The Golden Globes Are a Golden Opportunity – For Big Banks
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following press release was issued by Merchants Payments Coalition:
Movie ticket sales rebounded in 2015, up 7 percent to $11 billion, according to the Box Office Mojo website. But it’s not the theaters raking in the biggest profit margins: It’s the banks.
Every time you swipe a debit or credit card to buy a ticket, your bank lops off a big chunk of the price for itself for processing the transaction. The banks inflate these “swipe fees” every year even as their costs drop. The profit margins are so high that few industries can match them: 500 percent for debit cards, according to the banks’ own figures, and as much as 10,000 percent for credit cards.
Say you buy tickets for a family of five at the average of around $8 each. Use a credit card to pay the $40, and as much as 4 percent -- $1.60 – goes directly to the bank that issued your credit card. That’s a big profit on a transaction that costs the bank only a few pennies.
And these swipe fees add hundreds of dollars every year to the cost of everything you buy, from gas to groceries – even if you don’t use a card. That, of course, hurts the poorest consumers the most.
At 4 percent, the banks could have made as much as $30 million on the top-grossing film of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which took in $750 million before the end of the year.
Even a relatively modest hit like Mad Max: Fury Road, nominated for a Golden Globe – the award ceremony is Sunday – represents a handsome profit for the banks. It took in $154 million (Number 20 in ticket sales last year), which at 4 percent would yield $6 million in swipe fees.
Two giant companies – Visa and MasterCard – dominate the swipe-fee market and price-fix fees without competition in order to lure banks to their brands. Swipe fees are merchants’ fastest-growing costs and are the second-largest operating cost for many, after only labor.
Bad for consumers, bad for merchants, bad for the economy – it’s time to make these fees more fair.
The Merchants Payments Coalition represents retailers, restaurants and other businesses fighting against unfair credit card fees and for a more competitive and transparent system fair for consumers and merchants alike.
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Saturday, January 9, 2016
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from January 1st to 9th, 2016 - Update #47
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NEWS:
From YahooMovies: The site offers their Golden Globe predictions. Ceremony is on Sunday night, Jan. 10th.
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From YahooMovies: Thanks to the boffo box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Harrison Ford is now the top grossing actor in domestic box office history with his films grossing $4.699 billion. He pasted Samuel L. Jackson who films have grossed $4.626 million in domestic box office.
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From TheWrap: 2016 BAFTA nominations (for films released in 2015) have been announced, with Todd Haynes' "Carol" and Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" leading with nine nominations each.
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From TheWrap: "Game of Throne" Season Six premiere date has been set, April 24, 2016.
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From BleedingCool: Guillermo del Toro is planning to remake the 1966 sci-fi film, Fantastic Voyage. Sounds like the del Toro golden age is over.
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From EW: M. Night Shyamalan to reboot "Tales from the Crypt" for TNT.
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From Variety: Universal Pictures wants to shoot at least some of "Fast and Furious 8" in Cuba.
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From YahooSports: Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza are elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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From LatinoReview: Photos from "The Conjuring 2" and word that a teaser trailer drops Jan. 7th.
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From SlashFilm: First "Star War: Rogue One" rumors roll out, including character names and bit-part actors.
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From YahooMusic: Steely Dan frontman, Donald Fagen, in trouble for assaulting his wife.
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From People: The Olsen twins just to busy for "Fuller House," man!
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From WeGotThisCovered: Guillermo del Toro preps "Trollhunters" and a "Voltron" reboot for DreamWorks and Netflix.
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From DarkHorizons: Sylvester Stallone has retired Rambo, but will bring Rocky back for "Creed 2."
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From DarkHorizons: Sylvain Chomet announced that he has begun production on his next animated feature, "A Thousand Miles." He is an Oscar nominee for his previous animated films, "The Triplets of Bellville" and "The Illusionist."
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From TheWrap: Michael Bay confirms that he will direct "Transformers 5," which will be his last one.
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From BoxOfficeMojo: Disney is estimating that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has made $88.3 million for the 1/1 to 1/3/2016 weekend box office. This would make the Star Wars sequel the winner of the first weekend box office of 2016.
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From YahooBeauty: Dakota Johnson blasts Hollywood ageism, which affects her mother, Melanie Griffith, and grandmother, Tippi Hedren.
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From TheWrap: Raiders of the lost Gene Roddenberry floppy drive data.
