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) Tata DOCOMO launches CoMix on-the-go
This service comes at a price of just Rs. 20/- per full comic book valid for 1 year.Comix-on-the-go supports two ways of viewing books- Scroll view and Picture-story view depending on the features of the content to be delivered. The scroll view displays a page of the comic directly and the user can view the entire page by scrolling up and down. To read the user can magnify the ballon containing the text, since it is in vector format the content is crystal clear and can be zoomed in and out for easy readability. The picture-story view displays the cartoon frame by frame, with each frame displayed at the optimum size. The option to scroll and add various effects in the comic strip is also available, but the feature is largely dependents on the data speeds and some of these would be 3G features. More>>
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) DVD review: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
The Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader team up in this direct-to-DVD animated film based on the comic books by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness. Loeb has plenty of screenwriting experience, as the writer of “Teen Wolf" and “Commando," and his story translates relatively easily to film. The screenplay was adapted by Stan Berkowitz, who also adapted Darwyn Cooke's “Justice League: The New Frontier" into an animated movie.McGuinness's blocky, muscular style is recreated in the style of the movie, which is heavy on action but lighter on character development.
The movie reunites Tim Daly, who voiced Superman on “Superman: The Animated Series," with Kevin Conroy, voice of Batman in “Batman: The Animated Series." The two hadn't worked together since 1998's “World's Finest" animated movie. More>>
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) Star Wars set visually impressive, but functionally useless
Since a comic book cover, like a movie poster, can be seen as art in its own right, Chronicle Books has published a rather unique overview of the Star Wars covers printed over the years, titled The Art of Star Wars Comics: 100 Collectible Postcards.Before we continue, let's look at the history of Star Wars comics.
Star Wars Comics: A Brief History
Lesson:
Marvel was the first publisher to obtain Star Wars comic book publishing rights from Lucasfilm, Ltd. Thus, in 1977, a few months before the film of the same name premiered, the first issue of Star Wars (cover dated: July, 1977 - September, 1986) appeared on newsstands.
As with most '70s and early-'80s Star Wars merchandise, sales of the comic were very encouraging. As such, Marvel republished the initial six issues, which adapted the movie in different configurations and under different titles, such as Marvel Movie Showcase Featuring Star Wars (November - December, 1982). More>>
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) Adrian Askarieh Interview
We live in an era of brands and easily marketable ideas and high-concept materials such as comic books and video games. But Just Cause is a great action-adventure spy movie, which is a totally different motif than Hitman. Hitman is a great assassin movie, Kane and Lynch is a great buddy action movie. So all these are first-and-foremost good movie ideas, then video games.Have you thought about the locations yet for Just Cause?
Yeah. Just Cause we're going to shoot spring of next year because it's being financed independently and we're going to move like the wind on that. Just Cause is probably going to be shot in someplace like Europe or Puerto Rico, or a combination of the two.
What does doing Just Cause independently open up for you?
We did Hitman with $26 million and it did a tremendous amount of box office for the kind of movie it was, and I want to try that model independently to have more of a creative say and also to participate more in the upside, and, quite frankly, to get the movie made faster. More>>
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) Media: The great strawberry shortcake custody battle
Born in Belgium, and raised in Toronto and New York, Hirsh was a voracious consumer of comic books and cartoons growing up. Superman, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny were among his favourites. As a teenager, he made experimental films that combined animation and live action. (He's reluctant to talk about them today, other than to say that one was titled Voulez-vous coucher avec God?)In the late '60s, he enrolled in philosophy at York University and met Patrick Loubert, a student who shared his enthusiasm for film. Loubert, who later became Hirsh's business partner, recalls Hirsh as a bit of an oddball, saying he typically clomped around the city in a pair of oversized soccer cleats. Hirsh left York after three years to concentrate on filmmaking, and later he and Loubert formed a venture called Laff Arts. More>>