Google Loves Lucy!
Posted on August 6, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Related Tags:
Christian Movie Connect: New Video Podcast Premieres Today
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Christian Movie Connect is a new weekly video podcast hosted and produced by faith-based film producer and media personality Cheryl Ariaz Wicker. It premieres today with the kickoff show featuring actor John Schneider, talking about his role on the upcoming “Doonby.”
Tune in for news of the latest faith-based movies and Christian personalities on and off screen, posted weekly each Wednesday on ChristianMovieConnect.com.
Christian Movie Connect (CMC) podcasts feature interviews with filmmakers, actors, screenwriters and other newsmakers in the Christian film industry both nationally and abroad, conducted at Christian industry events as the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, Biola Media Conference, Gideon Media Arts Conference and Film Festival and International Christian Visual Media Catalyst Conference, to name a few.
Film and media personalities featured on future CMC episodes include Bobby Downes (“Like Dandelion Dust”), Jerry Jameson (“Raise the Titanic,” “Airport ’77,” “Murder, She Wrote”), Ken Wales (“Amazing Grace,” “Christy”), Jenn Gotzen (“Nixon,” “Doonby”), PluggedIn Online’s Bob Waliszewski, Dave Christiano (“7th Street Theater,” “The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry”), Christian media guru Phil Cooke, Columbia Pictures’ Devon Franklin, Walden Media’s Micheal Flaherty and 20th Century Fox’s Simon Swart; and VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer. Among the well-known Christian leaders that will be featured on CMC to lend their take on the influence of Christian film are media and culture expert Josh McDowell and best-selling author/speaker Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham.
CMC will also have special daily podcasts from the Gideon Media Arts Conference & Film Festival (Gideon) airing from August 7-12, 2011. Producer Cheryl Ariaz Wicker says, “As a producer of faith-based, family friendly and life affirming films, I am an advocate for Christian movies and clean, values-based entertainment. Through positive films, we can inspire movie goers…but greater still, we can promote time-tested values to the culture at large.”
Comic-Con: Big News from Riverdale and Archie Comics
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 3:39 pm
I had a blast at the Archie Comic panel. Everyone there was a nice and friendly and enthusiastic as you would hope to find in the idyllic environs of Riverdale. But there is very big news. In its own nice and friendly and enthusiastic way, Archie Comics is one of the most innovative companies at Comic-Con or anywhere else, on every level from distribution to story.
I was delighted to hear that Kevin, Archie’s first gay character, is so successful he will have his own comic. I love the way that in the first issue, they show that Kevin was not always the handsome, confident kid who becomes class president at Riverdale High. We get to meet some of his close friends from middle school and see that he had his awkward stage, too. Even more amazingly, Archie’s future stories will include visits from Sarah Palin and Barack Obama — who will share a soda at the malt shop — and NY Giant Michael Strahan and even KISS in a four-part miniseries! With separate series for Archie as a tot, a child, a teen, and a married man, they say they have “a metaverse as rich and plentiful as anything at Marvel and DC,” with “a flowchart from that wall to that wall.”
The Archie folks are very proud that they were the first to have “day and date” availability of their comics online and they are dedicated to making them accessible on every platform from iPhone app to Android and Windows 7 to Nook and Kindle, with 3 million downloads of their app so far. Their long-time partnership with Ronald MacDonald House will be supported with the 75th anniversary issue, with all proceeds going to help sick kids and their families.
The Booth at the End
Posted on July 18, 2011 at 10:58 pm
This enigmatic new web series on Hulu raises questions of fate, temptation, sacrifice, and God. What would you do to get what you want? What would you give up? Who would you be if you did? This episode is called, “What One Begins, One Must Finish.”
All My Children and One Life to Live to Continue — On the Web
Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:17 am
ABC is going to license its cancelled soap operas, “One Life to Live” and “All My Children,” to continue on the web! Prospect Park, co-founded by a former Disney executive, will continue both shows and promises the same length and quality. They are meeting with the actors, advertisers, and others involved with the series to try to keep as much continuity as possible.