Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel Anansi Boys is heading to the sequential art world of comics.
The 2005 novel, a New York Times best-seller that won the Locus and British Fantasy Awards, is being adapted by Dark Horse Comics, which has set screenwriter and comics author Marc Bernardin to pen what will be an eight-issue miniseries.
Shawn Martinbrough, perhaps best known as the longtime artist of the Robert Kirkman title Thief of Thieves as well as Marvel’s Luke Cage Noir, is drawing the book, which will have colors by Chris Sotomayor and letters by Jim Campbell. The first issue is due to hit stores June 26.
The novel told the travails of “Fat” Charlie Nancy, who leads a boring life as a boring Londoner until he discovers two things: that his recently deceased father was, in fact, Anansi, the trickster god of African folklore, and that he has a twin brother he’s never met.
The 2005 novel, a New York Times best-seller that won the Locus and British Fantasy Awards, is being adapted by Dark Horse Comics, which has set screenwriter and comics author Marc Bernardin to pen what will be an eight-issue miniseries.
Shawn Martinbrough, perhaps best known as the longtime artist of the Robert Kirkman title Thief of Thieves as well as Marvel’s Luke Cage Noir, is drawing the book, which will have colors by Chris Sotomayor and letters by Jim Campbell. The first issue is due to hit stores June 26.
The novel told the travails of “Fat” Charlie Nancy, who leads a boring life as a boring Londoner until he discovers two things: that his recently deceased father was, in fact, Anansi, the trickster god of African folklore, and that he has a twin brother he’s never met.
- 2/21/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Of late, Disney+ has been setting its sights on adapting live-action versions of some famous fantasy genre novels. From Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" to Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book," the streamer knows what young adult audiences are looking for. One of Disney's latest fantasy ventures is an adaptation of "The Spiderwick Chronicles," a series of fantasy-adventure children's books from authors Holly Black and Tony Diterlizzi.
The streamer made the announcement in November last year, to a thrilled response from fans of the books, who cannot wait to see another generation of kids face off against faeries, goblins, and other magical beasts. The books have previously been adapted into a 2008 feature film featuring Freddie Highmore, Seth Rogen, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Short, and others, and Disney+ has finally announced its entire cast for the televised version as well! Keep reading to learn all we know about it so far.
What Is The Spiderwick Chronicles About?...
The streamer made the announcement in November last year, to a thrilled response from fans of the books, who cannot wait to see another generation of kids face off against faeries, goblins, and other magical beasts. The books have previously been adapted into a 2008 feature film featuring Freddie Highmore, Seth Rogen, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Short, and others, and Disney+ has finally announced its entire cast for the televised version as well! Keep reading to learn all we know about it so far.
What Is The Spiderwick Chronicles About?...
- 9/15/2022
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
Henry Slick is back with a new, original animated feature called “Wendell & Wild.” Incredibly, this film (out October 28 on Netflix) is his first since “Coraline” back in 2009. For a while it seemed like Selick, whose singular genius was responsible for “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and the animated intrudes in Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic” (among other things), would never make another movie. Thankfully that isn’t the case.
“Wendell & Wild,” based on an original idea of Selick’s, concerns two demons (voiced by Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key) who work in a hellish theme park amongst the “souls of the danged” (according to Selick they aren’t quite as bad as the souls of the damned). Together, the demons attempt to utilize a human child named Kat (voiced by Lyric Ross) as their ticket to the land of the living. Imagine “Beetlejuice” but with a wider variety of influences and,...
“Wendell & Wild,” based on an original idea of Selick’s, concerns two demons (voiced by Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key) who work in a hellish theme park amongst the “souls of the danged” (according to Selick they aren’t quite as bad as the souls of the damned). Together, the demons attempt to utilize a human child named Kat (voiced by Lyric Ross) as their ticket to the land of the living. Imagine “Beetlejuice” but with a wider variety of influences and,...
- 9/6/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Adapting literature for television is the sharpest of double-edged swords.
Popular and well-loved texts come with a built-in fan base but they also come with the most fanatical of critics.
Related: Book to TV Adaptations -- The Good, The Bad, and the Wth were They Thinking?
Neil Gaiman's fans may be some of the most excitable and voracious mobs around.
Over the last couple of decades, his work has been adapted for stage and film as well as television to varying degrees of praise and ire.
Currently, on television, Starz has renewed American Gods for a third season while Amazon Prime Video released the complete Good Omens series on May 31st.
However, these two series just scratch the surface of Gaiman's incredibly diverse bibliography. His writing is full of worlds, adventures, and characters just waiting to be actualized on our TV screens.
1) The Graveyard Book
Although there were rumblings...
Popular and well-loved texts come with a built-in fan base but they also come with the most fanatical of critics.
Related: Book to TV Adaptations -- The Good, The Bad, and the Wth were They Thinking?
Neil Gaiman's fans may be some of the most excitable and voracious mobs around.
Over the last couple of decades, his work has been adapted for stage and film as well as television to varying degrees of praise and ire.
Currently, on television, Starz has renewed American Gods for a third season while Amazon Prime Video released the complete Good Omens series on May 31st.
However, these two series just scratch the surface of Gaiman's incredibly diverse bibliography. His writing is full of worlds, adventures, and characters just waiting to be actualized on our TV screens.
1) The Graveyard Book
Although there were rumblings...
- 6/9/2019
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
Amazon Prime Video is bringing the end of the world to SXSW and I feel fine. Neil Gaiman’s forthcoming limited series Good Omens is ready to celebrate the apocalypse at the Austin-based confab with multiple events starting March 8, the opening weekend of the fest.
Based on the novel, Good Omens is set to debut on the streaming service May 31, but SXSW attendees can experience the series in all its apocalyptic glory in Austin. Activities will include appearances and conversations with the show’s executive producer Gaiman (who also wrote the book), director and executive producer Douglas Mackinnon, as well as series stars Michael Sheen, David Tennant and Jon Hamm.
In the spirit of immersive SXSW activations and events like last year’s Westworld and Ready Player One setups, Good Omens will have plenty of Armageddon fun for everyone. From March 8-11, the “Good Omens Garden of Earthly Delights,” will...
Based on the novel, Good Omens is set to debut on the streaming service May 31, but SXSW attendees can experience the series in all its apocalyptic glory in Austin. Activities will include appearances and conversations with the show’s executive producer Gaiman (who also wrote the book), director and executive producer Douglas Mackinnon, as well as series stars Michael Sheen, David Tennant and Jon Hamm.
In the spirit of immersive SXSW activations and events like last year’s Westworld and Ready Player One setups, Good Omens will have plenty of Armageddon fun for everyone. From March 8-11, the “Good Omens Garden of Earthly Delights,” will...
- 2/20/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Multi-Oscar winner Ron Howard was at the American Film Market in Los Angeles this morning to stir up buyer interest in his upcoming Luciano Pavarotti documentary Pavarotti.
Howard, HanWay Films and producer Nigel Sinclair (Rush) hosted two busy buyer presentations for the film at the Shutters on the Beach hotel. The director’s enthusiasm for his opera singer subject and stirring footage impressed buyers we spoke to.
The doc biopic will feature memorable performances, including classic songs from Pavarotti’s Three Tenors days, previously unseen footage and talking heads including his widow Nicoletta and U2 frontman Bono. The project has buy-in from Pavarotti’s family and estate.
Howard told us after the private presentation, “It’s impossible to imagine that this kid would wind up as Pavarotti. The demands of his art-form were remarkable. It was almost an athletic achievement what he accomplished through performance. He had a great gift but that wasn’t all.
Howard, HanWay Films and producer Nigel Sinclair (Rush) hosted two busy buyer presentations for the film at the Shutters on the Beach hotel. The director’s enthusiasm for his opera singer subject and stirring footage impressed buyers we spoke to.
The doc biopic will feature memorable performances, including classic songs from Pavarotti’s Three Tenors days, previously unseen footage and talking heads including his widow Nicoletta and U2 frontman Bono. The project has buy-in from Pavarotti’s family and estate.
Howard told us after the private presentation, “It’s impossible to imagine that this kid would wind up as Pavarotti. The demands of his art-form were remarkable. It was almost an athletic achievement what he accomplished through performance. He had a great gift but that wasn’t all.
- 11/3/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Good Omens and American Gods creator Neil Gaiman is staying in business with Amazon after striking an overall deal with Amazon Studios.
The British writer has signed an exclusive deal with the company to create television series that will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in over 200 countries and territories around the world.
This comes ahead of the launch of Good Omens, the book that he wrote with Sir Terry Pratchett, which launches on Amazon Prime Video in 2019 with David Tennant and Michael Sheen.
Gaiman is a prolific author, whose work crosses comics, books, film, journalism and drama. The second season of American Gods is set to launch on Starz next year. He previously wrote the screenplay for BBC series Neverwhere and his character The Sandman was adapted for Fox’s Lucifer.
