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The Los Angeles Times’ “Hero Complex” blog ran an exclusive feature this morning:

This just in — three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams will play journalist Lois Lane in Hollywood’s revival of “Superman.”

For the full article, click here.

Marvel has released the first trailer for this summer’s Captain America: The First Avenger.

Captain America: The First Avenger hits theatres on 22 July 2011.

Sunday – 31 October 2010
It’s literally been more than a month of Sundays (07 Sept 2010) since I’ve posted here.  I have a draft of a post from a few weeks back that may still see the light of day, but we’ll see how that goes…

In the past month-and-a-half, 4CC (and my other sites) have changed hosting companies. The overall transition has been rather painless, but making sure that all of the behind-the-scenes details have been taken care of has been a slow process. (It’s been slow mostly due to the fact that I have had other things that were a bit higher priority on my docket.)

In the past nearly-eight weeks, there have been a lot of good books that have hit the shelves. There have also been some good features on the big and small screens. I hope to touch on some of them in the next week or two.  In the mean time, here are a few tide-me-overs:

• The premiere of The Walking Dead is tonight on AMC. (Check local listings for time/channel)



• Bullet Dodged: What’s Burton’s Superman Would’ve Looked Like
• Comic Con 2011 Registration Opens Monday

And that’s it for now!

From Comic Book Resources:

Warner Bros. Pictures has released the Comic-Con International-exclusive character teaser posters for Green Lantern that, in addition to showcasing stars Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, give us our first official glimpses of Mark Strong as Sinestro and Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond. As a bonus, they also give a nod to the Green Lantern oath.

To read the rest of the article – and to see the posters – click here.

By way of Comics Alliance:

In a move sure to please his diehard fans, Joss Whedon, creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” “Dollhouse,” and “Firefly,” announced at today’s Visionaries panel at San Diego Comic-con International that is he definitely directing the “Avengers” for Marvel.

For the rest of the article, click here.

Comic Book Resources takes a look at Alan Moore’s refusal to reclaim his rights to the Watchmen property:

Alan Moore, whose tumultuous relationship with DC Comics is legendary, claims the publisher offered this week to return the rights to his most famous creation — in exchange for a concession.

“They offered me the rights to Watchmen back, if I would agree to some dopey prequels and sequels,” Moore told Underwire today. “So I just told them that if they said that 10 years ago, when I asked them for that, then yeah it might have worked. But these days I don’t want Watchmen back. Certainly, I don’t want it back under those kinds of terms.”

To read the rest of the article, click here.

Mark Avila takes a look back at 1978’s Superman and comes away with a question that eluded my then-young mind (not to mention my adult mind, given subsequent viewings of the film): Where was Lois Lane’s Apartment in ‘Superman: The Movie?’

Over at Life’s Little Mysteries, a new site by Newsarama parent company TechMediaNetwork, Mike has put together some surprising figures for all you non-New Yorkers out there, showing that Lois’ apartment has a little bit of history — and  a whole lot of moolah.

To read the rest of the Newsarama article, click here.
To read the Life’s Little Mysteries article, click here.

The L.A. Times has an article with Christopher Nolan about his involvement with a reboot of the Superman franchise:

The topic at the Batcave on Monday night was the future of that other superhero — you, know, the one from Metropolis. “It’s very exciting, we have a fantastic story,” Christopher Nolan said while sipping tea in the sleek editing suite that fills the converted garage adjacent to his Hollywood home. “And we feel we can do it right. We know the milieu, if you will, we know the genre and how to get it done right.”

For the rest of the article, click here.