The Joker Goes Wild For "Batman: Arkham City"

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will release "Batman: Arkham City", the official sequel to the video game "Batman: Arkham Asylum", September 2011.

"We are thrilled to build a global game franchise from 'Batman: Arkham Asylum,' which is receiving an incredible response from gamers and Batman fans around the world," said Martin Tremblay, President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

"Rocksteady has taken Batman to a new level in the video game space and we are committed to delivering a sequel the fans will love."

"Batman: Arkham City" features a battered 'Joker (Mark Hamill) ', recovering from wounds received in "Batman: Arkham Asylum", then nursed back to health by 'Harley Quinn' (Arlene Sorkin), as 'Gotham City' descends into chaos.

Other DC Comics villains appearing in the game include 'Mr. Freeze', 'Talia al Ghul', 'Two-Face', the 'Riddler' and 'Catwoman'.

"We are honored to create the next chapter in this compelling story and promise to deliver another game worthy of the 'Dark Knight'", said Sefton Hill, Game Director, Rocksteady Studios.

Written by veteran "Batman" comic book writer Paul Dini, "Arkham Asylum" follows 'The Joker' who instigates an elaborate plot from within 'Arkham Asylum' where many of Batman's other villains have been incarcerated.

Batman investigates and learns that the Joker is trying to create an army of creatures to threaten 'Gotham City'.

The game's main characters are voiced by actors from DC's animated features including Kevin Conroy as Batman.

The game is played as a third-person perspective action-adventure with a focus on Batman's combat abilities, stealth and detective skills, using an arsenal of gadgets.

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Carmody Confirms "Resident Evil 5"

Toronto-based film producer Don Carmody confirms that the fifth "Resident Evil" feature, starring Milla Jovovich, is in active script development, to shoot in Toronto, following news of "Resident Evil: Afterlife" winning the Canadian 'Golden Reel Award', given to the highest-grossing Canadian feature film of the year.

"Resident Evil: Afterlife", the $60 million, 3D Canadian-German co-production, grossed approximately $7-million in Canada last year, adding to its worldwide box office total take of $296,221,566.

The Toronto-lensed feature was written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, starring his wife Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe and Wentworth Miller.

It is the fourth installment in a series of film adaptations based loosely on Capcom's survival horror video game series "Resident Evil". It was also the first film in the series to be released in 3D.

In the film, 'Alice' (Jovovich) is a former 'Umbrella Corporation' security officer whose exposure to the 'T-Virus' granted her superhuman abilities. Since her escape from 'Raccoon City', she has been hunted by Umbrella, who intends to use her DNA in order to control the virus' mutation.

Jovovich confirmed that her husband has started writing the screenplay for the next film in the "Resident Evil" movie franchise.

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Red 5 Comics "Moon Girl" - April 20

Red 5 Comics' "Moon Girl" #1, available April 20 is written by Tony Trov and Johnny Zito, with art by The Rahzzah :

"...In the pulp New York of the 1950's, 'Moon Girl' looks to a life beyond her role as champion of the counter-culture and social revolution. However, she is forced back in to action when fanatics, inspired by her adventures, begin enforcing their own brand of justice..."

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Coppola Takes It "On The Road"

Sneak Peek the first images from "On The Road", director Walter Salles' film adaptation of author Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road", starring Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams.

Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, on a $25 million budget, the story is based on the years Kerouac spent traveling America in the 1940's with his friend 'Neal Cassady' and several other figures who would go onto fame in their own right, including William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

"On the Road", written by Kerouac in 1951, was eventually published in 1957. The largely autobiographical work, is often considered a defining work of the postwar 'Beat Generation' that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drugs.

Salles' 'guerilla shoot' started August 2010, in Montreal, Quebec, then to Gatineau, Quebec, with the city standing in for Denver, Colorado, circa 1947. Production then moved to Calgary, Alberta, with additional scenes lensed in Argentina, Mexico, New Orleans, Arizona and San Francisco.

