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The documentary Men of War delves deep into the disastrous failed coup attempt in Venezuela known as Operation Gideon. Led by former U.S. Green Beret Jordan Goudreau, the operation in 2020 aimed to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro but ended in catastrophe. Directors Jen Gatien and Billy Corben peel back the layers of this incredible true story to reveal both the hubris and humanity of those involved.

We learn how Goudreau’s lifelong love of combat began from a childhood spent playing war games. As a soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan, he thrived on mission-driven work. However, unsigned Ptsd from his service led the army to dismiss him. Restless, Goudreau formed a private security firm and fell in with Venezuelan opposition figures eager to topple Maduro’s corrupt regime.

Corben and Gatien reveal how Goudreau conspired with resistance fighters, U.S. officials, and a jailed Venezuelan general to launch an incursion from Colombia.

In Jordan Goudreau, a former Green Beret and special forces operative who planned and executed a failed attempt at overthrowing the government of Venezuela, directors Jen Gatien and Billy Corben found a fascinating subject worthy of being the main character in a documentary. He’s full of bravado and hubris, quotes ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus and evades serious self-examination. In “Men Of War,” Goudreau is shown as brave, greedy, power-hungry, stupid, gullible and loyal, as well as a victim of Ptsd. It’s a morally complicated portrait of a mercenary who thinks he’s a righteous soldier: a man who obviously cannot grapple with the consequences of his actions.

The framework for Gatien and Corben’s character study is that aforementioned coup attempt. Goudreau planned what was named Operation Gideon, a 2020 sea invasion of Venezuela by a coalition of local dissidents and American mercenaries to overthrow president Nicolas Maduro. The...

The fog of war, men searching for meaning in senseless situations, and the fraught interplay of competing drafts of history are themes that have popped up quite a bit in documentaries and narrative features premiering at the fall festivals this year. None of these have been built on quite as mercurial and ever-shifting a foundation as Jen Gatien and Billy Corben’s documentary “Men of War,” a nothing-is-what-it-seems head trip about a former Green Beret who tried and failed to overthrow the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela.

It’s such a complicated film, it’s easy for a viewer to get lost. But hey, so did its subjects.

Jordan Goudreau knew he wanted to be in the U.S. Army since he was a kid obsessed with playing “war” and dressing in combat fatigues. The fact that he was Canadian did not dissuade him. He knew he would likely not get...

It is virtually unheard-of for top filmmakers and talent to get back to a journalist almost immediately without going through armies of publicists. Not so when it comes to talking about Neon founder and CEO Tom Quinn, the savvy and innovative indie executive whose company is enjoying its best year in history thanks to nurturing the under-35 cinephile crowd, as well as seeing yet another one of its films, Anora, win the prestigious 2024 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or for the fifth consecutive year, an unprecedented feat for a U.S. indie or studio distributor.

“Tom has something — a once highly valued human trait that, one might argue by looking around, apparently humans don’t need anymore — it’s called good taste, and Tom has it in surplus. I think he might put it in his laundry detergent, his toothpaste, his milkshakes,” Longlegs director Oz Perkins tells THR within several...

With the rise of alternative spiritual documentaries this year, including Lana Wilson’s buzzy “Look Into My Eyes” about psychics, it’s only fitting that an early festival favorite also centers on mysticism.

Documentary “Wishing On A Star,” which will premiere at Venice and also screen at TIFF, follows an Italian astrologer who encourages people to be “reborn.” The docu-drama is directed by Peter Kerekes, who co-wrote the film with Erica Barbiani.

The official synopsis reads: “Luciana, a Neapolitan astrologer, has a method to make her clients’ wishes come true. All they need to do is take a trip on their birthday to a precise destination to be reborn under a new sky. Whether it’s Taipei, Beirut, or a nearby village, during these birthday journeys, the protagonists will go through unexpected transformations to help them discover what they truly desire.”

The feature is billed as a blend of documentary with storytelling elements.

Take one conservative anti-Trumper, add a liberal Hollywood filmmaker, toss them in a Hot Tub Time Machine, and what comes out? One of the most talked-about documentaries set to premiere at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.

In the new episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, TIFF’s chief documentary programmer Thom Powers joins the show to discuss the festival’s 2024 nonfiction lineup, including The Last Republican. That film “stars” former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an ex-member of the January 6th Congressional investigating committee who turned on President Donald Trump after the insurrection and hasn’t let up since. Powers explains how Kinzinger ended up telling his story to filmmaker Steve Pink, a self-described leftie best known for 2010’s time-traveling hot tub comedy.

