So yeah, I understand corporate synergy, but why oh why is Marvel making a “landmark” announcement about the comic book X-Men on The frakking View? Did Jimmy Kimmel think it was to gauche? The gang from Good Morning America only likes anti-mutant coverage?

Well, whatever the reason, there’s going to be a big announcement about The Astonishing X-Men #50 on tomorrow’s installment of The View. Here’s the press release from Marvel, and some accompanying art work. Make of it what you will.

Marvel Announces Landmark X-Men Story Tomorrow on ABC’s The View

Tune into ABC at 11a/10a E/C tomorrow as the hosts of ABC’s The View exclusively reveal a major Marvel announcement! This is your first chance to get a look at the moment in Astonishing X-Men #50 that will have everyone talking!

About Marvel: Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing and publishing. For more information visit www.marvel.com

About “The View”: “The View,” a live, one-hour daily talk show from Time Square Studios, features Daytime Emmy Award-winning hosts Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd. It’s the original forum in which real women discuss everyday issues, share their opinions and engage in colorful conversations. “The View,” broadcast in HDTV and produced in 2-channel stereo sound, is now available to watch online daily at 4:00 p.m., ET/1:00 p.m., PT on ABC.com. “The View” is produced by ABC Daytime and Ms. Walters’ Barwall Productions, with Ms. Walters serving as executive producer along with Bill Geddie, who also serves as executive producer for “The Barbara Walters Specials.” “The View” is directed by Mark Gentile. For breaking

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“Some men are coming to kill us. We’re going to kill them first.” And it seems that just for starters.

The first trailer for the upcoming 23rd James Bond adventure, Skyfall, was unleashed on the interwebs this morning, and damn does it look badass. Let’s roll the tape:

Skyfall, directed by Academy Award winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty), is Daniel Craig’s third turn as Britain’s greatest super spy following 2006′s Casino Royale and 2008′s Quantum of Solace. The plot centers around: “Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.” Naturally, the film will take place in locales across the globe from London to Singapore to Istanbul

Skyfall also features the return of Judi Dench as Bond’s boss M, as well as new characters played by Albert Finney, Ralph Fiennes and Helen McCroy. Naomie Harris and Bérénice Marlohe are the Bond girls, Javier Bardem is the villain, and Ben Whishaw will play Bond’s gadget man Q, the first time the character’s made an appearance in the Craig films, and the first time the character’s been played by an actor younger than geriatric.

Skyfall will be released in North America on November 9.

Source: Screenrant

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I guess it’s finally happening. Good thing because once sequels cross the 10 year mark between chapters, we start asking why the filmmakers are even bothering in the first place.

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Dimension Films is staking out the date of October 4th 2013 as the launch for Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which will be about eight and a half years after the release of the original Sin City. Read the full press release immediately following the proverbial jump: (more…)

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Yeah. You read that right.

Árni Johnsen, who’s a member of the Icelandic Parliament, was in a car accident in 2010, but according to him it wasn’t luck that saved him, but a group of friendly elves that lived in a boulder by the side of the highway. As a thank you, Johnsen is moving the 30-ton boulder home of the elves to the yard of  his home in Höfðaból, where they will live with a neighboring colony of elves in Johnsen’s backyard.

To prove this isn’t entirely B.S., here’s a quote from Morgunblaðið, a newspaper in Iceland:

I had Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir, a specialist in the affairs of elves from Álfagarðurinn in Hellisgerði, Hafnarfjörður, to come look at the boulder with me [...] She said it was incredible, that she had never met three generations of elves in the same boulder before [...]

She said an elderly couple lives on the upper floor but a young couple with three children on the lower floor [...] But they asked whether the boulder could stand on grass. I said that was no problem but asked why they wanted grass. ‘It’s because they want to have sheep.’

Do you get the feeling that if Mitt Romney or Barack Obama were involved in a story like this that the U.S. media would take it at face value? Or would Anderson Cooper call Dr Drew to call bat $#!% on the situation?

Johnsen went on to talk about the luxury the elves would travel in, and what happened on the night of his accident.

The boulder will be moved on the ferry Herjólfur and the elves will travel in a basket lined with sheep skin so that they can be comfortable on the journey.

Ragnhildur explained to Árni that when he was in the accident everything went crazy on Hellisheiði. Elves from all neighboring settlements were called out and there was much confusion until one large being took control of the situation.

Well, no matter how you feel about the facts of the story, at least we can appreciate a good news story about a politician for a change.

