Apr 23 2015
This one came out of nowhere. Sony has officially announced that an animated film starring Spider-Man will be released in 2018 from The LEGO Movie and 21 Jump Street directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller. According to the press release (below) it will be a separate entity to the Marvel/Sony live action films, although few other …
Apr 22 2015
The sequel to be most successful comic book film ever takes everything up several notches, and can barely keep it all inside. The coming together of geek god king Joss Whedon and the world of cinematic comic bookery was enough to make even the most cynical fan reach for his or her swooning couch, and the box …
Apr 21 2015
Marvel has now officially confirmed that writers Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve will pen CAPTAIN MARVEL, the 20th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It will mark the first time that an all-female writing team has been behind one of Marvel’s flagship films. Perlman will be familiar to Marvel fans as the co-writer of last year’s …
Apr 20 2015
First it was Star Wars. Then Batman V Superman. Now Fox has rounded out a weekend filled with previews by throwing a new trailer for FANTASTIC FOUR into the mix. The film, due out in August, has been shrouded in shades of mystery throughout its production, with nothing much seen until earlier this year. The …
Apr 18 2015
After an embarrassing leak of the trailer yesterday, Warner has been quick to release an official version of the highly anticipated first trailer for BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE. As expected, it continues pictures of the titular characters doing stuff. The swiftness of the release mirrors a similar incident when Disney responded within hours …
Apr 16 2015
A tease for the highly anticipated first trailer from BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE, the sequel to Zack Snyder’s 2013 film Man of Steel, has been released online. Although the 21 seconds on display here will do little to satiate the No actual footage from the film is here, although Zack “Snack” Snyder has confirmed that …
Mar 16 2015
Welcome to Behind The Panels Issue 133, the comic book show that’s coming to you live from Good Games Hurstville. In this issue, there’s more gravy than grave about us as we dip into Bill and Ted, Southern Cross, Postal, The Walking Dead and more in What We’ve Been Reading and Watching. THEN we recast the Marvel …
Mar 05 2015
How many trailers does a film need? In the case of AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, the biggest geeky release this side of a new Star Wars film, as many as inhumanly possible please! A third trailer has been released by Marvel Studios, this time focusing more on Ultron’s design and creation, and the direct hand that …
Feb 25 2015
You’d have to be a fool of a Took not to head to OZ COMIC-CON in Perth or Adelaide this year. The line-up keeps getting bigger, as Billy Boyd joins the tour. Best known for his role as Peregrin “Pippin” Took in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy, he also performed the song “The …
Feb 25 2015
Marvel has revealed the latest poster for AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, showcasing all of the new and returning Avengers, although our Vision is being blinded by the sun. (See what we did there?) A very crowded piece of Photoshoppery, from the poster we can tell that none of the threats seem to be coming from …
Feb 23 2015
Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 130, the comic book show that needs three more people to unite the seven. In this issue, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse gets its Nightcrawler, Jim Starlin’s Dredstar comes to TV and Dynamite focuses on female creators and characters. THEN it’s Silk, The Multiversity, Ei8ht, The Flash, Gotham and more in what …