In film, he wrote Mirrormask, for the Jim Henson Company and co-wrote the script to Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf...
The British writer has signed an exclusive deal with the company to create television series that will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in over 200 countries and territories around the world.
This comes ahead of the launch of Good Omens, the book that he wrote with Sir Terry Pratchett, which launches on Amazon Prime Video in 2019 with David Tennant and Michael Sheen.
Gaiman is a prolific author, whose work crosses comics, books, film, journalism and drama. The second season of American Gods is set to launch on Starz next year. He previously wrote the screenplay for BBC series Neverwhere and his character The Sandman was adapted for Fox’s Lucifer.
In film, he wrote Mirrormask, for the Jim Henson Company and co-wrote the script to Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf...
- 10/2/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
From the visionary minds of writer Neil Gaiman and director John Cameron Mitchell comes a story of the birth of punk, the exuberance of first love, and the universe’s greatest mystery of all in How to Talk to Girls at Parties – Out now on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download.
The film tells the story of a wacky romance between a punk rocker and an alien, so to celebrate its release we are giving away a “Wacky Romance” bundle, where you have the chance of winning How To Talk To Girls At Parties, Sid And Nancy, Under The Skin and Submarine on DVD.
The “raucous, vibrant and outrageous” How to Talk to Girls at Parties is a funny and delightful genre mash-up that stars Tony Award winning Alex Sharp (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) as a shy teenage punk rocker in 1977 who falls in love with...
The film tells the story of a wacky romance between a punk rocker and an alien, so to celebrate its release we are giving away a “Wacky Romance” bundle, where you have the chance of winning How To Talk To Girls At Parties, Sid And Nancy, Under The Skin and Submarine on DVD.
The “raucous, vibrant and outrageous” How to Talk to Girls at Parties is a funny and delightful genre mash-up that stars Tony Award winning Alex Sharp (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) as a shy teenage punk rocker in 1977 who falls in love with...
- 9/7/2018
- by Roobla Team
- The Cultural Post
From the 2001 novel to the Starz TV series and beyond, the world of Neil Gaiman's American Gods is ever-expanding, and it continues to grow today with the release of Dark Horse Comics' American Gods: My Ainsel #1. The first issue in a new story arc featuring the continued adventures of Shadow and Wednesday, the new comic book features eye-catching artwork by Scott Hampton, and we caught up with the artist and colorist in a new Q&A feature to discuss what he enjoyed the most about working on the new story (which also features great cover art like the one shown above by Glenn Fabry).
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Scott! How did the opportunity to work on American Gods: My Ainsel come about, and what interested you in the project?
Scott Hampton: Craig Russell contacted me after he and I collaborated for the...
Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, Scott! How did the opportunity to work on American Gods: My Ainsel come about, and what interested you in the project?
Scott Hampton: Craig Russell contacted me after he and I collaborated for the...
- 3/14/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Imagine waking up in a cemetery, discovering that you're dead, and not knowing how you died. A girl experiences these heart-wrenching emotions—on top of young love—in our exclusive trailer for Alisik, Titan Comics' new horror fantasy series premiering this February.
You can watch our exclusive trailer and check out cover art and preview pages from Alisik #1 below. The first issue will be released in comic book stores on February 28th:
"Written by Hubertus Rufledt with haunting art by Helge Vogt, Titan Comics’ Alisik is a cross between Emily The Strange and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book – a beautiful dark and gothic tale of mortality and what happens after death.
When Alisik wakes up alone in a cemetery, she thinks she’s in the middle of a nightmare. Terrified, she flees into the night, but realizes she is invisible to everyone she meets. She really is dead, with...
You can watch our exclusive trailer and check out cover art and preview pages from Alisik #1 below. The first issue will be released in comic book stores on February 28th:
"Written by Hubertus Rufledt with haunting art by Helge Vogt, Titan Comics’ Alisik is a cross between Emily The Strange and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book – a beautiful dark and gothic tale of mortality and what happens after death.
When Alisik wakes up alone in a cemetery, she thinks she’s in the middle of a nightmare. Terrified, she flees into the night, but realizes she is invisible to everyone she meets. She really is dead, with...
- 1/25/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Titan Comics have announced a brand-new gothic horror series, Alisik – part of Titan’s Statix Press imprint which showcases the best comics from Europe and around the globe, to a brand-new Us audience. Written by Hubertus Rufledt with art by Helge Vogt, Titan Comics’ Alisik is a cross between Emily The Strange and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book – a beautiful dark and gothic tale of mortality and what happens after death.
When Alisik wakes up alone in a cemetery, she thinks she’s in the middle of a nightmare. Terrified, she flees into the night, but realizes she is invisible to everyone she meets. She really is dead, with no memory of how it happened…and only the ghostly residents of the graveyard can help her unravel the mystery of her afterlife.
Featuring an all-new cover by superstar artist, Junko Mizuno (Ravina the Witch?), Alisik #1 will hit stores and...
When Alisik wakes up alone in a cemetery, she thinks she’s in the middle of a nightmare. Terrified, she flees into the night, but realizes she is invisible to everyone she meets. She really is dead, with no memory of how it happened…and only the ghostly residents of the graveyard can help her unravel the mystery of her afterlife.
Featuring an all-new cover by superstar artist, Junko Mizuno (Ravina the Witch?), Alisik #1 will hit stores and...
- 1/18/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Titan Comics have announced a brand-new gothic horror series, Alisik – part of Titan’s Statix Press imprint which showcases the best comics from Europe and around the globe, to a brand-new Us audience. Written by Hubertus Rufledt with art by Helge Vogt, Titan Comics’ Alisik is a cross between Emily The Strange and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book – a beautiful dark and gothic tale of mortality and what happens after death.
When Alisik wakes up alone in a cemetery, she thinks she’s in the middle of a nightmare. Terrified, she flees into the night, but realizes she is invisible to everyone she meets. She really is dead, with no memory of how it happened…and only the ghostly residents of the graveyard can help her unravel the mystery of her afterlife.
Featuring an all-new cover by superstar artist, Junko Mizuno (Ravina the Witch?), Alisik #1 will hit stores and...
When Alisik wakes up alone in a cemetery, she thinks she’s in the middle of a nightmare. Terrified, she flees into the night, but realizes she is invisible to everyone she meets. She really is dead, with no memory of how it happened…and only the ghostly residents of the graveyard can help her unravel the mystery of her afterlife.
Featuring an all-new cover by superstar artist, Junko Mizuno (Ravina the Witch?), Alisik #1 will hit stores and...
- 10/30/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Neil Gaiman fans are committed to supporting his work, but even they may have trouble with “Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously,” the limp new documentary by Patrick Meaney currently available on Vimeo on Demand. How a feature on one of our greatest living fantasy authors could be so mundane is a mystery. Whether it’s because Meaney lacks his subject’s sweeping imagination, or Gaiman’s introverted nature was simply too difficult to surmount, “Dream Dangerously” comes up short.
You couldn’t find a more fascinating pop culture figure to receive this treatment: Gaiman is a British novelist best known for the comic book series “The Sandman,” a groundbreaking fantasy comic about the world of dreams, which is generally believed to have ushered in the genre of contemporary dark fantasy. After his breakout years in the eighties, Gaiman successfully transitioned from comics to novels with hits like “Stardust,” “American Gods,” “Coraline,...
You couldn’t find a more fascinating pop culture figure to receive this treatment: Gaiman is a British novelist best known for the comic book series “The Sandman,” a groundbreaking fantasy comic about the world of dreams, which is generally believed to have ushered in the genre of contemporary dark fantasy. After his breakout years in the eighties, Gaiman successfully transitioned from comics to novels with hits like “Stardust,” “American Gods,” “Coraline,...
- 7/14/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
When it comes to influential horror and fantasy writers, Neil Gaiman ranks among the very best. The living legend, who authored such classics as American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book, is now the subject of a feature-length documentary that… Continue Reading →
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- 7/8/2016
- by David Gelmini
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: The documentary Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously will be exclusively shown on Vimeo, starting on July 8th. The film chronicles Gaiman’s childhood in Portsmouth UK to his initial success in writing The Sandman comic series to his more recent work with novels such as Coraline and The Graveyard Book where he became the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work. His novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year…...
- 5/26/2016
- Deadline
In 2005, fans of Joss Whedon’s shiny space western “Firefly” had spent a couple years deploring the show’s cancelation on Fox, and the sci-fi series had only just begun to garner its cult following thanks to the power of the DVD. With support from its growing fanbase and with some persistence from Joss the Boss, the canceled series finally got a conclusion to the tale of the ragtag crew of the Firefly-class ship Serenity with the release of a feature film. That film — named for the crew’s beloved spaceship — was released in theaters 10 years ago today, on Sept. 30, 2005. The film featured all nine regular cast members of “Firefly,” along with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the antagonist role, years before his Oscar nomination, and a brief appearance from Sarah Paulson, before TV viewers would come to know her for “American Horror Story.” “Serenity” ultimately under-performed at the box office,...
