THE POLICE's Andy Summers Presents Doc CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU and Gallery Show

April 7, 2015, 9:00 am

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By Sharon Knolle

The Police guitarist Andy Summers appeared in person March 21 at the Laemmle Royal Theater in Santa Monica, California to present his new documentary, Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police, and an exhibition of some of his black-and-white photography.

The film, which is based on his 2006 biography One Train Later, tells Summers's story before The Police as an up-and-coming guitarist who was mentioned in the same breath as Jeff Beck, how he joined what would become one of the biggest bands in the world, and their rise to fame, clash of egos and inevitable split.

Archival footage of The Police's performances and interviews is intercut with footage from their 2007 reunion show, along with Summers's photos highlighting never-seen moments of the band, fans and the endless parade of towns and hotels.

There's also footage of Summers out snapping photos, including an impromptu moment when he overhears someone singing Every Breath You Take in a Tokyo karaoke bar and goes in to join him: The clueless singer doesn't realize at first that he's standing next to a member of The Police.

“That was actually a real moment, believe it or not.” Summers told the audience. “Quite amazing.”

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STAR WARS Digital Movie Collection Available On April 10th

April 7, 2015, 11:30 am

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The most iconic movie collection of all time becomes available for the first time on Digital HD on April 10, 2015

Now the Force will be with you – everywhere!

As anticipation builds for the December release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first new film in the Star Wars Saga in a decade, The Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm Ltd., and 20th Century Fox today announced the upcoming release of The Star Wars Digital Movie Collection. For the first time ever, all six epic films in the Saga, from The Phantom Menace to Return of the Jedi, will be available on Digital HD throughout the galaxy – or at least here on Earth – globally beginning Friday, April 10.

“Since the debut of the first film nearly 40 years ago, Star Wars has become a worldwide phenomenon with legions of fans from every generation,” said Alan Bergman, President, The Walt Disney Studios. “It’s only fitting that audiences enjoy this legendary Saga and its many fascinating behind-the-scenes stories on a wide variety of platforms, and we’re very excited to finally bring all six films to Digital HD for the first time.”

“We’re thrilled that fans will be able to enjoy the Star Wars Saga on their digital devices wherever they go,” commented Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy. “These films broke new ground in technology, design, sound, and visual effects, and we’ve created some very special bonus material which delves into the Saga’s rich history, including new and never-before-released conversations between legendary Star Wars artists – the masters who helped George bring his iconic universe to life.”

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Alan Freed Deserved A Better Fate Than 1978’s AMERICAN HOT WAX

April 7, 2015, 2:00 pm

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Written by Generoso Fierro

Over the last nineteen years of my radio show, I have always ended with the phrase, “And in the immortal words of the late, great Alan Freed: This is not goodbye, it is just goodnight.” As a young man growing up Philly, obsessed with radio as many of us were, I was thrilled in 1978 when a biopic was made on the infamous Cleveland disc jockey who coined the term, “rock and roll,” Alan Freed.

A year earlier on a local UHF station I had seen the 1956 film, “Rock, Rock, Rock” that starred Freed, which encouraged me to go to my local library to read about Freed and his relationships with the artists he nurtured, the blacklisted music that he rebelliously played on air, and the eventual “payola” scandal that destroyed his career.

So, even as a boy of ten, there was a lot riding on American Hot Wax in my mind, and I asked my dad to take me to see it in a downtown theater.

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JUPITER ASCENDING on Blu-ray 3D Combo, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on June 2nd

April 7, 2015, 4:30 pm

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Jupiter Jones (Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people’s houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.

From the creators of The Matrix Trilogy comes Jupiter Ascending, an original science fiction action adventure from filmmakers Lana and Andy Wachowski, arriving onto Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on June 2 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

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Nicholas Meyer’s THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION Comes to Comics This August

April 7, 2015, 7:00 pm

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The Real Story Behind Sherlock Holmes And Professor Moriarty Is Revealed!

IDW Publishing announced at WonderCon 2015 the 5-issue comic-book adaption of writer/director Nicholas Meyer’s best-selling mystery novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.Scott Tipton and David Tipton, the writing team behind Harlan Ellison’s TheCity on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay and Star Trek / Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive, are adapting the material, alongside artist Ron Joseph with cover art by Kelley Jones.

