California Dreaming, Part Three
A special report by Zena Metal
Lost, Lost, Lost, Lost, mother’effen Lost! Arguably one of the greatest—and most heavily expounded upon—TV shows of the last millennium held its annual panel at San Diego Comic-Con,...
California Dreaming, Part Two
A special report by Zena Metal
Day Two of San Diego Comic-Con 2009 was a star-studded affair as dozens of Hollywood elites came down to pander their wares. A-list actors like Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman,...
Levin acquires Terry Moore's ECHO
Variety reports that a bunch of new comic book movie deals are on their way, and first out of the gate is Terry Moore's SF tale ECHO, which has been acquired in a six...
Hobbiton arises — UPDATED
Via TheOneRing.net:
UPDATE: Via TheOneRing.net news of a San Diego scavenger hunt:
TheOneRing and Weta launch 'Hunt for dragon's treasure' after panel Thursday at Comic-Con
http://tinyurl.com/nayl4u
Thursday at Comic-Con, immediately following its about an unofficial and speculative (but...
SD09: Mike Judge's EXTRACT
From the lowbrow beginnings of Beavis and Butthead, Mike Judge has gone on to create quite a body of work -- his new cartoon, The Goode Family, and the classics Office Space and King...
Studio news: Tars Tarkas, Stephen Chow, Paltrow, Portman, FEAR AGENT, etc.
§ Willem Dafoe has been cast as Tars Tarkas in the John Carter movie! BUt he only has TWO arms? What?
§ Heartbreaking news we'd long expected as Stephen Chow has dropped out of the...
Studio Coffee Run: Flock optioned
Not too much movie/tv news coming out with all the big announcements being saved for next week, but here's an odd one: a book that got optioned when the author posted on Eddie Campbell's...
It's Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern
OHMIGOD! Years more image surfing. YESSSSSSSS. Reynolds is hot off the success of THE PROPOSAL, a romcom opposite Sandra Bullock, and his turn as Deadpool in WOLVERINE, proving both women AND men like him....
New SURROGATES poster
Superhero Hype! has a new poster for THE SURROGATES, starring Bruce Willis, based on the comic book of the same name by Robert Venditti and Brett Weidele. The movie is out in September.
WATCHMEN Director’s Cut to get brief theatrical run
Collider reports that at a presser for the new WATCHMEN Director's Cut Blu-Ray, director Zack Snyder said the Director's Cut of WATCHMEN would be screened in four cities in one theater each, the...
This Might Melt the Internet
Megan Fox is thinking about dressing as Slave Girl Leia at Comic-Con.
San Diego might explode.
The Beat has a new enemy
Re our discussion yesterday of GHOSTBUSTERS 2, which The Beat found disappointing, punk rock band Art Brut frontman and comics fan Eddie Argos is apparently among those who watched GHOSTBUSTERS on Sunday, and had...
