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Archive for January 2012
Three years later, Platinum Studios is reintroducing one of their projects, The Weapon. The studio released a press release this morning describing the film:
“The Weapon” is about a martial arts enthusiast, Tommy Zhou, that has discovered a means to create solid objects from light — and invented a superhero persona to promote it, The Weapon! Not believing the legends his grandf...
Last week, moviemaker George Lucas sounded the clarion horns. All of the major Hollywood studios rejected his new film, Red Tails, he said, because the cast was “all-black.” If Red Tails crashes at the box office, there will be more than just a bunch of trite, plane crash-themed news headlines. Lucas predicts that Hollywood will be even less likely to trust actors of color with blo...
On January 13th, 2012, CNN’s In America blog published a feature story by Stephanie Siek: “Is Hollywood ‘whitewashing’ Asian roles?”. Racebending.com is quoted and interviewed.
Racebending.com, an international grassroots organization founded in 2009, protests what it sees as the “whitewashing” of film roles and pushes for the fair representation of minorities i...
Over the holidays, Dark Horse sent us a review copy of the first sequel comic to Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Promise – Part 1, written by Gene Yang (American Born Chinese) and illustrated by Gurihiru. (Our review does not contain major spoilers, but does contain info that might be considered minor spoilers, including information from Dark Horse’s currently posted preview pages.)
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