Here is the next video from Star Wars Rebels featuring the character Sabine. Again thanks to the Star Wars YouTube channel for sharing these videos:
From Star Wars Rebels: Zeb
Here is the next video from Star Wars Rebels featuring the character Zeb. Again thanks to the Star Wars YouTube channel for sharing these videos:
Biggest Production Deal Made
Marvel/Disney strikes a deal with New York and Netflix. In the deal filming will begin on four Marvel series: Daredevil; Jessica Jones; Luke Cage; Iron Fist; plus a mini-series to wrap up the first season of all four of these series entitled Defenders. All told it will be approximately 60 episodes total and Netflix will role out the series in 2015.
Clone Wars Lost Missions Trailer
The next week and a half are going to be Star Wars filled. I just looked at the “Star Wars” channel on YouTube and found trailers and teasers for Clone Wars: The Lost Missions and Star Wars Rebels. Each day I will spotlight a different video. Today’s is the latest, which is the trailer for The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions:
Marvel Offers Revenge Title
If you or your patrons are fans of ABC’s Revenge, currently in it’s third season, then this graphic novel might interest you. Marvel is slated to release Revenge: The Secret Origin of Emily Thorne on September 3. This is one you will want to consider adding to your graphic novel collection. This is kind of becoming a habit with Disney. They already have graphic novels for their ABC series Castle and Once Upon a Time.
Star Wars to go Single Continuity?
A surprising announcement from LucasFilm. Leland Chee says the Star Wars continuity is being looked at a a possible single continuity. No more of the movie or television show takes priority over another story because it is in a different format. This will make it nice for fans, which I’m sure will still find something to argue about, but difficult for the archivist who has to keep everything straight. Another question will be how far back into the storytelling formats will they go to say something is continuity or not. Only time will tell. Here is one statement made by Chee:
Chee tweeted that “Star Wars Canon is now determined by the Lucasfilm Story Group.” Asked whether that meant that the new Star Wars comics will be considered canon, or that they could still be contradicted by the movies and TV shows, Chee said, “Story Group has a hand in all facets of Star Wars storytelling, including movies, TV, games, and publishing.”
And asked whether the goal is to dispose of the hierarchy (in which movie continuity took precedence), Chee said, “That’s definitely a primary goal of the Story Group.”
Bringing the comics in house (see “Marvel Gets ‘Star Wars’“) could make it easier to create a single continuity across all expressions of the property. Outside licensees such as Fantasy Flight Games (see “Second ‘Star Wars RPG’ Adventure“) will undoubtedly also be impacted by the new strategy.
Star Wars going back to Marvel in 2015
What most people believed would happen is going to happen. In 2015, the Star Wars comic books will be back under the Marvel Entertainment Banner. In a business sense this makes all the sense in the world. Disney now owns both Marvel and LucasFilm, so this move will have the properties under their control. Dark Horse Comics has done a great job over the past 20 plus years and we thank them for their work. Now fans must get ready for the transition, but we have 12 months.
Lucasfilm and Marvel Join Forces to Publish Star Wars Comics
The Star Wars Universe comes to Marvel Comics in 2015!
The Walt Disney Company’s Lucasfilm Ltd. and Marvel Entertainment are joining forces to bring new Star Wars adventures to readers across the galaxy, with Marvel granted exclusive rights to create and publish Star Wars comics and graphic novels beginning in 2015.
The agreement marks a homecoming for the Star Wars comic books. Marvel Comics published the first Star Wars comic book, STAR WARS #1, in March 1977, which went on to sell more than 1 million copies. Marvel Comics published its STAR WARS series for nine years. In 1991, Dark Horse Comics took over the license, publishing fan-favorite titles like Dark Empire and Star Wars: Legacy. Last year, Dark Horse released The Star Wars #1, an adaptation of George Lucas’ original rough-draft screenplay for the film, garnering rave reviews and national media attention and ranking among the top-selling Star Wars comics of all time.
“Dark Horse Comics published exceptional Star Wars comics for over 20 years, and we will always be grateful for their enormous contributions to the mythos, and the terrific partnership that we had,” said Carol Roeder, director of Lucasfilm franchise publishing, Disney Publishing Worldwide. “In 2015, the cosmic adventures of Luke, Han, Leia and Chewbacca will make the lightspeed jump back to Marvel, to begin a new age of adventures within the Star Wars universe.
“We here at Marvel could not be more excited to continue the publication of Star Wars comic books and graphic novels,” said Marvel Worldwide Publisher and President, Dan Buckley. “The perennial brand of Star Wars is one of the most iconic in entertainment history and we are honored to have the opportunity to bring our creative talent pool to continue, and expand Star Wars into galaxies far, far away.”
“We’re incredibly excited by this next chapter in the Star Wars saga,” said Andrew B. Sugerman, executive vice president of Disney Publishing Worldwide. “Bringing together the iconic Lucasfilm and Marvel brands to tell new stories will allow us to continue to thrill lovers of the original Star Wars comic books and entertain generations to come.”
Marvel has continued to push comic book publishing forward with innovations and experiments like motion comics and digital-only releases, in addition to its deep, ongoing catalog of monthly series and graphic novels created by some of the industry’s most gifted artists and writers.
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Saving Mr. Banks Trailer
This is one that if it is shown in your area looks to be a fun one. It’s surprising that a Disney movie is getting a limited release, but there you go. If you are a Mary Poppins fan you definitely will want to see Saving Mr. Banks. Thanks to “MOVIECLIPS Trailers” for the following trailer:
We Get Another DC Hero on the Big Screen
Warner Bros. has announced that Gal Gadot will be in the next Superman movie, portraying Wonder Woman. That means that the Big Three DC Comics Heroes will be in this movie (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman). Sounds interesting and we all know that Warner Bros. is trying to get into a franchise set around the Justice League as Disney has done with Marvel Entertaiment’s Avengers franchise with individual movies around the main movie. The movie is scheduled to be released July 17, 2015.
Disney Inks Deal with Netflix
Disney has inked a deal with Netflix for some Disney’s Marvel Characters. Netflix will air four original series for Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist and then also a miniseries for Defenders. The first series will make it’s debut in 2015 and is planned to be Daredevil.
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