Inglourious Basterd Eli Roth Signing @ Forbidden Planet NYC Store
Better get a bib, horror fans! You’re gonna need it.
Eli’ll be signing Inglorious Basterds posters, and the store’ll have copies of the film’s screenplay book available.
UPDATE: Pictures from this signing may be seen here, at FP NYC’s Flickr page.
Avatar screenings announced for Aug. 21.
I feel like I’m in the running of the bulls, where I’m being pushed towards the theater completely with force and I can do very little to stop myself. The LA Times has announced screening times of that fifteen minute clip of James Cameron’s “Avatar”. Mark Graham for NY Magazine’s Vulture Blog reports:
According to the Los Angeles Times, more than 100 Imax screens nationwide will hold two FREE screenings of the footage from James Cameron’s latest opus, on August 21 at 6 and 6:30 p.m. Details about the locations of these screenings have yet to be released, but beginning at 3 p.m. EST on Monday, fans will be able to reserve tickets for these shows on the official Avatar site. If you plan on scoring some of these highly coveted free passes, we highly suggest you use the next four days to practice your speed-typing skills. Otherwise, get ready to crack open your piggy bank to spring for tix on Craigslist!
Jeez, you know, I’m not someone who rushes and quite honestly, 3D does absolutely nothing for me. So the fact that this screening is IMAX’d and 3D makes my eyes hurt NOW. I think 3D is jarring to the eye and, unfortunately, is a format that is not conducive to audience viewing of a film. Its not a pleasurable experience for me, and I don’t really understand what the obsession seems to be. I mean, I lasted about five minutes with the “Coraline” dvd in 3D before I started getting a headache. And that was on a 42 inch screen.
Regardless, like Vulture says, Quentin Tarantino must be mighty pissed with this development. I don’t know, I don’t see how a half hour free screening will put a tremendous dent in the “Inglorious Basterds” premiere receipts, but it is annoying.
Siegel Family secures Superman origin rights.
And it could mean deep shit for DC/WB, as the Judge decides to restrict the company certain rights.
In an ongoing Federal court battle over Superman, Judge Stephen Larson ruled Wednesday that the family of the superhero’s co-creator, Jerry Siegel, has “successfully recaptured” rights to additional works, including the first two weeks of the daily Superman newspaper comic-strips, as well as portions of early Action Comics and Superman comic-books.
The ruling is based on the court’s finding that these were not “works-made-for-hire” under the Copyright Act.
This means the Siegels — repped by Marc Toberoff of Toberoff & Associates — now control depictions of Superman’s origins from the planet Krypton, his parents Jor-El and Lora, Superman as the infant Kal-El, the launching of the infant Superman into space by his parents as Krypton explodes and his landing on Earth in a fiery crash.
However, while the Siegels still own the origin rights, the court affirmed that DC Comics still owns the rights to Lex Luthor, Kryptonite, and flying. Additionally, the court also ruled that the family owned the rights to Lois Lane, The Daily Planet, Superman’s alter ego Clark Kent and the love triangle.
However, the article says the real purpose of the suit is to secure how much money DC and Warner Bros., owe the Siegels after the rights reverted back to them in 1999.
To say the least, I’m pretty happy that the Siegels are getting something back but it’ll be interesting to see how this affects the comics and other media branches of the character.
The Friday Morning Film Round-up.
Things are a-shakin’ in the comic book and sci fi film world this week.
- “The Usual Suspects” writer Christopher McQuarrie said he will be writing “Wolverine 2″. Apparently, the Oscar winning screen writer helped on the last film’s script but declined credit.
- McQuarrie’s collaborator on “The Usual Suspects” (Bryan Singer) may direct a Battlestar Galactica film remake. File this under why does this need to exist?
- X-Men killer Brett Ratner wants “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson in his “Youngblood” movie. Hahahaha, go on. Take him. Not like I’m going to see it anyway.
- Cameron Diaz says her character in Seth Rogen’s “The Green Hornet” will be quite different than previous incarnations. Previously, Lenore “Casey” Case was Rogen’s Britt Reid’s secretary and knew everything about the newspaper editor’s late night activities. However in this version, Casey is a television obsessed amateur sleuth who is stalking the Green Hornet and Kato.
- One part of the superhero power team of the Ryan Reynolds/Scarlett Johannson team spoke about “Iron Man 2.” I don’t know, I really liked Emily Blunt.
