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Another morsel of comic book movie news arrives today from the scoopster supreme at Latino Review, El Mayimbe. His latest tidbit of insider intel isn’t connected to Warner Bros.’ DC movie-verse or Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, but Fox’s X-Men Universe. According to his knowledge, Channing Tatum has been courting a list of “big” name directors to helm his upcoming X-spinoff, Gambit.

Free Twitter Scoop! Channing Tatum going after Big names to direct Gambit. He approached Bennett Miller & Darren Aronofsky who both passed.

— Umberto Gonzalez (@elmayimbe) April 16, 2015

Tatum landed the leading role on the long-awaited movie back in October 2014 and has since boarded as a producer, which goes some way to explaining why he’s so proactive in seeking out the perfect director. As El Mayimbe outlines in his short-but-sweet Tweet, Tatum has already approached Foxcatcher‘s Bennett Miller And Requiem For A Dream‘s Darren Aronofsky, but alas they both declined the gig.

Now that we’re officially two weeks away from Christmas, there’s not much time left to get your holiday shopping done. Hopefully, today’s Gift Guide from Daily Dead will help you with your list, as we’ve got a ton of great ideas from Boom Studios, Synapse Films, Think Geek and more.

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Vendor Spotlight: Boom Studios

Boom! Studios was founded in June of 2005 by Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby. They were named “Best New Publisher of the Year” by Wizard Magazine just four months after their début. The company initially specialized in horror and sci-fi genres and have since branched out to include superhero comics such as Mark Waid’s Irredeemable and the upcoming Soldier Zero,...

20th Century Fox wants the world to know that they’ve not forgotten about card-trickster, Gambit. They might not be announcing a nine-film plan with crossovers more tangled than a box of Christmas lights, but they’ve officially revealed that Channing Tatum will lead the X-Men spinoff with Josh Zetumer onboard to pen the first draft.

Tatum’s name has been linked to Gambit for some time now, as the actor first showed interest in the role over a year ago. While today verifies his involvement, he spoke out earlier this month on the direction the story will take, implying it will be a unique origin story.

Now we’ve learned who will be tasked with bringing that tale to light, as Fox has hired RoboCop scribe Josh Zetumer to pen the screenplay. With only one feature to his name, Zetumer might be considered a risky move, but it seems...

Mark counts down 15 great episodes of The Simpsons from its often-overlooked past 15 years...

Last week, we counted down our list of the top 50 episodes of The Simpsons ever made. It's a tough list to make, picking out less than 10 percent of the 552 episodes broadcast to date, to select the very best of the best. This is despite the off-hand consensus of some viewers that the series has been total rubbish since season 10.

We don't hold much truck with this assumption. The Simpsons is an institution and to suggest that more than half of it is garbage is more than a bit reductive. Admittedly, there's much to support the argument that few episodes produced in the twenty-first century can quite stand up to the genius of the earlier canon, but anything would suffer in comparison to that golden age of the show.

If you're one of the people who stopped watching the series after the nineties,...

Comic-Con released their full schedule of events and panels for for Friday, July 19th! It looks like another great day at the event, and we're excited to be there to cover as much as we can for you!

Friday will include panels for The World's End, Kick-Ass 2, Riddick, The Walking Dead, "DC Comics Justice League: Trinity War", Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Game of Thrones, "Marvel: Cup O' Joe," Robocop, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Veronica Mars, Robot Chicken, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox and more!

To see the full panel and event line-up, click here. Below you'll find a few noteworthy panels. Stay tuned for all your Comic-Con awesomeness!

Friday, July 19

Star Wars Comics: Here and Now

What is the current state of Star Wars comics? Join Dark Horse editor Randy Stradley and Star Wars creators Carlos D'Anda, Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman, Doug Wheatley,...

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.

007 Magazine & Archive Ltd

007 Magazine Archive Diamonds Are Forever #1 (not verified by Diamond), $18.00

AC Comics

Bizzare Thrills The Paragon Publications Story Tp, $29.95

Amryl Entertainment

Cavewoman Feeding Grounds #2, $3.75

Cavewoman Mutation #1, $3.75

Cavewoman Mutation #1 (Budd Root Special Edition), $6.95

Cavewoman Mutation #1 (Devon Massey Special Edition), $6.85

Antarctic Press

Dead Pooh (One Shot), $3.99

Gold Digger #137, $3.99

Steampunk Sketchbook (One Shot), $3.50

Victorian Secret Agents Steampunk Angels (One Shot), $3.99

Ape Entertainment

Richie Rich Gems #46, $3.99

Subculture Webstrips Volume 2 Die Harder Tp, $9.95

Apostle Arts

Billy Tucci A Child Is Born (One Shot)(Artists Edition), $4.99

Archaia Entertainment

Genetiks Tm Volume 1 Hc, $19.95

Archie Comics

Betty And Veronica Double Digest #200, $3.99

Jinx Hc (resolicited), $16.99

Jinx Sc (resolicited), $9.99

Kevin Keller #2 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99

Kevin Keller #2 (Dan Parent Variant Cover), $2.99

Mega Man #12, $2.99

Ardden Entertainment

Mixtape...

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.

