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The long drawn out process of bring Battle Angel Alita to the big screen is still in the running. Anime News Network reports that James Cameron is still interested in bringing this property to fruition. Will this ultimately happen? Many fans want it in their local theaters, but who knows. Link below to the article.
ICv2 is reporting that Zach Galifianakis will join Ryan Reynolds and director Robert Schwentke in the movie adaptation of Dark Horses R.I.P.D., which is a spin-off from Hellboy. The below links direct you to Galifianakis’ short article and Reynolds short article from ICv2.
Follow the links below to get the complete listing, from the Joe Shuster Award website, of all the nominees for the 7th annual 2011 award.
http://joeshusterawards.com/awards/about/2011-nominees/
http://joeshusterawards.com/awards/about/2011-nominees/les-nomines-aux-prix-joe-shuster-2010/
Marvel’s website announced that Chris Evans as Captain America will be on the cover of the latest issue of Empire magazine. Follow the link back to Marvel for the brief article.
http://marvel.com/news/story/15107/captain_america_in_empire_magazine
ICv2 reports that NY ComicCon will now be four days in length. So any fortunate librarians that get to attend, mark your calendars accordingly. The link below will take you to the short article.
ICv2 is reporting that Stephen King’s The Stand is in production at CBS/Warner Bros. I’m sure some of the attention is being brought back to this novel because of Marvel’s current graphic novel adaptation of The Stand. It is kind of ironic that Disney is not helping produce this film since they bought Marvel recently, but Warner Bros. is who just recently bought DC Comics. If they treat this movie as a multi-part as the article suggests this could be a decent movie. If your library doesn’t have the collected editions of this work, it would be a great addition to the library. Remember that Marvel is still adapting the novel, so the complete story has not yet been collected into Hardback or Trade Paperback, just up to it’s current book. Follow the link for the full article.
To give your patrons a different taste from just superhero fair Dynamite Entertainment is releasing George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards: Hard Call hard cover and Lone Ranger & Tonto Trade Paperback. The Wild Cards might interest some of your SciFi patrons that have not ventured into comic stories yet and the same can be said with the Lone Ranger title with your western readers. So use them to promote your graphic novel collection to show the variety of genres that are available to your library patrons. The links to Dynamite Entertain are below to read in-depth information about both titles to include pricing, sampling pages and ISBN information.
http://www.dynamiteentertainment.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1606901583
http://www.dynamiteentertainment.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1606901230
Yahoo’s Movie News & Gossip is reporting that Henry Cavill has been cast as the new Superman in Zack Snyder is connected with at this time. The link below will take you to the short article.
This will definitely be of interest for all the Hello Kitty Fans. Sephora Cosmetics has brought Hello Kitty cosmetics to the U.S. market. Librarians that have Hello Kitty fans and even anime fans in general will want to mention this to those respective patrons. Follow the link to Anime News Network for the full article.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-01-29/sephora-cosmetics-launches-u.s-hello-kitty-line
Dynamite releases Dean Knootz’s Nevermore in March. Remember that this is just an issue of a mini-series. Libraries will need to wait until it is released as a collected edition before they purchase this title. Follow the link to ICv2 for the brief article.