WareAsner By Night

Tonight! Patty Jenkins thinks she knows the problem with Wonder woman 1984, Marvel is looking for a Werewolf by Night, and we remember America’s favorite grumpy actor Ed Asner. 




Welcome to Episode 140.

DC
Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins thinks that the day and date release of the movie both in theaters and streaming hurt the movie. Telling a luncheon at CinemaCon in Las Vegas quote “It was detrimental to the movie,” “I knew that could have happened.”

“I don’t think it plays the same on streaming, ever,” “I’m not a fan of day-and-date and I hope to avoid it forever.”  Wonder Woman 1984 was a bit of a bomb grossing less than the first one with a box office gross of 213 million worldwide vs 1 billion 235 million for the first one. Frankly, I think it doesn’t help that it was kind of a lackluster sequel.

The Batman was also shown off, director Matt Reeves opened up about his intimate approach to the character and promised the most personal Batman story that will ever have been delivered as a movie. Reeves also said that this is not an origin story but as Batman in his early days. There was also a look at Andy Serkis’ Alfred. 

Marvel
Sony’s Spider-man Movies have shot up the digital rental charts after the trailer for Spiderman No Way Home dropped. The trailer got 355.5 million views globally in 24 hours, breaking the all-time viewership recorder set by Marve’s Avengers Endgame in 2019. All seven Spider-man films were in the top 50 most popular rentals after the trailer was released
.#2 — Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
#13 — Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
#14 — Spider-Man (2002)
#15 — Spider-Man 2 (2004)
#25 — The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
#37 — The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
#47 — Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Spiderman No Way Home opens in theaters on December seventeenth...

Emily VanCamp from Captain America Civil War and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has just welcomed her first child with husband Josh Bowman. The star posted a picture of her hand and her child’s on Instagram with the caption quote "Welcome to the world our sweet little Iris 💐 Our hearts are full 💗," unquote Congrats to the happy new family.

Marvel Studios is looking for a Latino Actor for a Disney Plus Halloween Special.
It’s being guessed that the special would be based on Werewolf buy Night, although which version it would be is unknown, The first, Jack Russell, debuted in the comic “Marvel Spotlight #2” in February 1972. Russell has a family history of lycanthropy — or the supernatural transformation of a human into a wolf — but uses his power for good, and is able to remain aware of his transformations.

The second character, Jake Gomez, was introduced into the Marvel universe last year in the comic “Werewolf by Night (Vol. 3) #1.” Created by Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, Scot Eaton, and Benjamin Jackendoff, Gomez is described to be a descendant of the Native American tribe Hopi who has been cursed with lycanthropy, also through his lineage. The special would probably arrive in time for Halloween 2022.

Ex Owner of Marvel Comics Ron Perelman has lost the naming rights to a new residential college at Princeton after missing payments on his pledge. Perelman pledged the sixty-five million dollars in 2018 to have an Institute in Judaic Studies named after him, however, it appears that he has not made any payments toward the pledge leading the university to sever the deal, a spokesman for Princeton said quote  “The University has terminated the gift agreement with the Perelman Family Foundation, Inc. to name a residential college because the Foundation has not made payments due under that agreement. We remain grateful for the Perelman family’s long-standing support." Perelman is best known for running Marvel into bankruptcy in the ’90s.

Geek
Michael Nader who appeared in the original Dynasty, All My Children and the 1990 The Flash has passed away According to a statement from his wife Nader passed away on August twenty-third from untreatable cancer. Nader played the role of Kevin Thomspon on As The World Turns from 1975 to 1978, Dex Dexter on Dynasty, and Nicholas Pike on The Flash the first villain in the Flash series pilot. 

The San Diego Comic Convention has announced plans to open the Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park. The purveyors of Comic-Con International: San Diego announced the start of construction on the new Comic-Con Museum and that the opening and daily operations will begin on November 26th. The opening event will take place alongside Comic-Con Special Edition, a smaller fall version of the Comic-Con convention that usually takes place in San Diego during the summer. The Comic-Con Museum offers exhibits, art, and images connected to comics and related popular culture and will also serve as a meeting place for the comics and pop culture fan community.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said in a press release.“Comic-Con may be a San Diego institution, but people from around the world have eagerly anticipated this year-round home to celebrate the popular arts they love,”  “With the Museum’s construction underway, we’re closer than ever to welcoming a global audience to get a taste of the Comic-Con experience in the middle of our City’s crown jewel, Balboa Park.”

