The LA Film Festival closed this week so Linked in Hollywood thought we do a quick re-cap of some the events. Also, Marvels next movie Guardian of the Galaxy is set to come out in 2014. Who are the new superheros for this film? Plus, as Hollywood says goodbye to Nora Ephron we celebrate her achievements, with a look at her work and those who knew her.
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By Comic Relief
As witnessed on the web, when Andrew Garfield was cast in director Mark Web’s reboot of the Amazing Spiderman, many film enthusiasts breathed a sigh of relief. Without getting into the messy details that ended the previous Sam Rami/Toby Maguire helmed series, the doubts of comic fans were very high. This is actor Andrew Garfield expressing his misgivings [1]; Continue reading
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If you were a huge comics culture enthusiast or superhero character fanboy you can’t help but wonder why DC has no ability to compete with Marvel. There are sites on the web that spend 24/7 arguing about this issue. This article attempts to speculate about what barriers stand in the way of action/adventure competitive DC comics. Yet we first need to make a detour in entertainment genres.
Unfortunately we do not do not discuss sports enough at LIH, so parts of the next presentation may seem a little jarring. But please be patient with the introduction, you need some set up to adapt to the questions that this article is asking.
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The Avengers Trailer has arrived. Enjoy!
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By Lurker
Since it’s past the ‘official’ end of Summer2011, we wanted to take a look over the box office results and see how our comic book hero’s stacked up this year. With 547 movies in release so far for 2011, the subject matter is all over the spectrum, therefore, we’ll be very selective in the movies we analyze. To get us started let’s just take a quick peek at the overall box office trends.
Our favorite go-to site The Numbers [1] has some interesting stats for 2011. No surprises here as the downward trend holds up.
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