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From EW: A crew member died from injuries sustained while making "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter."
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From YahooSports: Lakers may retire both of Kobe Bryant's numbers, #8 and #24.
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From TheVillageVoice: Quentin Tarantino on Quentin Tarantino.
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From BleedingCool: As Neil Gaiman said, "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch."
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From Vulture: Beyonce is apparently working on the kind of movie that might attract Oscar notice.
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From YahooMovies: 40 movies in 2016 that excite the "Yahoo Movies" staff.
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From Esquire: 6 degress from Iran-Contra to Peyton Manning.
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From YahooNews: Bill Cosby commits a Twitter fail.
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From TheWrap: Five theories about Steven Avery's innocence in "Making a Murderer."
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From TheWrap: First photo of former NBA star Lamar Odom since his October 2015 overdose.
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From ThePlaylist: "Alien: Covenant" set 10 years after "Prometheus."
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From Variety: The U.S. Postal Service will release "Star Trek" postage stamps to celebrate the series 50th anniversary.
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From YahooNews: Disney plots a return of Indiana Jones.
NON-POP NEWS:
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar offers some New Year's resolutions for America.
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From YahooNews: A NYPD officer is stripped of her badge and gun in relation to the choking death of Eric Garner. But it is a Black female officer...
From Jacobin: Why we shouldn't demand police violence against the Oregon militia/racists/gunmen.
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From RSN: Michael Moore tells Donald Trump "We are all Muslims."
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From BuzzFlash: Return of the Chicken Hawks.
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From YahooNews: Cartoon by Carlos Latuff sums up double standard used to excuse white violence - Re: Tamir Rice.
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From YahooNews: Cliven Bundy's son occupy federal building. Will their fate be better than Tamir Rice's?
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From RSN: California's tech-hungry cities go after the homeless and poor.
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From TheDailyBeast: Bill Cosby, Tamir Rice, and the power of the prosecutor.
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From the WashPost: 2015 will go down as one of the safest years for police officers. On-the job deaths down 14 percent from 2014. One-third of those were due to traffic accidents.
COMICS - Books and Movies:
From THR: Apparently, "Titans," the proposed TNT series based on the Teen Titans comic books, is not going to happen.
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From THR: 5 comic book creators to watch out for in 2016.
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From THR: Top 10 best selling comics of 2015 - by estimates - which Marvel Comics dominates.
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From THR: 6 comics to look out for in 2016.
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From ShonenJumpBlog: Naruto's son, Boruto, will be back in new manga starting Spring 2016 and it will run simultaneously in Shonen Jump in Japan and the U.S.
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From ComicBookBin: The CBB newsletter is back!
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From ComicBookBin: There is a reader survey for the hot comic strip, Johnny Bullet.
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From YahooNews: The runtime for Deadpool may be 1 hour and 46 minutes.
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From YahooNews: Olivia Munn shares set photo from "X-Men: Apocalypse."
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From Moviefone: Kevin Feige announces Ryan Coogler officially as the director of their "Black Panther" movie.
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From YahooNews: A peek inside the new Batcave.
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From MangaBlog: Best and worst in manga of 2015.
OBITS:
From Variety: The cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmos, has died at the age of 85 (Fri., Jan. 1st, 2016). He won an Oscar for shooting "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." He was nominated three other times, most recently for "The Black Dahlia" (2006), which was a terrible movie. He also shot "Deliverance" and "Blow Out."
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From THR: The singer-songwriter Natalie Cole has died at the age of 65 (Thurs., Dec. 31st., 2015). The Grammy Award-winning singer and recording artist was the daughter of the late singing legend, Nat "King" Cole.
From People: Producer David Foster remembers Natalie Cole.
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From Variety: The actor Wayne Rogers has died at the age of 83 (Thursday, Dec. 31st, 2015). He is best known for playing "Trapper" John McIntyre during the first three seasons of "M.A.S.H."
NEWS:
From YahooMovies: The site offers their Golden Globe predictions. Ceremony is on Sunday night, Jan. 10th.
---------------
From YahooMovies: Thanks to the boffo box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Harrison Ford is now the top grossing actor in domestic box office history with his films grossing $4.699 billion. He pasted Samuel L. Jackson who films have grossed $4.626 million in domestic box office.
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From TheWrap: 2016 BAFTA nominations (for films released in 2015) have been announced, with Todd Haynes' "Carol" and Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" leading with nine nominations each.
