…This project has been quietly building in the lee of other higher-profile Midnight Picture Show films - adapted and directed by John Harrison from the book-end stories to Clive’s Books of Blood, the Scottish shoot has progressed well through December 2007 into the New Year. Joe Daley continues in the producer’s chair and you might keep an eye out for a certain Mr Bradley in front of the cameras (as Tollington) together with Sophie Ward (Dr Mary Florescu), Jonas Armstrong (Simon McNeal) and Simon Bamford (Derek). Following exposure at the 2008 European Film Market, and the successful completion of the FX shoot in London the film is now in post-production…

Check out the Cast HERE

GoAnimate.com, an entertainment Web site that enables ANYBODY to create computer animations, advanced flash skills or not, offers you the chance to win cash prizes in the GoAnimate Animators Contest by designing and posting your most inventive animation. The creators of GoAnimate designed GoAnimate to allow the casual online socialite the opportunity to share their sentiments, sagas and satires in animation, without drawing talent or a technical understanding of advanced software such as Flash. Anyone, and everyone, who has a story, has the capability to craft an animation and enter! Read the rest of this entry »

Interviewed by Shawn Swanson

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“Pirat Tales: The Legend of the Cat O’ Nine Tails” will be hitting your local comic shop November 26, 2008. This brand new title from IDW publishing looks to be a really cool read. Pirat Tales is written and created by Dan Taylor (Ninja Bandito, Hero Happy Hour) with illustrations by Orlando Baez (Family Bones), and colored beautifully by Juan Mar (Bloodrayne). After looking at some finished pages we, here at Hero Spy, were completely intrigued by this rat-infested high sea adventure. So with a heap of effort and a bit of good old-fashioned persistence, we were able to nail down the very talented, and incredibly busy Dan Taylor for a quick interview.

With Pirat Tales hitting stores in November, now is a great time to pre-order a copy. Here is a great site to do just that: TFAW.com

#1. Tell us about Pirat Tales: The Legend of the Cat O’ Nine Tails?

If the readers are familiar with the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Errol Flynn movies, and The Pirates of the Caribbean, than they’ll know what to expect within the pages of Pirat Tales. The main difference is that the characters are all rats, and one young mouse. Pirat Tales: The Legend of the Cat O’ Nine Tails is a classic treasure hunt. Legend has it that the notorious Blud Brothers stashed a hoard of treasure equaling the ransom of many kings on an uncharted island before their death. The heart of the story is the relationship between the infamous Captain Blacktail of the sailing ship the Vile Vermin and its newest crewmember, the young mouse known as Pip. It is a high seas adventure which has the young mouse traveling to the mysterious Blud Island and seeking the treasure guarded by the Cat O’ Nine Tails. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s one of the biggest — and most hotly debated — questions in fandom…which actors (and characters) will director Christopher Nolan enlist as a villain for his third “Batman” film? Rumors have abounded since the release of “The Dark Knight,” and Nolan has remained fiercely tight-lipped. But now, has one of his main players revealed some of the biggest casting news of the decade?

In an interview with MTV News conducted just hours ago at the Toronto Film Festival, Michael Caine — there to promote “Is There Anybody There?” — seemed to confirm rumors that the next installment of the “Batman” film franchise will feature two very well-known names playing the roles of The Riddler and the Bumbershoot Bandit, The Penguin. “They’ve already got them in mind,” said Caine, when asked who he’d like to see take up arms against the Caped Crusader. “It’s Johnny Depp as The Riddler. And The Penguin is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I read it in the paper.” Read the rest of this entry »

AMC, the network defining The Future of Classic, announced new cast members to star in the network’s reinterpretation of the highly influential 1960s cult classic, The Prisoner. AMC is co-producing the six-part mini-series with ITV Productions and Granada International, with a worldwide premiere in 2009. Today’s news comes on the heels of the network’s recent announcement that Jim Caviezel will play the title role of Number Six and two-time Oscar nominee Ian McKellen will co-star playing the role of Number Two. Read the rest of this entry »

Resonance Features and SF34: The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival present Anime After Dark, a twelve hour film festival event at Boston’s historic Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Sq., Somerville on October 18th, 2008. It will start at dusk, 7:00 PM, and run continuously until dawn, 7:00 AM.

The festival will bring some of the best in new and vintage anime to the big screen, in many cases for the first time. Ticket holders will be treated to an array of cinema treasures by masters of the genre like Studio Ghibli, Satoshi Kon, Leiji Matsumoto, Kenji Kamiyama, and others in a program that will run from dusk until dawn and include rare 35mm prints. Special events and more surprises to be announced. Read the rest of this entry »