Archive for January 15th, 2008

Collecting hobby losing out to instant rewards

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Source: Quincy Herald-Whig Nick Davis is a throwback to the days when kids relied on their imagination for much of their entertainment quotient. Davis, a 16-year-old junior at Quincy High School, enjoys comic books. Actually, he loves comic books. “I was pretty much raised on them,” Davis said. ...

The Lone Ranger: Justice from Outside the Law

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Source:  NPR In 1874, six Texas Rangers were betrayed by a guide and ambushed at Bryant’s Gap. Riding on a canyon floor, they came under rifle fire from a gang of outlaws on the cliffs above. Five died; the sixth was left for dead and would have died ...

Connor Terminates Competitors

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Source: Scifi.com Fox’s Jan. 13 debut of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles scored the best opening-night demographic ratings of any new show in three years, Variety reported. Boosted by strong marketing and a big NFL playoffs lead-in, the Warner Brothers TV-produced Terminator notched a 7.6 rating/18 share among ...

Knight Has Transformers Vibe

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Source: Scifi.com Justin Bruening, who stars in NBC’s upcoming Knight Rider movie and backdoor pilot, told SCI FI Wire that the show will have some Transformers-like elements. “The Transformers aspect is that the car actually morphs into different colors and actually morphs into an attack mode,” Bruening said ...

Strike To Hang Up JLA?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Source: Scifi.com Entertainment Weekly magazine reported in its Jan. 18 edition that George Miller’s upcoming Justice Leage of America film may face a delay because the ongoing writers’ strike could forestall a desired script rewrite. Citing an anonymous source, the magazine said that producers want a rewrite, but ...

Superman Sequel Delayed

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Source: Scifi.com Warner Brothers has pushed back the release of its proposed sequel to Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns to 2010 from 2009 because of the ongoing writers’ strike, Variety reported. No screenwriters are on board. Returns writers Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris opted out of writing the sequel, ...

Is Schreiber Wolverine’s Sabretooth?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Source: Scifi.com C.H.U.D. reported a rumor that Liev Schreiber will play Sabretooth in the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, starring Hugh Jackman. The site cited multiple anonymous sources for the report. Schreiber’s participation has been reported previously, but he has been linked with the role of a young ...

Smurfs braced for movie and more females

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Source: Reuters.com Envisaged as secondary characters for a single cartoon album, the blue gnomes widely known as the Smurfs will celebrate their 50th anniversary this year with a movie deal and an invasion of new female characters. Smurfs — known in the original Belgian comic strip as Schtroumpfs — ...

CONTEST: Name the NEW EXILES’ Letters Page

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Source: Marvel.com Hey, there Marvelites of all shapes and sizes! As you may know, we have a new comic out called NEW EXILES which has a new letters page… and you know what that means! That’s right, we need a name to put up at the top of the ...

New Iron Man Movie Pics

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Original Post here: Snikkkt! Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.) working out the kinks in his Mark III armor:   Director Jon Favreau and RDJ hammering out a shot in a rare behind the scenes picture: ShareThis Bookmark It Hide Sites