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Image via Wikipedia By Douglas Wolk Publishers Weekly 12/15/2008 From February through April, DC's The Spirit series will have a guest writing team: Michael Uslan and F.J. DeSanto, the producers of the Frank Miller -directed Spirit movie that's opening this month. Uslan hasn't written many comics since he became the producer of the Batman movies (aside from the Batman graphic novel Detective No. 27 a few years ago), but he wrote stories for The Shadow , Beowulf , Detective Comics and other series back in the early '70s, when, as he put it at a recent interview in New York, "I was a Junior ... Read Full Story

Gabriel Macht image via Wikipedia By: Rob Vaux Thursday, December 11, 2008 Gabriel Macht has been active in film, theater, and television for most of the last decade, starting with a role on the original Beverly Hills 90210 . He has since been seen in such films as Behind Enemy Lines, The Recruit, A Love Song for Bobby Long, and The Good Shepherd . It took Frank Miller to give him a starring part, however: he's slated to appear as resurrected cop Denny Colt in Will Eisner's The Spirit , due for release Christmas Day. In an exclusive interview with Mania.com, Macht talked about ... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival ( http://www.ajff.org/ ) will be showing Will Eisner : Portrait of a Sequential Artist , at Lefont Sandy Springs , on Monday, Jan 19, 2009, 4:40pm . It's possible a representative from ASIFA-Atlanta will introduce the film and do a Q&A. This will be the Atlanta premiere of the film, which is a documentary on Will Eisner . Mark Mayerson writes about it here: http://mayersononanimation.blogspot.com/2008/05/will-eisner-portrait-of-sequential.html Subscribe to Mr. Media's RSS/XML Feed Get MR. MEDIA Interviews delivered by email! Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner INDEX to MR. MEDIA INTERVIEWS TV Stars * TV Producers * ... Read Full Story

Cover via Amazon December 12, 2008 Q&A: The Spirit 's Macht The Spirit 's Gabriel Macht isn't a comic-book hero; he just plays one in the movies. In fact, Macht--who stars as Denny Colt/The Spirit, the dead rookie cop turn masked crimefighter, in Frank Miller 's upcoming big-screen adaptation of the Will Eisner comic book--was entirely unfamiliar with the story, its history or Eisner when the film came up. In an exclusive interview with SCI FI Wire, Macht revealed that his agents introduced him to the material, that Miller didn't want him to rely too much on the book The Best of The Spirit ... Read Full Story

The Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman Subscribe to Mr. Media in iTunes! WILL EISNER: A SPIRITED LIFE INTERVIEWS Michael Uslan The Dark Knight, Will Eisner’s The Spirit, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, Batman Begins, Catwoman, Constantine, National Treasure, Swamp Thing, Shazam!, The Shadow, Constantine Deborah Del Prete... On Frank Miller and Producing “The Spirit” Movie Darwyn Cooke... On Reviving “The Spirit” for the 21st Century Paul Fitzgerald, Cindy Jackson and Stuart Henderson... On Will Eisner & PS Magazine Howard Chaykin... On Fighting with Will Eisner Drew Friedman... On What’s Wrong With the Biography, Will Eisner:A Spirited Life Andrew D. Cooke... Read Full Story