Even though Comic-Con 2010 is still hours away from officially opening, news has started to come from the event with the announcement that IDW Publishing is extending its digital reach by being the first comics publisher to offer titles through Nokia’s Ovi Store.
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Was it just me, or was last night’s episode of Warehouse 13 kind of… odd? By that, I don’t mean “intentionally wacky” as much as “just not the same as the show normally is.” Are these growing pains, or something more sinister? Here’re 13 unlucky-for-some thoughts about “Beyond Our Control”:
1. Was The Artifact The Least Important …
Welcome back to the Scott Pilgrim Book Club. We’re psyching ourselves up for Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (out now!) and the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World movie (due out August 13) by discussing each volume of the series over the course of six weeks. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams, Evan Narcisse …
Comic-Con International is here, taking over the San Diego Convention Center, most of the rest of San Diego, and the lives of the 130,000 or so people who go there from July 21-25. It is a pressure-cooker of an event, and it’s easy to have a miserable time there if you get caught up in the crush. It’s also pretty easy to have an …
Wondering what the Thor and Captain America movies are going to look like? Well, like this, apparently:
These two concept art images from next year’s Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger movies are going to be available as posters at the Marvel booth at San Diego Comic-Con, starting tomorrow night. Admit it: That Thor …
If you haven’t seen Inception then go no further. You’ve been warned.
Kudos to the folks over at Giant Freakin Robot for putting this together.
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And this is why moviemakers have PR people. M. Night Shyamalan went a little off the approved script at a The Last Airbender press conference in Mexico when someone said that audiences had lost faith in his work following movies like The Lady In The Water, and
In the horror landscape, B-movie mania at its best points right to Roger Corman. His oddball approach to cheesy creature features and unnecessary nudity have become a comfy oasis somewhere between horror and campville. The deaths are messy, the sex is unexplained and the situation is always dire.
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When is a Pixar movie not a Pixar movie? When it’s produced by Disney-contracted third parties in India, apparently. Bleeding Cool has discovered that Planes, the planned direct-to-DVD spin-off from Pixar’s Cars, won’t be produced by Emeryville’s favorite animators after all, but instead originate in Disney Toon Studios, where the …
All this week you’re going to be seeing news stories about how great Comic-Con is. So before all that starts I just have to say something.
Comic-Con is not great. Comic-Con is awful.
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No, I mean, God knows, there are good things at Comic-Con. You can walk up to a …
Comic-Con International San Diego starts tomorrow, and its program schedule features roughly three billion panels. (It would appear that the line for the “Scott Pilgrim” movie panel started yesterday.) But a handful of them are particularly notable, because we’ll be there. Here’s the scoop on Techland’s own “Comics and Digital Piracy” …
The great debate over Inception is still raging but is anything from Inception actually possible? New Scientist has broken down the movie with no spoilers. It’s a fantastic read but here’s a quick overview in case you don’t have the time:
Is it possible to directly access someone’s dreaming mind?
A device does already exist …