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"Anywhere USA" On DVD March 22

The 2008 satirical comedy "Anywhere USA", directed by Anthony "Chusy" Haney-Jardine, written by Jennifer Macdonald and Haney-Jardine, starring Perla Haney-Jardine ("Kill Bill") will be released on DVD March 22, 2011.

Winner of the 'Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, The Spirit of Independence' @ the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the feature also screened at the London Underground Film Festival in 2010 :

"...Told in three subtly related segments ('Penance', 'Loss' and 'Ignorance'), "Anywhere USA is a portrait of one man's America inspired by and drawn from the director's own experiences as both foreigner and citizen of the United States.

"Featuring a cast of mostly non-professionals, exploring geo-political vagaries, good intentions, faith and disappointment, this deeply personal film manages to tread the lines between vulgar and humane, between absurd and tender, and finds its heart in the story segment featuring the director's own daughter and a man living in a van..."

"Anywhere U.S.A. reduces every audience that sees it into a delighted, giggling mob," said director and "Anywhere USA" fan Quentin Tarantino.

"The talented cast of non-professionals reminds one of what the word, 'amateur' really means: to love. As silly, provocative, risky and downright loose-screwed as Mr. Haney-Jardine and his cast are, the sense that they did this movie out of love - love for the weird, love for the unsayable idea, love for the privilege of movie making - proved to be one of the most moving experiences at the Sundance Film Festival..."

The film was shot with the Panasonic AG-HVX200 P2 HD camcorder, as "the project just might be seen somewhere", said Haney-Jardine.

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Sneak Peek "Captain America: The First Avenger"

Sneak Peek more new images from Marvel Studios "Captain America: The First Avenger", based on the Marvel Comics superhero.

The 3D, 2D feature, directed by Joe Johnston ("The Wolfman") set during WW II, was written by David Self, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and Joss Whedon, scheduled for a July 22, 2011 Paramount release.

"The interesting thing about this character is that he's an everyman who in the course of a few minutes become a perfect human specimen," said director Johnston.

"I saw it as an opportunity to make a superhero movie that felt real, that didn't have to rely on an overabundance of fantasy elements."

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MTV's "Teen Wolf" TV Series - June 5, 2011

"Teen Wolf", the upcoming MTV live-action TV series, will have its pilot premiere, directed by Russell Mulcahy ("Resident Evil: Extinction"), June 5, 2011 following the "MTV Movie Awards".

The 12-episode series is based around young outsider 'Scott McCall', who one night wanders around the woods and is attacked by a 'werewolf'. He escapes the attack with only a bite to his side, but then starts to notice his body going through some big changes.

Produced by Lost Marbles and MGM Television, "Teen Wolf" cast includes Tyler Posey as McCall, Colton Haynes as 'Jackson Whittmore', Crystal Reed as 'Allison', Tyler Hoechlin as 'Derek Hale', Dylan O'Brien as 'Stiles' and Holland Roden as 'Lydia'.

MTV said the series emphasizes "romance, horror and werewolf mythology".

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"Jonah Hex" Producer Caught In The "V.I.C.E."

Top Cow Productions will team with producer Andrew Lazar ("Jonah Hex"), to adapt the Top Cow/Image, five-issue, 2005 comic book series "V.I.C.E." into a live-action feature.

Co-created by Matt Hawkins, written by TV writer Aron Coleite ("Crossing Jordan") and illustrated by Marc Silvestri, Joe Benitez and Tyler Kirkham, the "V.I.C.E." comic book series follows a group of teen criminals who agree to aid the FBI in return for wiping out their police record 'rap sheets'.

"V.I.C.E." (aka 'Violent Incident Control Enforcement') follows the super powered agents, charged with bringing down domestic terrorists and superhuman threats.

"...The 'V.I.C.E.' agents are not without their own flaws, but they all must overcome their own personal problems to act as the last line of defense against world-shaking threats..."

"'V.I.C.E.' has the spirit of great team books, but it’s also the next evolution," said Top Cow. "This is one of the darkest of team books, and one of the darkest of dramas, with even the 'good guys' coming across a bit shady."

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