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MCM LONDON COMIC CON – EXCEL LONDON – 24-26 MAY IDW and DC Join Forces for Comics Panel IDW Publishing and DC Comics will be holding a joint American Comics In The UK panel at MCM London Comic Con this weekend, show organisers have announced. Featuring Bob Wayne, SVP sales and marketing at DC Comics,…
The Angry Birds movie received a major boost when it was announced that Jon Vitti was hired to write the screenplay for the upcoming animated feature film based on the popular video game. Vitti is an animated industry veteran and has written five episodes of King of the Hill, 25 episodes of The Simpsons as…
North Dakota advertising agency H2M Inc. has filed a civil lawsuit against The Annoying Orange creators Dane Boedigheimer and Spencer Grove, accusing the two North Dakota natives of stealing the talking orange character from an ad campaign created between 2005 to 2009 for a North Dakota Department of Transportation advertising campaign. In their claim, H2M…
Back in 2009, Batman: The Brave and the Bold parodied the reaction of a particular brand of Batman fan in the episode “Legends of the Dark Mite!”, with a tirade about how Batman is best suited in a role of “gritty, urban crime detective” and going on to rant about the show’s specific brand of…
It’s bad enough that the Wolverine [played by Hugh Jackman] had to kill Jean Grey [Famke Janssen] in their last X-Men flick spent together – now he has to relive that painful memory all over again in the first few seconds of the newest trailer released for the upcoming film “The Wolverine”. Jackman has sprouted…
The only thing missing from Microsoft’s unveiling of the new Xbox One gaming console system was dancing Vegas showgirls. The company announced their new entertainment and gaming console system live on Spike network with a presentation that would have been right at home in Vegas. After boring everybody to tears with the usual preamble about…
Marvel Entertainment and Walt Disney Company have released the following trailer for Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, the upcoming new animated series uniting up Marvel’s greatest superhero icons for a team to take on threats no single one of them could handle alone. The series is set to have a special one-hour preview on Sunday, May 26,…
Warner Bros Home Entertainment has released a new video clip and stills from LEGO Batman: The Movie – DC Superheroes Unite, a new direct-to-video feature from Tt Animation and Warner Bros. that is a tie-in to the popular video game. The clip features Robin (voiced by Charlie Schlatter) giving chase to Catwoman: Click any thumbnail…
NICKELODEON RELEASES ‘BEHIND-THE-SCENES’ FEATURETTE OF NEW ANIMATED SERIES SANJAY AND CRAIG, EXCLUSIVELY ON iTUNES Nickelodeon today released an epic nine-minute featurette of its newest animated series, Sanjay and Craig. Available exclusively on iTunes free of charge, The Rad Awesomeness of Sanjay and Craig gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the sidesplitting series before its on-air premiere on Saturday,…
After opening the series with a three volume mega-saga, the fourth volume of Dragon Ball Z offers some variety. Things kick off with the extended filler tale that is Garlic Jr. In Japan, DBZ saw yearly movies which reworked the current plot elements into standalone original stories. The first of these, inspired by Goku and…
