US$4 billion is how much Disney is spending to buy Marvel Comics!
In case you haven’t looked at any other media outlet today, The House of the Mouse will now include spider-webs and adamantium claws as one of the biggest deals since Pixar’s sale has just happened. From CNNMoney.com:
Walt Disney Co on Monday agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment Inc for $4 billion in the biggest media deal of the year, banking on Marvel’s roster of superheroes to broaden its lineup of movie franchises that appeal to boys.
The deal is also expensive. The price tag values Marvel at 37 times its estimated 2009 earnings, and offers shareholders a 29 percent premium to Friday’s closing price. Standard & Poor’s reacted by placing Disney’s credit rating on its negative watchlist.
This is huge news for comic fans! The repercussions will be monumental: Does this mean Pixar will handle CG movies of Marvel characters? More Disney comic books from Marvel? Will Iron Man go drinking with Donald Duck? Will Disneyland now have a Marvel Town? Will Wolverine now need to get a hair cut to appeal to Goof Troop fans? The possibilities, both good and bad, are endless.
We’ll be tweeting more on the developments of this story as they are released
This proves to us that Nathan Fillion should be Hal Jordan.
This is probably the best rip-and-cut fan trailer we’ve ever seen (and we’ve seen alot) cobbling bits and pieces from tons of other movies. This trailer created by Jason Pitts for his dream Green Lantern movie gave us goosebumps and its not even real.
Three versions of the Watchmen are coming for home video. Regular single-disc DVD, deluxe 2-disc DVD and the mother of it all the deluxe 2-disc Blu-ray. And then in a new marketing twist, Dr. Manhattan will be on Facebook with you:
In an industry first, Warner Home Video is set to announce a plan to sync up “friend” networks on Facebook with the interactive community-screening features of Warners’ Blu-ray Disc releases, starting with the release of “Watchmen Director’s Cut.”
The studio partnership with the social network Web site will use the BD-Live interactive feature on high-def discs, allowing “Watchmen” purchasers to view the film simultaneously and share comments with their Facebook friends.
BD-Live has always allowed such “community screenings” via its “buddy list” function. But those lists now can be synched with Facebook’s friend networks for immediate access to a broad network of acquaintances.
The 2-Disc version is the 3 hour version Director’s Cut with 25 more minutes of footage! But before you rush out to pre-order it, it seems like there will be an “Ultimate Cut” that will incorporate the Black Freighter animation that was sold seperately pushing the runtime of Watchmen to 3 1/2 hours. ICV2 says this version may come out as early as this Fall, but most likely in time for Christmas shoppers.
Wash those images of the live-action movie from your eyes!
With any blockbuster movie, the inevitable animation tie-in sprouts up. But the Japanese know to leave a classic, basically, alone. Co-inciding with the release of the live-action American Dragonball Evolution movie, the original Dragonball Z TV series has been re-cut and re-mastered into the HD Dragonball Kai.
So either the economy has helped to stop the creation of another Dragonball travesty (GT anyone?) or the Japanese really do worship the House of Toriyama. Dragonball Kai basically remasters 100 of the original 261 episodes of Dragonball Z (no young Goku) and are airing now in Japan, but disregarding all the filler that deviated from the manga. Sound good? Nothing planned this weekend? Great, you can watch the first 3 episodes right here, and they are subtitled in English for you.
The series is being extensively “refreshed” for Japanese TV. It is not new animation, but simply a remastering of the original film. Part of this will be reformatting and extending the picture to 16:9 Widescreen (the Jump image says it will not be a cropping of the series, at least not completely). Through digital processing, the image will be made vibrant. All the grime, damage and noise remaining on the “Z” film will be removed, making the image much clearer in HD.
We’ll definitely be looking forward to a DVD relase of this for our own Dragonball collection.
This girl is Chi-Chi in the Dragonball movie? Son Goku you lucky monkey!
Meet 25-year old Jamie Chung from San Francisco. This sexy Asian-American actress will soon be heating up the silver screen in the live-action Dragonball Evolution movie – which from the trailer we’ve seen, unfortunately opens in Hong Kong on March 13th. We don’t want to hold this “so bad, it’s still bad” movie against Jamie, so we thought we’d promote her more since we hope to see more of her in the future.
Check out her photo gallery and Chi Chi history below and a photo-shoot video here for your enjoyment over the weekend:
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