---------------
From TheWrap: "Game of Throne" Season Six premiere date has been set, April 24, 2016.
---------------
From BleedingCool: Guillermo del Toro is planning to remake the 1966 sci-fi film, Fantastic Voyage. Sounds like the del Toro golden age is over.
---------------
From EW: M. Night Shyamalan to reboot "Tales from the Crypt" for TNT.
---------------
From Variety: Universal Pictures wants to shoot at least some of "Fast and Furious 8" in Cuba.
---------------
From YahooSports: Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza are elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
---------------
From LatinoReview: Photos from "The Conjuring 2" and word that a teaser trailer drops Jan. 7th.
---------------
From SlashFilm: First "Star War: Rogue One" rumors roll out, including character names and bit-part actors.
---------------
From YahooMusic: Steely Dan frontman, Donald Fagen, in trouble for assaulting his wife.
---------------
From People: The Olsen twins just to busy for "Fuller House," man!
---------------
From WeGotThisCovered: Guillermo del Toro preps "Trollhunters" and a "Voltron" reboot for DreamWorks and Netflix.
---------------
From DarkHorizons: Sylvester Stallone has retired Rambo, but will bring Rocky back for "Creed 2."
---------------
From DarkHorizons: Sylvain Chomet announced that he has begun production on his next animated feature, "A Thousand Miles." He is an Oscar nominee for his previous animated films, "The Triplets of Bellville" and "The Illusionist."
---------------
From TheWrap: Michael Bay confirms that he will direct "Transformers 5," which will be his last one.
---------------
From BoxOfficeMojo: Disney is estimating that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has made $88.3 million for the 1/1 to 1/3/2016 weekend box office. This would make the Star Wars sequel the winner of the first weekend box office of 2016.
---------------
From YahooBeauty: Dakota Johnson blasts Hollywood ageism, which affects her mother, Melanie Griffith, and grandmother, Tippi Hedren.
---------------
From TheWrap: Raiders of the lost Gene Roddenberry floppy drive data.
---------------
From EW: A crew member died from injuries sustained while making "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter."
---------------
From YahooSports: Lakers may retire both of Kobe Bryant's numbers, #8 and #24.
---------------
From TheVillageVoice: Quentin Tarantino on Quentin Tarantino.
---------------
From BleedingCool: As Neil Gaiman said, "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch."
---------------
From Vulture: Beyonce is apparently working on the kind of movie that might attract Oscar notice.
---------------
From YahooMovies: 40 movies in 2016 that excite the "Yahoo Movies" staff.
---------------
From Esquire: 6 degress from Iran-Contra to Peyton Manning.
---------------
From YahooNews: Bill Cosby commits a Twitter fail.
---------------
From TheWrap: Five theories about Steven Avery's innocence in "Making a Murderer."
---------------
From TheWrap: First photo of former NBA star Lamar Odom since his October 2015 overdose.
---------------
From ThePlaylist: "Alien: Covenant" set 10 years after "Prometheus."
---------------
From Variety: The U.S. Postal Service will release "Star Trek" postage stamps to celebrate the series 50th anniversary.
---------------
From YahooNews: Disney plots a return of Indiana Jones.
NON-POP NEWS:
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar offers some New Year's resolutions for America.
---------------
From YahooNews: A NYPD officer is stripped of her badge and gun in relation to the choking death of Eric Garner. But it is a Black female officer...
From Jacobin: Why we shouldn't demand police violence against the Oregon militia/racists/gunmen.
---------------
From RSN: Michael Moore tells Donald Trump "We are all Muslims."
---------------
From BuzzFlash: Return of the Chicken Hawks.
---------------
From YahooNews: Cartoon by Carlos Latuff sums up double standard used to excuse white violence - Re: Tamir Rice.
---------------
From YahooNews: Cliven Bundy's son occupy federal building. Will their fate be better than Tamir Rice's?
---------------
From RSN: California's tech-hungry cities go after the homeless and poor.
---------------
From TheDailyBeast: Bill Cosby, Tamir Rice, and the power of the prosecutor.
---------------
From the WashPost: 2015 will go down as one of the safest years for police officers. On-the job deaths down 14 percent from 2014. One-third of those were due to traffic accidents.
COMICS - Books and Movies:
From THR: Apparently, "Titans," the proposed TNT series based on the Teen Titans comic books, is not going to happen.
