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So we’ve got a couple of surprise Kick-Ass! treats this week. Lionsgate just hooked MySpace up with a new poster that reveals Aaron Johnson, the title character, all battered and bruised from…well…kicking a lot of ass. The superhero comedy was helmed by Matthew Vaughn and also stars Nicolas Cage and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Click here to watch [...]

So this is somewhat of a surprise but shouldn’t have been being that the character posters for the film arrived just last week, so a trailer release seems logical. I am in the middle of reading the script for this movie and will review soon enough in the meantime we get our first official look [...]

IGN has just premiered four character posters from Matthew Vaughn’s (Layer Cake) hugely anticipated action flick, Kick-Ass! Check them out below…
The film, based on Mark Millar’s comic book, tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good [...]

Wanted and Kick-Ass! creator/author, Mark Millar, has recently announced on this personal website that he will have his directorial debut with some type of superhero film. The author is a no holds barr kind of guy so take all this with a grain of salt. Last year he spouted off on multiple occasions that he [...]

Lionsgate’s Twitter page updated with the release date of Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass!, it looks like the studio will be releasing it on April 16, 2010.
In case you do not know Kick-Ass! tells the story of Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), an average teenager and comic-book fanboy who decides to take his superhero obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. [...]

Lionsgate has grabbed domestic distribution rights to Matthew Vaughn’s action-comedy Kick-Ass! after a 3 studio battle insued after massive buzz was generated from Comic-Con on the project and fan response.
The deal is being described as big with the mini-major studio committing to a wide 2010 release.
The film is based on a ongoing comic by Mark [...]

Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Biz Blog is claiming that three studios are now circling Matthew Vaughn’s film adaptation of Mark Millar’s comic series Kick-Ass! Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal are in the running for the pic, which Vaughn has financed independently after some studios found the project’s violence too graphic and some of its dialogue too profain and decided [...]

By: Matt Levine (Fused Film L.A. Office)
August 1970. The basement of the U.S. Grant Hotel teemed with over 300 nerdos who came to oogle at their favorite artistic medium: Comic Books.
Back then, Pale-skinned, Chewbacca-loving folk like these barely made local headlines let alone national news, relying on the love of the thing to bring in [...]

Our pals over at /Film are reporting that the new Matthew Vaughn film, Kick-Ass, a film adaptation of the graphic novel, will be premiering brand new footage from the film at the San Diego event this year.
The site revealed that the film’s panel will take place on Thursday, July 23, sometime later in the day [...]

Mark Millar and Matthew Vaughn are teaming up together to bring a film adaptation of the 3 book comic-series, American Jesus. Millar recently resorted to the notion his Superman vision wasn’t going to come true anytime soon but I guess this is a good way to move on.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Kick-Ass! collaborators [...]