Spider-Man does exist, says comic-book guru

September 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Christoph Waltz is all set to replace Nicholas Cage in the upcoming superhero flick The Green Hornet. According to the Hollywood Daily, the Austrian actor who won the Best Actor Award at Cannes this year for his role of Nazi officer Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds will play Mr X in The Green Hornet, reports Contactmusic.

September 4th, 2009 Tim Gunn: Comic crimefighter against fashion evilsNEW YORK — Tim Gunn is taking his fight against fashion crimes from the workrooms of "Project Runway" to the pages of a comic book. And, wow, does he get to wear a power suit.

August 31st, 2009 Disney to buy comic book powerhouse Marvel for $4BLOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. said Monday it is acquiring Marvel Entertainment Inc.

August 22nd, 2009 LON - Spider-Man creator Stan Lee will come up with an animated comic book, which will be available online and on mobile phones. His company Purveyors Of Wonder has linked up with Disney to produce Time Jumper, which he says is "a comic, but it has sound, it has music, it has some motion, although it isn't fully-animated." Lee has further plans to turn the comic into a film if it does well.

August 14th, 2009 Fan mad about Archie engaging Veronica sells comicDALLAS — A comic book collector upset that Archie is proposing to Veronica instead of Betty has sold a rare Archie comic book for almost $40,000. The rare Archie Comics No.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Comic book character Dennis the Menace has had his trusty catapult, water pistol, and peashooter confiscated by BBC bosses in their new cartoon series. Dennis is also no longer allowed to pick on geeky Walter, and is not slippered by his dad as a punishment.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - Brushing aside all rumours of financial difficulties slowing down the new Spider-Man musical, producers have said the project will open on time. Recent reports in some tabloids claimed that preparations for the musical came to a standstill due to cash flow problems on the 35-million-dollar (23.3 million pounds) production, reports The Daily Star.

August 4th, 2009 LONDON - Michael Jackson wanted to act in Spider-Man movies, the creator of the superhero has revealed. Stan Lee, former president and chairman of Marvel Comics, disclosed that MJ had plans to produce the movie.

July 27th, 2009 Fans get first peek at 'Iron Man 2' at Comic-ConSAN DIEGO — The buzz for the first "Iron Man" film began at Comic-Con, director Jon Favreau said, so he thanked fans for their support by showing an exclusive clip from next summer's sequel. "Nobody cared before you guys did," Favreau told a capacity crowd inside the San Diego Convention Center's largest assembly hall Saturday.

July 25th, 2009 Oldman dishes on 'Dark Knight' sequel shootingSAN DIEGO — Gary Oldman had come to Comic-Con to support "The Book of Eli," but is dishing about "The Dark Knight" instead. The 51-year-old actor says the sequel to Batman the mega-hit will start shooting next year and likely be released the following.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - American rapper 50 Cent has, along with business guru Robert Greene, written a book on how to become rich. The book, entitled 'The 50th Law', promises to reveal "how the power game of success can be played to your advantage." The get rich book, to be published this autumn, has chapters like "Turn S*** Into Sugar-Opportunism" and "Hood Economics".

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - Lead singer for rock band Oasis, Liam Gallagher, is all set to star in a movie dealing with the music world, sex and drugs. Gallagher, 36, has bagged a part in the big screen adaptation of Kevin Sampson's novel Powder, which tells the story of a band lured into a world of sex and drugs after making it big.

June 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - More than 20 years after working in "Tezaab" (1988), Anil Kapoor and Chunky Pandey have come together again for the movie "Shortkut - The Con Is On". While Anil is producing the film, Chunky is playing the role of an acting guru cum star secretary.

June 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - American actress Heather Graham has revealed that she is ever grateful for her role in 'The Guru' as it taught her about the joys of tantric sex. Graham, 39, learnt the techniques to increase pleasure during lovemaking while filming the movie in 2002, playing the part of a porn actress who coaches a sex expert.

May 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The makers of 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' have announced a sequel to the Fox movie, in which lead actor Hugh Jackman will be seen fighting with samurai. Jackman will reprise his role as the adamantium-clawed mutant in a sequel set in Japan, which was announced after the first movie took a massive 87 million dollars in its opening weekend in the US.