Video Blog #6: 300 & Gerard Butler
Yes, this is the moment we have been waiting for, and you have too, whether you knew it or not.
The greatest moment in...
DOOM PATROL movie on the march at Warners
Variety reports that Warner Bros. is planning to make a DOOM PATROL movie:
Warner Bros. Pictures is giving new life to DC Comics cult...
Frank Miller to write, direct THE SPIRIT
While a big announcement on the identity of the director for the long-planned SPIRIT movie had been teased for San Diego, The Hollywood Reporter...
Kevin Smith on girl nerds
And speaking of Smithhere's what he had to say about Rosario Dawson:
Q: Rosario is kind of a sci-fi nerd, right?
KS: It’s cool because a...
Must reading: Kevin Smith
If nerd-as-underdog culture has an icon, it's probably director Kevin Smith, a common man made good at the pinnacle of Hollywood, aka sleeing over...
24 Minutes of A Scanner Darkly
You can watch the first 24 minutes of A Scanner Darkly over at IGN. Our old laptop is a little too jerky for us...
Humanoids production deal, Cassaday to direct
The Hollywood Reporter has a story this morning about how SUPERMAN producer Pierre Spengler has a 12-picture option on titles drawn from the library...
A Lost Princess of Mars?
A while ago, on the Old Beat we told you about a new comics series to be published by IDW based on Edgar...
Woo and Ennis team, blood to flow
Virgin Comics released the official PR on their upcoming John Woo/Garth Ennis collaboration, SEVEN BROTHERS. Yoshitaka Amano will paint the covers. Details and PR:
Newly...
PIRATES booty can’t save Disney jobs
Even as it rakes in the doubloons from the record opening of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST Disney is planning major cutbacks...
Linkie winkies
§ Gossip column All The Rage has a new writer, John Vouleris, as Blair Marnell has decided to take a much-deserved break after writing...












