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...
FC Brandt’s INDEPENDENTS trailer up
Cartooner FC Brandt has been working on a documentary about indie comics entitled IDEPENDENTS. The trailer is up in Low Bandwdith and High Bandwidth...
More on Hollywood malaise
Our dismay at PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST drew a mixed response in the comments section, but we're not the only ones...