Source: Geekologie

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Deadline is reporting that actor James Badge Dale (24, The Pacific, Rubicon) has signed on the dotted line to play a villain called Savin in Iron Man 3. And now you know everything we do.

So who could Savin be? It could be that Dale is playing Eric Savin AKA: Coldblood-7, a minor Iron Man villain in the late-80s. He was an Army officer turned cybernetic mercenary, and he looks a little something like this:

So how will Savin fit into the story, which, according to rumor, is based on Warren Ellis’ Extremis storyline? Also, how might the rumored main villain, The Mandarin, rumored to be played by Ben Kingsley, fit into this? Nobody knows. Well, Shane Black, we assume.

Iron Man 3 starts shooting next month.

Source: /Film

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With five films full of details all leading up to The Avengers, what we really need is an infograph to keep it all straight. And now, thanks to the Art of The Avengers book, we have one.

Combining details from Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger, as well as the comic book prequel to The Avengers, the authors have compiled this impressive timeline of all the interconnected events that lead up to The Avengers. And for your convenience, it’s separated into B.I.M. and A.I.M., slicing eras to “Before Tony Star Declares ‘I Am Iron Man,’” and “After Tony Stark Declares ‘I Am Iron Man.’”

Click on the below image to embiggen to a readable size.

Source: Blastr

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Marvel is basking in fan adulation of the big screen Avengers movie, but not all’s well in Marvel land. Some of you guys out there are apparently not so fond of the new Ultimate Spider-Man animated series. The series, which premiered on Disney XD earlier this year, is being pegged by some viewers as being too kid-friendly and silly. Here’s a sample of some of the criticism courtesy of Superhero Hype forums:

“My issue isn’t that this is a show which seeks to be lighter and sillier; my issue is that it does such a thing so poorly, while also attempting suspenseful bits alongside it which don’t match. If Two-Face wrote a sitcom, I can’t imagine it being more of a contrast with itself than this show seems to be. The skill that it takes to weave both humor and suspense alongside each other is a skill these writers and producers mostly lack on this project, to put it simply.”

Anyway, a Comic Book Movie user called strugler has been repeatedly trying to the a response out of Marvel’s chief creative officer, Joe Quesada. Recently, Quesada finally decided to take the bait and let ‘er rip on his Twitter page:

“As I said before, I respect your opinion on the matter, but Tweeting me every week isn’t really going to help your case. While you and a few other posters may like to complain about the show, there are many, many more fans who like it. We are well into working on season 2, so my suggestion at this point is if you don’t like the show, you shouldn’t be watching it. I hate to be this blunt about it, but I feel like you should devote your energies to other endeavors at this point other than watching a show you clearly hate and then complaining about it. Like I said, I respect your opinion, but I’m pretty sure that nothing we do at this point will make you happy.”

He’s not wrong. There’s been something like 600 Spider-Man animated series created over the years, so if you don’t like this one, there are other Spider-Man options out there.

So, you know, suck it haters.

Source: Blastr

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It was a minor miracle that Fringe beat the odds and got a fifth season. So now the question for Fringe fans, all 10 of them (Kidding!), is what’s going to happen in season 5: War with the Observers? More of Belly universe-collapsing madness? A three-headed baby for Peter and Olivia? Things are about to get spoilery, so if you want to remain pure, overt your eyes….

NOW!

The first question for showrunners J.H. Wyman and Jeff Pinkner: what effect will this past season’s future-centric episode “Letters of Transit” have going forward?

Wyman: Well, let’s say that basically 2036 is extremely important to Season 5. It’s crucial, but having said that, everything that you have seen in Fringe from Season 1 all the way to 4 is really, really, really, really important to what’s going on in Season 5, and 2036 is part of that.

Season 5 is designed to be very important, a huge payoff for loyal fans. They will feel like, “Because I invested in every single episode, and I have so many questions, I want these questions answered. And I want everything to be made sense of, but taken on a journey that just can’t be stopped. I want it to end in a place where I feel like everybody kind of belongs where they are and got what they’ve earned.” There will be a sense of satisfaction for those long-term viewers that go, “Wow, I really feel good. I feel OK about what has transpired, what I have watched. But I also can imagine life after that for our main characters.”

Question #2: How will having 13 episodes, as opposed to the usual 22, affect the storytelling next season?

It’s a 13-episode sprint; there’s no filler episodes. It answers some very bold questions. It culminates with a very satisfying type of crescendo that really is so important for the fans, that’s the biggest thing. That’s the only thing that’s really important is to make sure that they feel absolutely satiated.

