If they had their way, the folks at Amblin Entertainment would enjoy nothing more than to use that memory-scrubbing flash doohickey to make you forget all about Men in Black II. "There’s been some conversations, just recently actually, because I don’t think we did the best possible job on the second one," producer Walter F….
Legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan announced his retirement earlier this week. According to a post at The Raider, Struzan made the announcement this way on September 3: "Having been working at not working has produced a guy who could never return to illustration again. It took a lot to attempt the idea of retiring…
Syd Mead (Tron, Alien, Blade Runner) is a professional artist. This explains why he doesn’t work more in the movies. That’s professional artist. He does a lot of work for major corporations who are happy to meet his fee for his services without any phony penny pinching. When it’s the movies calling, he says,…
A few news items of note from the various panels and such at the San Diego Comic-Con: • Marv Wolfman and George Pérez will be reunited to do Teen Titans issue #50. • Warren Ellis will be taking over for Joss Whedon on Astonishing X-Men next year. The title will change to Astonishing X-men: Second…
Back in the halcyon Sixties, when respectability was but a distant glimmer on science fiction’s horizon (and comics were still mired in disrepute), the editor of an SF magazine asked me to review a novel by Philip K. Dick. It wasn’t my first encounter with Mr. Dick; back in St. Louis, before I’d migrated east…
The BBC is reporting that Joss Whedon’s film Serenity topped a poll by SFX magazine as the best science fiction film of all time. The magazine polled 3,000 fans. Star Wars came in second, and Blade Runner was third. Other films that made the list include Planet of the Apes, The Matrix, Alien, Forbidden Planet,…
