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Wired.com 07-14-08 through 07-18-08
07-18 Comics-Based Movies Keep on Comin'
07-17 n / a
07-16 Joker Plays the Wild Card in Dazzling Dark Kni ght
Mark Cuban to Show New Movies on TV Before Theatrical Release
07-15 Terminator Talent Talks Up New Sarah Connor Season
Fox TV Boss Previews Sci-Fi Roster
Posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger's Joker Performance

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Actor Matthew Goode Revisits Brideshead Revisited 27 Years After Classic BBC Miniseries
AND: African Filmmakers Get a Grant PLUS Strand Documentary Looks at San Francisco's Golden Age of Art House Cinema (San Francisco Chronicle: 07.20.08)

Wired.com 07-07-08 through 07-11-08
07-11 Brilliant 'UFO' Controlled Remotely by SMS
Ricky Gervais Swerves Right for Stand-Up Special
Elvis Costello Aims for Truth as Talk Show Host
Josh Hartnett Revisits Dot-Com Meltdown in August
07-10 n/a
07-09 Art Geek Creates 3-D on a Shoestring
Mark Cuban to Show New Movies on TV Before Theatrical Release
07-08 n/a
07-07 Hellboy's Mike Mignola Talks 'Language of Monsters

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Man On Wire Celebrates Tight Rope Walk Between World Trade Center Towers
AND: Movies-in-Progress Flaunt Original Ideas PLUS Ugly Me From Chile Gets English Language Re-Make (San Francisco Chronicle: 07.13.08)

Wired.com 06-30-08 through 07-03-08
07-03 Fincher Brings Goon Comic to Big Screen
Review: Portman Peps Up Sluggish My Blueberry Nights
07-02Ferrell, Cohen Re-Team in Sherlock Holmes Movie
07-01 Skype's Viral Laughter Chain Showcases Video Giggle
Lost's Fox May Play Reformed Assassin
Tarantino Talks a Blue Streak on Inglorious Bastards
06-30 300 Producer Plans Another Spartan Movie

INDUSTRY BUZZ: French Director's Tell No One a Precision-Tooled Thriller
AND: Will Smith a Hands On Star for Hancock PLUS Journey to the Center of the Earth Re-Invents 3-D (San Francisco Chronicle: 07.06.08)

Wired.com 06-23-08 through 06-27-08
06-27 Secrets of Wanted's Insane Action
TurnHere Points Video Makers Toward Paycheck
Anime Fest to Include World's Biggest Blogger
Invisible Hand Readies Alien Conspiracy Comic Serpo
06-26 Review: Angelina Jolie Speed-Races Through Wanted's Sexy Violence
06-24 Animator's Crazy Creatures Inhabit Natural History Museum Show
Nike Billionaire to Break Ground on New Animation Studio
06-23 Godzilla Producer Gets Small for Amnesia 'Microseries' Blank Slate

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Producer Walter Mirisch Recalls West Side Story, Peter Sellers and Billy Wilder in New Memoir
AND: Animation Show 4 Features Angry Unpaid Prostitute PLUS Finding Amanda From Sitcom Auteur Peter Nolan - Tales From the Trenches(San Francisco Chronicle: 06.29.08)

California Graphic Design
Los Angeles' Post-War Visual Culture Get Spotlighted in "Earthquakes and Mudslides" Exhibition (Los Angeles Times: 06.22.08)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: In Quid Pro Quid Looks At Bizarre Subculture
AND: Savage Grace Features Ugly Souls, Beautiful Costumes PLUS Finding Amanda From Sitcom Auteur Peter Nolan - Tales From the Trenches(San Francisco Chronicle: 06.22.08)

The Art of the Flash Drive
Designer "Mimibot" Packed with Goodies (Wired Magazine: July.08n/a online)

Raymond J. Barry
Character Actor Plays it Straight "Walk Hard" Parody (Brown Alumni Magazine: May/June 2008)

The Weepies
Singer-songwriter Deb Talen Hits Big (Brown Alumni Magazine: May/June 2008)

