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themultifandomgal · 8 months

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Tyler Hoechlin- Our Love

The Hollywood Reporter Interview

August 2012

"Do I have anything in my teeth?" I ask Tyler before we sit down on a couch together

"No your all good" I give him a smile before sitting down. Next to us is Crystal and Posey and next to them is Holland and Colton

"Are you guys ready?" our interviewer Haley asks

"Yes" we all say getting comfortable in our seats

"Ok so erm they just announced that you guys have been renewed for season 3 which is going to be 24 episodes"

"Yeah I'm a little nervous to see how that's going to turn out" Posey replies "I'm stoked don't get me wrong because we're going to be in LA which is where most of us live instead of Atlanta, I love Atlanta but it..."

"It's cold" Colton says making me chuckle

"It's hot in the summer" I reply

"YN what's it going to be like for you since you have to move to LA for the filming?"

"Errm I'm nervous. I'm keeping my apartment here in Atlanta for when I'm back home. I'm not used to being away from my parents for so long so it's going to be strange"

"Have you found a new place to live yet?" Haley asks

"Yes I have. It's just a 1 bedroomed apartment, but it's big enough for me"

"And obviously that means that this show is really successful becausethey're putting enough faith in you guys to do 24 episodes right. What do you think about the show makes it so

popular?"

"It's very appealing in a lot of different ways, like it's super relatable. First of all like the situation's that the kids go through, most of them least, you know high school first love. Getting bit by random people in the woods. Happens to me at least once a week" Posey jokes making us all chuckle a little "also you know it appeals to

every type of age and person because it's got awesome romance awesome comedy and action and character building it's err.. any help guys"

"For me what I think is so appealing and for a lot of people who I've talked to, is that the heart of the show is really the relationships and I think our created does a really good job of making sure that those relationships are very similar to what would happen at home and you know in the students life" Crystal says.

We move on to talking about the rest of season 2 and what is going to be happening

"Can you tell me everything that happens in the rest of season 2"

"No but what we can say is there's going to be a bunch of fights" Posey starts off

"Death" Holland adds in

"Everyones relationships are going to be tested" I say

"Lydia will finally know she's on a show about werewolves so I'm excited to see how our characters pick sides”

“Is there anything you’d like your characters to do?” Haley asks

“I want Scott to play the guitar, that’s basically it”

“I think it would be interesting to see Allison as a schizophrenic”

“I want to see Stella’s softer side more. I know we get a touch of that around Derek and their relationship but she’s got some walls to break down and I think it would be interesting to see her vulnerable in season 3” I say to Haley

“Since we’re at comic con what do you guys geek out about?”

“Space” I reply “it’s very fitting my character on the show is called Estella since in Latin that means star”

“YN has her own telescope and books on space” Ty says looking at me smiling

“I made these guys stay up till like 3am the once to watch a meteor shower”

“Wow. And what about the rest of you guys?” Tyler talks about his love for game of thrones, Posey and Holland talk about halo. We then sum up the rest of season 2 then we’re done for the day. We all head back to our hotel to get ready to go out for dinner later on in the evening.

#tyler hoechlin imagine #tyler hoechlin x reader #tyler hoechlin x oc #tyler hoechlin #teen wolf actress #teen wolf comic con #teen wolf imagine #teen wolf cast #teen wolf

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daily-ravka · 1 year

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Welcome to the Daily Ravka!

We collect and keep you updated with the cast and crew interviews as well as new clips for the upcoming Netflix series Shadow and Bone second season of the Netflix hit series, Shadow and Bone.

❤️ This is an informal source account so there might be memes and edits along the way if my braincells allow it!

-> Catch up with season one’s press tour here: Season One Press Tour Masterlist

-> Currently running is Season Two Press Tour Masterlist

-> See all Daily List | We’ll run daily/weekly news listings depending on the amount of press activity we’re getting.

Thank you for your massive support since 2021 and glory to the Grishaverse🥂

✨Our ask box is open for questions and link requests. We will try to help you out! ✨

Catch up with the things you missed:

Pre Season Two

Filming Season Two

Stuttgart Comic Con 2021

Netflix Geeked Week 2022

Dream It Fest London 2022

New York Comic Con 2022

TUDUM 2022

A Storm of Crows and Shadows Paris 2022

(Coming events will be edited here gradually)

#shadow and bone #six of crows #grishaverse #daily ravka #new pinned

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mathieuauclair · 1 year

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Wolfcop vs. Bagman. Inked sketch. 2014.

I always had a fondness for horror comedies. Having discovered 'Army Of Darkness' and its predecessors as a teenager probably helped shape my taste for a perticular brand of scary movies with strong comedic elements.

Sometime in the mid augths I came across a dvd compilation of horror short films produced by the Spasm horror film festival. This is where I first discovered the filmmaking trio RKSS, Roadkill Superstar from Montreal: François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell; Their short film 'Bagman' is a wonderful gory, slapsticky cocktail of Three Stooges antics with Jason Voorhees violence.

