IDW Publishing has named Jerry Bennington as President, replacing Chris Ryall who recently exited the company to pursue new busness ventures. In addition, Jud Meyers has stepped into the role as Publisher and Rebekah Cahalin has been promoted to General Manager and Executive Vice President of Operations, covering both…
EXCLUSIVE: As civic unrest continues, there is clearly a shift in culture. Protests are part of progress and give a voice to a voiceless and there is a rich history from all around the world when it comes to change. The forthcoming graphic novel Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopesgives audiences insight into one of…
EXCLUSIVE TRAILER There’s a long, loud, and vivid history of crossover between rock music and comic books, be it music stars showing up in comics as characters (like KISS, whose band members added their own blood to the ink used for a 1970s-era Marvel Comics adventure) or all of the comic book artists who have…
EXCLUSIVE: IDW Publishing of San Diego will adapt Sleeping Beauties, the bestselling 2017 novel by Stephen King and Owen King, as a 10-part comic book epic by the international tandem of Canadian novelist Rio Youers (The Forgotten Girl) and London-based artist and architect Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard).
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John Carpenter is taking his Hollywood horror sensibilities to Gotham City, with DC Comics’ recent announcement that the director of The Thing, Halloween, and The Fog is co-writing a special 40-page Joker comic book.
Carpenter isn’t the only Hollywood notable dabbling in the comic book world — far from it, in fact, he…
Jeff Wadlow, the director of Sony’s upcoming Fantasy Island big-screen adaptation, is set to direct Danger Girl for Constantin Film AG with shooting to begin in 2020.
Danger Girl, described as a priority production for the Munich-based Constantin Film, will adapt the namesake comic book series co-created by…
Joe Hill’s comic book series Locke & Key is once again being eyed as a TV series. IDW Entertainment, whose publishing arm is behind the books, is developing the property as a television series with Hill attached to write the pilot and executive produce. The project is being developed internally with Circle of…
Hollywood’s desire for comic book properties shows no sign of slowing down. IDW Publishing today announced it’s spawning a new division, IDW Entertainment, to fund and develop new television properties based on its catalog of comic books and graphic novels. Entertainment industry vet David Ozer has been named…
With its gigantic promotional platform, Comic-Con has become the place for TV studios and networks to introduce their new genre series to fans through screenings of their pilots and panels with creators and cast. But showcasing pilots that didn’t go to series is extremely rare. It will happen this year with Fox’sLocke…
More lucrative extensions for HBO’s flagship series True Blood. HBO will release a True Blood graphic novel,True Blood, Vol.1: All Together Now. on February 8, 2011. It is a compilation of the six issues from the first True Blood comic book series plus bonus content. Since debuting in July, the True Blood comic…