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Vinyl new releases April 27, 2010: Hole, Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, Herbie Hancock, Paul Weller, Eric Clapton
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CD new releases April 27, 2010: Hole, Big Audio Dynamite
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DVD new releases April 27, 2010: Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, I Love Lucy: The Movie; Barbara Stanwyck Collection
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Live Batman stage show in the works
Bizarre:
Warner Bros. and DC Comics are in the early stages of developing a tour, tentatively titled "Batman Live" and starring the Caped Crusader, working with Nick Grace Management and Water Lane Prods., companies behind the popular "Walking With Dinosaurs" and "Mamma Mia!" touring shows.being kept under wraps, but it's known that the show will feature numerous villains.
The show is neither a musical nor a Broadway-bound theatrical production but rather an elaborate arena production aimed at kids and families.
Alan Burnett, a longtime animation veteran whose credits include Batman and Superman television shows as well as such animated movies as "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm" and "Green Lantern: First Flight," is writing the story and script. The logline is
Roy Thomas returns to Conan
Legendary comics scribe Roy Thomas will put pen to paper on another Conan series.
Conan: Road of Kings, a new 12-issue Conan comic series, for Dark Horse...will launch in December, with art by Mike Hawthorne.
The story follows Conan from the easternmost edge the Vilayet Sea to the western shore along the Road of Kings, which winds its way through the civilized kingdoms of the Hyborian Age. Along the way he’ll encounter inhuman monstrosities, sorcerers, and power-crazed men and women all trying to stall his progress.
LA Times has Nick Fury scoop from Iron Man 2
The Los Angeles Times takes a look at the character the movie version of Marvel's superspy, played by Samuel L. Jackson:
"The idea was just to do this tag, and we thought it would be really fun to get Sam since the comics version of Fury is based on him," said "Iron Man" and "Iron Man 2" director Jon Favreau. "Now it's become much more than that. In the ["Iron Man 2"] film, he has a significant role and becomes the entry point to connect Tony Stark to the agency called S.H.E.I.L.D. and, thereby, the rest of the Marvel Universe, with Captain America, Thor, the Avengers."
New streaming titles on Netflix
Titles of note:
- Wild at Heart
- Fargo
- It Might Get Loud
- Lenny Bruce Without Tears
Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine relaunched
Comic book publisher IDW will revive the late Forrest J Ackerman's famed mag in July. Here's the solicitation:
FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #251
Written and art by various, cover by Richard Corben.
The triumphant return of the #1 filmmonster magazine, now in full color and packed with more features than you can shake a death rattle at! Go behind the scenes of upcoming features Predators and Resident Evil: Afterlife, as well as the third season of True Blood! Explore horror cinema's history with our look at the career of cinematographer/director, Karl Freund! Chat with one of the all-time literary greats in our exclusive interview with Ray BradburyÉ and enjoy a new, never-before-published Bradbury short story! Celebrate the life of FM's beloved Forrest J Ackerman in a very special memorial! All of this and more wrapped up in a phenomenal cover by Richard Corben. Ask your retailer how to get the ultra-rare variant cover by the legendary William Stout!
128 pages, $12.95.
Cartoon Network Young Justice poster
Here's an image from the Cartoon Network's upcoming "Young Justice" animated series, mentioned here yesterday.
Hulu introduces subscription program
From the Los Angeles Times:
Hulu, the popular online site for watching television shows, plans to begin testing a subscription service as soon as May 24, according to people with knowledge of the plans.
Under the proposal, Hulu would continue to provide for free the five most recent episodes of shows like Fox's "Glee," "ABC's "Lost" or NBC's "Saturday Night Live." But viewers who want to see additional episodes would pay $9.95 a month to access a more comprehensive selection, called Hulu Plus, these people said.
Cool Disneyland Alice in Wonderland poster
The Rutles! Neil Innes interviewed
Here's a nice, long interview with chief Rutle, former Bonzo and Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes.
