Author: Bert Ehrmann
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Mondo Ming the Merciless Painting Process
Here’s a really cool step-by-step process on artist Jason Edmiston’s painting of Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon for a recent show. If you’re interested, the painting can be yours for a cool $6,500.
Stunt Rock Set to Air on TCM 3/31
Stunt Rock, an early 1980s movie about a stuntman who hooks up with a rock band for some seriously crazy action, is set to air on TCM early Saturday morning (3/31) at 2am. It’s directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith whom I have an affinity for who also directed two other fun films Turkey Shoot and The Siege of Firebase Gloria.
I’m still looking to get a copy of another of Smith’s films Death Cheaters but haven’t ever been able to.
The Walking Dead: Zombie Plot Device
I was, is and am a big proponent of the TV series The Walking Dead. I championed the show when it was first announced and couldn’t believe that one of my favorite writer/directors Frank Darabont was the one who was heading up the series. And, after the stunning first season of The Walking Dead I became even more fanatical about the show and counted the days until the start of the second.
And even with the second season, after Darabont was unceremoniously dumped from the show and The Walking Dead shifted gears from instead focusing on a group of people on the run from a zombie apocalypse to instead a group of people holed-up on a farm trying to wait out said apocalypse I still was, and am, a fan of the show.
But I have to admit that I feel like after the start of the second half of the second season of the show I started liking The Walking Dead less and less with each viewing. And I’d have to guess the reason for this is because of that farm.
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Acorn Media Cashing In on British Revivals
“They are, quite frankly, a bit different from a number of other home video distributors,” he said by phone. Unlike other companies, which are focused on selling blockbuster titles at ever-lower margins in big-box retailers, Acorn has a business model in which “they identify a set audience, develop a relationship with that audience and develop a portfolio that’s going to work with that audience,” Mr. Randisi said, allowing the company to steer customers to new purchases with relatively little marketing.
via Acorn Media Cashing In on British Revivals – NYTimes.com.