2005: Fans applaud Batman Begins for finally bringing gritty realism to a cartoon about a man who dresses up at night and fights a clown
The well-deserved punchline from the Onion’s timeline of major events in Batman’s history.
‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’: Decoding CinemaCon’s Time-Traveling Clip (Analysis)
‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’: Decoding CinemaCon’s Time-Traveling Clip (Analysis)
Longtime X-Men fans have bemoaned the fact this summer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past sends Wolverine back in time to prevent a particularly dystopian future instead of Kitty Pryde, who served that role in the original comic version of the story. But what if there’s more going on than people suspected?
And on the other side of the spectrum from Amazing Spider-Man 2, has Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past managed to keep a major plot point entirely secret all this time, only to reveal it a couple of months before release?
Me at Hollywood Reporter.
Has Amazing Spider-Man 2’s Promo Spoiled the Movie for Fans? | TIME
Has Amazing Spider-Man 2’s Promo Spoiled the Movie for Fans? | TIME
Six weeks ahead of release, all the big Amazing Spider-Man 2 reveals appear to have been spoiled by Sony’s promotion for the film. How many pre-release previews of a movie is too many?
Me at Time.
Worth noting: I mixed Harry and Norman Osborn up, I know. I need to email editors to fix.
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From the EW page announcing the new Content Farm approach.
As if the “write our content for free because we’re awesome and so are you and unpaid work is the best work!” thing wasn’t bad enough, the “superfans” thing really sets my teeth on edge. Fandom isn’t a competitive sport, for fuck’s sake.
So what happens to the huge amount of content in the archives of both DailyCandy and TWoP? It will all be saved in the digital ether, but not be available to the public.
Television Without Pity is closing down, and content from the site will apparently not remain available as a result. That’s a lot of content; I can’t quite imagine being those writers and seeing all that work just disappear to all intents and purposes. It’s been bad enough when I stop and think about the amount of stuff I’ve written for sites like io9 and Techland that are pretty much closed off from me these days, but at least it’s still out there.
Bleeding Cool has been hearing rumours from senior comic book industry figures, who expect a sale to go through for digital comic distributor ComiXology in three to six weeks.
The site suggests that Amazon would be the buyer.
If true, this feels like a potentially massive deal.
EW also is eschewing the current trend toward paying writers for clicks (at least initially). Some bloggers will be paid, but EW isn’t “putting a specific bounty on traffic,” EW editor Matt Bean said. Others will be compensated in the form of prestige, access to the brand’s editors and a huge potential readership audience via Google Hangouts and its SiriusXM show.
Great! Entertainment Weekly is going down to “Will you blog for exposure?” road. That’s just wonderful.