Monday, May 30, 2005
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED UPDATE
Cartoon Network has scheduled the network debut of the "Clash" episode of Justice League Unlimited for Saturday, June 11 at 9 p.m.
Here's how the network describes the episode:
"Captain Marvel, the World's Mightiest Mortal, joins the Justice League as Lex Luthor initiates a new plot."
"Clash" was written by J.M. DeMatteis and Dwayne McDuffie and was directed by Dan Riba.
Jerry O'Connell provides the voice of Captain Marvel and Shane Haboucha provides the voice of Billy Batson.
The episode will have an encore on Sunday, June 12 at 10:30 p.m.
In other Justice League Unlimited news:
* The "Task Force X" episode substantially improved its ratings from the same period last year. Tweens 9-14 delivery (596,000) surged by 43 percent and ratings (2.4) by 41 percent.
FIRST LOOKS
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For covers and four-page previews of upcoming titles, CLICK HERE.
Titles include Blade of the Immortal #102, Man with the Screaming Brain #2, Super Manga Blast! #52 and Hellboy: The Island #1 from Dark Horse and Hellshock: The Definitive Edition from Image Comics.
BATMAN BEGINS UPDATE
Batman Begins is having its premiere in Japan on Tuesday after a press conference in Tokyo on Monday.
Among those at the press conference were director Christopher Nolan, stars Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Ken Watanabe and Katie Holmes and producer Charles Roven.
In other Batman Begins news:
* Director Nolan said that he was extremely pleased with his cast.
"The cast has been truly wonderful. And it's nice to be able to say that without lying," he said, laughing. "Really, a wonderful bunch of individuals. And I think because it's such a large cast, there isn't a huge weight on anyone, really, except Christian Bale, and he's marvelous. He's incredible to work with.
"It's really been a joy. It's been a huge relief to me, actually. Because you never quite know as you cast. You cast people whose work you admire. You never really know how it's going to work out personality-wise. But it's such a good bunch.
"And it's allowed me to concentrate on the scale of the film and all the things I have to tackle. When you do a film this size, you don't have the opportunity to get as wrapped up in the characterization with the actors as you do. You have to balance it with all of the other things."
* Look for more on Batman Begins this week here in The Continuum.
BRIEFLY
* Heroic Publishing has announced an Oct. 21 release date for the first Flare trade paperback.
Flare: The New Adventures will collect stories from the first seven issues of Heroic Publishing's new Flare series into a 176-page, full-color format. The volume will feature a new cover by Daerick Gröss, plus stories by writer Wilson Hill, with artwork by Gordon Purcell, J. Adam Walters and Terry Pallot.
* Spider-Man 2 is airing three times in July on Cinemax: on Sunday, July 3 at 10 p.m. and on Friday, July 15 at 1:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.
* Coming Tuesday: First looks -- and much more!!!
COMICS CONTINUUM BACK ISSUES
In case you missed The Continuum's recent coverage, here are some links:
* For Tuesday, May 24, including House of M news, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, May 23, including Batman Begins news, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, May 21, including Victoria's Secret Service news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, May 20, including Spider-Man movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, May 19, including Sin City movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, May 18, including Marvel Comics' solicitations for August, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, May 17, including Image Comics news, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, May 16, including DC Comics' solicitations for August, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, May 14, including Green Lantern news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, May 13, including Image Comics' solicitations for August, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, May 12, including Marvel Comics news, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, May 11, including Marvel Comics news, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, May 10, including Dark Horse Comics' solicitations for August, CLICK HERE.
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