And along the way, he goes into the cost of doing business in Hollywood, the importance of writers being paid, and how to deal with producer Richard Saperstein. Take a look. UPDATE: The article is now on ComicMix after it was taken down from the original site. Further details to come.
Here are some of the things we didn’t get to on Monday, bullet-pointed for your reading pleasure: Alan Moore weighs in on Blackest Night in an otherwise interesting interview about the revival of Miracle/Marvelman, with predictable results and a huge fan backlash (as seen on the CBR Forums): “They didn’t need some upstart from England…
Nikki Finke has gotten her hands on the book proposal for Jon Peters’ autobiography. Peters was a producer for, among other films, the Michael Keaton Batman film franchise and Superman Returns. The details are unbelievable, if for no other reason that Peters seems to be burning every bridge behind him, including the one that he’s…
It’s true! Look at him! That photo just says, "Guilty! Take me away, ladies!" Sigh. No, it’s just Hugh Jackman cementing his place in Hollywood history by putting his hand and foot prints into cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Personally, I was hoping he’d put claw marks into the cement as well, but you can’t…
On Sunday, we wrote how inker Arne Starr had gone Hollywood, working on Grey’s Anatomy and Mad Men— except it turns out that with Hollywood gone comics crazy, he hasn’t put comics behind him. I’ll let Arne explain: This all started when I found out from a friend who works on Grey’s Anatomy with me…
A pile of Hollywood related comic items I didn’t get to this week, so let me get them out of the way: * Emily Blunt in Iron Man 2? * Keanu Reeves will be starring in a live-action version of Cowboy Bebop. It’s just been confirmed as going into production for Fox. * The cast…
Fox’s Boldly Going Nowhere is being seriously considered for a midseason series pickup according to The Hollywood Reporter. The sitcom received a pilot order plus request for scripts meaning it can swing into production quickly, filling the network’s needs. Boldly Going Nowhere is produced by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘s Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and…
Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass) appears to be the leading candidate to replace Catherine Hardwicke on New Moon, the sequel to Twilight. Deadline Hollywood reveals, “my source says Summit Entertainment liked the look of [Compass] even if it didn’t heat up the domestic box office (but did better overseas). I don’t have official confirmation yet…
The cult of celebrity has been with us for millennia but it really entered a new phase when everyone could see and react to the same experience, such as the era of Silent Films. From coast to coast, people could see the same story performed the same way and it helped bring people together as…
P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast’s nine volume House of Night series has been optioned by producers Michael Birnbaum (John Tucker Must Die) and Jeremiah Chechik (Benny and Joon) according to Variety. The young adult novel series is yet another to feature teens and vampires, a sub-genre exemplified by Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight. The conceit, according to…
There’s nothing like reading a butt ton of Hollywood news in the morning. Nothing, that is, save for the smell of napalm. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter had their workshop elves up late last night as a whole slew of news pours in today. Because we love you, we’ve summed up the bigger points to…
Sitting in the darkened screening room at Paramount Pictures that early May day in 1981, I had no idea what I was about to experience. Working at Starlog at the time, I thought we were pretty much aware of everything cool that was coming from Hollywood. But we knew little about this thing called [[[Raiders…
