Monday’s New York Times featured an article on Cathy’s Book, the new blend between novel and alternate reality game created by Jordan Weisman and Sean Stewart. Apparently Cover Girl has arranged for product placement in the book in exchange for promoting it on BeingGirl.com, a website for adolescent girls. According to ICv2.com, Commercial Alert–an organization which “protect communities from commercialism”–sent …
Conan Film Finds Auteur
As ICv2.com reports, the upcoming Conan movie has a confirmed writer/director: Boaz Yakin. Yakin wrote The Punisher and directed Remember the Titans. While this will be his first fantasy film, I have high hopes that Yakin will bring us the Conan film we’ve all been waiting for. In a perhaps-not-strange bit of coincidence, Tom Jane, who starred in Punisher, now …