It took almost a year but I’m done with everything that I can do with “DAD!” The pages are laid out (the equivalent of pencils are done) and the script was finalized today. I’m now sending it on so that the color-er and letter-er can do their part. Considering its 150 some pages… its going to be a while before they finish what they are doing. But it just feels NICE to know that I’m done with my part!
ok ok fine. I’m slacking with posts.
But today was a huge day for me. I finished “DAD!” (see above post) and to celebrate I watched “Hot Fuzz”… TWICE. Let me emphasize the fact that I rarely watch a movie twice and I never ever watch a movie again right after I watch it the first time.
For those of you who don’t know, “Hot Fuzz” is made by the same guys who did “Shaun of the Dead.” Even though this is only their second mainstream feature I think its safe to say that these guys are geniuses. If you have any appreciation for humor AND enjoy a good movie. You really really need to watch this.
Power has been out and it just came back on, but things are crazy so I probably won’t post till tomorrow. If you’re looking for San Diego Comic-Con news check out CBR or Newsarama. If you’ve read or heard about Ocean City on Fox News, CNN, and all the major networks… then give me till tomorrow and I’ll have be able to give you the full details that only locals know (I got the full scoop from one of my former co-workers at Ocean City Today).
The San Diego Comic-Con kicks off tomorrow. As a result it means ALL of the blog-worthy news of the week will be coming from California and since I’m in Maryland and every BIG news-sites is covering the event live, I’ve decided to put my blog on hold until after SDCC.
Also, my script for “DAD!” has to be finished by the end of the month so it can be passed onto artists and letterers. So I’ll be spending the rest of the week busting butt to get it done! (I really will be doing nothing but work… Samantha and Sarah are going to be out of town and everyone else I’ll just blow off).
OH yeah… above is you’re weekly dose of Edit (she was in a massive pile of grocery store bags that were as high as my shin). Have a greet week.
Just how dumb is Homer Simpson? Is there anything that is just too stupid that he wouldn’t do? I think so. Homer is a moron but he’s not a complete idiot like Peter Griffin is. Homer has heart and even when he messes up or forgets his family and such, you never doubt that he loves them.
What’s funny is that the producers of “The Simpsons Movie” actually had debates about just how stupid Homer could and couldn’t be in the film.
James Brooks, the “Simpsons” writer/producer who has been with the Fox television series since its start, had a one-word answer when asked if Homer’s pig obsession is the dumbest stunt Homer’s ever pulled. “Absolutely,” he told Reuters.
But “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening is not so sure. Groening noted that Homer once forgot how to dial the emergency phone number 911. Another time, he sought help from a higher power with the plea: “I’m not normally a praying man, but if you’re up there, save me, Superman. The writers and animators compete to see who can come up with the dumbest Homer joke of all.”
I really do try to stay out of the pure celebrity gossip posts… but I HAVE to comment on Lindsey Lohan getting arrested again. The girl is already awaiting trial for drunk driving and cocaine possession. She spent 45 days in rehab and just got out a few weeks ago. So why the hell would she drink and rive last night? I mean Paris went to jail, Lohan just trying to make sure she does too?
The troubled saga of Lindsay Lohan took another dangerous turn early Tuesday when police booked her on suspicion of drunken driving and cocaine possession after a frightened woman dialed 911 to report being chased by Lohan’s SUV.Less than two weeks out of rehab, with another drunken-driving case pending, Lohan had a blood-alcohol level of between 0.12 and 0.13 percent when police found her about 1:30 a.m., Sgt. Shane Talbot said.
Lohan attorney Blair Berk said her client had relapsed and was again receiving medical care.
After a sobriety test, the 21-year-old movie star was booked on suspicion of two misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence and driving on a suspended license and two felony charges of possession of cocaine and transport of a narcotic, authorities said.
Seriously? What an idiot!
