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Robin Hood Theaterical Trailer
March 11th, 2010 | 
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We have all types of Blockbuster movies. Films that cost so much money. And sometimes leaves you just plain empty. Iron Man 2. Prince of Persia The Sands Of Time. The Last Airbender. Clash Of The Titans. All a guaranteed smash hit. But some of us need a more earthy. Solid story. Of tales of the heroes we learned about in school. These types of heroes were the true archetypes that the new heroes were forged from. Well this Summer Ridley Scott gives us more of that old school action epic that Hollywood needs so badly. I give give you Robin Hood. Opens May 14th.
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Legend of the Guardians Trailer
The director of 300 and Watchmen comes together with the creators of Happy Feet. What do we get?! An adventure about Owls. And one searching for the mythic Guardians the he’s been told stories of. Here’s the trailer. Legend of the Guardians opens September 24th.
Prince of Persia The Sands Of Time Trailer 2
It looks like this will be the best video game made to film ever. I have no doubt that this will be the summer sleeper hit. Keep your eyes peeled. The Prince of Persia is going to blow us away. Play the games. Learn the story. Watch the movie. And love all of it. Prince of Persia The Sands of Time releases on May 28th.
Mark Strong Confirmed as Sinestro
Fan favorite and newly appointed wunderkind of creative affairs at DC Entertainment, Geoff Johns, just visited the set of the Green Lantern movie in New Orleans. He left some small production tidbits on Twitter, such as “Mark Strong is going to be a brilliant Sinestro”, while also adding “Kilowog, the Guardians, Oa…all breathtaking”. I agree on the casting of Strong, as I hope it begins to ease the pain of not seeing Nathan Fillion as the headstrong Hal Jordan in the G.L. costume. I know you all wait with bated breath, as we do at FHTI, for some pictures and further story details. We’ll keep you posted as it comes to us. On a sidenote; if you haven’t been reading Blackest Night, it is one of the craziest Lantern storylines to date. Penned by Johns, it now involves the whole spectrum of ring colors reluctantly teamed up against one common threat…Nekron and Black Hand’s Black Lanterns. With two issues left at this point, will they stop death from bringing the entirety of creation back to complete and utter darkness? Well, since the upcoming series is dubbed Brightest Day, I’m guessing the good guys triumph, but it is certainly still worth a read. With Barry Allen being reborn, after being lost to the speedforce, and the Return of Bruce Wayne, DC is certainly making big moves and upping the ante.—ExSleepyInk
DC Entertainment Names Executive Management Team
Source:DC Entertainment
February 18, 2010
DC Entertainment, founded in September 2009 to unleash the power of the DC Comics library of characters across all media platforms, has named its executive management team, including new co-publishers of DC Comics and a Chief Creative Officer, as well as heads of Sales/Marketing/Business Development and Finance/Administration. Diane Nelson, President, DC Entertainment, made the announcement today.
The new senior executive team includes Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, who have been named Co-Publishers of DC Comics, and Geoff Johns, who will serve as Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment. Additionally, John Rood has been named Executive Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Business Development, and Patrick Caldon will serve as Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration. Each of these executives will report directly to Nelson.
“DC Entertainment’s new executive team is a creative ‘dream team,’ with accomplishments and talent unrivaled in the business,” said Nelson. “This announcement continues and underscores DC’s legacy as the ultimate destination for creators. We’ll benefit enormously from the deep experience this team represents, while re-energizing the direction and focus of the company. I’m excited and honored to have each of them with me at the helm of DC Entertainment.”
“With this new leadership team, Diane will be able to fully and respectfully integrate DC’s brand and characters, not only as key content drivers in the film division, but across all of the businesses of Warner Bros. and Time Warner,” said Jeff Robinov, President, Warner Bros. Pictures Group. “I am very proud and excited about the accomplished executives who are charged with expanding this powerful library. They each have a diverse and complementary skill-set and are deeply committed to contributing to the DC Comics legacy.”
Prior to his current post, Lee served as Editorial Director, where he oversaw WildStorm Studios and was also the artist for many of DC Comics’ bestselling comic books and graphic novels, including “All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder,” “Batman: Hush” and “Superman: For Tomorrow.” He also serves as the Executive Creative Director for the upcoming DC Universe Online massively multiplayer action game from Sony Online Entertainment.
Lee is an award-winning comic book illustrator/creator/publisher who started his professional career at Marvel Comics where his work on the X-Men continues to hold the all-time sales record for single issue sales at eight million copies sold in one month. At Marvel, he also drew the Punisher and co-created many characters, the most popular being Gambit, featured in 2009’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” feature film. In 1992, he started his own production company, WildStorm Productions, and co-founded Image Comics, an independent comics company which quickly grew to become the number-three North American comics publisher. His most notable creations, “WildCats” and “Gen 13,” saw life beyond comic books as a CBS Saturday morning cartoon and as a direct-to-video animated movie distributed by Disney, respectively. In 1998, he left Image Comics and sold WildStorm to DC Comics.