The revelations don’t stop there. Powers shares how he and his programming team narrowed...

Dakota Johnson and “Hit Man” breakout Adria Arjona will star in a new comedy about navigating an open marriage called “Splitsville” for both Neon and Topic Studios.

“Splitsville” is being directed and written by Michael Covino and also stars both Covino and his writing partner Kyle Marvin, who are reuniting after working together on “The Climb” from 2019.

The film stars Marvin as Carey, who is asked for a divorce by his wife Ashley (Arjona). When Carey seeks advice from his friends Julie (Johnson) and Paul (Covino), he discovers the secret to their happiness is an open marriage. But when Carey tries it for himself with Ashley and winds up crossing the line, it throws all of their relationships into chaos.

Neon will be distributing “Splitsville” in the U.S. with a release in 2025 and production kicking off this fall. But the distributor through its sales arm is also launching international...

Das Toronto International Film Festival hat insgesamt 21 Filme in seine Dokumentarfilmsektion eingeladen, darunter auch die deutsche Koproduktion „Tata“.

„Tata“ feiert in Toronto seine Weltpremiere (Credit: Simona Fodor)

21 Filme werden in der Dokumentarfilmsektion des Toronto International Film Festival (5. bis 15. September) zu sehen sein. Das hat das Festival jetzt bekannt gegeben.

Ihre Weltpremiere wird dort die rumänisch-deutsch-niederländische Koproduktion „Tata“ feiern. Sie erzählt die Geschichte von Lina Vdovii, die zusammen mit Radu Ciorniciuc Regie geführt hat, und ihres Vaters, von dem sie sich entfremdet hat. Er bittet sie eines Tages um Hilfe, um den Missbrauch aufzudecken, dem er über Jahre hinweg durch seinen Arbeitgeber in Italien ausgesetzt war. Je weiter Lina mit ihren Recherchen vorankommt, desto mehr entdeckt sie nicht nur die Nöte ihres Vaters, sondern auch ein Muster häuslicher Gewalt, von dem ihre Familie seit Generationen betroffen ist.

Weitere Weltpremieren im Rahmen von TIFF Docs sind Sinéad O’Sheas „Blue Road – The...

A profile of the late Irish literary giant Edna O’Brien and a story about the haenyeo fisherwomen of South Korea are among the 21 TIFF Docs selections unveiled by Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday.

Joining Sinéad O’Shea’s Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story and Sue Kim’s The Last Of The Sea Women are Men Of War, an exploration of a failed coup in Venezuela from the team behind Cocaine Cowboys, and The Last Republican from Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink, who looks at how former Congressman Adam Kinzinger broke ranks and stood up to Donald Trump.

Documentaries about the rise and fall of media company Vice, former Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger and disability rights activist Patrice Jetter are heading to the Toronto Film Festival.

TIFF’s Docs program gets underway Sept. 5 and will feature 21 nonfiction films from 24 countries. The program will open with the world premiere of Eddie Huang’s “Vice Is Broke,” an investigation into the once high-flying digital news outlet that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year after boasting a valuation of $5.7 billion in 2017.

Huang, the former host of Vice’s “Huang’s World” has a unique perspective on the story, said Thom Powers, lead TIFF documentary programmer. “Eddie gives an insider account of what happened at Vice Media,” said Powers. ” He has a personal axe to grind because when the company filed for bankruptcy, he was one of its many creditors. The film is both funny and poignant as he interviews...

Nonfiction films about conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and Venezuela, as well as documentaries about politician Adam Kinzinger, Irish writer Edna O’Brien and disability rights activist Patrice Jetter will screen at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, event organizers announced on Wednesday.

TIFF’s Docs program will consist of 21 films, two-thirds of them world premieres and 16 of them available for distribution. “The lineup is like holding up a mirror to what’s going on in the world today, which includes a lot of different things,” TIFF documentary programmer Thom Powers told TheWrap.

The opening night film will be Eddie Huang’s “Vice Is Broke,” in which the former Vice host details the rise and fall of that media organization.

Other films include “From Ground Zero,” an anthology consisting of 22 short films made over the past year by directors who live in Gaza; Anastasiia Bortuali’s “Temporary Shelter,” about Ukrainian refugees; Hind Meddeb’s “Sudan,...

