AZM regular Tyler Anderson sent over a short review of the Gotham Knight and Justice League: New Frontier DVDs.

So, you probably don’t need my opinion on em, but I just picked up Justice League: New Frontier and Batman: Gotham Knight and they’re both absolutely awesome. I got them on the Blu Ray format and everything looks just so crispy and sexy and full of awesomesexysauceyness. I’ll give you the links to trailers, but I really highly reccommend both of these. Justice League is done more in the American style of animation while Batman jumps around but is pretty rooted in anime. Figured you might be interested ^ ^

Here are the trailers for both.

Definitely liking the JLA action although the classic Superman symbol is pretty menacing. I haven’t read the comic it’s based off of, but it certainly looks fun. And I know I said no more Dark Knight posts, but this doesn’t count. I put this bastard on Netflicks so it should come our way in a few weeks, but I might just pick it up at the store sooner than that.

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Curse you Marty and Nick and special guests Jamie and Daine! What, no one has my number? Can’t pick up a phone? Drop an email? Post comment?

No? Fine. Go on. Go ahead and go to your Hellboy II premiere and then taunt us with a podcast reviewing said premiere. Damn yous! Damn! Yous!

MUST! SEE! HELLBOY!

Oh, beware of possible spoilery stuffs.

[Via Derailed]

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From AZM regular Devin Wolfe comes news that Michael Caine’s footprints and handprints will be immortalized in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater this Friday. About freaking time!

In other Dark Knight related news, Entertainment Weekly had a nice article about the movie and Heath. I’m so sad that he’s gone. From everything I’ve read, his performance in Dark Knight is absolutely brilliant. A nice read and should make you even more excited to see this movie next week!

Okay, that’ll be it for Dark Knight news until the movie drops. Want to keep myself spoiler free as long as possible.

[Via Superhero Hype]

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Hell Boy II opens this Friday and to celebrate, AZM regular Tyler Anderson sent over a few clips of Hell Boy chatting with James Lipton. It’s an interesting campaign. I like the Lipton segments much better than the one where Hell Boy is playing video games or the one where he meets Wolf from American Gladiators. Here’s another with James Lipton.

Five fingers? I only count four. Ah well.

Um… now I’m creeped out. When James Lipton says “yesss” like that, it makes me think someone just asked him if he’d like to munch on the femur of a small child. EEK!

Oh well. Here’s a PSA with Hell Boy reminding us to never judge someone based on their color.

Awe! He loves cats!

And finally, here’s Hell Boy auditioning for either a boy band, reality show, or combination there of.

You can tell Ron Perlman had some fun with these. Neat little campaign although the trailer pretty much sealed the deal for me. Actually, the first movie sealed the deal for me. I will see anything with Guermo Del Toro’s involvement.

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Photo from Millarworld. Insert angelic “ahhhh.”

AZM regular Devin Wolfe sent over news that comic scribe Mark Millar is interested in penning the next Superman movie. Coming off the high of wanted, it seems Millar is ready to get his movie on. And it sounds like Hollywood may be listening. According to Millar:

That Superman news is interesting, isn’t it? In the interests of clarity (because I’m sure this will be picked up somewhere) a very well known American action director heard about my love of Superman, approached my and asked me to team up with he and his producer to make a pitch for this. We’ve been talking for several weeks now and, if this is going to happen, we’ll know by Christmas. He has huge pull at WB so fingers crossed. But this is nothing more than a huge US name pulling me into his fold and making me part of a package.

That could be a lot of fun. Loved his run on The Authority and Ultimates and though I think Civil War wasn’t the best in the world, it was still entertaining. At this point, I’m ready for a complete revamp of the Superman movies. I felt Return sacrificed good story telling to fit into continuity and pay tribute to the original films. I think a writer like Millar could have made it work. I like the way much of his work reinterprets standard superhero tropes. And honestly, after Return, the Superman franchise can use all the help they can get.

[Via Super Hero Hype]

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Way back in the day, long before the era of foofy foofy, Bridget Nielsen starred in one of the worst cult classic fantasy films of all time, Red Sonja. Not even Arnold Schwarzenegger, who a year earlier destroyed the box office as The Terminator, could save this abortive attempt to breath life into a dying genre. It’s amusing, kinda. Ernie Reyes, Jr. plays an annoying spoiled prince which is sort of funny. Maybe. If you’re high while watching the thing. Very. High. Hmmm… shitty 80’s movie that has since become a cult classic? Let’s remake the thing!

