Entertainment stuff...

[lithera]

Mostly comic books because of Wizard World this weekend.

Gambit and Nightcrawler join Rogue in X-characters getting their own series. Jamie Maddrox is a getting a mini-series. Rogue launches in late July and Gambit and Nightcrawler are coming in September.

Gambit is also coming back to the Ultimate X-men book. There are a few panels up that look very interesting. Not so sure about the wavey hair, though.

There is a /ton/ of stuff going on with the Avengers. The Defenders are coming back, the big story arc is called Avengers Disassembled. It ties in with Spider-man at sone point and features "every Avenger ever". People are asking if Spidey becomes an Avenger but apparently they're forgetting that he (and Beast) were members at one point...

Black Widow is getting her own book, as is Dr. Strange, written by JMS.

Neil Gaiman has a project for Marvel in 2005.

Garth Ennis will be taking on another Marvel character very soon.

The cover for an upcoming Amazing Spider-Man is very interesting. Is it who it looks like? Is it not? I don't know. I trust JMS, though. He's done a really good job recently. Quesada said he anticipates volatile reaction to the story. "Be prepared to be angered, then overjoyed, angered again and then overjoyed."

Warners has finally announced that Superman is their BIG film for 2006. Let's hope its good.

Brendan Gleeson will play Defense Against The Dark Arts Teacher Mad-Eye Moody. Gleeson plays King Menelaus in Troy. Madame Maxime, headmistress of Beauxbatons, will be played by 1970's sitcom star Frances de la Tour.

Reviews coming in on the new Harry Potter say it's amazing.

The Coming Soon! Box Office Report has been updated with the studio estimates for this weekend. Be sure to stay tuned there for the final figures on Monday afternoon.

"DreamWorks' Shrek 2 earned an amazing $125.3 milllion in its first five days at the box office. The $70 million-budgeted animated sequel collected an estimated $104.3 million from Friday-to-Sunday, making it the second-best opener behind Spider-Man, which kicked off its run with $114.8 million in May, 2002. It has become the biggest-opening for an animated film in history, surpassing Finding Nemo's $70 million bow a year ago. The sequel opened in a record 4,163 theaters and its $44.8 million Saturday haul is the best for a single day, beating Spider-Man's first Saturday of $43.6 million." It's hilarious. Go see it.

THX 1138: The George Lucas Director's Cut will come to theaters as a special limited engagement this fall.

Comments

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I appreciate what Morrison attempted. I like change in characters. I just couldn't see how he got from where the characters were to where he had them.

But enough. We've beaten that horse into the ground. We'll see how Joss does on Wednesday.

[bastardchimp.livejournal.com]

And X-STATIX is ending too which sort of sucks. that book was a great kick-to-the-nuts of the avewrage X-Fan.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It did some really interesting things. Exiles is still decent... It's interesting that they're adding Namorita to the mix, certainly.

[bastardchimp.livejournal.com]

never got into that.

What Marvel is doing recently sounds just disasterous...i think Bendis is going to burn out soon...I dunno.