Later, in 2014, at Montreal Fantasia film festival, I came across another film with a similar sense of humor. Another Canadian production; 'Wolfcop'. This hit my sweet spot. At the time, I was also co-hosting a geek podcast and had the opportunity to interview the film's director Lowell Dean.

Now, what inspired me in 2015 to draw that image of Wolfcop and Bagman battling it out is simple. That same year, RKSS and Lowell Dean both attended the Montreal Comic con.

While a 'Bagman' feature film has yet to materialize. The filmmaking trio has been busy with 'Turbo Kid' and 'The Summer Of 84'. Dean directed a sequel to 'Wolfcop', the appropriately named 'Aother Wolfcop'.

If you love the Evil Dead films, 80's slashers and slapstick comedies and haven't seen any of these films. I highly recommended that you take the time to track them down and watch them with friends with similar taste.

Take care.

Matt

#throwbackthursday #horrormovies #horrorcomedy #wolfcop #rkss #bagman #turbokid #armyofdarkness @fantasiafestival @mtlcomiccon

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esonetwork · 2 years

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The Earth Station One Podcast - Sabrina The Teenage Witch At 60

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The Earth Station One Podcast - Sabrina The Teenage Witch At 60

As the Countdown to Halloween concludes, we ask how does a witch remain a relevant teenager for six decades? Must be magic. Mike, Mike, and Mark McCray are joined by Archie Comics writer and artist Bill Golliher and discuss the reasons folks have been spellbound from her first appearance in Archie Madhouse to her Chilling Adventures on Netflix. Plus, Bill tries to ward off the evil of the Geek Seat. All this, along with Angela’s A Geek Girl’s Take, Ashley’s Box Office Report, Michelle’s Iconic Rock Moments, and Shout Outs!

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themovieblogonline · 2 years

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taperwolf · 2 years

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I just saw a feature/review, on a non-geeky site, of an art book of and about cosplay. The pictures and text referred exclusively to Western properties — Marvel and DC comics, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones — and this just brought home how odd a cultural construct modern cosplay is.

"Costuming", referred to as such, is approximately as old as science fiction fandom; there were folks in Buck Rogers jumpsuits showing up at the very first conventions. (There are photos of Lensman author E. E. 'Doc" Smith in a bomber jacket and aviator's helmet, brandishing a raygun that's connected, via cable, to a battery pack on his belt.) Its popularity waxed and waned over the years, depending on how seriously SF was taking itself and how good recent movie and TV show costumes were, but it was always there.

But to be cosplay — literally a portmanteau of costume+play — took Japan, and the burgeoning anime fandom of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Otaku culture took things, as usual, to good-natured extremes. (I recommend the movie Otaku no Video (1991) for a look at this; it's a fictionalized and exaggerated anime history of Gainax, the studio that would soon release Neon Genesis Evangelion, interspersed with documentary and interview segments on otaku culture.) There was, in particular, an intensified focus on accuracy and photo-readiness.

Science fiction conventions in the west had long hosted showings of anime, but when anime conventions proper started popping up (often having to relearn the lessons SF cons had figured out long ago), their costuming was re-imported as cosplay, and the particular emphases of that subculture spread to the geek cultures following non-Japanese media.

So it is today that you can have a whole article about a photobook, with a dozen featured examples, without a single mention of an anime or manga.

#cosplay #science fiction #fandom #fandom history

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strongwomenunited · 3 years

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You know why I think Katie McGrath is one of the best people to be an actress? I think she’s one of us in actor form.

Here me out. From previous interviews you can see how much she loves Star Wars, somebody lost her at a French Comic-Con because of it. She’s talked about being able to sit in Batman’s car, or how excited she is about Lord of the Rings, etc. She is as she’s said... a geek. A nerd. She is us. So when she plays a role Lena Luthor or Morgana Pendragon, it’s clear she’s done a ton of research or speculation of what could be. So that when someone asks a question, she has an answer.

So that’s what I mean by, one of us in actor form. That’s why she’s the best because she is a nerd first, actor second.

#katie mcgrath

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fansplaining · 3 years

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Fansplaining is eligible for the Hugos!

It’s that time of year again: Fansplaining is eligible to be nominated for the Hugo category Best Fancast. If you’re a Hugo voter, please consider us!

If you aren’t familiar with Fansplaining, we’re a biweekly podcast about fan culture hosted by @flourish (who works on fan stuff in Hollywood) & @elizabethminkel (who writes about fan stuff in the media). Since 2015, we’ve put out more than 160 episodes and close to 2 dozen articles about the ways fans engage with the stuff they love (or uh...have strong feelings about).

In 2020, our episodes included (click through for audio + full transcripts):

Race and Fandom Revisited (Part 1 and Part 2): A follow-up from a 2016 two-part episode, featuring interviews and commentary from fans of color.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas: A conversation about race, literature, and fandom with the author of The Dark Fantastic

The “Q” is for “Queerbaiting”: Shipping, subtext, teasing, representation, and “going canon”

Pam Noles: An interview with the self-described “executive geek” in charge of one of the restricted entrances to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con

Letting Harry Potter Go: Grappling with putting both the series and the fandom behind us

Miranda Ruth Larsen: The fan studies scholar talks K-pop in 2020—the artists, the media, and the fans

Plus patrons-only episodes about Watchmen, Birds of Prey, and more!