From the mind of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan writer/director Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is a "rediscovered" Sherlock Holmes adventure that recounts the astonishing and previously unknown collaboration of Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud, as recorded by Dr. John H. Watson. In addition to recounting this remarkable collaboration on a case of diabolic conspiracy, it reveals the real identity of Holmes’s nemesis Professor Moriarty, a dark secret shared by Sherlock and his brother Mycroft Holmes, and the detective's true whereabouts during the Great Hiatus, when the world believed him to be dead.

“I'm delighted to help translate my novel, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, for a new audience in a new venue and hope the results will justify the effort!” said Meyer.

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FOCUS Arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on June 2nd

April 8, 2015, 7:30 am

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NEVER TRUST A THIEF, NEVER DROP THE CON AND NEVER LOSE FOCUS

Blu-ray and Digital HD include bonus content featuring stars Will Smith and Margot Robbie!

Love will get you killed when Focus arrives onto Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on June 2 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Starring Oscar nominee Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness, Ali) and Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street), Focus follows a seasoned master of misdirection and his novice con artist as the winner takes all.

Will Smith stars as Nicky, a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess (Margot Robbie). As he’s teaching her the tricks of the trade, she gets too close for comfort and he abruptly breaks it off. Three years later, the former flame—now an accomplished femme fatale—shows up in Buenos Aires in the middle of the high stakes racecar circuit. In the midst of Nicky’s latest, very dangerous scheme, she throws his plans for a loop…and the consummate con man off his game.

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DYNAMITE Partners With STORYBUNDLE

April 8, 2015, 9:30 am

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Promotion Benefits Girls Write Now and CBLDF!

Dynamite Entertainment is proud to announce that StoryBundle, a unique literature bundling site known for its support of indie authors, will host - for the first time ever - a comic book bundle promotion that allows readers to purchase almost 100 digital Dynamite comics and graphic novels with "Pay What You Want" purchasing power beginning at $5.00. A portion of proceeds will be contributed to two very important charitable organizations, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Girls Write Now. The bundle promotion will begin Wednesday, April 8th, on the website StoryBundle.com.

StoryBundle will offer a fixed set of Dynamite comic books, graphic novel collections, and art books in a bundle, available only for a limited time. Fans and newcomers will decide their own value for each bundle. Bonus books are unlocked when the purchaser achieves certain bonus thresholds. StoryBundle has already sold hundreds of thousands of books through its popular horror, fantasy, video game and sci-fi book bundles, and for the first time ever, welcomes its huge audience to experience the four-color adventures of Dynamite digital comics.

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The NYC Historical Locations of MARVEL'S AGENT CARTER

April 8, 2015, 11:30 am

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I have a confession to make.

Agent Carter?

Yeah, I haven’t geeked out this much over a current television show since 1987.

In fact, I don’t even own a TV.

But between the fedoras, the British accents, the witty banter, the crime fighting and calamity, and, most importantly, the smart badass woman who is marginalized in her work because of her gender but who outsmarts everyone and kicks total ass doing it… Agent Carter has been the first show in thirty years to hit all of my previously established fandom points and completely reel me in.

To the point that my fandom for it makes me feel like a teenager again.

Sadly, though, I’m now far past being a teenager, and, this time, I likely won’t be, among other things, scrapbooking or plastering my bedroom walls with pictures of its stars (because that would be weird). There are other things that are a little different, too – in good ways and bad. On the bad side, I’d take the 1982-1986 Top 40 charts any day over the current ones.

On the good side, I now live in New York City.

Which brings me to one of the things that I love most about Agent Carter and which is unique to it -- the intersection between my favorite television program and NYC history. Living in the city and having a pre-existing interest in its past, I get absolutely giddy about the fact that certain plot points have foundations in NYC’s real-life history, and the show has prompted me to research and learn more about those things.

And some of the results of that research are pretty cool.

So please join me as I spend the afternoon touring the NYC haunts of our hero – Agent Peggy Carter -- while somehow managing to locate, in real life, fictional places that should not actually exist.

But there they are.

So let’s get started, shall we?

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FOG! Discusses THE ORDER OF THE FORGE With Writer VICTOR GISCHLER!

April 8, 2015, 1:30 pm

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Interview conducted by Clay N. Ferno

The Revolution with be immortalized in The Order of The Forge coming from Dark Horse later this month.

In the tradition of super-sizing some of our past presidents with powers of the dark arts (see Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), crime author Victor Gischler (Ink Mage, Spike, Angel and Faith, Sally of the Wasteland) joins us to talk about our founding fathers in a new way.

