The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) has announced the DOOM-TASTIC news that Jhonen Vasquez, the creator of Nickelodeon's fan-favorite animated series Invader ZIM, and J.R. Goldberg, who recently served as the Art Director for Nickelodeon's upcoming Invader Zim movie, Enter The Florpus, will be special guests at TCAF 2019!
During their visit to TCAF 2019, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival will host a special session titled "Spotlight: Jhonen Vasquez & J.R. Goldberg!" Below is the official description for the panel:
"TCAF is thrilled to welcome the creator of JTHM, Squee, I Feel Sick, Fillerbunny, and of course the smash-hit animated series Invader Zim, Jhonen Vasquez, for a special presentation! Joining him will be the one and only J.R. Goldberg, Art Director for the upcoming Invader Zim movie, and also contributor to the animated series' Danger & Eggs, Star vs. The Forces of Evil, Rick N Morty, and many more!
Jhonen and JR might show secrets from the upcoming ZIM movie! They might not! They might answer your audience questions! Or possibly they won't! It's gonna be great. Special thanks to Oni Press for helping organize this event."
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is an annual celebration of comics and graphic novels and their creators, which culminates in a two-day exhibition and vendor fair featuring hundreds of comics creators from around the world. Other Festival events include readings, interviews, panels, workshops, gallery shows, art installations, and much more. The full program and list of participating creators will be listed online at http://www2.torontocomics.com/, as well as in printed and digital program guides available on-site at the festival. TCAF 2019 will take place between Friday, May 10 - Sunday, May 12, 2019 at the Toronto Reference Library and surrounding venues in the Bloor/Yonge neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Originally published: Wednesday, May 08, 2019 at 12:14am BST.
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It’s Mother’s Day! Time to celebrate that person in your life who gave you life, who gives you love…and gives you chores!
In this video, Nickelodeon helps the Louds find the perfect gift to show their Mom how much they appreciate her!
Give it up for the Mommas! How are YOU celebrating Mother's Day? 💐
Have you heard all the latest The Loud House news?!:
Eugenio Derbez, Ken Jeong and Melissa Joan Hart have joined the cast of Nickelodeon’s upcoming The Loud House spin-off, The Casagrandes!
Nickelodeon has renewed The Loud House for season 5!
The Loud House season four premieres Monday, May 27, at 1:00 p.m. (ET/PT), kicking off with a special half-hour episode dedicated to the Casagrande family, “Friended!”
The best time to hear a song from SpongeBob is all the timeee!
This barbershop quartet takes these tunes to the next level!
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CALLING ALL GOOFY GOOBERS! (ROCK!) Are ya ready for a deep dive into the world of SpongeBob SquarePants? The SpongeBob YouTube channel is THE PLACE for all fan-favorite SpongeBob moments! We’re serving up everything from legendary scenes to remixes of classic songs to deep dives into Bikini Bottom lore. Be sure to check back every week for Music Mondays, Wumbo Wednesdays, and Flashback Fridays! Subscribe now at https://www.youtube.com/SpongeBobOfficial! Have you subscribed yet? Comment on YouTube for a special shout out! 💯🍍
The SpongeBob theme song reimagined in anime !? (and a ridiculous bonus scene at the end 1:24)
CALLING ALL GOOFY GOOBERS! (ROCK!) Are ya ready for a deep dive into the world of SpongeBob SquarePants? The SpongeBob YouTube channel is THE PLACE for all fan-favorite SpongeBob moments! We’re serving up everything from legendary scenes to remixes of classic songs to deep dives into Bikini Bottom lore. Be sure to check back every week for Music Mondays, Wumbo Wednesdays, and Flashback Fridays! Subscribe now at https://www.youtube.com/SpongeBobOfficial!
Kel Mitchell Saves the Good Burger Commerical 🍔 #AllThatTuesday
Kel Mitchell’s Ed becomes the face (and hands) of Good Burger in this classic All That sketch! He’s not the best actor, but he keeps on going and going and going, and just when you think he’s gonna stop, he goes. Just like the bunny! He's the dude! What’s your favorite Good Burger moment? Let me know in the comments below! Catch more All That on Nick! Don’t miss all new All That coming this summer! See the following link for more info!: http://po.st/AllThatRevival
What would YOU order at Good Burger? 🍔
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If you love the theme songs to PAW Patrol and Top Wing, you're really going to be excited to hear the two songs mixed together! This remix video will have you singing, dancing, and using your music making skills to create your own theme song. You can find full episodes from your favorite shows, weekday mornings on Nickelodeon, and everywhere you find Nick Jr.