Wired.com 06-16-08 through 06-20-08
06-20 Get Smart Gets Goofy Gadgets
Bonking Ben Affleck Auteur Gets Feature Deal
Movie Editing Contest: Cut It Your Way
Comedy Central Launches Web Shorts Freak Show
TV Review: Incredible Hulk Is a Handsome Hunk of Mayhem
06-19 Hellboy II, Jolie's Wanted Debut at Los Angeles Film Festival
Wizard World Loads Up On Comics
06-18 J.J. Abrams To Make Movie About Fantastical New York Apartment
Greek Comic Book Artist Lands Last Call Movie Deal"
06-17 Sci-Fi Fans Name Best TV Shows, Movies and Books"
Iron Man, Spidey Movies Move Forward
06-16 The Happening: Science Fact or Science Fiction?
Downey May Saddle Up for Sci-Fi Western a>
Special-Effects Pioneer Stan Winston Dies at 62

Kathy Griffin Takes on Hollywood
Emmy Winning My Life on the D-List Star Remains Show Biz Pariah (New York Times: 06.15.08) // full interview transcript

INDUSTRY BUZZ: In W Oliver Stone Does it Again, and This Time, His Presidential Bio Pic Targets George W. Bush
AND: Get Smart Re-Teams Steve Carrell and Alan Arkin PLUS At Los Angeles Film Festival, Former Warner Independent Boss Mark Gill Explains What's Ailing the Indie Film Business (San Francisco Chronicle: 06.15.08)

Wired.com 06-09-08 through 06-13-08
06-13 Box Office Battle: Hulk vs. Happening
TV Review: Incredible Hulk Is a Handsome Hunk of Mayhem
06-12
06-11 Battlestar Bikers Helfer and Sackhoff Hit the Road
Crunchyroll Site Rolls Out the Anime
Harrison Ford's New Gig? Maverick Scientist
06-10 Iron Man, Spidey Movies Move Forward
06-09 DiCaprio to Play Nolan Bushnell in Atari
Blobwall Bubbles Over at L.A. Art Gallery
Stan Lee Speaks in Comic Books Unbound

Wired.com 06-02-08 through 06-06-08
06-06 Doctor Who Sidekick Now Plays Sex Worker
One-Eyed Robot Competes With Funny Frog for Student Oscars
06-05 TV Commercial Whiz to Direct Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead >
Brave New World Next for Ridley Scott?
06-04 Peter Jackson's "Weta Cave" Opens for Business
Hulk Producer Launches Final Orbit
Bryce Dallas Howard in Terminator 4? To Be Decided
06-03 Alfred 'Doc Ock' Molina Joins Prince of Persia Movie
Another Hole in the Head Fest Showcases Women of Sci-Fi
How Juno Spoofers Won MTV's Golden Popcor n
06-02 Depp as Vamp? Tim Burton Probes Dark Shadows
Star Trek Trio Makes Biggest Trek of All

Surfwise Rides the Wave of Family Dysfunction
AND: Charlie Theron Gets Political in Seattle PLUS How Kung Fu Panda Sound Editor Makes a Punch Sound Like a Gut Full of Soup < (San Francisco Chronicle: 06.08.08)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Hole in the Head Festival: Gore, Sex, and High Tech for 15 Days
AND: High Fashion Co-stars in Sex and the City PLUS Post-Katrina Circle of Confusion Doc Wins Student Oscar for Bay Area Filmmaker (San Francisco Chronicle: 06.01.08)

Wired.com 05-27-08 through 05-30-08
05-30 First Look: J.J. Abrams' Fringe
Transformers 2 Reboots With Megan Fox, Rainn Wilson
MTV's Movie Spoof-O-Rama Peaks Sunday
Lost Co-Producer Adapts Comic Book as a Marvel Movie
05-29 Big Fantastic's Short Shooters Talk Fast
Sci Fi Channel Goes After Gamers With Fidgit
05-28 Virtuality Casts James D'Arcy as Outer Space Shrink
Rival Networks Flatter Lost With Sincere Imitations
05-27 Hobbit Watch: Filmmakers Chat 2-Picture Plan While Legal Action Looms
Incredible Hulk Director Cuts to the Chase
The Next Spider-Man: Maybe Patrick Fugit?

