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KCRW's 'The Business' Talks Comic-Con with Jeff Katz
Filed under: Comic/Superhero/Geek », ComicCon »
Comic-Con 2009 is over and done with, and the word of mouth is that it's grown too big for its britches. Whether or not that's the case will be debated up until the Con's contract with the city of San Diego ends in 2012, but based on my view from the floor on both Wednesday's Preview Night and Saturday, the seams have definitely swelled to the bursting point.
Yesterday on KCRW's public radio show The Business, about the film industry, host Kim Masters spoke with American Original founder Jeff Katz about this year's Comic-Con. You can listen to the episode right here, and for people who have never been before, Katz paints a fairly lopsided picture from his point of view of the entire experience.
He calls Friday and Saturday the "biggies," ... this after a record crowd waited outside to get into Thursday's Twilight / New Moon panel starting on Wednesday, which also included James Cameron's Avatar and Disney's Hall H presentation. He also talks about studios clamoring for a piece of the fanboy pie, while looking to do the exact same thing himself.
With movies like Shoot 'Em Up ($39 million dollar budget, $12.8 million dollar gross in the US), Snakes on a Plane (massive internet buildup and then a huge flameout), and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (don't get me started) on his resume, he's positioning himself with his recently announced American Original (which he's self-dubbed a "nerd machine") entertainment company to try and pocket the geek dollar. Does he have his finger on the pulse of thirty-something nerdom, or is he just a wannabe blowhard?
Listen to the show and decide for yourself, while Comic-Con evolves and decides what it wants to be.
From A Player On 90210 To Player 5150
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Thrillers », Cinematical Indie »
Fresh off a pretty respectable performance in Hollywoodland, Kathleen Robertson has signed to star in the indie-thriller Player 5150. Robertson has climbed her way up from being a bad girl on Beverley Hills, 90210, through some regrettable film choices, but has managed to make successively better films each time out. Robertson also produces and stars in The Business for IFC, so there's no denying that she has come a long way from when I first saw her tempting Brandon Walsh, college man -- yeah, I watched way too much 90210 back then.Variety announced that Robertson had signed on to the David Michael O'Neill film currently shooting in Los Angeles. The film follows a day trader and his fiancée who get caught up in high stakes gambling. The film also star's Ethan Embry -- who you might recognize from Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, or maybe from reports of the actor being robbed at gunpoint and even waving around a gun of his own. Who knows? The news of the actor firing a gun at muggers might even give the movie a little boost of press. There is no word of release date but one of the many blessings of independent productions is that they tend to run a pretty tight ship, so we probably won't have to wait long to find out.
[via Empire Online]
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