THE SAINTS HIT COMIC CON!!!

It’s that time of the year again, folks. Can you smell it in the air? Or hear it in the streets? How about read it on the internet…? No? well I’ll give you a little hint, it’s one time a year when every comic book store and memorabilia shop is as silent as a library, when most 20-somethings finally abandon their basement dwellings long enough for their parents the give it a decent airing out. It is the only time when Artist and Writer’s are greeted by their humbled fan base, a time when actor’s and filmmakers converse face to face with the hardcore movie buffs who’ve eagerly awaited this moment once a year to ask them a question. It’s a time when oddly dressed onlookers can ogle the lady parts of a booth babe without the risk nor fear of being charged with harassment [Laughs]

What time is it?, it’s time for COMIC-CON 2010!!! That’s right people, the biggest day for comic nerds and movie hogs like myself in the whole year! (For those of you who don‘t know what I speak of, please stop reading now because you’ll only make you’re head hurt due to a lack of understanding. But know this; Comic Con is the equivalence to comic book geeks and moviegoers as the Super Bowl is to football fans.) As Comic Con officially kicks off, the sharks have gathered, and blood is in the water, oh will it be a feeding frenzy of special announcements and surprises this week! But none other than an interesting bit that was forwarded over to me courtesy of Wendy Shepherd of studiomatrix.com, which I believe will be of some interest to those who’ll be attending.

12-GAUGE COMICS BLASTS INTO COMIC-CON WITH AN ALL-STAR ENTERTAINMENT LINE UP
Featuring guests from comics, television, and film, the 12-Gauge
Comics’ booth (#2045) will be loaded with action!

TROY DUFFY, the creator/writer/director of THE BOONDOCK SAINTS film
series (and the creative force behind 12-Gauge’s smash-hit comic
series, BOONDOCK SAINTS: IN NOMINE PATRIS) will be joined by BOONDOCK
SAINTS stars SEAN PATRICK FLANERY and DAVID DELLA ROCCO! Don’t miss
Troy and Rocco’s one and only convention signing Saturday at 4:00
(featuring free movie and comic series posters) and the Prime Time
Saturday Night panel (12-Gauge Comics: Boondock Saints: The Comic
Series!, 7:30 pm, Room 9) where Troy and co-writer J.B. LOVE will
discuss the next installment of the comic series, and the entire crew
will take your questions on all things Boondock Saints, including the
new iPhone game!

But that’s just the beginning – New York Times #1 Bestselling Author
and 4-TIME World Heavyweight Champion MICK FOLEY will be appearing
EXCLUSIVELY at the 12-Gauge booth to promote his upcoming comic series
R.P.M.! Joined by co-writer SHANE RICHES, Mick will be on-hand
throughout the day Saturday to fill you in on all the details of his
pedal-to-the-metal action adventure series, and to autograph R.P.M.
posters and the Comic-Con Exclusive R.P.M. Ashcan – sponsored by
Poynt, poynt.com – both FREE with every Mick Foley autograph!

Also on hand for signings are creators DOUG WAGNER, of the provocative
new crime series 25 TO LIFE, and LUKE MC BAIN scribe DAVID TISCHMAN!

Finally, be sure to get your hands on the Comic-Con exclusive editions
of the BOONDOCK SAINTS: IN NOMINE PATRIS #1 & #2 – featuring sketch
covers by acclaimed artist CHRIS BRUNNER!

12-GAUGE COMICS SDCC SIGNING & PANEL Schedule

Wednesday July 21, 2010

6:00 – 8:30 Sean Patrick Flanery (BOONDOCK SAINTS, YOUNG
INDIANA JONES)
· Please note – signing fee per autograph for Sean Patrick Flanery
6:00 – 8:30 Doug Wagner (25 TO LIFE, THE RIDE)

Thursday July 22, 2010

Throughout the day Doug Wagner (25 TO LIFE, THE RIDE)
11:00 – 1:00 Sean Patrick Flanery (BOONDOCK SAINTS)
3:00 – 5:00 Sean Patrick Flanery (BOONDOCK SAINTS)
5:30 – 6:30 David Tischman (LUKE McBAIN)

Friday July 23, 2010

Throughout the day Doug Wagner (25 TO LIFE, THE RIDE)
3:00 – 4:00 David Tischman (LUKE McBAIN)
5:00 – 6:30 Sean Patrick Flanery (BOONDOCK SAINTS)

