Just a friendly reminder to all collectors, today is MattyCollector day for September 2011. That means at 12 Noon EST the following products will be up for sale on MattyCollector.com:

MOTU Classics Leech
MOTU Classics Hurricane Hordak
MOTU Classics Chief Carnivus
DC Retro Action Kyle Rayner
JLU 3 pack – Golden Age Flash, Golden Age Green Lantern, Golden Age Hawkman
JLU 3 pack – Adam Strange, Animal Man, Star Man

Entertainment Weekly has posted the first picture of Henry Cavill as Superman from the upcoming Man of Steel Superman reboot. Hi resolution and cast list available below!

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Marvel has just announced another Comics for Comics initiative, offering comic retailers a chance to get a rare variant cover to Fear Itself #6 by Ed McGuinness for every 50 covers they send in from DC Comics Flashpoint books. Read the full press release and list of comics after the jump.
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Following a screening of Batman: Year One, WB animation producer Bruce Timm announced to the audience their next movie projects.
The next feature will be Justice League Doom, an adaptation of Tower of Babel. Following that will be Superman vs. The Elite, and then the long await The Dark Knight Returns.

The Dark Knight Returns will be Warner Premier’s first two part feature, and Timm said the movie will be very faithful to the original. No voice cast has been announced by Andrea Romano said she is interested in bringing long time Batman actors Kevin Conroy and Mark Hammill on board. We first reported TDKR would be a future project in April.

Timm was also asked about Kingdom Come as a possible project, but said that the style of the artwork does not lend itself to 2D animation. The Killing Joke remains a possibility for the future.

Via IGN

MTV Splashpage has posted the first trailer to Batman: Year One, the latest movie in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series. The movie is an adaptation of Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One comic, and stars Benjamin McKenzie as Bruce Wayne, Bryan Cranston as Jim Gordon, Eliza Dushku as Catwoman and Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Essen. The movie will premier at San Diego Comic Con later this month, and will be released on October 18, 2011.

Variety is reporting that Russell Crowe has been cast as Superman’s father Jor-El in the upcomming Superman reboot, Man of Steel.

There are currently no details on how large a roll Jor-El plays in the new movie, which starts production next month.

Less than two weeks ago DC Comics announced they would be relaunching their entire line of comics, and that in September they would release 52 #1 comics. Over the past two weeks DC has slowly been announcing the series and creative teams behind all the new #1 issues. To make your life easier, we’ve collected information about all the announced series into one place.

Full list of new series after the jump
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Yesterday DC Comics announced that this September they will be relaunching all their super hero comics and renumbering them starting with #1 issues. In an interview with USA Today they revealed that there will be a total of 51 first issues released in a five week period.

The details aren’t fully revealed at this point, but this relaunch appears to be a reboot of the entire DC universe and will have new costumes and stories that will be more accessible to new fans.

The relaunch will start on August 31st, and DC will be release just two books that day: The final Flashpoint issue and the first issue of a new Justice League series by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee.

Another huge part of this announcement is that all of these 51 new series will be available digitally on the same day they are released in print, which makes them the first of any major comic pulbisher to do so.

Read the full press release after the jump.
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