D.J. Caruso and Carl Ellsworth (”Disturbia”) are reteaming for New Line Cinema’s adaptation of acclaimed Vertigo comic “Y: The Last Man” reports the trades.
Brian K. Vaughan’s comic centers on Yorick, an escape artist who is the last survivor of a mysterious plague that has killed every single male mammal in the world. With his male pet monkey, he sets out to find what might have wiped out the world’s male chromosomes. Caruso and Ellsworth will serve in both directing and writing capacities respectively.
What’s odd is that last I read on Vaughan’s site… he was doing the first draft of the screenplay. So I don’t know if the studio just didn’t like it or if he decided not to or what.
The Future is NOW. How else do you explain the fact that you can now buy a fully-functioning flying saucer? It can get you 10 feet off the ground and send you flying around at speeds of up to 50MPH. Not too shabby. And $90,000, while expensive, isn’t all that much considering we’re talking about a flying saucer.
The contraption runs on ethanol, of all things, and actually qualifies as an Ultra Low Emission Vehicle. So why get a Prius? If you really care about the environment, you’ll get a flying saucer. It’s only a matter of time before everyone is zipping around in vehicles like this, so you might as well hop on the bandwagon early.
There is still hope for a “Gilmore Girls” reunion. “GG” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is on press tour for her new sitcom “The Return of The Return of Jezebel James” and when asked about the series finally of “GG” she had this to say:
“Here’s the deal: I didn’t watch it. I think I just got very drunk that night, and my husband and writing partner, Daniel Palladino read in a corner, and then we went to bed.”
Sherman-Palladino went on to say that she just couldn’t bear to watch, because it wouldn’t be her ending. And yes, she finally let the cat out of the bag on the famed line she had intended to wrap the series: “You’re adopted.”
She kids! She kids! She’s keepin’ it a secret for now. Why? Because the possibility of a future Gilmore project (say, a TV movie or somethin’ of the sort) is still alive. “I love all those people. Lauren [Graham]’s my pal…Yeah, we’ve talked about doing a little song and dance sometime down the road.”
As of July 31st, all Starbuck coffees will be 9 cents more expenses and so will most of their other drinks. The reason for the raise? Supposedly it’s the rising cost of dairy products, energy and fuel.
The increase will apply to coffees, lattes, frozen Frappuccinos and some tea-based drinks, including fruit and tea blends made behind the counters in all of its domestic company-operated stores, company spokesman Brandon Borrman said.
The world’s largest specialty coffee retailer has nearly than 6,300 company-operated stores in the United States, plus about 3,500 licensed stores. It has almost 14,000 stores worldwide.
Charles Xavier was already a creep in the regular Marvel Universe. Remember way back with Onslaught and Xavier admitted to being in love with Jean Grey, ever since she was a little girl? Well apparently the Ultimate Universe isn’t much different.
I just finished the most recent trade and in it the above two panels appeared. Seriously, I thought the Ult. Universe was supposed to be different and do things that can’t be done in the regular universe. Did they realyyyyyyyy have to make Xavier lust after a teenage girl again?
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” sold an estimated 72.1 million copies over the weekend. If you take the lowest discounted price of $18 per book… that’s 1.297 billion dollars!
Nielsen BookScan said the figures for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” were provisional; full and final figures are set to be released Tuesday.
The company said 2.6 million copies of “Deathly Hallows” were sold in Britain in the 24 hours after it went on sale in England at 7:01 p.m. ET Friday. The figure breaks the previous record of just over 2 million copies held by the previous Potter volume, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
It’s summer so although we have a few gems on TV like “Psych” or “Eureka” the pickings are pretty slim. That’s why I’ve really grown to love the “Clark and Michael” online shorts.
The humor in it is very dry, almost a weird mix between “Arrested Development” and “The Office,” which sorta makes sense since it stars Michael Cera (of “Arrested Development) and has tons of comedian guest stars.
