Kevin "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Eastman has sold Heavy Metal magazine, and the new owners plan to transform the comic magazine into a Marvel-like film and TV brand. Eastman will remain the publisher of the magazine, the publication will switch to quarterly, and an online edition is set to be added. They are also already working on series and film adaptations of Peter Panzerfaust and Chew. I am curious; it can only get better than the completely failed series Metal Hurlant Chronicles from France, and perhaps there will finally be movement on the long-planned Heavy Metal film, for which David Fincher was once in talks.
Kevin Eastman, who has served as the sole publisher of Heavy Metal since 1991, has sold the magazine to digital and music veteran David Boxenbaum and film producer Jeff Krelitz, who raised several million dollars in private equity to purchase the publication. Financial details were not disclosed. […]
Peter Pan-inspired "Peter Panzerfaust," an adaptation of the Image comic that BBC Worldwide is developing with Elijah Wood; and a version of another Image book, "Chew," as a direct-to-video animated film and live-action series. […]
Krelitz and Boxenbaum said they want to continue to give writers, especially those working in the comic book business, voices through the publication, which will be revamped as both a print and online quarterly. But the stories they tell could also be developed into projects for other entertainment platforms
Kevin Eastman, who has served as the sole publisher of Heavy Metal since 1991, has sold the magazine to digital and music veteran David Boxenbaum and film producer Jeff Krelitz, who raised several million dollars in private equity to purchase the publication. Financial details were not disclosed. […]
Peter Pan-inspired "Peter Panzerfaust," an adaptation of the Image comic that BBC Worldwide is developing with Elijah Wood; and a version of another Image book, "Chew," as a direct-to-video animated film and live-action series. […]
Krelitz and Boxenbaum said they want to continue to give writers, especially those working in the comic book business, voices through the publication, which will be revamped as both a print and online quarterly. But the stories they tell could also be developed into projects for other entertainment platforms
