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THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2008
THE DARK KNIGHT: IMAX
The Continuum continues its daily coverage of The Dark Knight with a look at the shooting of six scenes of the film with IMAX cameras.
To read the feature story, CLICK HERE.
THE SPIRIT / PUNISHER: WAR ZONE
Lionsgate is ramping up for a big push at Comic-Con International next week for its two December-releasing comic book movies, The Spirit and Punisher: War Zone.
Lionsgate has provided The Continuum the new trailer for The Spirit, which you can see by CLICKING HERE, as well as the poster images for its panels and signings at Comic-Con in San Diego.
The Spirit writer/director Frank Miller and stars Gabriel Macht and Samuel L. Jackson will be featred in a panel on Friday, July 25 at 2:45 p.m. More guests are possible, according to Lionsgate.
Macht, who is is also featured in the upcoming Whiteout movie, will be signing at the Lionsgate booth at Comic-Con on Friday, July 25 from 5-6 p.m.
Punisher: War Zone stars Ray Stevenson and Julie Benz and producer Gale Anne Hurd will be feature in panel on Thursday, July 24 from 8-8:30 p.m.
Stevenson and Punisher cover artist Tim Bradstreet will be signing at the Marvel booth on Thursday, July 24 from 2-3 p.m.
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BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD
Tom Kenny is providing the voice of Plastic Man for Cartoon Network's Batman: The Brave and the Bold animated series, The Continuum has learned.
Kenny is best known as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, but his lengthy voice resume includes The Penguin on The Batman, Starscream on Transformers Animated and Mumbo on Teen Titans.
Another animation veteran, John DiMaggio, is providing the voice of Aquaman. His many credits include Bender in Futurama, Hammerhead and Sandman in The Spectacular Spider-Man, Toyman in Superman Doomsday and Brother Blood in Teen Titans.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold will be featured in a panel at Comic-Con Internation on Friday, July 25. Guests will include Diedrich Bader, the voice of Batman, as well as producers Sam Register and James Tucker, story editor Michael Jelenic, voice director Andrea Romano and directors Brandon Vietti, Ben Jones and Michael Chang.
Look for more on the series soon here in The Continuum.
TERMINATOR SALVATION TEASER
Warner Bros. has provided The Continuum the first teaser for Terminator Salvation, starring The Dark Knight's Christian Bale.
To watch the teaser, CLICK HERE.
MARVEL COMICS SECOND PRINTINGS
Marvel Comics on Thursday announced second printings for the sold-out Astonishing X-Men #25 and Ultimates 3 #4.
The second printing of Astonishing X-Men #25 will feature a new cover from Simone Bianchi and will be in stores on August 13.
The second printing of Ultimates 3 #4 will feature a cover from the interior art by Joe Madureira and Christian Lichtner and will be in stores on August 20.
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FIRST LOOKS
For covers and three- to seven-page previews of upcoming titles, CLICK HERE.
Titles include Starship Troopers #9 from Markosia Publishing and Pigeons from Hell #4 from Dark Horse Comics.
OCTOBER SOLICITATIONS ROUNDUP
For previously posted October solicitations, click on the publishers' names below:
BRIEFLY
* Cartoon Network has added the two Hellboy animated movies to its schedule on Saturday. Hellboy: Sword of Storms will air at 8 p.m. and Hellboy: Blood and Iron will air at 9:30 p.m.
* Activision has announced it is developing a video game based on Twentieth Century Fox/Marvel's X-Men Origins: Wolverine in development at Raven Software.
COMICS CONTINUUM BACK ISSUES
In case you missed The Continuum's coverage over the past month, here are some links. Click on the date to get the day's full report.
* Saturday, July 12: Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight and First Looks.
* Friday, July 11: Smallville, Marvel Comics First Looks and Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Mike Mignola.
* Thursday, July 10: Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Guillermo del Toro, The Dark Knight, Aspen Comics for October, Image Comics First Looks and Watchmen movie.
* Wednesday, July 9: Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Ron Perlman, The Dark Knight, Dark Horse Comics for October, The Middleman, Marvel Comics First Looks and Archie Comics First Looks.
* Tuesday, July 8: Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Luke Goss and Anna Walton, The Dark Knight, Batman Gotham Knight, Fear Itself, Dynamite Entertainment First Looks and Marvel Comics First Looks.
* Monday, July 7: Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Doug Jones, The Dark Knight, The Middleman, Moonstone Books for October, Dark Horse Comics First Looks, DC Comics First Looks and Longshot.
* Sunday, July 6: Wanted and The Dark Knight's Morgan Freeman.
* Saturday, July 5: Top Cow Productions First Looks and The Dark Knight.
* Friday, July 4: The Dark Knight's Christian Bale and Marvel Comics First Looks.
* Thursday, July 3: Wanted's Timur Bekmambetov, The Dark Knight's Christopher Nolan and First Looks.
* Wednesday, July 2: The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Middleman, Archie Comics First Looks and Fear Itself.
* Tuesday, July 1: The Middleman's Natalie Morales, The Dark Knight and First Looks.
* Monday, June 30: Punisher: War Zone, The Dark Knight, Dynamite Entertainment First Looks and The Middleman.
* Sunday, June 29: Wanted, Vampire Hunter D and The Corps!.
* Saturday, June 28: Michael Turner dies, Wanted box office.
* Friday, June 27: From Wizard World Chicago: Ultimate Universe panel, Mondo Marvel panel, DC Nation panel and Vertigo panel; plus -- The Dark Knight and Marvel First Looks.
* Thursday, June 26: Wanted's James McAvoy and Image Comics First Looks.
* Wednesday, June 25: Boom! Studios for September, Dynamite Entertainment for September, Marvel Comics First Looks, Archie Comics First Looks and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.
* Tuesday, June 24: The Middleman, Aspen Comics for September, Wanted and First Looks.
* Monday, June 23: Wanted's Common, Uncanny X-Men, Image Comics First Looks, DC Comics First Looks, Radical Publishing for September and Big City Comics for September.
* Sunday, June 22: Oni Press for September, Viper Comics for September, The Incredible Hulk and Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
* Saturday, June 21: Smallville's Allison Mack, Dynamite Entertainment First Looks, Virgin Comics First Looks, Boom! Studios First Looks, Dabel Brothers Productions for September and Fear Itself.
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