DiDio most recently served as Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, DC Universe, overseeing the editorial department for the DC Universe imprint, including the ongoing adventures of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and scores of heroes and villains. He also worked to develop new titles with the industry’s premier writers and artists. At DC Comics, DiDio has spearheaded such bestselling projects as “All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder,” “Identity Crisis,” Green Lantern, Teen Titans and The Outsiders.
Before joining DC in 2002, DiDio was with Mainframe Entertainment, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President, Creative Affairs, overseeing the development, distribution, marketing and promotion of all Mainframe’s television properties. Prior to that, he served as Executive Director of Children’s Programming for ABC, where he was also a publicity manager, having started his television career at CBS, working in a variety of positions.
Johns builds on his current role at DC from being one of today’s most prolific, popular and award-winning contemporary comic book writers with this new executive role. He is a New York Times bestselling author who has written highly acclaimed stories revitalizing Green Lantern, Superman, the Flash, Teen Titans, and the Justice Society of America for DC Comics.
Johns began his comics career creating and writing “Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.” for DC Comics while at the same time working with film director Richard Donner. After acclaimed runs on Flash, Teen Titans and the bestselling “Infinite Crisis” mini-series, Johns co-wrote a run on Action Comics with his mentor, Donner. Johns has also written and produced for various other media, including the acclaimed “Legion” and “Absolute Justice” episodes of Warner Bros. Television’s “Smallville” and Adult Swim’s “Robot Chicken” and “Titan Maximum.” He also wrote the story of the DC Universe Online massively multiplayer action game from Sony Online Entertainment.
Rood returns to Warner Bros. after 10 years with the Disney ABC Television Group, where he most recently was Senior Vice President of Marketing, ABC Family. While at ABC, he also consulted for ABC News during the recent transitions at “Good Morning America” and “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer.”
Prior to Disney, Rood worked for six years at Warner Bros. Consumer Products, negotiating promotional deals with national advertisers using Warner Bros.’ properties, including the DC Comics characters. He has also worked in promotions for Equity Marketing on the Burger King account and in advertising for Leo Burnett on the McDonald’s and Miller Brewing accounts.
Caldon most recently served as Executive Vice President, Finance and Operations of DC Comics and MAD Magazine. Before that, he served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations, and his other posts at DC include Vice President, Finance and Operations, and Controller, the position in which he joined the company in 1985. Prior to joining DC Comics, Caldon spent a decade at Warner Communications in corporate accounting and as Senior Vice President and CFO of the Cosmos soccer team (owned by Warner Communications at the time).
DC Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, is charged with strategically integrating the DC Comics business, brand and characters deeply into Warner Bros. and all its content and distribution businesses. DC Entertainment utilizes the expertise the Studio has in building and sustaining franchises to prioritize the DC properties as key titles and growth drivers across all of the Studio, including feature films, television, interactive entertainment, direct-to-consumer platforms and consumer products. The DC Comics publishing business is the cornerstone of DC Entertainment, releasing approximately 90 comic books through its various imprints and 30 graphic novels a month as well as continuing to build on its creative leadership in the comic book industry.
So, what are your thoughts, friends?
—ExSleepyInk
Heroes Season 5?: From Heroes To Icons
I was once one of the biggest fans of this show. Pulled in by the characters. The superb writing. And strong sense of direction the series had. After four years the show has now become a great disappointment. The writers have abandoned the mythos of the show. There is little in the way of continuity. And character development is non existent.
Can anyone even remember when Future Hiro first Peter on the subway train, with the message “Save The Cheerleader. Save The World.” Whatever happened to the intrigue of being hunted. The survival of keeping your secrets. “Are You On The List.” Where is the gathering of all these strangers in one place united for one moment with one purpose. “How Do You Stop An Exploding Man?” This is the foundation that Heroes was built on. Many of you didn’t like season 2. I myself loved it. Even though it was cut short by the writer’s strike. Tim Kring and his writer’s were able to bring that season to a very nice close with an awesome cliffhanger. If you bought the DVD or Bluray (Same on you if you didn’t) you know that Tim Kring had a ton of things he wanted to do. But alas that was cut short. Some of those ideas never saw their way on to the show, even though they could have.
