CHOOCH: Bruce, you play an ex-Navy Seal in Burn Notice. But Sam Axe seems to be a natural character for you. Is he a challenging character to portray?

BRUCE: Acting is supposed to be fun. If it isn’t, it becomes challenging. So, with Sam, he’s a fun character to play, because when you think about it - even high-end government types with top-secret clearance are prone to the same foibles as anyone else. Everyone’s human - we all make mistakes. I like characters with a human side, albeit flawed side.

CHOOCH: Is this because you tend not to take yourself so seriously, that your characters are sometimes aloof in nature?

BRUCE: Aloof is your word. I tend to go for off-kilter, idiot-with-a-heart-of-gold “flipsters.”

CHOOCH: You’re also an acclaimed director with nearly a dozen TV directing credits. If you get the chance to direct any Burn Notice episodes, will you?

BRUCE: I’m not gonna pursue that. I like being 2nd fiddle. I’ll direct on the side. TV is also too much of a “shared” directing experience. I’m too bossy for TV. I like to be in control whenever possible as a director, otherwise, you’re just directing traffic.

Read the whole interview HERE.

Source by way of my friend Sandy (thanks!)

First, the Neves cover

The Udon cover

And the first six pages, click the image to view the full size.

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Bruce Campbell will be doing a panel and showing clips from the long gestating MY NAME IS BRUCE at the 2008 San Diego Show.

More info about this year’s Comic Con at San Diego here.

All Ash wanted was a little weekend canoodling with his girlfriend in the country. Instead, he became the unwilling chainsaw-wielding messiah for a medieval alternate universe oppressed by the undead, thanks to the magic books he left in the back of his trusty Oldsmobile. Hail to the king, baby.

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(Thanks to Famous Mark Verheiden’s of Film Land for the link)

IGN TV: Are we going to learn more about your character, Sam Axe, in this season?

Campbell: I think you will. You’ll get little bits. TV shows aren’t much about someone’s past, they’re about what’s happening now. You’ll get dribs and drabs, but it’s going to be about cool missions now.

IGN TV: Any big changes?

Campbell: There is a new cast member. I’m not sure what I’m allowed to talk about, but the dynamics are going to change a little bit.

IGN TV: You can’t elaborate?

Campbell: I’d have to kill you. But like any show it has to expand and grow and evolve. So it’s doing a logical evolution to the second season by adding and expanding and fleshing out. Going in some new directions. I just read the script for the first new episode tonight. It’s like putting on your favorite pair of shoes again.

Read the whole interview by clicking here.

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Mark Verheiden recently posted some My Name is Bruce news. The movie, which had a release date of August 2008, is now reportedly coming to theaters on October. In other news, My Name is Bruce will premiere on the  Cannes Film Festival.

(Credit and thanks to my good friend Sandy for the pics)

The 2 covers for the Army of Darkness/Xena #2 crossover. Click for full size

First, the Fabiano Neves cover

This is the UDON Studios cover, notice Ash’s eye color

A few previews from inside the second issue.

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My Name is Bruce

Theatrical Release: October, 2008

Available on DVD: January 2009

(Credit goes to evildeadnews.com)

Click here to visit Flickr and see 86 (!!) pictures taken on set of ‘My Name is Bruce’.

(I understand this isn’t exactly Bruce related, but as you know, at one point Sam Raimi was rumored to helm the Hobbit movie. The name-calling and insult-hurling can finally come to an end.)

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We’re heading back to Middle Earth in 2010, as The Hobbit movies are finally falling into place….

After much rumour, deliberation, legal wrangling and all sorts of other fun, it’s now been confirmed that two films based on The Hobbit are going ahead. And while, as expected, Peter Jackson will not be directing them, there seems little reason to fear MGM’s choice: it’s Guillermo Del Toro.

Del Toro, who is just putting the finishing touches to Hellboy 2 at the moment, had been one of a few directors linked with the job (including, at one point, Spider-man’s Sam Raimi). After Pan’s Labyrinth though, few are going to question the choice.

Peter Jackson is set to produce the films, along with his wife, Fran Walsh.

We know that both Ian McKellen is interested in playing Gandalf again, and Andy Serkis all but told us that he’s keen to reprise his role as Gollum.

The two films will be shot back-to-back in New Zealand, and are scheduled for release in 2010 and 2011.

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Well, there isn’t really a category of permit for blowing up boats. But USA Network’s Burn Notice wants to blow up a boat on Virginia Key - “but the boat will NOT actually blow up” according to the permit application.

In case you’re wondering, Burn Notice is a series about “an international spy who suddenly finds himself blacklisted. Dumped in his hometown of Miami without money or resources, Michael struggles to put his life back together and find out why he’s been burned.”

DEP is now considering whether to grant a permit to Burn Notice to simulate a boat blowing up using propane flame bars “which will be ignited, will be controlled and immediately extinguished,” according to the application. They will use “debris mortars” which contain “light weight wood pieces that blow up into the air, fall in the water and FLOAT.” Water booms will enclose the area.

Oh, and Burn Notice will hire “a manatee watcher” and wildlife officers. No need to worry about damage to the seagrass. The stunt coordinator, who also blew up a boat for the movie “2 Fast 2 Furious” at the same location 5 years ago, “dove down into the lake and said there is not seagrass.” However, the permit application does not indicate when or where he dove.

Jimbo’s is also the site of Porky’s II, Ace Ventura, Flipper, Gentle Ben, Miami Vice and CSI Miami, along with the photo on Mariah Carey’s first album cover. (Fun facts!) And there are “many boats anchored there,” according to the permit application. They want to film this on Monday.