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CinemaBlend – Wonder Woman Fan-Made Trailer: Is This What A DC Movie Could Look Like? – not bad for a Fan Trailer, though it brings up the question, if WW is going to exist next to Bats and Supes… she really couldn’t be fighting Nazi’s… so who then?

BleedingCool – Diamond Gem Awards 2012 Awarded – With A Couple Of Surprises

Newsarama – The REBORN Identity: 10 Comics Deaths That Didn’t Stick

Yahoo Movies – ‘Iron Man 3’ Stills

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Daily News: 2/26/2013

February 26, 2013 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

CinemaBlend – Fantastic Four Reboot To Get A Touch-Up From Dark Shadows Screenwriter – eek!

ComicBookMovie – THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2: First Look At Shailene Woodley As Mary Jane Watson – isn’t Mary Jane a red head?

ComicBookMovie – Andrew Garfield & Shailene Woodley Return To THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Set

ComicBookMovie – New Set Photos From THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Reveal Battle-Damaged Suit

i09 – 7 Superheroes Who Should Get Their Own Arrow-style TV Shows

ComicBookMovie – Guillermo del Toro Offers a Brief Update on the JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK Project

ComicBookMovie – Russell Crowe Talks MAN OF STEEL On The Tonight Show, Plus Superman Was Bullied As A Teen

Twitter – James Mangold tweets another behind the scenes pic

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Hard Facts: Star Trek vs Star Wars

February 26, 2013 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

blastr – Check out who wins when infographic pits Star Trek against Star Wars

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Daily News: 2/25/2013

February 25, 2013 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

ComicBookMovie – James McAvoy Doesn’t Think The Two Xavier’s Will Come Face To Face In X-MEN: DOFP – this makes me a little happy actually

CinemaBlend – Joss Whedon Promises ‘Death, Death And More Death’ In The Avengers 2 – though he might be actually refering to Death herself

ComicBookMovie – Joss Whedon On The Challenges Of A Solo HULK Movie

BleedingCool – More Iron Man 3 Images, Downey Jr. Teases His Departure From The Role

ComicBookMovie – New IRON MAN 3 Plot And Character Details Revealed

Bleeding Cool – The Amazing Spider-Man Back On The Streets – First Shots Of Sequel Filming

ComicBookMovie – Lois Lane Married In MAN OF STEEL?

Newsarama – 10 Comic Book DEATHS That (Mostly) Still Matter

ComicBookMovie – Unused Logo Designs For X-MEN 2 & X-MEN: THE LAST STAND

The Big Social Picture – The Oscar protest that you didn’t know happened – interesting article about the state of the Visual Effect industry in Hollywood atm, VFX being an important part comic book films.

CinemaBlend – A Battle-Worn Iron Man And A Sad Pepper Potts Get Their Own Character Posters

CinemaBlend – The Amazing Spider-Man Sequel Reveals Sleek New Costume

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Review: Deadpool #5

February 25, 2013 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

Deadpool just keeps getting grosser and messier. From the writing to the actual visuals… it’s just a bit disgusting really.

The story itself hasn’t really moved much beyond some balls-to-the-walls presidential butt-kicking… but even that is losing its charm. (Also, how in the world were those monkeys up there that whole time?)

Even the cliff-hanger ending of this issue is less than spectacular. Deadpool will heal and there is a Necromancer handy to take care of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. We can see the next issue a mile away, the only surprise would be the agent not being brought back to life (or not beind turned into a zombie-like-fiend). Though even if she does die, maybe ol’ Ben can get a friend now?

There seems to be a trend of a lack of complexity with Deadpool in the last couple of issues… nothing has been touched on Dr Strange’s comments as well. While I do like a plethora of fun jokes at Deadpool’s expense, he’s a real character with real depth… let’s hope we’re getting to that…

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Daily News 2/23/2013

February 23, 2013 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

CinemaBlend – Bryan Singer Hints About Peter Dinklage’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past Character
“He’ll be himself. Not that he’ll be playing Peter Dinklage, he’ll be playing this character. It’s not a shy character. He’s just such a phenomenal actor; I’m a huge fan of Peter’s and Game of Thrones. He was my first choice and I was really happy [about the casting]. It’s so funny to talk to him because he does that impeccable accent [on Game of Thrones] and then you talk to him and he’s this guy from New Jersey.”

ComicBookMovie – Bryan Singer Teases Return Of Scott And Jean In X-MEN: DOFP; Hints At Shared Fox Universe
When the site put it to him that a lot of fans would like to see Scott and Jean return, he teased: “Who wouldn’t? Who wouldn’t? [Laughing] That’s all I can say. The good news is that we’re all on the same page!”

ComicBookMovie – Bryan Singer Talks About His Role In X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
“It would be [weird to direct Days of Future Past] if I didn’t write the story for X-Men: First Class. I wrote the story to that movie and I produced it and I was instrumental in the casting, in design and involved in the post-production, so I was part of that movie. I initiated that movie and originated it so in that way, and worked with Matthew and I was the one who actually hired Matthew so in a way I feel like I’m not completely entering someone else’s franchise. I’m entering one that he executed wonderfully, but one that I was also part of.”

