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The day of days is here! It’s Heat Vision Friday. Oh, you thought we were talking about Halloween? Jeez, that’s a holiday with no legs. But Heat Vision Friday? Now that’s a day to take out the decorations for. (Heat Vision merch coming soon!)
Fine, fine, we’ll admit it. We’re Halloween junkies. We’ve got Hammer Films’ The Mummy, starring the great Peter Cushing, playing as we write this, Darkman and Frankenweenie graced our screens this week, we’re several pages into both Vault’s Post Malone horror comic Big Rig Vol. 1 (think Army of Darkness meets Fury Road) AND Ashley Cullins’ Scream book,Your Favorite Scary Movie. That’s a lot of multi-tasking.
That didn’t leave a lot of time for things like sneaking into a special screening of Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, held Tuesday on the secure Paramount lot.
It brought out a who’s who of filmmakers, from the established (Taika Waititi, Jordan Peele, Ti West, Joseph Kosinski, Barry Jenkins, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller) to the new generation (J.T. Mollner, Adam Stein, Drew Hancock) to the legends (Joe Dante, Walter Hill). And yes, Glenn Powell was also there.
And as opposed to a “let’s see the movie and get home quickly,” most hung around for a long time at the post-screening reception. The turnout is a testament to the respect Wright has earned as one of cinema’s biggest champions. (The movie, by the way, opens Nov. 14.).
And it was revealed that John Williams, at the tender age of 93, is once again working with Steven Spielberg and composing the score for the director's untitled UFO movie. Those scoring sessions took place this week in the Sony lot's Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage.
Well, if you like sci-fi and action, you may want to live, die, repeat for this next story ...—Aaron Couch and Borys Kit. |
KEANU REEVES AND DEADPOOL DIRECTOR TIM MILLER ARE TEAMING UP. Warner Bros. is in final talks to acquire Shiver, a high-concept action movie from Reeves and Miller, which has been described as having shades of Tom Cruise time loop movie Edge of Tomorrow, as well as The Shallows, the Blake Lively shark survival movie. The script hails from Ian Schorr centers on a ne’er-do-well smuggler who finds himself in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in him surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries and thirsty sharks alike. He next finds himself in a deathly time loop and scrambling to break the cycle. A new adventure through time. |
THE LAST FEW YEARS, IT'S BEEN THE '90s ALL OVER AGAIN IN THE HORROR SCENE.
Recently, there was the ill-fated I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, as well as the new, nostalgia-heavy trailer for Scream 7, which dropped yesterday.
Yes, it remains one of the more influential decades in the genre, and Heat Vision's resident horror exert Richard Newby agonized over his rankings of the best '90s horror movies. He started with a list of 40 and whittled it down to a sweet 16 — a mix of popular classics as well as overlooked gems.
Take a stab at guessing what's no. 1. |
➤ Can't quit horror: Just because The Conjuring: The Last Rites is billed as the last of the Vera Farmiga-Patrick Wilson movies doesn't mean it's the end of Conjuring movies. Especially when Last Rites has made $478 million (!) worldwide. New Line this week picked newcomer Rodrigue Huart to direct the prequel, which will shoot sometime mid-next year. The goal would be to release the movie in September 2027.
➤ Call of Duty movie development: Taylor Sheridan (who was in the news for leaving Skydance-owned Paramount), set to write the script while pal Peter Berg will direct.
➤ Congrats to Richard Newby, who is writing and directing an episode of Tales from Beyond, an audio series from horror maestros Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid. The episode adapts a short story from his 2021 collection, We Make Monsters Here.
➤ Who goes there: Doctor Who to go off of Disney+ as Disney and BBC end their brief partnership. America just couldn't step into the TARDIS.
➤ The Buck doesn't stop here: Zeb Wells of Deadpool & Wolverine fame has been tapped to pen Legendary's Buck Rogers feature.
➤ Talk to the hand: Meta doing an immersive 3D series for XR based on horror movie Talk to Me.