For all your Rutles needs:
...what made the Rutles truly remarkable was the involvement of George Harrison. The Beatles' guitarist played a cameo role of a TV newsman interviewing Palin outside the Rutles' "Banana" headquarters in London. More importantly, Harrison was able to draw superstars such as Mick Jagger (playing himself, of course), Ronnie Wood and Paul Simon into the project.
"George was in it up to his neck," recalls Innes, who will perform Rutles favourites at a rare club performance tomorrow night at Hamilton rock club This Ain't Hollywood. "He was really behind it. He brought in film from the archives so (director) Gary Weis could match it. George showed up for all the filming."
For all your Rutles needs:
Fortune mag rejects cover by cartoonist Chris Ware
From The Beat:
Chris Ware recently finished a cover for Fortune magazine, only to see it killed, perhaps because of all the jokes in the tiny spaces of the cover.
Scarlett Johansson and the Black Widow costume
The actress chats about playing Marvel's acrobatically inclined anti-hero in the new Iron Man flick.
“I knew it was going to be some kind of sexy unitard, because I had researched the character in the comics. I’ve never worn anything like it before, so I had a freak-out moment that lasted about half a day, but then I said ‘Okay, time to suck it up’ and just went full force into getting in shape to wear the costume and perform the physical action so it looked just right.”
Matt Baker! (Or not?)
You gotta love some Matt Baker art. Check out these Canteen Kate stories from Pappy's Gold Age Comics site.
And the Comic Book Catacombs isn't certain this Rulah the Jungle Queen art is by Baker or not (I kinda think not), but it's nice nevertheless.
And the Comic Book Catacombs isn't certain this Rulah the Jungle Queen art is by Baker or not (I kinda think not), but it's nice nevertheless.
Young Justice series announced on Cartoon Network
Details:
In Young Justice, being a teenager means proving yourself over and over - to peers, parents, teachers, mentors and, ultimately, to yourself. But what if you're not just a normal teenager? What if you're a teenage super hero? Are you ready to join the ranks of the great heroes and prove you're worthy of the Justice League? That's exactly what the members of Young Justice - Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis - will [find] out, whether they have what it takes to be a proven hero.
New streaming titles on Netflix
A few new items of interest:
- Merlin Season 1
- Princess of Mars
- Ken Burns The Civil War
And now the inevitable Stretch Armstrong movie
Universal Pictures has hired Rob Letterman to direct and Nicholas Stoller to rewrite Stretch Armstrong, the big screen adaptation of the action figure, to be played by "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner.
Hasbro's action figure was popular around the world beginning in the 1970s and re-launched in the 1990s.
Letterman directed 20th Century Fox's upcoming Gulliver's Travels, which was co-written by Stoller. Letterman also co-directed Monsters vs. Aliens, while Stoller co-wrote and directed Universal's Get Him to the Greek. Stoller also directed the studio's Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Pop links: Andy Partridge, the Who
Read an huge long interview with XTC's Andy Partridge.
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The Who's 1969 performance at Tanglewood, which includes a complete run-through of Tommy, will air for the first time April 29 on Wolfgang's Vault. I can't figure out, though, if the show will be available for download, or just streaming.
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The Who's 1969 performance at Tanglewood, which includes a complete run-through of Tommy, will air for the first time April 29 on Wolfgang's Vault. I can't figure out, though, if the show will be available for download, or just streaming.
Lost Superman painting is found
An original oil painting of the Man of Steel that once hung in the offices of DC Comics but went missing has turned up on the wall at a university library.
Martin Pasko, an author of “The Essential Superman Encyclopedia,” which will be published by Del Rey in August, was puzzled. “I had just assumed as a longtime employee of DC that it would have been in the warehouse,” he said. “I know of no other large painting from that period.”
Mr. Saunders knew from his research that Ward had been paid $100 for the Superman painting and that for years, it had had pride of place in the office of Harry Donenfeld, the entrepreneur who had presided over DC Comics, the company that published the Superman comic books and controlled the Superman radio show.
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