Saturday July 24, 2010

10:00 – 11:00 Sean Patrick Flanery (BOONDOCK SAINTS)
11:00 – 12:30 Mick Foley, Shane Riches (R.P.M.) *
FREE R.P.M. POSTERS!
12:30 – 1:30 Sean Patrick Flanery (BOONDOCK
SAINTS, YOUNG INDIANA JONES)
2:00 – 3:00 Mick Foley, Shane Riches (R.P.M.) *
FREE R.P.M. POSTERS & ASCHANS!
4:00 – 5:00 Troy Duffy, David Della Rocco, J.B.
Love (BOONDOCK SAINTS)
· Free BOONDOCK SAINTS MOVIE & COMIC-SERIES POSTERS!
7:30 – 8:30 12-Gauge Comics: Boondock Saints: The
Comic Series! Panel – Room 9

Sunday July 25, 2010

Throughout the day Doug Wagner (25 TO LIFE, THE RIDE)
11:00 – 1:00 Sean Patrick Flanery (BOONDOCK SAINTS)
2:30 – 4:00 Sean Patrick Flanery (BOONDOCK SAINTS)


12-GAUGE COMIC-CON PANEL:

12-Gauge Comics: Boondock Saints: The Comic Series!— Troy Duffy, the
writer/director of the cult-hit films The Boondock Saints and The
Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, takes you behind the scenes of his
comic trilogy, In Nomine Patris. Find out what’s next for the McManus
Brothers and Il Duce, as Duffy and comic series co-writer J.B. Love
fill you in on their plans for the next exciting storyline. But that’s
not all…get a sneak peek at the new Boondock Saints iPhone game, and
as an extra-special treat, David Della Rocco (the beloved “Rocco” from
the films) will be taking your questions during the Q&A session!
Moderated by comic series producer Eben Matthews and 12-Gauge
publisher Keven Gardner (The Ride). Room 9

Poynt, poynt.com, is a local search app for BlackBerry and iPhone.
R.P.M. will be previewed at Poynt’s From Dusk ’til Con party with
Mick Foley as a special guest. For more information, please visit 12gaugecomics.com or email info@12gaugecomics.com

About the Publisher

12-Gauge Comics was founded by Keven Gardner in 2004 and currently
publishes some of the most successful and critically acclaimed
independent comic books in the marketplace today. 12-Gauge recently
announced the new series R.P.M., written by multiple New York Times #1
Bestselling Author and 4-Time World Heavyweight Champion MICK FOLEY.
The company continues to expand the marketplace with its new iPad app,
which debuted with LUKE MCBAIN, featuring country music mega-star
TRACE ADKINS as the lead character, and the comic adaptation of the
cult-hit film series THE BOONDOCK SAINTS. 12-Gauge members Jason
Pearson, Brian Stelfreeze, Cully Hamner, and Doug Wagner are creating
new and innovative multi-media concepts for the company, including
Pearson’s run-away hit BODY BAGS, and THE RIDE, which debuted as the
top-selling black and white comic of the year in 2004. 12-Gauge
helped develop THE O.C.T. (Occult Crimes Taskforce), an original comic
book concept co-created and starring actress ROSARIO DAWSON. For more
information on the company, please visit 12gaugecomics.com or
email info@12gaugecomics.com.

About Boondock Saints, LLC

Boondock Saints, LLC is the official marketing, promotion and
communication arm for all things “Boondock.” The company creates and
produces special events for the growing community of Boondock Saints
fans worldwide, manages media inquiries and requests for personal
appearances and operates three websites, boondocksaints.com,
boondockfans.com and boondockstore.com to provide the public
with a dynamic interactive forum for discussion and user-generated
content along with instant access to updated information about the
films (The Boondock Saints and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints
Day,) related music, merchandise and a variety of other creative
developments in progress.

Announcing upcoming horror short, Serial: Girl's Night Out

Independent crime writer/director, Kevin Jamison, is working on his next film, Serial: Girl’s Night Out. It is the second chapter in the life and crimes of highway serial killer and sociopath, Trenton Wade Bracks. Trenton is a fictional serial killer, but Jamison has based him on a number of real life killers. The first chapter, Serial: Amoral Uprising, shows Trenton’s traumatic childhood and the killer it made him become. This 58 minute short gives us a step-by-step look at his rise in to mayhem. Even once he becomes this monster Trenton fools everyone. He appears to be charming, polite, and a real catch. He turns in to another animal altogether once he gets the girl out of the safety of the public eye. Trenton let’s his true nature take over in the most brutal sense possible.

Serial is widely inspired by films such as Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Maniac, Kalifornia, and true crime writer, Ann Rule’s, work. Serial: Amoral Uprising premiered at The Horror Society’s Summer Slaughterfest in Chicago, the film has received high praise and attention from publications like HorrorNews.net, HorrorYearbook.com, Dead Pit Radio, HorrorSociety.com, DreadCentral.com, and BloodyDisgusting.com.

Reviews:

HorrorSociety.com

My Review on HorrorYearbook.com

Bonedigger's Review on Horrornews.net

View the Serial: Amoral Uprising trailer here.

