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Showtime Teams With David Goyer For Drama Based On Comic Book ’100 Bullets’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 20, 2011 @ 3:11pm PDTTags: Comic Books, David S. Goyer, Showtime
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Comic book/graphic novel adaptation master David S. Goyer is taking on 100 Bullets as a potential TV series. I hear Goyer is attached to write and executive produce a drama series project for Showtime based on the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic book that published 100 issues between 1999 and 2009, all written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso, whose credits include the Batman and Superman comics. Warner Bros. TV, whose sibling DC Comics published 100 Bullets through its Vertigo imprint, is producing.

While lauded as one of the best comic books/graphic novels of the past decade 100 Bullets is an atypical comic as it features no superheroes, magic, supernatural elements or a sci-fi twist. It is a dark, noir-style story about the attempt by one man, the mysterious Agent Graves, to destroy a secret group of families that control most of the world’s wealth and power, and it also poses a classic moral question, “If you could get away with murdering the person who ruined your life, would you do it?” The book’s starting-off point is Graves giving ordinary people who have been wronged a pistol and a briefcase with 100 untracable bullets, offering them to exact justice for themselves with no danger of being caught. The self-contained storylines eventually blend into a sprawling crime saga where everything — and everyone — is connected as Graves takes on a multinational clandestine organization named The Trust. Among 100 Bullets’ distinguishing traits is Azzarello’s realistic use of regional dialects and accents, as well as the frequent use of slang. READ MORE »

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Valiant Relaunches Comic Imprint With Ex-Marvel CEO Peter Cuneo In Charge

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 2, 2011 @ 7:49am PDTTags: Comic Books
Mike Fleming

New York, NY – June 2, 2011 – Valiant Entertainment, the character-based entertainment company with more than 1,500 characters in its library, announced it will reintroduce the critically acclaimed Valiant Universe in print and digital comics in 2012. Valiant has hired accomplished industry executives and creative talent to expand its management team. The first announcement is that former Marvel CEO and Vice Chairman Peter Cuneo has assumed the role of Chairman of Valiant.

Valiant Entertainment, co-founded by Jason Kothari and Dinesh Shamdasani, has received a capital infusion from private investment company Cuneo & Company, LLC. Peter Cuneo, Managing Principal of Cuneo & Co., recently concluded ten years of leadership at Marvel Entertainment, which achieved one of the most extraordinary turnarounds in entertainment history during that period. His tenure with Marvel concluded with Marvel’s sale at the end of 2009 to The Walt Disney Company for over $4 billion. Gavin Cuneo, Principal of Cuneo & Co., was an investment banker with Bank of America Merrill Lynch prior to the founding of Cuneo & Co. He has spent over ten years working in investment banking and investment management and has been appointed to Valiant’s Board of Directors. Peter and Gavin Cuneo are working closely with Valiant’s expanded management team to usher in the new era of Valiant.

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Fox’s ‘Glee’ Gets Comic Book Treatment

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 14, 2010 @ 11:10am PSTTags: Book Publishing, Comic Books, Glee, Ryan Murphy, TV
Nellie Andreeva

It was pretty much inevitable – after Glee music albums, tours and merchandise, now comes a Glee comic book. Fame: The Cast Of Glee, from Bluewater Prods., “takes a close look at the lives of the actors and creative talent” … Read More »

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Bob Schreck To Run Legendary Comics

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday November 3, 2010 @ 3:11pm PDTTags: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Kathy Vrabeck, Legendary Comics, Legendary Pictures, Thomas Tull

Burbank, CA, November 3, 2010 – Legendary Pictures has appointed veteran comic book editor Bob Schreck to the role of Editor-in-Chief of the newly-formed Legendary Comics, it was announced by Thomas Tull, Legendary’s Chairman and CEO. Schreck joins Legendary Comics from IDW Publishing, and his appointment marks the launch of the new division dedicated to publishing original graphic novels.

Headed by Schreck, Legendary Comics plans to publish four to six graphic novels a year for both digital and traditional print distribution. The books will target Legendary’s well-established and powerful fandom demographic. Schreck begins at Legendary Comics the first week of November, and plans to release the inaugural project within the first half of 2011. He will be working closely with Kathy Vrabeck, President of Legendary Digital, and they will, as warranted, look to bring the newly-created comic-based IP produced by the venture to other entertainment platforms such as film and television. 