Season 3 started in a sprint to the finish line. Villains seem to be just what the doctor ordered to bring Heroes back from the stab in the back that the writers strike gave it. It had just enough of everything to make the show what we always enjoyed in season 1.Villains had been well thought out almost perfectly to the end. The death of the God like Author Petrelli was a mild disappointment. I mean if he really had to die, well ok. Just kill him and be done with it. Now is when you think the show will take another turn. heading in a new direction that is sure to stun all fans. But it seems that not only have the writer’s forgotten to step back into continuity. They also assume that their audience is plain stupid. I mean, Heroes fiction is strongly based on comic books and science. Fictional or other wise. Why would they thing no one saw the light leave Author Petrelli’s body. And what energy transference. Peter got NOTHING from his father after he died. Yet he was standing right over his body. Okay you can hide from that with all the subtly of a Rhino. But I can still see the mistakes. But now after he injects himself with the formula he can only hold one power at a time. Peter gets weaker and even more uncertain of himself. All the while Sylar turns into Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet. Peter as a character just doesn’t grow. As well as other characters.
Will Heroes end now. Season 4 is over. And thank God for that. This has to be the worst season ever. Nearly everything that has gone on this year was terrible. I just think Tim Kring gave up on the show. My friends and I believe he’s just biding his time until his contract wears off. Heroes could have been another 24 or Lost. Now it will just die off. Hardly a memory in the minds of fans. And I say good riddance, Especially because our idea of A Brave New World was stolen. And not only was it stolen. It was done poorly at best. I knew a guy that always said “You can’t win them all”. But Heroes was a winner. I refuse to let the show go out like that. I will write my own little season 5 right here. Join me as I finish Heroes my way. NBC has done a bad enough job already. And it’ll be fun. These stories will be just little ideas of what I would like to see. And how I would have ended Heroes. The stories will be small. Just enough to get the point across. Look for them every 2 weeks or so. It’ll be one heck of a ride.
Every thing that has a beginning has an end. And this will be my ending. Join me as I dream and write of a Heroes that could have been.
Christopher Nolan reportedly aquired to mentor new Superman movie.
Warner Bros has supposedly asked filmmaker/producer Christopher Nolan to act as a mentor in the development of the studios next Superman movie. Deadline.com reports that Warner Bros hopes Nolan will guide Superman to the same kind of box office success seen by his Batman franchise. 
The studio is looking for a direction (do not confuse this with direct-or) to take the Man of Steel’s future film in; especially after the previous incarnation, Superman Returns, failed to make much of an impact among audiences. An unidentified insider revealed that the new film will not be a follow-up to the previous Superman attempt. This would lead us to believe that the project is going down a fresh new avenue. Sources have yet to say whether Brandon Routh will be participating in this venture. Some sites have also remarked that, because of The Dark Knight’s runaway success, they were looking to go with a darker, grittier take on Supes. What do I think? I think the reason why Batman worked for Nolan is because he was acclimated to creating dark, brilliant, noir atmospheres in all of his previous movies. His tone was perfect for THAT character and HIS struggles. If they are using Nolan to merely boost up revenue in the conception of their new franchise, I think that is short-sighted…but…if they are using him to do what Marvel has set out to do, and find a way to develop a lush interconnected universe of live-action DC characters, then bring on Superman, bring on World’s Finest, and finally, for the love of all things holy, bring on The Justice League! The only thing is, Chris Nolan’s vision of Batman has been that of realism (as real as it can be); how would a orphaned, flying alien man fit into that world? A world that didn’t even want Robin. Would we get to see some more outlandish rogues in Batman? Maybe Clayface? Killer Croc? The Mad Hatter? Am I getting ahead of myself? Maybe…but a boy can dream, can’t he?
As for the mentoring gig; why not give Geoff Johns, Richard Donner’s old protege’, a sort of co-advising position? Maybe even let him team up with Goyer and pen a story? Sounds full circle to me, and fluid enough. Let us not forget that Johns is the hottest thing in DC comics right now, and Goyer helped, with his knowledge, to shape the Batman franchise into a global phenomenon. Not too shabby, wouldn’t you say? I’m sure this team would do everything they could to please the fans, being big nerds themselves (no offense guys, it’s a compliment)! Maybe instead of Nuclear Man (snicker) we’d finally see fleshed out versions of Brainiac, Metallo, and Parasite!! Let me know what you think, boys and girls.
—Yours truly, ExSleepyInk
Avatar The Last Airbender Super Bowl TV Spot
Now that the hype of James Cameron’s Avatar has hit it’s climax, the true Avatar can finally get some lime light. This Nickelodeon cartoon turned feature film looks amazing. With just 33 seconds he has made me a believer. Air Bending. Water Bending. Earth bending. And Fire Bending. M. Night Shyamalan has finally done it.