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Latest Are You Afraid of the Dark? writer says he's cracked the code on live-action movie
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, this is The Tale of the Reworked Nickelodeon Screenplay. Back in December, it was confirmed that D.J. Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) would be helming Paramount Players and Nickelodeon Movies live-action film adaptation of the classic Nick horror anthology series, Are You Afraid of the Dark? Nevertheless, the feature's screenplay is still being polished with the latest draft coming from The Prodigy director, Nicholas McCarthy.
"I actually just turned in the script and we’re all pretty excited about it," he told SYFY WIRE. "I think the target is to shoot it this summer. I’ve had an absolute blast. There’s been a couple of writers before who have tried to crack it, and I think I’ve done it with this version. I love the series, too, and I’ve already had an amazing time writing it. The people that are behind it also love the series and it’s just been really really cool."
The "couple of writers" to which McCarthy refers are Gary Dauberman (It: Chapters 1 & 2) and BenDavid Grabinski (Skiptrace). When he was still writing an earlier draft of the screenplay last September, Dauberman promised that he would be sticking to the spirit of the original series, which could be incredibly frightening at times. McCarthy also went back to the beloved source material, rewatching those episodes that are truly representative of the show as a whole.
"I couldn’t watch all 90 or whatever it is, but I revisited a huge ton of them," he continued with a laugh. "I shouldn’t say too much more about it because I don’t know how they’re gonna frame what they’re doing with it. I don’t think any of the other writers who have been on it before have talked about the direction of the big screen version, but as a fan of the series and as someone who has really enjoyed going back and watching them, I’ve been really keen to try to capture the spirit of what makes that show so great."
Originally slated to open Oct. 11 of this year, it is now unclear when the movie version of Are You Afraid of the Dark? will reach theater-going audiences. After all, if the project plans to shoot over the summer, there's almost no way it can make a fall 2019 release. Indeed, fans may have to wait until Halloween of 2020 (most high-profile horror films usually open around the spooky holiday) to see it.
In addition, McCarthy confirmed that the tie-in miniseries, set to air on Nickelodeon this October (unless it's being pushed off with the film's production schedule), is still happening, although he isn't involved with it in any way. The Are You Afraid of the Dark? miniseries is slated to start filming in Vancouver, Canada on Monday, May 27, 2019.
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a Canadian Twilight Zone-esqie anthology series created by D.J. MacHale and Ned Kandel. It revolves around a group of teenagers who called themselves the Midnight Society that meet weekly at a secret location in the woods, where one member tells a scary story to the rest of the group, some of which are based on public domain fairy tales, short stories or urban legends. Subjects range from abandoned houses and vampires to scary clowns, witches and aliens.
The series debuted in 1990 on the Canadian children's channel YTV and was picked up by Nickelodeon USA in 1991, though it didn’t debut until SNICK’s launch on Saturday, Aug. 15, 1992. The show ran until April 1996, and a revival series with new writers, directors, writers and cast members was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000. In all, the series ran for 91 episodes over seven seasons. Tia and Tamera Mowry (Sister, Sister), Will Friedle (Boy Meets World), Neve Campbell, Hayden Christensen, Jay Baruchel, Tatyana Ali, Melissa Joan Hart (Clarissa Explains It All, Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Jewel Staite (Space Cases), Emily VanCamp, and two-time Academy Award nominee Ryan Gosling are just a few of the household names who have lent their acting skills to the anthology.
Each episode is introduced with the storyteller saying “Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society,” who then would announce the title of that segment. MacHale said the line was a tribute to the series The Twilight Zone, in which creator Rod Serling would introduce the episode by saying, “submitted for your approval.”
Paramount Players is a new division at Paramount Pictures that focuses on contemporary talent and properties for young audiences while drawing upon the vast resources of the Viacom brands. Nickelodeon is one of those Viacom brands, which Paramount Players will be releasing Dora and the Lost City of Gold, a live-action movie inspired by Nickelodeon's beloved animated preschool series, in Summer 2019.
