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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
David Mack meets Noam Chomsky
http://www.youtube.com/v/1ztWLTBAW00
It's true -- they both appear in a documentary by Kristin Maccary called The Altered States of America. The title of the film was...
Iran now peeved over PERSEPOLIS
It seems Iran's professional political complainers are not just annoyed at hyper-stylized fictional remembrances of 2000-year-old wars, they also dislike cartoon films made from...
Ledger as Joker revealed
Quite a bit of viral marketing seems to be going on with the making of BATMAN sequel THE DARK KNIGHT underway. One such exampled...
Why book folks have been turning to the comics
WaPo book reviewer puts it into perpective in this review of Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark:
Over the past 25 years, literary fiction has...
1988: Pekar on Letterman
http://www.youtube.com/v/iBr4NxujLvw
Here's an oldie but a goodie floating around on YouTube.
BTW, people tell us hey are addicted to YouTube and spend hours searching for...
Saturday Night Videos
http://www.youtube.com/v/7Y-ocDnWz9w
Before HOUSE M.D.
That reminds us, we hear the rumored Christopher Eccleston remake of THE PRISONER will be about a man who is transported to...
