News Coverage: "A Couple of Pirates Board the DevaShard Production"

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Following the great news the other day that David Venghaus (Pirates of the Carribean - Assistant Director) and Eric McLeod (Pirates of the Carribean - Executive Producer) announced that they would be joining the DevaShard Production as Executive Producer and Producer respectively, the press and blogs immediately started reporting on it, using the evocative title: "A Couple of Pirates Board the DevaShard Production".

Here are a few examples of the coverage:

Screen Daily



Comic Book Movie.com



The Comics Waiting Room Newswire

Pirates of the Carribean Executive Producer Eric McLeod Joins DevaShard Film as Producer!

As if we hadn't already had enough great news with David Venghaus (Assistant Director of Pirates of the Carribean) and Kevin Grevioux (co-creator, writer and actor in Underworld) coming on board the DevaShard project, I am now extremely happy to announce that one of the most successful Producers in Hollywood has confirmed he will be joining the DevaShard film project as Producer

Eric McLeod, Executive Producer of Pirates of the Carribean and producer of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Tropic Thunder and the upcoming BioShock has yet to have a miss in Hollywood, producing successful films one after another, year after year.

Having handled enormous budget movies in the past with excellent results, studios, financiers and of course our own Fluid Comics all have great confidence in him to do a great job with the film.

You can see DevaShard listed at the top of Eric's IMDb page , as well as a list of all the many projects he's worked on over the years. I've put a short screen grab of it for reference here:

Pirates of the Carribean Assistant Director David Venghaus Comes on Board DevaShard Film!

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More amazing news continued to stream in this week, as Assistant Director to the world famous Pirates of the Carribean films, David Venghaus confirmed that he would be joining the DevaShard project as an Executive Producer.



David specialises in motion capture technology and on integrating animation and CGI seamlessly into live action film, as you can see from his work with Captain Davy Jones on Pirates. We look forward to seeing the same kind of expertise applied to the DevaShard film.

I have included a short list of his films from his IMDb page and as you can see, DevaShard is already listed. Have a look through the other exciting projects he has worked on in the past and ones he has coming up.

MTV Covers DevaShard

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The excitement continues to build as MTV.com becomes the latest site to cover the DevaShard comic to film story!

You can see the full article here: DevaShard on MTV.com

And here is a screen-grab which gives the essence of it:

DevaShard in Variety !!!

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Last week the DevaShard film project hit new heights, as we put out a press release announcing that Kevin Grevioux had come on board as Screenwriter and Executive Producer and no less than Variety , the de facto newspaper of Hollywood covered the story!

You can read the article here: Variety.com

And here is a screen grab of the article:

Screenwriter & Executive Producer for DevaShard

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Kevin Grevioux creator, co-writer and actor from the Underworld series has agreed to come on board to the DevaShard movie project!!!

He will be overseeing the script-writing process and Executive Producing the film.

His first duty on the project will be putting together a new treatment for the project which will draw on his wealth of experience as a fantasty / mythological Hollywood screenwriter as well as his background in comic writing and as a long time fan-boy.

Hanging out with Kevin Grevioux of Underworld fame at Comic Con 2009

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One of the most entertaining aspects of Comic Con this year, is that I was lucky enough to be able to spend an afternoon together with Kevin Grevioux of Underworld fame.

Kevin was the original creator of the Underworld storyline and was the co-writer of the screenplay for Underworld and co-writer & co-producer for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. He also played the role of the Lycan Raze in those two films, as you can see from the photo below:



He now has several other properties that are in different stages of development including:
ZMDs: Zombies of Mass Destruction
I, Frankenstein
The Pale Horsemen

It was pretty crazy trying to move around with him at Comic Con, as he is a huge hit with the many thousands of fan-boys and fan-girls at the convention. Every 30 seconds we had to stop whilst he took photos with different fans.

This was the best moment when two sisters turned up, one dressed as Selene from Underworld and the other as Sonja from Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Needless to say they were overjoyed to have bumped into the creator, co-writer, actor and co-producer from the series. It also made for a great photo:


Check out Kevin getting his photo taken and the people crowding round to take his photo:



Finally away from all the crowds, we managed to get our own photo session with Kevin at the Marriott. From left to right it's Heather Kenealy, writer for CastleBright Studios, me, Kevin Grevioux, Nav Gupta, co-founder of CastleBright & Vanquish Studios and Jay Douglas, co-founder of CastleBright & Vanquish Studios:

The Girls of Comic Con

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Of course Comic Con would not be complete without the many girls in costume.

Here are some great examples of what I mean:













Like all predators they often travel in packs:




And of course I'm not one for passing up a photo opportunity:





fun fun fun!

Fan Boys of Comic Con 2009

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Comic Con could never be complete without the tens of thousands of hardcore fans who travel from all over the country and in some cases from overseas to be there.

Many of them express their love for all things comic, game and film by dressing up, often very elaborately, as their favourite characters.

Check out some of these mildly insane fan boys here:





A typical incongruous Comic Con shot:



Thor meets Heather:



The entire Super Mario family on a day trip:

Comic Con 2009 - San Diego

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A couple of weeks ago I looked at my calendar and once again it was that time of year: Comic Con!!!

For a comic, game and film lover like me, that has to be the most exciting time of the year. Now add into that the fact that we publish our own comics and now you are really talking about an unbelievably cool experience.

There was definitely plenty of exciting stuff to see there and I thought I would post up some of the funky photos here (courtesy of Derrick Fong , so you can all get a glimpse into the awesome mayhem which is Comic Con.

First of all check out Iron Man 2:







How about these awesome G.I. Joe life-size models:



Turtles were there of course:





And so was their creator Kevin Eastman:



Everywhere you looked was all the latest, greatest stuff from the comic, film and game worlds.

Keep your eyes peeled. I'll be uploading some pics of the crazy fanboys in my next blog.

DevaShard Script

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CastleBright Studios , a subsidiary of NBC Universal have commenced work on a full movie script for DevaShard.

First attachments for the movie production to be announced within the week!