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Friday, June 21, 2002

DAREDEVIL MOVIE PRESS CONFERENCE

Jennifer Garner talks about her black Elektra costume, Avi Arad talks about Marvel's newest franchise and Michael Clarke Duncan enthuses about the Kingpin in the second half of the transcript from the Daredevil movie press conference.

For the complete transcript, CLICK HERE.

In other Daredevil news:

* Star Ben Affleck will appear on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday, July 2.

BIRDS OF PREY UPDATE

The same actor who plays Batman in the OnStar commercials appears as the character in The WB's Birds of Prey pilot.

Batman, played by Bruce Thomas, appears very briefly in the pilot. He and Batgirl go after the Joker and he lunges after him, surrounded by fire.

In other Birds of Prey news:

* The Continuum on Thursday visited the Warner Bros. stages, where Birds of Prey is filmed.

One of the sets is New Gotham High, where Barbara Gordon is a teacher. A scene involving Barbara exercising was cut from the pilot, but might end up in the final version that actually airs on television. In addition to hallways and lockers, there is a small gymnasium.

* The Clocktower set is being revamped from the pilot. Currently in the works, it will be lighter in tone than it was in the pilot.

* Production on the first season is targeted to begin in late July.

* Metahumans will be appearing in Birds of Prey, but the show won't become a super-villain-of-the-week series.

* Look for more on Birds of Prey soon here in The Continuum.

MARVEL COMICS FIRST LOOKS

For covers and four-page previews of Marvel Comics titles shipping next week, CLICK HERE.

Titles include Captain America #3, Spider-Man and Black Cat: The Evil Men Do #1, Deadpool #68, The Incredible Hulk #42, The Infinity Abyss #2, Paradise X #3, Amazing Spider-Man #42, Spider-Man's Tangled Web #15 and Wolverine #178.

WOLVERINE IN SEPTEMBER

Marvel Comics on Thursday released information and covers for Wolverine-related books in September.

Wolverine #181, on sale Sept. 25, will mark the first issue for new editor Axel Alonso and feature a painted cover by Essad Ribic. Continuing writer Frank Tieri and penciler Sean Chen will shift the focus of the book, bringing Logan back to the streets.

Wolverine: Netsuke, an all-new, four-part series written and painted by George Platt, launches on Sept. 4.

Wolverine will appear in both Punisher #16-17, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Marvel released the cover to Punisher #16 by Tim Bradstreet. Punisher #16 will be in stores on Sept. 11 and #17 on Sept. 25.

GIVE'EM A CLICK

BLADE II ON HOME VIDEO

Blade II, the sequel starring Wesley Snipes as Marvel Comics' vampire hunter, will be released on a double-disc DVD and on VHS on Sept. 3 from New Line Home Entertainment.

Suggested retail prices of $22.94 for the VHS and $29.95 for the double-disc DVD.

Blade II opened at the top of the box office in March and has pulled in $81.4 million domestically, about $10 million more than the first Blade film. The VHS and DVD versions of Blade have sold more than 3.5 million units.

Blade II's two DVDs will include many extras.

Bonus Features on Disc 1 include:

* Commentary track with director Guillermo Del Toro and writer David Goyer

* Commentary track with producer Peter Frankfurt and Wesley Snipes

* Isolated score

* 16X9 Widescreen (1.85:1)

* Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound - English

* DTS surround sound - English

* Stereo surround sound - English

* English subtitles and closed captions

* Animated menus

Bonus Features on Disc 2, with approximately three hours of video material, include:

* Production Workshop

* Director's Notebook: Interactive reproduction of director's notes with an intro by Del Toro

* A Pact in Blood: Interactive collection of original documentaries

* Art gallery

* Original theatrical press kit

* Deleted/alternate scenes

* Blade II video game survival guide

* Music video: Cypress Hill and Roni Size "Child of the Wild West"

* Theatrical trailers

The Blade II VHS edition will also feature the bonus Cypress Hill/Roni Size "Child of the Wild West" music video from Immortal Records. The packaging will be stickered to call out the added feature.

RED STAR, GEOFF JOHNS TEAM UP FOR METAL HURLANT

Humanoids Publishing has announced that the second issue of Metal Hurlant will feature the story, "Red Light," written by Geoff Johns and featuring art and coloring by Team Red Star's Christian Gossett and Snakebite.

"Red Light" is the story of a prisoner on an alien world who is kept subdued by a mysterious red light and what happens on the fateful day the light is turned off.

The second issue of the bi-monthly anthology book also features work by Pin-Up Girls From Around The World artist, Fred Beltran, as well as Metabarons writer Alexandro Jodorowsky.

"The new Metal Hurlant is not just a comic. It's an attempt to raise the standard of excellence in the medium by a company of people whose tastes simply rock," Gossett said. "It's great to be a part of what Humanoids is doing and to get Geoff Johns thrown into the bargain is also just very cool.

"We've had lots of offers -- It was nice of Alex Ross to offer us Battle of the Planets, but Power Rangers in Bird Suits just isn't our thing - but this is the first work that Snakebite and I have accepted outside of Red Star. It all comes down to the amazingly high level of professionalism at Humanoids. It's an unparalleled experience to work with them and Geoff's story is awesome. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

"Red Star is an amazing book produced by an amazing creative team," Johns said. "I feel extremely lucky that Humanoids brought us together.

BRIEFLY

  • Here's a first look at Shang-Chi bust from Dynamic Force. The bust, designed by Dan Jurgens and sculpted by Howard Kalish, stands eight inches.

  • The Men in Black II soundtrack will be available on July 2. The film's stars, Tommy Lee Jones and Lara Flynn Boyle, will appear on NBC's The Today Show on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.

  • Spawn creator Todd McFarlane's talk show debuts on mlb.com on Friday. The one-hour show airs live at 3 p.m. (ET) every Friday.

    McFarlane and co-host Seth Everett will talk about current baseball issues and more, and will interview former player Bill "Spaceman" Lee for Friday's show. Each week promises to be a mix of sports, entertainment topics and guests.

    You can e-mail questions for McFarlane or Everett at radio@mlb.com.

  • X-Force's Peter Milligan was listed as Entertainment Weekly's "It" writer in the magazine's "It" issue. The Hulk movie star Eric Bana was also featured.

  • Coming Saturday: Image news -- and much more!!!
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