Jerry Seinfeld returns with "Bee Movie"

Jerry Seinfeld FINALLY does a real post-Seinfeld project - an animated film called Bee Movie, which opens on November 2.

Check out the succession of trailers at the official movie site, and look for LOTS of Seinfeld appearances on NBC this fall.

Superman guest stars on the 5th season premiere of "The Batman"

This season on The Batman, the Dark Knight joins the Justice League, and in the season premiere, he meets Superman for the first time (as seen in the video above). Superman is voiced by George Newbern, who provided the voice on the Justice League cartoons, with Lois Lane again voiced by Dana Delany. All season long, Batman will be teaming up with the various members of the JLA, so look for the season to be more like "The Brave and the Bold," the Silver Age Batman team-up title. Also confirmed so far are Green (Hal Jordan) Lantern, The Flash (Barry Allen), Green Arrow, with more to come.

The 5th season of The Batman premieres on Saturday, September 22 on the Kids WB! on the CW.

Justice League: The New Frontier

As I wrote earlier, Superman/Doomsday, out Sept. 18 is the first in the new DVD line of DC animated movies. The second, due in spring 2008, is Justice League: The New Frontier, based on writer artist Darwyn Cooke's homage to the dawn of the Silver Age of comics in the late 1950s, The New Frontier. The comic is about the beginning of a new age of heroes that leads ot the formation of the Justice League of America.

Here's the preview of the film that was shown during the premiere of Superman/Doomsday at the San Diego Comic-Con.

$240 worth of pudding

Aww, yeah....

Doomsday is coming

On Tuesday, September 18, the first of DC's new series of animated movie DVDs hits stores, Superman/Doomsday (see trailer at this link), based on the best-selling Death and Return of Superman storylines.

It debuted to great response at its San Diego Comic-Con premiere. Read an early review here.

And so, you don't forget when it comes out, check this out:

“Justice League” movie talk heating up

It’s been rumored for months now, but in the past few weeks, the stories about a Justice League of America (JLA) movie -- very few of them confirmed -- have been coming in fast and furious, mostly from genre movie news site IESB.net. The only thing that appears to be certain about movie is that neither Christian (Batman) Bale nor Brandon (Superman) Routh will appear in the film, though the characters they play will.

One of the hottest rumors is that Superman will be played by none other than young Clark Kent himself – Tom Welling from Smallville. The TV show’s producers, however, deny this is happening due to his Smallville contract for this season (and next?).

The movie is reportedly being fast-tracked for a 2009 release, which means it will likely debut before the next Superman movie, thought not before The Dark Knight, scheduled for next summer. According to the LA Times (registration required):

... even a roster of superheroes may not have enough special powers to repel the nastiest villain on Hollywood's horizon: an impending labor dispute that could devastate the local economy. JLA is but one of many projects caught in an industrywide scramble to assemble films that can be completed before a potential talent strike shuts down film production next summer... Warner Bros., which declined to comment, needs to hire a JLA director immediately to guide any further rewrites and attract actors. As it is, numerous directors have been passing on the project, although Happy Feet's George Miller may end up in the chair.

The plan is for the movie to serve as a launching pad to individual hero films, such as Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, all of which have been in various stages of development at some point. This plan is similar the X-Men movie franchise, which is now spinning off Wolverine and Magneto into their own films. The movie will likely feature as villains the OMACs and Max Lord, in a twist of the storyline that preceded last year’s Infinite Crisis.

Like everything about this movie, nothing is confirmed. For more rumors of storylines, characters and casting, check these stories from IESB.net.

Top 100 Action Figures

ToyFare magazine, a spin off of the comics-focused Wizard, has posted a list of the top 100 action figures of the last 10 years. It's a good thing they didn't have these when I was a kid -- Cioci & Unk would have gone broke trying to meet my ever-growing list!