Late last year, we wrote about former Marvel exec Avi Arad picking up the rights to bring Popeye to the big screen. Although it's not much of an update, Variety has confirmed that Sony Pictures ...

Apparently when Marvel acquires projects they intend to do something with them, and thats the case for Popeye. Marvel Head Avi Arad has recently mentioned that they intend to bring Popeye back to the ...

Is there a future for cartoon animation? Audiences have so warmed to the kind of computer-generated characters seen in “Shrek” and “The Incredibles,” even the most vintage cartoon heroes have to adapt ...

Sony is developing a completely CGI Popeye for the bigscreen, with scribe Mike Jones in negotiations to adapt. According to Variety, Avi Arad is producing the project. This would be the first feature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sony has given audiences an early look at Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Popeye.” CGI-animated test footage, which won’t appear in the film ...

Yesterday we keyed you in on some updates regarding a whole slew of Marvel properties from Ghost Rider to Daredevil. Well within that Variety article was a lot of information thrown around concerning ...

Popeye the Sailor Man was one of my favorite cartoons growing up as a kid in the late ’70s and ’80s. Even back then, the character was old (created in the ’20s), but had been repurposed and enhanced ...

Sony Pictures Animation has unveiled a first glimpse of what its CGI take on the classic Popeye the Sailor cartoon might look like. Take a look: In the above video, director Genndy Tartakovsky reveals ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Popeye, created by Elzie Crisler Segar, made his debut on January 17, 1929 as a part of a comic strip titled Thimble Theatre, and ...