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MAY 5 |
The RUMOR is Spreading!
Do you live in the Permian Basin area of West Texas (Odessa, Midland)?
May 10th: Book signing at Barnes & Noble in Midland, Texas, at 3:00pm
If everyone sells out before you can buy a copy?
RUMOR is also available on Kindle, so if you buy it online you can get your photo taken with the author while you ... hold your Kindle, I guess.
And -
May Is MARVEL and MUMMY Month
HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Actor John Rhys-Davies (SPHINX, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, WAXWORK, THE LOST WORLD, THE UNAMEABLE II, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, CHUPACABRA TERROR, TAINTED LOVE, ANACONDA 3, ANACONDA 4, 31 NORTH 62 EAST, FEROCIOUS PLANET, MEDIUM RAW: NIGHT OF THE WOLF, FEROCIOUS PLANET, ESCAPE, 100 DEGREES BELOW ZERO, PRISONERS OF THE SUN, TIME LAPSE [2014], AUX, AQUAMAN, G-LOC, THE GATES, over 270 movies and TV episodes in all!) is 80.
Look for John in the upcoming 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Thriller, NAMELESS. Also in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 SHADOW WARS.
Actor Lance Henriksen (MANSION OF THE DOOMED, DAMIEN: Omen II, THE VISITOR, PIRANHA II, NIGHTMARES, THE TERMINATOR, ALIENS, NEAR DARK, PUMPKIN HEAD ALIEN³, SCREAM 3, MIMIC 3, ALIEN VS PREDATOR, HELLRAISER: HELLWORLD, ABOMINABLE, SASQUATCH MOUNTAIN, PUMPKINHEAD: ASHES TO ASHES, PUMPKINHEAD: BLOOD FUED, DARK REEL, DEAD WATER, DYING GOD, NECESSARY EVIL, ALONE IN THE DARK II, SCREAMERS: THE HUNTING, CYRUS [2010], THE LOST TRIBE, THE PENITENT MAN, THE GENESIS CODE, SCREAM OF THE BANSHEE, GOOD DAY FOR IT, THE ARCADIAN, MONSTER BRAWL, IT'S IN THE BLOOD, SIN REAPER 3D, TRON: UPRISING [TV], GINGERCLOWN, ALIEN RISING, BLOOD SHOT, DARK AWAKENING, HOLLOWS GROVE, PARANORMAL ISLAND, STUNG, HARBINGER, KIDS VS MONSTERS, JUSTICE SERVED, DAYLIGHT'S END, GEHENNA: WHERE DEATH LIVES, THE UNWILLING, LAKE EERIE, NEEDLESTICK, WRAITH [2017], MOM AND DAD, WHY?, A PLACE AMONG THE DEAD, THE UNHEALER, THE DEAD OF NIGHT, ALTERED REALITY, and a lot more - 263 movies and TV episodes in all!) is 85.
Look for Lance in the upcoming 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Thriller, ONE. Also in 2024, 2025 AWAKEN THE REAPER.
Actor Vincent Kartheiser (RICKY 6, THE TIES THAT BIND, THE UNSAID, ANGEL [TV], NOW, IN TIME, DAY OUT OF DAYS, A KIND OF MURDER, MY FRIEND DAHMER, MOST LIKELY TO MURDER, AMERICAN HANGMAN, CRYPTO, PROVEN INNOCENT [TV], ULTRASOUND, TITANS [TV]) is 45.
Writer Yvonne Navarro (DEAD RUSH, FINAL IMPACT, RED SHADOWS, SPECIES, SPECIES II, THAT'S NOT MY NAME, DEAD TIMES, AFTERAGE, MIRROR ME, ELEKTRA, ULTRAVIOLET, HELLBOY, AVP: RIFTWAR w/Weston Ochse) is 67.
SUNDAY -
Actor Nicholas Hamilton (STRANGERLAND, THE DARK TOWER, IT [2017], IT: CHAPTER 2, ENDLESS, GEN V) is 24.
Look for Nicholas in the upcoming 2023, 2024, 2025 Horror, CREEPERS DO NOT ENTER, based on the best selling novel, CREEPERS, by David Morrell.