#hugos #hugo eligibility #fansplaining #fandom #podcasts

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buffyfan145 · 3 years

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Well that was super disappointing as it turns out there weren’t any “Cobra Kai” announcements at Netflix Geeked Week. :( They hyped it up and did have Xolo, Jacob, and Gianni getting interviewed and playing games, but nothing else about season 4 or beyond was announced. Every other show I watch that was a part of this either announced premiere date with trailers or promo pics, got renewed, or announced tie in products. At the very least since today was focused on games I thought there would be another “Cobra Kai” video game announced or something. Really they could’ve released the Terry video today instead and confirmed which month it’s coming out this fall and if those rumors it’s already been renewed for season 5 are true. I guess we’ll see if they’ll do a virtual panel at Comic Con next month.

#cobra kai #johnny lawrence #daniel larusso #john kreese #terry silver #miguel diaz #xolo mariduena #jacob bertrand #gianni decenzo

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cosplayinamerica · 3 years

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Cosplay Over 40 group founders : Jae and Ana

Today I’m highlighting one of the Instagram share pages / theme pages, I followed, Cosplay Over 40. For the past few years, I’ve reached out to various pages asking about how their page got started.

Ana: We arrived at cosplaying via two different avenues. Jae and I were both into anime, comic-book, and science-fiction geeks growing up. He loved — still loves — Macross and Robotech, I was more Star Blazers, Superfriends, and Star Trek. In high school and college, my friends and I made our own Star Trek uniforms and attended Star Trek events in New York City back when it wasn't called cosplaying. It wasn't even called costuming. It was just being a Star Trek geek. I bought my first official costume — a Star Trek Next Generation science jumpsuit — in grad school, and that just opened the door to what would become cosplaying. I pulled together costumes of Ranma Saotome from Ranma 1/2, Jessie from Pokemon, and Kim Possible, and I'd wear them for Halloween, to library events, and to comic-book expos... what would eventually become the cons we know today.

Jae: I have always loved taking photos. I'd take photos of friends, of people at events I'd attend. I love photography. It's my way of being involved without being the center of attention and without being stuck on the sidelines. I became a sports and portrait photographer, but cosplay always called to me. It just appeals to my geek side. And with Ana getting more and more into cosplay, it only seemed natural for me to turn to cosplay photography.

Ana: At first, we were just thrilled to be part of the cosplay scene. I love fandom meet-ups. I love meeting voice actors and artists, especially those behind the anime and comic-book characters I love. When people come up to me and ask to take photos with my cosplay, it's such a deeply satisfying feeling. My cosplay made people happy, made people smile.

Jae: We got really caught up in that scene, seeing other people reacting to Ana's cosplays and to so many other amazing cosplays.

Ana: And then we started to notice a different reaction. I think I first started noticing it at some meet-ups. There's be the main group, and then there'd be a handful of us on the outside. This happened more and more often, and it took me a few years to realize that those of us on the outside were older than the central groups. Once I realized this, my eyes flew wide open. At cons, I started noticing that the photographers would ignore fabulous, intricate cosplays worn by older cosplayers and would flock to take photos of teenagers and 20-somethings in wigs and bikinis.

Jae: It really pissed us off. Here were so many people who obviously put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into creating armor and amazing sewing projects, and they were barely being given a glance. I started going out of my way to photograph these cosplayers... and all over them were our age or older.

Ana: It finally came to a head in 2019. We spent a weekend at an out-of-state con, and we — myself and all the other older cosplayers — might as well have been invisible.

Jae: One of the other photographers actually told me he only takes photos of "young, pretty girls."

Ana: I told Jae that we couldn't just let this kind of behavior continue. We had to stand up and do something about it, let the older cosplayers know how wonderful they are. I have a Master's in public communications and I've worked as a social-media specialist for various companies and organizations since the mid 1990s. Since cosplay is such a visual art, I went straight to Instagram and searched for "cosplay" and our age range: 40. There was absolutely nothing there.

Jae: We also checked 50. There was nothing. Then we checked 30. Two accounts came up, both dead in the water. One hadn't posted since 2015, and one hadn't posted since 2018.

Ana: Just to be safe, we also checked "old," "older," "geezer," all those types of terms. There was absolutely nothing. Given what we'd seen over the years at cosplay events, this really didn't surprise us, but it still hit us hard that there was no representation for the older cosplayer. I spent a couple of weeks outlining the guidelines we would follow. We looked at successful cosplay feature sites like @sharingcosplay and @women.of.cosplay. We knew we wanted to feature individuals, to give each cosplayer their time in the spotlight. We also wanted it to be structured. We didn't want to give one cosplayer a huge write-up, then give the next one just a few sentences. Everyone had to be showcased equally. After all, the whole reason we were doing this was because of the inequality we'd seen.