INDUSTRY BUZZ: In Children of Huang Shi, Roger Spotiswoode Goes to the Heart of China
AND: Bay Area Yoga Teacher/Filmmaker Switches Gears PLUS Superhero Costumes on Display at Met la Rosse (San Francisco Chronicle: 05.25.08)

Wired.com 05-19-08 through 05-23-08
05-23 X-Men Director Cranks Up Guitar Hero Ads
Lost Co-Producer Adapts Comic Book as a Marvel Movie
05-22 High Hopes for Indy 4 (but It Won't Beat Spider-Man 3)
Sam Raimi Gets Wizardly in New Zealand
M. Night Shyamalan's New Trailer
3-D Champion James Cameron: My Avatar Rocks
05-21 The Simpsons Get Green for Krustyland Ride
Hollywood Lift-Off for Flash Gordon
05-20 Pac-Man the Movie Moves Forward
Review: Indiana Jones Hits the Mark
05-19 X-Men Invade San Francisco

Hell Boy II: Art of the Movie
Book Captures Mike Mignola Sketches for del Toro's Visionary Sequel (Wired Magazine: June.08)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Joachim Trier Takes on Madness and Male Bonding in Reprise
AND: Spielberg: Ford Pushed for Indy Sequel PLUS Isabela Rossellini on "Green Porno" and Ageism(San Francisco Chronicle: 05.18.08)

Wired.com 05-12-08 through 05-16-08
05-16 22-Year Old Mississippi Brainiac Wins $100,000 in Jeopardy
King of the Hill's Judge Curates Freaky Animation DVD
X-Files Scribe Switches to Superhero Mode for Hancock
05-15 Woo-hoo! Simpsons' Krusty Gets His Own Roller Coasters
Jack's Back: 24 Returns in November
05-14 Hobbit Watch: Jackson, del Toro to Chat With Fans
Lonelygirl15 Creators Team With CBS
Doc Tells "Real" Crystal Skull Story
05-13 Ex-South Park Boss Seeks Funny Shorts at Inkubation
CBS' New Sci-Fi Series Elemental Tackles Weird Phenomena
Scan This: Art Imitates Tech in Surveillance Show
05-12 Witchblade Publisher Cuts Movie Deal
Box Office: Iron Man Stomps Speed Racer
Ridley Scott Produces Andromeda Strain

INDUSTRY BUZZ: James Ivory Talks Foreigner Drama in Before the Rain
AND: Holocaust Drama Fugitive Pieces Haunted by Memories PLUS Box Office Outlook: Look Out Indy 4 (San Francisco Chronicle: 05.11.08)

Wired.com 05-05-08 through 05-09-08
05-09 Oscar-winner John Gaeta Explains Speed Racer Effects
Festival Hosts Psyched for Global Chatter
Pangea Day Globe-Cast Celebrates Virtual Culture
Lost's Fox Fills Keanu Reeves' Helmet in Speed Racer
Teen Superhero Academies Popping Up All Over
05-08 Free Gum Used as Bribe to Stop Uwe Bol
MTV to Honor Top Online Movie Spoofers
Kids' DIY Raiders Remake Hits Hollywood at Last
11-Year-Old Snags Speed Racer Exclusives
05-07 Review: Surreal Speed Racer Doses NASCAR With Anime>br /> Trailer Trash and Mini Movie Masterpieces Face Judgment
05-06 Green Porno Star Isabella Rossellini Takes on Insect Sex
Family Guy Guy Cuts Sweet Deal
05-05 Chris Carter Picks Favorites for New X-Files DVD
Iron Man Sequel? Of Course

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Speed Racer Production Design: Retro-Future Pastiche
AND: Ang Lee Goes to Woodstock PLUS Disney Gets Green (San Francisco Chronicle: 05.04.08)

Wired.com 04-28-08 through 05-02-08
05-02 21-Year Old Sci Fi Londoner Wins $1 Million Film Deal
J.J. Abrams Promises to Re-invent Star Trek
05-01 Summer Movie Guide: Superheroes, Sequels and More
World's Best Screamers Win $250
04-30 Review: Iron Man a New High for Robert Downey Jr
04-29 DNA Yields Hyper-Tiny Origami Art at MOMA
04-28 Online Film School + iTunes = Crowdsourced DVD Extras

