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February 10th, 2008 Posted in
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Mary
 Ms. Page, you have a trip to take. Ellen Page will star in Sam Raimi’s next film, Drag Me To Hell. The movie, written by Raimi and his brother Ivan Raimi, will be a “morality tale about the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse,” Variety reports.
Maybe I have Greek mythology on the brain, but this project smells like one of those tales with a hero and heroine venturing into Hades. Whether Page will be a Persephone-like character in a modern update of the myth or merely be starring in a thriller with subtle classic allusions, I’m mightily intrigued. After Spiderman 3, Raimi’s looking to get back to his roots. And, after all the attention Juno received—Oscar nomination included, I’m sure Page will be aching for a cathartic and unpretentious project.
Shooting begins in LA on March 17th.
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February 1st, 2008 Posted in
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Mary

Please, please, please let this work out, oh please. A sequel to Serenity, in the opinion of Alan Tudyk, could be made. While Tudyk mentions monetary issues being at the heart of the matter, the fact that Serenity 2 is a real possibility makes me beyond stoked.
So now I’m trying to think of what I can offer to help this possibility turn into reality. Well, I don’t have the sort of money necessary to help fund, you know, film features. But let’s see. What can I offer in lieu of moolah…
I suppose just my brute strength? If necessary, I will act as a human donkey and haul equipment anywhere they need me to. Also, I don’t own a rickshaw, but I could construct a sort of carrier for cast and crew out of a garbage can lid (where the member of the cast or crew will plant their bum) and two lengths of rope (taken from the unused swings at my apartment complex’s playground). Or, should the cast’s shoe budget—if there is such a thing—be too low, I’d be more than happy to chop off my abundant hair and wrap the feet of the Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau, Adam Baldwin, etc. with my kinky strands. I don’t think that would be weird in the least. I think that would be most helpful.
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February 1st, 2008 Posted in
Sci-Fi Fantasy | wong it! by
Mary
Guardian has an article detailing the past and present appeal for females reading superhero comics. Of the many areas the article touches on, one such is that there has been a legacy of quite a bit of grizzly, uncool, and unbalanced violence on female characters which, hmm, may have dissuaded pigtailed Susie from reading onto issue twelve from issue eleven. In any case, things are changing, slowly, as some things do, but they are-a-changing.

And that’s awesome.
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February 1st, 2008 Posted in
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Mary
An article in the Guardian blog briefly explores the terrain of literary experimentation in genre fiction, specifically how genre fiction—I’m talking science fiction and fantasy novels, in particular—is the place for writers to truly play and innovate. Yes, avant garde or adventuresome frolics needn’t be limited to “literary” fiction (how I wish more MFA-ers would take note). Of course, this is in the same category of that now oft emailed Wired article by Clive Thompson.
In general, I am boldface eager for people to stop pigeon hole thinking. And the old argument about SFF being nothing but cookie cutter wish fulfillment is just that: old. Never mind the fact that the argument is also an effortless, dull, discrediting sort of thing to toss off at someone. It grates me that wake-up-and-realize-what’s-going-on articles like these still need to be written to battle such lame-footed, dinosaur claims against SFF. But I’m in a good mood, darn it, and I shan’t be even momentarily dispirited. So, you lot of fresh-thinking people, get more evidence lined-up for the age old debate and read on.
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January 18th, 2008 Posted in
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Mary
With the energy of a hopped-up hare, J.J. Abrams gives an enlightening eighteen minute lecture for TED on his passion for unseen mystery and his pronounced obsession with boxes. In it, he riffs on how printmaking, bookmaking, magic, Apple computers, writing, television, and films all capture (ahem, box) and showcase unseen mystery. Abrams, anyone who has seen Cloverfield or Lost knows, is obsessed with the power of withholding information.
So—in addition to referencing Lost, Mission Impossible 3, Alien, Star Wars, and E.T.—Abrams talks about and shows a couple scenes from Jaws, a great film that’s powered on withholding from the audience visual information on Jaws. Intriguingly, one of his favorite scenes of all time is a slice-of-life scene from Jaws in which Roy Scheider’s character and his character’s little boy are sitting at a dining room table with the little boy mimicking his father’s gestures. The whole scene culminates when Scheider’s character catches on and says, “Come on, give us a kiss.” The little boy asks why and his father says, “Because I need it.” Abrams love for really solid character development seems to be a pretty right on balance entertainment-wise for the unseen mystery in his creative projects.
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