Since Olivia was able to heal herself after a shot in the head in the season finale, does that mean the erstwhile Agent Dunham is Wolverine now?

Olivia healed because of all the Cortexiphan. At the end of Season 4, as Walter said on the screen, because of the wildly activated Cortexiphan in her body, this experiment to heal her brain tissue would work.  Because that’s not constantly the case, because that’s just a fleeting condition, absolutely, she could be killed.

Also at the end of season 4, Broyles was promoted and Fringe Division was given more money. So how is that going to affect our heroes?

Pinker: You will see changes, but you will see things that are familiar, as well.  I know that’s a terrible answer, but the truth is, I just can’t say in specificity what exactly is going to happen.

How about what’s next for the “Other Side”, the alternative Earth that’s been at the centre of much of Fringe’s mythology for the last three years…

Pinker: We had a conversation with Fox earlier in the season while we were closing the door, one of our Fox executive partners said, “I was so sad.  I had tears in my eyes when we closed the door, and we said, “Yeah, these were characters that you never wanted us to introduce in the first place because you were afraid that nobody would care about them.”  She said, “I was so wrong.”

So no more Agent Lee, I guess. Anyway, Pinker and Wyman really want to thank the fans for making whatever happens in season 5 possible.

Wyman: We’re so thankful. Four years of everybody working incredibly hard, people have put their heart and soul in this show, and by some amazing miracle, we get a chance to get more canvas to paint on, and it’s like the biggest thrill and honor, and we’re just going into it knowing that we’re very fortunate.

Fringe returns next fall on Fox.

Source: Screen Rant

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Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has confirmed via Twitter that The Doctor’s sometimes companion and wife River Song is not a one man woman. In fact, she also has a tendency to be a one woman woman as well.

Here’s screen-captured evidence:

Now non-hetero characters are nothing new to the Whoniverse, just ask Captain Jack Harkness. But correct me if I’m wrong, but has the exact nature of River’s sexuality come up anytime in the past, or is Moffat just spitballing (so to speak) like J.K. Rowling and the whole Dumbledore’s gay thing.

Or maybe it comes into play in the forthcoming seventh series for some reason. I guess we’ll see.

Source: Bleeding Cool

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During the height of The X-Files, Chris Carter created a companion show called Millennium, which was a kind of police procedural like the X-Files that mixed cases of the week with an overarching mythology, except in Millennium’s case the mythology was Y2K anxiety and not alien abductions. Heh. Y2K. Remember that madness?

Anyway, the series ran for three seasons ending in 1999 and was wrapped up in a crossover episode of The X-Files on, wait for it, New Year’s Eve ’99. So case closed, right?

Maybe not. Series star Lance Henricksen, while promoting his role in the TRON: Uprising animated series, talked about the possibility of further Millennium adventures on the big screen:

“There’s a big push on right now and there’s a lot of crazy people involved in it. They’ve written a book with interviews with everybody that was on the show including [Frank] Spotnitz and me … It’s crazy that you wouldn’t give it a shot. It doesn’t have to be a $30 million movie either. There’s a lot of fans out there in 65 countries. I can’t go into any other country without them wondering when the movie is going to be made.”

Question: Doesn’t making a movie based on a show called “Millennium,” at this point, seem as redundant as Conan O’Brien still doing his “In the Year 2000…” bit?

“If Millennium was made today with those characters, it would be a far more interesting show than the limited palette they had with serial killers. I love the idea of a non-judgemental character like Frank Black was… He wanted to know why and how all these things happened, but he knew that judging someone for what they’ve done would just get in the way of finding out things.”

Henricksen may be right about that. A lot of aspects of Millennium – criminal profiling, psychic powers, mixed mythology procedural – have been picked up by other series like Criminal Minds and The Mentalist, so Millennium was truly ahead of its time. But where could the story go next? Henricksen has some ideas about that too:

“When you trap a guy like Frank Black,” he said, “who has that kind of imagination and you put him in a world like Bulgaria where everything is in Cyrillic and he can’t communicate actively with a lot of people, he has to do it in another way. I’ve thought of how it could be done. You just keep moving the pressure in on him about this kind of terrorist stuff. A terrorist plot. The pressure keeps building and building and building until you realize that that pressure gave him all the answers he needed. You would be gasping for air to wonder what is going to happen to this guy.”

I remember enjoying Millennium very much when it was on the air, but I’m not sure a movie is necessary, especially 13 years after the series satisfactorily ended. And why does every cancelled cult TV show need a movie now? It’s nuts!

What do you think, Bastards?

Source: Blastr

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