John, of ComicBookPage, and Kay, of PopArtsPlace, talk about the recent C2E2 convention in Chicago. The discussion includes talk of the exhibit hall floor, as well as panels that range from Supergirl, Battlestar Galactica, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and John Ratzenberger of Cheers to Comic Book centric panels such as one about taking a script page and taking it to the page, making the panels and all the way to adding colors.
NEW YORK (September 30, 2015) – Con Manpremieres exclusively on Vimeo On Demand today. Three new episodes of the series will premiere every Wednesday for four weeks.Con Man is now available to rent for $14.99 at Vimeo.com/OnDemand/ConMan.
Con Man centers on the post-show life of Wray Nerely (Alan Tudyk) the co-star of “Spectrum,” a sci-fi series, which was canceled before its time and went on to become a cult classic beloved by fans. Wray’s good friend, Jack Moore (Nathan Fillion) starred as the series Captain and has gone on to become a major celebrity, while Wray (Tudyk) hasn’t found his desired level of stardom. Wray is the begrudging guest of sci-fi conventions, comic book store appearances, and different pop culture events; however, everything is not as it seems from the outside.The series will explore these events and all the weird and crazy things that happen to them along the way.
Con Man also features a plethora of Sci-Fi’s biggest personalities including: Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), Amy Acker (Person of Interest), Gina Torres (Firefly, Suits), Sean Maher (Firelfly, Eastsiders), Felicia Day (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Seth Green (Family Guy/Austin Powers), Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers), Jewel Staite, (Firefly), Summer Glau (Firefly, Terminator: SCC), Sean Astin (Lord of The Rings), James Gunn and Joss Whedon.
Con Man was funded via Indiegogo, resulting in a record-breaking 3.2 million dollar campaign. With the support of over 46,000 fans from around the world, Con Man now stands as the third highest funded film campaign on any crowdfunding platform ever.
Con Man is executive produced by PJ Haarsma, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion
Fans of The Closer, which starred Kyra Sedgwick, were disappointed when the show was cancelled after seven season on TNT. Then, like a phoenix rising from the ashes came Major Crimes. Remarkably similar to The CloserMajor Crimes has a strikingly similar cast, with a new leader, and a new guiding principle. It is no longer enough to close the case — now they want a confession, a conclusion that is so iron clad the D.A. can walk in and cut a deal, not only saving the citizens a costly trial, and meaning the state knows the guilty party will indeed go to jail, instead of pulling some legal wizardry at trial, and getting away with a trial we have just spent an hour being convinced they committed.
After 109 episodes in which cases were closed, week after week, the Major Crimes division has spent 66 episodes making sure the criminals will go away. One of the most interesting aspects of Major Crimes has been the use of Rusty (Graham Patrick Martin) to take a character who we gradually saw more and more of near the end of The Closer, Captain Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell), and take her from a very brusque by-the-book officer on the side of Internal Affairs, to a more sympathetic, maternal team leader.
Rusty, a street kid whose testimony was needed in a trial, started as a rough around the edges boy who had no interest in the members of Major Crimes getting into his life and pressing him to testify. Now, he is a part of Captain Raydor’s life, his adopted son, they have shown one another a definition of family that reminds the audience we can choose who we call family, and that being there for people, no matter what is perhaps the most important thing — mattering infinitely more than the value of physical gifts given at holidays, or shared DNA.
One of the great subplots of this season, that has extended to a series of online videos, has been Rusty’s realization that when he was living on the streets no one was looking for him. But now, he has Sharon… and the team as well, but predominantly Sharon, and that means, above all else, he has someone who would file a Missing Person’s Report should he go missing. It sounds so simple, and yet, to someone who has had no one to rely on, or trust, for so long, it means so much.
Upon seeing a Missing Person who was found dead, and realizing no one filed a report on her, Rusty sets out to identify the girl… the person who, under other circumstances, could have been him.
NEW YORK (September 30, 2015) –