Conservation Limbo
Curators Grapple with Obsolete Video Art (Los Angeles Times: 04.30.08)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Life Before Her Eyes Inspired by School Slayings
AND: Filmaka Goes Live (San Francisco Chronicle: 04.27.08)

Wired.com 04-21-08 through 04-25-08
04-23 Blair Witch Director Sets Thriller in Afghanistan
Frank Sin City Miller likes his Actin hard Boiled
04-22 Moon Bloodgood Looking Good for Terminator 4
Arrested Development Maestro Gets Animated
04-21 Ex-Fox Boss Scouts New Talent at Filmaka.com
Hobbit Watch: Del Toro May Decide by Friday

Bomb It!
Doc Shines light on Global Graffiti (Wired Magazine: May.08 n/a online)

Wired.com 04-14.08 through 04-18-08
04-18 Forget Friction: Norton Says He's Happy With Hulk
BSG Co-Creator to Write Sci Fi Trilogy
04-17 First Look: Speed Racer Zips in Candy-Color
NBC Web Series Snags Rosario Dawson
04-16 Star Trek Team Tackles Atlantis Rising
Milla Makes a Thriller
04-15 Spielberg to Make a 3-D Ghost in the Shell
Arrested Development Maestro Gets Animated
04-14 GoslingGreat in Lars and the Good Girl
Indy 4 Star Takes Smart Pill for Dark Fields

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Deception Hits Fast On Heels of Eliot Spitzer Scandal
PLUS Forbidden Kingdom a Big Break for 20-Year Old Chinesse Actress AND My Brother is an Only Son Revisits Wild Sixties, Italian-Style (San Francisco Chronicle: 04.20.08)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Jimmy Hayward Hears a Hit - - Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! Director Made Year's Biggest Movie After Leaving Pixar
PLUS Zombie Strippers AND Private Eye Pellicano Goes to Trial 50 Years After Hollywood's First Wiretapper (San Francisco Chronicle: 04.13.08)

"Make Art / Stop Aids" Mixes Humor and Tragedy
Los Angeles Exhibition Showcases Artists From U.S., Brazil, South Africa and India (Los Angeles Times: 04.6.08 | | for non-subscribers | | image slideshow)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Marianne Faithfull Plays Sex Shop Hostess in Irina Palm
PLUS Blake "Gossip Girl" Liveley Boosts Elvis and Annabelle Indie (San Francisco Chronicle: 04.06.08)

Battlestar Galactica Star Tricia Helfer
Q + A With Sci-Fi Sex Robot (Wired.com: 04.03.08 | | printer-friendly version)

Battlestar Galactica First Look
Fourth and Final Season Kicks off With a Bang (Wired.com: 04.04.08 | | printer-friendly version)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: How Shotgun Stories Director Chris Nichols Made Big Screen Epic for $53,000
PLUS A Simple Plan Writer Tries Again with The Ruins AND Shelter the First From LGBT Indie Initiative (San Francisco Chronicle: 03.30.08)

How MIT Geeks Conquered Vegas
Real Life Card Shark Jeff Ma Talks 21, Hollywood's Take on His Life as a Blackjack Genius(Wired News: 03.27.08 | | printer-friendly version)

Autism: The Musical
Kids Put on a Show in HBO Documentary (New York Times: 03.23.08 | | printer-friendly)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Flawless Michael Radford Gets a Good Performance From Demi Moore
PLUS At the Box Office: Formula Fails for Ferrell. (San Francisco Chronicle: 03.23.08)

Graphic Design Auteurs
Entrepreneurial Artist-Designers Carve Their Own Niche Take (Los Angeles Times: 03.23.08 || for non subscribers | | blogged at www.gelatobaby.com

INDUSTRY BUZZ: The Hammer Star Adam Carolla: Still Stung by Hollywood Rejection
PLUS Terminator Begins Shooting in New Mexico - - Without Arnold AND:Funny Games Not Funny - - At All (San Francisco Chronicle: 03.16.08)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: ShoWest Rides Again
PLUS "Horton" Fans Whoop it Up AND: Shooting Skatess in Paranoid Park (San Francisco Chronicle: 03.09.08)

