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Comic Riffs Archive: Superheroes
'SNL' MOCKS 'SPIDER-MAN's' JULIE TAYMOR: Video Clip of the Day
"Saturday Night Live" has officially turned "Spider-Man" director Julie Taymor's ouster from the director's chair into a firing. Kristen Wiig did her cutting impression of the Tony-winning director/designer last night, just days after "Turn Off the Dark" producers announced...
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Michael Cavna
| March 13, 2011; 12:00 PM ET |
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'SPIDER-MAN' TURNS OFF THE LIGHTS: Show to shutter in April; open June 15
As expected by some entertainment observers, Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" will shut down for more than two weeks as the troubled production's new creative team rushes in like emergency mechanics, ready to install their overhaul. The lead...
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Michael Cavna
| March 11, 2011; 7:15 PM ET |
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Philip William McKinley, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
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'SPIDER-MAN' SPINS NEW COURSE: New creative team, summer opening announced [UPDATED]
Note: This article originally published at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday. For weeks, rumors have swirled that Julie Taymor was hanging on by a thread. Now, the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" -- aka Broadway's most expensive musical ever...
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Michael Cavna
| March 9, 2011; 8:09 PM ET |
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Bono and the Edge, Broadway, Julie Taymor, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark
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IT TAKES TWO TO 'RANGO': Why the animated Depp hit is a very, very good film
"RANGO": Rango, you scaly devil -- you had me at "smuh!" As delivered by Johnny Depp, Rango the pet thespian's opening lines, actually, become "Smuh-smuh-smuh-SMUH!" With all his terrarium's a stage, our monologue-happy chameleon is doing vocal warm-ups, yet...
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Michael Cavna
| March 8, 2011; 1:45 PM ET |
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Superheroes
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Clint Eastwood, Gore Verbinski, Johnny Depp, Rango
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RIP, DWAYNE McDUFFIE: Shocked fans, friends mourn the comics/animation force [UPDATED]
Tomorrow, Dwayne McDuffie had written on his blog, he planned to be celebrating the launch of Reggie Hudlin's new website at a signing alongside such Hudlin friends as Rashida Jones, Eriq LaSalle, Ziggy Marley and McDuffie's Milestone Media co-founder,...
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Michael Cavna
| February 22, 2011; 4:53 PM ET |
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General, Superheroes, The Comic Book
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DC Entertainment, Damage Control, Dan DiDio, Dwayne McDuffie, Marvel Entertainment, Milestone Media, Reggie Hudlin, Static Shock, Tom Brevoort
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LIGHTS! CAMERA! PORTMAN! New 'THOR' trailer's best special effect: Natalie
The first "Thor" trailer left some viewers underwhelmed -- beyond Anthony Hopkins's booming presence, all that Norse power seemed rather, well, muted and diluted. Today, though, a new post-Super Bowl "Thor" trailer lands -- and with it, Comic Riffs,...
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Michael Cavna
| February 17, 2011; 8:15 PM ET |
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Geek Buzz, Superheroes
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Chris Hemsworth, Henry Cavill, Iron Man 3, Marvel Comics, Natalie Portman, Robert Downey Jr., Shane Black, Superman, Thor, Zack Snyder
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