This year’s slate of 21 documentaries from 24 countries at the Toronto International Film Festival (September 5 – 15) is a melange of newsy subjects, rising directors, and potential Oscar contenders. Sixteen are sales titles, up from last year’s eight. Two high-profile celebrity docs are playing in the gala section of the fest, R. J. Cutler’s “Elton John: Never Too Late” and Thom Zimmy’s “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.”

The TIFF Documentary Selection will open with “Vice Is Broke,” in which “Huang’s World” journalist Eddie Huang investigates his former employer’s rise and fall into bankruptcy. “It’s an insider’s look at a media company that gave many people opportunities and did things in sloppy ways,” TIFF documentary programmer Thom Powers told IndieWire via Zoom. “It soared up to a value of $5.7 billion and won the attention of moguls like David Zaslav and Rupert Murdoch.

Eddie Huang, creator of ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat comedy, is set to open the Toronto Film Festival’s TIFF Docs sidebar with a world premiere for Vice is Broke, a documentary about the rise and fall of Vice Media.

Huang will chronicle events leading up to Shane Smith’s Vice Media, a scrappy media player once valued at $5.7 billion, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2023 to open the way for a sale of the company.

There’s also world bows in Toronto’s documentary strand for Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story, directed by Sinéad O’Shea, who did hours of interviews with the legendary Irish novelist in the last year of O’Brien’s life; Jen Gaiten and Screwball doc maker Billy Corben bringing Men of War, about a former U.S. Green Beret caught up in a failed 2020 coup to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro; and...

Ex-gop Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a prominent critic of Donald Trump, will get a major platform at the Toronto International Film Festival just weeks before the U.S. presidential election.

TIFF announced its full documentary lineup this morning and among the standouts is The Last Republican, about Kinzinger’s vigorous repudiation of the former president after the January 6 insurrection. It’s a world premiere at TIFF, directed by Steve Pink – best known for the comedy Hot Tub Time Machine.

“That’s probably not a director you expect to see in TIFF docs,” admits Thom Powers, the festival’s chief documentary programmer. “Kinzinger served on the January 6th Congressional Committee alongside Liz Cheney, chose not to run again as a congressman because he could see the political writing on the wall. But he chooses to give access to a Hollywood left winger in Steve Pink to tell his story. And why does...

Former U.S. Green Beret Jordan Goudreau, who was arrested on July 31 in connection to his failed 2020 coup to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, is the subject of Neon’s latest documentary “Men of War.”

Directed by Billy Corben (“God Forbid”) and Jen Gatien (“Limelight”) “Men of War” follows Goudreau, who, according to the film’s logline “finds himself in over his head and on the run after mounting the failed Venezuela coup and being chased by the American government who he spent his life fighting for.”

Goudreau, a former Special Forces soldier who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, planned to land in Venezuela via speedboat with approximately 60 other men in an attempt to capture Maduro, an authoritarian president. At the time, Goudreau said that he and his team were acting to protect Venezuela’s democracy after Maduro’s 2018 re-election, which was boycotted by the opposition and condemned as undemocratic by the U.

Hilary Duff is paying tribute to Stan Rogow, a producer on Disney Channel’s Lizzie McGuire, following the news of his death.

Rogow passed away on Thursday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, a family spokesperson confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter Saturday. He was 75.

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“Writing this right now is bringing back so many distant memories of what feels like a completely different lifetime…,” Duff, who played...

Stan Rogow, the writer and Emmy-nominated producer who guided the Hilary Duff-starring Lizzie McGuire series and feature that spawned from the Disney Channel hit and partnered with John Sayles on several projects, has died. He was 75.

Rogow died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, family spokesperson Scott Fisher told The Hollywood Reporter.

Early in his career, Rogow served as a producer on the pilot of the acclaimed NBC series Fame and shared an Emmy nomination for outstanding drama series in 1982 with William Blinn and two others.

The Brooklyn native was also an exec producer on the 2004-06 Discovery Kids sitcom Darcy’s Wild Life, starring Sara Paxton, and he co-created another show for the network, the 2005-07 adventure series Flight 29 Down, featuring Corbin Bleu.

Rogow produced Sayles-written The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986), starring Daryl Hannah, before they teamed to create the 1990 NBC drama Shannon’s Deal, starring...

Stan Rogow, a veteran writer, producer and music manager who was a key player in such series as “Lizzie McGuire” and “Fame” and the 1986 feature “Clan of the Cave Bear, died Dec. 7 at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 75.

