike Jonze film. I don't like that its not how I imagined the Wild Things to look. I love the henson-esque Wild thing look in a way, but I also don't think they look or move like they did in my mind for so many years.

Will it be great? I sure hope so. This film deserves to be. We'll all find out on October 16th, '09.
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You Twit

The series SuperNews premieres today at 10pm on Current. Could there really be a reason to watch Current tv???
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Two great new posters

Two awesome new movie posters have hit the web recently.

This first one is for the new one for Terminator Salvation. I have to say I am really stoked about this film now. At Wondercon this year for my work I had the amazing opportunity to meet and chat with a few of the stars behind the film, including Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard, Common, Anotm Yelchin, and director McG, who actually commented on my Leonidas-like beard and abs... watch the end credit sequence of the EP episode here :) Anyhow, check out the poster.

And the second poster which just hit the interwebs today is for the long awaited Where the Wild Things Are movie, which is still slated for release on October 16th, '09. Finger are tightly crossed on this one.

Ahh, can't wait :)
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the new face of SyFy

WTF?! I had heard that the Sci Fi Channel was changing their name. But I had also heard that it was because they didn't want to be so locked into the science fiction genre, or at least they didn't want that to be the perception. Why that should be a problem considering it so clearly defines an ever growing niche, is beyond me, but so be it. I had heard about this change a few months ago, and at the time the word was that Sci Fi was going to become Astound! Now being in california, I have to say, the first thought there, is wow, my old DSL provider RCN recently changed their name to Astound! I wonder if there is a connection... Probably not, because the Sci Fi Channel is now changing their name, and not to Astound! but in fact to .... SYFY.

I grabbed this image off of AICN, where it also mentioned co the official press release that "Syfy -- unlike the generic entertainment category “sci-fi” – firmly establishes a uniquely ownable trademark that is portable across all non-linear digital platforms and beyond, from Hulu to iTunes. Syfy also creates an umbrella brand name that can extend into new adjacent businesses under the Syfy Ventures banner, such as Syfy Games, Syfy Films and Syfy Kids."

oh boy. what a world have we come to... Feel free to check out the place holder / press release at http://www.syfy.com and hey everyone... Imagine Greater.
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