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Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie – Chapter 5

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Penny For Your Thoughts?
by Leesa Dean

Things keep moving. Rollo and I talk a couple of times a week, mostly on the phone. He’s working on another project that just sounds huge. Two VERY MAJOR CELEBRITIES are attached. It’s a movie. It’s sci-fi. It involves a franchise. He got in through the back door because of his connects. What’s his participation?  Well, that’s a little nebulous. Yet, it’s thrilling. He’s like Scheherazade, spinning out tales of hope. If things work out like that for him, how incredible is it gonna be for me!

He admits he’s treading water financially. How does he support himself? I don’t even wanna guess. It would pierce my expectations and I know that. He’s not the only iron I have in the fire, in fact, he’s just one teensy one, but his stories and the potential weight they carry are mesmerizing. read article

Overthinking Adventure Time: Creation, Frustration, and Masturbation

We know we’re supposed to love the series ADVENTURE TIME, but so far we haven’t been able to get even lukewarm. Shana Mlawski, however, sees the show quite differently (so we’re letting her handle the overthink here):

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by Shana Mlawski on OverthinkitIt.Com read article

STAR TREK Reanimated?

by Larry Brody

Captain Kirk rises to the occasion in “The Magicks of Megas-Tu”

New Star Trek TV show could be an animated series
by Charlie Jane Anders (io9)

A new Star Trek TV show is looking slightly more likely than it was a little while ago, judging from the slightly cryptic interview movie producer Roberto Orci gave TrekMovie the other day. Orci says the talks over a Trek television show aren’t real yet, but “they are almost real.” Adds Orci, “The relevant parties haven’t sat down in a room together, but they have sent messages through intermediaries.”

In other words, any TV show is probably a long way off, since the “relevant parties” haven’t even spoken face to face yet, including CBS. There may have been some semaphore action.

And it sounds like Orci, at least, is most excited about the idea of an animated Trek series — given that an animated show would have the least risk of “cannibalizing” demand for a third Trek movie, assuming it starts right before or after J.J. Abrams’ second movie. (Much like the way Tron: Uprising isn’t seen as killing the demand for a third Tron movie — probably the reverse, if anything.) And Orci seems to think it could involve the cast of the movies, having adventures in between the films. So, similar to the 1970s animated series, in other words. read article

munchman: Anyone Up for ELECTRIC CITY?

Me, I’ve got a problem after seeing LARRY CROWNE.

Tom Hanks’ ‘Electric City’ looks for light in the darkness
by Jeff Labrecque

Tom Hanks is heading to Electric City. No, Dunderheads, he’s not guesting on The Office, which is, of course, set in Scranton, Pa., a.k.a. Electric City. The two-time Oscar winner has created a new animated web series about a seeming oasis of idealistic possibility set amongst a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. Hanks has been working on the idea for years, at one point contemplating bringing his characters to life with puppets. Instead, Yahoo will host a series of short five-to-seven-minute episodes, the first 10 of which will premiere on July 17. Additional episodes will follow on July 18-19, completing the 90-minute adventure.

It’s the Hulk! On the Toilet! What Else Do You Need?

Destined to be the biggest viral video of the century, if it isn’t already:

Courtesy of The Art of Stodoe

Huh? Oh, you want the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Tp6beYfqm18 read article