Rogow was most active in television, working on such notable series as “Playing for Time,” “Shannon’s Deal,” “Flight 29 Down,” “Darcy’s Wild Life,” “State of Grace,” “Valemont,” “Woke Up Dead,” and “Afterworld.” His other feature film credits include 1994’s “All I Want For Christmas” and “Men of War” and 2003’s “The Lizzie McGuire Movie.”

Rogow earned three Emmy nominations over his long career, one for the NBC series “Fame” in 1982 and in 2003 and 2004 for Disney Channel’s “Lizzie McGuire.”

Born in 1948 in Brooklyn, Rogow was a graduate of Boston University School of Law. By 1980, Rogow was in Hollywood working as a producer with Gerald Isenberg’s Jozak Co., which...

The 1990s were an exciting period for action films, with many of them getting released direct-to-video and showing up seemingly randomly at local video stores, requiring fans of the genre to have memberships at multiple locations to get to see everything. There was so much that if attention wasn’t paid, titles would be missed easily or rented twice under different titles at different video stores. Stars emerged within those ranks and gathered the love and adoration of fans. Here are the 10 of the best Dtv action stars of that era:

Dolph Lundgren

Let’s start with the obvious man on the list, the one that everyone saw films from at their local video stores. Lundgren had films that were released in theaters, on video, and direct to cable in some cases during the 1990s, but one thing is for sure, he was a mainstay of the action film aisle...

Henry Jaglom’s 1971 film is a bit of magic realism that performed a vanishing act at the box office. It remains a fascinating curio, bringing together old school genius/magician Orson Welles with an emerging Hollywood vanguard embodied by Jack Nicholson. Tuesday Weld stars as a lonely dreamer with a tenuous relationship to reality while Gwen Welles and Firesign Theater’s Phil Proctor make up a small but reliably quirky cast.

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Exclusive: Popcornflix, the streaming service owned by Crackle parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, has acquired its first original documentary feature, Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman.

The colorful portrait (watch the trailer above), explores major 1970s and 1980s franchises like James Bond, Indiana Jones, Superman, Star Wars, Rambo and more. Instead of the well-trod stories you may have heard, the accounts of the tight-knit group of British stuntmen who brought them to life take center stake. Ray Winstone, known for his performances in Sexy Beast and The Departed, narrates the film, which will begin streaming on the free, ad-supported Popcornflix next Monday. (Britbox debuted it in the UK last summer.)

Jon Spira, the film’s director, called it “a movie for people who love action movies and can’t get enough of them,” noting that it is “the first time many of these...

Above: Poster by Frank Stella for the 9th New York Film Festival.Compared to the 32 films in the main slate of this year’s New York Film Festival, not to mention the seemingly hundreds of others playing in sidebars, the 1971 edition of the NYFF, half a century ago, was a lean affair. With only 18 films, down from 78 just four years earlier, the ninth edition of the NYFF was, according to its director Richard Roud, a “belt-tightening festival, a year of consolidation.” In fact, the financially strapped festival almost didn’t take place that year. A New York Times article published midway through the event mentions that “outside the 984-seat Vivian Beaumont Theater, there is only one poster announcing the festival [one assumes it was the beautiful Frank Stella poster above] that is quietly and modestly taking place inside.” A far cry from the glorious phalanx of digital billboards currently beaming outside Alice Tully Hall and the Elinor Bunin Center.The...

Banshee co-creator and Warrior creator Jonathan Tropper discusses Bruce Lee and some of his favorite action movies with podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante!

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Devils (1971)

Star Wars (1977)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Return of the Jedi (1983)

Gremlins (1984)

Innerspace (1987)

The Adam Project (Tbd)

A History of Violence (2005)

Rocky (1976)

Rocky II (1979)

Rocky III (1982)

Rocky IV (1985)

Jerry Maguire (1996)

Terms of Endearment (1983)

Blue Thunder (1983)

Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)

Missing In Action (1984)

Missing In Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

Enter The Ninja (1981)

Revenge Of The Ninja (1983)

Ninja 3: The Domination (1984)

American Ninja (1985)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

I Come In Peace a.k.a. Dark Angel (1990)

Showdown In Little Tokyo (1991)

Men of War (1994)

Enter The Dragon (1973)

Way of the Dragon a.k.a. Return of the Dragon (1972)

The Big Boss (1971)

Braveheart (1995)

First Blood (1982)

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Conan The Barbarian (1982)

Commando (1985)

The Terminator (1984)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Highlander (1986)

Bloodsport...

