SPECIAL: A Look at Brandon Easton's BRAVE NEW SOULS- BLACK SCI-FI & FANTASY WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Here is a sneak peak of prolific writer, Brandon Easton's upcoming documentary dealing with a brand new generation of African-American creators in movies, novels, graphic novels and more.

 The sneak peak talks with many different creators as well as ends with an interview with director/producer of the film, Brandon Easton. Easton has worked for over 15 years as a writer, working on many scripts to animation (Thundercats) as well as comic books, such as his recently Glyph Award Winning book, Shadowlaw.

Here is an extended look at the film.

The Game Anthropologist - Episode 2

Greetings again. Time for some new back catalog material!

Again from the heady days of 2010 comes Episode 2 of The Game Anthropologist. This time I detail the mediocre rise of the video games movies, what it has meant for the entirety of gamedom, and what we have to look forward to in the future.

Check it out now... for great justice... and stuff.

The Game Anthropologist - Episode 2: Who Killed The VIdeo Game Movie?

Comic/Film News: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to Start in Radical Studios' Hercules Movie

The following is a press release from Radical Studios themselves.

MGM and Paramount Pictures to bring Radical Studios’ Hercules: The Thracian Wars to the big screen.

November 7, 2012, Los Angeles, CA – Radical Studios is excited to announce that its best-selling original graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars will be adapted as a motion picture to be co-produced by MGM Studios and Paramount Pictures.

Hercules is an original graphic novel written by Steve Moore for Radical Studios. It is an action-filled story based on the popular Ancient Greek mythology of Hercules. The film stars Dwayne Johnson and is directed by Brett Ratner. Hercules will be produced by Radical President Barry Levine, Beau Flynn and Brett Ratner. Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey, and Radical EVP Jesse Berger will executive produce. The screenplay was adapted by Ryan Condal with script revisions by Evan Spiliotopoulos. Production is scheduled to start in early 2013.

Hercules is the second Radical Studios project set to reach the big screen following the recent wrap of production on Oblivion. Oblivion is an original concept conceived by TRON: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski and developed by Radical Studios. The film stars Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko, Morgan Freeman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo. Oblivion is being produced by Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Joseph Kosinski, Duncan Henderson and Barry Levine, with executive producers David Morrison, Jesse Berger and Justin Springer. Oblivion is being distributed by Universal Pictures and is set for an April 12, 2013 IMAX release and April 19, 2013 worldwide release.

Please visit http://radicalstudios.com/ to learn more about Hercules: The Thracian Wars. The graphic novel is available for purchase on the site as well as digitally through iTunes and Amazon.

Radical Studios will continue to release news and updates surrounding both Hercules and Oblivion. Stay informed by liking Radical’s Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/RadicalPublishing, following Radical’s YouTube channel at www.YouTube.com/RadicalPublishing, and following @radicalstudios on Twitter.

Film News: Morrison & Robertson's Happy to be developed for Film by Rza & Hudlin

  The miniseries first issue has just come out mere weeks ago and it is already getting a film. Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's Happy miniseries has been picked up by newly minted director RZA and producer Reginald Hudlin for a film adaption. The book focuses on  a former cop and hitman by the name of Nick Saxx who starts to see a 'Care Bear' level of sweet and happy blue flying horse who will not allow Saxx to feel sad ... for ANY reason.

Grant Morrison had described Happy to CBR earlier this summer.

"Imagine the most cynical, fucked up man in the world having to deal with this -- with a sickeningly upbeat little cartoon character -- each trapped with the other.' What would it be like if the Bad Lieutenant teamed up with Pegasus the Flying Horse? By this time, I knew the Happy the Horse would be tiny. And it struck me that I could throw 'Christmas story' in with this as well. I've always wanted to have a go at a classic Christmas story like 'It's A Wonderful Life' or 'A Christmas Carol' but with characters drawn from the shock headlines of the 21st century. So this idea seemed to lend itself to that and it gave me a chance to do the kind of wider, symbolic pop cult critique that I like. It just grew from there."



 The script for the movie adaption has been confirmed to be written by Morrison himself. While there is no set date for when the Happy film will come out ... prob ably around Christmas next year or so ... but Happy #1 by Morrison and Robertson is in stores now.
 

Film News: V/H/S DVD & Blu-Ray release in December

Reported by Bloody-Disgusting.com's, Brad Miska (Mr. Disgusting), the horror indie film, "V/H/S" will be released on both DVD ($ 26.98) and Blu-Ray ($29.98) on December 4th, courtesy of Magonlia Pictures.

Available to view on VOD (video-on-demand) services and released in selected US theaters today, October 5th. V/H/S is a American anthology horror film that was shot with the "found-footage" motif in mind.

Synopsis:

"When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a random house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn't going to be easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger then the last."

DVD/Blu-Ray Extras:

• Deleted scenes

• Visual Effects feature

• Behind-the-scenes feature

• AXS TV: A Look at V/H/S feature 

• Trailers

The directors that take part of  this horror anthology piece:

- Adam Wingard (You're Next, A Horrible Way to Die, Pop Skull)

- Simon Barrett (You're Next, Dead Birds, Red Sands)

- Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Roost, The Innkeepers)

- David Bruckner (The Signal)

- Joe Swanberg (Silver Bullets)

- Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead)

- Radio Silence Productions "Chad, Matt and Rob" (YouTube partner)

The production team for this movie was Bloody-Disgusting Production, a film production company created by both Mr. Miska (the co-owner/co-founder of the aforementioned site) and the Collective management firm. The production subsidiary was announced and debuted last year.

The film made it's official debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival, during it's midnight movie run.

Trevor Groth, the programmer of the festival block talked about the film, stating:

"I give this all the credit in the world because conceptually it shouldn't have worked for me. Personally, I'm bored by found-footage films, which this is. And omnibus attempts rarely work. But this one does. It's terrifying, and very well executed."

During the film festival, Magnolia Pictures bought the US theatrical/DVD rights to the film for almost over one million dollars.

Again, V/H/S is now available to view on VOD services and in selected theaters nationwide. I recommend the film, go check out. It's a great movie and a great way to start getting into the holiday spirit.

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