- 9/30/2015
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
It is officially summer for us! Yay! So, we thought this would be the perfect time to tell you about our summer reading plans. In this week’s episode, we tell you about the Cbldf and announce our Challenged Graphic Novel Reading Challenge. Our hope is that kids and parents (and everyone else) will read along with us. Because you seriously can’t question that book be suitable for library shelves if you haven’t read it, right?
This summer we will be reading 8 graphic novels that have been challenged or banned in school libraries and then every week we will discuss one of the titles. We’ll talk about why it was challenged, how to best talk about the questioned topics or themes in the book with your kids. We’ll also tell you from a kid’s perspective how we viewed the appropriateness of the books for us,...
This summer we will be reading 8 graphic novels that have been challenged or banned in school libraries and then every week we will discuss one of the titles. We’ll talk about why it was challenged, how to best talk about the questioned topics or themes in the book with your kids. We’ll also tell you from a kid’s perspective how we viewed the appropriateness of the books for us,...
- 6/18/2015
- by Maddy and Anya Ernst
- Comicmix.com
Comic-Con International has announced the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for 2015. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, highlight the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from companies big and small, in print and on line. The awards will be given out during a gala ceremony on Friday, July 10 during Comic-Con International: San Diego.
Best Short Story
“Beginning’s End,” by Rina Ayuyang, muthamagazine.com
“Corpse on the Imjin!” by Peter Kuper, in Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World (Simon & Schuster)
“,” by Lee Bermejo, in Batman Black and White #3 (DC)
“,” by Max Landis & Jock, in Adventures of Superman #14 (DC)
“When the Darkness Presses,” by Emily Carroll, http://emcarroll.com/comics/darkness/
Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)
Astro City #16: “Wish I May” by Kurt Busiek & Brent Anderson (Vertigo/DC)
Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers, by Evan Dorkin...
Best Short Story
“Beginning’s End,” by Rina Ayuyang, muthamagazine.com
“Corpse on the Imjin!” by Peter Kuper, in Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World (Simon & Schuster)
“,” by Lee Bermejo, in Batman Black and White #3 (DC)
“,” by Max Landis & Jock, in Adventures of Superman #14 (DC)
“When the Darkness Presses,” by Emily Carroll, http://emcarroll.com/comics/darkness/
Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)
Astro City #16: “Wish I May” by Kurt Busiek & Brent Anderson (Vertigo/DC)
Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers, by Evan Dorkin...
- 4/24/2015
- by Luana Haygen
- Comicmix.com
Simon Brew Kayti Burt Jun 3, 2019
Besides Good Omens, what other Neil Gaiman adaptations are heading (or not heading) to TV and film screens near you?
Who doesn't love a good Neil Gaiman adaptation? The British author is prolific, yet still manages to maintain a consistent quality and eccentricity in his work. With both American Gods and Good Omens currently enjoying TV adaptations, with Gaiman involved in their creation in some capacity, it's a great time to be a Gaiman fan.
read more: Good Omens TV Series Review (Spoiler-Free)
A bumper harvest of Neil Gaiman-penned projects are currently in development, and due to arrive on the big and small screen and elsewhere in the next few years. Let's take a look at what has a release date, what is in development, and what might never come to be...
Neil Gaiman Movie Adaptations
Sandman - Development Hell
It's meant with no disrespect...
Besides Good Omens, what other Neil Gaiman adaptations are heading (or not heading) to TV and film screens near you?
Who doesn't love a good Neil Gaiman adaptation? The British author is prolific, yet still manages to maintain a consistent quality and eccentricity in his work. With both American Gods and Good Omens currently enjoying TV adaptations, with Gaiman involved in their creation in some capacity, it's a great time to be a Gaiman fan.
read more: Good Omens TV Series Review (Spoiler-Free)
A bumper harvest of Neil Gaiman-penned projects are currently in development, and due to arrive on the big and small screen and elsewhere in the next few years. Let's take a look at what has a release date, what is in development, and what might never come to be...
Neil Gaiman Movie Adaptations
Sandman - Development Hell
It's meant with no disrespect...
- 9/12/2014
- Den of Geek
There always seems to be an adaptation of one of Neil Gaiman's works in development. Right now there's an adaptation of How to Talk to Girls at Parties and also The Graveyard Book happening, not to mention the realization of a Sandman movie with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Now we can add one more to the list as Variety reports the author's forthcoming Hansel and Gretel graphic novel (arriving in October), based on the Brothers Grimm fairytale of the same name, has been picked up by The Hundred-Foot Journey producer Juliet Blake for a live-action adaptation. It has to be better than Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, right? It's not clear what makes this version of the classic tale different, but coming from Gaiman, we're sure it's something special. The original tale followed a brother and sister who got lost in the woods and ended up being given shelter by a witch...
- 9/4/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.
215 Ink
Enormous #2 (Cover A Mehdi Cheggour), $3.99
Enormous #2 (Cover B Christian Dibari), $3.99
Abstract Studios
Rachel Rising #27 (not verified by Diamond), $3.99
Sip Kids #1, $4.99
Action Lab Entertainment
Fracture Vice And Virtue Tp, $11.99
Amaze Ink (Slave Labor Graphics)
Collected Works Of Filler Bunny Tp, $11.95
I Feel Sick #1 (New Printing), $4.95
I Feel Sick #2 (New Printing), $4.95
Amigo Comics
Rogues Volume 2 Cold Ship #3 (Of 5), $3.99
Amp! Comics For Kids
Muddy Max Volume 1 The Mystery Of Marsh Creek Gn, $9.99
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Reading With Pictures Comics That Make Kids Smarter Hc, $19.99
Antarctic Press
Rod Espinosa’s Steampunk Fables Tp, $14.99
Archie Comic Publications
Archie #658 (Dan DeCarlo Betty Variant Cover), $2.99
Archie #658 (Dan DeCarlo Veronica Variant Cover), $2.99
Archie #658 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99
Archie The Married Life Volume 5 Tp, $19.99
Death Of Archie A Life Celebrated Tp,...
215 Ink
Enormous #2 (Cover A Mehdi Cheggour), $3.99
Enormous #2 (Cover B Christian Dibari), $3.99
Abstract Studios
Rachel Rising #27 (not verified by Diamond), $3.99
Sip Kids #1, $4.99
Action Lab Entertainment
Fracture Vice And Virtue Tp, $11.99
Amaze Ink (Slave Labor Graphics)
Collected Works Of Filler Bunny Tp, $11.95
I Feel Sick #1 (New Printing), $4.95
I Feel Sick #2 (New Printing), $4.95
Amigo Comics
Rogues Volume 2 Cold Ship #3 (Of 5), $3.99
Amp! Comics For Kids
Muddy Max Volume 1 The Mystery Of Marsh Creek Gn, $9.99
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Reading With Pictures Comics That Make Kids Smarter Hc, $19.99
Antarctic Press
Rod Espinosa’s Steampunk Fables Tp, $14.99
Archie Comic Publications
Archie #658 (Dan DeCarlo Betty Variant Cover), $2.99
Archie #658 (Dan DeCarlo Veronica Variant Cover), $2.99
Archie #658 (Dan Parent Regular Cover), $2.99
Archie The Married Life Volume 5 Tp, $19.99
Death Of Archie A Life Celebrated Tp,...
- 8/4/2014
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
This summer, Elle Fanning was part of Disney's box office winning revisionist fairytale Maleficent, but now she's heading into much more enticing territory. THR reports the star of Super 8 will lead How to Talk to Girls at Parties, an adaptation of a 2006 short story by Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book, Coraline and The Sandman. The story takes place in 1970s London and follows two boys heading to a party where one has no trouble hitting it off with a girl immediately, while the other shy one doesn't have the easiest time striking up a conversation. So what will Fanning's part be in the film then? More below! Well, writer Phillip Goslett and director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rabbit Hole) have turned the story into more of a love story about a schoolboy and punk who uses music and art as a way to escape.
- 7/10/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Remember a few years back, when Dakota Fanning was the precocious child star stealing all our hearts? Well, while Dakota has grown up, staring us down as an evil vampire in The Twilight Saga and appearing in smaller films like Night Moves, it’s pretty clear to see that her younger sister Elle has dethroned her in the hearts and minds of the general public.
Since breaking out with Somewhere and Super 8, younger Fanning hasn’t slowed down one bit, appearing in feel-good crowd-pleaser We Bought a Zoo, indie drama Ginger & Rosa, dystopian romance Young Ones and, most impressively, fairy-tale blockbuster Maleficent. Now, Fanning’s ready to finally prove herself as a lead actress, with news that she’s landed the lead role in How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
An adaptation of the short story of the same name by The Graveyard Book and Coraline author Neil Gaiman,...
