It was disappointing to sit through the entire Warner Brothers panel this morning to find not a smidgen of Dark Knight material after all. It was more frustrating to realize that the oddball Joker-oriented viral marketing campaign was continuing right outside the door. Short form, between the links to a site called Whysoserious.com that were … Continue reading
I can’t let Jeremy be the only sweaty liveblogger here at the Con this year. So while there’s little chance that Warner’s is going to surprise us with any info today, I’m typing live from Hall H. There’s a pretty pathetic Batman and Robin sitting nearby, but if I can get the number of the … Continue reading
Looking at our message boards and around the internet, it seems like people don’t much like the Beowulf trailer. We knew this was going to happen. Devin’s got that angle covered pretty well. Watching the trailer online this morning, it’s as we assumed — compared to a big screen showing, it plays horribly online, even … Continue reading
Just yesterday in part four of his epic consideration of 2007’s release slate, Jeremy wondered aloud whether we’d see Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko follow-up this year. Turns out we will, on November 9. According to Variety, Samuel Goldwyn is releasing the picture in conjunction with Destination Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group. That’s a … Continue reading
There’s a press release floating around from UbiSoft today that is noticeably more triumphant than most. The gist: the company will develop and publish a game based on Avatar, James Cameron’s distantly upcoming sci-fi epic. This isn’t much of a surprise, since UbiSoft has established good relations with WETA (which is handling f/x duties for … Continue reading
It’s been said that James Mangold’s 3:10 To Yuma remake is as much of a straight-up, no frills, no bullshit action western as we’re going to see any time soon. And I’m perfectly OK with that. So why is the poster so packed with frills and bullshit? Did an ancient letterpress see The Mangler on … Continue reading
Warning: the following story may be 100% fake. Over on the ARG message board at unfiction.com, there’s a poster who claims to have seen…a poster. But no mere one-sheet, this. The image in question, hung for sale between Transformers and 30 Days of Night posters, features the Statue Of Liberty sans head, with (supposedly — … Continue reading
Fire Joss Whedon or JJ Abrams from a project and just watch the internet erupt. Petitions, barrages of emails and letters and websites springing up like born again Christians seeing the light at a revival. Fire Volker Schlondorff and…crickets. I notice it’s been hours since news leaked that he was sacked from Pope Joan, and … Continue reading