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NBC Developing Comic-Based Drama Starring ‘Heroes’ Alum Milo Ventimiglia

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 3, 2010 @ 9:47am PDTTags: Comic Books, Comic-to-Series, Craig Zadan, NBC, NBC Development, Neil Meron, TV, TV Development
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: He just starred on an NBC drama series with comic book mythology. Now Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia is back at the network as the star/executive producer of Rest, a new drama project based on a comic book series he … Read More »

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Marvel Studios Slows Down ‘Runaways’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 22, 2010 @ 12:45pm PDTTags: Comic Books, Marvel Studios, Movies
Mike Fleming

While Marvel put pedal to the metal to bring The Avengers and Iron Man 3 into the Disney distribution fold, the superhero factor  has pumped the brakes on Runaways, the youth-oriented superhero movie that had been moving quickly toward a … Read More »

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Don Todd Sells 2 Shows To CBS Including Bruckheimer-Produced ‘Zits’ Adaptation

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday October 8, 2010 @ 12:19pm PDTTags: Comic Books, Jerry Bruckheimer TV, TV, TV Deals, TV Development
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Donald Todd, co-creator/executive producer/showrunner of the ABC comedy Samantha Who?, has set up 2 new projects at CBS — comedy Zits and drama True Detectives. Both are based on well-known properties — Zits is a popular comic strip and Jonathan True Detectives is a best selling novel from Jonathan Kellerman. Both projects stem from Todd’s multi-script deal with Warner Bros TV, which co-produces Zits and True Detectives with studio-based Jerry Bruckheimer TV and Shephard/Robin Co., respectively. Zits is a live-action family comedy based on the comic strip that explores the sardonic wit and hormonal angst of 16-year-old Jeremy Duncan. Read More »

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‘Walking Dead’ To Become Series Of Novels

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 11:56pm PDTTags: AMC The Walking Dead, Book Publishing, Comic Books, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead
Nellie Andreeva

Robert Kirkman’s bestselling comic series The Walking Dead, which already migrated to TV with the upcoming AMC series, will now spawn a trilogy of original novels to be published by Thomas Dunne books, an imprint of St. Martins Press, starting in … Read More »

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DC Comics Drops Prices To $2.99 For 2011

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 12:54pm PDTTags: Comic Books, DC Comics, DC Comics Jim Lee

New York, October 7, 2010 – Beginning January 2011, DC Comics will implement a line-wide pricing adjustment, lowering the prices of all standard length 32-page ongoing comic book titles currently priced at $3.99 to $2.99, it was announced

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’70s Marvel Rival Atlas Comics Relaunches

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 14, 2010 @ 6:48am PDTTags: Brendan Deneen, Comic Books, Marvel Comics
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Atlas Comics, the short-lived 1970s imprint founded by Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman, is rising from the ashes. Goodman’s grandson, Jason, has dusted off the original titles and the characters will relaunch with new story lines that begin with the release of The Grim Ghost and Phoenix. The first two titles will be unveiled at New York Comic-Con next month. According to comic book lore, Martin Goodman sold Marvel to Cadence Industries in 1970 for millions of dollars and the promise that his son Chip would stay on as editorial director. When Stan Lee — Martin’s nephew by marriage — instead showed Chip the door, Martin and Chip hatched Atlas with the goal of vanquishing its rival. It created a battle for some of the era’s top artists Read More »

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Marvel Forges ‘Iron Fist’ Deal With ‘xXx’ Creator Rich Wilkes

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 25, 2010 @ 11:31am PDTTags: Comic Books, Dr. Strange, Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios, Marvel Superheros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios is moving forward on a live action feature version of Iron Fist, hiring screenwriter Rich Wilkes to draft a movie based on a martial arts expert whose battle with a dragon–ended when he plunged his hands through … Read More »

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Marvel Can Make Pics For “The Punisher”

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday July 25, 2010 @ 1:01am PDTTags: Comic Books, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Dolph Lundgren, Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios, Ray Stevenson, Roger Corman, Superhero

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: I think the biggest news of the Marvel Studios panel tonight is that The Punisher is now owned by Marvel Studios again, and will probably figure into a future film. I’ve learned The Punisher rights reverted to Marvel in 2009 following the release of Punisher 2. The studio has no immediate plans to develop a movie based on the franchise. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige last night did not say when the Punisher rights reverted, or how: just that they have.

So who is The Punisher? In the comics, Frank Castle is a Vietnam veteran whose family is killed in a Mafia crossfire. Donning a black spandex costume with a skull logo, he declares war on crime and becomes a vigilante. Introduced as a Spider-Man foe in the 1970s, his popularity took off in the late 1980s, when grim and “realistic” superheroes became the norm. The Punisher is different from many superheroes in that he uses guns and has no secret identity. (He is known to be Frank Castle.) On film, he has been portrayed three times.

