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Blades of More Box Office Gold

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  • April 9, 2007

For the second week in a row  Will Ferrell is the top box-office draw as Blades of Glory remained the highest-grossing picture of the holiday weekend, according to the Associated Press.  The film took in $23 million, followed by Disney’s animated Meet the Robinsons with $17 million.  Ice Cube’s Are We Done Yet was third, with $15 million.

Grindhouse, the hilarious send-up of B-movies made by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, earned $11.6 million, according to early estimates.  This is considered to be a disappointing showing, as it was expected to top the box office with grosses in the $27 million range. 

"With these two filmmakers’ pedigree and the overall cool factor that this film had going for it, you would have figured it would have done a lot more business," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers.  However, with a three-hour-plus length, the movie could be shown only half as often as the other films.

Grindhouse played to big crowds on the East and West coasts but failed to click with audiences in the Midwest and South, Weinstein said.

With theatrical receipts, overseas sales, television and home-video revenues, Grindhouse"will turn a profit on its $53 million budget, Weinstein said. The company hoped that word of mouth from those who did see it would sustain it at theaters in coming weeks, he said.

What’s up this weekend

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  • March 23, 2007

While some of us in the New York area are starting off I-CON weekend by listening to live streaming of The Comic Book Novice tonight at 9 PM Eastern (penciller and Dreamchilde Press head honcho James Rodriguez is the guest), we understand that things are actually happening in the rest of the world.  I don’t quite believe it, but I’ll take these people’s word for it:

At 5:30 PM today, you can catch cartoonist Keith Knight at the University of Florida in Gainesville.  Hey, Michael Davis is black, why wasn’t he invited to this?

Seeing Things: The Art of Jim Woodring opens tomorrow at Seattle’s Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery.

In addition to TMNT, the kids movie The Last Mimzy bows today nationwide (Matt Raub reviews it on ComicMix Podcast; scroll down), and Jenna Fischer assures folks "It is a very cute kid’s movie…better than most in the sense that it isn’t cut and paced like a rock video.  It is actually sweet and magical and interesting.  Oh…and you get to see Rainn’s ass.  Well, you see him in his undies bending over at the fridge.  Angela and I were giggling like schoolgirls.  Were were like, ‘Woah!  There is Rainn’s ass on a giant movie screen!’  (I’m sure the boys from The Office will be saying something similar about my ‘ladies’ when we see Blades of Glory next week.)"  Glenn can have his Sopranos; I’m just loving that The Office actors all seem so much like their characters.  Cool Office cast photos accompany that blog entry, by the way.

tshqcast-5308197Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing (who’s just discovered American Born Chinese, so congrats Gene Yang, you’ve been BoingBoinged!) mentions that artists Rob Sato (Burying Sandwiches) and Ako Castuera have a new show going up at the LA comic shop The Secret Headquarters starting next Friday.  By the way, Cory also mentions he’s signed a deal with IDW to sell comics based on his stories, and had his agent write a clause spelling out that "those stories are already under Creative Commons Attribution/ShareAlike/Noncommercial licenses that allow fans to make non-commercial comics," so it’s whatever the opposite of an "exclusive" is.  ("Loss leader," perhaps?)

And although it’s slightly past rather than upcoming, I wanted to mention Trina Robbins’ astounding news that "comics are alive and well in Scandinavia, and women are drawing them," as she reviews her lecture tour through Malmo, Copenhagen and Stockholm.  Brr, Scandinavia in March, glad someone looks happy in those photos!

The grave situation of war

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  • February 14, 2007

Ten-hut! 

Marine Times has a profile of writer Tom Walts, a former Marine and former Army National Guardsman, and the IDW paperback release of his work Children of the Grave, a hybrid war-horror comic.  Says the article, "Waltz addresses justice, atonement and forgiveness, themes that elevate the story to something more than the usual us-versus-them shoot-’em-up."  The artist on the work is Casey Maloney. 

The collected trade paperback features the full four-part series as well as six “Children”-inspired guest illustrations and an eight-page story called “The Sorrow,” written in honor of the National Association to Protect Children.

Mike Gold: The Editor Babbles

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  • February 11, 2007

mikegold200-8917977Welcome to ComicMix — well, phase one of ComicMix.

This is the part where I’m supposed to explain who and what we are. In order to do so, I’m going to have to do something I rarely do and generally avoid: I’m going to speak seriously.

I’d like to say "welcome to the 21st Century," but I’m seven years late and not quite that pretentious. So I’ll get down to the details. Phase one of ComicMix is a community based around news, information, opinion and blogging, covering the entire range of the comic art medium and those elements in the broader media that we all tend to enjoy. We add this because, contrary to old-time fan thinking, we do not live in a vacuum.

We post the news continuously, we post our columns daily, we post our information and background stuff incessantly, we post our all-new podcasts thrice-weekly (starting Tuesday, February 13th; as they used to say in Pogo, "Friday the 13th falls on a Tuesday this month"), and we run our blogs continuously and irrepressibly.

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