Popeye the Sailor is set to become 2025’s Mickey Mouse as the character enters the public domain and finds himself centrepiece in a number of horror movies based around the iconic cartoon character. Following on from yesterday’s first-look images at Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey distributor ITN Studios’ Popeye slasher, we now have a look at […]
First look at “raunchy and gory” Popeye horror movie
Popeye the Sailor is heading into the public domain in January, and so as we’ve seen with the likes of Winnie-the-Pooh and Mickey Mouse the past couple of years, we can expect an influx of horror movies inspired by the iconic cartoon character. Vying to be first out of the gate is ITN Studios, the […]
Popeye the Sailor Man returns with live-action film
Popeye is grabbing his spinach and coasting back to the cinemas. Variety reports that a live-action film adaptation is being developed. Chernin Entertainment and King Features have attached screenwriter Michael Caleo, best known for his work on The Sopranos. This will be the first feature film featuring the character since Robert Altman’s Popeye in 1980. That […]
Back in the Day: The Video Games We Were Playing in August 1981
Andrew Newton on the video games we were playing back in the day… Welcome back to the August of 1981, a month when cinemas saw the release of the brilliant American Werewolf in London and when, like this year, the weather didn’t know if it wanted to be wet or dry but mostly decided on […]
Underappreciated 80’s Superhero Movies That Deserve Recognition!
Marvelous Videos presents ten underappreciated superhero flicks from the 80s… The modern-day superhero movie may have begun with 2000’s X-Men, but it was hardly the first time we saw consistent production in the field. Yes, everyone knows about the many Superman and Batman movies produced in the 70s, 80s and 90s, but how many know about The Toxic Avenger? […]
Popeye coming to Blu-ray for 40th anniversary this December
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that Robert Altman’s 1980 musical comedy Popeye is set to arrive on Blu-ray for the first ever time this December in celebration of the film’s 40th anniversary; check out the cover artwork and details below…. The beloved anvil-armed sailor of the seven seas comes magically to life in POPEYE, arriving […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #73– Popeye
With the brilliant Pang passing us by yesterday we arrive at the second game in the Your Sinclair Top 100 from dk’tronics and also Don Priestley (the last being Maziacs), however this game is one of the first television tie-ins Don will be tackling in a rather bright and large way; we’ve arrived at the […]
Ratchet & Clank writer to script Sony’s animated Popeye movie
Sony’s long-gestating CG-animated Popeye movie may have lost its director last year in Genndy Tartakovsky, but the studio is still pressing ahead with its plans to bring the spinach-eating sailor man to the big screen, hiring T.J. Fixman to pen the screenplay for what is said to be a priority project for Sony Animation. Fixman […]
