| | | | | | It's almost Oscars weekend, and we're days away from getting the answers to all of our questions. Will Sinners become the first horror best picture winner since Silence of the Lambs? Is genre hero Ryan Coogler poised to become the first Black directing winner? Will MBJ beat out Timmy? Did Aunt Gladys cast a spell on enough voters to deliver Amy Madigan her first statue at 75? We can't wait to find out, but are frankly a little exhausted by the whirlwind of the week, which began with checking out our very first Saturn Awards (five hours with geek gods, including George Lucas, James Cameron, Guillermo Del Toro, Mark Hamill, William Shatner, Christopher McQuarrie and even Tom Cruise. And the week continued with our colleagues on the ground at SXSW, where this afternoon, Steven Spielberg revealed ahead of his UFO movie Disclosure Day that he suspects aliens already are here on earth. Is he part of the plan to prepare humanity for what's fast approaching? (Oh, and he also said he's going to finally direct a western). Well, before we head to Sunday's Oscars, we crammed in one last event of the season where we dressed up as audio techs and snuck into a special ceremony at USC honoring Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige...with Coogler and Shawn Levy in attendance. Check out this exclusive report to hear the trio open the Marvel moviemaking curtain ... —Aaron Couch and Borys Kit. |
KEVIN FEIGE OFFERED A UNIQUE — AND AT TIMES, EMOTIONAL — LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES AT MARVEL LAST NIGHT.
The studio boss took the stage at USC alongside Ryan Coogler and Shawn Levy as part of dedication for the new Kevin Feige Division of Film & Television Production at the film school.
There was a lot there —including thoughts on painful test screenings and internet fandom. But the true standout was Feige and Coogler going deep on the sad days following the death of Chadwick Boseman.
Feige revealed that during his last in-person meeting with Marvel execs, Boseman expressed how much fun he was having voicing the character of T’Challa, the Black Panther, in the animated show What If…? and how he wanted to bring that fun vibe to the next Panther feature, which ultimately, he never got the chance to make.
That anecdote served to underscore Feige’s broader point about how he took Boseman and other colleagues and friends for granted.
On most movies, people work very closely for a period, and then may not see each other for years after the movie wraps. But with Marvel, there was always another movie to make, another Panther, or an Avengers, or an Iron Man.
“We will be back in there, that was always my expectation,” Feige said. “So the need to set a dinner or a lunch to say hi, I just never do. Because we’re busy and because we’re going to have a next time. And that hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized that there wasn’t going to be a next time.”
Coogler revealed that Feige and Disney CEO Bob Iger flew to his native Oakland to check on him.
“It wasn’t ‘Hey, what are we going to do about this this franchise.’ It was about ‘Hey are you OK? How are you taking it?’" recalls Coogler. "It was real moment where you see the humanity beyond the corporate things and the financial responsibilities.”
Feting Feige. |
SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN IS ALREADY A BEST SELLING COMIC BOOK SERIES. NOW IT’S GETTING THE NOVEL TREATMENT. Co-creator James Tynion IV is writing the book with horror novelist Kiersten White. Hope is a Knife, set within the world of Something Is Killing the Children, arrives on Oct. 10 via Crown Publishing Group, in partnership with Boom! Studios. The ongoing comic, drawn by Werther Dell’Edera, debuted in 2019 from Boom! and quickly became one of the biggest indie comics hits in years. Telling the story of Erica Slaughter, a monster-survivor-turned-hunter, the comic has so far won three Eisner Awards and spawned an secon best-selling title. Blumhouse, the horror banner run by Jason Blum, is developing a live-action feature and an adult animated series. Into the Slaughterverse. |
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➤Phil Lord and Chris Miller reveal they've got six or seven movies they are developing to direct. That still includes Artemis, Project Hail Mary author Andy Wier's second novel.
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➤ In the Blink of an Eye director (and Pixar VP of creative) Andrew Stanton cut a "political" scene from his sci-fi drama involving a gay tech inventor and the riots his innovation has caused.
➤ Monarch: Legacy of Monsters star Anna Sawai addresses whether she'll appear in Shogun season two. She also teases her upcoming role as Yoko Ono in Sam Mendes' four Beatles movies.
➤ Scream 7 star Mckenna Grace lost the role of Sidney Prescott's daughter to Isabel May, but she still accepted another role. The problem is she wouldn't find out which role until after her costume fitting.
➤ Priyanka Chopra Jonas is not a fan of entertainment media's tendency to pit streaming versus theatrical.
➤ Kurt Russell is still haunted by Tombstone. "It could have been considered one of the great movies."
➤ Haley Lu Richardson helped convince Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die co-star Sam Rockwell to accept his now-iconic role in The White Lotus season three.
➤ How to Make a Killing director John Patton Ford says executives panicked over Glen Powell's dramatic weight loss and rejected his attempt at wearing a "crazy wig."
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VISIONQUEST HAS FOUND ITS COMPOSER.
Mick Giacchino will score the Marvel Studios series that sees Paul Bettany returning to star as The Vision.
Giacchino is no stranger to the comic book space. He won an Emmy for his work on DC and HBO's The Penguin after working on additional music for The Batman, scored by his father, Marvel mainstay Michael Giacchino.
He also scored Disney and Lucasfilm's The Skeleton Key, with his work including Disney's The Muppets Mayhem and Zootopia+.
VisionQuest, also starring James Spader as Ultron, is arriving later this year.
No strings on Mick. |
LET’S CELEBRATE ARNOLD BLURTING OUT THE CONAN MOVIE NEWS THIS WEEK BY CHECKING IN ON SOME AUCTIONS.
Heritage has been selling off the original art for the Conan the Barbarian daily comic strip that ran from 1978 to 1981.
That was a heyday for Conan, who was one of Marvel’s top-selling characters and enjoyed a 1982 movie. Roy Thomas, who secured the Conan license for Marvel in the early 1970s and then penned the strip in its first few years, reteaming with his Marvel artist John Buscema, who was the first artist on the run.
It's the Buscema strips — he did only 48 of them — that are now fetching big bucks, each selling in the $3,000 range this year. (Strips by artists such as Alfredo Alcala and Tom Yeates sell for significantly less – think around the $400 range – less.)
The one below, part of "The Wizard’s Daughter" storyline, is currently up for grabs in an auction that wraps up in five days. It’s only $134 right now but, by Crom, expect it to shoot up bigtime. |
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