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Comics creators come from all sorts of places and today you meet a lady who goes from the burlesque stage to the drawing board. Molly Crabapple has a story to tell and she does it in a new graphic novel, plus that GI JOE series you’ve been waiting for hits the web today, and you know you want a “Gleek” action figure. We can tell you the only place you can get one!
 
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Hollywood’s hottest dynamic duo, Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci have named Bobby Cohen as president of Kurtzman/Orci Prods, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The pair have set up their own shop based on their commercial heat after working on The Transformers, Star Trek and related genre offerings.

"Alex and Bob started at DreamWorks as writers and have steadily evolved into a super-talented, multitasking filmmaking duo," DreamWorks principal Steven Spielberg said in a release. "Their taste for unique stories is unparalleled, which is why we’re excited to have them on the DreamWorks team."

On their own, they produced Paramount’s fall hit Eagle Eye and their second offering will be June’s The Proposal, starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.

Among their proposed slate of projects includes the adaptation of Platinum Studios’ Cowboys and Aliens which K/O have written; an adaptation of Platinum’s Atlantis Rising with Len Wiseman (Underworld) set to direct for a summer 2011 release; Deep Sea Cowboys, based on an article from Wired; 28th Amendment, an original thriller written by K/O and to be directed by Florian Henckle von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others); an adaptation of the espionage novels starring spy Matt Helm; and, The Big One: An Island, an Obsession and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish, adapted from Pulitzer Prize winner David Kinney’s non-fiction book.
 

From Amber Benson’s Official Blog: The Macarena Challenge!

Okay, I have a favor to ask. If you have read the book I’m shilling (selling, pimping, whatever the Hell you wanna call it), would you post a review of it up on Amazon ? I don’t care if you loved Death’s Daughter or hated it. Just post your thoughts; any and all. It would be very helpful and if I get 85 reviews going over at Amazon (not all by the same person) then I will post a video of me up on You Tube doing the Macarena.

You don’t believe? Just try me. I do a nasty Macarena.

Well, how can we not promote that?

If we get a hundred reviews, maybe we can get the book’s editor, Ginger Ginjer Buchanan, to do a Macarena too.

Oh yes. We know where to find you, Ginger Ginjer . And ve haff ways of making you dance.

(Look, it’s not like I can guarantee getting any of Amber’s co-stars from Buffy The Vampire Slayer to do it. But I can find Ginger Ginjer.)

UPDATE: But apparently, I can’t spell Ginjer. Dang spellcheckers. I forgot that Ginjer uses her own name as a proofreader test.

Showtime’s The Tudors has been renewed for a fourth and final season according to Variety. The series’ third season launched just two weeks ago and comes in the wake of the premium channels’ decision not to buy four new series. Showtime did not launch a new series in 2008 and the pressure is on to launch successful projects in order to grow and remain competitive with HBO and Starz.

Jonathan Rhys Myers returns as King Henry VIII for the final ten episodes which will shoot in Dublin starting in June and air next spring. Creator/showrunner Michael Hirst will be writing all the scripts as he has for the previous thirty installments.

The third season opened April 5 and the ratings showed a cumulative audience of 1.3 million once all airings were totaled. The first two seasons, which we positively reviewed, are available on DVD.
 

The Dabel Brothers adapted the Paramount Pictures gang film The Warriors and now they have announced plans for an original sequel. Jailbreak will be a four-part event, beginning this July. According to a release, the series picks up shortly after the end of the 1979 film, when the Warriors plan to break one of their members out of jail.

The adaptation of Walter Hill’s stylish movie, based on Sol Yurick’s novel, saw its debut in February and wraps up in June so the sequel follows immediately.  Written by Erik Henriksen, penciled by Todd Herman and Herb Apon, inked by Nick Nix, and colored by Jeremy Treece, the first issue will feature a cover by Tom Feister.
 
As described by Paramount Home Video, which has the ultimate director’s cut on sale, the film is about: “A battle of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and tonight they’re after the Warriors – a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader’s death. This contemporary action-adventure story takes place at night, underground, in the sub-culture of gang warfare that rages from Coney Island to Manhattan to the Bronx. Members of the Warriors fight for their lives, seek to survive in the urban jungle and learn the meaning of loyalty. This intense and stylized film is a dazzling achievement for cinematographer Andrew Laszlo.”