Saturday, July 26, 2014

07.26.2014 - BATMAN: THE COMPLETE 1966 TELEVISION SERIES ON BLU-RAY AND DVD!

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FANBOYS AND FANGIRLS REJOICE! AS WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASES BATMAN: THE COMPLETE TELEVISION SERIES ON BLU-RAY™ AND DVD FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The Long-Awaited 1960’s TV Series Features All 120 Original Broadcast Episodes Completely Remastered

Includes Over Three Hours of Never-Before-Seen Enhanced Content
Including Interviews With Adam West and Burt Ward

Burbank, CA (July 24, 2014)  --  For the very first time, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) is releasing the fan-favorite original 1960’s Batman TV Series starring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. On November 11, 2014, just in time for the holiday season, Batman: The Complete Television Series Limited Edition will hit shelves on Blu-Ray ($269.97 SRP). Batman: The Complete Television Series DVD ($199.70 SRP) and Batman: The Complete First Season ($39.98 SRP) will also be available.  Additionally, The Complete Series will be released for purchase on Digital HD.   This highly collectable set is one fans won’t want to miss!

Batman: The Complete Television Series features all three classic seasons of the fan-favorite show spanning all 120 original broadcast episodes – completely remastered – as well as more than three hours of never-before-seen enhanced content including interviews with both Adam West (as Batman) and Burt Ward (as Robin). In addition to favorites West and Ward, the series featured a long list of notable guest stars and cameo appearances over the course of three seasons including Julie Newmar, Cesar Romero, Frank Gorshin, Liberace, Vincent Price, Burgess Meredith, Bruce Lee, Art Carney, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr. and many more!

Bringing the series’ vivid colors to life in stunning high definition, the Blu-ray Limited Edition
will be individually numbered, making the set a true must-have for both fans and collectors alike. The set will include sought-after premiums including:
·      An exclusive Hot Wheels® Replica Batmobile
·      Adam West Scrapbook – featuring never-before-seen photos from Adam’s own archives
·      44 Vintage Trading Cards
·      Ultraviolet Digital Copy of all 120 episodes
·      Episode guide – includes synopsis of all episodes, photos from the series and a personal letter from Adam West to the fans

“Fans around the world have been clamoring for this release for decades,” said Rosemary Markson, WBHEG Senior Vice President, TV Brand Management and Retail Marketing  “Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is beyond thrilled to make the caped crusader’s fans’ wishes come true by releasing Batman: The Complete Television Series to Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD for the very first time since the original 1960s program. Coinciding with the 75th Anniversary of Batman’s comic book debut, this is the ultimate holiday gift.”

Batman: The Complete Television Series also features more than three hours of all-new enhanced content:

Special Features include: 
Hanging with Batman – A true slice of life in the words of Adam West.
  
Holy Memorabilia Batman! – A journey into the most sought-after collectibles through the eyes of three extraordinary collectors.

Batmania Born! - Building the World of Batman – Explore the art and design behind the fiction.

Bats of the Round Table –  A candid conversation with Adam West and his celebrity friends, chatting all things Bat ’66.

Inventing Batman in the words of Adam West (episode 1 &2) -  A rare treat for the fans as Adam discusses his script notes on bringing Batman to life in the first and second episodes. 

Na Na Na Batman! — Hollywood favorite’s stars and producers recount their favorite Batman memories.



Season 1
1.     Hi Diddle Riddle
2.     Smack in the Middle
3.     Fine Feathered Finks
4.     The Penguin’s A Jinx
5.     The Joker is Wild
6.     Batman is Riled
7.     Instant Freeze
8.     Rats Like Cheese
9.     Zelda The Great
10.  A Death Worse Than Fate
11.  A Riddle A Day Keeps the Riddler Away
12.  When the Rat’s Away the Mice Will Play
13.  The Thirteenth Hat
14.  Batman Stands Pat
15.  The Joker Goes To School
16.  He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul
17.  True or False Face
18.  Holy Rat Race
19.  The Purr-Fect Crime
20.  Better Luck Next Time
21.  The Penguin Goes Straight
22.  Not Yet, He Ain’t
23.  The Ring Of Wax
24.  Give ‘Em The Axe
25.  The Joker Trumps An Ace
26.  Batman Sets The Pace
27.  The Curse of Tut
28.  The Pharaoh’s In a Rut
29.  The Bookworm Turns
30.  While Gotham City Burns
31.  Death in Slow Motion
32.  The Riddler’s Flase Notion
33.  Fine Finny Fiends
34.  Batman Makes The Scenes