Starring a pre-Revolution Geo. Washington with pals Paul Revere and “Baudy” Ben Franklin — The Order of the Forge is coming at you by land and sea!

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INFOGRAPHIC: The Evolution of DAREDEVIL

April 8, 2015, 3:30 pm

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Daredevil has long been a favorite of both creators and fans, yet with the exception of the Ben Affleck starring debacle several years ago, wide audiences have never seen what the character has to offer. That might change this Friday with the release of Marvel Studios' first collaboration with Netflix, Marvel's Daredevil starring Charlie Cox as the main character aka Matt Murdock.

After the jump check out an infographic charting the evolution of "Battling Jack" Murdock's son from the beginning to his newest live-action incarnation.

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THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER Comes to Blu-ray 6/2 and Digital HD 5/19

April 8, 2015, 5:30 pm

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SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS HEADS TO OUR WORLD FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

Antonio Banderas Stars in the $285 Million Worldwide Hit

SpongeBob and his friends are back—and like you’ve never seen them before—in the all-new blockbuster hit THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER arriving on Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, DVD and VOD June 2, 2015 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. Hailed as “laugh-out-loud funny” (Examiner) and “the best family film of the year” (Fanboy Nation), the wildly entertaining adventure arrives two weeks early on Digital HD May 19.

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray Combo Packs with Digital HD boast over an hour of super-powered extras highlighted by three exclusive and delightfully fun sing-along music videos: “Thank Gosh It’s Monday,” “Teamwork” and “Theme Song/Rap Battle.” The Combo Packs also include eight exciting featurettes that take you from Bikini Bottom to the surface, deleted scenes and more.

On a mission to save his world, SpongeBob SquarePants is headed to ours. When pirate Burger Beard (Antonio Banderas) steals the secret recipe for the beloved Krabby Patties, SpongeBob and friends come ashore to bring back the missing formula. To succeed, they must team up with former rival, Plankton, but soon realize that to defeat a super-villain, they must unleash their inner superheroes.

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Boston Cinegeeks! Want To See An Advance Screening Of EX MACHINA With Writer/Director ALEX GARLAND Live Q & A?

April 9, 2015, 7:00 am

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Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, EX MACHINA. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company's brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac).

Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.

Writer/Director Alex Garland (writing credits include 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, Producing credits on 28 Weeks Later, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd) and author of the The Beach and The Tesseract, both of which have been made into films), makes his directorial debut with EX MACHINA.

Garland will participate in a Q & A following the screening on Monday, April 13th at The Kendall Square Cinema at 7:00PM.

To attend please go to http://tinyurl.com/ExMachina-Boston

For "organization" please put "Forces of Geek"

Please arrive early. Seating is first come, first seated. No one will be admitted late.

The screening may be over booked and seating is not guaranteed.

www.Meet-Ava.com

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The Woodpocalypse : A Look At TREES V.1 By Warren Ellis and Jason Howard

April 9, 2015, 9:00 am

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Review by Lily Fierro

TREES Volume 1

Written by Warren Ellis

Art by Jason Howard

Lettering & Book Design by Fonografiks

Published by Image Comics

Released 2/11/15

ISBN: 978-1-63215-270-1

Diamond Code: DEC140696

$14.99

Given the revival of zombies and other forms of apocalypse in modern media and culture, perhaps today’s media creators are all honing in on a general instability hiding under our technology age where the future seems bright but something rotten lurks underneath. Warren Ellis’s Trees capitalizes on the concept and the fear of the apocalypse in the modern age with alien tree-like creatures falling from space and landing on Earth.

However, unlike the zombies and any active attacking force galvanizing the end of the world, the trees rule and stand with a nearly silent presence, growing and oozing a mysterious green acidic liquid.

In a way, the trees do not intentionally inflict malevolence on the humans and communities of Earth. They simply grow and live, but as they flourish, they interrupt human life, landscapes, natural resources, and societies, leaving humans to adapt in the wake.

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MADMAN 3D Trading Cards Come to Kickstarter!

April 9, 2015, 11:00 am

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Mike Allred's seminal pop culture hero Madman starts a Kickstarter campaign for 3D Trading Cards today. With copy and design by writer/comics historian Christopher Irving, and conversions by Christian LeBlanc of last year's Madman In Your Face 3D Special Starring Frank Einstein, The Madman Comin' Atcha 3D Trading Cardschronicle 20+ years of the hero's comic book adventures in a retro-inspired trading card line.