The premise of the show is that Michael and his best friend Clark are trying to write and produce a script. So they hired a film crew to document the whole process, which includes: writing, pitching, and everything else between.
So far, 10 episodes are online and you really should check them out.
I’ve always said that interns are like slaves. Well Mentos proved me right! In a genius marketing plan, they hired an intern whose job is to do whatever people on the internet tell him to do. I’m being serious!
You go to the website and can submit things for him to add to his schedule. For example, the other day he had to get on Xbox 360 and play “Gears of War.” Then after that he had to try standing on his head for ten minutes. Then after that he had to call someone’s girlfriend and tell her that her boyfriend wanted to break up.
Also during his down time, he sits infront of the webcam and responds to people in a chat room. He often listens and does whatever the people in the chat tell him to do. I know this because I told him to pick his nose and eat… and he did!
It seems Hollywood is running out of retro-80’s cartoons to re-make. They are already starting in on properties form the 90’s. The first of which is “Reboot.” I’m not sure how many of you remember it, but it was a Saturday morning cartoon that used really crappy CGI. Making it even worse, is that the writers of the re-make were selected from an online contest:
Essentially, five undiscovered writers identified by Rainmaker were selected to work with the animation studio’s production teams to prepare a pitch for the new “ReBoot” story line. These will be posted on the Zeros 2 Heroes site Thursday, the opening day of San Diego Comic-Con International. Those who visit the site will be able to work with each production team to help refine the ideas for “ReBoot” and later vote and select a favorite pitch. The brainstorming environment is what the site calls “Think Ups.”
Now that “The O.C.” is off air, MTV is trying even harder to rip it off. “Laguna Beach” is being moved to Newport, home of Seth Cohen, Ryan Atwood, and Summer Roberts.
The series, which will be retitled “Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County,” debuts at 10:30 p.m. Aug. 15.
“It has been three years since the Stephen, Lauren and Kristin love triangle drew viewers to the real-life drama of Laguna Beach,” said Tony DiSanto, executive vp series development and programming at MTV. “Now we are moving up the coast to a new town with new faces and a new high school, but with the same drama of dealing with relationships, cliques, family and friends.”
Man, just writing this blog post just reminded me how much I’m going to miss Chrismukkah
Here’s another scoop I tracked down for you “C.S.I. Miami” fans (are there such things as “C.S.I. Miami” fans?)… Rory Cochrane ( “Empire Records” & “Scanner Darkly”) is coming back for at least one episode arc, if not more, as his character Tim Speedle, who was killed off in the third season premier in 2004. Cochrane will not be doing flashbacks, so its safe to assume that his character is back from the dead.
MIT is designing new space suits for NASA to use. They will be made out of an elastic, skintight material that’s lightweight enough to allow astronauts to walk, run, or even scale mountains. Personally, I think it sounds like something Reed Richards would design.
For 40 years astronauts have been lumbering around space in the same heavy, energy-sapping suits — and that is what Dava Newman, professor of aeronautics, astronautics and engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wants to change. Newman and her team of researchers have just unveiled a promising new prototype called the BioSuit: a sleek, white, clingy outfit, whose revolutionary design has the potential to make astronauts feel as agile and au courant as Spider-Man.
NASA apparently now supports littering. An astronaut threw two large chunks of junk off the space station and into orbit. He yelled “Jettison!” while doing so.
A spacewalking astronaut did some massive housecleaning at the international space station Monday, tossing out a camera mounting and an ammonia tank weighing more than half a ton. The outdated equipment was no longer needed and joined more than 9,000 pieces of orbital debris already being tracked from Earth.
“I’ll be sending my bill in the mail for trash disposal,” Clayton Anderson joked to Mission Control.
Burj Dubai, a tower under construction in the skyscraper-crazy United Arab Emirates, has now eclipsed the former world’s tallest building in height and number of storeys. For those of you keeping track, the world’s tallest completed building is still the Taipei 101 in Taiwan, at 1,666 feet. Nobody knows exactly how tall the Burj Dubai will be when it’s completed, but for now it’s 1,680 feet, with 141 structurally-sound stories, another world record.