Since breaking out with Somewhere and Super 8, younger Fanning hasn’t slowed down one bit, appearing in feel-good crowd-pleaser We Bought a Zoo, indie drama Ginger & Rosa, dystopian romance Young Ones and, most impressively, fairy-tale blockbuster Maleficent. Now, Fanning’s ready to finally prove herself as a lead actress, with news that she’s landed the lead role in How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
An adaptation of the short story of the same name by The Graveyard Book and Coraline author Neil Gaiman,...
- 7/10/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
The Rush director replaces Alejandro González Iñárritu on the project, which is the second Jungle Book remake currently in the works in Hollywood
Ron Howard, director of Rush and Frost/Nixon, has signed up to direct and produce Warner Bros' forthcoming live action take on the Jungle Book. He replaces Babel director Alejandro González Iñárritu on the project.
As is so common in Hollywood, it will compete with another similar project also in the works, a live action version from Disney that will have Jon Favreau in the director's chair. However, it could be some time before Howard's version is begun, as he has a number of other projects in the offing. One is to direct Inferno, the follow-up to his pair of Dan Brown adaptations, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons; he may also work on The Graveyard Book, a Disney adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name.
Ron Howard, director of Rush and Frost/Nixon, has signed up to direct and produce Warner Bros' forthcoming live action take on the Jungle Book. He replaces Babel director Alejandro González Iñárritu on the project.
As is so common in Hollywood, it will compete with another similar project also in the works, a live action version from Disney that will have Jon Favreau in the director's chair. However, it could be some time before Howard's version is begun, as he has a number of other projects in the offing. One is to direct Inferno, the follow-up to his pair of Dan Brown adaptations, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons; he may also work on The Graveyard Book, a Disney adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name.
- 2/18/2014
- by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
- The Guardian - Film News
About seven months ago HBO was planning a full six season adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods. Things apparently didn't work out between the two parties because the project is no longer set up at HBO, which is a bloody shame.
The series is now being developed by FremantleMedia, who produce the shows The Tomorrow People and the upcoming The Returned. This is the press release that the production company sent out making the announcement, along with some details on what the series will be about.
Gaiman, the creator of the celebrated Sandman comic series, and the author of bestselling novels The Graveyard Book, Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, will Executive Produce the series along with FremantleMedia. Gaiman was represented in the deal by nm2228878 autoJon Levin[/link] at CAA on behalf of literary agent Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.
The plot posits a war...
The series is now being developed by FremantleMedia, who produce the shows The Tomorrow People and the upcoming The Returned. This is the press release that the production company sent out making the announcement, along with some details on what the series will be about.
Gaiman, the creator of the celebrated Sandman comic series, and the author of bestselling novels The Graveyard Book, Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane, will Executive Produce the series along with FremantleMedia. Gaiman was represented in the deal by nm2228878 autoJon Levin[/link] at CAA on behalf of literary agent Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House.
The plot posits a war...
- 2/5/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
As you may or may not be aware, we at SciFi Mafia are somewhat hesitant to post news about shows in development, or even picked up to pilot. That’s because we are wary of heartbreak. So many pilots never make it to series, and an even smaller percentage of series in development make it any further.
Nevertheless, there are times when we just gotta tell you. This is one of them, confirmed by the man himself: FreemantleMedia North America (The Tomorrow People, The Returned) has picked up the rights to develop our beloved Neil Gaiman‘s American Gods novel to series.
As we reported back in 2011, HBO had picked up the option to develop the series with Tom Hanks‘s Playtone. Gaiman explains in his blog what has happened since:
A few people have asked for more background on this: HBO had an option on American Gods for several years.
Nevertheless, there are times when we just gotta tell you. This is one of them, confirmed by the man himself: FreemantleMedia North America (The Tomorrow People, The Returned) has picked up the rights to develop our beloved Neil Gaiman‘s American Gods novel to series.
As we reported back in 2011, HBO had picked up the option to develop the series with Tom Hanks‘s Playtone. Gaiman explains in his blog what has happened since:
A few people have asked for more background on this: HBO had an option on American Gods for several years.
- 2/4/2014
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
In an extremely exciting piece of news for Neil Gaiman fans, it was announced yesterday that FremantleMedia have picked up the rights to American Gods. While the project had initially been in development at HBO (the cable network responsible for the likes of Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones), it changed hands late last year.
FremantleMedia are perhaps best known for reality television such as Amercian Idol, The X Factor and America’s Got Talent, although they have recently made a move into scripted shows with the likes of the planned The Vampire Diaries spinoff and The Tomorrow People on The CW.
The press release can be read in full below, and it offers up a plot synopsis which should help give you an idea what to expect from the series if you’ve never read the book. Where exactly it will now end up – and when it will air – remains to be seen,...
FremantleMedia are perhaps best known for reality television such as Amercian Idol, The X Factor and America’s Got Talent, although they have recently made a move into scripted shows with the likes of the planned The Vampire Diaries spinoff and The Tomorrow People on The CW.
The press release can be read in full below, and it offers up a plot synopsis which should help give you an idea what to expect from the series if you’ve never read the book. Where exactly it will now end up – and when it will air – remains to be seen,...
- 2/4/2014
- by Josh Wilding
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Christmas is a time for feel-good movies. It’s a Wonderful Life, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and the usual Hallmark Hall of Fame drivel that hits the airwaves every December. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the mainstream Christmas classics as much as the next guy. But at night, when my family is all snug in their beds, that’s when I drag out my sick and twisted Christmas collection…
Black Christmas, Christmas Evil, Silent Night Deadly Night, Don’t Open Till Christmas, those are the films I like to cuddle up to with a spiked eggnog. What is my favorite? That’s a difficult question. I love them all for different reasons, but if I had to pick one, I would have to pick a recent import from Finland called Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. A modern mashup of The Thing and the Krampus mythology, it is...
Black Christmas, Christmas Evil, Silent Night Deadly Night, Don’t Open Till Christmas, those are the films I like to cuddle up to with a spiked eggnog. What is my favorite? That’s a difficult question. I love them all for different reasons, but if I had to pick one, I would have to pick a recent import from Finland called Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. A modern mashup of The Thing and the Krampus mythology, it is...
- 12/10/2013
- by Kevin Klemm
- FEARnet
If you don’t love Neil Gaiman‘s work it’s likely because you’ve somehow not come across it yet. The prolific writer has penned some of my favorite books, including Neverwhere and The Graveyard Book. Likewise, as soon as it aired, his “The Doctor’s Wife” took over first place on my list of favorite Doctor Who episodes, displacing “Blink”.
Now he has written a short ebook entitled Nothing O’Clock, the final entry in the series of ebooks celebrating the Doctor Who 50th anniversary, as we told you about back in January. Here’s a featurette with the delightful Mr. Gaiman – his voice is his best advertisement for his audio books, which I love, though sadly he doesn’t narrate this book – as he introduces his ebook. Included are clips from “The Doctor’s Wife”, so make sure you have tissues handy.
Author Neil Gaiman talks about...
Now he has written a short ebook entitled Nothing O’Clock, the final entry in the series of ebooks celebrating the Doctor Who 50th anniversary, as we told you about back in January. Here’s a featurette with the delightful Mr. Gaiman – his voice is his best advertisement for his audio books, which I love, though sadly he doesn’t narrate this book – as he introduces his ebook. Included are clips from “The Doctor’s Wife”, so make sure you have tissues handy.
Author Neil Gaiman talks about...
- 11/19/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
The eleventh and final instalment in a sensational series of stories celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is written by Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Stardust, Neverwhere, The Graveyard Book and Coraline. To celebrate Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary on 23rd November 2013, Puffin and BBC Worldwide
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The eleventh and final instalment in a sensational series of stories celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is written by Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Stardust, Neverwhere, The Graveyard Book and Coraline. To celebrate Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary on 23rd November 2013, Puffin and BBC Worldwide
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- 11/5/2013
- by Christian Cawley
- Kasterborous.com
Fans of the Syfy supernatural drama won’t have to wait until Haven returns for a fourth season on September 13 to learn what happened right after the explosive Season 3 finale. The Season 3 DVD set of the series will include an exclusive Haven: After The Storm mini-graphic novel. With 100,000 copies printed, the 16-page comic details the immediate aftershock of the meteor-falling season ender on the mysterious town of Haven, Maine. Among other things, that finale saw FBI agent-turned-local cop Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) and the Duke Crocker (Eric Balfour) character disappear into a vanishing barn. The DVD set comes out on September 3, and the graphic novel won’t be available anywhere else. The “Thanks For The Memories” episode of the eOne- and Big Motion Pictures-produced series, based on Stephen King’s 2005 novella The Colorado Kid, aired on January 17. The upcoming Season 4 of Haven actually picks up six months after the events of Season 3 finale,...