Jae: I felt we had to go beyond Instagram with this. I'd recently gotten into videography. I felt — still feel — that a multimedia market exists for the older cosplayer. I told Ana that we had to take this to podcasts, to YouTube, to even a magazine specializing in the older cosplayer.

Ana: I've worked as an assistant editor and managing editor for several magazines and I currently work as a contributing writer for two specialty magazines, so creating a magazine was something I totally agreed with. I also agreed with the podcasts and You Tube channel. That kind of thing is right up Jae's alley.

Jae: We decided that we would make this a multimedia venture, focusing on the older cosplayer and letting the world know how fabulous older cosplayers are. Older cosplayers have the discretionary income to dedicate to cosplaying. At this age, they're serious about their hobby and it's a true labor of love. It's not just something they do with their friends a couple of times a year. It's a passion. And the skill I've seen, the dedication... it all needed to be celebrated.

Ana: But we decided to start with social media first. We launched on Instagram on June 28, 2019, with Facebook and Twitter following shortly after. We did encounter a small glitch...

Jae: There was a Facebook group with a very similar name...

Ana: We checked them out and saw they were a community group that shared photos of themselves and events they attended, nothing remotely like what we were doing and have planned for the future. Having studied journalism law and having consulted with a copyright specialist, we knew we were in the clear to bring our dream to life: celebrating the magnificent, often-overlooked older cosplayer.

Jae: The reception has been incredible. Not a week goes by that we don't get a message or email from a cosplayer thrilled to have found a place that showcases people their age. Our age.

Ana: We also get messages from people letting us know they'll be turning 40 soon and can't wait to be featured. We get people who message us on their 40th birthday, eager to be featured. Or who message us just days before their 40th birthday, asking to be featured on their special day. It's been wonderful. It's been mind blowing.

Jae: We've gone to several cons, and the reception there has been amazing. We've spoken to so many older cosplayers, every single one of whom had experienced ageism at these type of events and who were absolutely thrilled to discover that our focus is them and only them.

Ana: And then the pandemic hit.

Jae: It really sucked, from the photography standpoint, to watch everything come to a halt. But this also gave us the push we needed to move forward with our plans.

Ana: We started producing cosplay video projects, open to any cosplayer over the age of 40. We figured that cosplayers were looking for ways to continue cosplaying — safely — during the pandemic, looking for ways to interact with other cosplayers. We'd present a theme and state a deadline for submission.

Jae: We had a tremendous response.

Ana: Jae took all the video clips and edited them into amazing montages that really showcased how amazing cosplayers over 40 truly are. For one video, our Fight Challenge, we had more than 50 cosplayers participate from all over the world.

Jae: We also held an online con in March 2020.

Ana: Yes, our "Con Together." It was nine days of scheduled fandom meet-ups and cosplay sharing. We even had an artist's alley.

Jae: But right now, we've moved on to the next stages of our Cosplay Over 40 plans.

Ana: Jae has been building a dedicated podcast studio outfitted with all sorts of live-streaming equipment. I'm sure I'm not using the right terminology for this. It's Jae's baby, and I trust him implicitly to have it ready to go later this summer. I've also started working on the inaugural issue of Cosplay Over 40 magazine. The editorial content has been decided, I've reached out to cosplayers and others in the cosplay community for interviews and photos, and I'm really looking forward to laying out the issue and getting it to print.

Jae: But even with these new platforms, we are not slowing down with our original presence on Instagram.

Ana: Absolutely not! We're still growing — we just passed 3,900 followers — and we are now actually part of the @SharingCosplay family of feature pages. We are always looking for new cosplayers to feature and we always invite those we've featured in the past to share more of their cosplays with us. We have cosplayers in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and even in their 70s sending in their photos. Like I said before, it's mind blowing.

Jae: There's a sense of satisfaction that comes from showcasing cosplayers in our age demographic and beyond, of showing the world how awesome cosplayers over 40 truly are.

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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The Losers: Chris Evans, Idris Elba and Zoe Saldana’s Forgotten Superhero Movie

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Even The Losers get lucky sometimes. Before the DCEU was formed to compete against the ever-expanding, cash cow that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the approach at Warner Bros. was far looser. With the booming business of comic book adaptations in full swing, the studio was throwing money at several eclectic comic book titles like Watchmen and Jonah Hex, trying to stay competitive and seemingly more adult than their rivals. Hence before leaving to create his own superhero project, Hancock, wrier-director Peter Berg started penning an adaptation of DC/Vertigo’s The Losers, bringing in French director Sylvain White to helm the picture.

Produced by Joel Silver, The Losers centered on a team of elite, black-ops Special Forces operatives betrayed by their handler. Director White connected with the material immediately.

“What appealed to me about The Losers was that it wasn’t the typical superhero-with-superpowers thing,” White told MTV. “It was based on real characters—realistic characters—and based in reality, like a lot of the European graphic novels that I had grown up reading.” The director worked with creators Jock and Andy Diggle to refine the script and lend their expertise with design to give the film a distinct visual palette that changes with new locations.

