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No Place Like Oz: A VFX Sampler
We pull back the curtain a tad bit to learn about a few of the vfx secrets of Disney’s blockbuster prequel Oz the Great and Powerful. Frank L. Baum, the prolific author of the original Wizard of Oz book series, believed that mankind was able to progress from the ignorance [...]
Will ‘Oz’ Prove Great and Powerful at the Box Office?
Disney is looking to heat up a so-far tepid year at the box office with its VFX-heavy reimagining Oz: The Great and Powerful. Directed by Sam Raimi, who turned Spider-Man into a billion-dollar movie franchise, Oz: The Great and Powerful looks poised to be a box office powerhouse with industry [...]
GKIDS’ ‘The Rabbi’s Cat’ Rolls Out in the U.S.
Prolific French comic-book artist and film director Joann Sfar discusses the real-life inspirations behind The Rabbi’s Cat and his love for American classics. Joann Sfar, the celebrated French comic-book artist and director of the animated film The Rabbi’s Cat, had harbored dreams of writing about his grandmother’s tales of life [...]
Sam Raimi to Produce Adaptation of ‘Angelfall’ Series
Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Oz: The Great and Powerful), Rob Tapert and Good Universe have acquired the multipicture rights to the young adult fantasy series Angelfall. Initially self-published by author Susan Ee, the popular book was published last fall by Amazon Children’s Publishing. “Susan is a brilliant writer,” Raimi told [...]
Spider-Man and Calvin & Hobbes Art to Be Auctioned
Dallas-based Heritage Auction will feature a special Spider-Man cover art drawn by Todd McFarlane (featuring Spidey and the Red Skull from The Amazing Spider-Man comic, Issue #325, 1989) and an original Calvin & Hobbes Sunday strip from Nov. 19, 1986, drawn by Bill Watterson. According to Heritage, this is the [...]
Rick Hoberg’s Seriously ‘Amazing Friends’
What’s the classic line…“Everything old is new again?” Nowhere is that more evident than in the world of television. This week I’m thinking of what has happened to the television series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, which originally aired on NBC from 1981 to 1983. The show created a teen [...]
‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Game Hits the Web
Activision and Marvel Ent. are launching the new Amazing Spider-Man video game today in North America and on Sept. 26th in Europe. As the official epilogue story to this summer’s feature film and marking Spidey’s return to a free-roaming Manhattan, The Amazing Spider-Man video game is now available for 4800 [...]
‘Ultimate Spider-Man’ Swings to #1
There’s a new star in the Disney XD lineup as Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man animated series has rocketed to record ratings on Disney XD UK. The show is the top-rated animated title on the channel, reaching 1.2 million individuals 4+, including 683,000 kids 4-15 and 265,000 boys 8-12 in its first [...]
Phineas and Ferb to Mix with The Avengers
As if we didn’t have our share of Marvel at the Con this weekend, Disney’s pint-size heroes Phineas and Ferb have also announced that they will be crossing over to the Avengers side. Production is now underway on Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel, an animated project that will assemble characters [...]
Spidey’s VFX Revealed: Extreme Webslinging Ahead!
Our writer goes behind the scenes of Sony’s Amazing Spider-Man reboot to uncover the secrets of some of its high-end visual effects. It has been only five years since Marvel Comics’ iconic webslinger last graced the scene in the Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man 3, but Sony is banking that fans are [...]
Jon Vitti to Pen ‘Angry...
Emmy-winning writer Jon Vitti, who has worked on hit toons The Simpsons and...
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+ Canadian indie Guru Studio and publishing partner Immedium have released a...
