Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3291 entertainment Entertainment - Newsarama en-us Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:18:20 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3291 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/newsarama/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/newsarama/20091026/en_newsarama/stephenkingbringsanamericanvampiretaletovertigo newsarama/20091026/stephenkingbringsanamericanvampiretaletovertigo Newsarama.com entertainment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:18:20 GMT Newsarama.com - Stephen King's next writing project has bite, as the master of horror brings his take on vampires to monthly comic books. Beginning in March 2010, "American Vampire," a new ongoing comic from Vertigo, will be released each month with two stories - one by short story writer Scott Snyder and the other by King himself. "Steve's excited to say this is his first original comic," said Snyder, who first came up with the concept that King further developed in his story. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/newsarama/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/newsarama/20091023/en_newsarama/animatedshorts611astroboyfliesagain newsarama/20091023/animatedshorts611astroboyfliesagain Newsarama.com entertainment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:51:27 GMT Newsarama.com - Director David Bowers has every reason in the world to sound relieved. After innumerable trials and tribulations his latest project, the CGI feature film version of "Astro Boy," had its world premiere in Japan. "It was very well received," said Bowers, whose past directorial effort was "Flushed Away." "It got praise and did some ridiculously powerful figures over there, which is always encouraging. When I was there, it was a very surreal scene. I mean I was there along with Astro Boy, and next thing I knew, the Honda Asimo robot walks on the stage. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/newsarama/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/newsarama/20091023/en_newsarama/transformersturn25robotsincelebration newsarama/20091023/transformersturn25robotsincelebration Newsarama.com entertainment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:15:01 GMT Newsarama.com - The heat for the second (live-action) Transformers movie is starting to build. Sure, seeing Megan Fox straddle a motorcycle the way she does is going to cause some kind of excitement, and can make the average fanboy forget the value of an original Megatron action figure in a box. Still, in the next few months the Transformers will see another important event in their history. This September marks the 25th Anniversary of the Autobots' and Decepticons' debut. It was in the five-part syndicated television mini-series "More Than Meets the Eye" on September 11, 1984. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/newsarama/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/newsarama/20091015/en_newsarama/stephenkingpeterstraubtalkcomicbooks newsarama/20091015/stephenkingpeterstraubtalkcomicbooks Newsarama.com entertainment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:28:47 GMT Newsarama.com - On Oct. 21, the first issue of Del Rey Comics' adaptation of Peter Straub and Stephen King's 1984 collaborative novel "The Talisman" hits comic book shops. The series is written by Robin Furth, King's former research assitant who also adapts King's "Dark Tower" novels for Marvel Comics, and illustrated by Tony Shasteen. "The Talisman," which is also being developed by television by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, tells the story of young teen named Jack Sawyer, who can save his dying mother only by retrieving a magical talisman. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/newsarama/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/newsarama/20091014/en_newsarama/wildthingslatestproofnobookisunfilmable newsarama/20091014/wildthingslatestproofnobookisunfilmable Newsarama.com entertainment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:42:09 GMT Newsarama.com - It may be time for Hollywood to retire the phrase "Unfilmable Novel." Because if "Where the Wild Things Are," which debuts in theaters this Friday, can be made into a movie, after all its trials and tribulations, then it stands to reason that there is no book Hollywood can't translate to the big screen. Producers spent decades trying to crack the riddle of how to bring Maurice Sendak's sparse, 1963 literary classic to theatrical life. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/newsarama/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/newsarama/20091006/en_newsarama/petermaxbillwillinghamtakesfablestoprose newsarama/20091006/petermaxbillwillinghamtakesfablestoprose Newsarama.com entertainment Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:11:40 GMT Newsarama.com - Loyal readers of the Vertigo comic Fables are used to their stories being a little outside the box. Over the last seven years since the award-winning, best-selling series began, Fables has broken a lot of the unwritten rules of ongoing comic book series. Readers have seen characters evolve and change, the series premise completely turned upside-down, its main setting destroyed and some of the most beloved characters die. Now the rulebook gets tossed out altogether as series writer Bill Willingham has written his newest Fables story in a novel published by DC's Vertigo imprint. ...