Smallville: Absolute Justice hit a record high in the Friday night spot since its last high showing way back in September 2008. According to the CW, Smallville performed well in all key categories, including “adults 18-49 (1.2/4), men 18-49 (1.5/5), adults 18-34 (1.1/4), men 18-34 (1.3/5) and total viewers (2.8mil), according to preliminary live plus same day Nielsen ratings for Friday, Feb. 5, 2009.”
2.8 million may not seem like a lot when shows like The Ghost Whisperer brings in 8.8 million viewers, but it is big news for the CW. Now if only those 2.8 million people would actually go out and buy comic books, we might be able to give the industry the kick in the pants it needs.
Top Cow sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Tracker #3 that arrives in stores this week. Take the jump for a look at the isse by Jonathan Lincoln and Francis Tsai.
IDW Publishing ha announced a new series called Pantheon created by Michael Chiklis, Anny Simon Beck, and written by Marc Andreyko. The series tells a the story of the Greek gods returning to Earth to battle for the fate of mankind.
The five-issue series pits Zeus’s fellow gods against the Titans in an epic battle of good versus evil, and father versus son. Breaking the golden rule of Greek mythology – to never reveal themselves – the gods Zeus, Aphrodite, Pandora, Cronus, Prometheus and Jason return to their timeless battles, as Armageddon nears.
“As a kid, Greek Gods were very real to me, so the chance to bring my childhood heroes and villains to life in the modern world is irresistible,” said Chiklis, a third generation Greek-American, in a prepared statement. “Besides, I couldn’t say no to Zeus. . . no one in the family would ever talk to me again.”
Providing the art for the series will be Stephen Molnar, with the Sharp Brothers providing the covers for the series. Pantheon will launch during WonderCon, April 2 – 4, 2010 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.
Boom! Studios let Major Spoilers know that Mark Waid’s Incorruptible sold out once again at the distributor level. If you can’t find the first run of the issue, your local comic book shop can order the second printing from Diamond Comics, or from Haven Distributors. The second printing features interior art by Jean Diaz, and a distressed variant art of Dennis Calero for the cover.
If you want to know what goes on inside the book, be sure to check out the Major Spoilers review of the issue.
Tim Robbins has been cast as Senator Hammond, the father of villain Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard), in the upcoming Green Lantern film from Warner Bros. The film is scheduled to begin shooting in New Orleans in March as it heads toward its June 17, 2011 release date.
More cryptic messages out of Marvel for its upcoming X-Men: Second Coming arc that arrives in March 2010.
What’s the best way to get featured in the Art Appreciation Moment of the Day spot? Do something related to Major Spoilers. Thomas Perkins did a bang up job, and earns our respect.
Bill Murray seems to have confirmed the rumor that he will play the spectral version of Dr. Peter Venkman in the planned Ghostbusters 3 flick.
I’ll come back in Ghostbusters III only if I get to be a ghost. I said to them, ‘I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.’ So now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film.
That also pretty much confirms that we’ll be seeing a whole new group of young’uns picking up the proton packs and ridding the city of specters. Murray was able to play the undead to great effect in Zombieland, so I expect his moments on the screen will be the funniest.
Oh, Snap! This week, the Major Spoilers Crew is taking a look at one of the most important Spider-Man stories published – The Night Gwen Stacy Died.
“The Night Gwen Stacy Died” is a story arc of the Marvel Comics comic book series The Amazing Spider-Man #121-122 (June-July 1973), that became a watershed event in the life of the superhero Spider-Man, one of popular culture’s most enduring and recognizable fictional characters. The two-issue story, written by Gerry Conway, with pencil art by Gil Kane and inking by John Romita Sr. and Tony Mortellaro, features Spider-Man’s fight against his archnemesis, the Green Goblin, who has abducted his girlfriend Gwen Stacy and lured him to the George Washington Bridge.
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The Blu-ray edition of Halo Legends arrived at the Major Spoilers doorstep this past weekend, and since resident gamer Rodrigo was hanging around looking for something to do, we had him pop the movie in and file an early, spoiler-free, report.
I’m not a fan of remaking a movie, unless the next person up can do a better job than the one previously. John Carpenter did an excellent job back in 1982 with his remake of the 1951 “The Thing from Another World,” and it’s held up really well over the years. However, H’wood being H’wood, everything is going to be remade, and that includes The Thing.
Matthijs Van Jeijningen is directing the new movie, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton will star in the update.
Winstead will play a Ph.D. candidate who joins a Norwegian research team in Antarctica after it discovers an alien ship in the ice. When a trapped organism is freed and begins a series of attacks, she is forced to team with a blue-collar mercenary helicopter pilot (Edgerton) to stop the rampage.
Those who have been following our Scott Pilgrim coverage already know that Winstead plays Romona Flowers in the upcoming Pilgrim flick.
News arrived last week that David Goyer exited FlashForward, the ABC series that has had some ups and downs these last couple of months. Upon his exit, Goyer hinted at bigger things to come for the writer in the form of Batman 3 that he is writing with Christopher Nolan’s brother, Jonah.
This is the first word that we have that Batman 3 is now ramping up, which means we’ll start seeing even more rumors over which villains will appear, and what celebrity will be cast. Wanna start the speculation early?
I was too stunned by the announcement last week of the casting of Stretch Armstrong and forgot to post news that the Battleship movie has been bumped up to May 25, 2012 from the originally scheduled July 29th date. Now, word from Universal has Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens filling the spot. The only other movie currently scheduled for that date is the 3D Smurfs movie that could be a real hit overseas.
The legend of Zorro continues to grow up and down the coast of California as story after story builds the vigilante up to that of legend. If readers didn’t know the true story, we’d think Zorro was some kind of supernatural being of the night. In truth, he’s just a guy out to bring the man down.
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