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Thursday Trending Topics: The Marvel Layoffs
News of several people being let go from Marvel Comics today cast a shadow over the entire industry, just as it had been catching its breath in the wake of an eventful New York Comic Con. There will certainly be more on this story in the days to come.
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DC declined to comment. Just as he did last time, Dave Gibbons would only say "hurm".
Marvelcution 2011 – The Spinning Pennies Of Isaac Perlmutter
I am told by Marvel sources that the publisher's policy is to spread the work amongst the remaining staff. Marvel is still publishing a hundred comic books a month, with many collections and special projects, more than a year ago, when they were talking about publishing less – but now doing it with less staff.
Talking to numerous Marvel sources, this seems to be the current list of very recent dismissals, though you'll find more from before, here, as well as a look as to why this is happening, that's received further corroboration from the same Marvel sources since publication.
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The Conversation Shawn Levy Asked Me To Keep Secret Until After Real Steel Was In Cinemas
When I met and had a chat with director Shawn Levy about Real Steel earlier this year, not many had seen the film yet and it was a long way out from release. He was surprised, then, that I'd had a chance to watch the whole thing, and this – combined with my rolling enthusiasm for some key moments later in the story – spurred our conversation onto things he appeared not to have discussed with journalists or bloggers before.
They Lied To You: The Trailers For Paranormal Activity 3 Are Mostly Scenes Not From The Film
From the banal to the spectacular, the majority of footage in the various trailers for Paranormal Activity 3 is absent from the film itself.
New Battlestar Galactica Film From Bryan Singer And John Orloff To Co-Exist In TV Show's Universe
Bryan Singer has been wanting to make his own Battlestar Galactica for a good while now. A decade ago, he was planning for it to be a TV show, though this was stymied by 9/11 then superseded by Ronald D. Moore's popular do-over.
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