Robert Rodriguez will produce Nu Image/Millennium’s remake of Red Sonja with Rose McGowan as the lead. My familiarity with the character is cursory. I saw the original waaaay back in the day and I’ve only seen the covers of the comic so I have no idea if there’s anything more to her than a big sword and even bigger bags of happy fun. There might be some material there for Rodriguez and crew to mine, but I doubt it. The original was a dumb movie and this remake will probably be a dumb summer movie. Although it would be nice to see a female warrior not strapped into an impossibly tight and completely impractical skimpy leather studded bikini, this is probably not the film for that. This is probably the movie that will indeed feature the female warrior strapped into an impossibly tight and completely impractical skimpy leather studded bikini with dialog to match. Not that there’s anything wrong with Rose McGowan strapped into tiny leather, but I can get that for free on the internet.

Who knows, you might end up seeing it in the actual theater if absolutely nothing else was playing except for Uwe Boll’s latest. However, I suspect that if anything else is playing that weekend, including a Love Boat movie, you’d probably go see that instead.

[Via Variety]

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Lou Ferrigno? Hulk hate Lou Ferrigno

AZM regular Kevin Bahrt tracked down this piece indicating that Louis Leterrier, the director of Incredible Hulk, would like the fans to decide if the Hulk should join the Avengers or if the Avengers should fight the Hulk. If you haven’t seen the movie, ignore the following quote:

I would love to see [the Hulk become the villain that fights the Avengers] because I think the best villains are always the ones whose agenda you understand. They’re not synthetic to us in a way; they’re not these one dimensional bad guys.

That’s why I left the door open for whoever’s going to direct ‘The Avengers’ with our last shot. Edward and I, we consciously decided to make the last shot of the movie when he opens his eyes and he smirks at the camera. Is he enjoying it? Is he malicious? That’s what’s great about Edward. You don’t know if he’s a good guy or bad guy. He’s always on this edge and we’ve been sort of surfing that edge, that very thin edge during the entire movie.

So that last shot of the movie, if you decide that he’s smiling, in control, then he’s a good guy, that’s ‘The Hulk 2.’ If Hulk is a failure, then he looks up and smirks and that’s eventually the Hulk of the Avengers — the uncontrollable beast that they need to team up to stop.

Since Spider-Man, the Marvel movies have sort of blended 616 and Ultimate continuity leaning heavily towards Ultimates. Couple that with the fact that Hulk has fought pretty much every single Marvel character at least once, if not more, it kind of makes sense to have him tangle with the Avengers. Still, I’d like to see a classic villain get some screen time.

So, sport’s fans, do you think the Hulk should join up and assemble or do you want to see Hulk fight absolutely everyone?

[Via MTV Movie Blog]

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Egyptian Bewbs

I wasn’t too impressed with Ozymandias’s costume when the photos were released and it seems I’m not alone. Although my biggest problem was the lack of gold, most people point to Ozy’s Bat nipple action as a major flaw. AZM regular Tyler Anderson dug up Zack Snyder’s response to the criticism:

Do you think that I don’t…would that be an accident? If you don’t acknowledge sort of the…where comic book movies are right now. If you can’t like, in the same way that ‘Watchmen’ [graphic novel] referenced and took apart the comic book genre and comic book heroes. You have to make some reference to those same decisions that were made, in cinema.

If you think that fact that Ozy’s costume has nipples is a mistake, or that we don’t understand the design…to me that’s just crazy. You just need to pay more attention.

Yes yes, clearly we dislike the costume because we’re not paying attention. Huh?

I don’t understand the point about where comic book movies are right now. Bat nipples are so last decade. The new Bats has no nipples, there were no X nipples, no Daredevil nipples, and Hell Boy only has nipples because he’s manly and shirtless. Snyder’s right. I don’t get it.

[Via Comics 2 Film]

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AZM regular Devin Wolfe sent along this poster for Emoball Z. “The Legend Comes to Life” is a dumb fucking tag line. So it’s time to play the caption game! You know what to do. Give this poster a proper tag line!

[Via Film1.nl]

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“Good work, Kato!”

So who’s Kato? Meh.

Seriously, does anyone give much of a shit that Seth Rogen is Brit Reed? I like Rogen just fine, but no one cares about Brit Reed. Okay, maybe if you’re a fan of the radio drama, Brit Reed is your Bruce Wayne. For the rest of us, we want Kato! Bruce Lee brought Kato to life and anything less than a martial arts phenom just won’t cut it. It should be called The Kato Show! The only reason The Green Hornet is even relevant is because of Bruce Lee.

My go to casting for Martial Arts action these days is always Tony Jaa. But I think Mark Musashi would make an excellent Kato. Brandon would have be absolutely perfect for the role. Too bad. Who would cast as Kato?

[Via The Green Hornet]

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