Serial: Girl’s Night Out picks up five years following the first film. It continues the trickery and slaying of serial killer, Trenton Wade Bracks. These fictional killer is highly influenced by real life cases of Ted Bundy and Henry Lee Lucas. Girls Night Out tells the horrifying story of two sorority sisters from the University of Memphis who run in to the vicious serial killer himself while out on a seemingly innocent “girls night out”. I will be featured in the film as one of the three main girls along with the talents of Deneen Melody and Colleen Miller as well as Kaylee Williams. Christopher Howell is reprising his role as Trenton Wade Bracks.

Christopher Howell as Trenton Wade Bracks

Deneen Melody as Kendra Reid

Collen Elizabeth Miller as Sarah Caide

Kelsey Zukowski as Crystal Wright

Kaylee Williams as Deanna Shaw

Girl’s Night Out is serves as a way to venture forward in to Trenton’s world while Kevin Jamison waits on the budget for a feature Serial film to come through. Jamison’s production company, Black Eye Entertainment, along with co-producer Mitchell Wells of HorrorSociety.com, will use film festivals, magazines, and genre conventions, and online marketing until the film gets distribution. Serial: Girl’s Night Out will be available once post-production wraps later this year.

For more information on Girls Night Out, Amoral Uprising or updates regarding the status of the Serial project please feel free to visit the film’s official website at www.serialthefilm.com.

SINNERS AND SAINTS MOVIE PREMIERE!

There’s something about the city of New Orleans that’s fascinating. From it’s beautifully aged unique architectural styles which reflects the city's historic roots and multicultural heritage, to it’s world famous Cajun cuisines. It’s produced a wide array of musicians and sports athletes, and for being the party city that never sleeps during it’s Mardi Gras session. No I’ve never been there myself, but I’ve studied it from books and documentaries, and what I’ve learned from them is, despite the city enduring some of the most dangerous of natural disasters that side of the United States has ever seen, it’s citizens however have proven that you can’t keep them nor they're city down for long. One cannot deny that it’s got a natural atmospheric setting that’s very alluring.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sinners And Saints Movie Premiere...

Sinners And Saints movie premiere is expected to have a full celebrity
cast in attendance. Tickets are being sold to this star-studded event
to benefit Common Ground Relief (A Non-Profit organization focused on
rebuilding post-Katrina New Orleans and surrounding areas). The
premiere will be held at Arclight Hollywood Cinema in Los Angeles, on
June 30, 2010.

Some of the cast members expected to attend include: Johnny Strong,
Tom Berenger, Sean Patrick Flanery, Kevin Phillips, Costas Mandylor,
Kim Coates, Method Man, Jurgen Prochnow, Jolene Blalock, Louis
Mandylor, Brooklyn Sudano, Baz Rutten and many more...

ALL of The film's stars will be in attendance for this world premier event!

SYNOPSIS:
In lawless storm ravaged New Orleans, beleaguered Detective Sean Riley
is trying to cope with the death of his young son and the abandonment
of his wife. Facing a probable suspension from the department, Riley
is teamed with a young homicide Detective, Will Ganz, to help solve a
series of brutal murders that have plunged the city into a major gang
war. The two quickly realize there is something far more sinister
going on than either could have ever imagined.

You can catch the trailer and learn more about the film and by how you can contribute to this event by checking out it’s official website: HERE

CLIFTON COLLINS JR. TURN'S 40 TODAY!

Clifton Collins Jr. is an actor I like to consider as a jack of all trades when it comes to character acting. Over the last few decades he’s managed to make us see him in many different lights with his various performances.

From wowing us as the hero, to making us cringe as the villain, to making us relate with him as Mr. nice guy, and loving to hate him as the A-Hole, never once has he failed to entertain us, nor has it been a dull moment.

So when good friend Wendy Shepherd over at studiomatrix mentioned to me this morning that it was Clifton Collins Jr’s 40th birthday today, I felt the need to spread the word both high and low for an actor who‘s incredibly underrated!

Being the all around good actor that he is, Collins has appeared in a great deal of memorable films, of the many film’s he has appeared in, STAR TREK (2009), CRANK: HIGE VOLTAGE (2009), EXTRACT, BROTHERS (2009), and last year’s cult sensation, THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY (2009). are just a small number of films I can recall off the top of my head he’s been in as of recent.

Aside from acting he’s also produced quite a number of films in the last few years, and has even been quoted for saying he studies “like a madman” when preparing for a role. But a madman he is not in real life, he's known by friends and fans alike as being one of the most kind and down to earth individual you will ever meet.

So we at TCWreviews would like to wish Clifton Collins Jr. a happy 40th birthday, and thank him for giving us all the fond years of serves on the big screen and wish him a wonderful 40 more years ahead! So for all the fans out there, if you happen to see him out and about today make sure to give him a handshake and thanks for providing some mighty fine entertainment!