Actor Jesse Moss (ReBOOT [TV], MUMMIES ALIVE! THE LEGEND BEGINS, GINGER SNAPS, FINAL DESTINATION 3, THE COLLECTOR [TV], WHISTLER [TV], THE UNINVITED, MERLIN AND THE BOOK OF BEASTS, TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL, DEAR MR. GACY, IRON GOLEM, SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION, 13 EERIE, EXTRATERRESTRIAL, WOLFCOP, STILL/BORN, GHOST WARS [TV], DADDY'S GIRL, MORNING SHOW MYSTERIES [TV], THE HOLLOW [TV]) is 41.
Actor Emily Perkins (IT [1990], PAST PERFECT, GINGER SNAPS [all], INSOMINA, Da VINCI'S INQUEST, BLOOD: A BUTCHER'S TALE, REPEATERS, SUPERNATURAL [TV], EXTRATERRESTRIAL) is 47.
THE MUMMY RETURNS is 24
Aw man! It was great to see the fun cast together again! And The Rock was at his prime and he was going to be... The Scorpion King (we had no idea but it sounded cool and we were there for it!). What a great movie! All building up to the appearance of the Scorpion King!
Then... we saw it, and that utterly changed the direction of THE MUMMY RETURNS.
SPIDER-MAN 3 is 18
There could have been many more SPIDER-MAN movies with the Sam Raimi cast. Unfortunately the only actor who got out of it unscathed was J.K. Simmons. My first watch was pure geek giddiness. But some movies cannot withstand repeated viewings and that's what happened with most of us who saw SPIDER-MAN 3.
SATURDAY -
Director Joseph Kosinski (TRON: LEGACY, OBLIVION, SPIDERHEAD) is 50.
Actor Kristin Lehman (TOE TAGS, FOREVER KNIGHT [TV], BLEEDERS aka HEMOGLOBIN, POLTERGEIST: THE LEGACY [TV], THE OUTER LIMITS [TV], STRANGE WORLD [TV], CENTURY CITY [TV], THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, KILLER INSTINCT [TV], RAPID FIRE, THE GATHERING [TV], THE KILLING [TV], THE LOFT, MOTIVE [TV], GHOST WARS [TV], ALTERED CARBON [TV], MIDNIGHT MASS [TV]) is 52.
Actor Zoé De Grand Maison (A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY, ORPHAN BLACK, SEA CHANGE, STICKMAN, RIVERDALE [TV], FORTUNATE SON [TV], ORGAN TRAIL) is 29.
SPIDER-MAN is 23
It was 2001! Hot Marvel movies like BLADE opened the door to Box office gold and X-MEN laid the foundation. It was no fluke! A BLADE sequel was in the works and a Horror director was signed on. An X-MEN sequel was in the works and it began with a Horror director!
Columbia Pictures was ready to release their own Marvel superhero property and it too was directed by a Horror director! One who already proved himself in the Superhero realm with DARK MAN!
Then on September 9, 2001, a day that changed the world for the worse put the brakes on Sam Raimi and Marvel Studios' ascent.
It would be a new year before Columbia Picture's SPIDER-MAN would be released.
IRON MAN 3 is 12 Years Old
How to put this? By 2013 the MCU was off and running. CAPTAIN AMERICA was a hit. THE AVENGERS were a bigger hit. It was as if Paramount had found the secret formula (which they did) for making Superhero movies that were basically legal machines for printing money. And whatever box office the movie made in theaters, that would be doubled or more in home video.
Then came the second sequel. In hindsight, some point to Disney buying out Paramount's Marvel properties of THE AVENGERS and IRON MAN in 2012, leaving Paramount with plenty of cash and nothing to lose if they poisoned Disney's new well.
On the other hand, maybe it was to Disney's benefit if the property lost some value before all the monetary transactions were complete? When you rule out all possibilities then whatever is left, however improbable, has an ocean of its own possibilities. Sour grapes coming from unexpected corners are legendary in Hollywood, and who knows really when everybody wants credit for a hit and nobody takes credit for a miss?
For whatever reason(s) which are none too clear, somewhere in the chain they threw away everything they learned that far in making hit, fan pleasing Marvel movies, and made a parody IRON MAN 3 so mediocre that it destroyed the franchise for the next ten years and damaged the MCU brand.
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