Video Game Tip Sheet: ‘Okamiden’

Excited for Okamiden? The game comes out in the US on March 15 for the DS, but we have the inside scoop on things you should look out for.  Product Marketing Manager Eric Monacelli sent us everything he knows and loves about the game.

Marvel Still Fighting for Ownership of its Characters

Marvel Entertainment has been dealt a blow in the ongoing legal battle with the estate of Jack Kirby over the ownership of 45 of the company’s most popular (and lucrative) characters – and Disney has been told that it’s involved, whether it likes it or not.

The Amazing, Spectacular Story Behind The Spider-Man Musical

You’d be forgiven for thinking, at various times over the last year or so, that the Marvel Comics/Sony musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was some kind of strange urban myth instead of a real thing. Directed by The Lion King‘s Julie Taymor, music by U2 and so dangerous that a stuntman broke his wrists [...]

Chris Evans Debuts As Earnest, Sincere Captain America

Entertainment Weekly has the first picture of Chris Evans as Captain America, and… well, he looks like a very nice boy, if a little nervous. While we can all breathe a sigh of relief that the costume doesn’t look entirely ridiculous, I’m now holding my breath about whether Evans will be able to pull off [...]

What Is Marvel’s Movie Act 2?

What comes after Marvel Entertainment’s Avengers movie in 2012? Well, we know that there’re movies lined up for Runaways, Iron Fist and Doctor Strange, as well as a third Iron Man, but what if there’s something larger going on behind the scenes? When I spoke to Clark Gregg, AKA the Marvel movies’ Agent Coulson, the [...]

Marvel’s Agent Coulson: Avengers Is End Of Marvel’s First Act

The one constant of the Marvel movies to date – well, except The Incredible Hulk, but I think Marvel would rather forget that one existed, in many ways – has been Clark Gregg’s SHIELD Agent Coulson, who’s gone from being a background character in the first Iron Man to taking center stage in Thor and [...]

Ruffalo: I Am The Hulk

If your problem with previous cinematic versions of Marvel’s incredible Hulk has been that he just didn’t seem like the same guy as that puny Banner, then maybe you’ll dig the Hulk you’ll get to meet in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers… because it’ll be Mark Ruffalo himself.

Jeph Loeb Talks What To Expect (And Where) From Marvel TV

Monday’s announcement that former Heroes and Lost writer/producer Jeph Loeb had been named Executive Vice President and Head of Marvel Entertainment’s newly-created TV department created a lot of questions: Marvel television? What characters would get their own shows? What networks would they appear on? Who’d work on the shows? I talked to the person best placed to answer those questions: Jeph Loeb himself.

Marvel Names Heroes‘ Loeb As TV Czar

This just in from the “It’s about time” department: Marvel Entertainment have announced a new division that will concentrate on television, both live-action and animation. And heading it up is a man with a background in writing superheroes for both comics and TV: Jeph Loeb.