“I wish I could quit you, Batman.”
There we said it...are you happy?
The next BATMAN movie will be called THE DARK KNIGHT, and Heath Ledger will join the cast as The Joker, it was just announced. No mention of Katie Holmes...SCORE!
As...
Ghost Rider invents fire
At SDCC movie panels, directors owned up to falling behind schedule because of having . to invent SFX along the way:
Directors also apologized for slipped movie release dates, pointing to difficult visual effects for...
Video Blog #6: 300 & Gerard Butler
Yes, this is the moment we have been waiting for, and you have too, whether you knew it or not.
The greatest moment in Beat history.
DOOM PATROL movie on the march at Warners
Variety reports that Warner Bros. is planning to make a DOOM PATROL movie:
Warner Bros. Pictures is giving new life to DC Comics cult favorite "Doom Patrol," about a band of superheroes with freakish...
Frank Miller to write, direct THE SPIRIT
While a big announcement on the identity of the director for the long-planned SPIRIT movie had been teased for San Diego, The Hollywood Reporter has let the cat out of the bag: It's Frank...
Kevin Smith on girl nerds
And speaking of Smithhere's what he had to say about Rosario Dawson:
Q: Rosario is kind of a sci-fi nerd, right?
KS: It’s cool because a lot of people don’t know that. People said she’s so...
Must reading: Kevin Smith
If nerd-as-underdog culture has an icon, it's probably director Kevin Smith, a common man made good at the pinnacle of Hollywood, aka sleeing over at Skywalker Ranch, even while remaining approachable and utterly knowable....
24 Minutes of A Scanner Darkly
You can watch the first 24 minutes of A Scanner Darkly over at IGN. Our old laptop is a little too jerky for us to watch, but it should be interesting.
Humanoids production deal, Cassaday to direct
The Hollywood Reporter has a story this morning about how SUPERMAN producer Pierre Spengler has a 12-picture option on titles drawn from the library of Humanoides, starting with I AM LEGION, by Fabien Nury...
A Lost Princess of Mars?
A while ago, on the Old Beat we told you about a new comics series to be published by IDW based on Edgar Rice Burroughs A PRINCESS OF MARS, to be written by...
Woo and Ennis team, blood to flow
Virgin Comics released the official PR on their upcoming John Woo/Garth Ennis collaboration, SEVEN BROTHERS. Yoshitaka Amano will paint the covers. Details and PR:
Newly formed Virgin Comics is collaborating with Tiger Hill Entertainment, film-maker...