Frequent Silver collaborator Idris Elba was cast as Captain William Roque, with the cast being rounded out by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, coming off his turn as The Comedian in the studio’s adaptation of Watchmen, Zoe Saldana, fresh off of starring in the highest-grossing film of all-time, Avatar, Chris Evans, still mainly known for playing the Human Torch in Fox’s early Fantastic Four films, and rising actor Columbus Short. While current audiences would go on to become intimately familiar with most of this cast, their names didn’t generate enough buzz in 2010 to get folks into the theater. The Losers only made about $30 million on a $25 million budget.

Of course a tepid response at the box office does not mean that a movie is destined for obscurity. Just recently hitting Netflix and ready to capitalize off its now A-list cast, The Losers is currently the most popular film on the streaming service. Besides the even greater interest in comic book properties, the cast of The Losers have gone on to such success that they revitalized interest in one of DC’s almost-forgotten adaptations. Let’s look at where the cast of The Losers have been since the film’s release in 2010 to explain the sudden spike in love.

Idris Elba

While Elba, a star of British television via Luther, had already made an impression with American audiences by 2010 thanks to 28 Weeks Later, Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla, and a guest stint on The Office, Elba’s star would rise considerably after his appearance in The Losers. In 2011, Elba would join the MCU as Heimdall in Thor, who’s role in the Thor films would expand as the franchise progressed. Elba would also pop up in prominent roles in blockbusters like Prometheus, Pacific Rim, The Jungle Book, and Star Trek Beyond. Away from blockbusters though he really broke out with a SAG-winning performance in Beasts of No Nations, and starring in fare like Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game.

More recently, Elba stole scenes away from Jason Statham and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the villain in Fast & Furious: Hobbs and Shaw. Finally, things have come a bit full circle for Elba, as he’s set to appear in another DC adaptation over 10 years after The Losers, portraying Bloodsport in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

In 2010, Jeffrey Dean Morgan was probably most well-known for his roles on television in series like Supernatural and Grey’s Anatomy. That all changed after Morgan was cast in an adaptation of the “unfilmable” graphic novel Watchmen as The Comedian. While his time onscreen in the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons adaptation was minimal, bringing such an iconic comic book character to life earned Morgan a deeper cachet with the Comic-Con crowd. Morgan would work steadily in films like The Possession and the Red Dawn remake, but he arguably made a bigger impact on television portraying yet another iconic comic book character on AMC’s The Walking Dead, Negan.

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Morgan received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the villainous Negan upon his debut, earning the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series, MTV Movie and TV Award for Best Villain, and Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television. He’s been going steady as Negan since while doing other occasional comic-con friendly projects like Rampage.

Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana was on top of the world in 2010, and in the time since, she’s only become more successful. After appearing in the buzzy Star Trek reboot in 2009 and a little film called Avatar, the former Center Stage star would go on to headline her own action film Colombiana. However, that would seem like small potatoes compared to what would come in 2014. Saldana was cast as Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel’s riskiest adaptation to date. Would audiences get onboard with an off-beat space opera featuring C-tier Marvel characters? Turns out, yes. Gamora not only became the heart of the Guardians, but the character would feature prominently in the grand Phase 3 finales Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

In the shadow of that, Saldana has starred in more Star Trek sequels, an ill-advised TV remake of Rosemary’s Baby, and as Nina Simone in in Nina, a performance did come under fire for due to the lightness of her skin. Still, Saldana now has leading roles in the two highest grossing films of all-time, and is still expected to star in Guardians and Avatar sequels. Not too shabby.

Chris Evans

Speaking of the MCU, Chris Evans wasn’t floundering in 2010, but he did seem to be stuck in a bit of a rut, typecast as handsome smart alecks prior to The Losers. In fact, his big mainstream break is probably the less than classic spoof comedy, Not Another Teen Movie (2001); afterward he played Johnny Storm in Tim Story’s lukewarm Fantastic Four movies in the mid-2000s; in fact, arguably his most amusing role up to 2010 was when he appeared as a douchebag movie star in Edgar Wright’s genre-bending comedy, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010).

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That said, The Losers found him playing against type as an awkward tech expert. Perhaps his chance to show a different side of himself led to his life-changing role as Steve Rogers in the MCU’s Captain America. Anchoring the Avengers franchise for eight years, Chris Evans rose to the top of the A-list, and used that newfound celebrity to help get passion projects like Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer and Rian Johnson’s Knives Out made. Evans is one of the most popular celebrities on social media right now and looks to continue his profitable relationship with Disney by voicing Buzz Lightyear in the animated origin film, Lightyear.

Columbus Short

Perhaps the only member of the cast not to launch into the stratosphere after The Losers, Columbus Short has had a few issues that have prevented his rise. Short booked a role on the popular ABC series Scandal, but personal issues derailed his involvement in the show. In 2014, as part of a no-jail plea agreement, Short pled guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and performed 30 hours of community service. Short also avoided jail by pleading no contest to a felony assault charge after throwing “a running punch” at his in-law during a family gathering at a bar.

