Is this Scott Pilgrim?

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Michael Cera is in final negotiations to play the lead in Scott Pilgrim’s Little Life based on Bryan Lee O’Malley.

“Life” tells the story of a young slacker (Cera) who meets the woman of his dreams but finds that he can only win her heart by battling and defeating her seven evil ex-boyfriends.

I think Cera would be a great Scott Pilgrim, and once all the roles are cast, Universal will begin production - probably in the fall.

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This looks like it could be a fun title - there’s a guy fighting a giant crab on the cover.

Salt Water Taffy: The Seaside Adventures of Jack and Benny is an ongoing quarterly all-ages series to be released by Oni Press.

Jack and Benny are two young brothers on vacation in Chowder Bay, Maine for the entire summer. With no television or batteries for his Gameboy, Jack couldn’t be more bored. But when Benny, the youngest of the pair, spots a dark, indistinguishable shape creeping toward the ocean, the boys’ curiosity has them chasing one of Chowder Bay’s oldest legends. What exactly did Benny see? And what does it have to do with the recent rash of taffy thefts plaguing Dr. True’s sweet shop? Maybe the Putnam summer home won’t be as boring as the brothers feared! With surly old fisherman, sea monsters, warring seagulls, civil war ghosts, giant kleptomaniac eagles and mysteries around every corner–Chowder Bay may not just be the strangest place Jack and Benny have ever been to, it might be one of the strangest on Earth!

Fun! Salt Water Taffy: The Seaside Adventures of Jack and Benny will arrive May 7, 2008 for $5.95 (it’s 96 pages long).

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Leave it to the small guys to bring the exciting news. While the folks at Oni were busy working on their latest stuff, a truck ran through their front window.

We heard the initial impact in the street and everyone got up to see. I think the consensus was, “uppp…. we got ourselves another one.” I’m glad we got up because just then, our wall got hit and glass flew everywhere. James, our editor-in-chief was about a foot away from where the truck hit.

Everyone is okay, and it sure makes for a good story.

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Love him or hate him, McG has taking his slick MTV style approach to directing and produced enough eye candy to keep one entertained for a few hours. Next up for McG is the Oni Press adaptation of Maintenance for Warner Bros.

Joe Ballarini is adapting the project, which follows the exploits of two janitors who work at Terrormax Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of weapons and doomsday devices to supervillains. As comicbook’s conceit goes, if they’re not too busy cleaning up toxic spills and performing menial repairs on time machines, they just might save the world.

I love this quote from McG on the project, “Some of the films that made me want to become a director like ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ are based on action, comedy and ground-breaking special effects,” McG said. “It is my goal to make ‘Maintenance’ in the same tradition.”

If that is the case, this is going to be the kick ass movie of all time - Back to the Raiders of the Lost Future! Don’t make me cry like you did with Charlie’s Angels 2 McG. Don’t make me cry…

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Word out of San Diego last night was the Oni Press titles Courtney Crumrin and The Damned have both been acquired by Dreamworks Pictures to be turned into movies.

Lisa Gitter, Steven V. Scavelli and Joe Nozemack will co-produce the two projects for DreamWorks, while Peter Schwerin will exec produce. Alisa Tager brought in the projects to shingle Parkes/MacDonald, which is based at DreamWorks.

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Marvel landed forty-seven nominations in the Wizard Fan Awards. The final awards will be announced at Wizard World Chicago, August 9-12. There is a lot of good work being nominated this year, and I’m split in many of the categories.

You can vote online now at Wizard’s website.

If you are so inclined, take the jump to see the complete list of nominees.

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In August, Oni Press will release its lates prose work by Jamie S. Rich called Have You Seen the Horizon Lately? This is the third prose work released from Oni Press including The Everlasting and I was Someone Dead, the latest offering is a loot at interpersonal relationships in a world where entertainment and technology push us farther and farther apart. (more…)

Oni Press has slipped Major Spoilers a massive 27 page preview of the upcoming Black Metal graphic novel by Rick Spears and Chuck B.B.

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Oni Press let us know it is upgrading The Annotated Northwest Passage collection with additional pages but is keeping the same price the same.

The Northwest Passage is a collection of three volumes of Scott Chantler’s historicial western action adventure. The addition of 24 extra pages, with extra content, annotations and more, also prompted the company to increase the size of the book to 6×9.

Oni has provided a 19 page preview that you can see after the jump.

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Oni Press has announced Stephen Colbert, host of the Award-winning Colbert Report, will make an appearance at the New York Comic-Con to talk up his comic book “Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen”. The comic book is based on Colbert’s own sci-fi epic, Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure and the Tek Jansen animated shorts seen on Comedy Central.

Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen will be a five-issue mini hitting stores this March.

If you want to get Colbert’s autograph he will be at the Con Friday, February 23rd at 4:30 PM.

Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen #1 is 32 pages and sell for $3.99. It is written by John Layman and Tom Peyer with Jim Massey and illustrated by Scott Chantler.

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What if the mobs were run by demons? And what if instead of running numbers they were dealing in mortal souls? And what if there was one who didn’t like his lot in life? You’d have a pretty good story on your hands, thanks to The Damned from Oni Press.

The complete press release follows:

(Press Release) Oni Press is pleased to announce the October release of THE DAMNED - a new series by acclaimed horror writer Cullen Bunn & artist Brian Hurtt (QUEEN & COUNTRY, GOTHAM CENTRAL, HARD TIME).

During the prohibition era, gangsters grew rich on our nation’s vices, and rivalries between criminal organizations resulted in open warfare and gangland murders. But unknown to the common man, a more sinister power controlled the crime cartels, using greed, gluttony, lust, and other sins to fuel a much more lucrative trade: mortal souls.

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Comic-Con International 2006 will be the site of a number of exciting announcements from Oni Press. In addition to a full schedule of signings and portfolio reviews at their booth located at Booth 1934, the crew from Oni is gathering for a panel at 10:30 AM on Saturday, July 22 in Room 8 to preview and discuss new titles from Ray Fawkes & Cameron Stewart, Hunter Covington, Ande Parks, and many, many more.

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