Drop by his official website to learn more about what he’s been up to at: cliftoncollinsjr.com

Also while you're at it check him out in the music video to “High Cost of Living” by Jamey Johnson: HERE

The City of Gardens Wraps Filming in Lima, Peru…Production Moving to Los Angeles.

Twilight is just around the corner, and already the sight of twihards stampeding through theaters lines are already beginning form, don’t believe me? Don’t worry because when the sound of the horrific act echo’s throughout the valley just remember I told you so!

But for now, the fans of the Twilight films (you know who you are) will have to make do with some (Unrelated to Twilight) news regarding one of it’s stars, Alex Meraz, who is starring in a new film being made called “The City of Gardens”.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The City of Gardens Wraps Filming in Lima, Peru…Production Moving to Los Angeles.

Dynamic ensemble cast, John Robinson, Alex Meraz, Johnny Lewis, Michael DeLorenzo, Deborah Unger, James Remar and Grant Bowler
star in a story inspired by true events
Produced by Four Fish Films/DragonTree Media

Production is currently underway on the feature film The City of Gardens, which is the 1980s story of a young American surfer, wrongfully accused of cocaine trafficking and sent to prison. Production has wrapped photography in Lima, Peru and will continue in Los Angeles.

The intense action drama and coming of age story stars John Robinson (Lords of Dogtown, Transformers, Elephant), Alex Meraz (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and New Moon), Johnny Lewis (Sons of Anarchy, The Runaways, AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem), Michael DeLorenzo (A Few Good Men, Not Forgotten, Resurrection Blvd), Deborah Unger (White Noise, The Hurricane, Angel and the Bad Man, The Game), James Remar (Red with Bruce Willis, Gun with Val Kilmer, Pineapple Express, 2 Fast 2 Furious) and Grant Bowler (Killer Elite with Robert De Niro, Jason Statham & Clive Owen, True Blood 3rd Season, Ugly Betty). The City of Gardens is directed by Camilo Vila (18 Wheels of Justice, Resurrection Blvd), who wrote the script with Monty Fisher. Monty Fisher and Alicia Rivera Frankl (Gettysburg, Babysitter, The Mask of Zorro) are producing alongside co-producer Rami Rivera Frankl. DragonTree Media president Rami Rivera Frankl is in discussions for Domestic and International Distribution. Production is currently casting the role of Wayne’s (John Robinson) mother.

The action drama, The City of Gardens, follows a blond Californian surfer, Wayne Montgomery (John Robinson), who is a fun loving beach bum escaping the influence of his wealthy and powerful father (James Remar). Wayne leaves his home in Beverly Hills for the enchantment of exotic Peru. Wayne’s carefree lifestyle and love affair with his beautiful girlfriend, Maritza, (introducing Anahi De Cardenas a Peruvian actress), ends when he is framed during a political uprising. Framing turns into extortion in the sadistic prison.

In the nightmarish prison, Wayne finds himself surrounded by a group of political activists and social misfits, including a schizophrenic who believes he is Jesus Christ (Grant Bowler) and an Icelandic devotee of Krishna, Jorge (Johnny Lewis). Wayne is forced to share a mattress with the animalistic beast that everyone calls Nicaragua (Alex Meraz) which leads to a confrontation between them.

In a desperate attempt to gain freedom, Wayne meets with Consul Powers (Debra Unger) whose hands are tied by the false drug charges. As Wayne's naivety dissipates, another nemesis, the power hungry Lt. Gutierrez (Michael DeLorenzo), moves to break Wayne´s spirit, torturing him to extort money from his family. Left with few options, Wayne adopts a new ethic – engaging the Peruvian activists, sharing his gifts with them and learning the importance of faith through his sympathetic friend, Jorge (Johnny Lewis). Wayne challenges Lt. Gutierrez’s authority, confronting the depravity of corruption and abuse with his newfound spirit and courage. Wayne´s confrontation with Gutierrez propels the story to its final climax.

Monty Fisher’s Four Fish Films endeavors to develop and produce feature films, focusing especially on the cultures of both North and South America.

DragonTree Media, founded by CEO Alicia Rivera Frankl and President Rami Rivera Frankl, specializes in developing successful entertainment properties for the mainstream market with a multi-cultural awareness. Rami Rivera Frankl is represented by Montana Artist Agency. DragonTree Media has several projects in development including Gitano, Dead and Kicking and The B-Let Report to name a few.

You’re probably scratching your head right about now wondering why’d I even mention Twilight if it has nothing to do with it other than it starring an actor from it? Well maybe I wanted to bring this to the attention of the fans, or maybe I just wanted to mention it to screw with the fan base a little. Yeah, I’m cynical that way…anyway you can learn more about the film The City of Gardens by visiting it’s official website HERE