In an interview with Access Hollywood Live, Short shared that substance abuse due to the stress of family issues and personal loss had led to his departure from Scandal. However, Short has appeared to move past his personal struggles and can next been seen portraying Martin Luther King Jr. in Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Storyand returning as Quadir Richards in True to the Game 3.

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The Earth Station One Podcast - Downton Abbey: A New Era Review

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The Earth Station One Podcast - Downton Abbey: A New Era Review

Lights, camera, and action come to Downton Abbey! Mike, Mike, and Ashley discuss the latest big-screen installment of the British melodrama. Plus, the father and son team of the What’s Under the Bed show check out what’s in the Geek Seat. Plus Comic Creator Geoff Nicholson talks about his Kickstarter project Geoff of the Juniors in the Creative Outlet Segment. All this, along with A Geek Girl’s Take, Michelle’s Iconic Rock Moment, and Shout Outs!

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Oliver Stone’s ‘Natural Born Killers’ Is, More than Ever, the Spectacle of Our Time

Yet it has never gained true respectability.

Variety

Owen Gleiberman

“ Works of art that were once radical tend to find their cozy place in the cultural ecosystem. It’s almost funny to think that an audience ever booed “The Rite of Spring,” or that the Sex Pistols shocked people to their souls, or that museum patrons once stood in front of Jackson Pollock’s splatter paintings or Warhol’s soup cans and said, “But is it art?” In 1971, “A Clockwork Orange” was a scandal, but it quickly came to be thought of as a Kubrick classic.

Yet “Natural Born Killers,” a brazenly radical movie when it was first released, on August 26, 1994, has never lost its sting of audacity. It’s still dangerous, crazy-sick, luridly hypnotic, ripped from the id, and visionary. I loved the movie from the moment I saw it. It haunted me for weeks afterward, and over the next few years I saw it over and over again (probably 40 times), obsessed with the experience of it, the terrible lurching beauty of it, the spellbinding truth of it. It’s a film that has never left my system.

I’ve met a number of people who feel the way I do about “Natural Born Killers,” but I’ve also run across a great many people who don’t. The reaction has always been split between those I would call “Natural Born Killers” believers (they included, at the time, such influential critics as Roger Ebert and Stanley Kauffmann) and those who thumb their noses at what they consider to be an over-the-top spectacle of Oliver Stone “indulgence.” At the time of its release, it was said that the film was bombastic, gonzo for its own sake, pretentious as hell, and — of course — too violent. Too flippantly violent. In a way, “Natural Born Killers” was the “Moulin Rouge!” of shotgun-lovers-on-the-lam thrillers. Either you got onto its stylized high wire, its deliberate pornography of operatic overkill, or you thought it was trash.

The divide has never been resolved, and the movie has never gained true respectability. Which I think is a good thing. Some works of art need to remain outside the official system of canonical reverence. But if you go back and watch “Natural Born Killers” today, long after all the ’90s-version-of-film-Twitter chatter about it has faded, what you’ll see (or, at least, what I hope you’ll see) is that the movie summons a unique power that descends from the grandeur of its theme. Far more than, say, “The Matrix,” “Natural Born Killers” was the movie that glimpsed the looking glass we were passing through, the new psycho-metaphysical space we were living inside — the roller-coaster of images and advertisements, of entertainment and illusion, of demons that come up through fantasy and morph into daydreams, of vicarious violence that bleeds into real violence.

I’ve always found “Natural Born Killers” a nearly impossible movie to nail down in writing (it’s like trying to capture what music sounds like). Sure, it’s easy to summarize the tale of Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson), a sloe-eyed drawling psycho in a blond ponytail, and his ragingly damaged bad-apple lover, Mallory (Juliette Lewis), the two of whom go on a killing spree that turns them into celebrities, like Bonnie and Clyde for the age of TMZ.

Yet it’s the moment-to-moment, shot-to-shot texture of the movie that transforms a two-dimensional story into a four-dimensional sensory X-ray. I took my best shot at writing about it in my 2016 memoir, “Movie Freak,” in which I said:

“The tingly audacity of ‘Natural Born Killers,’ and the addictive pleasure of watching it, begins with the perception that Mickey and Mallory experience not just their infamy but every moment of their lives as pop culture. Their lives are poured through the images they carry around in their heads. The two of them enact a heightened version of a world in which identity is increasingly becoming a murky, bundled fusion of true life and media fantasy. It works something like this: You are what you watch, which is what you want to be, which is what you think you are, which is what you really can be (yes, you can!), as long as you…believe.”

What form does this kind of belief take? It’s a word that applies, in equal measure, to the fan-geek hordes at Comic-Con; to the gun geeks who imagine themselves part of a larger “militia”; to the gamers and the dark-web conspiracy junkies; to the people who think that Donald Trump was qualified to be president because he pretended to be an imperious executive on TV. It applies to anyone who experiences the news as the world’s greatest reality show, or to the way that social media is called social media because it’s about people treating every facet of their lives as “media” — as a verité performance. Made just before the rise of the Internet, “Natural Born Killers” captured, and predicted, a society that turns reality itself into a nonstop channel surf, a simulacrum of the life we’re living. One of the film’s most brilliant sequences is a dystopian sitcom, with a vile fulminating Rodney Dangerfield, that depicts Mallory’s hellish home. It’s a dysfunctional nightmare reduced to TV, which is what allows Mallory to murder her way out of it.

