Marvel media news corner
Sam Raimi indulges in another one of his Silver Age fantasies as he imagines making Spidey IV with the Sinister Six as the villains:
Ultimately, if Sony considers the price tag too high for another...
We’re not just imagining these things, you know
Old Disney Rejection Letter via Boing Boing.
UPDATE: to those who thought this was not a form letter --- nope, it was SOP.
It’s quiet out there
A few slow news days have become a slow news week. Aside from a few bursts of convention related news, things have slowed to an August like torpor. Is it just the summer buzz...
Morning Briefing: IRON MAN, FOUNDATION, LOST SQUAD, etc.
§ Over at his MySpace blog, director Jon Favreau reports on the completion of photography for Iron Man:
Principal photography ended with a huge bang as we filmed the final scenes of Iron Man in...
Land of a thousand links
A lot of stuff to catch up on. So just the quick hits:
§ John Jakala looks at manga that don't hold up over multiple volumes:
Death Note - Man, I loved the early volumes of...
McPherson does Hellboy
Artist Tara McPherson has designed a limited edition Hellboy for Dark Horse :
We began our Qee line with the classic 2.5 inch Hellboy Qee. Next up, the much-coveted large size 8" Qee. Hellboy and...
To Do Tonight: Chicago Bertozzi, Hornschemeier, Grossman
Tonight Bookslut Presents:
June Reading:
Wednesday, June 27 8:00pm
Stop Smiling Storefront
1371 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Paul Hornschemeier
The Holy Consumption
Nick Bertozzi
Official website
Author Austin Grossman
Read an excerpt from Soon I Will Be Invincible cover
PERSEPOLIS film removed in Thailand
Thai officials have cancelled a screening of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis after complaints from the Iranian Embassy:
The Bangkok International Film Festival has dropped the Cannes prize-winning animated movie "Persepolis" which had been skedded as new-look...
Teshkeel on FRONTLINE
The 99, and Teshkeel publishing, the Arab-themed comics line, will be on the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE tonight, according to a letter from Teshkeel's Naif Al-Mutawa:
About year ago, an award winning filmmaker, Isaac Solotaroff...
RENT GIRL to Showtime
At her blog, Laurenn McCubbin announces the RENT GIRL TV showI have been waiting THREE YEARS to announce this, and here goes:
Showtime Television has optioned RENT GIRL, by Michelle Tea and myself. The show...
RATATOUILLE
Last night, I was lucky enough to catch an early screening of RATATOUILLE, the new Brad Bird movie from Pixar. After THE IRON GIANT, THE INCREDIBLES and now this, I feel it is safe...
As you are now, so once was I…
Harrison Ford on the set of Indy IV, photographed by Steven Spielberg.
To complete the trip to the past, check out details of the upcoming Beyond the Valley of the Replicants Deuper Deluxe...