Currently the world’s tallest tower and freestanding structure is the Canadian National Tower in Toronto, whose spire reaches 1,815 feet. The Burj’s developers promise that when their skyscraper is completed, it will eclipse all current tall-building records, including the reach of its spire. The building’s final planned height is still secret (so that other developers don’t design buildings just a few yards taller while the Burj is under construction), but developers promise a minimum of 2,275 feet. All we can really say in this situation is, cough, Icarus.
My secret scoop source is telling me that Zachary Quinto (Sylar from “Heroes”) has officially been cast as Spock in the next “Star Trek”. There has been no official word from the studio, but Paramount is supposed to announce casting later this week at the San Diego Comic-Con. “Star Trek XI” is being directed by J.J. Abrams and is expected to be released December 2008.
This is another panel from “Ultimates 1″ that I found when re-reading the series. After re-reading both “Ultimates 1″ “Ultimates 2″ and “Civil War” I’m sorta annoyed at just how political all three are. They were all written by Mark Millar, who is not American, and I guess that’s what bugs me. It’s like… I can talk bad about my sister and say whatever I want to about her, but you can’t. Who the heck is Millar to be writing all these political stories about our country? if he wants to write about politics so much let him write about freaking Scotland. LOSER.
“Supernatural” is adding two female roles to the show who will be series regulars. A lot of fans are upset about this because they feel the girls will obviously be love interests for Sam and Dean. This has caused the shows executive producer to give one of the best quotes I’ve heard all summer:
“We are not turning into One Tree Hill with monsters – I swear. I’d rather put a gun in my mouth.”
Other than that AWSOME quote… the interview here is actually a decent interview. It talks about why they added the women and the general direction of next season. The two women being added to the show will be monster hunters and will be played by Katie Cassidy and Lauren Cohan. I’m not familuar with Cassidy but Cohan was the really hot chick from “Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj.”
I didn’t realize that new episodes of “Doctor Who” had started again on Sci-Fi. So I was online trying to get a summery of the first episode when I stumbled across this picture. It’s a Dalek cookie jar! If I ate cookies or wanted to transition from being a mere “dork” to a full on “geek” I would totally get this.
Newsarama was the first to report that the San Diego Comic-Con is selling out. Saturday and the 4-day passes are now completely sold out. Some are speculating that Friday will also sell out.
“We were pretty sure this would happen, and it has,” said David Glanzer, spokesperson for Comic-Con. Glanzer pointed out that three-day admissions (excluding Saturday) and single day admissions for Thursday, Friday and Sunday were still available though were being snapped up at a brisk pace.
Last year over 123,000 people attended the four-day event and crowds were such that on Saturday of last year, Comic-Con actually had to halt registration for some time. “This action was taken because the safety of our attendees is paramount,” continued Glanzer, ³and the facility never reached capacity.”
Good Lord. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) turned 18 today and because of this he gets $41.1 million dollars that was in a trust (its money he’s made off the movies). That’s a crapload of money to get all at once.
“I don’t plan to be one of those people who, as soon as they turn 18, suddenly buy themselves a massive sports car collection or something similar,” he told an Australian interviewer earlier this month. “I don’t think I’ll be particularly extravagant.
“The things I like buying are things that cost about 10 pounds — books and CDs and DVDs.”
At 18, Radcliffe will be able to gamble in a casino, buy a drink in a pub or see the horror film “Hostel: Part II,” currently six places below his number one movie on the UK box office chart.
Details of how he’ll mark his landmark birthday are under wraps. His agent and publicist had no comment on his plans.
“I’ll definitely have some sort of party,” he said in an interview. “Hopefully none of you will be reading about it.”