Paranoid Park Meets MySpace
Gus Van Sant Uses Web to Cast Surfkid Drama (Wired News: 03.14.08 | | printer-friendly version)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Eric Bana Keeps on Broodin' The Other Boleyn Girl
PLUS Scott Rudin on a Roll AND:Chicago 10 Marks Last Hurrah For the Late, Great Roy Scheider (San Francisco Chronicle: 03.02.08)

Japanese Woodblock Print Exhibition Showcases French Twist
Gay, French-Born Artist Paul Jacoulet Put an Outsider Spin on Ancient Tradition(Los Angeles Times: 03.02.08 || for non subscribers)

Janet Wang
Movie Producer Addresses Asian-American Student Life in "Dark Matter" (Brown Alumni Magazine: March/April 2008)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: In Oscar-nominated Holocaust Drama The Counterfeiters, Filmmaker Comes to Terms With Family's Nazi Past
PLUS Life After Oscar: What's Next For Marion Cottilard and Ellen Page? AND:Chicago 10 Marks Last Hurrah For the Late, Great Roy Scheider (San Francisco Chronicle: 02.24.08)

100 Days of Monsters
From Ink Blot to Blog to Book: Steven Bucher Goes Viral Parade and Beyond UltramanOddball Graphics(Wired Magazine: March: 2008)

Beyond Ultraman
Art Toys GEt Their Closeup (Wired Magazine: March: 2008 n/a online)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Ronald Harwood Diving Bell Oscar Nominee - - 73 and Still Cranking
PLUS For Sale: Keira Knightley's Green Atonement Dress AND: Beaufort Oscar-Nominated Foreign Film Tells a Soldier's Tale (San Francisco Chronicle: 02.17.08)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Re-writes and Re-casting Second Nature for Doug Liman in Teleporting Superhero Jumper
PLUS Indie Fest Gets Off-Beat Docs and Gus Van Sant's Skate Park Drama AND: An Animated Conversation with John Lennon Makes Oscar Shorts List (San Francisco Chronicle: 02.10.08)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Alex Gibney's Oscar-NominatedTaxi to the Dark Side Look at War on Terror
PLUS Vince Vaughn Hosts </> AND: Caramel Explores Everyday Women in Lebanon (San Francisco Chronicle: 02.03.07)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Stunt People Get SAG Awards
PLUS "Hannah Montana" Concert Film Could Continue Disney's Hot Streak AND: Bay Area Filmmakers Flock to Sundance (San Francisco Chronicle: 01.27.08)

"Imaginary 20th Century"
OCMA's Interactive Installation Re-Visits Neurotic Gilded Age Fantasies (Los Angeles Times: 01.27.08 || for non subscribers)

Breaking Bad
Bryan Cranston Goes Dark as Middle Class Meth Dealer (New York Times: 01.20.08

"Curbside Enthusiasm"
Photographer Mark Indig Gets Streetside Photos at rampART Exhibit (Los Angeles Times: 01.20.08 || for non subscribers)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Sean Penn IS Milk
PLUS 007 is Back For 22nd Chapter - - With Two New "Bond Girls" AND: Santa Barbara Film Festival: Celeb Magnet (San Francisco Chronicle: 01.20.08)

"Decorated Letter" Sheds Light On Illuminated Texts
Manuscripts From Middle Ages Unveiled at Getty Center (Los Angeles Times: 01.13.08 || for non subscribers)

Surveillance: a Watch Word For Our Time
Artists Cast an Eye on Surveillance Culture (Los Angeles Times: 01.13.08 || for non subscribers)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: Oscar-Bound? 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
PLUS Running With Arnold Goes Forward - - With Alec Baldwin's Narration AND: 2007 Top Ten List (San Francisco Chronicle: 01.13.08)

INDUSTRY BUZZ: How Cinematographer Roger Deakins Shot No Country For Old Men
PLUS Zellweger Makes Another Rom-Com AND Box Office 2007 - - Not Great, but Not Bad (San Francisco Chronicle: 01.06.08)

Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory
WETA Workshop's Bizarre Ray Gun Catalog Get (Wired Magazine: January.08)

Eric Dane
Cover Story: Grey's Anatomy "McSteamy" Keeps it Simple (Access DirecTV Magazine: January 2008 n/a online)