His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
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Before Alvin Sargent was the fix-up guy on the scripts for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man series, and before he wrote the superb screenplays for Ordinary People and Paper Moon, he was one of the writers of Ronald Neame’s giddy, joyful caper film, Gambit. One of that film’s taglines has always stuck with me since I saw it sometime in the 80s:
Go ahead – tell the ending – it’s too hilarious to keep secret – but please don’t tell the beginning!
Since January, the film has been available from the Universal Vault
The Coen Bros. have adapted the film into a very well buzzed-about screenplay. For a few years now this script has bounced about from financier to financier, director to director and star to star. Has it just settled down?
Deadline seem to think so. They are reporting that Crime Scene Productions are funding the movie with something between $2 and $20 million dollars and that Michael Hoffman has boarded to direct. Hoffman’s most recent film, The Last Station, benefited from Oscar-nominated performances by Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer. I’d assume the typical delusion about how Oscar nominations come to be will see both Hoffman looking for more big-name talent and also that same calibre of actor looking to join in with his next picture.
Hoffman’s resume isn’t as exciting as that of the Coens, or Alvin Sargent, but I’ve always enjoyed Restless Natives and Soapdish.
Production on this new Gambit starts in London next May.
Anyway: a really witty and imaginative script, having been polished by the witty and imaginative Joel and Ethan Coen? My “Looking” dial set to “Forward, Keenly”.
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
