Sims got lashings of the old ultraviolence

What happens when you allow thousands of anonymous people to live out their own fantasies in an interactive city? Scams, protection rackets and sex traders, natch. And now a man documenting the downside of the Sims Online cybercity has been thrown out…most likely because alerting the outside world to the goings on of Sims Online might hurt the game.

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BATGIRL: YEAR ONE Write-In Campaign

Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty have mounted a write-in campaign to get Batgirl:Year One named Best Mini-series in the 2003 Wizard Fan Awards. After being named “Best Mini-series of 2003″ in the year-end issue of Wizard the mini was absent from the publication’s 2003 Fan Awards ballot (even though the long-awaited JLA/Avengers made the the list and it hasn’t even concluded yet – and wouldn’t have even if it wasn’t dealyed by Perez’s injury).

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Hobbit chic

Hobbit chic has hit the fashion runways. I’m torn. Part of me thinks it’s absolutely ridiculous. The other half thinks that these outfits would really look good on Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News.

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Admiral Akbar caption contest

Just a meaningless giggle, here. Star Wars.com had a caption contest for a picture of Admiral Akbar. Some of the submissions are funny, but the best one is “It’s a… shoot… LINE!”

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Coming soon to a theater NEAR YOU…

We’ve spotlighted the travails of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” and the problems it’s had finding a distributor. Icon Productions (Mel’s Company) planned to act as distributor, and finally teamed up with Newmarket films. Newmarket distributes independent productions…usually to a few theaters and then getting them out to more theaters if they have good buzz. By all accounts, “Passion” would be a good movie for Newmarket because they would get it into just the big theaters, and, so long as there wasn’t a rash of anti-semitism and rioting following the premier (sarcasm mode off), then follow that up by increasing the distribution. Seems like a good plan.

And in the end, unnecessary. “The Passion of the Christ” has been booked into 2000 screens! That’s as many as a standard movie release.

For comparison, Newmarket’s “Whale Rider” was a smashing success for the studio, with great buzz, tremendous reviews and top honors for the year, and it topped out at 550 screens. Of course, one of the problems with the whole “buzz generates more screens” business model is that these days, by the time you hear of a good movie, the DVD is almost out.

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