Jack Nicholson has had a long career playing brooding rebels, crazed villains and sneering charmers on screen. Soon he’ll star opposite Kristen Wiig in a remake of “Toni Erdmann.” He’s a fixture of American cinema and the Lakers courtside seating. For his 80th birthday, we aimed to rank all of Jack’s major, already iconic roles, from worst to best.

“Man Trouble” (1992)

“Man Trouble” is a ridiculous screwball crime comedy in which Nicholson and Ellen Barkin get upstaged by horny dogs. It seems impossible the same guy who did “Five Easy Pieces” made this.

“A Safe Place” (1971)

This bizarre, formless ’70s relic based on a play stars Tuesday Weld and Orson Welles opposite Nicholson about a girl living a fantasy in which she never grows up.

“The Terror” (1963)

Nicholson gives a stiff performance in this Roger Corman picture opposite Boris Karloff, but he gets to kiss a woman who transforms into a corpse.

Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova studied at the London Film School.

Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova was the big winner at Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum for her feature debut project A Winner Is Seen At The Start which won there prizes including the main Film Center Serbia development award with a cash prize of €5,000. The forum ran online from January 24-28.

Alshanova, a graduate of the London Film School also received the Pop Up Film Residency award and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa) best woman director award for the project.

A Winner Is Seen At...

Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova studied at the London Film School.

Kazakh writer-director-producer Zhannat Alshanova was the big winner at Trieste’s When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum for her feature debut project A Winner Is Seen At The Start which won there prizes including the main Film Center Serbia development award with a cash prize of €5,000. The forum ran online from January 24-28.

Alshanova, a graduate of the London Film School also received the Pop Up Film Residency award and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network (Ewa) best woman director award for the project.

A Winner Is Seen At...

Zsuzsi Bánkuti heads the new Cutting Edge Talent Camp, which welcomes 10 graduates of top German film schools.

The International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg is launching a new talent initiative, Cutting Edge Talent Camp.

The inaugural edition of the Talent Camp will run Nov 9-15.

Zsuzsi Bánkuti, former head of acquisitions at sales company The Match Factory and current Community Coordinator at Locarno Open Doors, is heading the initiative.

The programme is launched under Mannheim Heidelberg’s new festival director Sascha Keilholz and head of programme Frédéric Jaeger; the festival already has a long history of supporting new talents, including programming...

We’re already at day five of the Steam Summer Sale, and this is about the time I start running out of jokes. How many ways can I tell you that I’ve spent too much money, or that my wallet is hurting? Besides, you deserve better. So I’m going to take this a different way. “What is the martial art expert’s favorite beverage?” “Kara-tea”…. Ok yeah that was horrible. Let’s pretend this never happened.

Just a reminder, unless the game you want is a daily deal or a flash sale, don’t buy it yet. There’s plenty of time left, and we’re all going to laugh when you buy something that goes on sale for more the next day.

Men Of War: Vietnam - $8.74 - Men Of War does a decent job of invoking the real fear of war as this game is...

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DC Comics has released an exclusive first look at Frank Quitely’s variant cover for Batman, Incorporated #1, arriving soon from Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham. Morrison’s Batman, Incorporated will arrive alongside five other titles which are currently being called the “Second Wave” of the ‘New 52′, replacing “Men of War,” “Mister Terrific,” “O.M.A.C.,” “Hawk and Dove,” “Blackhawks” and “Static Shock” in May.

Batman, Incorporated goes on sale May 23, 2012.

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Each week we bring you news on what is being released into the gaming world…. So lets get it started! Kicking off this list of games which will be released 16th April – 22nd April 2012 is:

Battleship (Xbox 360 / PS3 / Wii / 3Ds / DS):

Battleship thrusts you headlong into an Earth facing an unknown aquatic alien menace. As Cole Mathis, the U.S. Naval fleet’s “Boots on the Ground”, you must prove yourself worthy as an elite soldier and help defeat the enemy. Find your inner soldier and stop the alien threat before it’s too late!

Combining naval strategy simulation with first-person shooter gameplay, players fend off the enemy beachside while ordering attacks against their marine counterparts. Seamlessly switching between battlefield and overview “Battle Command” map, the Hasbro game is brought to life as carriers, frigates, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and the legendary USS Missouri Battleship pummel the enemy in a...