---------------
From THR: 5 comic book creators to watch out for in 2016.
---------------
From THR: Top 10 best selling comics of 2015 - by estimates - which Marvel Comics dominates.
---------------
From THR: 6 comics to look out for in 2016.
---------------
From ShonenJumpBlog: Naruto's son, Boruto, will be back in new manga starting Spring 2016 and it will run simultaneously in Shonen Jump in Japan and the U.S.
---------------
From ComicBookBin: The CBB newsletter is back!
---------------
From ComicBookBin: There is a reader survey for the hot comic strip, Johnny Bullet.
---------------
From YahooNews: The runtime for Deadpool may be 1 hour and 46 minutes.
---------------
From YahooNews: Olivia Munn shares set photo from "X-Men: Apocalypse."
---------------
From Moviefone: Kevin Feige announces Ryan Coogler officially as the director of their "Black Panther" movie.
---------------
From YahooNews: A peek inside the new Batcave.
---------------
From MangaBlog: Best and worst in manga of 2015.
OBITS:
From Variety: The cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmos, has died at the age of 85 (Fri., Jan. 1st, 2016). He won an Oscar for shooting "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." He was nominated three other times, most recently for "The Black Dahlia" (2006), which was a terrible movie. He also shot "Deliverance" and "Blow Out."
---------------
From THR: The singer-songwriter Natalie Cole has died at the age of 65 (Thurs., Dec. 31st., 2015). The Grammy Award-winning singer and recording artist was the daughter of the late singing legend, Nat "King" Cole.
From People: Producer David Foster remembers Natalie Cole.
---------------
From Variety: The actor Wayne Rogers has died at the age of 83 (Thursday, Dec. 31st, 2015). He is best known for playing "Trapper" John McIntyre during the first three seasons of "M.A.S.H."
Friday, January 8, 2016
Dark Horse Announces "Shinji Ikari Raising Project" Omnibus
The most popular Evangelion spinoff ever
MILWAUKIE, OR—Following the major success of previous manga omnibus editions, Dark Horse will deliver a new collected format of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project in summer 2016.
The famous final episode of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime TV show imagined the show’s main characters in an alternate world where friendship and romance could be as important as their task to pilot the Evangelion. That premise forms the story line of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project.
Stunning, hotheaded Asuka Langley Soryu has been friends with Shinji Ikari since they were little. And she always sort of assumed they’d stay together—until the day the beautiful, brilliant Rei Ayanami showed up in class! When Shinji starts to get curious about Rei, Asuka needs to figure out if she wants to be just friends with Shinji, or something more. But why are so many people keeping an eye on these relationships—people like homeroom teacher Misato, school nurse Ritsuko, and Shinji’s mother—NERV’s chief scientist, Yui Ikari . . . ?
Perhaps the most famous anime and manga franchise of the last 20 years, Evangelion celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2015, and a new movie is coming soon!
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Omnibus Volume 1 (978-1-61655-970-0) is in stores August 10, 2016.
Also available:
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Volumes 1 - 15
Comign Soon:
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Volume 16 TPB (978-1-61655-997-7) | 6/1/2016
About Dark Horse Comics
Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent, such as Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Geof Darrow, Brian Wood, Gail Simone, Stan Sakai, and Guillermo del Toro, and comics legends, such as Will Eisner, Milo Manara, Kazuo Koike, Neil Gaiman, and Frank Miller, Dark Horse has developed its own successful properties, such as The Mask, Ghost, X, and Barb Wire. Its successful line of comics, manga, and products based on popular properties includes Dragon Age, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, Tomb Raider, Halo, The Witcher, Serenity, Game of Thrones, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading entertainment publishers.
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2016 USC Libraries Scripter Award Nominations Announced
28th annual Scripter Award ceremony has a TV twist
For the first time, this year’s event honoring adaptations of the written word includes episodic television writing
The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 28th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Since 1988, the annual ceremony has honored the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories. This year, for the first time, Scripter will honor excellence in adaptation of the printed word into a television episode in addition to a feature film. The television and film finalists compete in separate categories for their own Scripter.
