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  Nick Paramonte 11:36 pm on 12/15/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Norrington To Direct Crow Reboot? 

  Rob, you might get pissed at this one. According to Variety, first Blade director is set to revamp The Crow franchise.

  For Norrington, “The Crow” deal marks the end of a long screen sabbatical. After making his breakthrough with the Marvel Comics hero “Blade,” Norrington took on a big-budget comic transfer with “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.” Neither the director nor his star, Sean Connery, has made a film since.

  If Stephen hadn’t made that abortion of Alan Moore’s novel, I’d be semi-interested. Don’t bother. The first one starring the too-early Brandon Lee was a great dark, sad, forbodding film, the sequels were unnecessary, and never followed the TV show. So what’s the point?
   

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  Nick Paramonte 2:11 pm on 12/14/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  Hulk Versus Trailer 

  

  We said towards the end of our review of Young Avengers, that the next feature in Marvel’s line looks even better with slugfest after slugfest. While fighting aside, there’s story going on.

  More useage of X-Men characters in Wolverine, with Lady Deathstrike, Sabertooth, and Omega Red. With the plot of the government recuiting mutants to capture The Hulk for expermentation and weapons applications.

  On the flip side, the preview for Thor, confirms what was in the official description (and in speculation), that Loki plays a hand in The Green Goliath’s rampage of Asgard. So overall, epic is how I describe it. I’ll buy it as soon as it comes out in January.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 9:38 pm on 12/13/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  "Legion/Bulletproof" Promo 

  The CW is picking up speed for Smallville‘s return next month.

  Minus Lana’s presence, it looks action packed. The Legion with their flight rings, Lightning Lad about to call Clark Superman, Chloiac owning Kal-El, Doomsday, and an insight into Mercy’s background of being a stray.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 9:38 pm on 12/13/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  “Legion/Bulletproof” Promo 

  The CW is picking up speed for Smallville‘s return next month.

  Minus Lana’s presence, it looks action packed. The Legion with their flight rings, Lightning Lad about to call Clark Superman, Chloiac owning Kal-El, Doomsday, and an insight into Mercy’s background of being a stray.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 5:26 pm on 12/12/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  McAdams in Sherlock Holmes 

  Just Jared has posted images of Rachel on the set of Guy Richie’s verison of the famous detective.

  As I’ve mentioned on the Iron Man commentary, McAdams is a good actress from Red Eye and Wedding Crashers. A different role she’s taking up as a femme fatale from the hometown of Jersey.

  With Jude Law in, I’m a little skeptic. If this is supposed to be a prequel, I think the roles should be reversed. A middle aged Holmes and a young Watson doesn’t make sense to me.

   
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  Nick Paramonte 4:54 pm on 12/12/2008 Permalink | Reply  

  B:TAS Score Coming!! 

  

  Great news item to start the day. La La Records is going to release the magnificent music of the first series in the DCAU next week.

  La-La Land Records is slated to ship the first in a possible series of Batman: The Animated Series soundtrack releases on December 16th, 2008, with pre-orders for the release starting next week, on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008. This is a limited edition collector’s release of 3000 units and will be available only through the La-La Land Records website and other online soundtrack specialty stores. Roughly 100 autographed copies of the Batman: The Animated Series soundtrack release will only be available through the La-La Land Records site and are first-come, first-serve while supplies last, though not guaranteed.

  Orders will begin December 2nd at 12:00pm (PST). The release will also include a
  detailed 20-page booklet.