PERSEPOLIS movie reviews
Cinematical LOVE
Watching Persepolis -- an animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's best-selling graphic novel memoir -- I didn't just feel excited intellectually and artistically; I actually felt emotionally engaged, wrung-out, exhilarated, saddened and touched by...
And what have we Lost?
I am not kidding...I am too busy to spend much time on this women in comics thing today or tomorrow. And with Fleet Week beginning...my week just got crazier.
In the meantime, a few...
Radical new comic book publisher
Wow! Radical! And Blatant! And it's another one of those Hollywood Studio development deals. Some very familiar names and faces involved however.
Fresh out of a first look deal with Dark Horse Comics, producer...
Cannes Watch: Marjane Satrapi at Cannes
Amid international controversy, Marjane Satrapi talks animated PERSEPOLIS at Cannes where it debuted to good reviews the other day.
"I never saw it as a cartoon," the artist said in an interview. The artwork...
More on the matter of the day
Okay we just can't leave this alone! It's like a missing tooth!
People have variously suggested that this, this, this and this are all equal to the HEROES FOR HIRE cover. Discuss.
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MSNBC story...
The Joker’s Viral marketing
Michael Climek lays out the fun and games behind the Heath Ledger Joker reveal. A very appropriate campaign, and one that should be fun.
FREDDIE & ME to be published by Bloomsbury
Over on his LJ, Mike Dawson announces the publishing plans for Freddie & Me the autobiographical tale of his lifelong interest in the band Queen:
I'm happy to say though, that my graphic novel will...
Keanu ready to get big, blue, naked?
According to AICN, three actors have been approached for Zack Snyder's WATCHMEN Patrick Wilson, Keanu Reeves and Jude Law:
So that means we’ll see The Prom King, Patrick Wilson, suit up as Night Owl. I...
Studio Briefing 3: Alvin Schwatz film in the works
Here's today's offbeat entertainment item: the filmmaking duo behind WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW has optioned the memoirs of Superman writer Alvin Schwartz:
Global Intelligence Press has optioned "An Unlikely Prophet" and its sequel,...
Studio Briefing 2: Addams Family to B’Way
Charles Addam's ghoulish family may be duking it out with Spidey on the Great White Way: A $10 million musical based on the artists NEw Yorker cartoons is on its way :
Addams' cartoons about...
Studio Briefing 1: Rodriguez + Barbarella = good times
Well, here is a movie that is sure to be tasteful! Robert Rodriguez is set to direct a remake of Barbarella, based on the Euro graphic novel by Jean-Claude Forest.
"Dino De Laurentiis...
David Mack meets Noam Chomsky
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It's true -- they both appear in a documentary by Kristin Maccary called The Altered States of America. The title of the film was inspired by a line from Mack's Kabuki. Now you...
