Just off the southern tip of Manhattan lies Governor’s Island, formerly an Army and Coast Guard base. Decommissioned in 1996, it was sold to the City of New York for $1, with the only restrictions being no permanent housing or casinos. Since 2003, the city has opened it to visitors during the summer, and plans […]
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To do tonight: NYC NEW BREED II
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Tony Scott to direct NEMESIS for Fox
You could learn a lot from Mark Millar. Seriously. Not content to let his movie option deal announcement go live and get covered everywhere, he got a full three days of publicity out of it! And made such a big deal of it that Bleeding Cool literally wouldn’t sleep until they scooped Deadline on the news — which everyone we talked to seems to have known for days. So a big deal becomes a Bigger Deal. That is how you market it, Mark Millar, and we salute you.
