Saturday, July 03, 2004

Competing for screen time: Canada's Globe and Mail looks at the impending big-screen rivalry between comic-book competitors Marvel and DC. Here's Marvel Studios CEO Avi Arad:

"It's important that our competition makes good movies -- it validates our assumption that fantasy characters can drive films. I'm sure DC will be just as caring with their material as we are. ... They've been through a [period] of what I would call frivolous filmmaking and, God willing, they won't go through it again."