News You Already Know

Comic Con Edition

So the years biggest convention has come and gone and none of us went. If you didn't want to wait for my lazy ass to update this blog then you did the right thing and went to Newsrama and read their amazing coverage. So if you did that then the title of News You Already Know is very fitting. For anyone who didn't.....Enjoy.

* Marvel made it official that Venom will be in Spidey 3 and even showed some early footage. My prediction is that Spidey 3 will shatter all records at the box office. Screw you Pirates!

* Brian Bendis and Frank Cho will be bringing us "The Mighty Avengers". Now most details were kept secret but I assume that this will be the Captain America team that will be working out of either Canada or a Space Satellite, and taking care of problems that are not happening in the United States. Expect more details after Civil War. Feel free to pick your seven hero roster for the team. I'm going with, Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Thing, Ms.Marvel, Hellcat, and Thor. See I didn't say Hercules because he's not gonna survive Civil War.

* The fake Daredevil was revealed as Iron Fist. Told ya so!

* Doom Patrol and Deadman are headed to the silver screen. Both could really end up being really good.

* This October Richard Donner and Geoff Johns will be co-writing Action Comics with Adam Kubert.

* Robert Kirkman called out Todd McFarlane!! Kirkman was like, "Dude why don't you draw?" and Todd was like, "Dude I make toys now." and Kirkman was like, "Dude just draw again." and Todd was like, "But Dude I make toys now." and then Kirkman was like, "Dude I will write it if you draw it." and then Todd was like, "Talk to my editor, but keep in mind, I make toys now."

* Adam Hughes will be writing and drawing All-Star Wonder Woman.

* The Mandarin will be the bad guy in the Iron Man movie.

Movies Making Money

I guess this edition should really be called Movies Not Making Money. It wasn't the best weekend for new openers Clerks 2, and Lady in the Water. Clerks 2 only made 10 million opening weekend. To date it's made 12.5 million BUT the bright side is it only cost 5 million to make.

Lady in the Water didn't fair to well. Lady in the Water took in 18 million opening weekend. To date it's made 22 million with a budget of 55 million.

Pirates is still a juggernaut, but who cares? Now on to Superman Returns. Supes has had a rough summer but the good news is it finally made it's money back. The movie has hit the 290 million dollar mark beating it's budget of 260 million.