- 8/29/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Feature James Clayton 16 Aug 2013 - 07:28
The arrival of Kick-Ass 2 is a reminder of how comic book artists and creators have become movie industry royalty, James writes...
I like to think that the following happened on a daily basis during the filming of Kick-Ass 2 - all cast and crew members signalled their arrival on set by announcing, "I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum."
If no one actually did take the opportunity to make a tenuous title-based association and quote Roddy Piper's best line in They Live, it's a damn shame. If Kick-Ass 3 happens, someone (everyone) involved can start this motivational ritual/repeat film reference in-joke when shooting begins on that sequel. In advance, you're welcome.
Leaving John Carpenter homages to one side and returning to hard work on the Kick-Ass 2 set, two figures who hung around a...
The arrival of Kick-Ass 2 is a reminder of how comic book artists and creators have become movie industry royalty, James writes...
I like to think that the following happened on a daily basis during the filming of Kick-Ass 2 - all cast and crew members signalled their arrival on set by announcing, "I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum."
If no one actually did take the opportunity to make a tenuous title-based association and quote Roddy Piper's best line in They Live, it's a damn shame. If Kick-Ass 3 happens, someone (everyone) involved can start this motivational ritual/repeat film reference in-joke when shooting begins on that sequel. In advance, you're welcome.
Leaving John Carpenter homages to one side and returning to hard work on the Kick-Ass 2 set, two figures who hung around a...
- 8/15/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Europa Report, a feature film by Ecuadorian director, Sebastián Cordero, was so impressive. On a personal note (not to brag…), my niece is exploring alien life in the form of starfish at the Stanford Marine Station in Monterey as the subject of her Nasa- funded PhD program, so this movie about exploring alien life in a watery environment touches close to home for me. In addition, I am very interested in Ecuador as a filmmaking country (or a non-filmmaking country) whose revenues from homegrown cinema has grown 300% in 2012, so I did something I rarely undertake, I interviewed the filmmaker.
Sebastián Cordero was in L.A. for ten days after attending Comic-Con and stayed through last night's Kcrw Special L.A. Screening at the Landmark Theater on Pico Blvd. Today he left for NYC. Magnet Releasing will release the film theatrically on August 2 and it is available now on VOD.
Europa Report opens this Friday, August 2, 2013 in Los Angeles at the Sundance Sunset in West Hollywood, D.C. at the E Street Cinema in Washington, and New York at the Cinema Village this Friday and will be followed by a national roll-out. See playdates here.
Attending Comic-Con was a great experience for Sebastián. He says that the L.A. Times coverage describes the experience very well and definitely gave the film a boost in fandom. The panel at Comic-Con's largest venue was unique for Sebastián, an Ecuadorian whose two films, the 2004 Cronicas produced by Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Isabel Dávalos, and Bertha Navarro, and Rabia have created their own exclusive cult fan clubs. Rabia (Isa:Wild Bunch), a Spanish-Colombian coproduction premiered in 2009 at the Toronto Film Festival. The 2004 film Cronicas caused quite a stir among the acquisitions community and the cognoscenti of genre-art house films. It won the Sundance/ Nhk International Filmmakers Award in 2002, premiered in Cannes' Un Certain Regard, played Toronto, San Sebastian, Sundance and Rotterdam, sold worldwide and was picked up for U.S. by Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures, thus confirming its cult status. His earlier film Ratas, Ratones, Rateros premiered in Venice in 1999, received over 12 international awards and played in more than 50 film festivals and Pescador, a Colombian-Ecuadorian coproduction won acting and directing awards at the Guadalajara Film Festival in 2012.
The Europa Report team's Comic-Con presentation included scientists from Jpl which lent real-life credentials to the film as they discussed the movie in front of 6,000 interested people who knew very little about the film until then. The mythology of Europa is well known to sci–fi fans from its prominence in Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequel 2010: Odyssey Two, but the general public is not aware of it. The movie in fact seems poised somewhere between Nasa and Star Trek.
The dreamy calmness of professionals in an extraordinary mix of talents in the movie itself mirrors the mix of talents that went into the making of this piece of cinema. No wonder it was previewed at Comic-Com. It seemed incongruous to the mega-size this event has become. It would be nice to know that it was the sleeper hit of Comic-Con and of the summer season. We shall see as it opens this week. Even if it proves too intellectual for the masses, its credit to Team Sebastian Cordero will stand the test of time. It takes a filmmaker from Eucador to probe our collective curiosity about life on Europa, the moon of Jupiter most likely to contain life.
While I do not agree 100% with the review by Carlos Aguilar in Filmophilia today, I find his review the most intelligent of all I have read to date.
Europa Report could be called a Latino film which illustrates the draw Hollywood independent filmmaking holds on filmmakers from our South American continent. Reading the bios of the production team and the bios of the cast further illuminates this luminescent film, put together primarily by men but casting both the main interlocutor and the chief of the mission as women: Embeth Daviitz who plays Dr. Unger, the chief of the mission was the Jewish maid who survives both the abuse and attraction of Ralph Fiennes' sadistic commander 'Goeth' in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and costars with Gabriele Byrne in In Treatment, was in Mad Men and Californication.
How did producer Ben Browning find you after he developed the script?Ben had seen Rabia and Cronicas…both were very different from this, dealing with social issues, told as social realism, but Rabia is 90% told while the protagonist is hiding in a house, where the claustrophobia and tension might be points of reference for this film.
You usually make films about social issues, what was it about this film that attracted you? I am an actor's director. I need a good story and a good script but one major aspect of this film for me was its six characters. It was a challenge to put together a great cast and give them one space in which to act. I liked the story and the real science behind it. There have been no significant manned explorations of space since the Apollo expeditions in the 70s. I did lots of research, and we had great science advisors.
I was an unusual choice, but I felt an immediate connection to the project.
You seem to have gathered an award winning production team for casting, cinematography, production design, music and sound design.I had a great team. It is my first English language film in Hollywood. My cinematographer, Enrique Chediak, and production designer, Eugenio Caballero, have worked with me on three of my films.
The production designer was excited to design a realistic space ship. Enrique liked the found footage idea which was still high tech, it did not have the degraded handheld effect you see in the current run of horror films. I had been unsure of his reactions to such limitations in the project, but he actually liked them. He built a 360 degree set with eight cameras shooting continuously. It was very immersive. The cinematographer also liked the challenge.
(Editor: Production designer, Eugenio Caballero, won the Academy Award for his work on Pan's Labyrinth. Enrique Chediak was named on Daily Variety's "10 Cinemagraphers to Watch" in 1999 and has not disappointed with his credits which include Danny Boyle's 127 Hours.)
What about the cast of international actors?Casting international actors was also exciting. They are not not huge stars but they are the top thespians in their countries.
(Sydney, the blogger here: Wednesday's news that casting directors will get their own branch in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, puts this film's casting director, Avy Kaufman, in line for an Oscar for sure.)
Producer Tod Browning interjects here that casting actors from all over the world was also a key part of the film's financing plan. "Each of these actors brought value in territories we were able to pre-sell based on their involvement. Michael [Nyqvist] and Anamaria [Marinca] are very popular in Europe and Daniel Wu is a major star in Asia which allowed us to secure Chinese distribution up front", Browning says. (The international sales agent is Nick Meyers' Sierra Affinity.)
Back to Sebastian: When Michael Nyqvist (who played Andrei Blok) came on board, that made the project attractive to others. I wanted him, not just because of his work in the Millennium series, but because of his other work with Lukas Moodyson (Together).
Anamaria Marinca (who played Rosa Dasque), the actress from Romania's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, (which won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival) was not an obvious choice and I was unsure of what her reaction would be, but she said, Are you kidding? She said she loved having such an offer. No one ever offered her a role in a science fiction film before.
What about you? Do you like the lure of Hollywood? Do you want to make more films here?I am torn between two worlds.
I want to continue in both places. I enjoy Hollywood but I know, during the time of Cronicas there was a moment when I was being offered projects but in the end, nothing happened, and I understand the process now. Here when a project falls apart, all the work you have put into it is for nothing - it might waste six months of intense work. In Ecuador I have confidence that any film I am working on will eventually be made.
But I am also interested in working in the U.S. There are a lot more resources here, but it must be good project. I am looking for projects here, but I generate my own material in Ecuador. Here, when a project falls apart here all the work is for nothing.
I am now working on a film to shoot early next year in Ecuador, Sin muertos, no hay carnaval, which literally means Without the Dead, There is No Carnival. However, its English language working title is Such is Life in the Tropics. It is about property management, and more specifically about a squater as told from many perspectives. Its strong script is written by the actor in Cronicas who is also a producer in another film.
Thank you Sebastian. I wish you great success with this film and with your career. And I thank Ben Browning for undertaking this exciting project and bringing it to life.
