Alan Kistler
NBC Likely to Ditch ‘Heroes,’ Fox Renews ‘Human Target’ for Second Season
Some heroes don't fade away. They just get canned.
Spinoff Online reported yesterday that NBC was leaning towards ending its superhero drama "Heroes" with a proper final season but now just may pull the plug entirely. Low ratings and low confidence have been plaguing the series for some time now and this might be a bum horse that just needs to be shot...
Peter Sarsgaard Shows Off His Freaky Hector Hammond Head
Isn't Peter Sarsgaard so dreamy? It's not wonder why innocent girls like Carey Mulligan are so easily seduced by those sleepy eyes and prize-winning smile. Of course, that all goes out the window now that we've seen him transformed into Hector Hammond, Hal Jordan's nemesis in the upcoming Green Lantern film...
Howard Stark Could be a Key Player in ‘Captain America’ Movie
Was Tony Stark's father the real superhero creator in the family? In a new MTV Splashpage interview, "Iron Man 2" director Jon Favreau let it slip that Howard Stark will not just be making a cameo in the upcoming Captain America, as he revealed in a previous interview...
FBI Shuts Down HTMLComics (And Why a True Digital Library Would Be More Effective)
Acting on the urging of a coalition of comic book publishers, the FBI has shut down pirate comic book site Htmlcomics.com. Among internet pirate fans, Htmlcomics was especially notorious; the site offered 6,630,021 pages of more than 5,700 scanned comics, which were available for unrestricted reading...
‘Kick-Ass’ Coming Back for a Comic Book and Movie Sequel
Yesterday, Mark Millar (co-creator of "Kick-Ass" and "Wanted") announced not only that a comic book sequel to "Kick-Ass" is coming this September, but that the second movie -- "Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall" -- is scheduled to begin production in 2011 and will be released in theaters in 2012
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The Geek Teamups of Sherlock Holmes, From Batman to Doctor Who
Hey, you! It was just January 6th, and you know what that means? No, not Three Kings Day! It's Sherlock Holmes' birthday! Seriously, this was established in the old books, look it up.
Few characters have the staying power of London's Great Detective, who recently exploded back onto the big screen in a blockbuster movie starring Robert Downey Jr...