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By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) What the Disney/Marvel Deal Means: Will Pixar Develop Marvel Superhero Films?New Marvel Movie Logos and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Teaser PosterCaptain America, Thor, The Avengers, and Spider-Man 4 Get New Release DatesParamount To Distribute Iron Man Sequels, Thor, Captain Ameri...

By Travis In the long term, the deal makes sense for Disney. Even though the most popular and obvious characters are tied up, a library of 7,000+ characters presents a lot of depth to mine. With all of the TV, animation movies, cartoon and video game formats Disney can readily deploy, there are a ton of w...

By Johanna Someone asked how this would impact the film rights of characters at other studios. Disney said they thought Marvel did a good job putting attractive deals in place, and those deals would stay in place under the terms Marvel entered into.

By Travis The move has been a long time in the making because the good suits at WB have been for the most part miserable at capitalizing on their library of DC characters. Watchmen finally made it out, and Batman has been successful, but everything else has been a miserable failure, or forgotten in med...

By Travis Kidding aside, most reporting emphasizes the wish, and the stated aims to leave Marvel alone and just let them do what they do best, in the words of a furry little Canadian. Newsarama and others are quick to mention Pixar just as most of us were. One of the biggest points I agree with is the tende...

Like Marvel (NYSE: MVL) and Universal Studios, which have been churning out movies based on Marvel's stable of comic book heroes, Time Warner has its own DC Comics heroes, and CAPS member SneakyFerry says it would be a good idea to delve further into ...

Nominations include The Dark Knight and Iron Man, both of which are adapted from long-established and popular comics. The Dark Knight comes from DC Comics' well-known Batman series; Iron Man is a Marvel Comics creation. ...

By Travis So if you already hold Marvel stock, here�s what you�ll get: $30 in cash for every share of Marvel, plus about 0.745 shares of Disney stock. Based on those details, the overall value of the deal is about $50 per Marvel share, or $4 billion total.

By Charlie Jane Anders Green slime Has there been a TV show or comic book? Fraid not. Metal House Robots Has there been a TV show or comic book? No. Robot Commando Has there been a TV show or comic book? No. Air Raiders Has there been a TV show or comic book? A comic, once again published by Marvel.

By Ryan Secondly, DC has had movies out. V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the upcoming Watchmen, just from Alan Moore. Hellblazer/ Constantine. A History of Violence. And, Gaiman's Star Dust. They've just failed to bring their superheroes to the screen, aside from Superman a...

By Travis Let me start with the caveat that I have high expectations for my comic stories; they are more expensive now, and there has been a long history of development to get the comics field to a point where we can have great art accompanied by intelligent stories that can entertain and/or educate u...

By Kevin Melrose He had worked on such titles as Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!, Green Arrow: Year One and The All-New Atom.   Editor Casey Seijas has left DC/Vertigo to oversee Splash Page, MTV’s new comics/movies blog. Seijas edited Hellblazer, and assisted on 100 Bullets, Y: The Last Man, DMZ, Scalped and o...

By Kevin Melrose He had worked on such titles as Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!, Green Arrow: Year One and The All-New Atom.   Editor Casey Seijas has left DC/Vertigo to oversee Splash Page, MTV’s new comics/movies blog. Seijas edited Hellblazer, and assisted on 100 Bullets, Y: The Last Man, DMZ, Scalped and o...

 WA - Jul 14, 2008 Even as a person with only a passing interest in comic books, I've always been aware that there were two separate, rival universes: DC and Marvel. DC Comics ...