Sebastian Cordero spent his childhood in Ecuador where he was born, his teenage years in Paris and his college years in Los Angeles, where he studied at USC's Filmic Writing program. He seems to be building a team much the way Clint Eastwood has. And like Clint Eastwood, the lure of Hollywood with its ease of procuring resources and the necessary filmmaking tools is tempered by the continuous lower budgeted filmmaking using international Iberoamerican coproductions to finance the films.
About Wayfare Entertainment:
In May 2013 New York-based Wayfare Entertainment announced its rebranding as Start Motion Pictures. Parent company Start Media LLC is unifying its branding and operations as its portfolio of entertainment and media holdings grows. Wayfare Entertainment was set up five years ago by Ben Browning and Start Media CEO Michael Maher and has produced and fully financed films that have grossed over $130 million worldwide. Wayfare’s past films include Universal’s Sanctum produced with James Cameron, the Focus Features’ drama It's Kind Of A Funny Story, Neil Jordan’s Ondine, and Sebastian Cordero's space thriller Europa Report to be released by Magnolia Pictures in summer 2013 and being sold internationally by Nicolas Meyer's Sierra Affinity.
Upcoming Wayfare projects include an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book for Disney; the recently announced Passengers, to star Keanu Reeves and Reese Witherspoon; and a development slate including Josh Zetumer’s Villain, an adaptation of Matt Westrup’s award winning creature short The Gate and the Princess Diana conspiracy thriller Inquest. With a slate like this, it is no wonder Comic-Con was interested in showcasing Europa Report.
Start Media is a privately held media company with interests in exhibition, publishing, and technology. Start Media is acquiring and building content-driven companies well positioned to capitalize on value dislocations emerging from the rapid evolution of media and media consumption. In late 2012 Start Media partnered with exhibitor Digiplex Destinations, an industry pioneer and champion of digital conversion and alternative cinema content, to aggressively grow the Digiplex footprint to 1000 screens in the top 100 markets. The acquisition of UltraStar Cinemas earlier this year was the first acquisition of the partnership. Wayfare’s staff, upcoming film slate and film library will be folded into Start Motion Pictures, which will continue normal business operations producing and financing feature films. Browning will be the President of Start Motion Pictures.
Sebastián Cordero was in L.A. for ten days after attending Comic-Con and stayed through last night's Kcrw Special L.A. Screening at the Landmark Theater on Pico Blvd. Today he left for NYC. Magnet Releasing will release the film theatrically on August 2 and it is available now on VOD.
Europa Report opens this Friday, August 2, 2013 in Los Angeles at the Sundance Sunset in West Hollywood, D.C. at the E Street Cinema in Washington, and New York at the Cinema Village this Friday and will be followed by a national roll-out. See playdates here.
Attending Comic-Con was a great experience for Sebastián. He says that the L.A. Times coverage describes the experience very well and definitely gave the film a boost in fandom. The panel at Comic-Con's largest venue was unique for Sebastián, an Ecuadorian whose two films, the 2004 Cronicas produced by Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Isabel Dávalos, and Bertha Navarro, and Rabia have created their own exclusive cult fan clubs. Rabia (Isa:Wild Bunch), a Spanish-Colombian coproduction premiered in 2009 at the Toronto Film Festival. The 2004 film Cronicas caused quite a stir among the acquisitions community and the cognoscenti of genre-art house films. It won the Sundance/ Nhk International Filmmakers Award in 2002, premiered in Cannes' Un Certain Regard, played Toronto, San Sebastian, Sundance and Rotterdam, sold worldwide and was picked up for U.S. by Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures, thus confirming its cult status. His earlier film Ratas, Ratones, Rateros premiered in Venice in 1999, received over 12 international awards and played in more than 50 film festivals and Pescador, a Colombian-Ecuadorian coproduction won acting and directing awards at the Guadalajara Film Festival in 2012.
The Europa Report team's Comic-Con presentation included scientists from Jpl which lent real-life credentials to the film as they discussed the movie in front of 6,000 interested people who knew very little about the film until then. The mythology of Europa is well known to sci–fi fans from its prominence in Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequel 2010: Odyssey Two, but the general public is not aware of it. The movie in fact seems poised somewhere between Nasa and Star Trek.
The dreamy calmness of professionals in an extraordinary mix of talents in the movie itself mirrors the mix of talents that went into the making of this piece of cinema. No wonder it was previewed at Comic-Com. It seemed incongruous to the mega-size this event has become. It would be nice to know that it was the sleeper hit of Comic-Con and of the summer season. We shall see as it opens this week. Even if it proves too intellectual for the masses, its credit to Team Sebastian Cordero will stand the test of time. It takes a filmmaker from Eucador to probe our collective curiosity about life on Europa, the moon of Jupiter most likely to contain life.
While I do not agree 100% with the review by Carlos Aguilar in Filmophilia today, I find his review the most intelligent of all I have read to date.
Europa Report could be called a Latino film which illustrates the draw Hollywood independent filmmaking holds on filmmakers from our South American continent. Reading the bios of the production team and the bios of the cast further illuminates this luminescent film, put together primarily by men but casting both the main interlocutor and the chief of the mission as women: Embeth Daviitz who plays Dr. Unger, the chief of the mission was the Jewish maid who survives both the abuse and attraction of Ralph Fiennes' sadistic commander 'Goeth' in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and costars with Gabriele Byrne in In Treatment, was in Mad Men and Californication.
How did producer Ben Browning find you after he developed the script?Ben had seen Rabia and Cronicas…both were very different from this, dealing with social issues, told as social realism, but Rabia is 90% told while the protagonist is hiding in a house, where the claustrophobia and tension might be points of reference for this film.
You usually make films about social issues, what was it about this film that attracted you? I am an actor's director. I need a good story and a good script but one major aspect of this film for me was its six characters. It was a challenge to put together a great cast and give them one space in which to act. I liked the story and the real science behind it. There have been no significant manned explorations of space since the Apollo expeditions in the 70s. I did lots of research, and we had great science advisors.
I was an unusual choice, but I felt an immediate connection to the project.
You seem to have gathered an award winning production team for casting, cinematography, production design, music and sound design.I had a great team. It is my first English language film in Hollywood. My cinematographer, Enrique Chediak, and production designer, Eugenio Caballero, have worked with me on three of my films.
The production designer was excited to design a realistic space ship. Enrique liked the found footage idea which was still high tech, it did not have the degraded handheld effect you see in the current run of horror films. I had been unsure of his reactions to such limitations in the project, but he actually liked them. He built a 360 degree set with eight cameras shooting continuously. It was very immersive. The cinematographer also liked the challenge.
(Editor: Production designer, Eugenio Caballero, won the Academy Award for his work on Pan's Labyrinth. Enrique Chediak was named on Daily Variety's "10 Cinemagraphers to Watch" in 1999 and has not disappointed with his credits which include Danny Boyle's 127 Hours.)
What about the cast of international actors?Casting international actors was also exciting. They are not not huge stars but they are the top thespians in their countries.
(Sydney, the blogger here: Wednesday's news that casting directors will get their own branch in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, puts this film's casting director, Avy Kaufman, in line for an Oscar for sure.)
Producer Tod Browning interjects here that casting actors from all over the world was also a key part of the film's financing plan. "Each of these actors brought value in territories we were able to pre-sell based on their involvement. Michael [Nyqvist] and Anamaria [Marinca] are very popular in Europe and Daniel Wu is a major star in Asia which allowed us to secure Chinese distribution up front", Browning says. (The international sales agent is Nick Meyers' Sierra Affinity.)
Back to Sebastian: When Michael Nyqvist (who played Andrei Blok) came on board, that made the project attractive to others. I wanted him, not just because of his work in the Millennium series, but because of his other work with Lukas Moodyson (Together).
Anamaria Marinca (who played Rosa Dasque), the actress from Romania's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, (which won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival) was not an obvious choice and I was unsure of what her reaction would be, but she said, Are you kidding? She said she loved having such an offer. No one ever offered her a role in a science fiction film before.
What about you? Do you like the lure of Hollywood? Do you want to make more films here?I am torn between two worlds.
I want to continue in both places. I enjoy Hollywood but I know, during the time of Cronicas there was a moment when I was being offered projects but in the end, nothing happened, and I understand the process now. Here when a project falls apart, all the work you have put into it is for nothing - it might waste six months of intense work. In Ecuador I have confidence that any film I am working on will eventually be made.
But I am also interested in working in the U.S. There are a lot more resources here, but it must be good project. I am looking for projects here, but I generate my own material in Ecuador. Here, when a project falls apart here all the work is for nothing.
I am now working on a film to shoot early next year in Ecuador, Sin muertos, no hay carnaval, which literally means Without the Dead, There is No Carnival. However, its English language working title is Such is Life in the Tropics. It is about property management, and more specifically about a squater as told from many perspectives. Its strong script is written by the actor in Cronicas who is also a producer in another film.
