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Born in the Big Apple in january of 1951, Sheldon Lettich moved with his family to the West Coast at a young age. After finishing High School, he joined the Marine Corps, serving his country for four years, one of them as a Radio Operator in Vietnam.

Partially based upon his experiences in Southeast Asia, he co-authored Tracers, a play seen in the Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and London stages, to great acclaim; It subsequently won the prestigious Drama Desk and L.A. Drama Critics Awards.

The writing of screenplays seemed like a natural progression and his writing eventually began attracting the attention of many Hollywood producers.

Since then, Lettich has become known as expert in testosterone-driven action extravaganzas, many of the films starring some of the silver screen´s best-loved slugfest protagonists: Sylvester Stallone (Sheldon shared screenwriting credit with Sly in the third cinematic episode of the Rambo series,...

Because you demanded it, true beli– no wait, that’s the other guys.

But we’re here with the solicitations for DC Comics for Novemeber, coming soon to a Previews catalog near you. The New 52 keep rolling along, and we have the Sergio Aragones version of Batman immortalized in a statue.

So let’s take a look!

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Justice League #5

Written by Geoff Johns

Art and cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams

1:25 Variant cover by Eric Basaldua

1:200 B&W Variant cover by Jim Lee

On sale January 18 • 40 pg, Fc, $3.99 Us • Rated T

Combo pack edition: $4.99 Us

Retailers: This issue will ship with three covers. Please see the order form for more information.

Now, with the teenaged powerhouse Cyborg at their side, this group of individual heroes must somehow put their differences aside to face the terror of Darkseid!

This issue is also offered...

While Jean-Claude Van Damme now prefers to make narcissistic reality TV shows I had the chance to revisit one of his earlier works this week as Double Impact returns to DVD on 19th September. Made in 1991, Double Impact marked Van Damme’s first foray into the acting challenge of the dual role, here playing twin brothers separated at birth and distinguished by slightly different hairstyles.

Van Damme plays Chad and Alex Wagner who are separated as infants when their parents are brutally murdered by members of a Hong Kong criminal cartel. 25 years later, Chad has moved to California via Paris, by way of explanation for his unusual accent, to become a karate teacher and Alex, who stayed in Hong Kong, has become involved in the criminal underworld. The pair are reunited in Hong Kong by the family bodyguard Frank (Geoffrey Lewis – Every Which Way But Loose) with a plan to...

Sly Stallone has talked, almost since the moment the first movie hit theaters, about his desire to add even more big action names to his second installment in The Expendables. Over the weekend Bruce Willis confirmed that he.s in, hopefully with a much bigger role than his cameo in the first film. Now it looks like Jean-Claude Van Damme is on board. Van Damme was offered a part in the first installment of The Expendables but turned it down. Now Moviehole has heard he.s coming around. Though their story has been subsequently picked up by other sources, incorrectly credited, and improperly characterized as an interview with Van Damme.s friend Sheldon Lettich, their information actually comes from a private Van Damme Fan board. There Lettich (who wrote and directed Van Damme.s Double Impact and worked with him as recently as 2001 on The Order), has been answering fan...

Jean-Claude Van Damme is interested in starring in The Expendables 2, but has one condition!

Sylvester Stallone has been working hard on the sequel since the box-office success of the first film. It has been reported that that he's interested in adding even more action stars to the mix and that Bruce Willis will have a larger role as the villain.

Jean-Claude Van Damme was actually offered a role in the first film but, turned it down because he did not feel the role was big enough. I thouhgt is was a bit strange for him to turn down a role in a theatrical release only to star in another Universal Soldier which went straight-to-dvd!?

According to director Sheldon Lettich (The Order, Double Impact), Van Damme is interested in joining the cast of The Expendables 2 as long as fellow action star Steven Seagal isn’t involved in the film. Lettich is...

I loved Jean-Claude Van Damme but not enough to watch all the straight to video movies he made. Maybe if Replicant and The Order had been full of crazy sh*t I would have been enticed to watch more. But First Look Pictures sent me a special edition of In Hell a while ago, and it sat on my stack long enough that it ended up getting watched.

On DVD: In Hell

There isn't a whole lot of crazy sh*t but Ringo (Maximum Risk) Lam does what he can with limited funds and locations. Most of the cool stuff happens in the one street-set chase scene, but they do a few shocking things in the prison.

Movie star Heath Ledger has been found dead in his Manhattan, New York apartment. The actor was declared dead by medics at his Broome Street, SoHo home at 3:30pm on Tuesday, according to the New York Police Department. A police spokesperson reveals Ledger was discovered by his housekeeper, after he failed to answer the door to a masseuse he had booked to give him a massage. While prescription drugs were found at scene, there were no illegal drugs discovered. The Australian Brokeback Mountain star, 28, was just about to start promoting the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight, in which he plays movie villain The Joker. Born in Perth in 1979, Ledger made a name for himself in a series of brooding roles on the big screen; he was nominated for a 2006 Oscar for his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in the gay-themed drama Brokeback Mountain. Fiercely private, Ledger has openly spoken about his public shyness, but he hit the headlines for romances with Heather Graham, Naomi Watts and his Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams, the mother of his two-year-old daughter Matilda Rose.

A star field hockey player and athlete, Ledger turned his attentions to drama in his teens and, when a friend headed to Sydney, Australia to chase an acting dream, the star-to-be went along for the ride. He landed a break as a gay cyclist in 1996's Sweat - a TV drama about a group of Olympic hopefuls - and then he portrayed the best friend of a rapist in low-budget 1997 movie Blackrock. Hedger left Australia to find acting work in America in 1999 and landed the lead in Aussie director Gregor Jordan's crime thriller Two Hands. That film helped him land the lead hunk role in teen movie hit Ten Things I Hate About You. He went on to play Mel Gibson's son in The Patriot and Billy Bob Thornton's troubled offspring in Monster's Ball. Both roles earned Ledger high praise from critics. But then came a string of critical flops - A Knight's Tale, Ned Kelly, The Four Feathers, The Order, Lords Of Dogtown, and The Brothers Grimm. But then followed Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain in 2005, which Ledger has often described as a major turning point in his professional and personal life. As awkward cowboy Ennis Del Mar, Ledger regained his position as one of Hollywood's top stars. The role led to a Best Actor Oscar nod and the coveted role of The Joker in the upcoming The Dark Knight, for which he's already receiving great acclaim. Ledger has also won acclaim for his role as Robbie Clark in quirky Bob Dylan-inspired movie I'm Not There. The tragic star was last seen publicly on the London set of director Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus on Saturday.