"Christopher is a long time friend who has always been enthusiastic and supportive of what we do," Allred notes. "It's been big fun to let him loose on this, sit back, and watch him run wild! And you've all seen what Christian LeBlanc is capable of. Gonna be soopah cool!"

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MAD MEN Already Had Its Series Finale

April 9, 2015, 1:00 pm

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As far as I’m concerned, the Mad Men series finale already happened — it was the last episode of Season 5, The Phantom.

It brought closure to storylines without the finality of someone getting killed and had just the right amount of ambiguity with characters’ future.

The final scene and moment were so perfect that it seems unlikely that Matthew Weiner is going to be able to top it in this final season.

To start from the very end of the episode, Don finally does something selfless for his wife — he pulls strings to get Megan the lead part in a commercial that his firm is producing for a client. It’s pure nepotism — Don wants to appear above that — and he doesn’t want to see her succeed and be independent of him.

But over the course of the episode he figures out that getting her the part is the right thing to do — that’s what you do for people you love. For the first time he has a realization about relationships and people you’re close with.

At the commercial shoot the set is buzzing with a lot of crew — it looks like a big deal. But as the camera pulls out it reveals that the set is the size of a studio apartment. It’s suddenly clear that this commercial is kinda minor, that it was kind of ridiculous that Don had to think twice about getting Megan the part.

He then walks off the shoot, as if this is this commercial is his parting gesture of goodwill to Megan.

He finds his way to a bar — of course — where a woman trying to pick him up asks “are you alone?”

Don looks at her, and cut to black. Perfect.

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THE TOP TEN CARTOONS OF 1945

April 9, 2015, 3:00 pm

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We’ve made it to 1945 in our little series here, and although we’ve reached the end of World War II, the vigorous style of war-era animation continued for several more years. The wild personality of the era even filtered its way into feature animation; Disney’s The Three Caballeros is perhaps the strangest and most psychedelic (as well as being the most sexually-charged) Disney movie ever released.

1945 might have had the greatest success rate of any year in the history of animation. At least that’s true of Warner Bros., where every single short released was a home run (then again, what do you expect when you have Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin and Bob Clampett as your staff directors?). You know it’s a good year when I couldn’t find room on this list for such classics as Herr Meets Hare, The Unruly Hare, Trap Happy Porky, Behind the Meat Ball, Ain’t That Ducky, A Tale of Two Mice, Wagon Heels, Hare Conditioned, The Bashful Buzzard, Peck Up Your Troubles, Hare Tonic, etc.

The same might be said of MGM, where Hanna & Barbera were still churning out consistently excellent Tom & Jerry cartoons (The Mouse Comes to Dinner, Mouse in Manhattan, Tee for Two, Flirty Birdy, Quiet Please) and Tex Avery was concocting some of his most furiously brilliant films (The Screwy Truant, The Shooting of Dan McGoo, Jerky Turkey, Swing Shift Cinderella, Wild and Woolfy). The closest thing to a dud at the studio this year was The Unwelcome Guest, a George Gordon-directed Barney Bear short, and even that’s a pretty top-notch effort as far as Barney Bear cartoons are concerned.

1945 was also an exceptionally strong year for new characters. Casper the Friendly Ghost debuted in the appropriately titled Famous Studios short The Friendly Ghost. But most of the heavy lifting as far as characters are concerned came from Warner Bros.; this year, rather incredibly, saw the debuts of Pepe Le Pew (in Chuck Jones’ Odor-able Kitty), Yosemite Sam (in Friz Freleng’s Hare Trigger) and Sylvester (in Friz Freleng’s Life with Feathers)... all three fully-formed and hilarious even in their maiden voyages.

On this list, you’ll find a whole lot of Looney Tunes, as well as some masterpieces from Disney and MGM... plus, an early experiment from UPA. Take a look:

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LOST IN SPACE Arrives on Blu-ray In Celebration of 50th Anniversary

April 9, 2015, 5:00 pm

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Set Includes Unprecedented Access to the Personal Archives of Irwin Allen

Featuring Over Seven Hours of Bonus Material and All-New Featurettes, The Robinson Family Comes Home in High-Definition September 15 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment pays tribute to one of the most iconic television series of all-time as “Lost in Space” – The Complete Series arrives on Blu-ray for the first time ever on September 15. Running from 1965-1968, this collection allows fans to bring home Irwin Allen’s intergalactic family saga that earned an enormous following of devoted fans over the years. Set in the space age future of 1997, follow the heart-racing, cliff-hanging adventures of John Robinson™ and his family aboard the Jupiter 2™, along with Robot B-9™ and the delightfully devious Dr. Zachary Smith™.

