Alright Prometheus promotions team, I’ll give you this one. As the need for new and innovative ways to market a movie continue to one-up each other, the boys and girls promoting Ridley Scott‘s  next little sci-fi epic found a way to make theirs eye catching. Giant freakin’ heads are eye catching, right?

Taking a subway stop in Paris, France that has been derelict for the past 73 years or so and transforming it into the apparently iconic giant blue head and little vases scene from the movie that subway goers only catch a quick glimpse of before they head of to the next stop for more cheese and wine.

Yes, I closed off with a lame french stereotype. Hey, at least I didn’t say something about how hordes of Parisians are currently surrendering to the giant blue head.

You can watch an almost-like-being-there video of the subway ride after the jump. I for one welcome our giant blue headed masters…

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I am sure many of you are like myself, both hungry for an early look at Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises, but desperately trying to not catch any spoilers. Well, you are in safe territory here. The first TV spot dropped last night and as near as I can tell it contains no new footage, unless you count awkwardly cutting in clips from the NBA.

So, are you more excited for TDKR and the NBA playoffs now?

Source: Geek Tyrant

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We’ve known for awhile that Marvel Studios has two mystery projects on the go. This lead to speculation over which Marvel character would hit the big screen next. We’ve had top dog Kevin Feige dropping hints that lead to more speculation. Then Edgar Wright tweeted the following:

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Well, since a third feature film for the Hulk still seems unlikely (or maybe likely, i just don’t know anymore), fans can look forward to seeing the giant green smashing machine on the small screen. The Hollywood Reporter talked with Paul Lee, the Entertainment President for ABC Studios, and he says he’d like to see more Marvel properties on TV soon and went on to confirm that the Hulk could be on the air as early as next year. “Hulk is in development, it wasn’t going to be ready this season but we hope it’s going to be ready for next season.” 

Guillermo del Toro, the Oscar winning nerd that he is, is in charge of developing the project and that is really all that is known at this point.

Suppose it makes sense really, ABC is owned by Disney, Marvel Comics is owned by Disney, Disney liked to make ass loads of cash, the Avengers made them ass loads of cash. Done deal. “We’re immensely proud to be [in] company with The Avengers,” he said. “We’re going to continue to develop aggressively.”

As for other Marvel properties? Lee was hush hush on those, “we’ve got some in development, but none that I can talk about at this point.”

Interestingly, Lee also revealed that Marvel properties won’t be exclusive to ABC. “We’re very happy to make shows not just for our own network but for other networks too. Where the shows are more appropriate to our brand they’ll go with us. Where they’re more appropriate to brands like Fox or NBC, CBS, happy to do that too. We would like to see some Marvel projects move to television.”

Well, good news for Hulk fans. Now, which other characters from the Marvel Universe would be a good fit for TV? Feel free to sound off and make a nerd wish below. My vote is for the West Coast Avengers, and yes I am being serious.

Source: Comic Book Movie

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I try not to get excited by new TV shows put out by the major networks. Sure they may sound or look good at first but if they live up to the hype, they are usually unceremoniously canceled.  When I first heard about J.J. Abrams teaming up with John Favreau to do a post-apocalyptic drama for NBC I was intrigued but skeptical.

I just watched the  the trailer. I am excited for it now. Even with it’s Teenagey Twilight boy meets spunky Hunger Games bow toting girl story. It’s set fifteen years after some sort of global ’red ring of death’ event renders all electronics inert, sending the survivors of this global event back to the dark ages, literally, see since there are no more lights… and… uh,

*cough*

Warlords roaming on horseback and shooting guns and walking past landmarks over grown with vegetation. Giancarlo Esposito from Breaking Bad plays a bad guy. What more do you need?

Check out the trailer after the jump, then we’ll get a jump on the letter writing campaign to keep it alive when NBC decides to cancel it in six months.

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In the last Superhero Round-Up we brought you a few words from Robert Downey Jr. and his feelings on Christopher Nolan‘s Batman movies, and the smack talking continues.

On Twitter.

From Matthew Modine.

Modine, who plays Deputy Commissioner Foley in the third and final film, The Dark Knight Rises, took to the social network to battle it out with fans of The Avengers with a few choice tweets on the topic.

The above, referencing an appearance he made recently on VH1′s Big Morning Buzz Live is really only the tip of the tweet beatdown he levied on Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Hit the jump for more.

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A full blown two and a half decades since his last cinematic outing it sounds like Pee-Wee Herman will soon be chewing up screen time all over again. ComingSoon.net caught up with Paul Ruebens (the characters slightly less obnoxious alter-ego) and squeezed out some details on the project.

“…It’s going great. We have a meeting this coming week. We just did a very quick little rewrite on it. As far as I know it’s getting shot very soon.”