“Natural Born Killers” took off from a script by Quentin Tarantino that got drastically rewritten (Tarantino received a story credit), though it provided the basic spine of the film’s evil-hipsters-on-the-run structure and kicky satirical ultraviolence. But there’s a reason that Tarantino didn’t like the finished film; it’s not, in the end, his sensibility. His vision is suffused with irony, whereas Oliver Stone directs “Natural Born Killers” as if he were making a documentary about a homicidal acid trip.

The patchwork of film stocks that Stone employs (black-and-white, glaring color, 8mm, grainy video) turns the movie into a volcanic multimedia dream-poem. And it’s no coincidence that those clashing visual textures are an elaboration of the style that Stone invented for “JFK,” a drama about political reality (the assassination of a president) that gets sucked into the vortex of media reality (the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t mesmerization of the Zapruder film). “Natural Born Killers” pushes that dynamic several steps further, as Mickey and Mallory’s murder spree becomes a hall of mirrors that’s being televised inside their own heads. In 1967, the tagline for “Bonnie and Clyde” was “They’re young. They’re in love. And they kill people.” The tagline for “Natural Born Killers” should have been: “They kill people. So they’ll have something to watch.”

“Natural Born Killers” captures how our parasitical relationship to pop culture can magnify the cycle of violence. Yet that theme may be more dangerous now than it was in 1994. As a liberal who’s a staunch advocate of every gun-control measure conceivable, and would never think to “blame” a mass shooting on a piece of entertainment, I am nevertheless haunted by the possibility that half a century’s worth of insanely violent pop culture has had a collective numbing effect. In “Natural Born Killers,” a psychiatrist, played with diligent dryness by the comedian Steven Wright, gets interviewed on television about Mickey and Mallory, and his analysis is as follows: “Mickey and Mallory know the difference between right and wrong. They just don’t give a damn.”

That, to me, is one of the most resonant lines in all of movies, because what it’s describing now sounds chillingly close to too many of us. Sure, we all say that we care. But if you look at the actions, the judgments, the policies supported by millions of Americans, it seems increasingly clear that we’re turning into a society of people who know the difference between right and wrong, but just don’t give a damn.

Or maybe that’s too dark a thing to say. But the beauty, and brilliance, of “Natural Born Killers,” which draws on and radicalizes a tradition of movies (“Bonnie and Clyde,” “Badlands,” “Taxi Driver”) that deposit the audience directly into the souls of sociopaths, is that the film dares to ask us to ask ourselves what we’re made of. To ask whether we’ve removed life from reality by turning it into a spectacle of nonstop self-projection. To ask whether we’re now watching ourselves to death. “

-- I loved it when I saw it. I saw it once. It scared me. It was too real and too predictive, too foretelling. But brilliant. Scary brilliant. To see the parody of the sitcom is to live your present life, your past life, and realize a subtle and not so subtle horror coursing through our filtered vision every day.

#oliver stone #natural born killers

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Day 1 - July 18, 2019

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | SDCC 2019 Hall H Extended Season 6 Trailer

CAST AND EPs PANEL & INTERVIEWS

1. Films That Rock

MARVEL's AGENTS of SHIELD | Comic Con 2019 Full Panel UNCUT

2. Entertainment Weekly

'Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Cast Joins Us LIVE

'Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Executive Producers Chat LIVE

3. ABC

Live from Comic-Con!

4. TVLine

‘Agents of SHIELD’ Cast Talks Series Ending With Season 7

5. TV Insider

'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Cast & EPs on Sarge's Fate & the Season 6 Finale

6. IGN

Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD Take the Skrull Friendship Challenge Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Jeff Ward

Agents of SHIELD Compatibility Quiz: FitzSimmons vs. YoYoMack - Comic Con 2019

Agents of SHIELD Creators Announce Final Season - Comic Con 2019

Day 2 - July 19, 2019

MARVEL BOOTH | INTERVIEWS

1. Marvel Entertainment

The Cast of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. LIVE in the Marvel Booth at SDCC 2019

2. IMDB

"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Say Farewell to the Marvel Universe At San Diego Comic-Con

3. Comicbook

Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD "Heartbreaking" Series Finale Is Currently Being Filmed

4. MEAWW

SDCC 2019: 'Agents of Shield' showrunners and stars tease the final season | MEAWW

5. Den of Geek

SDCC 2019: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Interview (Loeb, Bell, Chloe, Jeff)

6. BuzzFeed Celeb

The Cast Of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Plays Who's Who

PRESS ROOM | ROUNDTABLE INTERVIEWS

1. Clark Gregg & Ming-Na Wen

AfterBuzz: Ming-Na Wen & Clark Gregg | Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | SDCC 2019

Pure Fandom: SDCC 2019: MING-NA WEN AND CLARK GREGG, AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

