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EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood predators beware! Hit-Girl is coming for you. Mark Millar unveiled the first cover and details of Kevin Smith’s Hit Girl: The Golden Rage of Hollywood. Popularized by Chloë Grace Moretz’s portrayal of the uber-violent, ass-kicking heroine in Matthew Vaughn’s movie adaptations of Mark Millar’s Kick…

EXCLUSIVE: Just under a year after Netflix inked a deal to purchase Kick-Ass, Jupiter's Legacy and Kingsman creator Mark Miller's comic booking publishing company, the team have their inaugural series The Magic Order coming out next week – and its poised to be a total sell-out. Based on pre-order indications, the…

Marvel Universe? You mean Marv Universe. Kick-Ass and Kingsman filmmaker Matthew Vaughn of Marv Films is setting up Marv Studios, he has told UK movie magazine Empire. Under that banner, the director-producer is planning a reboot of the action-comedy Kick-Ass series and hinted that Patience Lee, the African-American…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Pictures is eyeing Kick-Ass star Aaron-Taylor Johnson to star in Godzilla, the Gareth Edwards-directed reboot of the franchise based on the iconic Japanese reptile. I’m told that Johnson, who starred in the Oliver Stone-directed Savages and Anna Karenina and followed by reprising in Kick-Ass 2: Bal…

LOS ANGELES, CA. – September 27, 2012…. Marking an expanded commitment to some of its most important franchises, Twentieth Century Fox has brought on comics superstar Mark Millar to serve as a creative consultant on the studio's upcoming projects based on Marvel Comics properties. Millar wrote several celebrated…

Luke Y. Thompson contributes to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con. This year’s event runs July 12-15. For all the claims that Comic-Con turned a movie into a hit, an equal number of pundits can argue otherwise. The fact is, it’s impossible to argue Comic-Con is the sole driving factor behind any successful movie. It’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is in talks to make Kick-Ass 2, with Jeff Wadlow directing his script. I’m told the intention is to get the film in production by August. Discussions are just getting underway with such original castmembers as Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and they will have to…

The funniest line in the release? Lionsgate was profitable in its fiscal first quarter in part due to “decreased costs associated with shareholder activism” — an obvious reference to billionaire Carl Icahn’s run at the studio last year. Lionsgate swung to a $12.2M profit from a $64.1M loss in the same quarter last…

Comedy Central and MTV networks just announced the nominations for their inaugural Comedy Awards, which will air on April 10. The nominations span 15 categories in TV and film, including best comedy series and film. The best comedy series field includes awards favorites 30 Rock, The Office and Modern Family, along…

The King's Speech scored eight British Independent Film Award nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and two Best Supporting Actor nominations. The other nominees for Best Film include Four Lions, Kick-Ass, Monsters and Never Let Me Go. In the acting categories, Jim Broadbent (Anot…

Lionsgate has recommended to shareholders that they spurn Carl Icahn’s latest offer to pay $7.50 for outstanding shares. The company just filed its Schedule 14D-9 Report. The report described a September 7 meeting of the board of directors, which unanimously rejected the offer and voted to recommend that shareholders…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter Jane Goldman has signed with WME. The British scribe is best known for teaming with director Matthew Vaughn to write Stardust and Kick-Ass. They are now scribbling away on X-Men: First Class as Vaughn heads to the starting gate. They also scripted The Debt, the John Madden-directed drama that…