http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/22/zoom-is-for-zero/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:00:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/22/zoom-is-for-zero/#comment-2253 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:57:28 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/22/zoom-is-for-zero/#comment-2253 I saw Zoom and while I liked most of it, I think it could have been better. What killed the movie was the editing. It's seems like it started out as a good movie, the movie execs wanted a short, more kid friendly flick, and hacked it to pieces. When one of the biggest plot points is a countdown to when a bad guy returns and you edit it so much that it goes from one day left to two days left, that is sloppy editing. I saw Zoom and while I liked most of it, I think it could have been better. What killed the movie was the editing. It’s seems like it started out as a good movie, the movie execs wanted a short, more kid friendly flick, and hacked it to pieces. When one of the biggest plot points is a countdown to when a bad guy returns and you edit it so much that it goes from one day left to two days left, that is sloppy editing.

]]> http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/22/zoom-is-for-zero/#comment-2211 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:49:02 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/22/zoom-is-for-zero/#comment-2211 I liked Zoom. I liked Zoom.

]]> http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/22/zoom-is-for-zero/#comment-2173 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:21:46 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/22/zoom-is-for-zero/#comment-2173 I was up for the Zoom gig. Didn't get it. I do not regret it. I was up for the Zoom gig. Didn’t get it. I do not regret it.

]]> http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/22/zoom-is-for-zero/#comment-2161 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:07:15 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/08/22/zoom-is-for-zero/#comment-2161 This is such a shame, Jason Lethcoe's book was a fine, all ages book in the mold of Herobear and this is going to be an anchor round Jason's neck if he hoped to do anything further with the book. Catwoman can survive the stigma with DC's backing, decent market penetration and, most importantly some fairly decent genre stories, Zoom's Academy on the other hand has little existing material, zero recognition factor as a comic to 99.99999% of the planet and no back up from a large conglomerate, any attempt to return it to the book or comic market is now doomed to this failure because, except to a handful of people, print versions will now always be cash in's on a lousy movie rather than the real thing. Hollywood is such a two edged sword. I hope Mr Lethcoe got lots of money for essentially killing this one of his artistic babies. This is such a shame, Jason Lethcoe’s book was a fine, all ages book in the mold of Herobear and this is going to be an anchor round Jason’s neck if he hoped to do anything further with the book. Catwoman can survive the stigma with DC’s backing, decent market penetration and, most importantly some fairly decent genre stories, Zoom’s Academy on the other hand has little existing material, zero recognition factor as a comic to 99.99999% of the planet and no back up from a large conglomerate, any attempt to return it to the book or comic market is now doomed to this failure because, except to a handful of people, print versions will now always be cash in’s on a lousy movie rather than the real thing. Hollywood is such a two edged sword. I hope Mr Lethcoe got lots of money for essentially killing this one of his artistic babies.

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