August 2012

News and Notes

Bleeding Cool is reporting that Mary Elizabeth Winstead will indeed return to reprise her role as Lucy McClane in the next Die Hard sequel A Good Day to Die Hard

Variety is reporting Joss Whedon has signed a three-year contract to direct the sequel to The Avengers as well as develop a yet to be named live-action series for Marvel Television and “contribute creatively to the next phase of Marvel’s cinematic universe”

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Worlds’ Finest #4

worlds-finest-new-52-4-coverThe latest issue of Worlds’ Finest picks up where last month’s left off as Power Girl and the Huntress continue to fight the nuclear energy monster, the Irradiated Man, off the coast of Tokyo. The pair manage to get the monster out of the city and into the harbor where all the have to worry about a jumbo oil-liner and hundreds of sailors.

Worlds’ Finest #4 isn’t a great end to the arc, but it moves pretty well and Kara and Helena do come up with an interesting way to finally stop the monster. Once again we get more flashbacks from the pair’s early days on the new Earth, but once again they seem to be mostly random, relatively unimportant daily events, without any real effort made to tie them into the main story.

In one of the running jokes of the character having her costume constantly torn (that somehow managed to survive the transition into the New 52) Power Girl, after getting lathered in oil, gets a ripped boob window, momentarily helping out that hideous costume. For fans.

[DC, $2.99]

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Political Animals – Lost Boys

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Elaine (Sigourney Weaver) returns for Christmas with her family from a whirlwind tour from Siberia to Africa to a pair of shocking scandals involving the sinking of a Chinese nuclear sub off the coast of San Diego (that the Chinese have no intention of losing face by saving), and the discovery that the Vice President (Dylan Baker), in order to get an important piece of legislation passed, is going to blackmail a Republican Senator (David Monahan) about his secret relationship with T.J. (Sebastian Stan).

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The Newsroom – 5/1

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While celebrating the one-year (and one-week) anniversary of News Night 2.0 with the entire crew in Will’s (Jeff Daniels) apartment Charlie (Sam Waterston) gets an unexpected phone-call tipping him off that big news is about to break from the White House. Within a couple of hours everyone is taxied back to the offices to prepare for President Obama’s speech that they think, but are unable to prove, is the announcement that America has killed Osama Bin Laden.

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News and Notes

Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham LincolnEntertainment Weekly has released the first photo of Daniel Day-Lewis as Abaraham Lincoln in director Steven Spielberg‘s upcoming Lincoln

/Film is reporting Marvel Studios may be willing to give 20th Century Fox more time on the rights to a Daredevil reboot if Fox is willing to give back some Marvel properties which are part of the Fantastic Four universe – namely Galactus

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting Stanley Kubrick‘s first film Fear and Desire, which hasn’t been seen by the public in almost 60 years, will be released on home video for the first time on a Blu-ray from Kino Classics and the Library of Congress

Deadline is reporting Paramount is about to hire Christopher McQuarrie to adapt Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse for the big screen

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