I was right when I said over a month ago that “24” was going to have a female president. FOX announced Friday (and its all over the mainstream news sites) that Cherry Jones will be the next POTUS (That’s a “West Wing Reference” which means President Of The United States).
I’ve never heard of Jones before, but IMDB.com says she’s is a theater actress who has won two Tony Awards. She also appeared in “Signs” and “The Village.”
Olivia Wilde, Kal, Penn, Peter Jacobson, Anne Dudek and Edi Gathegi will make up House’s new interns on “House.” Though it is unknown how long the actors will remain on the show.
In the season finale, House’s interns quit to move onto bigger and better things. The old interns will still remain on the show, but at least for the first few episodes they will be doing their own thing (Think of how Izzie left Seattle Grace but was still on “Grey’s Anatomy” at the start of last season).
Wilde is a FOX casting favorite, having done tours of duty on “Skin” and “The O.C.” Her latest credits are NBC’s short-lived “The Black Donnellys” and the feature “Alpha Dog.”
Penn appeared on four episodes of “24″ last season and also did the pilot “The Call” for ABC this past development run. His feature credits include this spring’s “The Namesake” as well as “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” and its upcoming sequel.
Jacobson was one of the co-stars of FOX’s “Method & Red” during its brief 2004 run. His other TV credits include “In Justice” and “Law & Order,” while he can also currently be seen on the big screen in the “Transformers” film.
Dudek has been seen in “Big Day” and “Bones,” while Gathegi appeared on “Lincoln Heights” and has a supporting role in the upcoming feature “Gone Baby Gone.”
The problem with the iPhone and iPod being so insanely popular is that they aren’t just popular with tech lovers they’re popular with thieves as well. The expensive little gadgets are everywhere, and those white earbuds are just begging to be plucked from your purse. Apple doesn’t want the iTheft epidemic to hurt sales, so they’re taking matters into their own hands.
Their new patent would make it so your fancy Apple devices wouldn’t be able to charge without authorized devices. That means that if a thief nabbed your iPhone, he wouldn’t be able to charge it up once it ran out of juice, rendering it useless. Sure, that won’t get your iPhone back, but at least you’ll know that you really annoyed the thief, so that’s gotta count for something
My Harry Potter Impressions… I’m not going to give any spoilers but just incase you are really paranoid about spoilers (even though I won’t mention any) my impressions are after the break… (Read on …)
I LOVE spoilers for TV shows because… I just do. I like to know where story and plot lines are going so that I can try and understand why/how the writers/producers are doing what they are doing. See for me, TV isn’t about the twists and end results its about the journey to get to those twists/endings.
With books I’m a little different. If I’m going to invest the time into reading something I don’t want to know what will happen. That’s why I made sure I stayed away from all Harry Potter Spoilers.
However its unfair of me to post spoilers for things like “The Office” “Galactica” “Gilmore Girls” “Veronica Mars” “Grey’s Anatomy” “Heroes’ and all the other shows I talk about and to not post “Harry Potter” spoilers. So if you are one of those people who just HAVE to know what happens then read on… (Read on …)
Having finished the book I can confirm that the online digital photos were of the REAL book and not a fake like J.K. Rowling posted on her website. I still don’t get why a person would take pictures of EVERY page and then post them online… well I don’t get why they used low-rez photos that are really hard to read. I mean if you are going to go through all that trouble you might as well go ahead and take decent pictures.
Speaking of “Star Trek,” The whole KIRK vs PICARD contest ended. I was a winner. I received a $150 gift certificate for the Star Trek store (well I have to fill out an affidavit proving I’m a real person and mail it to LA, but then I’ll receive the gift certificate). What’s frustrating is that I was sooooooooo close to winning an iPhone. See they took the four weekly winners and randomly chose one of us to win an iPhone. I clearly didn’t get it.
