By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 12/11/2007
The first stills from WHITEOUT starring Kate Beckinsale in the film adaptation of the Greg Rucka/Steve Lieber graphic novel have been released.
The film is slated for a June 2008 release.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 11/21/2007
Based on this post on Bryan Lee O’
Malley’s LJ, we’d guess it is not so easy:
I wish it was easy to get a copy of Scott Pilgrim volume 4, but it’s still kind of hard (and confusing). Here is my attempt to explain.
1. Good comic stores who ordered plenty of copies should still have copies. Examples of good comic stores: the Beguiling (Toronto), Strange Adventures (Halifax NS), Chapel Hill Comics (north carolina), Jim Hanley’s Universe, Midtown Comics and Rocketship (all NYC), Comix Experience and Comic Relief (both Bay Area California), Meltdown (Los Angeles), Gosh (London UK), Page 45 (Nottingham UK), many more that I can’t list. Obviously, not everyone lives in one of these cities. Some of these shops do mail-order and you could check the website of your closest one and find out.
2. Khepri.com probably has copies (if anyone knows, please inform me). They’re an online comic store. Here is another one: In Stock Trades dot com.
3. As far as I know, most of the Big Box Bookstores (Barnes & Noble, Borders, Chapters, Indigo, etc) do not have copies yet. If you work at one of these stores or corporations in a knowledgeable capacity, please inform me otherwise.
3a. I am told Borders ordered “several hundred” copies. Which would mean less than one book per store.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 9/20/2007
Oni Press joined an elite group of comics book publishers yesterday: Publishers who have had a runaway vehicle careen into their offices:
Our office is a corner suite at this wickedly dangerous intersection. We see/hear about 2 wrecks a week, but they usually stay out in the street. Today’s wreck was goofy because one of the trucks involved had its brakes and steering damaged and after being hit, just drove up on the curb and into our wall.
We heard the initial impact in the street and everyone got up to see. I think the consensus was, “uppp…. we got ourselves another one.” I’m glad we got up because just then, our wall got hit and glass flew everywhere. James, our editor-in-chief was about a foot away from where the truck hit.
“At about 1 a.m. Saturday morning, a drunk driver plowed her car through the front of our building,” Slave Labor’s Editor-In-Chief Jennifer de Guzman told CBR News Monday evening. “Besides the great deal of property damage it caused, the crash also took out part of our store display and did a good amount of damage to our editorial and production department. My desk is no more, alas, though most of its contents survived. I’m currently sorting through everything. One of our computers was destroyed, but, fortunately my computer and my assistant’s computer survived, so we have not lost the work on new and upcoming books. My computer was actually thrown between fifteen and twenty feet, but it only got scratched up a bit. We did lose a scanner and computer, but nothing vital to our work.”
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 8/10/2007
Stardust helmer Matthew Vaughn has been tapped to direct Marvel’s THOR Variety reports. Vaughn was once slated to direct X-MEN 3 so he’s on a comic book tear;
Mark Protosevich (”I Am Legend”) did the adaptation of the comicbook franchise that launched in 1962. Thor is a blonde-tressed, hammer-wielding hero who’s sent to Earth to protect mankind.
{snip] Marvel Studios will likely finance “Thor” using its $500 million credit facility through Merrill Lynch. Marvel has used that fund to finance both Edward Norton starrer “The Incredible Hulk,” which Universal releases June 13, and “Iron Man,” the Robert Downey Jr. starrer that Paramount will open on May 2.
§ Speaking of directors, we missed the announcement of the director for Punisher 2, and she’s a character in her own right: German-born one time kickboxing champ Lexi Alexander, who previously directed HOOLIGANS. Ray Stevenson (ROME) has been cast as the Punisher following Thomas Jane’s exit from the project.
§ McG is also back on a comic book project: Maintenance by Jim Massey and Robbi Rodriguez:
Joe Ballarini is adapting the project, which follows the exploits of two janitors who work at Terrormax Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of weapons and doomsday devices to supervillains. If they’re not too busy cleaning up toxic spills and performing menial repairs on time machines, they just might save the world.
“Some of the films that made me want to become a director like ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ are based on action, comedy and ground-breaking special effects,” McG said. “It is my goal to make ‘Maintenance’ in the same tradition.”
There are two things you may not know about Stardust, opening this weekend. 1) Good thing Brad Grey is vacationing in Europe with his family. Because he’ll miss the pic’s disastrous domestic opening this weekend.
Cera’s ability to play likable nerds may come naturally. He says that one of the highlights of his involvement with the marketing of Superbad came when he attended the comic book and film convention Comic-Con and met one of his idols.
“I met [Ghostbusters’] Ernie Hudson and got a signed headshot. It cost 20 bucks, but then I lost it. I still have it [the evidence] on tape that I got the autograph. He was really friendly, and he hasn’t aged a bit. The photo was from Ghostbusters, and it said: ‘To Michael, who are you gonna call?’ ”
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 7/31/2007
Yes we know the embed stills are particularly unflattering but what you gonna do?
Wow, Beckinsale is really becoming our new nerd Goddess, huh? Well, as much as I love her with pair of guns and heels-of-fury, I highly recommend everyone checks out her literary nerd early work, COLD COMFORT FARM.
It’s so smart and funny.
And, remember folks… in Hell there will be no butter.
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The parka’s not thick enough, and the fringe is the wrong color.
Typical Hollywood, screwing around with what made the story so popular in the first place!
This movie is gonna suck.
“…and the fringe is the wrong color.”
Seeings how the book is in black & white work of fiction, I am curious as to how you came to the conclusion that the fringe is the wrong color.
I think Rob was pulling your leg, Randy.
(Yes, it’s me– “notalabel.”)
No wonder Greg Rucka doesn’t want to be exclusive to DC anymore. He’s gonna go all David Caruso now!
When i heard that Beckinsale was going to play this role, i thought, she’s too pretty. But wow, she’s so pretty, i can’t really complain.
Are those green-screen backgrounds? They look greenscreeny to me. Am i just seeing things?
I await seeing Beckinsale flipping the “non-bird.”
Well, Mr. Lieber was clearly using the traditional coyote fur-lined hood as his reference, indicated in the illustrations by the predominance of lighter-colored fur accented by dark highlights at the fringe. The film has clearly gone for the more exotic and … oh hell, I don’t know. Gorilla?
Actually, it’s probably for better contrast against Ms. Beckinsale’s alabaster skin
I think we can all get behind that.
Looks good, but I really need to still read the GN before I see the movie.