Showbiz Morning Briefing: Sundance, Ari Gold meets Stan, WHITEOUT, etc.
§ A webcomicker has won the prestigious Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at Sundance, as Talk About Comics reports:
“Everything Will Be OK,” directed by Don Hertzfeldt and based on his webcomic “Anesthetics,” has won...
Nerd gets six Oscar® noms
The Academy Award noms are in and Guillermo Del Toro will henceforth be known as "Oscar® nominated del Toro" in the halls of Comic-con. PAN'S LABYRINTH received six nominations, including Foreign Language Film,...
Running gags: HOBBIT, Owen
Okay, okay. We have our little non-comics related fetishes. Can you stand them? We think you can. But we have been covering the following stories for so long that we can't very well stop...
‘Couriers’ optioned to Rogue
Brian Wood and Rob G's COURIERS, has been optioned by Rogue Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter:
Rogue Pictures and Intrepid Pictures have picked up the movie rights to "Couriers," a series of action...
Silver Surfer forgot trunks
Ain't It Cool News breaks the news that perhaps the CGI animators were having some fun with the Silver Surfer's franks and beans in the recently released trailer for FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE...
For all those John Carter fans…
Yes, yes, we know we are obsessed with a potential John Carter movie. Can't you just humor us just this once? Anyway, CHUD has dirt from producer Don Murphy who seems to think...
All kinds of links
We mean it, Seriously...hold on to your hats! This is WILD!
§ Mark Evanier and Marv Wolfman offer their reviews of BORAT:
Mark:
I guess I didn't like Borat the Character much. Many of those he encountered...
Ramdom news and notes
§ Are fansubs destroying the American anime industry? This article at ComiPress says yes.
In 2006, rumors spread about anime distributor Central Park Media's bankruptcy (which did not happen). Also, a friend of mine was...
And to the victor…the hand of Dejah Thoris!
TMZ.com, best known for publishing celeb mug shots, has a spy report saying that Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars may have landed back at Disney.
Our spies tell us that the estate of...
Marv Wolfman blogs
Yes like everyone, Marv has a blog. In a recent post he talks about working with Stan Lee on THE CONDOR, a direct-to-DVD movie he wrote.
I've also admired Stan as a person. I know...
LA Times previews Spidey, Simpsons, etc
It's the LA Times Calendar's annual "Sneaks" issue, and one of the big topics is the three way box office brawl a-brewin' between PIRATES 3, SPIDEY 3 and SHREK 3:
But do the threequels offer...
Kevin Smith knows his limitations
In a long interview at ComingSoon.net director and, increasingly, actor Kevin Smith talks about yet another thing that scares him silly -- in this case directing an episode of the proposed PREACHER Tv series:
Ghost...