When DC Comics launched their full universe reboot The New 52, the company maintained that their run of ongoing titles would always number fifty two. Initially this had fans questioning how they would handle cancellations, but this was answered by a one in/one out kinda deal, with a cancelled title been replaced by a new one. We’ve seen this with Hawk And Dove, Men Of War, and others receiving the chop, and their replacements, with notable inclusions Batman Incorporated and Dial H, hitting shelves in May.

Now a new anthology title, National Comics, has been announced, but as of yet there is no word on what title will be cancelled.

As reported by Wired , the new title, a revival of a series which first saw print in the 1940′s, will focus on a different character every issue, telling done-in-one stories featuring the more obscure character who call the DC Universe their home.

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DC Comics has released a preview of the cover artwork by Chris Burnham that will grace the first issue of Grant Morrison’s Batman, Inc #1. The “new” series, which actually began before the events of Flashpoint, is one of the several titles that will be shipping as part of DC’s ‘second wave’ of ‘New 52′ books after the cancellation of Men of War, Mister Terrific, O.M.A.C., Hawk and Dove, Blackhawks and Static Shock.

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DC Comics has unveiled our first look at some of the new interior artwork by Chris Burnham that will be featured in the highly-anticipated return of Grant Morrison’s Batman, Incorporated. One of the biggest sour notes to coincide with the announcement that DC Comics would be relaunching its titles was the premature cancellation of Morrison’s Batman, Inc series.

Following Batman’s global recruitment of hero-worthy individuals to help “franchise” the Batman ideal, the series managed to launch the identities of several new characters who expanded on the DC Universe Bat-family and even managed to grab a few solo books for themselves amongst DC’s relaunched titles.

Speaking with The Source, series editor Mike Marts had the following to say about the upcoming title.

Grant Morrison’s new ‘Batman, Incorporated’ series is the final, unbelievable act of a saga six years in the making,” Marts told The Source. “Along...

And here we are again, with all the new product coming from DC.

We have a tip of the hat to the original Justice League of America #8, the first endings from the New 52, and… oh heck, let’s just dive in, shall we?

As usual, spoilers lurk below.

Justice League #8

Written by Geoff Johns

Art by Carlos D’Anda

Backup story art by Gary Frank

Cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams

1:25 Variant cover by Mike Choi

1:200 B&W Variant cover by Jim Lee

On sale April 18 • 40 pg, Fc, $3.99 Us • Rated T

Combo pack edition: $4.99 Us

Retailers: This issue will ship with three covers. Please see the order form for more information.

In the five years that the Justice League has been a team, Green Arrow has never once been a member. And he intends to rectify that right here, right now! One member against his candidacy: Aquaman!

It was only a matter of time, really, for Hawk And Dove.

The painfully mediocre title will be one of six books that DC is canceling to make room for a ‘new wave’ of comics added to their New 52 roster. The other sacrifices are O.M.A.C, Blackhawks, Mister Terrific, Static Shock, and Men Of War. Fortunately, none of these are the wonderful worlds of monstrous mayhem praised in our previous article. Jeff Lemire even plans to bring his Frankenstein character into the eighth and final issue of Men Of War, giving monster kids an extra reason to buy it.

On another bright side, one of the replacements in store at DC will be Dial H, helmed by China Miéville (Kraken, Ironside, The City & The City)—one of the best science fiction/fantasy writers working today—in his comics debut, with art by Mateus Santoluoco. It should be fascinating...

DC Comics has announced six new titles to launch in May. The new series will replace the six that are to be cancelled from the original relaunched New 52. Batman Incorporated will return alongside Earth 2, G.I. Combat, The Ravagers, Dial H and World's Finest. O.M.A.C., Hawk and Dove, Blackhawks, Men of War, Static Shock and Mister Terrific will all end in April with their 8th issues. Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated will continue with illustrations by Chris Burnham. Dial H is a series about an everyman who gains superpowers that will be written by award-winning novelist China Miéville - who was once lined up to write Swamp Thing - alongside artist Mateus Santoluoco.

Dial H preview image: The series will be rebooted by China Miéville (more)...

DC Comics has announced that they will be canceling six titles from the ‘New 52′ lineup but will be adding six additional titles to keep the magic 52 number alive. The six titles that have landed on the chopping block include Men of War, Mister Terrific, O.M.A.C., Hawk and Dove, Blackhawks, and Static Shock, all of which have struggled terms of sales and quality when compared to the other titles in DC’s ‘New 52′.