➤ People can't stop loving Batman: Costumes and props from the 1966 series generated big sales at last week's big TV memorabilia auction. (Star Trek, Get Smart and Happy Days did well, too.)
➤ Speaking of big: HBO's It series Welcome to Derry became the third-biggest series debut in the company's history. (Related: Check out the cool opening credits for the show, released today.)
➤ Speaking of big 2: Vault's crowdsourcing of a comic adaptation of Dungeon Crawler Carl continues to set records, now reaching $2.1 million. Three days left to go.
➤ Comics in the news: Jason Aaron and Jason Latour's Southern Bastards in development to be a Hulu series, Nia DaCosta to direct the pilot.
➤ Comics in the news 2: Marc Guggenheim and Eduardo Ferigato's Dark Horse graphic novel Last Flight Out being developed as a movie by Apple, with Sam Hargrave of Extraction fame in talks to direct.
➤ Are Halloween decorations too scary? The New York Times investigates. (One fun fact: "spending on decorations alone is expected to reach $4.2 billion this year, up from $1.6 billion in 2019.")
➤ Trailer time: Scream 7 is a family affair; Stranger Things Season 5 is epic (and that Queen song sure helps).
➤ Despite there being plenty of avenues for more stories, Vince Gilligan rules out a return to the the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul universe. He tells Brian Davids: "I live in fear of messing up people’s memories of both shows. I’d rather leave a little money on the table, a little desire on the table." |
COMIC ARTIST JOHN CASSADAY WAS ONLY 52 when he passed away in September 2024, cutting short the shooting star trajectory of a superstar artist.
He was known for his work on the Joss Whedon-written Astonishing X-Men in the aughts and Marvel’s best-selling relaunch of the Star Wars comics in the 2010s.He gained a rabid audience among readers and the professional community for bringing a sense of realism to his figures and a cinematic presence in his compositions and layouts.
Even though he's gone, Cassaday admirers can keep him in their hearts and keep his art even closer thanks to a special auction happening next week.
With the participation of Cassaday’s art dealer, Albert Moy, as well as Nick Barrucci of Dynamite Entertainment, Heritage is putting on the John Cassaday Collection Comic Art Showcase Auction, taking place Nov. 6.
The aim of the auction is to help Cassaday’s sister and his partner. Heritage is also donating all of the hammer price to the family, meaning it will only keep the buyer’s premium and not take a cut of the final gavel, like it usually does.
There’s a lot of items from Cassaday’s own collection that he held back from selling, as well as from his personal collection from artists he loved, including a Marvel Fanfare cover by Michael Golden, New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke, and Captain America by Jack Kirby.
Other artissts, such as Liam Sharp and Paul Pope have also donated pieces.
But the most exciting item just may be the cover art for Planetary No. 1, the comic which made Casssaday into an award-winning and in-demand artist.
The 1999 title from Wildstorm, the imprint founded by Jim Lee and acquired by DC the year prior, was a perfect turn of the century comic that took decades of comic and pulp and other genre tropes and history and inverted it in a pseudo-scientific, alternate reality-mashing lens before anyone was attempting that particular genre.
It became a sensation, receiving Eisner Award nominations, before quickly hitting a stumbling block when writer and co-creator Warren Ellis became sick and Cassaday took on other work. (27 issues were put out between 1999 and 2009.)
The cover features the main protagonists of the series — Jakita Wagner, Elijah Snow, and the Drummer — standing dramatically in a dutch angle, as if they knew that the title would become, along with The Authority, a lasting influence on comics into the 21st century.
Cassaday is said to have turned down numerous offers for it, but here it is now, currently bidding in the $7,187.50 range.
You have seven days left to get your finances in order to make a go at this. |
You've made it to the end. You deserve a newsletter post-credits scene before you head off to trick or treat. So how about a morsel from the No. 1 movie you guys are always asking us for news about?
Matt Reeves has tapped Emmy-winning Andor production designer Luke Hull for his The Batman sequel. Andor earned praise for eschewing The Volume and building real sets, and Hull’s work also earned him an Emmy for Chernobyl.
Have a Happy Halloween, and see you next week.
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