A new Avengers Assemble clip was released this week with a lot of speculation on some traitors in the group. In the clip that was previewed to press we find out that it is entirely possible that Hawkeye might be up to some fishy business. This new series is the most highly anticipated animated show to air this year. It now shows on Sundays at 11a/10c inside Marvel Universe on Disney XD.
Fans have been waiting for Guillermo Del Toro to announce the coming of the third installment in his Hellboy series. This movie has been in the works for quite awhile and there is a huge fan base following it. This week Del Toro decided that he was going to allude to some new work, even if it doesn’t come in the form of Hellboy 3.
Disney officially now owns the distribution rights of all the Marvel phase one films. This includes Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger. A press release tells us that Paramount, the original distributor of most of Marvel’s films prior to Disney acquiring the studio in 2009, “was paid for the transfer of the distribution rights.” Fantastic, money money money, so what does this mean?
Bale has announced that he will not be playing the masked vigilante that he has made a name for in the Justice League film. He made it blatantly clear to Entertainment Weekly that “[he has] no information, no knowledge about anything. I’ve literally not had a conversation with a living soul. I understand that they may be making a Justice League movie, that’s it.”
This weekend many nerd boys and nerd girls all around the tristate area engaged in their guilty pleasures at Wizard World in New York City. There were many notable speakers present including the all knowing grandfather of the comic world, Stan Lee. A couple of questions and rumors were thrown around to him and some interesting insight was given leading into Marvel’s phase 3 of films.
This summer will launch the finale of Grant Morrison’s epic and acclaimed line Batman Incorporated. This line has been on the New York Times best selling list and featured the introduction and demise of Damien Wayne. In this finale, war wages Gotham and Talia Al Ghul finally gets to confront the father of her child. There’s going to be a lot of universe crossovers in this, so I hope you’re caught up Leviathan and others!
Most of us no it as G-Force. Some of us know it as Batlle Of The Planets. To most, the die-hards it is only known be one name…”GATCHAMAN”. For those that don’t know about it, Gatchaman was/is an extremely popular anime that started in the 70’s and was heavily editied for it’s violent content when brought state side.
There has been a lot of talk about The Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver controversy amongst fans recently. Last month it was revealed that Bryan Singer and Joss Wheadon will both be featuring the brother/ sister duo in Days of Future Past as well as Avengers 2. Both 20th Century Fox and Marvel own and are allowed to feature the characters in their films, however will working against each other with separate concepts be destructive to both creative ideas?
This week at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum, Mez-itz (A brand off of Mezco Toys) released their new brand of Batman themed toys. Oh and what a sight it was. On top of the usual bright eyed and bushy tailed tourist filtering in to see what was going on there were many individuals wielding Batman costumes and even a 70’s bat mobile parked inside. On top of working the event Metal Machine was lucky enough to wander the halls of the building to be shocked and awed by it’s exhibits.