The finalist writers for film are in alphabetical order by film title:
Screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph for The Big Short, adapted from Michael Lewis’ nonfiction work The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Novelist Colm Tóibín and screenwriter Nick Hornby for Brooklyn
Screenwriter Donald Margulies for The End of the Tour, adapted from David Lipsky’s memoir “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace”
Novelist Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard for The Martian
Emma Donoghue for the novel and screenplay of Room
The finalist writers for television episodes are in alphabetical order by series title:
Screenwriters David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for the episode “Hardhome” from Game of Thrones, adapted from the fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R. R. Martin
Damon Lindelof and Jacqueline Hoyt for the episode “Axis Mundi” from The Leftovers, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta
Frank Spotnitz for the episode “The New World” from The Man in the High Castle, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick
Michelle Ashford for the episode “Full Ten Count” from Masters of Sex, based on the biography by Thomas Maier, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Screenwriters William F. Zorzi and David Simon for the miniseries Show Me a Hero, based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin
Chaired by Howard Rodman, USC professor and president of the Writers Guild of America, West, the 2016 Scripter selection committee selected the finalists from a field of 73 film and 18 television adaptations.
Serving on the selection committee, among many others, are film critics Leonard Maltin, Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan; authors Michael Chabon, Michael Ondaatje and Mona Simpson; screenwriters Graham Moore, John Ridley and Erin Cressida Wilson; producers Gale Anne Hurd and Suzanne Todd; and USC deans Elizabeth Daley of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Catherine Quinlan of the USC Libraries.
The USC Libraries will announce the winning authors and screenwriters at a black-tie ceremony on Feb. 20, 2016, in the Doheny Memorial Library. Academy Award winners Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford will serve as honorary dinner chairs.
For more information about the Scripter — including ticket availability, additional sponsorship opportunities and a list of sponsors — email scripter@usc.edu or visit scripter.usc.edu.
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For the first time, this year’s event honoring adaptations of the written word includes episodic television writing
The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 28th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Since 1988, the annual ceremony has honored the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories. This year, for the first time, Scripter will honor excellence in adaptation of the printed word into a television episode in addition to a feature film. The television and film finalists compete in separate categories for their own Scripter.
The finalist writers for film are in alphabetical order by film title:
Screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph for The Big Short, adapted from Michael Lewis’ nonfiction work The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Novelist Colm Tóibín and screenwriter Nick Hornby for Brooklyn
Screenwriter Donald Margulies for The End of the Tour, adapted from David Lipsky’s memoir “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace”
Novelist Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard for The Martian
Emma Donoghue for the novel and screenplay of Room
The finalist writers for television episodes are in alphabetical order by series title:
Screenwriters David Benioff and D.B. Weiss for the episode “Hardhome” from Game of Thrones, adapted from the fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R. R. Martin
Damon Lindelof and Jacqueline Hoyt for the episode “Axis Mundi” from The Leftovers, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta
Frank Spotnitz for the episode “The New World” from The Man in the High Castle, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick
Michelle Ashford for the episode “Full Ten Count” from Masters of Sex, based on the biography by Thomas Maier, Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Screenwriters William F. Zorzi and David Simon for the miniseries Show Me a Hero, based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin
Chaired by Howard Rodman, USC professor and president of the Writers Guild of America, West, the 2016 Scripter selection committee selected the finalists from a field of 73 film and 18 television adaptations.
Serving on the selection committee, among many others, are film critics Leonard Maltin, Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan; authors Michael Chabon, Michael Ondaatje and Mona Simpson; screenwriters Graham Moore, John Ridley and Erin Cressida Wilson; producers Gale Anne Hurd and Suzanne Todd; and USC deans Elizabeth Daley of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Catherine Quinlan of the USC Libraries.
The USC Libraries will announce the winning authors and screenwriters at a black-tie ceremony on Feb. 20, 2016, in the Doheny Memorial Library. Academy Award winners Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford will serve as honorary dinner chairs.
For more information about the Scripter — including ticket availability, additional sponsorship opportunities and a list of sponsors — email scripter@usc.edu or visit scripter.usc.edu.
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Nomination Voting for 88th Oscars Ends Today, Jan. 8th, 2016
OSCARS NOMINATIONS VOTING ENDS FRIDAY, JANUARY 8
Nominations voting for the 88th Oscars® will close on Friday, January 8, at 5 p.m. PT.
The votes will be tabulated and verified by the international accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The 88th Oscars Nominations Announcement will be broadcast live on Thursday, January 14, 2016 from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2015 will be presented on Oscar® Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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Nominations voting for the 88th Oscars® will close on Friday, January 8, at 5 p.m. PT.
