Danish documentarian Anders Østergaard has made a documentary about Tintin and the worldwide influence of Hergé’s cartoon creation, entitled Tintin and I. It will air tomorrow night at 10 pm on PBS’s P.O.V. program. Click on the website link for all sorts of supplemental information, including interviews with folks like Chris Ware, Jessica Abel, Seth, […]
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Filmic blockbuster news
The idea of M. Night Shyalaman directing a Harry Potter movie makes baby Jesus cry. There will apparently be a lot of wild characters in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 3, as this casting notice posted at Jim Hill Media shows: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 3 OPEN CALL Open Casting Call – Through 15 August 2006 […]
Adult Swim advertises SDCC
We were peacefully watching ADULT SWIM tonight when an ad for, believe it or leave, the ADULT SWIM booth and panels at the San Diego Comic-con came on. The ad consisted only of text and ironically sappy music, but mentioned both the booth # and the panel times and participants. This is the kind of […]
PIRATES II: The death of Hollywood
My one word review of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST: Exhausting. Not good. It was so not good that it made me wonder if we will ever see a great studio action movie again. Of course “great” is a relative term when PIRATES 2 has smashed SPIDER-MAN’s opening weekend box office record, and […]
Reitman on Super Sex
MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND director Ivan Reitman sounds off on how superhumans might be able to mate with normal humans: What goes on in the bedroom between a normal guy and a superwoman in My Super Ex “was actually a tricky problem for us,” says director Ivan Reitman. “As a kid when I read comic books, […]
A Pirate’s life for me!
We got a bit of flack in the comments yesterday for saying that Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride is superior to the WDW version. Look, we’re not trying to stir up FL vs CA static here, but this is pretty much common knowledge: Laughing Place.com: This is considerably different from MK. It is an […]
Through a rotoscoping graphic novel darkly
Newsday looks at rotoscoping in light of the today’s premiere of THROUGH A SCANNER DARKLY, Richard Linklatter’s animated version of the Philip K. Dick novel. The piece talks to many art directors and other tastemakers to assemble a kind of snapshot of this influence of the rotoscoping look and how it’s often associated with comics: […]
Brandon Routh loves rope yoga
Speaking of YouTube, here’s some LINKS! Everyone love this stuff and all the kids are doing it. Brandon Routh working out! “It concretes in your brain.” Unspeakably awesome toon of Superman stopping the menace of smoking: “The Girls of DragonCon!” Nuff said! The Beat
Warners vs John K: has YouTube jumped the shark?
WIRED mag founder and search engine blogger John Battelle writes of yet another kerfluffle with visionary animator John K. It seems that the WB doesn’t want YouTube linking to old WB cartoons: John Kricfalusi, creator of the wonderful Ren & Stimpy series and an all around worthwhile fellow to know (and new FM author) just […]