Two classrooms are scheduled to open in the Museum’s educational center. One is the Cox Innovation Lab. Cox Communication, a cable television/telecommunications company, contributed $175,000 to create the lab.

According to the press release, the Museum will continue to expand its interior display space and educational area over the next several months leading to a grand opening scheduled for July 2022. SDCC's primary income stream is its annual conventions, but those have not occurred since 2019 due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

The opening of the museum will take place in July of 2022.

Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and actor Brian Posehn (“The Sarah Silverman Program,” “The Big Bang Theory”) have teamed up with Heavy Metal Magazine to create new comic book series “The Axe,” coming in early 2022.

A horror-comedy adventure, “The Axe” follows three nerdy, skatepunk, metalhead teenagers who steal an old, cursed guitar that opens a portal to an interdimensional hell-scape called Sheol. In Sheol, the kids must fight off hideous ancient creatures while trying to get back to Earth. According to the press release, it’s like “Army of Darkness” meets “The Goonies.”

Posehn told Variety quote .“We put horror and heavy metal music in a blender with likable kids as our protagonists and came up with the perfect combo for a collaboration with Heavy Metal Magazine,” 

 Trohman Added: “The Axe merges two of my favorite things — horror and comedy — but it has heart. We intentionally wove in themes of broken childhood, abandonment, and coming-of-age throughout the book, and I am proud of the dimensions within this story.
 But on the fun side, what we were able to do with pushing the gore, the jokes, the darkness, it’s just everything I’ve really wanted to do on a wish-fulfillment level. I am really, truly grateful that Heavy Metal wanted to take a swing on this one. I am thrilled to see it come to life on the page.”

Posehn and Trohman also recruited Scott Koblish (“Deadpool,” “Anthrax: Among the Living”) as illustrator, while Diego Fichera will color “The Axe.”

Heavy Metal Magazine is also currently developing “The Axe” as a screen adaptation as part of a slate of projects based on original IP.

“The Axe” will premiere in Heavy Metal Magazine as a serial in early 2022 and will then be collected into a comic book series and ultimately a trade paperback.

A new Matrix trailer was shown off at Cinemacon in Las Vegas, the trailer has not been released but it featured  Keanu with long hair and a short beard, not remembering his life before. 

Ed Asner has passed away. The actor was born in Kansas City Missouri in November of 1929 and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. He graduated from high school there and went to college at the University of Chicago. After college, he went to work on the assembly line at General Motors and later served with the US Army Signal Corps.

Following his service, he helped found the Playwrights theater company in Chicago the group that would someday reform into The Second City. He left for New York and got cast in Broadway, he soon started what would be a lifetime of work on television with a debut in 1958 on Studio One.  He would go on to have roles on Route 66, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Untouchables, Ben Casey, The Outer Limits, Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, The FBI, The wild Wild West, Mission Impossible, the Mod Squad, in 1970 he got the role that we most remember him for, Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the show ran for 166 episodes and spawned a spinoff, Lou Grant, that ran for 114 episodes, the character also appeared on Rhoda and an episode of Roseanne, after that Ed would make appearances on Highway to Heaven, The X-Files, Mom, Modern Family and much much more. In the 90’s he got into voice acting voicing Hoggish Greedly in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Fish Police, Roland Daggett on Batman The Animated Series, Papa Bear on Animaniacs, J. Jonah Jameson on Spider-man. Sgt. Cosgrove on Freakazoid!, Hudson on Gargoyles, Granny Goodness on Superman the Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited, The Boondocks, American Dad, the Cleveland Show, and plenty of other shows, his final role will be as Carl Fredricksen on the Disney Plus series Dug Days.
He also had plenty of movie roles starting in 1961’s the Murder Men, he had roles in Kid Galahad, El Dorado, Fort Apache, The Animal, Elf, Disney/Pixar’s Up, and many many more. He still has two movies that haven’t come out yet, one called Awaken and one called the Gettysburg Address. Ed holds the record for most Primetime Emmy  Awards by a male performer having won seven, he also has won five Golden Globes and a lot of honorary awards.

Outside of acting, Ed was a two-term president of the Screen Actors Guild and a supporter of Democratic causes and candidates. He was married twice, divorced twice and had four children. Ed Asner passed away peacefully in Los Angels California on August 29th, he was 91 years old.


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