Month: September 2017

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema’s adaptation of Stephen King’s It has already become the highest-grossing horror film of all time, and the movie’s third weekend at the box office is set to bring in a respectable $30 million dollars. However, that won’t be enough to hold the top spot. 20th Century Fox’s Kingsman: The
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Kiersey Clemons was cast as Iris West in the DC Extended Universe months ago, but it seems as if we’ll have to wait for some time before we see her take on the role. Clemons was set to debut her take on the love of Barry Allen’s life in November’s Justice League, but a new
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Fox’s Gambit film has been stuck in such developmental hell that star Channing Tatum had to come out and indicate to fans the project is still happening and that it’s restarting from scratch. Now, with the studio yet to firm up a director, full cast, or a production start date, some rumored plot details have
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Another character is being added to Premium Bandai’s high-quality Portrait.Of.Pirates One Piece figure series: Vinsmoke Reiju! Pre-orders for the Portrait.Of.Pirates One Piece LIMITED EDITION Vinsmoke Reiju figure (9,234 yen, tax included, shipping and handling not included) will go up on Sept. 29 at 1:00 pm. Reiju is the eldest child of the Vinsmoke family, making
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Sun-Star Stationery Co., Ltd. opened reservations for the Sailor Moon Happy Anniversary Set on the Sun-Star Stationery Store at Bandai’s official webshop Premium Bandai on Thursday! The set comes in two versions, Princess Serenity Set and Icon Set, each of which includes a silk wrapper pouch, two ornate envelopes made for money, and four decorative
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Enjoy a Halloween-themed take on the world of Haikyu!! at “Haikyu!! Halloween in J-WORLD TOKYO”! It’ll be held from Sept. 30 until Nov. 3 at Ikebukuro theme park J-WORLD TOKYO. Haikyu!! is a hit volleyball manga which has been adapted into 3 anime seasons thus far and also has highlight movies coming out this fall
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DARLING in the FRANXX, an upcoming original anime made in collaboration by Trigger ( Kill la Kill and Little Witch Academia ) and A-1 Pictures ( AnoHana and THE IDOLM@STER series) released its second character PV on Sep. 20! The video made its debut during the rebroadcast of Gurren Lagann, and it introduces a girl
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Skybound Entertainment, the company run by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, are teaming with Universal Pictures to develop the comic Kill the Minotaur into a feature film. The comic, written by Christian Cantamessa and Chris Pasetto, with art by Lukas Ketner and Jean-Francois Beaulieu, will be adapted and produced by Kirkman and his Skybound
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M. Night Shyamalan’s sequel to Split — titled Glass — has added a couple familiar faces from the first movie in the franchise, Unbreakable, as it builds towards Bruce Willis’ David Dunn meeting James McAvoy’s Kevin Wendell Crumb. RELATED: Glass: Synopsis for Unbreakable/Split Spinoff Surfaces Online Spencer Treat Clark will return as Dunn’s son, who
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Little sisters are such an iconic part of modern anime that it’s hard to imagine life without them, so Anime!Anime! ran a survey to find out which little sister was the most popular! Let’s find out just who made it to the top… 10. Doma Umaru ( Himouto! Umaru-chan )9. Kosaka Kirino ( Oreimo )8.
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Recently we’ve seen more and more fans celebrating their favorite anime characters’ birthdays with fun events like “birthday festivals” on SNS. That begs the question, though, which anime characters get the most love on their special day? With that in mind, we bring you this list of the top 11 September-born anime characters whose birthdays
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UPDATE 9/20/2017 1:00 AM ET: The full, official, widescreen Tomb Raider trailer arrived online late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning. UPDATE 9/19/2017 5:25 PM ET: The Instagram post containing the Tomb Raider trailer has since been deleted. Stick with CBR for updates! Lara Croft is back! The heavily anticipated first trailer for MGM’s Tomb Raider reboot
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Move over, Marvel! Deadline reports Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi is in talks to helm Warner Bros.’ film adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira. According to the report’s description of the film, “the story takes place in the rebuilt New Manhattan where a leader of a biker gang saves his friend from a medical experiment.” Warner
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Syfy has pushed the premiere of Happy! back by a week, but shared some new images to hold fans over until then. The series originally targeted November 29 for its premiere, but Syfy will hold off on airing the pilot for another week. Now, the series will debut on December 6 at 10/9c. In the
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When DC’s Legends of Tomorrow return in the Season 3 premiere, it seems as though they’ll make some time to go to the beach before they fix the timestream. If new photos from “Aruba-Con,” the season premiere, are any indication, this will go the same way as most of their plans: horribly wrong. In the
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Image Comics has released solicitation information and images for new books and products shipping in December 2017. When you’re through checking out these solicitations for new Image releases, be sure to visit CBR’s Image Comics forum to discuss these titles and products with fellow readers and fans. Image Comics Solicitations – Last Six Months RUMBLE
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This is Comic Book Easter Eggs, where I spotlight notable “Easter Eggs” (basically hidden references) within comic books or other media (so long as it is connected to comic books somehow). With issue #6 of Wonder Woman ’77 Meets the Bionic Woman getting released this Wednesday, we asked the writer of the comic, best-selling author
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The second issue of Dark Nights: Metal concluded with Batman being transformed into a gateway, through which the demon Barbatos and his seven evil Batmen have entered the DC Universe from the Dark Multiverse. Readers will have to wait for the release of Batman Lost in November to see how Batman will “face his greatest
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Despite a disappointing worldwide box office of $219m so far, there’s still hope for a Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets sequel according to director Luc Besson. RELATED: REVIEW: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets The sci-fi adventure movie starred huge stars including Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne and Rihanna, and is
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Ahead of the Sunday premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, CBS has revealed the titles of the first four episodes of the franchise’s television revival. RELATED: Jonathan Franks Drops Major Star Trek: Discovery Spoiler In the premiere episode, “The Vulcan Hello,” the crew of the Shenzhou will make a startling discovery in space, which leaves Michael
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This is Foggy Ruins of TIme, a feature that provides the cultural context behind certain comic book characters/behaviors. You know, the sort of then-topical references that have faded into the “foggy ruins of time.” To wit, twenty years from now, a college senior watching episodes of “Seinfeld” will likely miss a lot of the then-topical
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