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After making history as the first woman of color to helm a $100 million-plus live-action film in A Wrinkle In Time, Ava DuVernay will continue to play in the event film sandbox. She’s closing a deal with Warner Bros and DC to direct a big-budget screen adaptation of The New Gods, the creation of revered comic book…

Evangeline Lilly looks like she’s ready to take flight in her costume from Ant-Man And The Wasp. The actress posted a first look at her new costume for the Marvel Studios movie to celebrate the late, great comic book artist and Marvel legend Jack Kirby’s 100th birthday. The photo has Lilly as Hope van Dyne in full…

Without Jack Kirby there would be no Comic-Con. Period, full stop. On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the man now known as the King of Comics, no tribute can really do justice to Kirby’s vast impact and importance. Last week at D23, Disney boss Bob Iger made a pretty fine effort when he praised Kirby as “an…

Just days before the Supreme Court was set to take the matter into conference, Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have settled their long running legal dispute over the comic legend’s rights to the characters he created or co-created. Here’s their joint statement: "Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have amicably…

To quote the Thing from the Fantastic Four – "It's clobberin time!" Just two days after Jack Kirby was honored at Comic-Con, lawyers for the heirs of the comic legend have replied to Marvel and Disney with a pummeling brief filed at the Supreme Court. "Respondents, although called to respond, do not address the legal…

EXCLUSIVE: No big surprise that today Marvel and Disney asked the Supreme Court to deny a petition from the heirs of Captain America, The Avengers and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby. "This case presents a factbound application of a test uniformly adopted by the lower courts under a statute that does not apply to works…

Just eight days before X-Men: Days Of Future Past opens everywhere on May 23, the mutant team's co-creator Jack Kirby will be getting some marquee attention from the Justices of the Supreme Court. Attention that could lead to Marvel and Disney arguing in front of the High Court against the Kirby heirs over the rights…

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Just days before Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens, the heirs of Captain America, The Avengers and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby are asking the Supreme Court to hand them back the rights to the comic legends from Marvel and Disney. "The Court of Appeals unconstitutionally appropriated Kirby’s valuable copyrights…

They tried again, but they did not succeed. Today the heirs of Captain America, The Avengers and X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby were denied their recent petition to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals for a rehearing or a full rehearing en banc on whether the estate had the right to issue termination notices to Marvel on…

(UPDATE 1:55 PM)  After today's order in their favor from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that the estate of Jack Kirby had no right to issue notices back in 2009 terminating rights to characters he co-crested, Marvel issued the following: “We are gratified by the appellate court's definitive ruling that  there…

Captain America co-creator Joe Simon has died. The legendary Simon, who collaborated with Jack Kirby on other characters as well, died Wednesday night in New York City after a brief illness. He was 98. Athough Simon was a successful artist and editor in his own right, he remains best known for his partnership with…