Each of these series will wrap up their runs with the release of issue #8 and will then make room for the following six new titles to take their place.

Batman Incorporated – Writer: Grant Morrison. Artist: Chris Burnham. The acclaimed ongoing writer of Action Comics, Grant Morrison, presents a fresh take on Batman Incorporated, in which the Batman brand is franchised globally in preparation for a major international threat. Morrison promises “a big emotional story.” as...

When DC’s New 52 launched last year, I asked myself: will they still cancel a book due to poor sales? Seeing that there publication slate only consist of 52 books (and a handful of miniseries). Well, it seems DC have come up with a logical solution to this dilemma: cancel one book to make way for another. One out, one in style.

Reported by Bleeding Cool, six of the launch titles from DC’s universe wide reboot, Hawk and Dove, O.M.A.C., Mister Terrific, Men Of War, Static Shock, and Blackhawks, have all gotten the axe and will end with their eighth issue.

In May, the six new series will start: Batman Incorporated, continuing the story Grant Morrison started in the pre-New 52 universe. Earth Two, featuring the Justice Society from a parallel Earth. Dial H, a tale of transferrable super powers based on the old series Dial H For Hero.

DC Comics has announced that Batman and Detective Comics will increase in price. The titles will jump from 32 pages to 40 pages in tandem with the rise from $$2.99 (£1.94) to $$3.99 (£2.59). Scott Snyder and Tony Daniel's Batman titles will join Justice League, Action Comics, Men of War and All-Star Western in the higher price bracket. DC Comics executive vice president of sales, marketing and business development John Rood told Newsarama that there was a "story reason" behind the price rise. Scott Snyder confirmed that (more)...

Happy New Year, Mafiosi! Here’s what hits shelves this week!

Boom! Studios

Betrayal Of The Planet Of The Apes #3 (Of 4)(Cover A Gabriel Hardman), $3.99

Betrayal Of The Planet Of The Apes #3 (Of 4)(Cover B Declan Shalvey), $3.99

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser #9 (Cover A Nick Percival), $3.99

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser #9 (Cover B Stephen Thompson), $3.99

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser #9 (Cover C Nick Percival), Ar

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Masterpieces #5, $3.99

Elric The Balance Lost #7 (Cover A Francesco Mattina), $3.99

Elric The Balance Lost #7 (Cover B Jonboy Meyers), $3.99

Elric The Balance Lost #7 (Cover C Francesco Mattina), Ar

Irredeemable #33 (Cover A Kalman Andrasofszky), $3.99

Irredeemable #33 (Cover B Dan Panosian), $3.99

Malignant Man Tp, $14.99

Peanuts #1 (Of 4)(Charles Schultz First Appearance Of Charlie Brown Variant Cover), Ar

Peanuts #1 (Of 4)(Charles Schultz Regular Cover), $3.99

Valen The Outcast #2 (Cover A Liam Sharp), $3.99

Valen The Outcast #2 (Cover B Ale Garza), $3.99

Valen The Outcast #2 (Cover C Matteo Scalera), Ar

Valen The Outcast #2 (Cover D...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

215 Ink

Fall Gn (not verified by Diamond), $7.99

Price (One Shot), $3.99

Abstract Studios

Rachel Rising #4, $3.99

AC Comics

Crypt Of Horror Volume 13 Tp (not verified by Diamond), $29.95

Adventure House

Lone Ranger Magazine November 1937 Replica Edition, $14.95

Antarctic Press

Gold Digger #134, $3.99

Gold Digger Holidays Special #1, $3.50

Archaia Entertainment

Cyclops #8, $3.95

Black Fire Hc, $24.95

Billy Fog Volume 1 The Gift Of Trouble Sight Hc, $24.95

Dare Detectives The Snow Pea Plot Hc (Collected Edition), $24.95

Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal Volume 1 Creation Myths Hc (not verified by Diamond), $19.95

Archie Comics

Betty & Veronica Double Digest #197, $3.99

Life With Archie #16, $3.99

Ardden Entertainment

Atlas Unified #1 (Cover A Jimbo Salgado ‘Grim Ghost’), $2.99

Atlas Unified #1 (Cover B Jimbo Salgado ‘Phoenix’), $2.99

Atlas Unified #1 (Cover C Jimbo Salgado ‘Wulf’), $2.99

Atlas Unified #1 (Cover D Jimbo Salgado...

