Crushing My Hopes and Dreams

The two movies I’ve been looking forward too this year, the most, were/are “The Avengers” and “The Amazing Spiderman”. And I can tell you now The Dark Knight Rises doesn’t even enter in to this.

Along with 90% of the comic book geek population I’ve seen the Avengers already. I saw it the day after it came out in my country, and the reason I didn’t see it sooner was because university got in the way. And I’ve seen it again since then, and would happily go a third time, in fact I may still do that. I’ll be buying it as soon as it’s available in the shops, and currently I’m trying to complete my marvel collection by hunting down Iron Man 2, which I’ll probably end up getting off Amazon real soon.

The Amazing Spiderman is due out in June, and once again, this topped my list of ‘awesome’, as I’m a HUGE spider man fangirl. The Lizard is the bad guy, and I had an entire theory about how the lizard was going to tie in to the whole super soldier serum that was the basis of plot for The Incredible Hulk and Captain America. And then I had my hopes and dreams crushed by Copyright law.

And it’s really simple. To summarise:

Marvel is owned by Disney. Disney are there for owns all the Marvel characters, and any films that were made by Marvel Studios. They are responsible for Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and The Avengers.

However this is relatively new. Before then, Marvel had dealing’s with lots of companies to make the movies. X-Men/Mutants, The Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and Elektra are owned by 20th Centaury Fox. (I tell you I am a brown coat, and if you know what that is, you’ll know how I feel about Fox)

Spiderman is owned by Sony Pictures.

Blade is owned by New Line Cinema (which means he’s now owned by Warner Brothers)

Ghost Rider is at Columbia.

Punisher with Lionsgate.

The Hulk was with Universal but when The Hulk film FAILED they sold it back to Marvel. Thank God for small miracles.

When these companies got the rights to those characters, they entered in to a contract saying they were the only people that were aloud to make movies about those characters. If they don’t use those characters for a set amount of time the characters return to Marvel. This means if Fox don’t keep making movies about the X-men, or The Fantastic Four, Marvel gets them back. If Sony Pictures don’t keep making Spiderman films Marvel gets them back. Same for all of them.

And seriously: when the Avengers exploded all over cinema’s everywhere, why would ANYONE want to stop making films that people, myself included, will continue to pay to see? Which means Wolverine, and Spiderman will not be making an appearance in The Avengers universe. Sadness.

Explained better here: The Big Picture : Wrongs & Rights
 
I can only assume that the movie rights do not extend over television rights.



~Captain Dibbzy

Batman a modern day Role Model for Children

Coming Soon

The use of Capes

Reading my way through the Marvel archives, one spiderman comic at a time, and I came across this.


From Marvel Knights Spider-Man, "Wild Blue Yonder" ark.

Christmas Parody

For my team of geeks I'm setting a challenge to find the best Christmas parodies.

This can be, film, music, animation etc.

I'm starting this off with a "LMFAO - Sexy and I know it" parody: "I'm Santa & I know it" by "The Key of Awesome"

£200 for a keyboard

I wish I was a famous writer. So I could sell my crap and people would pay stupidly large quantities of money for it.

Exhibit A.

Alan Moore’s keyboard.

Which probably doesn’t work, is full of the kind of crap that falls between the keys, and is worn out.

Yet people are willing to pay over £200 for it.

WTF?

Now it’s no secret that Alan Moore is not my favourite writer in the world. I will admit he can string words together wonderfully, and portray a plot with great timing, and density. He’s done a lot for the comic medium.

But his stories are shit. Watchmen was a waste of my holiday reading time. V for Vendetta is about preaching the glory of anarchy. The league of extraordinary gentlemen I read the plot of, and I don’t even want to touch it. But yes. The guy can write.

But seriously? £200 for his old keyboard, which may not actually even be genuine?

If people have that kind of cash to spare they should be giving it to me.