Hello there!

I’m the gentleman (and I use that term loosely – eyeing myself over my glasses and everything) that worked with Chris and Jimmy to get this new site up and running. Beyond building websites, I work in the film industry as a producer and writer. I’ll be adding occasional posts to the site about film distribution, overlooked work and general pop culture.

I just wanted to put up a quick post regarding the latest insane entertainment corporation move of the New Year – the Sony Spiderman reboot.

In case you haven’t read/heard about this, Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire are off the project – and Sony is gleefully looking forward to a grittier reboot of the franchise. Yes – a reboot on a franchise that is less than 10 years old, and only a few years since the last massive (though flawed) blockbuster. I think it’s appalling, weird and a troubling sign of things to come. Salon.com had their film writers toss out some ideas/reactions on where to take things here (you’ll need to sit through an ad) and Scott Mendelson has some great thoughts on it as well.

What do the fiends think? Travesty? Welcome chance for recovery?

One, perhaps, upside is that we could begin to enter a film comic universe full of the endless plot shifts/parallel dimensions/causal paradoxes of actual comics. That’s the best outlook I’ve got.

This is ridiculous, absurd, and as Dave Lettermen himself says, “stupid,” but man is it funny.  Taken from the constantly wonderful Late Show With David Letterman (still my favorite nite owl host) a few years back.

Dear Sir or Madame,

In this time of economic crisis, do you find yourself yearning for pop culture memorabilia, but the shallow pocket book just won’t allow it?

Well, have I got a solution for you!  All ya need is scissors, access to a printer, and a good pair of folding hands.

Cubee Craft is a website that allows you to create paper souvenirs of some of your favorite filmic, televisic, video gamic, comic bookic, and fast foodic characters…and it costs ya absolutely nothing!  That’s right…they’re f’n FREE!

Check out  a sampling of ‘em after the jump…

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