Tag Javier Grillo-Marxuach
‘The Smurfs’ At The Box Office, ‘Captain America’ And ‘True Blood’ In Today’s Twitter Report
The crowd-drawing power of "The Smurfs" proved powerful enough to tie "Cowboys and Aliens" over the weekend. The little blue guys also beat out "Captain America: The First Avenger" in terms of box office receipts, which seemed to impress writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach.
Marvel's patriotic hero continued to get a lot of [read more]
‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ And Osama Bin Laden In Today’s Twitter Report
The new "Mission: Impossible—The Ghost Protocol" trailer has the world talking about Tom Cruise once again. Better yet, it's got Simon Pegg running around on the big screen once more, which, depending on whether you're reading Edgar Wright's tweets or Dylan Teague's tweets, could be a good thing or a [read more]
Shaq’s Retirement, DC’s Reboot, And ‘Game Of Thrones’ Concerns In Today’s Twitter Report
The Twitterspere has been wrestling with some big changes this week. If DC Comics' big reboot wasn't enough to tweet about, Shaq hopped onto trending lists last night by announcing his retirement from the NBA.
Michael Cho is going to miss Shaq's quotes, and just about everyone who's ever touched a [read more]
3-D Movie Backlash, ‘X-Men: First Class’ Reviews, And ‘Modern Warfare 3′ In Today’s Twitter Report
This summer's comic book movie roster already promised to be a good one, but early buzz on "X-Men: First Class" seems to be getting better and better. That's more than can be said for the 3-D films in the minds of the comics folks in our feed. Even David Slade [read more]
Wikileaks, George W. Bush On Facebook, And More ‘Firebreather’ In Today’s Twitter Report
If you dug Cartoon Network's new "Firebreather" movie last week, you may be in luck because art Andy Kuhn sounds optimistic that more animated action could be waiting around the corner.
Not everyone was quite so happy in the Twitter Report feed today, though. Wikileaks attracted some criticism following their U.S. [read more]
‘Buffy’ Without Joss Whedon, ‘Flash’ Movie Ideas, And ‘Superman’ In Today’s Twitter Report
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" die-hards have mostly been in revolt for the last day or so on Twitter, and they've been just as vocal from within the comics community. Marc Bernardin and Ron Marz both chimed in on the subject, and Erik Larsen attempted to be the voice of reason.
Elsewhere, [read more]
Comic Creators React To The ‘Green Lantern’ Trailer In Today’s Twitter Report!
We on the MTV Splash Page crew weren't alone refreshing our browsers last night when the "Green Lantern" trailer appeared for the world to see. The launch created a tidal wave of reactions all over the place, but the creators in the Twitter Report feed were as vocal as anyone.
Thus [read more]
‘Call Of Duty: Black Ops,’ Conan’s Return, And ‘Scott Pilgrim’ On Blu-Ray In Today’s Twitter Report
Now that "Call of Duty: Black Ops" is legally for sale, our Twitter feed had three perspective to present. There's Brian Reed, who knows that his copy has shipped; Andy Diggle, who has his game in hand; and a poor young actress from "Kick-Ass" who is old enough to use [read more]
‘Lost’ Writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach To Adapt ‘Dead@17′
Back in March, "Dead@17" creator Josh Howard told MTV News that Dennis Iliadis ("Last House On The Left") had signed on to direct the potential feature film adaptation. And now the project has a new screenwriter as well.
Javier Grillo-Marxuach recently left the following statement on Twitter: "Oh, here's another riddle [read more]
TWITTER REPORT: Andrew Garfield As Spider-Man, Defending ‘Eclipse,’ And Mel Gibson’s Remarks
The whole Wonder Woman clothing topic has been getting kind of stale this week on Twitter, so it was nice of Sony to offer up a new subject with last night's announcement that Andrew Garfield will be Spider-Man. Skottie Young likes him, Chris Samnee wants to know which artist's vision [read more]