Author: Ross Fisher-Davis

Remember those fantastic foreign ads you’d see on the internet or in your hotel room on some vacation years ago? You’d sit up and point at the screen and say “Is that Nicolas Cage? Yelling about panchinko?” Foreign celebrity advertising is nothing new, and a great way for celebs who aren’t so keen on advertising in their home countries to get in on some zany televised adventures in a place where fewer viewers from home shores will see. Like a new ad for Russian telephone company MegaFon, for example. You could be fooled into thinking that Bruce Willis speaks some…

What’s the first thing you’d do if the show you’d created just landed one of the most massive deals in television history? Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of adult animation phenomenon “South Park”, certainly had something in mind. As the ink dries on their incredible $900 million deal with ViacomCBS to continue the genre-defining comedy series for another 5 years and at least 14 made-for-tv movies, the successful duo have completed a personal childhood dream and purchased Mexican restaurant Casa Bonita. A Denver landmark that the duo claimed to have fond memories of going to as children themselves, Casa…

Ethan Hawke reveals insight into the disturbing inspiration for his “Moon Knight” character for the Disney+ Marvel Studios series.

The long awaited second outing for Eddie Brock, off-the-rails journalist inhabited by the cruel symbiotic alien warrior Venom, has again been delayed. Previously set to debut in theaters on September 24th, “Venom: Let there be Carnage” will now premier on October 15th. Sony Pictures state that increasingly worsening Covid cases across the United states are the reason for the delay. The long troubled release of the superhero action sequel follows on all the way from 2020, where the film had wrapped production and was ready to go around the time the pandemic started in March 2020. Knocked back from an…

When you think of Peter Jackson’s cinematic masterpiece “The Fellowship of the Ring,” it’s impossible to imagine the vast journey of Frodo and his companions across Middle Earth without automatically picturing the soaring scope of New Zealand. A series famous for glorious green rolling vistas, a natural beauty so otherworldly that barely any effects needed to be used to turn it into a fantasy landscape, “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy single-handedly reinvigorated the New Zealand tourist industry overnight. So it is that fans were a little taken aback when Amazon Studios announced the second season of the upcoming “Lord…

With people finally beginning to feel safer to crawl out from under their rocks after a year of solitude, it’s fun to get back into Augmented Reality (AR) mobile games like “Pokémon Go.” There’s been other attempts over the years to capture the lightening, like the briefly fun but quickly left unsupported “Ghostbusters World” and the tiresome slog of “Harry Potter: Wizards Unite,” but it’s a tough nut to crack to keep people strolling. So what if instead of catching adorable monsters around the world as a cheery pre-teen, you were slicing off monster heads and displaying them as trophies…

The first animated addition to the entertainment world-conquering Marvel Cinematic Universe, anthology series “What If…?,” will debut next month and already folks are hyped for the elseworlds adventures. A series of tales exploring the stories of famous Marvel characters and events in their universe, if something had happened slightly different, is a standby of the comics world, and a natural choice to translate to the small screen. But this absolutely will NOT be the end of the MCU’s expansion into animated territory! During the NALIP Media Summit, Marvel Executive Vice President Victoria Alonso confirmed that not only are more animated…

Entrepreneur and businessman Jovenel Moise, president of Haiti since February 2017, was assassinated in the early hours of Wednesday morning when gunmen broke into his Port-au-Prince home. Claude Joseph, acting interim President following the attack, confirmed the President’s death in a press release, and also confirmed that the first lady, Martine Moise, was injured in the attack but is in stable condition. Moise’s assassins, who allegedly spoke Spanish and English, remain unidentified. Haitian authorities claim they have ‘intercepted’ suspects in the attack. United States President Joe Biden was briefed on the situation. The White House press release condemned the attack…

Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to the bloody and brutal 80’s comic hit “Faust” to develop into an animated series. Matteo Pizzolo, writer of recent comic successes “Calexit” and “Godkiller,” will adapt the gory horror action story for screens. Original creators of “Faust,” artist Tim Vigil and writer David Quinn, will be acting as consulting producers on this adaptation. “Faust” first hit comic store shelves in 1987, a gruesome horror adventure by Vigil and Quinn, and told the tale of John Jaspers, a passionate vigilante who, at the end of his rope, trades his soul for monstrous powers, transforming…

High quality collectables are big business. From Pokémon to Major League Baseball, “Batman” to “The Yellow Kid,” the aftermarket buying and selling of beloved memorabilia is a billion dollar industry on all fronts. When anything becomes a big enough business, no matter how playful, eventually Big Business comes calling. Certified Collectables Group (CCG), the company that help put hard numbers on the quality of your comics or cards with their internationally recognized CGC (Certified Guarantee Company) ratings, are being purchased by ‘investment slumlords’ The Blackstone Group. A CGC rating on a comic book or trading card can be a matter…