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ComicMix Columns for the Week Ending March 30, 2008
Wow, March seemed to fly by even faster than February, didn’t it? But opening day is finally upon us, allergy season is already in full swing and ComicMix columnists are nipping things in the bud as usual: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #59: To Boldly Go Backward Again Me – It’s All Good #58: In…
On This Day: The Crimson Avenger
Lee Walter Travis was raised to wealth and privilege but nonetheless developed a social conscience, becoming a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War and then turning to publishing and producing a progressive paper called The Globe Leader. It was while attending a Halloween costume ball in 1938, however, that he…
‘We3’ Director Named
Horror site Shock til you Drop reports that Kung Fu Panda director John Stevenson has been tapped to direct the live-action adaptation of Vertigo’s We3 miniseries. The comic, written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Frank Quitely, was initially optioned years ago by New Line Cinema, which has since been subsumed by parent company Warner…
Paramount Allows Early Boarding on the Enterprise
Paramount Pictures has tweaked its release plans for Star Trek, allowing theaters to show the first screening on Thursday, May 7, beginning at 7 p.m. According to Coming Soon, this improves on the normal midnight screening used to create an event.
Matt Reeves to ‘Let the Right One In’
Just the other day we were mentioned that Hammer Films is back in action and now the trades report that Matt Reeves has signed with them to write and direct the English language remake of Sweden’s smash hit Lat Den Ratte Komma In (Let the Right One In). Reeves, who earlier this year, helmed the…
Box Office Democracy: San Andreas
I’ve been dreading San Andreas since the first trailer I saw of it. I don’t like movies where cities get destroyed especially if they’re cities I happen to live in, I think 9/11 ruined that for me forever. I do, however, have a deep, profound, love for Dawyne “The Rock” Johnson going back to the…
