Star Wars: The Clone Wars Trailer - Coming Soon

/film has posted information on the latest LucasFilm project. Star Wars: The Clone Wars will air its first movie trailer on The Cartoon Network, TNT, TBS, CNN, and Boomerang at 7:58pm in all U.S. time zones on Thursday May 8th,

The official plot synopsis reads: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padmé Amidala, are on the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil, along with brand new heroes like Anakin’s padawan learner, Ahsoka. Sinister villains – led by Palpatine, Count Dooku and General Grievous – are poised to rule the galaxy. Stakes are high, and the fate of the Star Wars universe rests in the hands of the daring Jedi Knights. Their exploits lead to action-packed battles and astonishing new revelations.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars will hit theaters on August 15th 2008. The movie eads directly in to this fall’s premiere of a weekly computer-animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series on Cartoon Network.

Can't Wait!!!

Joker to be Next Turbo Man?

Are you having trouble finding The Dark Knight Joker action figure? Well so is everyone else. /film reports that the Mattel-produced Joker action figures are selling off the shelves like crazy,

An employee of Times Square’s Toys R Us store claims that there are none left in the warehouse and that fans will be waiting a while if they want one. The $9.99-priced figure is currently selling on eBay for up to $55 each. Although some auctions are ending for around double the purchase price.

It looks like the Joker action figure is following the footsteps of the Cabbage Patch Dolls, Tickle Me Elmo, Furbies, and my personal favorite, Turbo Man. Lets hope Schwarzenegger and Sinbad haven't snatched them all up yet.

The Spirit of Christmas

Lionsgate has decided to give us the gift of early release this Christmas. Variety tells us that Lionsgate will now be moving up the release date for The Watchman movie from Jan. 16 to Dec 25. Looks like we're all in for a great Christmas.

Cyclops Shows Up

Our guys at Superherohype have fallen on some news concerning the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie. Apparently Australian actor Tim Pocock has been cast as a young Scott Summers in the movie. I'm not to sure how I feel about this. They seem to be bringing in a lot of familiar characters to this movie. I'm getting the feeling that things are getting out of hand and that this will end up being another X-men movie.

And We Were Born

This Just in!!!

Adjust Tracking Knob and Rewind... Press Play will now be joining forces.

That's right! Andy Warhol, Gilbert and George, Ebert and Roeper, and a random Zombie just had twins and named them Derek 8-Track and SX0T.

We have decided to come together and give each other authorship rights to each others blogs. That's double the movie news! This will eventually lead into one single collaborative blog and website. We have been in the process of becoming collaborative artists for quite some time now, this is just one more step to reach that goal.

Iron Man Review

Ok, now that I have given it some time to settle in my system I think i can give an accurate review of my Iron Man experience. First things first, I thought it was great. It was a terrific movie going experience for me. Because I am not an overly avid reader of the Iron Man comics I can't say whether or not Robert Downey Jr. gave an accurate portrayal of Tony Stark/Ironman, but I can say it was a performance well to my liking. He knew when to be serious and he knew when to witty and funny. I would almost equate his performance to the Toby Maguire's in the Spiderman franchise in the sense that both performances create a nice balance of both serious and funny characteristics. This can also be said for the tone of both films. I have read complaints about the movie not having enough action. I found there to be the perfect amount of action. The way the action sequences were dispersed throughout the movie created good pacing.
I was expecting Tony Stark to be a little more of a struggling alcoholic, but after viewing the movie I think it would have been hard to portray him as a likable hero with an alcohol problem. There are just some things that work better on paper than they would on the screen.
The amount of Favreau in the movie was tasteful. Gwyneth Paltrow provided depth. Leslie Bibb was hateable, which was nice because i'd had enough of her on LOST. Terrence Howard had a great performance playing the "buddy" role, and will be great "next time" around as War Machine. Jeff Bridges didn't surpass his role in The Big Lebowski, but still proved to be a great addition to the Iron Man franchise.
I was surprised that they would adopt some of the lore of Iron Man from the Civil War comics. I guess I can't say that it is a direct reference, but Tony Stark revealing himself as Iron Man read a little Civil Warish to me. I found it to be a huge shock. I'm not dissapointed with the decision, I think it will make things interesting for the next movie.
Now, on to the clip after the credits. I don't think I have been that excited since the first time I saw X-Men in the theater. To know that there will be an Avengers movie that pulls together some of the most iconic characters in comic book history is just tremendous for me! Rock on Samuel L. Jackson!
Also, how did I not catch that Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division stood for S.H.I.E.L.D. ??? I mean I know it was the first time they had the acronym stand for that, but still, I should have caught on. Boy do I feel sheepish.

Batman Getting His Anime On

Superherohype.com has posted and interview with Alan Burnett discussing the new animated Batman Gotham Knight movie, coming July 8 to dvd. This might be the greatest animated Batman we've seen yet. Check out the interview here.