Thank you Sebastian. I wish you great success with this film and with your career. And I thank Ben Browning for undertaking this exciting project and bringing it to life.
Sebastian Cordero spent his childhood in Ecuador where he was born, his teenage years in Paris and his college years in Los Angeles, where he studied at USC's Filmic Writing program. He seems to be building a team much the way Clint Eastwood has. And like Clint Eastwood, the lure of Hollywood with its ease of procuring resources and the necessary filmmaking tools is tempered by the continuous lower budgeted filmmaking using international Iberoamerican coproductions to finance the films.
About Wayfare Entertainment:
In May 2013 New York-based Wayfare Entertainment announced its rebranding as Start Motion Pictures. Parent company Start Media LLC is unifying its branding and operations as its portfolio of entertainment and media holdings grows. Wayfare Entertainment was set up five years ago by Ben Browning and Start Media CEO Michael Maher and has produced and fully financed films that have grossed over $130 million worldwide. Wayfare’s past films include Universal’s Sanctum produced with James Cameron, the Focus Features’ drama It's Kind Of A Funny Story, Neil Jordan’s Ondine, and Sebastian Cordero's space thriller Europa Report to be released by Magnolia Pictures in summer 2013 and being sold internationally by Nicolas Meyer's Sierra Affinity.
Upcoming Wayfare projects include an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book for Disney; the recently announced Passengers, to star Keanu Reeves and Reese Witherspoon; and a development slate including Josh Zetumer’s Villain, an adaptation of Matt Westrup’s award winning creature short The Gate and the Princess Diana conspiracy thriller Inquest. With a slate like this, it is no wonder Comic-Con was interested in showcasing Europa Report.
Start Media is a privately held media company with interests in exhibition, publishing, and technology. Start Media is acquiring and building content-driven companies well positioned to capitalize on value dislocations emerging from the rapid evolution of media and media consumption. In late 2012 Start Media partnered with exhibitor Digiplex Destinations, an industry pioneer and champion of digital conversion and alternative cinema content, to aggressively grow the Digiplex footprint to 1000 screens in the top 100 markets. The acquisition of UltraStar Cinemas earlier this year was the first acquisition of the partnership. Wayfare’s staff, upcoming film slate and film library will be folded into Start Motion Pictures, which will continue normal business operations producing and financing feature films. Browning will be the President of Start Motion Pictures.
- 7/31/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Fan favorite author Neil Gaiman has just announced a new story of his that will be in a brand new medium for him - a video game. You can read the full press release about Wayward Manor and see Gaiman's introduction video after the jump!
Critically-acclaimed, best-selling author Neil Gaiman (“The Ocean at the End of the Lane,” “The Sandman” series of graphic novels, “American Gods,” “The Graveyard Book” and “Coraline”) today announced the launch of his first-ever video game, Wayward Manor. Set in a 1920s Victorian Gothic pastoral estate, Wayward Manor players unravel the mystery of a ghost (player) seeking a peaceful after-life. After a remarkable cast of characters moves into Wayward Manor and wakes him from his post-mortem slumbers, the ghost must find ever-more inventive and brilliant ways to scare them away. As the ghost learns more about the living characters, he also learns more about his own death and after-life,...
Critically-acclaimed, best-selling author Neil Gaiman (“The Ocean at the End of the Lane,” “The Sandman” series of graphic novels, “American Gods,” “The Graveyard Book” and “Coraline”) today announced the launch of his first-ever video game, Wayward Manor. Set in a 1920s Victorian Gothic pastoral estate, Wayward Manor players unravel the mystery of a ghost (player) seeking a peaceful after-life. After a remarkable cast of characters moves into Wayward Manor and wakes him from his post-mortem slumbers, the ghost must find ever-more inventive and brilliant ways to scare them away. As the ghost learns more about the living characters, he also learns more about his own death and after-life,...
- 7/25/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
First Smith, Soderbergh, Spielberg and Spike Lee, and now Henry Selick. The stop-motion master behind Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline is adding his name to an alliterative list complaining about the filmmaking industry and its risk-averse decision-making process. Selick took aim at Despicable Me 2, but by his own reckoning, could have been talking about any animated film these days. “It’s too homogenous. It’s way too much the same,” said Selick, “The films aren’t really that different one from the other. Despicable Me could have been made Pixar, by DreamWorks. It’s not a great time for feature animation if you want to do something even moderately outside the formula.” Selick also championed streaming as a possible new outlet for animators and had more strong words that echo the typical narrative — that Hollywood is broken because they’re betting too big on too many tentpoles, refusing anything that doesn’t fit neatly into their...
- 7/23/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Review Neil Gaiman’s latest work, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, began as a short story and unexpectedly grew into a novella and then a novel. Neil also wasn’t sure at first whether it was going to be a story for children or adults, since much of the story, while narrated by an adult, takes place when the protagonist is seven years old. Finally the marketing dial landed on “adult;” and that makes sense, for the most part. There is a lot of darkness in this book, which is also of a more personal or intimate nature than some of Neil’s more fantastical works. There is more of “Neil” (himself) in it as well; not in that it is his autobiographical experience, but in that it was born more truly from his personal history. This makes Ocean feel more solidly rooted in, not the...
- 6/25/2013
- by Emily S. Whitten
- Comicmix.com
Neil Gaiman is the award-winning author and graphic novelist who brought us The Sandman, American Gods and The Graveyard Book, all of which are or have been in development for the screen, as well as Stardust and Coraline, which film fans may recognise from the movies they inspired.Since Gaiman has a new book out - The Ocean At The End Of The Lane, already set up for Joe Wright to direct - we sat down to speak to him at length about his career, his good friend Hayao Miyazaki and the Gaiman movies that might have been.**Here's a taste (and warning) of what might have been: Gaiman reveals in the podcast that one draft of the Sandman movie saw Dream chasing after some MacGuffins to avoid the apocalypse / Y2K 'crisis', along with his 'brothers' Lucifer and the Corinthian. So for all that and a whole lot more,...
- 6/24/2013
- EmpireOnline
Review Louisa Mellor 7 Jun 2013 - 10:00
Louisa falls under the spell of Neil Gaiman’s latest novel, a darkly magical story about childhood and memory…
Eight years after Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman’s mystical, comic novel about digging up the roots of a mythological family tree, arrives The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Held in place by an adult framing narrative, it winds back through childhood memory to tell an otherworldly story that starts with a death and ends with a sacrifice.
At the end of our young narrator’s lane is the Hempstock farm. Living there are three women, or more properly, two women and a girl. The Hempstock women have had men there sometimes. They come and they go. This mysterious trinity with an ocean behind their house has power and understanding unknowable. They also make a mean shepherd’s pie.
To say The Ocean at...
Louisa falls under the spell of Neil Gaiman’s latest novel, a darkly magical story about childhood and memory…
Eight years after Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman’s mystical, comic novel about digging up the roots of a mythological family tree, arrives The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Held in place by an adult framing narrative, it winds back through childhood memory to tell an otherworldly story that starts with a death and ends with a sacrifice.
At the end of our young narrator’s lane is the Hempstock farm. Living there are three women, or more properly, two women and a girl. The Hempstock women have had men there sometimes. They come and they go. This mysterious trinity with an ocean behind their house has power and understanding unknowable. They also make a mean shepherd’s pie.
To say The Ocean at...
- 6/7/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Filmmaker Neil Jordan ("Interview With A Vampire," "The Borgias"), currently out doing press for "Byzantium," has revealed details on a previously unannounced new feature.
Described as a contemporary ghost story, the currently untitled project will be shot in Eastern Europe. No production dates are set as yet, but Jordan says "I’m going to terrify people with beautiful music."
Jordan also confirmed that his Irish gangster thriller "Fury" is no longer happening, and that his adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s "The Graveyard Book" fell apart due to the expense of such a project.
Source: Empire...
Described as a contemporary ghost story, the currently untitled project will be shot in Eastern Europe. No production dates are set as yet, but Jordan says "I’m going to terrify people with beautiful music."
Jordan also confirmed that his Irish gangster thriller "Fury" is no longer happening, and that his adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s "The Graveyard Book" fell apart due to the expense of such a project.
Source: Empire...
- 5/31/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Byzantium, Neil Jordan’s return to the vampire lore he first explored in 1994’s Interview With A Vampire, steals into cinemas today. You’ll spot it: it’s the one chuckling maniacally and pulling a cape over its eyes, while it cleans the pick ’n’ mix out of fizzy fangs. Gearing up for it at the London press junket, Jordan chatted about his attitude to Hollywood and shared his plans for the new project he has underway.“I’ve written a ghost story with a contemporary setting,” the director tells Empire. “I’m going to terrify people with beautiful music.” If the so-far untitled project gets underway, it will be shot in Eastern Europe rather than Jordan's usual home turf of Ireland, or England, where Byzantium was filmed. Irish gangster thriller Fury, he revealed, is no longer on the cards.That ghostly talk matter turned the subject to the filmmaker...