Season 2
1.     Shoot A Crooked Arrow
2.     Walk The Straight and Narrow
3.     Hot Off The Griddle
4.     The Cat and the Fiddle
5.     The Minstrel’s Shakedown
6.     Barbecued Batman?
7.     The Spell of Tut
8.     Tut’s Case is Shut
9.     The Greatest Mother of Them All
10.  MA Parker
11.  The Clock King’s Crazy Crimes
12.  The Clock King Gets Crowned
13.  An Egg Grows in Gotham
14.  The Yegg Foes in Gotham
15.  The Devil’s Fingers
16.  The Dead Ringers
17.  Hizzonner The Penguin
18.  Dizzoner the Penguin
19.  Green Ice
20.  Deep Freeze
21.  The Impractical Joker
22.  The Joker’s Provokers
23.  Marsha, Queen of Diamonds
24.  Marsha’s Scheme of Diamonds
25.  Come Back, Shame
26.  It’s How You Play The Game
27.  The Penguin’s Nest
28.  The Bird’s Last Jest
29.  The Cat’s Meow
30.  The Bat’s Kow Tow
31.  The Puzzles Are Coming
32.  The Duo Is Slumming
33.  The Sandman Cometh
34.  The Catwoman Goeth
35.  The Contaminated Cowl
36.  The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul
37.  The Zodiac Crimes
38.  The Joker’s Hard Times
39.  The Penguin Declines
40.  That Darn Catwoman
41.  Scat! Darn Catwoman
42.  Penguin is a Girl’s Best Friend
43.  Penguin Sets a Trend
44.  Penguin’s Disastrous End
45.  Batman’s Anniversary
46.  A Riddling Controversy
47.  The Joker’s Last Laugh
48.  The Joker’s Epitaph
49.  Catwoman Goes to College
50.  Batman Displays His Knowledge
51.  A Piece of The Action
52.  Batman’s Satisfaction
53.  Kin Tut’s Coup
54.  Batman’s Waterloo
55.  Black Widow Strikes Again
56.  Caught in the Spider’s Den
57.  Pop Goes The Joker
58.  Flop Goes the Joker
59.  Ice Spy
60.  The Duo Defy

Season 3
1.     Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin
2.     Ring Around The Riddler
3.     The Wail of The Siren
4.     The Sport of Penguins
5.     A Horse of Another Color
6.     The Unkindest Tut of All
7.     Louie, The Lilac
8.     The Ogg and I
9.     How To Hatch a Dinosaur
10.  Surf’s Up! Joker’s Under!
11.  The Londinium Larcenies
12.  The Foggiest Notion
13.  The Bloody Tower
14.  Catwoman’s Dressed to Kill
15.  The Ogg Couple
16.  The Funny Feline Felonies
17.  The Joke’s On Catwoman
18.  Louie’s Lethal Lilac Time
19.  Nora Clavicle and the Ladies’ Crime Club
20.  Penguin’s Clean Sweep
21.  The Great Escape
22.  The Great Train Robbery
23.  I’ll Be A Mummy’s Uncle
24.  The Joker’s Flying Saucer
25.  The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra
26.  Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires
 
About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment's home video, digital distribution and interactive entertainment businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. An industry leader since its inception, WBHE oversees the global distribution of content through packaged goods (Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD) and digital media in the form of electronic sell-through and video-on-demand via cable, satellite, online and mobile channels, and is a significant developer and publisher for console and online video game titles worldwide. WBHE distributes its product through third party retail partners and licensees, as well as directly to consumers through WBShop.com and WB Ultra.
About DC Entertainment:
DC Entertainment, home to iconic brands DC Comics (Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash, etc.), Vertigo (Sandman, Fables, etc.) and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating across Warner Bros. and Time Warner.  DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, and interactive games.  Publishing thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Entertainment is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world.
BATMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics. (s14) © 1966-1968, 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.  © 2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.  All rights reserved.  Hot Wheels® Replica Batmobile ©2014 Mattel. All Rights Reserved.

Friday, July 18, 2014

07.18.2014 - AVENGERS NOW! Brings Epic Stories & Seismic Changes to the Marvel Universe!

The most popular characters. The most acclaimed creators. The most ambitious stories. This is the recharged Avengers NOW!.

This Fall, the Marvel Universe heads in an exciting and ambitious new direction as the industry’s top creators and brightest rising stars join the top Super Heroes – Captain America, Thor, Iron Man and more – to deliver the most exciting and energetic comics on the market with can’t miss all-new ongoing series!

“Avengers NOW! is the start of a Marvel Universe like you’ve never seen before,” says Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso. “With massive changes coming to some of our biggest characters, Avengers NOW! is ready to kick off a bold new era of the Marvel Universe and will certainly close out 2014 with a bang.”

It all starts this October when Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman bring the thunder in Thor #1. Bereft of his mighty magic hammer Mjölnir, Thor must contend with a new God of Thunder in the Marvel Universe – and she’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen before! Who is this new mysterious leading lady? Not even Odin knows! Prepare for a senses-shattering new beginning as the all-new Thor thunders her way through the Marvel Universe!

