Source: Scifi.com
 Robert Sorcher, chief content officer of the Cartoon Network, told SCI FI Wire that the cable network will turn Saturdays into a fantasy-adventure day.
In addition to the new series Star Wars: Clone Wars, the network will also feature a new animated incarnation of Batman in the fall.
"Clone Wars will anchor an evening programming block that will also include Batman: The Brave and the Bold from Warner Brothers, as well as the returning series Ben 10," Sorcher said at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., last week. "It will be a good night for sci-fi programs."
Ben 10 is about a 10-year-old who finds the Omnitrix, a high-tech gadget that looks like a watch and changes him into 10 aliens with different abilities.
Star Wars: Clone Wars supervising director David Filoni said that young audiences aren’t tired of the Star Wars saga, and the animated series is a new way of presenting the known characters. "Every time I go to Toys R Us," Filoni said, "there are kids picking up lightsabers and imagining themselves in that galaxy far, far away, and as long as it inspires them, I’m happy to make more."
The new Saturday night programming is not yet scheduled, but Sorcher said it will debut sometime after the Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie hits theaters on Aug. 15. |
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 Iron Man director Jon Favreau told USA Today that Marvel Studios has its proposed lineup of superheroes for a proposed Avengers movie.
Favreau told the newspaper that the team’s lineup has changed throughout the years, "but the ones Marvel is talking about now are Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man and Iron Man. I would love to see that."
Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios’ president of production, confirmed to the paper that he’s working toward the day when "heroes can cross into each other’s adventures and occasionally team up if there’s a foe too great for any one of them to handle."
Feiger and screenwriter Zak Penn (X2 and The Incredible Hulk) are uniting to get Avengers in theaters by summer 2011.
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Carter Of Mars Not Live Action?
Writer/director Andrew Stanton, who is reportedly working with Disney/Pixar to develop a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars, denied to SCI FI Wire that a decision has been made on whether to shoot the movie as an animated feature, a live-action film or a mix.
"Everybody’s asking that, and we are not going to make that decision for about a year," Stanton (Finding Nemo) said in an interview while promoting his upcoming animated SF film WALL*E in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June 20.
Stanton is actually responsible for Pixar’s first mix of live action and animation in WALL*E in the form of short video clips of actor Fred Willard. (WALL*E opens June 27.)
Stanton confirmed widespread reports that he is indeed working on the film. "Well, it’s pretty much already out there," he said. "I’m definitely writing it … with Mark Andrews, and that’s all we’re doing right now, is just writing it."
Andrews’ writing credits include the Pixar shorts One Man Band and Jack-Jack Attack.
The film would be based on Burroughs’ series of novels, starting in 1911 and ending in 1964, set on a fictionalized version of Mars called "Barsoom" and centering on a Civil War veteran who finds himself transported to the planet, where he gets caught up with princesses and warriors.
Source: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=56552 |
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 Iron Man is poised to become the first film of 2008 to reach the $300 million mark in gross domestic ticket sales, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Through June 17, the Marvel-produced comic-book adaptation had earned an estimated $299.3 million in the U.S. and Canada. With recent daily grosses of at least $680,000, Iron Man is expected to reach the $300 million mark on June 19.
Sony’s Spider-Man 3, which grossed $336.5 million domestically to top 2007 box-office rankings, was the first film to cross the $300 million threshold, managing the feat in just 23 days after its May 4 debut. Though Iron Man required 51 days to reach a similar mark, its achievement was much less anticipated before its premiere on May 1.
Last May saw two other $300 million grossers: the Paramount-distributed Shrek the Third from DreamWorks Animation ($322.7 million) and Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End ($309.4 million).
Among summer 2008’s other big openers, Paramount’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is another clear $300 million candidate, with $279.5 million through Tuesday. The fourth film in the Indiana Jones franchise has also grossed $359 million internationally, and opens in the lucrative Japan market this weekend.
Iron Man has grossed $250 million internationally for a worldwide total of more than $550 million. It’s set for a September opening in Japan. |
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