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Around Town: Hero Complex Film Festival
I spent the weekend in Hollywood attending the Los Angeles Times‘ Hero Complex Film Festival. It was a blast getting to know the regulars in line each day and watching these wonderful movies on the big screen, not to mention hearing their directors talk about their experiences making the films and working in the industry. [...]
Midnight Roundup: Marvel’s Avengers, Duncan Jones, and more
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? School’s out and now I can finally devote all my energy to the projects that really matter: Web sites and comic books. I’ll keep it short, but my friend and I have started a comic-book publishing company called Comma Comics. It’s not much to look at now, but we [...]
Midnight Roundup: Germans, LACMA, and more
I’m hoping to finally do my “The Cove”/”Food Inc.” double feature in the next few days or so, but it’s certainly encouraging to hear that news of “The Cove” has spread and is starting to make a difference. For those who don’t know, this documentary about the slaughter of dolphins in a Japanese fishing cove [...]
Midnight Roundup: Stallone, Marvel, and more
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Disney Buying Marvel For $4 Billion
The Walt Disney Co. will be buying Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion with 40 percent stock and 60 percent cash. $30 per share will go to Marvel shareholders, plus an additional 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share. The deal, which was first brought up several months ago, only recently started to gain traction and, [...]
Midnight Roundup: Spielberg and Crichton, 3D Shakespeare, and more
“District 9″ was one of the ballsiest movies I’ve seen in a long time and fortunately the general movie-going public has recognized this too. Asked in two separate interviews about plans for a sequel, director Neil Blomkamp stated he doesn’t foresee focusing on the return of Christopher Johnson, but rather continuing to tell the story [...]
Ad Watch: Clooney, Romans, and more
Empire is featuring “Avatar” on their October cover and Panasonic will be touring the country with huge TV screens to advertise the film and their 3D technology. Meanwhile, star Sam Worthington claims that the reason director James Cameron opted to debut the trailer online the day before “Avatar Day” was purely tactical; Cameron “wanted to [...]
Midnight Roundup: Facebook the Movie, Ridley Scott, and more
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be expanding the pool of Best Picture Oscar nominees from 5 to 10, may not have any Song nominees in a given year, and will present “the Thalberg nod to filmmakers, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the honorary Oscars for career excellence” at a separate [...]
Ad Watch—Avatar, A Serious Man, and more
James Cameron’s return to fiction after a decade away is set to culminate with the December 18 release of “Avatar,” an epic science fiction starring “Terminator Salvation’s” Sam Worthington alongside Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana. Many have likened the story to “Dances With Wolves” meets “Aliens,” about humans who meld with their alien avatars to [...]
Ad Watch—08.12.09
The site’s been pretty dead since the end of June. First I was in China for two weeks and then I hopped on over to the San Diego Comic-Con, which I’ll have more news of in the next day or two. The convention was a blast, but after several years of attending I’ve noticed (besides [...]
