I was just writing about how little new news is coming out of Comic Con this year when an honest to God bombshell got dropped – Disney has announced that they will make every single one of the seven Narnia novels into films, and they’ll be released once a year. That’s actually pretty surprising, since … Continue reading
Sitting in the Comic Con press room on the biggest day of the five day event, I’m coming close to calling this whole edition of Con a bust, at least from the movie nerd point of view (there seems to have been some actually exciting news coming out of the comic book side of things, … Continue reading
I can’t even believe it, but Comic Con has sold out Sunday. What is usually the quietest and most low-key day of the whole weekend is going to be just as packed as Saturday, the biggest day of the event. This has been an especially huge Comic Con (although it’s been a real stiff in … Continue reading
I just came from a whirlwind one on one with Watchmen director Zack Snyder here at Comic Con, and while he wouldn’t confirm or deny it, it was obvious that he’s going to cast Gerard Butler as the desperate castaway in The Tales of the Black Freighter, the pirate comic within Watchmen. Maybe. That maybe … Continue reading
Last night Russ, Jeremy and I attended the first official event of Comic Con 2007: the unveiling of about 20 minutes of Real D 3D footage of Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf, based on Ye Olde English epic. After the footage and two trailers, we came to the conclusion that a lot of what we had seen … Continue reading
The cast list of Watchmen has been released, and you’ll be familiar with almost all of the names on it if you’ve been reading this site the last couple of weeks. You’d be familiar with one more of the names if I had been able to confirm a scoop I was sent last week, but … Continue reading
Hey look, it’s a THUD update! Remember these? I’m sitting at the Four Seasons Hotel, waiting for my one on one with Edgar Wright and Nick Frost for the Hot Fuzz DVD, and suddenly saw this bit of news: Jew Review is reporting that Harold Perrineau will be back for the next season of Lost. … Continue reading
Hey, there’s actual NEWS about 1-18-08 (or Monstrous or whatever it’s being called) that isn’t some kind of viral campaign or secret website puzzle or some other OCD sorta shit: Greg Grunberg is going to appear in the movie. You may remember Greg as Useless Psychic Cop on Heroes, but he’s also in just about … Continue reading
When you ask a guy about the dangers of obsession and his answer turns into yet another dissertation on his obsession, you know you’ve got the real deal. Robert Graysmith, the basis for Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in David Fincher’s Zodiac, is that real deal. I talked to Robert when the movie first came out, but … Continue reading
When we got offered a phoner with Rob Zombie for his remake of Halloween, I jumped at it. The publicist explained that they were hoping to get some preview pieces from journalists, especially since they’d be presenting some stuff from the film at Comic Con this week. For me this was an opportunity to cut … Continue reading