A little over two years ago, news floated out that that a third Pee-Wee movie would be made, with Ruebens writing the  the screenplay with Paul Rust and Judd Apatow producing. So, why the 2 year silence on the project?

“I actually wasn’t supposed to talk about it initially, I was talking about it in this very veiled, secret way going, ‘Oh, I wish I could talk about it.’ …It got leaked about six months to a year before it was supposed to.”

Which… is probably about 20 years to late. Now, before you start with the hate let me explain. I have nothing against Pee-Wee Herman, his playhouse, or the fact that he has a talking chair. Hell, I want a talking chair. I just question if this is a good idea. Do we need a new Pee-Wee movie? Do we have loose ends to tie up? Is this just another nostalgia based cash grab? Can they get Laurence Fishburne to come back as  Cowboy Curtis?

Source: Coming Soon

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Now before we delve to this weeks Superhero Round-Up we should probably address the giant 600lbs gorilla in the room. The one with all the money. The Avengers, Joss Whedon’s little movie about Earths Mightiest Heroes, is on track to the predicted one billion dollar mark. The Hollywood Reporter reports the movie is already at the $800 million dollar mark worldwide, and with the only real competition this weekend being Tim Burton’s soon to flop Dark Shadows…  yeah… it’s going to make its billion by Sunday, guaranteed. If you are playing the homegame, the only other movie to hit one billion that fast was James Cameron‘s Avatar.

Will The Avengers be the biggest superhero movie ever? Well very shortly we’ll look at two other movies that hit the big screen that are going to try for the title. We have word on the next trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man plus new set pics and a couple new shots from The Dark Knight Rises. Speaking of upcoming movies, if you are are all hot for a sequel to X-Men: Last Stand, the dude who played Iceman says cool it. Also, Mark Ruffalo has a few words for all the Hulk haters but up first, It’s Robert Downey Jr. opinion on The Dark Knight!

Your Superhero Round-Up starts after the jump.

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The long debate/battle over creator vs publisher rights in the comic industry will probably always be a source for heated and visceral comments. Ones you can find in the strangest places. Like ESPN’s website. From Stan Lee (well an ESPN-related website called Grantland.)  What I can say is what Stan ‘The Man’ has to say is actually rather surprising, but also not surprising at all. In short while he’s always been rather flippant with the claims of ownership made be the estates of his former co-creators Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko , he really just seems flippant on the whole topic.

“I’ve never been one of these people who worries about [that]. I should have been. I’d be wealthy now, if I had been. I always felt the publisher was the guy investing all his money, and I was working for the publisher, and whatever I did belonged to him. That was the way it was. And I was always treated well, I got a good salary. I was not a businessman. Now, a guy like Bob Kane, who did Batman — the minute he did Batman, he said, ‘I wanna own it,’ and signed a contract with DC. So he became reasonably wealthy. He was the only one who was smart enough to do that. Did you read that the check that Siegel and Shuster got for Superman — I think it was four hundred dollars, or two hundred dollars — just sold at auction for $140,000?”

“I murmur something what-a-world/you-never-know-ish. Then I ask him if he feels, in general, that the comic-book industry has been fair to comic-book creators.”

“I don’t know,” Stan says. “I haven’t had reason to think about it that much.” Five-second pause. “I think, if somebody creates something, and it becomes highly successful, whoever is reaping the rewards should let the person [who] created it share in it, certainly. But so much of it is — it goes beyond creating. A lot of people put something together, and nobody really knows who created it, they’re just working on it, y’know? But little by little, the artists and the writers now are a different breed than they were, and most of them, if they create anything new, they insist that they be part owners of it. Because they know what happened to Siegel and Shuster, and to me, and to people like that. I don’t think it’s a problem anymore. They make much more money than they used to make, when I was there. Proportionately.”

“Everybody thought that I was the only one that was getting paid off, but I never received any royalties from the characters. I made a good living, because I was the editor, the art director, and the head writer. So I got a nice salary. That was all I got. I was a salaried guy. But it was a good salary. And I was happy.”

Amazing, Stan really just dismisses the whole topic all the while still sounding like a damn nice guy at the exact same damn time. A nice guy that debatedly screwed over the legends like Jack Kirby, but still a nice guy.  The whole article is well worth a read, so you should.

Source: Comics Beat

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 Three years ago J.J. Abrams flipped the bitch on trekkies everywhere when he rebooted their much loved (and worn) universe and yesterday he wrapped up principle photography on his second Star Trek outing. That’s right, it’s time to take down his set protecting wall and rush off to the computer and start putting in the lens flares ’cause the as of yet untitled Trek sequel is in the can. Eyeing a  May 17th, 2013 release date means a busy post-production and possibly something to show at San Diego Comic Con in July according to Co-writer/producer Damon Lindelof.

To mark the event Spock (Zachary Quinto) and  Scotty (Simon Pegg) took to twitter and posted some very non-spoilery photos.

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