Disney Buys Marvel Entertainment: $4 Billion Acquisition

Walt Disney announced Monday, August 31, 2009, that the company will buy comic-mecca Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion. Disney's acquisition of Marvel stands as their largest since the purchase of Pixar Animation Studios in 2006. With the acquisition of Marvel, Disney...

Disney Buys Marvel Entertainment!

The Walt Disney company has bought Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. Now, Marvel, like DC comics whose parent company is Warner Bros, is owned by a major Hollywood studio. That being said, it'll be...

Michael Jackson Wanted to Star in Upcoming Spider-Man Film

Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man, revealed at Comic-con 2009 that the late king of pop Michael Jackson wanted to star in the upcoming Spider-Man film. Lee stated that he and Jackson discussed plans for the late icon to produce the movie but Lee suspected he  wanted to...

'Thor' and 'Avengers' Movies Delayed by Marvel Entertainment

Don't get your cape and superhero tights in a twist, but Marvel Entertainment has delayed the arrival of two movies in its roster of upcoming comic-book flicks — the release of "Thor" and "Avengers" are both getting pushed back by a year and will be released, respectively,...

Samuel L. Jackson Signs Nine-Movie Deal with Marvel Studios

Actor Samuel L. Jackson has just inked a nine-picture deal with Marvel Studios. The deal will see Jackson take on the role of Nick Fury, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., in a huge list of superhero movies that already...

Spider-Man Swings into Obama's World

Marvel Comics is featuring president-elect Barack Obama in a story about the inauguration, and ending with a fist-bump, and it's set to hit stands on January 14th. ""When we heard that President-elect Obama is a...

Arizona Heart Institute pioneers research that may offer new hope to heart fa...

Nationally, over 3,000 people are waiting for a heart transplant – and a new lease on life. Sadly, only half of those will receive a transplant. Now, pioneering research at Arizona Heart Institute (AHI) is...

Paramount Signs Deal With Marvel Studios

Expect more big-budget, blockbusting live-action comic book action movies over the next few years, as Marvel Studios has signed a deal to extend its parnership with Paramount Pictures. "Marvel announced a massive...

Tobey Maguire, Sam Raimi Sign On For "Spider-Man 4"

I don't know how legit this rumour is, but sources are claiming that Spider-Man 4 has once again enlisted the talents of guy spidey, Tobey Maguire, and director Sam Raimi. No word yet on the rest of the cast or...

11 cool new apps for the iPhone

" With the release of the iPhone 2.0 software on Friday and the opening of the App Store -- where hundreds of third-party applications are now available -- Apple Inc.'s iPhone has taken a major leap toward becoming a premiere mobile platform. Since the iPhone's...

'Superman/Batman' Artist Michael Turner Dies at 37

Renowned contemporary comic book artist, Michael Turner, has died at the age of 37, after fighting an eight-year battle with bone cancer."Michael Turner first began work as an artist for Top Cow. There he did...

The Incredible Hulk: Iron Man he ain't

A new Hulk film is out, here's my review:"The Incredible Hulk is a classic example of the Marvel Comics formula brought to the big screen: there's a misunderstood good guy who fights a power-hungry bad guy, a girl...

Young X-Men Magneto in the Holocaust

" The Israeli “haaretz” newspaper is considered as the ‘newspaper for thinking people ’. So I looked with some suspicion and disbelief at the headline “X-Men mutant survives the...

Mean, Green, and not Charlie Sheen

The buzz surrounding the The Incredible Hulk has not been good.  And that would be an understatement.  However, Ain't It Cool News has just posted an extremely favorable review (thanks for the link, Joey):"Louis Leterrier has made a HULK movie that first and...

Movie Review: Iron Man

A Superhero with the Greatest Powers: His Brain and His HeartMarvelous Superheroes Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow make Iron Man more than the sum of the boilerplate screenplay by Mark Fergus, and the...

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