Report: Spider-Man 4 scrapped in favor of reboot
That's what The Hollywood Reporter sez:
The studio is parting ways with director Sam Raimi and "Spider-Man" stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst and is taking the webslinger's alter ego, Peter Parker, back to high school.
The new movie, which will still be produced by Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin and Marvel Studios, is eyeing a release in summer 2012.
Yoko reunites Plastic Ono musicians: Clapton, Voorman and more
Original Plastic Ono Band members Eric Clapton and Klaus Voorman will join Yoko Ono any many others at a New York annivsary gig next month. Check out the poster:
TV alert: PBS documentary on Sam Cooke
One of the best soul singers and an incredible songwriter to boot. Check it out on "American Masters" tonight. Check you local listings.
Los Angeles Times review:
Los Angeles Times review:
After a serious car accident, Cooke started to look more closely at his life and the world, and from his experience driving through the South came up with the hit single "Chain Gang" about prisoners working on road crews. He also was profoundly influenced by the social commentary of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," and a highlight of this "American Masters" piece is the footage of him singing it, trading Dylan's folk arrangement for a rippling R&B groove.
He was so inspired about the role music could play in fomenting social change that he wrote "A Change Is Gonna Come," a song that fit hand in glove with both his efforts to empower himselfand other black musicians by creating his own small music publishing company and the record label SAR Records, and with the unfolding civil rights movement.
Valleys of Neptune collects unreleased Hendrix recordings
You'd think everything worthwhile from the vaults has appeared on myriad collections, but still new Jimi Hendrix albums keep coming. From Billboard:
"Valleys of Neptune," a 12-song collection that includes the final studio sessions of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience lineup and Hendrix's first recordings with bassist Billy Cox, is set for release on Mar. 9 on Sony's Legacy Recordings...
Taken mostly from several 1969 sessions, "Valleys of Neptune" was originally recorded and newly mixed by Eddie Kramer, the Electric Ladyland studio engineer who worked closely with Hendrix...
The title track, much craved by Hendrix devotees, delivers on the promise of the musician's legendary trove of unreleased material: a fully realized song written and recorded by Hendrix at his creative peak in 1970 that had remained unrecovered for nearly four decades. The song will be released as a single globally on Feb. 2.
Gumby creator Art Clokey dies at 88
The Los Angeles Times has an obituary:
Clokey and his wife, Ruth, invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art had finished film school at USC. After a successful debut on "The Howdy Doody Show," Gumby soon became the star of its own hit television show, "The Adventures of Gumby," the first to use clay animation on television.
Three new Alice in Wonderland pics
Tim Burton flicks generally equal disappointment for me, but the visuals here look stunning:
Cartoon Art Museum announces Batman exhibition
If you're going to San Francisco:
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 227-8666
For over 70 years, audiences have thrilled to the adventures of Batman, one of the most popular and enduring fictional characters of the modern age. From his first appearance in Detective Comics in 1939 to the blockbuster Dark Knight film of 2008, Gotham City's Caped Crusader has taken on many forms, from cartoonish and campy to dark and disturbed, from daring detective to grim force of vengeance.
The Cartoon Art Museum's new exhibition, Batman: Yesterday and Tomorrow, showcases six strikingly different interpretations of the Dark Knight, representing some of the boldest visionaries to illustrate the DC Comics icon. Featured artists include Bob Kane and Bill Finger, who created Batman in 1939; Neal Adams, whose detailed artistry redefined comics in the 1970s; Frank Miller, whose graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns pioneered the modern, mature concept of Batman; Pepe Moreno, whose Batman: Digital Justice was the first graphic novel with entirely computer-generated art; and acclaimed artist Paul Pope, whose Batman: Year 100 pays homage to the original Batman comics and looks ahead to Gotham City of the year 2039.
In 1960s Japan, the popularity of the Batman TV show starring Adam West and Burt Ward sparked demand for new Batman comics. The weekly magazine Shonen King secured the rights to publish original Batman manga, which artist Jiro Kuwata wrote and illustrated from 1966 to 1967. These comics were virtually unknown in the United States until author and designer Chip Kidd's award-winning 2008 book Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan. A selection of Kuwata's art from Kidd's personal collection will be featured in Batman: Yesterday and Tomorrow, marking the Cartoon Art Museum's first extensive exhibition of original manga artwork.
Programming featuring Chip Kidd, Pepe Moreno and Paul Pope is currently being planned. More details will be announced as these programs are finalized.Info:
Cartoon Art Museum
655 Mission StreetSan Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 227-8666
Trailer for upcoming Ian Dury biopic
Andy Serkis, who played Golum in the Lord of the Rings films, stars as the late, great, absolutely brilliant British singer/poet Ian Dury. Check it out:
Pop links: Lindsay Lohan in India, comics legends speak, Micronauts!
This is a real TV series, on the way from the BBC:
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From Big Glee: Hear speeches from Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, Jack Kirby, Ray Bradbury, Chuck Norris(!) and others at the 1975 San Diego Comic Con.
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Comics writer/historian Mark Evanier has a pretty cool photo album.
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From Jon's Random Acts of Geekery: A collection of Micronauts figures. I was into Micronauts at the tail-end of my toy-buying years and loved the Marvel Comics series based on the line. Don't know if they hold up, but at the time I loved the Bill Mantlo scripts and, especially, Micheal Golden art.
Lindsay Lohan travels across India to meet the people involved in child trafficking in Lindsay Lohan In India (working title). From poverty-stricken parents sending their children away to work, to traffickers trying to make a quick buck, Lindsay questions if there is any solution to this abominable trade.Weird.
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From Big Glee: Hear speeches from Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, Jack Kirby, Ray Bradbury, Chuck Norris(!) and others at the 1975 San Diego Comic Con.
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Comics writer/historian Mark Evanier has a pretty cool photo album.
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From Jon's Random Acts of Geekery: A collection of Micronauts figures. I was into Micronauts at the tail-end of my toy-buying years and loved the Marvel Comics series based on the line. Don't know if they hold up, but at the time I loved the Bill Mantlo scripts and, especially, Micheal Golden art.
Scott McCloud posts breakdowns for his next book
The pictures are too tiny to really see, but cartoonist Scott McCloud is sharing a sneak peek from his upcoming graphic novel.
Just for fun, here’s a distant screenshot of all 466 pages of my rough draft layouts for my upcoming graphic novel (working title The Sculptor). This is as close as I can bring you right now, but as work goes on in the coming months, I promise to show some actual art.McCloud's works on the theories and techniques behind comic art come highly recommended by me. I'm not an artist myself, but his books have helped me better appreciate the comics works I like to read.
Dollhouse props/costumes go on auction
With the show canceled, props and costumes are now turning up on eBay. As I've mentioned here before, I just couldn't get into this series. Creator Joss Whedon's mixed (and plain mixed-up) messages on gender, exploitation, etc., were disturbing to me.
Still, I'm a Whedon fan and am interested to see what he comes up with next.
Still, I'm a Whedon fan and am interested to see what he comes up with next.
Sherlock Holmes examined: in print and on screen
The New York Times looks at the many portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in print and on screen.
Holmes’s vagueness and incompleteness on the page are what make him so irresistible as a pop figure, on whom we can project our own interpretation. A lot of what we know, or think we know, about him — the deerstalker hat, the cloaks, the catchphrase “Elementary, my dear Watson” — comes not from the texts at all but from subsequent imaginings of him, the movies especially.
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