The Geekiary: Ming-Na Wen & Clark Gregg - Agents of SHIELD SDCC Press Room

Rama’s Screen: Marvel's 'AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D' Roundtable | Clark Gregg and Ming-Na Wen (Other alternatives for this roundtable: Lisa Steinberg, GMan FromHeck)

MEAWW: SDCC 2019: 'Agents of Shield' showrunners and stars tease the final season | MEAWW

JPThrice: Ming-Na Wen & Clark Gregg Roundtable

The Marvel Report: SDCC 2019 Agents of SHIELD 2019 Interview: Ming-Na Wen and Clark Gregg (Other alternatives for this roundtable: JVS, Whedonopolis Videos)

Nerds and Beyond: Ming Na Wen & Clark Gregg on what fans can expect for the final season at San Diego Comic Con

Beautiful Ballad: BB Exclusive: Clark Gregg & Ming-Na Wen Dish on the Final Season of S.H.I.E.L.D (Other alternative for this roundtable: haydenclaireheroes)

WithAnAccentTV: SDCC 2019: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD - Ming Na Wen & Clark Gregg

2. Chloe Bennet & Jeff Ward

AfterBuzz: Chloe Bennet & Jeff Ward | Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | SDCC 2019

Pure Fandom: SDCC 2019: CHLOE BENNETT AND JEFF WARD, AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

The Geekiary: Jeff Ward & Chloe Bennet - Agents of SHIELD SDCC 2019 Press Room

GMan FromHeck: SDCC 2019: Agents of SHIELD - Jeff Ward And Chloe Bennet (Other alternative for this roundtable: Lisa Steindberg)

GamerHubTv: Agents Of Shield Chloe Bennett & Jeff Ward Interview

The Marvel Report: SDCC 2019 Agents of SHIELD Interview: Chloe Bennet and Jeff Ward (Other alternatives for this roundtable: JVS, Whedonopolis Videos)

Nerds and Beyond: Chloe Bennet & Jeff Ward of "Agents of Shield" opens up about show ending at San Diego Comic Con

Beautiful Ballad: BB Exclusive: Chloe Bennet and Jeff Ward Talks S.H.I.E.L.D at SDCC (Other alternative for this roundtable: haydenclaireheroes)

WithAnAccentTV: SDCC 2019: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD - Chloe Bennet & Jeff Ward

3. Henry Simmons & Natalia Cordova-Buckley

AfterBuzz: Natalia Cordova Buckley & Henry Simmons | Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | SDCC 2019

The Geekiary: Henry Simmons & Natalia Cordova-Buckley - Agents of SHIELD SDCC 2019 Press Room

GMan FromHeck: SDCC 2019: Agents of SHIELD - Henry Simmons and Natalia Cordova-Buckley (Other alternatives for this roundtable: Lisa Steinberg, Rama’s Screen)

GamerHubTv: Henry Simmons & Natalia Cordova Buckley Talk Agents Of Shield

The Marvel Report: SDCC 2019 Agents of SHIELD Interview: Natalia Cordova-Buckley and Henry Simmons (Other alternatives for this roundtable: JVS, Whedonopolis Videos)

Nerds and Beyond: Henry Simmons & Natalia Cordova-Buckley on character developments for next season

Beautiful Ballad: BB Exclusive: Henry Simmons & Natalia Cordova-Buckley Talk Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (Other alternative for this roundtable: haydenclaireheroes)

WithAnAccentTV: SDCC 2019: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD - Natalia Cordova & Henry Simmons

4. Jeffrey Bell & Jeph Loeb

AfterBuzz: Jeffrey Bell & Jeph Loeb Try to Up Their Game Every Season | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | SDCC 2019

Pure Fandom: SDCC 2019: JEFFREY BELL AND JEPH LOEB, AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

The Geekiary: Jeff Bell & Jeph Loeb - Agents of SHIELD SDCC 2019 Press Room

GamerHubTv: SDCC 2019 – Agents Of Shield Jeff Loeb & Jeffrey Bell Interview

The Marvel Report: SDCC 2019 Agents of SHIELD Interview:Jeph Loeb and Jeff Bell (Other alternatives for this roundtable: JVS, Whedonopolis Videos)

Beautiful Ballad: BB Exclusive: Jeph Loeb & Jeffrey Bell Chat Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. At San Diego Comic Con (Other alternative for this roundtable: haydenclaireheroes)

WithAnAccentTV: SDCC 2019: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD - Jeff Bell & Jeph Loeb

CAST PHOTOS & PORTRAITS

Far, Far Away Site Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Cast Hi Res Photos

Y'all! We've been blessed with so much AOS content this weekend that it was kinda hard to keep up with all the stuff that's going on. So I thought I'd make a masterpost. Will update this to add more when/if more interviews come out. Please let me know if I missed anything.

#sdcc2019 #agents of shield #agents of s.h.i.e.l.d.#clark gregg #ming-na wen #chloe bennet #elizabeth henstridge #iain de caestecker #jeff ward #henry simmons #natalia cordova buckley #philinda #fitzsimmons #mackelena #mine #tbh:aos #tbh: og post

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