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Comic-Con #7: Sony ‘Green Hornet’ Panel

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 10:42pm PDTTags: Christoph Waltz, Comic Books, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Evan Goldberg, Jay Chou, Neal Moritz, Seth Rogan Green Hornet, Superhero, The Green Hornet 3D, The Green Hornet Kato

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

Seth Rogen comes out. “I’m sorry if you were expecting Ryan Reynolds” (who’s in Warner Bros’ Green Lantern.) Introduces footage that expands on the trailer we’ve seen, where Rogen plays a drunken newspaper heir whose father dies suddenly, and becomes a hero when his father’s Asian chauffeur Kato (Jay Chou, stepping in for Bruce Lee) turns out to be an expert in combat. New scenes include Kato removing a beer bottle cap in such a way that it flies like a bommerang… Rogen saying  that Kato’s autobiography should be called ‘Balls Deep In Shit-Kickin’ Dudes,’… Kato insisting on “no tights” … Rogen deciding his hero identity should be “the green bee,” which a room full of friends agree is lame (they prefer “hornet” though he still tries to put it to a vote and get “bee”)… Christoph Waltz yelling “Nothing green should survive the night!”… Rogen accidentally shooting himself with gas gun (next thing he knows, he’s out for 31 days)… This clip was not in 3-D. Read More »

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Comic-Con: Graphic Novel By Wes Craven

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 12:58pm PDTTags: Arnold Rifkin, Comic Books, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Graphic Novels, Liquid Comics, Sharad Devarajan, Wes Craven
Mike Fleming

Liquid Comics has formed a publishing partnership with filmmaker Wes Craven and producer Arnold Rifkin. It will lead to the first original graphic novel created by Craven, the man responsible for fright films like Scream, The Hills Have Eyes and … Read More »

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‘Green Lantern’ Scribe Lights The Way Into Comics For Other Screenwriters

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 12:33pm PDTTags: Alisa Tager, Comic Books, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Convention, Comics, Marc Guggenheim, No Ordinary Family, Tara Butters, The Mission, Video Games
Mike Fleming

Green Lantern co-writer Marc Guggenheim is at Comic-Con today. He’s launching Collider Entertainment, a partnership with Alisa Tager that is designed to create properties that start out as comics and then springboard onto other  media platforms. Guggenheim and Tager have … Read More »

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Fox’s ‘Human Target’ Taps Female Lead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 23, 2010 @ 9:00am PDTTags: Comic Books, DC Comics, Human Target, Human Target Season 2, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Valley, TV Casting
Nellie Andreeva

indira-varmaI hear Fox’s action drama Human Target is adding a female lead for Season 2 and has cast British actress Indira Varma for it. The series, based on the DC Comic about unorthodox bodyguard Christopher Chance (Mark Valley), stood out in its first season with an all-male regular cast of 3, Valley, Chi McBride and Jackie Earle Haley, probably the smallest core cast I’ve seen on a drama series in a long time. Now the show is adding a fourth regular, Varma. Read More »

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Comic-Con #3: The ‘Megamind’ Panel

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 6:41pm PDTTags: Comic Books, Comic-Con Convention, DreamWorks, Megamind, Superhero Movie, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell

Luke Y Thompson is covering the Con for Deadline:

comicon 2010Director Tom McGrath is out first and says this is the first Dreamworks animated superhero movie. He always thinks the villains are the most fun, so he made a whole movie … Read More »

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‘Scott Pilgrim’ Publisher Enters TV Deal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: Ben Stiller, CBS TV Studios, Comic Books, First-Look Deal, Graphic Novels, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Universal Pictures
Nellie Andreeva

comicon 2010Independent comics publisher Oni Press and its sister company Closed on Mondays Entertainment have inked a first-look deal with CBS TV Studios to mine the publishers’ comic books and graphic novels for series and other TV programming. The announcement … Read More »

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Rachelle Lefevre Joins ABC’s ‘Off The Map’ As Regular; AMC’s ‘Walking Dead’ Adds Two

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: ABC, AMC, Comic Books, Michael Rooker, Norman Reedus, Off the Map, Rachelle Lefevre, Shonda Rhimes, The Walking Dead, TV Casting
Nellie Andreeva

RachelleFormer Twilight co-star Rachelle Lefevre has joined the cast of the Shonda Rhimes-produced new ABC medical drama Off the Map as a regular. Additionally, AMC officially announced the casting of Michael Rooker (Jumper) and Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints) in its upcoming series … Read More »

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