CinemaBlend – Captain America: The Winter Soldier Will Be A Political Thriller

ComicBookMovie – James Gunn Meets With DnA On GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

CinemaBlend – Fantastic Four Reboot Adds Matthew Vaughn To Its Team

CinemaBlend – Stan Lee’s New Project Annihilator Brings Us A Chinese Captain America

ComicBookMovie – Doing Business With Marvel Studios – interesting…

CinemaBlend – Watch The Trailer For The Inspirational Batman Doc Legends Of The Knight

CinemaBlend – Megan Fox Joins Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film – I thought these two didn’t get along?

ComicBookMovie – VIDEO GAMES: ESRB Has Rated Deadpool the Video Game ‘M’ for Mature – anything less would be criminal

io9 – The 8 Incredibly Gross Powers Superman Doesn’t Even Realize He Has

io9 – Real-life Spidey Sense suit tingles when objects get close

Facebook – New Mandarin poster for Iron Man 3

Twitter – James Mangold shares another The Wolverine behind the scenes photo.

io9 – A mash-up of real-life bad guys with comic supervillains

Posted in News and Editorials | Tagged Batman, Captain America, daily news roundup, Days of Future Past, Deadpool, First Class, Guardian, Iron Man 3, Marvel, Spider Man, Stan Lee, Superman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Wolverine | Leave a Comment »

Daily News: 2/21/2013

February 21, 2013 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

Facebook – New The Wolverine Image – is it just me or is Wolvie looking kinda old?

CinemaBlend – The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Set Gets Invaded By The FBI In New Photo
CinemaBlend – Latest Amazing Spider-Man 2 Set Photo Gets Presidential

CinemaBlend – Sam Raimi Admits He Hasn’t Seen The Amazing Spider-Man

ComicBookMovie – Bryan Singer On MAN OF STEEL; Endorses Nicholas Hoult As A Young Han Solo
“Oh, very excited to see it. I love the trailer, and I think Zack Snyder is incredibly talented,” says Singer. “It would have been strange for me if this was a few years ago; it would have been a little weird. But now there’s so much distance from that world that I’m actually pumped to see it, genuinely. So I’m just looking forward to it.”

Newsarama – 10 Best Comic Book-Based Movie PERFORMANCES of All Time

CinemaBlend – The Avengers Featurette Explores Building A Digital New York

io9 – The Strange, Secret Evolution of Babylon 5

Twitter – Mangold tweets behind the scenes picture from The Wolverine

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Review: Arrow S01E15 “Dodger”

February 20, 2013 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

TL;DR – Captain Old Spice steals the largest Ring Pop ever and Robin, erm, Speedy, makes his entrance.

Seriously, I don’t usually diss on props but that ruby looked like a Ring Pop… like it was candy. It just made me laugh.

Moving on, nice to see Captain Old Spice (or Baltar if you must) on the screen again, but much like Crichton, what a waste of the man’s talents. The Dodger must be pretty slick though because how in the world did he get that collar on Felicity without her kicking him or at least screaming, cause I’m pretty sure she could have easily just jumped back and shouted and the jig would have been up. But assuming he is that quick, how did he slip it on and not get it caught in her hair?

This episode also sees the introduction of Roy Harper Jr, aka Speedy, though they are probably going to skip the whole Robin-esqe storyline of Roy being adopted by Oliver and jump ahead to Roy being Red Arrow (especially since he was wearing that red hoodie). Not sure how it will play out but we’ll be seeing more of him in the coming episodes. I like how he was snarky with Thea, he didn’t completely win me over but there is promise there.

Overall, there was a distinct lack of Thea and whingeing in this episode, always a plus. The constant need to put Oliver into some kind of relationship… thing… has already worn its welcome. The flashback was again a pointless waste of space, okay, so Oliver made a tough choice, thank you, we get that, it’s not like we can’t infer it from the fact he spent five years on the island with a bunch of psychopaths.

Still, Felicity has shown herself to be the heart of the group and that made the first half of the episode rather enjoyable. Things are definitely looking up as that’s two episodes in a row that haven’t made me scream WTF or STFU, let’s hope this continues and the quality starts to rise. With China White back in the mix (and with better hair), things should get interesting.

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DOFP goes from Model to Practical

February 20, 2013 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

Bryan Singer has tweeted a new photo:

It seems that it could be the practical set for the model that he tweeted a little less than a month ago:

No word yet as to what this building is. Speculation is this is Xavier’s underground facility and that is the most likely bet at this juncture. It will depend what these walls get painted and fitted with. If it’s shiny grey, then we have our answer.

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Daily News: 2/19/2013

February 19, 2013 by X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

TVLine – Joss Whedon Talks of ‘Hopeful’ S.H.I.E.L.D. Pilot, Plans for Maria Hill and Other Marvel Characters
“Whedon says to expect “not a ton” of familiar faces from the Marvel-verse, though “there’s a little bit of talk of that” for any possible future the project has in primetime. “Right now, I want to involve people in the characters that we’ve created for the show,” Whedon said, “and then we’ll worry about [the other stuff].”” – Arrow atm the does suffer from cameoitis where names are just thrown at the screen without any depth at all, so good to see S.H.I.E.L.D. won’t try to the same gimick, at least at first.

ComicBookMovie – Micro-News: Joss Whedon On Growing Up Marvel, Agent Sitwell Teases A Return And More

CinemaBlend – Spawn Reboot Still In The Works With Animated Series Planned To Follow

Newsarama – 10 Best Comic Book-Based Movie PERFORMANCES of All Time

ComicBookMovie – The First Trailer For MORTAL KOMBAT: LEGACY Season 2 Now Online

CinemaBlend – Iron Man 3 Character Poster Suggests Much Bigger Role For Guy Pearce