A week after DC Entertainment announced that it was moving all but its print publication side to Burbank and closing its Wildstorm imprint entirely – moves that would, according to paperwork filed by the company itself, result in a loss of a third of its staff – the news comes that three editors from Vertigo, DC’s “mature readers” …
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Warners Puts More Moves On Superman Lawyer
As DC Entertainment nears finalizing plans for Superman’s cinematic rebirth – Natalie Portman as Lois Lane? Really? – it’s looking like Warner Bros lawyers are taking the threat of losing the rights to the Man of Steel ever more seriously. The Hollywood Reporter’s THR Esq. blog is reporting that no less than five separate motions have …
Almost A Third Of DC Comics Staff To Be Affected By West Coast Move
Although DC Entertainment’s official line is that no-one can talk specifics about the number of employees affected by the decision to move all but the company’s print publishing division to the West Coast – with the LA Times’ figure of 20% layoffs challenged by DC spokespeople – until all DC employees have gone through one-on-one …
Who Will Direct The Man Of Steel?
It’s been a big week for DC Entertainment; not only is everything other than print publishing moving to the West Coast over the next year, but if rumors are to be believed, the cross-media arm of DC Comics is gearing up to announce a full slate of upcoming movie, TV and other projects, filling in suspected blanks and making fanboys …
Four Relaunches And A Funeral: What DC’s Wildstorm Line Has Been Through
Possibly the most depressing thing about the closure of DC’s WildStorm imprint, announced yesterday, was that it didn’t really come as a big surprise. Purchased by DC in 1999, the imprint has found itself casting about for an identity since then, with multiple relaunches, makeovers and false starts along the way. Here’s a quick guide to …
Reading the Tea Leaves: DC Sorta Moves West, Shutters WildStorm
This morning, DC Comics announced its long-rumored move to the West Coast–or, rather, that that move wasn’t quite as drastic as it had been rumored to be. DC Entertainment’s digital and other non-print media operations are moving out to Burbank, to be closer to the Warner Bros. mothership; the comics publishing division is hunkering …
Breaking: DC Splits Apart, Heads West
Here’s the official word from DC.
(September 21, 2010 – New York) DC Entertainment, as part of its ongoing strategy to integrate the DC Comics business, brand and characters into Warner Bros. Entertainment’s content and distribution operations, will relocate its business functions related to and supporting multi-media and
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All Star Superman To Become Movie, With TV Star Cast
Warner Bros. has announced that next Spring will see the release of an animated movie based on Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s All Star Superman, with Desperate Housewives‘ James Denton in the title role, Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks as Lois Lane and, almost as excitingly, Ed Asner as Perry White. Being an almost-unreasonably large …
New Brightest Day Image Defies Gravity, Teases Cosmic Events
DC Comics has released a new promotional image for their Brightest Day event, one that links together already-released alternate covers with previously unseen material for a round-robin tease that cries out for decryption.
What seems obvious: It’s all the Brightest Day returnees from beyond the grave, sitting …
Is Green Lantern’s Third Movie Already Being Planned?
The first movie hasn’t even finished shooting yet, but already rumors are flying about that Warners are planning a Green Lantern trilogy, with each movie to be released a year apart, Lord Of The Rings (or Twilight)-style. Bleeding Cool is reporting that shooting for the second Green Lantern movie will begin before the first has been …
No News Is All The News For DC At San Diego
The news from DC Comics at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con is that there won’t be any news from DC Comics at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. DC co-publisher Dan Didio opened the publisher’s first panel of the convention with the following announcement:
Actually, there is no big announcement from DC this year. We think DC is big enough
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It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s A… BuyMore Employee?
More rumors are leaking out about 2012’s Superman movie, and this time it’s not just a new (and somewhat unlikely) name being added to the list of possible directors. This time around, it’s a surprising choice for potential Man of Steel himself: Chuck star Zachary Levi.
The Geek Tyrant website is claiming that Christopher Nolan’s …