DC Entertainment Reveals New Official Logo!

By: Albert Ching (Courtesy of: www.newsarama.com)

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After weeks of leaked images and rumors, the new DC Entertainment logo is official, revealed by business magazine Fast Company. "We didn’t want a static logo, but a living identity that could capture the power of our characters and storytelling," Amit Desai, senior vice president of franchise management, said in the Fast Company article. "In addition to flexibility, the new logo communicates this idea of dual identity: There’s more than meets the eye. You have to take a closer look to understand the richness of our characters and stories."

Along with Flash, Green Lantern and Batman-specific logos, DC also revealed a Watchmen-inspired logo, which will likely only serve to fuel speculation surrounding as-yet unconfirmed Watchmen prequels. The new logo will debut on comic books in March, and spread throughout DC Entertainment's properties. A newly designed website is also in the works, according to the article, one integrating the various aspects of the company including movies, TV, video games and direct-to-DVD releases.

"Now that our audience has exploded beyond just a readership, we needed a way of making a more consistent connection between our properties and their parent brands," John Rood, DC's executive vice president of sales, told Fast Company. The new logo replaces the current "DC spin," which debuted in 2005. Previously, the iconic "DC bullet" appeared on comics starting in 1977.

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January 24, 2012

2012 Academy Award Nominations Announced!!!

By: David Germain (Courtesy of: The Associated Press)

Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo" leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director slot for the Oscar-winning filmmaker. Also nominated for best picture Tuesday: the silent film "The Artist"; the family drama "The Descendants"; the Sept. 11 tale "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"; the Deep South drama "The Help"; the romantic fantasy "Midnight in Paris"; the sports tale "Moneyball"; the family chronicle "The Tree of Life"; and the World War I epic "War Horse."

The nominations set up a best-picture showdown between the top films at the Golden Globes: best musical or comedy recipient "The Artist" and best drama winner "The Descendants." "The Artist" ran second with 10 nominations, among them writing and directing nominations for French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, a best-actor honor for Jean Dujardin and a supporting-actress slot for Berenice Bejo.

Because of a rule change requiring films to receive a certain number of first-place votes, the best-picture field has only nine nominees rather than the 10 that were in the running the last two years. Dujardin, who won the Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy as a silent-era star whose career goes kaput with the arrival of talking pictures, will be up against Globe dramatic actor winner George Clooney for "The Descendants," in which the Oscar-winning superstar plays a dad trying to hold his Hawaiian family together after a boating accident puts his wife in a coma.

Other best-actor contenders are: Demian Bechir as an immigrant father in "A Better Life"; Gary Oldman as British spymaster George Smiley in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"; and Brad Pitt as Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane in "Moneyball." Globe winners Meryl Streep (best dramatic actress as Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady") and Michelle Williams (best musical or comedy actress as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week with Marilyn") scored Oscar nominations for best actress.

Two-time Oscar winner Streep padded her record as the most-nominated actress, raising her total to 17 nominations, five more than Katharine Hepburn and Jack Nicholson, who are tied for second-place. Streep went two-for-four on her first nominations, winning supporting actress for 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer" and best actress for 1982's "Sophie's Choice." But she has lost her last 12 times, and the Globe win for her spot-on personification of Thatcher looks like her best chance yet to break that losing streak.

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30 January 2012 - 05:00

James Luceno, author of Del Rey's Star Wars: Darth Plagueis, makes a return appearance to Fictional Frontiers. Detailing the history of the Sith Master and his apprentice, Palpatine, Darth Plagueis is the most-anticipated "expanded universe" Star Wars novel in Del Rey's history.

Jerry Beck, Noted animation historian and founder of animation hub Cartoon Brew, visits Fictional Frontiers. With the release of Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Volume One on Blu-ray, Jerry looks back at the legacy of animation's much-loved duo (www.cartoonbrew.com).

Co-writers on BOOM! Studios' Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes, Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman, chat with Fictional Frontiers. The comic book "tie-in" to this seminal film series, Corinna and Gabriel discuss their work on Betrayal and the upcoming Exile on the Planet of the Apes.

Howard Andrew Jones, Managing Editor of Black Gate Magazine, returns to Fictional Frontiers. In addition to his own "Dabir and Asim" novels, Howard is the Managing Editor of Bison Books' Editions of Harold Lamb's Warriors of the Steppes.

Celebrating our 175th episode on November 14, 2011, Fictional Frontiers wants to thank our worldwide audience!



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