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Legendary Comics
Legendary Comics is an American comic book publisher founded in 2010. The company is owned by Legendary Entertainment, a media company located in Burbank, California. The company publishes both original works and licensed ones based on films produced by Legendary Pictures. History Legendary Entertainment first announced the launch of its comic book division, Legendary Comics, in 2010 with the appointment of editor-in-chief Bob Schreck and editor Greg Tumbarello. The first graphic novel published by the company was ''Holy Terror'' by Frank Miller, which was released in 2011 as the #1 graphic novel and immediately launched the division as a top ten comics publisher. ''Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero'' was a #1 ''New York Times'' Best Seller, ''Godzilla: Awakening'' was a ''New York Times'' Best Seller, and ''Annihilator'' by Grant Morrison & Frazer Irving was nominated for an Eisner Award. In 2020, the company published an adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 ''Dracula'' nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legendary Entertainment
Legendary Pictures Productions, LLC ( doing business as Legendary Entertainment or simply Legendary) is an American film production and mass media company based in Burbank, California, founded by Thomas Tull in 2000. The company has collaborated with the likes of Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures and Netflix. Since 2016, Legendary has been a subsidiary of the multinational Wanda Group and Apollo. History Thomas Tull founded Legendary Entertainment after raising $500 million from private equity firms. It was one of the first companies of its kind to pair major motion picture production with major Wall Street private equity and hedge fund investors, including ABRY Partners, AIG Direct Investments, Bank of America Capital Investors, Columbia Capital, Falcon Investment Advisors, and M/C Venture Partners. Legendary Pictures, Inc. was incorporated in California in 2000 and in 2005 it signed an agreement with Warner Bros. to co-produce and co-fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personality Rights
Personality rights, sometimes referred to as the right of publicity, are rights for an individual to control the commercial use of their identity, such as name, image, likeness, or other unequivocal identifiers. They are generally considered as property rights, rather than personal rights, and so the validity of personality rights of publicity may survive the death of the individual to varying degrees, depending on the jurisdiction. Classification Personality rights are generally considered to consist of two types of rights: the right of publicity, or the right to keep one's image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission or contractual compensation, which is similar (but not identical) to the use of a trademark; and the right to privacy, or the right to be left alone and not have one's personality represented publicly without permission. In common law jurisdictions, publicity rights fall into the realm of the tort of passing off. United States jurisprude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Davis
Shane Davis is an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman and Batman for DC Comics. Career Shane Davis attended The Kubert School in his hometown of Dover, New Jersey. He entered the comics industry in 2003 at DC Comics by illustrating '' Robin'' #110 and a spot illustration in '' JLA-Z'' #3. In the following year, he illustrated other DC titles including '' Nightwing'' #88 and ''Wonder Woman'' #201, as well as the Marvel Comics' book ''Marvel Halloween Ashcan 2004''. In the ensuing years he illustrated a variety of titles for both publishers, such as ''Marvel Age Spider-Man'', ''Action Comics'', and '' Batman''. One of his more notable ''Batman'' stories was 2006's ''Batman Annual'' #25, which featured the return of Jason Todd. That same year he illustrated Jay Faerber's series, '' Noble Causes'' #17, for Image Comics. Davis also drew the miniseries ''Mystery in Space'' vol. 2, written by Jim Starlin and featuring Captain Comet. In 2007, Davis illust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Bisley
Simon Bisley is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on '' ABC Warriors'', '' Lobo'' and '' Sláine''. Early life Simon Bisley began drawing when he was six years old. He is self-taught, with only a short one-year stay at an art college, saying "I found it very difficult to get any kind of feedback from the art teachers. They weren't interested at all in what I was doing, so I became kind of very introverted with regard to my artwork and yeah, I was just all self-taught." Career Bisley started his career doing magazine and album covers, his first work being a T-shirt design for heavy metal magazine ''Kerrang!'' Eventually, even though he had no experience in comics strip drawing at the time, he was hired by the magazine '' 2000 AD'' after they saw his interpretations of their magazine characters. According to the Comic Book Database, "while still a student, Bisley did a painting of a robot holding a baby that he sent to the offices of 2000 AD. The image ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Wagner
Matt Wagner (born October 9, 1961) is an American comics artist and writer who is best known as the creator of the series '' Mage'' and '' Grendel''. Career Matt Wagner's first published comic book work was '' Comico Primer'' #2 (1982), which was the first appearance of Grendel. In addition to his creator-owned series '' Mage'' and ''Grendel'', he has worked on comics featuring the Demon and Batman as well as such titles as '' Sandman Mystery Theatre''. In 1991, he illustrated part of the " Season of Mists" story arc in Neil Gaiman's '' The Sandman'' series. He wrote and drew '' Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity'' a limited series featuring DC's three major heroes in 2003. He followed it with '' Batman and the Monster Men'' and '' Batman and the Mad Monk'' in 2006. His other projects include '' Madame Xanadu'' for Vertigo, with artist Amy Reeder Hadley. He has produced numerous comics covers, including painted ones for '' Green Arrow'' and has written several '' Green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Ross
