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Dark Knight producer’s son carves his own path with martial arts, action and comics partnership

Creative Impulse Entertainment, which recently expanded from film and music video production into comics, and has the first comic series in the history of the industry to include DVD media with each issue (the flagship JFH: Justice-For-Hire) today announced a multimedia partnership with COG 1 Entertainment. COG 1 is headed by David Uslan, a second-generation ….

World Record gaming event being held at New York Comic-Con

Guinness World Records is getting ready to celebrate the release of its latest video game book – Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2009 – and is urging all gamers to take part in a record-breaking event at New York’s Comic Con this weekend. This weekend convention visitors will attempt to break the Guinness World Record ….

International event provides opportunity for young media makers

fmx/09 is a key international event and conference on the creation, production and distribution of digital entertainment. It’s in Stuttgart, Germany from May 5-8, 2009. On May 7th, there’s an event called the 10th Annual Eyes & Ears of Europe Junior Showcase. The event offers a chance to network and maybe even find that all ….

Film details for the psychological thriller Harvest Project

A filmmaker sent me this synopsis for an indie thriller called The Harvest Project, which recently completed production in Vancouver, B.C. It sounds interesting, and apparently premiered in Canada back in December and is now available on DVD here in the U.S. Here’s what he had to say about the movie. What if in order ….

New trailer and poster for Running Scared director’s new thriller Crossing Over

For those of you who don’t Know, Wayne Kramer is the amazingly talented young writer/director of The Cooler and Running Scared. Both films were spirited character studies of damaged souls attempting to redeem themselves, while surrounded by other severely damaged and broken souls. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to Kramer’s latest effort – Crossing ….

More Yatterman events at New York Comic-Con premiere and Takashi Miike appearance

New York Comic Con organizers revealed earlier this month that maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike and superstar actor and pop star Sho Sakurai will attend New York Comic Con and present the World Premiere of Yatterman. The news of Yatterman’s premiere and Miike and Sakurai’s appearances quickly spread and additional information about Yatterman-related events have ….

Casino Royale director looking at Green Lantern comic adaptation

Warner Bros. is currently in discussions with Martin Campbell to helm the Green Lantern adaptation of the DC superhero, according to Variety. Campbell’s most recent projects include Casino Royale and the Mel Gibson film Edge of Darkness. According to the report, the hot DC properties headed to the silver screen include Green Lantern and the ….

Dark Knight producer goes through Damascus Gate

Dark Knight producer Charles Roven has announced plans to adapt the political thriller Damascus Gate for Sony, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Based on a book by Robert Stone, Damascus Gate revolves around journalist Christopher Lucas, who stumbles upon an extremist plot to sabotage peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem. The Damascus ….

Behind-the-scenes featurette about AMC’s Prisoner remake – and FREE streaming episodes of the original U.K. series

A few sites have been posting this material, and I just had to share why I’m excited about it. AMC has been posting behind-the-scenes video interviews and clips about the making of its upcoming mini-series remake, based on the short-lived 1960s cult classic sci-fi TV series The Prisoner. James Caviezel stars at No. 6 (the ….

Check out this wild new video promo for Fox Friday’s Terminator and Dollhouse

El fuego your Friday! Sci Fi Wire posted this video that Fox TV released as a new promo video for its upcoming Friday-night lineup, which consists of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Joss Whedon’s new action thriller Dollhouse, that’s an homage to grindhouse movie trailers, complete with psychadelic color warps and out of sync ….

Blair Witch director working on paranormal thriller called Savant

In an interview on Tuesday with SCI-FI Wire, Blair Witch Project director Daniel Myrick said that he’s developing a film project titled Savant, described as a paranormal thriller, which he says would be his biggest movie to date. He told the site: “Savant is about this guy named Jeremiah Stark who is incarcerated in this ….

John Carpenter to direct supernatural thriller The Ward

John Carpenter is attached to direct The Ward, a supernatural thriller with Amber Heard (Pineapple Express, Never Back Down) attached to star, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen (Long Distance), The Ward follows the disturbing experience of a young woman in an institution, being terrorized by a ghost. The films ….