Then, Avengers NOW! soars to new heights in All-New Captain America #1! From superstar creators Rick Remender and Stuart Immonen comes the next evolution of the Captain America mythos. Drained of the Super-Soldier Serum, the frail Steve Rogers has handpicked his shield-wielding successor – Sam Wilson, the Falcon! But as the winged warrior assumes his new heroic mantle, he’ll have to contend with a gauntlet of Captain America’s most terrifying foes! Can the new, untested Captain America stand up to his predecessor’s most vile villains? Find out this November in All-New Captain America #1!

It only gets bolder from there as the billionaire playboy unleashes his dark side in Superior Iron Man #1! Rising comic stars Tom Taylor and Yildray Cinar craft an all-new tale of a Tony Stark you’ve never seen before! Releasing the dangerous Extremis technology to the citizens of San Francisco, he’ll transform the City by the Bay into the City of Tomorrow! But at what price? And what does a world look like when it’s consumed by technology? Find out this November in Superior Iron Man #1!

Once again, the biggest creators bring you the biggest characters in the biggest stories…and it’s happening NOW!

For more on Avengers NOW!, please visit www.marvel.com and join the conversation on Twitter with hashtag #AvengersNOW.

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Thursday, July 17, 2014

07.17.2014 - MARVEL PROUDLY PRESENTS THE NEW THOR




Marvel is excited to announce an all-new era for the God of Thunder in brand new series, THOR, written by Jason Aaron (Thor: God of Thunder, Original Sin) complimented with art from Russell Dauterman (Cyclops).

This October, Marvel Comics evolves once again in one of the most shocking and exciting changes ever to shake one of Marvel’s “big three” – Captain American, Iron Man and Thor – Marvel Comics will be introducing an all-new THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. No longer is the classic male hero able to hold the mighty hammer, Mjölnir, a brand new female hero will emerge will who will be worthy of the name THOR. Who is she? Where did she come from and what is her connection to Asgard and the Marvel Universe?

“The inscription on Thor's hammer reads ‘Whosoever holds this hammer, if HE be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.’ Well it's time to update that inscription,” says Marvel editor Wil Moss. “The new Thor continues Marvel's proud tradition of strong female characters like Captain Marvel, Storm, Black Widow and more. And this new Thor isn't a temporary female substitute - she's now the one and only Thor, and she is worthy!”

Series writer Jason Aaron emphasizes, “This is not She-Thor. This is not Lady Thor. This is not Thorita. This is THOR. This is the THOR of the Marvel Universe. But it’s unlike any Thor we’ve ever seen before.”

THOR is the latest in the ever-growing and long list of female-centric titles that continues to invite new readers into the Marvel Universe. This female THOR is the 8th title to feature a lead female protagonist and aims to speak directly to an audience that long was not the target for Super Hero comic books in America: women and girls.

For more on all things Marvel, follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/marvel and be sure to stop back continuously to see what everyone is saying about Marvel’s latest news.

Also, join Marvel this year at San Diego Comic-Con and for more on Marvel’s latest announcements please visit Marvel.com. Join the conversation on Twitter with #MarvelSDCC and don’t forget to follow us at @Marvel.


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07.17.2014 - MARVEL ANNOUNCES THE NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA!

MARVEL ANNOUNCES THE NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA!

Sam Wilson, Formerly The Falcon, is the New Captain America in All-New Captain America #1


Marvel is excited to announce that beginning in November 2014, the title of Captain America will be passed to Sam Wilson, The Falcon, in the pages of All-New Captain America #1 by series writer Rick Remender (Captain America, Uncanny Avengers) and series artist Stuart Immonen (All-New X-Men).

Announced on “The Colbert Report” by Joe Quesada, “Sam Wilson…The Falcon, is the new Captain America.”

Addressing how Sam Wilson will follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, Steve Rogers, Remender says, “Sam wants to lead by example. To help people see their own selfishness and to turn it around. To build better communities, to never forget the little guy.”  Remender continues, “Sam follows his heart and his belief in what the American dream means and how it belongs to everyone.”

The question remains: what happens with the original Captain America, Steve Rogers? Executive Editor Tom Brevoort says, “Steve’s spirit is as willing as ever, but his body is no longer up to the task of being Captain America. So he’ll employ his skills as the new Cap’s remote strategic advisor, running Cap’s missions from his headquarters in Avengers Mansion and providing Sam with technical support and field information from a distance. He’ll also tutor Sam in how to throw the shield, a skill that’s deceptively difficult for the new Cap to master. So Steve will continue to be a vital part of the series moving ahead.”

For more details on All-New Captain America, visit Marvel.com for their interview with Rick Remender and Tom Brevoort.

All-New Captain America #1 will be available this November in all local comic book retailers and available in the Marvel Digital Comics Store.

Follow Marvel on Facebook at www.facebook.com/marvel and be sure to stop back throughout the day to see what everyone is saying about Marvel’s latest news.

Join Marvel this year at San Diego Comic-Con and for more on Marvel’s latest announcements, please visit Marvel.com. Join the conversation on Twitter with #Marvel and don’t forget to follow us at @Marvel.



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