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Marlon James, the Jamaican winner of this year’s Man Booker prize for fiction, has revealed that he briefly abandoned writing after his first novel was rejected nearly 80 times. The author told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he had not slept since A Brief History of Seven Killings was announced as the winner of the…
You’re going to need a giant salt lick for this one, but it’s not totally out of line with Marvel’s history: there’s a rumor that Fox exchanged the movie rights to Fantastic Four for the two X-Men series that were announced yesterday. Den of Geek does caution that they don’t have independent verification of what…
Last week, Marvel kicked off an all-new Doctor Strange series with a more grounded, approachable take on the most powerful magician in this reality. But they also published a collection of the character’s 1980s stories on the same day. Looking at both releases shows just how much the Sorcerer Supreme has changed. Doctor Strange: Don’t…
Look, up in the sky! A Superman who’s still married! A Lois Lane who didn’t expose Clark Kent’s secret identity to the world! Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! This is all happening in the newly re-rebooted DC Universe, where there’s another weaker Clark Kent leaping tall buildings. What the heck is going on?…
Inside Mattel’s headquarters just south of Los Angeles International Airport, Christine Kim grabs a shield and fires a plastic disc from it across a conference room. “I’m going to be playing with all my boys, deflecting their bullets and then be like, ‘I’m going to shoot you,’” says Kim, one of Mattel’s top toy designers and a…
Z-Men, set in the universe of the classic Night of the Living Dead, is getting a major movie adaptation from Lionsgate! Source: Press Release Ah, the circle of life. Man creates beloved cult-classic movie. Half a century later, comic book publisher creates ten ongoing series set in the universe of the movie. Shortly thereafter, movie…
“Captain America is only interesting if he’s a prick,” Vulture recently declared, inspiring so many angry Marvel fan rebuttals that it probably qualified as outright click bait. Of course, the idea of Captain America as “boring” has already been debunked by the $580 million his new movie just made at the box office. What we’re really talking…
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After dominating at the box office this past spring, Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller has some news regarding the upcoming sequels and Charlize Theron’s role in them. In an interview with Digital Spy, Miller confirmed that although he wasn’t sure whether Theron would return to portray the badass hero Imperator Furiosa, he had no plans for…
By Tim Carmody on October 11th, 2015 Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is now rich. In the comics, Peter Parker—once a schlubby, penny-pinching student, freelance photographer, and amateur scientist from the modest side of Forest Hills, Queens—is now the founder and CEO of Parker Industries, a global consumer technology company akin to Batman’s Wayne Enterprises or…