The votes will be tabulated and verified by the international accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The 88th Oscars Nominations Announcement will be broadcast live on Thursday, January 14, 2016 from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2015 will be presented on Oscar® Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscars will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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Thursday, January 7, 2016
Image Comics Celebrates "Criminal" 10th Anniversary
A special stand-alone with magazine-sized edition
The Eisner Award-winning team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (THE FADE OUT, FATALE, Sleeper) will release a brand-new 64-page one-shot of their acclaimed noir series CRIMINAL in April 2016.
It's been ten years since CRIMINAL launched and to celebrate, Brubaker and Phillips, with acclaimed color artist Elizabeth Breitweiser, are bringing us their darkest and strangest tale yet: a twisted ‘70s noir about a father and son on the run.
“Teeg and Tracy Lawless are our most popular characters, so I knew this Anniversary Special had to showcase their early days,” said Brubaker. “A big part of Criminal is finding new ways into noir stories, and this time we get to see it all from the point of view of a 12-year-old kid forced to help his father, who is a career thief and murderer.”
Known for its creative experimentation, this novella-length CRIMINAL story features a comic-within-the-comic, a bizarre ‘70s-era KUNG FU magazine starring a werewolf.
"Once again I get to try out a new style, after the cartooning of The Last Of The Innocent, and the sword and sorcery of last year's Savage Sword of Criminal,” said Phillips. “This time I get to figure out how to draw a kung-fu werewolf without him looking too silly. Let's hope I can pull it off! Even if I can't, it's great to be back in the Criminal universe again, it's like we've never been away."
This 10th Anniversary Special also comes in a magazine-sized variant featuring the star of the comic-within-the-comic—a perfect companion to last year's SAVAGE SWORD OF CRIMINAL magazine-sized variant.
CRIMINAL: 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (Diamond code: NOV158430) hits stores Wednesday, April 13th, 2016. CRIMINAL: 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, DEADLY EDITION: MAGAZINE-SIZE VARIANT (Diamond code: NOV158431) will also be available on Wednesday, April 13th. Final order cutoff deadline for retailers is Monday, March 21st.
ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
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Dark Horse Announces Omnibus Editions of CLAMP's "RG Veda"
CLAMP’s epic professional debut
MILWAUKIE, OR—The breakout manga that put CLAMP on the map will be released by Dark Horse in summer 2016.
With over 600 pages, this is the first book in a three-volume omnibus edition that collects the entire RG Veda story with full-color pages, high-quality paper, and a larger print format.
RG Veda (pronounced “Rig Veda”) is based on a classic Indian saga. The lush, sprawling epic follows Yasha, once a mighty warrior king but now the lord of a slaughtered people he could not save. Yasha journeys the land as the companion and protector of the genderless Ashura, although he knows Ashura’s fate is interwoven with doom for many. Together they seek the other four of the “Six Stars,” whose prophesied gathering will at last defeat Taishakuten, the evil usurper of heaven’s throne. But all prophecies are open to interpretation . . .
RG Veda Omnibus Volume 1 (978-1-61655-988-5) is in stores August 3, 2016.
About CLAMP
CLAMP takes its name from the farmer's term for a heap of potatoes, reflecting their origin as a self-publishing collective of fanzine artists. CLAMP went pro in 1989, and by 1993 there remained four core members: Nanase Ohkawa (main writer), Mokona (chief character designer), and Tsubaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi (artists)--but like a band on different songs, the four often shift their roles depending upon the particular work. CLAMP's early shojo works such as Cardcaptor Sakura and Magic Knight Rayearth attracted the same audience as Sailor Moon, whereas 2001's hit Chobits confirmed their crossover success with male readers as well. More than a dozen of CLAMP's works have been adapted to anime, and collectively their manga have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. The authors live in Tokyo, Japan.
About Dark Horse Comics
Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent, such as Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Geof Darrow, Brian Wood, Gail Simone, Stan Sakai, and Guillermo del Toro, and comics legends, such as Will Eisner, Milo Manara, Kazuo Koike, Neil Gaiman, and Frank Miller, Dark Horse has developed its own successful properties, such as The Mask, Ghost, X, and Barb Wire. Its successful line of comics, manga, and products based on popular properties includes Dragon Age, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, Tomb Raider, Halo, The Witcher, Serenity, Game of Thrones, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading entertainment publishers.
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