I have no idea as to what I’ll use the $150 toward. I really don’t have a desire to own any of the TV series and even If i wanted to, they cost like $400+ for full sets. I really have no need of miniatures, models, Star Trek clothing or anything like that. I’m semi-interested in picking up DVDs of every “Star Trek” movie becuase I do like the films… but that still leaves me $50 to spend. So I don’t know what I’m going to do.
((Oh yeah, the Pic above. I found it on the web and I really like it. Because I just can’t help but imagine that off-screen there is a whole swarm of X-wings that’s totally going to tear into The Enterprise!))
IGN Movies spoke with Oscar winner Matt Damon this weekend about the upcoming “The Bourne Ultimatum,” during which he was asked about the rumors that he’s up for the role of Captain James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams’ forthcoming Star Trek reboot.
Damon’s reaction was a pleasantly succinct ‘no’ but wasn’t averse to the idea. Damon says has heard the internet rumor and Shatner’s welcome response to the idea, he even asked J.J. Abrams about the talk.
Abrams responded that they’re looking for someone young to play the younger Kirk, an actor in his twenties. It’s expected that the official Trek announcements are to be made at Comic-Con and Zachary Quinto (Sylar on “Heroes”) is still the favorite to play the young Spock.
Latino Review are kicking butt this weekend and have reports of two people cast in the upcoming “Watchmen” movie adaptation.
Malin Akerman (”Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” “The Invasion”) has landed the plum role of Sally Jupiter aka The Silk Spectre. She is the former crimefighter turned scientist who lives with the powerful entity Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup).
The site also confirms that Jackie Earle Haley has been cast as the key character of Walter Kovacs aka. Rorschach. Rorschach finds himself the only person who believes there is a plot to kill off all the retired superheroes as he investigates the murder of a former teammate The Comedian.
The source who helped break the story that Heath Ledger would be The Joker is back at Latino Review and revealing another casting coup.
Ray Stevenson, most recently known as playing the brutish but good Titus Pullo in HBO’s “Rome”, will play the title role in the upcoming “Punisher” sequel.
Lexi Alexander is directing the follow-up to the modest 2004 hit which starred Thomas Jane in the title role. Jigsaw is said to be the villain, but who’s playing it will probably not be announced until Comic-Con.
A 75-year old grandma has the fastest residential conecetion to the internet in the world!
Lothberg’s 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said. In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer — many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.
Seriously? 40 gigs per second? That’s insane! We need to hurry up and get that in Maryland!
“Full House’s” Jodie Sweetin is all grown up (again). She just got married for the second time. Her first marriage ended after she admitted to her cop-husband that she was addicted to meth. Now 25, Sweetin married Cody Herpin, 30, in Vegas. She is also the current host of Fuse TV’s “Pants-Off, Dance-Off” a show about stripping.
My secret scoop source (who is tied to the TV industry) just sent me an email. It seems Jeph Loeb’s involvement with the second season of “Heroes” is in question. Either he is stepping down from his producing role or is taking a serious step back. My source also said some sort of announcement will be made at the San Diego Comic-con.
What my mole doesn’t know is the comics industry. This seems to confirm that Jeph Loeb is clearing his schedule so that he can become the new Editor and Chief of Marvel comics. In fact several months ago there was a “New Joe Fridays” at Newsarama where Joe Quesada was asked who his successor should be and he said Loeb.
As to whether or not this is all rumor or truth—my source has only been wrong once since February. Keep in mind though, that my source could be right about Loeb’s involvement with “Heroes” and this may have nothing to do with Marvel.
I guess we’ll find out next week.
“Venture Bros.” producer Jackson Public says there still isn’t any real news on when the third season will premier. However he did share the above art on his blog saying:
Haven’t posted in a while. Because I didn’t have much of anything to show and/or tell. And because I’ve been very busy: production is in full swing now, with almost all departments operating at full steam (except for the animation direction department, which starts Friday) and half a dozen episodes or more in play at various stages of development. (Read on …)