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MAY 2 |
The RUMOR is Spreading!
Do you live in the Permian Basin area of West Texas (Odessa, Midland)?
Today, May 2nd - Odessa First Fridays Downtown event: Book Signing at Ye Old BookWorm at 7pm.
May 10th: Book signing at Barnes & Noble in Midland, Texas, TBA
If everyone sells out before you can buy a copy?
RUMOR is also available on Kindle, so if you buy it online you can get your photo taken with the author while you ... hold your Kindle, I guess.
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THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS Turns 64
In 1961 it was the worst movie ever released in the U.S.A.!
But that's a highly competitive field and it lost that emblem a long time ago. Never-the-less, this movie once occupied such a lowly perch and reviewer Kelly Parks forced himself to watch THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS out of sheer masochism.
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Like It Or Not, May Is Marvel Month So Let's Get To It:
X-MEN 2 is 22
A quarter Century ago, New Line Cinema's BLADE opened the door for Marvel movies. When it did, Columbia Pictures stopped sitting on their hands and finally committed to their SPIDER-MAN property. To top Sony's Columbia, 20th Century Fox finally roused from their moribund business model: their decade plus of fence sitting on their X-MEN property, and tried to shove as many X-Men through that doorway as possible. Columbia has one Marvel Superhero, we've got a whole school of them!
The first X-MEN, in 2000, led by a cast of TV show and character actors, was a surprising smash hit. Let's make that sequel!
Holy shit! Columbia Picture's much delayed SPIDER-MAN (2002) is a smash! Sony is rushing forward on the sequel!
Will director and co-writer Bryan Singer make lightning strike twice with X-MEN 2?
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IRON MAN Turns 17
By many accounts, Universal Pictures and the producers who owned Marvel's HULK franchise, didn't stand by Marvel icon Stan Lee and his Marvel Comics Universe.
They went their own, non-Stan Lee way with HULK, Stan wished them well, and the movie crashed and burned to ash.
This is how Stan actually turned Universal's loss to his gain and used it as a launch pad for his MCU, with two Marvel movies released within months of each other, starting with IRON MAN!
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Writer Angeline Hawkes (THE COMMANDMENTS, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, THE SWAN ROAD, BLOOD ALONE, INFERNO: TALES OF HELL AND HORROR) is 54.
Visit her at Angeline Hawkes.com.
Actor, Producer Dwayne Johnson (THE MUMMY RETURNS, THE SCORPION KING, DOOM, RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN, RAMPAGE, BLACK ADAM) is 53.
Look for Dwayne in the upcoming 2024, 2025 Horror Thriller,
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.
Actor Ari Lehman (FRIDAY THE 13th [1980], THANXGIVING, HELL-EPHONE, TERROR OVERLOAD, THE GIRL [2011], HOUSE OF FORBIDDEN SECRETS, EASTER SUNDAY, DEATHWOODS, CHEERLEADER CAMP: TO THE DEATH, BITE SCHOOL, THE BARN, PI DAY DIE DAY, CAMP KILLER, TERROR TALES, SCARRED, SILK SCREAM, LEAF BLOWER MASSACRE 2, CLOWN MOTEL: SPIRITS ARISE, THE LURKER, EASTER HOLOCAUST, CARNAL MONSTERS, SLUTTY THE CLOWN, APPETITE FOR SIN, THE DEMENTED, THE BLACK BOOK, CLOWN MOTEL 2) is 60.
Writer Stephen Mark Rainey (DARK SHADOWS, FUGUE DEVIL, THE LAST TRUMPET, BALAK, LEGENDS OF THE NIGHT, OTHER GODS, THE LEBO COVEN, THE GODS OF MOAB, BLUE DEVIL ISLAND, THE NIGHTMARE FRONTIER, THE MONARCHS, AMERI-SCARES WEST VIRGINIA: LAIR OF THE MOTHMAN) is 66.
Visit him at Stephen Mark Rainey.com.
Actor David Suchet (REILLY: ACE OF SPIES [TV], THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, Agatha Christie's THIRTEEN AT DINNER [TV], Agatha Christie: POIROT [TV], DEADLY VOYAGE [TV], A PERFECT MURDER, DRACULA [2006 - TV], AMERICAN ASSASSIN, HIS DARK MATERIALS [TV]) is 77.
Actor Alicia Ziegler (LAKE PLACID 2, WOLF TOWN, RISE OF THE DINOSAURS, DEADLY REVENGE, HIDE AND GO SEEK, THE EX NEXT DOOR, ROMEO AND JULIET KILLERS, ECHO BASE) is 44.
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MAY 1 |
The RUMOR is Spreading!
Do you live in the Permian Basin area of West Texas (Odessa, Midland)?
Today, Thursday, May 1st, 5:00PM at the Ector Public Library. Be among the first to buy an autographed copy of E.C. McMullen Jr.'s first novel, RUMOR. First come first served and when they're gone, they're gone.
May 2nd - Odessa First Fridays Downtown event: Book Signing at Ye Old BookWorm at 7pm.
May 10th: Book signing at Barnes & Noble in Midland, Texas, TBA
If everyone sells out before you can buy a copy?
RUMOR is also available on Kindle, so if you buy it online you can get your photo taken with the author while you ... hold your Kindle, I guess.
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FRIDAY THE 13th Part 2 Turns 44
It was meant to be nothing more than an "also ran". Producer Sean S. Cunningham had the poster before he had the script. In fact before he was sure what the story was going to be. All he knew is that he wanted to copy John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, which meant a mysterious maniac hacking barely legal kids.
Except John Carpenter's movie was practically a sequel of Bob Clark's BLACK CHRISTMAS.
Would a copy of a copy work? It's not as sharp as... well... the original.*
Though Cunningham had the low budget of Clark and Carpenter's indie slashers, he also had something the other two directors didn't have: the big studio clout of Paramount Pictures. And that, kiddies, is part of the reason that we still have FRIDAY THE 13th Part 2, today.
*Michael Keaton in Multiplicity.
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X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE is 16
To the suits at 20th Century Fox's utter surprise, the first X-MEN was a far bigger hit than they anticipated. Then X2 was a bigger hit than that. Well if there was one thing 20th Century Fox despised in the 1990s and early 2000s it was producers, writers, and directors increasing their value (and so their paycheck) in the world with Fox properties.
Fox soon made things unbearable for their hit director so he left, leaving a hole that Fox suits at that time didn't know how to fill and didn't care. We saw this contemptable lack of care throughout the young millennium's Golden Age of Marvel movies. Everyone from Disney to Columbia Pictures figured out how to make a winning Marvel movie. Only 20th Century Fox threw themselves off of a cliff, nearly every single time they made one.
X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE was no exception.
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Actor Julie Benz (DUE OCCHI DIABOLICI aka TWO EVIL EYES, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV], BAD GIRLS FROM VALLEY HIGH, SATAN'S
SCHOOL FOR GIRLS [TV], ANGEL [TV], SHRIEK IF YOU KNOW WHAT I DID LAST FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH, TAKEN [TV], HALO 2 [Game], A FATE TOTALLY WORSE THAN DEATH, 8MM2, SAW V, DEXTER [TV], PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, HELD HOSTAGE, ANSWERS TO NOTHING, A GIFTED MAN [TV], DEFIANCE [TV], CIRCLE, HAVENHURST, V.C. Andrews' HEAVEN, FOSTER BOY, NOCTURNE) is 52.
Actor Ariel Gade (DARK WATER [2005], INVASION [TV], AVP:R, METEOR [TV], SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE, THE EX NEXT DOOR) is 27.
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