Over the weekend, I read the entire trade paperback collection of The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen. I had anticipated a rollicking journey through my childhood, since I’d read most of these stories as a kid. Alas! It was not to be. The stories are fun, don’t get me wrong. Jimmy Olsen, the Everyboy of…
What do you when your Harry Potter series is almost finished? How do you find another property to generate billions in ticket sales? If you’re Warner Bros., you find another fantasy franchise. And they have. According to a press release, the studio has acquired the Septimus Heap books, written by English author Angie Sage, for…
In a column today on The Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine founder and former Harvey Kurtzman assistant (at Help! Magazine, published by Jim Warren) Gloria Steinem notes the tendency of some to dismiss certain types of movies as "chick flicks." She says, " … let me appeal to your self-interest as well as your sense of…
Joe Dante, who directed the Gremlins films, Small Soldiers, Matinee, Amazon Women on the Moon and five episodes of Eerie, Indiana, is launching a new website. According to Variety, Trailers from Hell lets directors record commentary tracks to scary movie trailers, which you can then pick up on line or on your cell phone. Besides…
Box Office Mojo’s weekend movie estimates show that Transformers made a whopping $67.6 million, including $22 million on Friday alone. The total gross so far is $152.5 million since Wednesday. Per theater grosses were $16,853, more than double what the next ranked film, Ratatouille, took in. The Pixar rat did okay, though, with a weekend…
Every weekend, when I walk by the newsstands, I see cover stories in gossip magazines about Brad and Angelina, Jennifer, Reese, Lindsay, Britney and others. Although I only read these magazines at the hairdressers, I am fascinated by the lifestyles of people I will likely never meet. On Sunday, I enjoy the Real Estate section…
According to this item at Howard Cruse’s blog, a group called the Library Patrons of Texas has made a list of every dirty word, racial slur and suggestive image in his award-winning graphic novel, Stuck Rubber Baby. The group’s purpose is is to encourage "local control of taxpayer-funded libraries and responsible age-appropriate selection, classification and…
Don’t people have day-jobs? Accordiing to Variety, Transformers made $8.8 million on Monday, playing on 3,050 screens around the country. Today, it adds another 500 screens, and will probably make even more money. The studios behind the movie (Paramount and DreamWorks) hope to earn more than $100 million by Monday, in what they describe as…
Box Office Mojo reports that Ratatouille is the top-grossing film this weekend, as expected, with grosses of more than $47 million. This beats Live Free or Die Hard, which earned a tad over $33 million. "But wait," you say. "Die Hard 4 opened on Wednesday. Didn’t the real fans go then, driving up the gross?"…
Ratatouille is the latest feature film from Pixar/Disney. Written and directed by Brad Bird (with additional story assists from Jim Capobianco, Emily Cook, Kathy Greenberg and Jan Pinkava), it’s the story of a young mouse (Remy) who finds himself alienated from his family because of his preference for fine cooking over garbage. Lillian Baker (age…
This past month has been a very busy one for me. I’ve been out of town three times, twice on business, and I’ve attended two trade shows and three comics conventions. It’s a lot of time to be thrust into crowds of people, whether waiting at an airport, a synagogue, a taxi line or a…
Beowolf, the new film directed by Robert Zemeckis with a scrpt by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, is set to hit screens November 16. Filmed in a computer-animation style similar to The Polar Express, there will also be an IMAX 3D version that will debut at the same time. The voice-actors for the film include…
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