A film adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr’s Kick-Ass has now officially entered pre-production according to Comic Book Resources. Based on the creator-owned comic from Marvel’s Icon imprint, the story follows a a 15-year-old boy named Dave Lizewski who attempts to become a real-life superhero. The catch is that he has no powers [...]

Marvel just announced a June 4th 2010 release date for Thor (six weeks after Iron Man 2), but Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust) is no longer is attached to direct the live action adaptation because his holding deal expired December. Back in October Vaughn told the Guardian that Marvel loved the latest draft of the [...]

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Global Nerdy brings us the photo of the day: Speeder Dogs.
Charles Grodin will cameo in Jason Segel’s new Muppet Movie. [mtv]
TorrentSpy already shut its doors earlier this year, and now they have been [...]

Hopefully Thor isn’t developing a serious beer belly waiting for Matthew Vaughn’s ambitious adaptation, once proposed for $300 million, to come to fruition. According to Moriarty at AICN, Vaughn (Star Dust, Layer Cake) is currently writing and set to direct an adaptation of Mark Millar’s nascent comic book Kick-Ass. Many know Millar from his work [...]

At one point, George Miller was in talks to take Justice League America down the all-CGI route a la Beowulf, and now Marvel’s dream-team flick, The Avengers, might be headed in that direction as well according to screenwriter Zak Penn (X-Men 2 and 3, The Incredible Hulk). Of course, this whole uber-caped enchilada [...]

It has been rumored for a couple months now that Stardust director Matthew Vaughn was in talks to direct a big screen adaptation of the Marvel Comics character Thor. And this morning Marvel has made the deal official.
I Am Legend scribe Mark Protosevich penned the adaptation. The Mighty Thor is a Marvel Comics superhero based [...]

We normally refrain from reporting MPAA Ratings, but we’re looking forward to the following two movies.
Ben Affleck’s directorial debut Gone Baby Gone has been Rated R For violence, drug content and pervasive language. Gone is an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane (Mystic River) novel of the same name. The film is getting a lot of [...]

Last week we posted an unofficial trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust (30 photos, Unofficial Movie Trailer). I complained about the effects and on the nose dialogue. Gaiman fans told me to wait for the real trailer to make judgement. Well now the real trailer is on Yahoo! Movies [...]

CanMag has posted what appears to be the first poster for Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust (30 photos, Unofficial Movie Trailer). Click on the photo to the left for a larger version. I’m guessing that this is just one of the character posters as Michelle Pfeiffer is one of the supporting [...]

The official website for Matthew Vaughn’s big screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust is now online. With that, we bring you 33 new production stills from the film. Check them out after the jump. As always, left click for higher resolution photos.