- 5/31/2013
- EmpireOnline
Finally! A New Neil Gaiman Doctor Who Episode! Every Whovian has favorite episodes, and mine had been “Blink” before Neil Gaiman‘s exquisite “The Doctor’s Wife” came along in Season 6. Neil Gaiman is the author of American Gods, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, the Sandman comic series, and so much more (and by the way brings an unsurpassable magic to his audiobook narration), and his fans are as rabid as Whovians.
What we have tonight is a perfect storm of fandom, particularly considering that tonight is the penultimate episode of the season.
But first, we have a few reminders from last week’s episode, “The Crimson Horror”, just so we’re all on the same page for tonight. Then we have two posters for the new episode, the synopsis, and a TV spot. Now all we need is that Tardis to get us to tonight faster.
Featurette: Doctor Who – Inside...
What we have tonight is a perfect storm of fandom, particularly considering that tonight is the penultimate episode of the season.
But first, we have a few reminders from last week’s episode, “The Crimson Horror”, just so we’re all on the same page for tonight. Then we have two posters for the new episode, the synopsis, and a TV spot. Now all we need is that Tardis to get us to tonight faster.
Featurette: Doctor Who – Inside...
- 5/11/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Feature Louisa Mellor 11 May 2013 - 19:45
We trace Nightmare In Silver's similarities and overlaps with Neil Gaiman's previous work...
Warning: contains spoilers for Nightmare In Silver (our spoiler-filled review of the episode is here).
A singular joy of fandom, and a geeky one at that, is the administration. Not the tangible Post-It notes-and-whiteboards kind of admin, but the mental filing, cross-referencing and labelling involved when you follow and love someone’s work.
Imagine Joss Whedon brings out, say, a Shakespeare adaptation starring a clutch of recurring collaborators. Where do you file that? Under A for anomaly, W for Whedonverse, or – forgoing alphabetisation all together - cross-referenced between Stuff I Should Have Paid More Attention To In High School and Stuff I Paid All My Attention To In High School? Do you sort by theme, quality, popularity, or critical reception? Where, in the history of your relationship with this person’s work,...
We trace Nightmare In Silver's similarities and overlaps with Neil Gaiman's previous work...
Warning: contains spoilers for Nightmare In Silver (our spoiler-filled review of the episode is here).
A singular joy of fandom, and a geeky one at that, is the administration. Not the tangible Post-It notes-and-whiteboards kind of admin, but the mental filing, cross-referencing and labelling involved when you follow and love someone’s work.
Imagine Joss Whedon brings out, say, a Shakespeare adaptation starring a clutch of recurring collaborators. Where do you file that? Under A for anomaly, W for Whedonverse, or – forgoing alphabetisation all together - cross-referenced between Stuff I Should Have Paid More Attention To In High School and Stuff I Paid All My Attention To In High School? Do you sort by theme, quality, popularity, or critical reception? Where, in the history of your relationship with this person’s work,...
- 5/10/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: New York-based Wayfare Entertainment is being re-branded Start Motion Pictures, as part of an ongoing effort of parent company Start Media LLC to unify the branding and operations of it’s growing portfolio of entertainment and media holdings. Set up five years ago by Ben Browning and Start Media CEO Michael Maher, Wayfare Entertainment has produced and fully financed films that have grossed over $130 million worldwide. Wayfare’s past films include Universal’s Sanctum produced with James Cameron, the Focus Features’ drama Its Kind Of A Funny Story, Neil Jordan’s Ondine, and the upcoming Sebastian Cordero-directed space thriller Europa Report to be released by Magnolia Pictures in summer 2013. Upcoming Wayfare projects include an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book for Disney; the recently announced Passengers, which will star Keanu Reeves and Reese Witherspoon; and a development slate including Josh Zetumer’s Villain, an adaptation of Matt Westrup...
- 5/10/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Neil Gaiman is a name instantly recognizable to fans of comic books and fantasy literature. His work on Sandman and other Vertigo Comics titles along with his novels Coraline, American Gods, The Graveyard Book, Neverwhere, Good Omens, and Stardust. To date, Coraline and Stardust have been made into feature films while it was announced HBO would air a six season series based on the novel. Gaiman himself is penning the script for the pilot which is being produced by Tom Hanks' Playtone...
- 4/17/2013
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Films are always going to stretch the truth. We can.t even completely trust documentaries to tell us the complete truth. But there.s a strange sub-genre of films in the last few years whose intentions are to toe the line between non-fiction and alternate history. Politics is a frequent choice, with examples such as the party-polarizing Death of a President and 2016: Obama.s America. Well if the cinema deities don.t hurry and step in, British royalty will also fall victim to this slightly conspiratorial form of storytelling. Inquest, a thriller spec script centered around the death of Princess Diana, has been pre-emptively acquired by Wayfare Entertainment, the company producing the upcoming Europa Report and, in part, Ron Howard.s adaptation of The Graveyard Book. So with somewhat respectable films like that on their slate, will Inquest be just another copycat of Oliver Hischbiegel.s upcoming biopic Diana?...
- 4/17/2013
- cinemablend.com
Even though we.ll probably never see a proper Sandman film, fans of author Neil Gaiman have been pretty spoiled in recent years, with Stardust, Mirrormask and Coraline adaptations all getting time on the big screen, as well as Beowulf, which he wrote the screenplay for. With the upcoming HBO production ofAmerican Gods still not cancelled or postponed, and Ron Howard.s name attached to The Graveyard Book, it looks like 2014 will be another banner year for the clever Brit. As if those weren.t enough, Deadline reports Gaiman.s upcoming novelThe Ocean at the End of the Lane has already found a home with Focus Features and Playtone, the production company owned by Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman. Carrying on the Gaiman adaptation trend of acquiring great directors, Joe Wright, responsible for drama such as Anna Karenina and Atonement, is attached to direct. Considering the recent success Goetzman...
- 3/1/2013
- cinemablend.com
Joe Wright is making plans to adapt Neil Gaiman's forthcoming novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane for the big screen, Deadline reports. Set up at Focus Features, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will produce through their Playtone. Set for release on June 18, the book is officially described as follows: It began for our narrator forty years ago, when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. His only defense are three women on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang. Gaiman's novels have led to big screen films like Stardust and Coraline with The Graveyard Book on the way from Ron Howard. Plans are also...
- 2/28/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Chris Pratt, Andy on the brilliant NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, has landed the role of Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Quill was born of a human mother and alien father, and is a master strategist and combat expert who wears an ability-enhancing suit and pilots a psychically-linked ship. While many actors were rumored for the role, in the end, it appears, it went to an actor that appeared on no one’s list. Pratt has comedic talents, which shine on Parks&Rec, but he can be dramatic as well, with his appearances in the Oscar nominated films Zero Dark Thirty and Moneyball prove. However, the casting of Pratt –on the heels of rumors that Marvel was looking to comedic actors as Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler- does seem to indicate that director James Gunn plans on adding more humor to the film.
- 2/5/2013
- by spaced-odyssey
- doorQ.com
So I just reported that Ron Howard's next gig after Rush is probably going to be The Graveyard Book. I spoke too soon. Warner Bros. is looking at Howard for In The Heart of the Sea. If he takes the gig, he would team back up with his Rush star Chris Hemsworth, who is attached to star as a first mate aboard the Essex, the doomed ship whose encounter with a whale inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Insiders report that Howard has not yet committed.
In the Heart of the Sea has both a script and a growing cast, and this will most likely be Howard's next gig. Howard is currently assisting with post production on Rush, a biopic about Formula One driver Niki Lauda and his rivalry with English driver James Hunt (Hemsworth).
The project will probably be incredibly expensive, as Vulture points out, "the only thing...
In the Heart of the Sea has both a script and a growing cast, and this will most likely be Howard's next gig. Howard is currently assisting with post production on Rush, a biopic about Formula One driver Niki Lauda and his rivalry with English driver James Hunt (Hemsworth).
The project will probably be incredibly expensive, as Vulture points out, "the only thing...
- 1/25/2013
- by Lucas Lowman
- GeekTyrant
It sounds like Ron Howard is having a busy week. Not only is the filmmaker bringing Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book back to life and working with Bad Robot on remaking the Israeli film All I've Got, but now Vulture has word of yet another new project for the director. After working with Chris Hemsworth on the racing drama Rush, it sounds like Howard might head to Warner Bros. to reteam with the actor for the adaptation of In the Heart of the Sea, based on Nathaniel Philbrick's book of the same name. The story follows the real-life disaster of a ship being destroyed by a sperm whale in 1820, which inspired Moby Dick. Hemsworth became attached to the project last summer, and since the script for the film is done with a star involved, this could very well be Howard's next project. However, Howard hasn't yet committed and...
- 1/25/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
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