The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... even the hackiest director has redeeming qualities, though they might not be visible onscreen; as Geoff Boucher points out at the LA Times' "Hero Complex" blog, Columbus is good at launching and protecting...
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
There's too many stupid movies these days based on comics, video and board games and theme park rides, but I'll skip the dearth of originality preamble and, well, just pass go and collect $200. That's because there's a new movie based on "Monopoly" in the pipeline and there's not a thing you can do about it. Suck it up. For the edification of the Los Angeles Times' Geoff Boucher,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... journey through the rock n' roll age and how the music affects us all. He will take questions from Geoff Boucher , an arts reporter whose diverse work in the Times recently included a ode to Hilburn and his long career, and from the audience. Buy tickets here . New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media .
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... surfaced yesterday with regards to the plot, which had to this point been kept extremely quiet.Geoff Boucher writing for the talked with Frank Beddor, one of the producers of There's Something About Mary and apparently someone involved with the "Monopoly" project even though I have never seen his name mentioned outside of Boucher's article. Not even the article mentions his...
Club Jade (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... bothers to make it look like an action movie. Mumble mumble fourth. The Los Angeles Times’ Geoff Boucher looks at the difficulty of making upcoming films for several different franchises: Lord of the Rings , Spider-Man , X-Men and Pirates of the Caribbean . On that note, io9 quotes the relevant parts of a /Film podcast where X2 screenwriter Michael Dougherty describes what X3 might...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Over at the Hero Complex blog, Geoff Boucher talks with Leonard Nimoy about his lifelong passion for photography, which is coming into focus Saturday night at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Nimoy, an avid art collector along with his...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... finish? § Speaking of Fred Schodt , here’s an interview with him at Anime News Network . § Geoff Boucher found a lot of nerd crossover at the U2 show at the Rose Bowl , which should come as no surprise, considering Bono and the Edge are big on Spider-Man: It was time to head for our seats so I assumed the fanboy subplots were over but I was wrong. The startling set for the show, the...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Another big Hollywood profile published this week was about writer/producer Akiva Goldsman, written by LA Times' comic book blogger Geoff Boucher. It's a great profile that looks at his career and addresses concerns over Batman & Robin, but Boucher also made sure to ask Goldsman about a few of the projects he's producing. At this moment, Goldsman is probably best known as a...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Geoff Boucher at the LA Times does a good job convincing people that screenwriter/director/producer Akiva Goldsman, given his other, more recent achievements, should be forgiven for writing the script to BATMAN & ROBIN—a movie so wretched it singlehandedly made Hollywood realize that if they kept making superhero movies this bad, the planet would crumble [...]
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... make him a man for the moment in Hollywood" would've been unthinkable. But that's how Geoff Boucher describes the writer, producer and soon-to-be-director in a glowing profile in this weekend's Los Angeles Times. Yes, you can recover from taking part in making one of the worst superhero movies ever, and apparently even be congratulated for it. Boucher quotes Marvel Studios'...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... scare. And, by the way, how thrilled is Columbia with all these headlines about the hysteria? -- Geoff Boucher
news from me (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Geoff Boucher writes about the friendship between Jack Kirby and musician Frank Zappa. Kirby knew the darnedest people....
