Showbiz Morning Briefing: Sundance, Ari Gold meets Stan, WHITEOUT, etc.
§ A webcomicker has won the prestigious Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking at Sundance, as Talk About Comics reports:
“Everything Will Be OK,” directed by...
Nerd gets six Oscar® noms
The Academy Award noms are in and Guillermo Del Toro will henceforth be known as "Oscar® nominated del Toro" in the halls of Comic-con....
Running gags: HOBBIT, Owen
Okay, okay. We have our little non-comics related fetishes. Can you stand them? We think you can. But we have been covering the following...
‘Couriers’ optioned to Rogue
Brian Wood and Rob G's COURIERS, has been optioned by Rogue Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter:
Rogue Pictures and Intrepid Pictures have picked...
Silver Surfer forgot trunks
Ain't It Cool News breaks the news that perhaps the CGI animators were having some fun with the Silver Surfer's franks and beans in...
For all those John Carter fans…
Yes, yes, we know we are obsessed with a potential John Carter movie. Can't you just humor us just this once? Anyway, CHUD has...
All kinds of links
We mean it, Seriously...hold on to your hats! This is WILD!
§ Mark Evanier and Marv Wolfman offer their reviews of BORAT:
Mark:
I guess I didn't...
Ramdom news and notes
§ Are fansubs destroying the American anime industry? This article at ComiPress says yes.
In 2006, rumors spread about anime distributor Central Park Media's bankruptcy...
And to the victor…the hand of Dejah Thoris!
TMZ.com, best known for publishing celeb mug shots, has a spy report saying that Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars may have landed...
Marv Wolfman blogs
Yes like everyone, Marv has a blog. In a recent post he talks about working with Stan Lee on THE CONDOR, a direct-to-DVD movie...
LA Times previews Spidey, Simpsons, etc
It's the LA Times Calendar's annual "Sneaks" issue, and one of the big topics is the three way box office brawl a-brewin' between PIRATES...
Kevin Smith knows his limitations
In a long interview at ComingSoon.net director and, increasingly, actor Kevin Smith talks about yet another thing that scares him silly -- in this...