Abrams

Art Of Daniel Clowes Modern Cartoonist Hc (not verified by Diamond), $40.00

Garbage Pail Kids Hc (not verified by Diamond), $19.95

Gonzo A Graphic Biography Of Hunter S Thompson Tp (not verified by Diamond), $17.95

Sidekicks Gn (not verified by Diamond), $12.99

Antarctic Press

How To Draw Sci-Fi Pocket Manga Tp, $14.95

Ape Entertainment

Dark Axis Rise Of The Overmen #3 (Of 4), $3.99

Dark Axis Rise Of The Overmen #4 (Of 4), $3.99

Archaia Entertainment

Judge Bao Volume 1 Judge Bao And The Jade Phoenix Hc, $14.95

Archie Comics

Archie & Friends Double Digest #14, $3.99

Jughead #212, $2.99

Jugheads Double Digest #179, $3.99

Knuckles The Echidna Archives Volume 2 Tp, $9.99

Sonic Genesis Hc, $24.99

Sonic Universe #38, $2.99

Stan Lee’s Mighty 7 #1 (Alex Saviuk Regular Cover), $2.99

Stan Lee’s Mighty 7 #1 (Alex Saviuk Variant Cover), $2.99

Stan Lee’s Mighty 7 #1 (Signed...

The New York Asian Film Festival has announced that its tenth anniversary edition will open on July 1 with the North American premiere of Yoshimasa Ishibashi's Milocrorze: A Love Story ("one solid slab of psychedelia," promises the festival; image above) and close on July 14 with the New York premiere of Na Hong-Jin's The Yellow Sea (aka The Murderer), which has just screened at Cannes in Un Certain Regard (see the roundup).

There'll be two Centerpiece Presentations, Benny Chan's Shaolin, with Andy Lau, Nic Tse and Jackie Chan, and Takashi Miike's Ninja Kids!!! — which, you may remember Danny Kasman caught in Cannes, and got quite a nice kick out of it, too. The festival will also be screening Miike's "director's cut" of 13 Assassins.

There'll be three special focuses. First off...

Wu Xia: Hong Kong's Flying Swordsmen

Tsui Hark's Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame...

The Tribeca Film Festival has the stars. The New York Film Festival has the award winners. But the New York Asian Film Festival has the coolest, boldest, and strangest genre movies, and that's why it holds a special place in my heart. While most festivals specialize in quote-unquote arthouse fare, Nyaff brings the Asian mainstream -- the stuff that would almost never play here otherwise -- to America.

We're big fans of the Nyaff at IFC and we're looking forward to another excellent edition this year. The lineup was just announced and it looks stacked. It includes a few superb films I saw at last year's Fantastic Fest, including the entertaining exploitation documentary "Machete Maidens Unleashed" from "Not Quite Hollywood" director Mark Hartley. The stuff I'm jazzed to see for the first time includes the world premiere of Takashi Miike's "Ninja Kids!!!" (their exclamation points, not mine), "Ocean Heaven,...

Welcome back for another edition of News Bits. What is it you ask? The film world can get quite overwhelming at times in the news that releases. Unfortunately some of this news is just too small to warrant a full article. Rather than deprive you of the news, we've created this section. This week we see a little bit of everything. From posters, in depth looks, and even fan dedication; you'll find it all here.

* A new poster for Scream 4 has appeared on line and it shows Ghost Face getting to the point...Sorry, couldn't help myself.

More The Amazing Spider-Man Videos

* IGN has proven they are incredibly nerdy, by posting this in depth analysis of the new Spider-Man suit. Definitely worth a watch for fans of the web-slinger.

* Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-Man (and many other heroes) was talking with Washington Post, and went on to explain...

Starting tomorrow, September 1, the first movies from the new Netflix/Epix deal will begin to appear as Watch It Now selections. As I mentioned in my earlier, Robocop-heavy blog, Epix is a subsidiary of Viacom and has the rights to the libraries of MGM, Paramount, and Lionsgate films. The first films of note to come to Watch It Now as a part of this deal are Iron Man and Star Trek. Now, the original Star Trek movies, starring your favorite elderly people reprising their roles from the television series, have been available for a while now.

The Star Trek coming tomorrow is the 2009 J.J. Abrams film most remembered for starring that one guy from Heroes. Maybe that isn't fair to say, but in my mind that's where the new Star Trek is filed. It's in there because I've actually never seen it. I should mention that I live on...

We at The Flickcast are pretty diligent about serving up all the news that comes out each week. However, try as we may to cover it all, some things occassionally slip by. Well, no longer.

Welcome to On The Radar! This weekly post will be your premiere destination for a comprehensive roundup of items that may be developing stories we’re watching, Twitter commentary, or other relevant news that wasn’t quite ready for prime time just yet. In short, a grab bag of geek items which are sure to please.

Let’s see what blips are on the radar this week.

‘Zombieland’ devours video rentals

Zombieland dominated the video lists this week, “…on the Nielsen VideoScan Blu-ray Disc chart, “Zombieland” went three for three, bowing at No. 1 and …racked up 31% of its total first-week sales from the Blu-ray Disc.” Way to go Zombieland, we can’t wait for the sequeal.