Produced with Space Productions, Inc. and Synthesis Entertainment, this massive 18-disc set contains all 83 episodes remastered in high definition, and over seven hours of exciting extras with recently discovered content you won’t find anywhere else in the galaxy. It’s out-of-this-world fun for everyone! Highlights include new commentaries on classic episodes with the original cast, 50th anniversary interviews with the original series cast and hours of archive footage offering incredible and unprecedented access into Irwin Allen’s personal archives. In addition, the Blu-ray includes an exclusive cast performance of Bill Mumy’s unproduced 1980 epilogue script, featuring Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Marta Kristen, Mark Goddard and more!

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J-POP SUMMIT Announces 2015 Festival Dates

April 9, 2015, 7:00 pm

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The Bay Area’s Premiere Japanese Pop Culture Event Moves To Historic Fort Mason And Transitions To A Ticketed Event Offering An Even Wider Variety Of Japanese Film, Food, Fashion, Music And Entertainment

The J-POP SUMMIT, the Japanese pop culture celebration held annually in San Francisco since 2009, has announced that its 7th annual event will take place Friday, August 7th through Sunday, August 9th.

The 2015 J-POP SUMMIT kicks off on Friday, August 7th with a very special Friday night premiere event at the historic Castro Theatre in association with the 2015 Japan Film Festival of San Francisco.

This year, the popular Bay Area annual celebration of Japanese pop culture, music, art, anime, fashion, and film moves from Japantown, where it has been held since 2009, to the historic Fort Mason Center in San Francisco’s Marina district.

The J-POP SUMMIT also transitions to become a ticketed attraction this year. Tickets will go on-sale on April 10th. Details and information on featured performers and events will be posted at www.J-POP.com.

Returning as part of the 2015 J-POP SUMMIT will be the 3rd annual Japan Film Festival of San Francisco, the only dedicated Japanese film festival held in the Bay Area. The week-long series of live-action and anime film theatrical premieres will be highlighted by special personal appearances by a variety of prominent Japanese directors and actors and kicks off on Friday August 7th with a special opening night premiere event co-presented by J-POP SUMMIT at San Francisco’s landmark Castro Theatre. The 2015 Japan Film Festival of San Francisco then runs at the NEW PEOPLE Cinema, located inside the NEW PEOPLE venue on Post St. in Japantown, from Saturday August 8th until Sunday August 16th. Tickets and additional information will be available at: www.JFFSF.org.

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First Look: CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA #2

April 10, 2015, 6:00 am

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On Sale 4/15!

On the eve of Sabrina’s sixteenth birthday, as she faces a choice that will determine her destiny as a half-witch/half-mortal, an unspeakable terror arrives in Greendale, and her name is… Madam Satan! At long last, the secret history of the Queen of Hell is revealed, as she sets her vengeful gaze upon the Spellman family. No one, especially those close to Sabrina, is safe, and very, very soon, the quiet streets of Greendale run red with blood…

Harvey Award-winning writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Robert Hack bring this dark re-imagining of Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s occult origin to spine-tingling life.

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First Look: THE FOX #1

April 10, 2015, 7:00 am

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NEW ONGOING SERIES FROM DARK CIRCLE!

THE FOX is BACK!

On Sale 4/15!

Emmy Award winning writer/artist Dean Haspiel (Billy Dogma, HBO's Bored to Death) is once again united with Eisner award-winning writer Mark Waid (Daredevil, Thrillbent) for FOX HUNT: Part One "The Situation": When a billionaire philanthropist prepares Paul Patton Jr's home town for demolition, our hero is sent on assignment to photograph the event. But what strange force lurks in the shadows, and why will it take Paul's alter-ego, THE FOX, to stop it? The answer is the beginning of a deadly FOX HUNT and you won't believe what happens next!

Don't miss the debut issue from the critically-acclaimed team that brought you THE FOX: FREAK MAGNET, featuring FOUR all-new variant covers! With art from Dean Haspiel, David Mack, Thomas Pitilli, Ulises Farinas and Chris Samnee!

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