James Cameron on Writing the Screenplays to “Rambo: First Blood Part Two” & “Aliens”

What are the odds that a young writer would, on the same day, get the jobs to write the screenplays to two of Hollywood’s biggest sequels ever?

That is exactly what happened to James Cameron when he earned the assignments to create sequels to First Blood and Alien.

You can click over to /Film.com and see the video where Cameron explains how he did it, but before you go, I’ll give you a clue… two desks.

“ROCKY” by Gabz Celebrating the 40th Anniversary!

Remember when I posted about the “ROCKY” 40th anniversary print by Gabz?  I received mine this week and it looks even better in person.  Below are the details if you’d like one for yourself!

“ROCKY” 

by Gabz

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary!

Grey Matter Art, under license from MGM Studios is proud to present a new officially licensed, limited edition screen print for the 40th anniversary of the classic film, “Rocky” by talented artist, Grzegorz Domaradzki (Gabz). GMA are thrilled to be working with Gabz again to showcase this amazing poster. There are 2 separate editions for this poster, a regular and variant Edition. Below are details regarding the poster and release date.

Artist: Gabz
Size: 24×36
Regular Edition: 225/$45.00
Variant Edition: 175/$60.00
Printed by: D & L Screen Printing

This poster was released on Wednesday, June 08th on our website shop page at  1:00 PM (est) at www.greymatterart.com

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The Justice League of America 100 Project

The Cully Hamner cover is my favorite from the Heroes Initiative JLA 100 Project.

The Heroes Initiative is an organization that…

…creates a financial safety net for comic creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work. Since inception, the Hero Initiative has been fortunate enough to benefit more than 50 creators and their families with over $950,000 worth of much-needed aid, fueled by your contributions! It’s a chance for all of us to give back something to the people who have given us so much enjoyment.

One of the cool fundraising ideas that the Heroes Initiative came up with was the JLA 100 Project.  Heroes Initiative in collaboration with DC Comics got over 100 artists to create an original JLA cover on specially printed blank Justice League of America #50 covers.  The original art was then auctioned off with the proceeds going to the Hero Initiative.  In additional the 100+ pieces were collected in special edition hard and trade paperback books again with the proceeds going to support the Hero Initiative.

You can see all 100+ pieces of JLA art here.