Six Degrees

of GEEK

Six Degrees

of GEEK

Six Degrees

of GEEK

Author: Marsia Powers

‘Avengers’ Earns $18.7 Million in Midnights, Bests ‘Dark Knight’ (and got my $$ too)

Posted by | May 4, 2012 | |

Joss Whedon’s 3D tentpole breaks records for a superhero pic; overseas, it has already crossed $300 million according to The Hollywood Reporter

Disney and Marvel Studios’ The Avengers earned $18.7 million in Thursday midnight runs, a record for a superhero title and the eighth best of all time.  Only three other films have hit $150 million or more since Spider-Man in 2008: this year’s The Hunger Games ($152.5 million), The Dark Knight ($158.4 million) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ($169.2 million).

I attended, along with some of the Whedonopolis and Fandom Charities staff, the midnight screening at the AMC Burbank 16.  All 16 screens were Avengers, three in 3D. All sold out.  Click thru for more info plus an ABCNews video report from our location.

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Joss Is Getting Around, Thanks to The Avengers

Posted by | May 1, 2012 | |

Unlike most of the interviews and writeups about Joss, how he’s new at this and not well known, this writer gets why we follow The Man’s work.  He does too, "As T-shirt slogans go, it doesn’t get more direct than this: "Joss Whedon is my master now."

Comments by fansite editors, talent who has worked with him and even Rhonda Wilcox, a professor of English at Gordon College, wrote "Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, of SlayerLit and Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association

Click through for more info and let us know what your take is.

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Joss Whedon Interview Airs Sunday, April 29 on CBS Sunday Morning

Posted by | Apr 28, 2012 | |

It’s funny to see how the mundane world is reacting to the wonder that is The Man. I’m cutting and pasting the press release so you can see how mainstrean media sees him.

 

From the CBS Press Release: The Avengers Director Joss Whedon Opens Up about Empowering Women and Unlikely Heroes: "God, my whole Career has been about that!"

 

Click through for more info plus when to set your DVR for.

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Why I’m No Longer Worried About Comic-Con Moving to Anaheim

Posted by | Mar 29, 2012 | , , |

For the past several years, a question has hovered over the San Diego Comic-Con:  Where would it go when its contract in San Diego is complete?

As attendance at San Diego Comic Con has grown to it’s maximum of 125,000 attendees (not counting guests, press and exhibitors), rumblings have been heard of how it should move to a location that can handle more people so more tickets can be sold.  The three cities mentioned most often are Los Angeles, Las Vegas… and Anaheim.   Click through…….

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