All-Time Top Comic Book Movies

Movies based on comics properties, ranked by Worldwide box office gross:

1. The Dark Knight ($1001.9)
2. Spider-Man 3 ($885.4)
3. Spider-Man ($806.7)
4. Spider-Man 2 ($783.6)
5. Iron Man 2 ($616.8)
6. Men in Black ($587.2)
7. Iron Man ($571.8)
8. 300 ($456.6)
9. Thor ($445.1) *
10. Men in Black II ($425.6)
11. Batman ($413.2)
12. X2 ($406.4)
13. Superman Returns ($389.6)
14. X-Men Origins: Wolverine ($374.9)
15. Batman Begins ($352.0)
16. X-Men: First Class ($346.0) *
17. Wanted ($338.8)
18. Batman Forever ($335.0)
19. Over the Hedge ($329.6)
20. Fantastic Four ($329.3)
21. The Mask ($320.9)
22. X-Men ($294.1)
23. Superman ($289.4)
24. Batman Returns ($282.8)
25. Casper ($282.3)
26. Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer ($277.5)
27. The Incredible Hulk ($254.2)
28. Hulk ($241.7)
29. Batman & Robin ($237.2)
30. Constantine ($229.5)
31. Ghost Rider ($219.7)

Box office grosses given in millions. Source: IMDb.

(Marvel: 17. DC: 9. Dark Horse: 2. Image: 1. United Media: 1. Harvey: 1.)

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

A chimpanzee has an Ace up his, um, sleeve? on John Bolton's cover to Proposition Player #5 (200).

(Standard disclaimer about poker-playing chimps not really being monkeys applies.)


Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Movie Trailers

Surrogates, based on the comic book:




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And now, quite possibly the greatest film of 2009:

Oscar Picks

My sure-to-be-wrong Oscar picks:

Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Actress: Kate Winslet
Actor: Mickey Rourke
Sup Actress: Penelope Cruz
Sup Actor: Heath Ledger
Director: Gus Van Sant
Adapt Screenplay: Frost/Nixon
Orig Screenplay: Milk
Animated: WALL-E
Art Direction: Benjamin Button
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Costume Design: Milk
Editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Foreign Film: The Class
Makeup: Benjamin Button
Score: Slumdog Millionaire
Song: "Down to Earth"
Sound Mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Sound Editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Visual Effects: Benjamin Button
Animated Short: Presto
Live Short: Manon on the Asphalt
Doc Feature: Man on Wire
Doc Short: The Conscience of Nhem En

These picks of course reflect who I think will win, not necessarily who I think should win...

Satrapi on NPR

NPR's Bob Mondello interviews Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi on the event of the release of the Persepolis movie: "Story of Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran"

Enchanted

LA Times has a feature story about Disney's upcoming Enchanted, along with a video clip from the movie featuring Amy Adams singing "That's How You Know."



I was on the fence about his movie, but after seeing the clip I'm totally in. Sure, one look at the trailer and you can figure out exactly how the movie is going to play out, but it's got big all-singing all-dancing musical numbers in Central Park!

Yet Another Oscar Picks List

Here are my picks for tonight's Academy Awards:

Picture: Babel
Actress Leading: Helen Mirren
Actor Leading: Forest Whitaker
Actress Supporting: Jennifer Hudson
Actor Supporting: Eddie Murphy
Director: Martin Scorsese
Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Original Screenplay: Babel
Animated Feature: Happy Feet
Art Direction: Dreamgirls
Cinematography: Children of Men
Costume Design: The Devil Wears Prada
Film Editing: Babel
Foreign Language: Pan's Labyrinth
Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
Original Score: Alexandre Desplat (The Queen)
Original Song: Listen (Dreamgirls)
Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Sound Editing: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Animated Short: The Little Match Girl
Live Action Short: Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary Short Subject: Two Hands


(Note: This is a 'will win' list, not a 'should win' list.)

Tune in tonight to see if your favorites win!

YACB Bulletins

ITEM! "Capes, flying, and eye lasers are important plot points to a kid." - Eric Powell talks about his upcoming gig on Action Comics.

ITEM! Saw Ghost Rider Saturday night with a group of friends. We laughed a lot. Not because the movie was trying to be funny, but because it was so ridiculous. They trotted out every single super-hero cliche, and possibly even invented a new one or two. It's one of those so-bad-it's-good movies if you're in the right frame of mind.

ITEM! When did scrotum become a bad word?

ITEM! My new favorite Webcomic is XKCD. Very funny.

Comic Book Movies in 2006

From Box Office Mojo, here's the list of 2006 movies based on comics and how they performed in domestic release:

Rank  Title                            Domestic Gross
----  -----                            --------------
   3  X-Men: The Last Stand            $234,362,462 
   5  Superman Returns                 $200,081,192 
   9  Over the Hedge                   $155,019,340 
  33  V for Vendetta                    $70,511,035
  94  Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties   $28,426,747