Iron Man, Twilight, Robin Hood, Karate Kid, A-Team fan summer action
Published Saturday May 1st, 2010
By DAVID GERMAIN
The Associated Press
Hollywood heroes are expanding their age demographic this summer.
With a new karate kid, a middle-aged iron man, the return of the school girl-teen wolf-vampire love triangle, and a 1,500-year-old sorcerer, studios seem to have something for everyone from 9 to 999.
The busy season starts May 7 with Robert Downey Jr. in heavy-metal mode again in Iron Man 2, as the billionaire inventor turned superhero fights public pressure to share his technology and faces a new enemy (Mickey Rourke) with his own arsenal of gadgets.
Things never get easier, for an action hero […]
Many retailers try to turn consumers on to popular habit with Free Comic Book Day
Many retailers try to turn consumers on to popular habit with Free Comic Book Day
Published Friday April 30th, 2010
By Bernard C. Cormier
Times & Transcript Staff
May 1 will be the 9th Annual Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) at comic book specialty stores around the world that have accounts with Diamond Comic Distributors. It happens during the first Saturday, each May. As one would expect, the event results in physical movement patterns among comic fans that are similar to that of a university freshman year pub-crawl in which participants get plastered for free.
You get the picture.
Whether you “get” it or […]
Sir Peter of Middle Earth: Lord of the Rings filmmaker knighted in New Zealand
Published Wednesday April 28th, 2010
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – “Lord of the Rings” filmmaker Peter Jackson has been made a knight – a real one – accepting the honour Wednesday in his native New Zealand on behalf of the thousands of people who helped make his movies.
“I feel incredibly humbled,” Jackson said at an investiture ceremony in the capital, Wellington, where New Zealand’s head of state, Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand, did the honours in lieu of Queen Elizabeth II. His knighthood was for services to the arts in New Zealand.
“The truth is, making movies is not […]