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The neck-breaking speed with which the much maligned AKIRA live-action film goes in and out of active development has me unsure as to its present status, but the movie blog people seem to think it's dead for the moment. However, seemingly determined to bring some manga to American cinema audiences, Warner Bros...

Responding to Acting Auditions' plot synopsis for the live action Akira film on the way from Warner Bros., Curious Old Library's Chris Schweizer has illustrated his tongue-in-cheek excitement for a film that seems desperate to deviate from Katsuhiro Otomo's manga source material as much as possible...

It's been an uncommonly frank couple of weeks for comic book filmmakers, especially if you count the hilariously stupid and very public remarks of X-Men: The Last Stand director Brett Ratner about his imagined sexual history with model/actresses Olivia Munn and his use of a homophobic slur that apparently cost him his job as producer of the next Academy Awards...

In a New York Times piece published this week, writer Nick Bilton makes the keen observation that the cultural ascension of hacker group Anonymous has been a financial boon for Warner Bros., the media company that owns the Guy Fawkes image that protesters wear as a mask...

Despite being regarded as something of a flop, Green Lantern will apparently be followed up by a sequel that Warner Bros. President Jeff Robinov indicates will be "darker and edgier" than the original light-hearted Ryan Reynolds romp based on the DC Comics superhero...

To quote Tetsuo: "Hrrngg... hrrngg..." Just when it seemed that plans to produce a live-action American film based on AKIRA, the seminal and sacrosanct manga and anime created by Katsuhiro Otomo, had been scuttled in the name of good taste, it turns out the project is actually very much alive...

No, you did not misread that headline. As reported by both Joystiq and Kotaku, Warner Bros. Interactive is developing Gotham City Impostors, a multiplayer first-person shooter set in Batman's hometown where players will take on characters "inspired by" Batman and the Joker and shoot each other...

As woefully incapable as most of us would be of successfully defeating cosmic fear entities, the thought of possessing the powers of a Green Lantern can be pretty appealing. Flight, not dying in space, getting to hang out with Kilowog -- it's pretty fun stuff on the surface...

From its first appearance on the cover of Entertainment Weekly back in July, Ryan Reynold's computer generated Green Lantern guise has taken its share of heat. Some fans aren't into the biological aspect of the GL movie costume, preferring something closer to the classic comic books' clothing-like look to glowing musculature...

It's been a Wimbledon-level week of neck snapping for film industry observers curious about Warner Bros.' DC Comics franchise. One day it seemed like the studio would be following Marvel's strategy of a shared cinematic superhero universe, the next day it seemed like the opposite...