Nelson Alexander Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American comic book writer and artist known primarily for his painted interiors, covers, and design work. He first became known with the 1994 miniseries ''Marvels'', on which he collaborated with writer Kurt Busiek for Marvel Comics. He has since done a variety of projects for both Marvel and DC Comics, such as the 1996 miniseries '' Kingdom Come'', which Ross co-wrote. Since then he has done covers and character designs for Busiek's series ''Astro City'', and various projects for Dynamite Entertainment. His feature film work includes concept and narrative art for '' Spider-Man'' and ''Spider-Man 2'', and DVD packaging art for the M. Night Shyamalan film ''Unbreakable''. He has done covers for '' TV Guide'', promotional artwork for the Academy Awards, posters and packaging design for video games, and his renditions of superheroes have been merchandised as action figures. Ross's style, which usually employs a combination of go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Batista
Chris Batista is an American comic book artist, known for his work on a number of titles for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including ''Steel'', ''Spaceknights'' and ''Thunderbolts''. Career Batista is an alumnus of Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, having studied under Klaus Janson, who helped obtain for him his first professional work.Chris Batista , , accessed April 21, 2011. Titles Batista has contributed to include '''' (1993–1995), '' |
Sean Chen (artist)
Sean Chen (born August 15, 1968, in Washington, D.C.) is an American comic book artist. Career Chen is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where he received a bachelor's degree in industrial design. He started his career after being discovered by Barry Windsor-Smith. He began his career at Valiant Comics, penciling their flagship title, '' X-O Manowar'', as well as '' Bloodshot'','' Harbinger'', and ''Rai and the Future Force''. His debut book, ''RFF'' #9, sold over 900,000 copies. After Valiant, he then moved on to Marvel Comics, where he drew ''Iron Man'' for over three years. His other works include ''Wolverine The wolverine (), (''Gulo gulo''; ''Gulo'' is Latin for " glutton"), also referred to as the glutton, carcajou, or quickhatch (from East Cree, ''kwiihkwahaacheew''), is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae. It is a musc ...'', ''Elektra'', and the maxi-series '' X-Men: The End''. Chen also lends his talents to Marvel's Creative S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Beacham
Travis Beacham (born 1980) is an American screenwriter, best known for writing and co-writing the films ''Dog Days of Summer'' (2005), '' Pacific Rim'' (2013), '' Clash of the Titans'' (2010), and proposing the concept for the Amazon Prime fantasy TV series ''Carnival Row'' (2019-). Career Just prior to graduating from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2005 after studying screenwriting, Beacham contributed to the independent feature ''Dog Days of Summer'' directed by fellow alum Mark Freiburger. Beacham's first spec script ''A Killing on Carnival Row'' was picked up by New Line Cinema in 2005. Characterized as "a dark neo-noir fantasy thriller," the project was in development for years with directors Guillermo del Toro and Neil Jordan. However in May 2017 it was announced that Amazon Studios had ordered an eight-episode television series based on the script, ''Carnival Row''. In May 2006, Beacham was hired to write an early draft of the Warner Bros. rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales From Year Zero
Tales may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Tales'' (album), a 1995 album by Marcus Miller * ''Tales'' (film), a 2014 Iranian film * ''Tales'' (TV series), an American television series * ''Tales'' (video game), a 2016 point-and-click adventure game * ''Tales'' (video game series), a series of role-playing games *"Tales", or "Tales from the Forest of Gnomes", a song by Wolfmother from ''Wolfmother'' *"Tales", a song by Schoolboy Q from ''Crash Talk'' Geography *Tales, Castellón, a municipality in Spain *Täles Railway (other), two railway lines in Baden-Württemberg in Germany People *Rémi Tales (born 1984), French rugby union player *Tales Schütz Tales Schütz (born 22 August 1981 in Porto Alegre, Brazil) is a Brazilian ex-footballer. He is also of German ancestry. Honours * Hong Kong First Division League :''Winner (4):'' 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 * Hong Kong Se ..., Brazilian footballer See also * Tale (other) {{disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Stewart (artist)
Dave Stewart is a colorist working in the comics industry. Work and recognition Stewart is known for his work at Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, as well as coloring Tim Sale's art in '' Heroes''. He has been recognized for his work with the Eisner Award for Coloring in 2003, 2005, 2007–2011, 2013, 2015, and 2020. Bibliography Comics work (colours unless specified) includes: Dark Horse Comics *Mike Mignola's ''Hellboy'', ''B.P.R.D.'', ''Abe Sapien'', '' Lobster Johnson'', ''Witchfinder'', ''Sledgehammer 44'', ''Baltimore'', and ''The Amazing Screw-On Head'' *Gerard Way's ''The Umbrella Academy'' *'' Conan'' *Michael Chabon's ''The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist'' *Joss Whedon's '' Fray'' *Numerous ''Star Wars'' comics * Eric Powell's '' The Goon'' *'' Let Me In: Crossroads'' * Brian Wood's '' The Massive'' (#1–9,#14–present) * Geof Darrow's '' Shaolin Cowboy'' DC Comics *Darwyn Cooke's '' DC: The New Frontier'' *Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's '' Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
/Film
''/Film'', also spelled ''Slashfilm'', is a blog that covers movie news, reviews, interviews, and trailers. It was founded by Peter Sciretta in August 2005. Podcasts Six podcasts have run on the site. ''The /Filmcast'', hosted by David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Jeff Cannata airs weekly and focuses on a discussion of a recently released film, along with current film news and other related entertainment topics (Adam Quigley co-hosted the show with Chen and Hardawar from 2008 to 2013). In July 2021, the show became independent from the site and was rebranded ''The Filmcast''. ''The Tobolowsky Files'', hosted by Chen, features character actor Stephen Tobolowsky talking about his career, life and other topics. The ''JustifiedCast'', also hosted by Chen, followed season 3 of the TV series '' Justified''. ''A Cast of Kings'' is a podcast hosted by Chen and Joanna Robinson of Vanityfair.com in which they discuss and analyze each episode of '' Game of Thrones''. ''The Ones Who Knock' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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