DC Comics will see a 17% change in the writers of its New 52 titles. 21% of the artists on its relaunched line will also have been changed by the time its 7th issues are released in March. The Beat has listed the changes revealed so far, showing movements and departures of writers on nine titles and 11 titles with artist changes. The most recently announced creative changes include those for Legion Lost, The Fury of Firestorm and Men of War. Paul Cornell and Sterling Gates have both discussed their departures from (more)...

We hold in our hands the covers for DC Comics this March. As a child of four can plainly see, these comics have been hermetically sealed in a Cgc 9.8 slab, and they’ve been kept in a #2 mayonnaise jar under a giant pile of Christmas tinsel since noon today.

What do we have worth noting? The first fill-in artist on Justice League, although Gene Ha is certainly no slouch in that department. We also have new writers on Firestorm and Green Arrow, new backups in Justice League and Action Comics, and the DC 52 hits lucky number 7.

Shall we see who is the fariest of them all? Oh indeedy, let’s do!

As usual, spoilers may lurk beyond this point.

Justice League #7

Written by Geoff Johns

Art by Gene Ha and Gary Frank

Cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams

1:25 Variant cover by Gary Frank

1:200 B&W Variant cover...

DC Comics has unveiled changes in the teams behind Green Arrow and Men of War. Artist Harvey Tolibao will join Green Arrow from issue #7, replacing illustrator and co-writer Dan Jurgens, who is moving to Superman, reports The Source. It has also been revealed that James Robinson and Jt Krul will be writing individual, standalone stories in Men of War #7 following the departure of original writer Ivan Brandon. (more)...

Here’s what hits stores this week! Nothing new from Dark Horse Comics.

Boom! Studios

Betrayal Of The Planet Of The Apes #2 (Of 4)(Cover A Gabriel Hardman), $3.99

Betrayal Of The Planet Of The Apes #2 (Of 4)(Cover B Declan Shalvey), $3.99

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser #8 (Cover A Tim Bradstreet), $3.99

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser #8 (Cover B Nick Percival), $3.99

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser #8 (Cover C Tim Bradstreet), Ar

Cliver Barker’s Hellraiser Masterpieces #3, $3.99

Elric The Balance Lost #6 (Cover A Francesco Mattina), $3.99

Elric The Balance Lost #6 (Cover B Dimitri Armand), Ar

Elric The Balance Lost #6 (Cover C Francesco Mattina), Ar

Elric The Balance Lost Volume 1 Tp, $14.99

I Thought You Would Be Funnier Hc, $17.99

Irredeemable #32 (Cover A Trevor Hairsine), $3.99

Irredeemable #32 (Cover B Matteo Scalera), $3.99

Irredeemable #32 (Cover C Dan Panosian), Ar

Planet Of The Apes #4 (Sdcc 2011 Photo Variant Cover), $9.99

Rinse #4, $3.99

Stan Lee’s Starborn Volume 2 Tp, $14.99

Valen The Outcast #1 (Cover A Liam Sharp), $1.00

Valen The Outcast #1 (Cover...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

12 Gauge Comics

Boondock Saints Volume 1 In Nomine Patris Tp, $19.99

Aardvark Vanaheim

Glamourpuss #22, $3.00

Aazurn Publishing

Indie Comics Magazine #4, $6.49

AC Comics

Men Of Mystery #86, $29.95

Ace

Final Crisis Mmpb, $7.99

Action Lab Entertainment

Princeless #2, $3.99

Andrews McMeel

Red Rascal’s War A Doonesbury Book Tp, $19.99

Archie Comics

Archie Cyber Adventures Tp (not verified by Diamond), $9.95

Archie Double Digest #224, $3.99

Mega Man #8, $2.99

Sonic The Hedgehog Select Volume 4 Zone Wars Tp, $11.95

Ardden Entertainment

Grim Ghost #6 (not verified by Diamond), $2.99

Asylum Press

Chopper #2 (Of 5), $2.99

Avatar Press

Crossed Psychopath #6 (Of 7)(Jacen Burrows Regular Cover)(resolicited), $3.99

Crossed Psychopath #6 (Of 7)(Raulo Caceres Torture Cover)(resolicited), $3.99

Crossed Psychopath #6 (Of 7)(Raulo Caceres Wraparound Cover)(resolicited), $3.99

Crossed Psychopath #6 (Of 7)(Jacen Burrows Black & White Retailer Bonus Variant Cover)(resolicited), Ar

Crossed Psychopath #6 (Of 7)(Jacen...