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On Friday during the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Darragh O.Connell, co-founder of Brown Bag Films, announced the launch of .Deep,. an undersea adventure set in a post-apocalyptic Earth with Shane Acker (.9.) attached to direct. .Deep. is an animated film unlike any other, produced by a team of industry all-stars including Acker, Ireland.s Brown Bag Films, producer Gregory R. Little and author J. Barton Mitchell, using new technologies that result in high-quality production value at a fraction of the time and cost. The project will be produced by Little and O.Connell.

..Deep. offers real sci-fi credentials but the story is rooted in the complex motivations of the characters making tough choices between right and wrong. I.m excited to be part of a team that is redefining what storytelling in general, and animation in particular, can be..

With the feel of an underwater Western, .Deep. is set...

With the release of their official debut album, one rock band is picking up steam.

Trainwreck, the brainchild of Tenacious D guitarist Kyle Gass, has announced plans to go on tour to promote the large-scale release of "The Wreckoning," their official studio album. The album, first available for download on music sites on December 1 and currently available for purchase on the band's Web site, will be released on March 2.

Like Tenacious D, Gass's band with actor/musician Jack Black, Trainwreck's musical repertoire provides both a hard rock beat and alternately comedic and serious lyrics. However, the band provides a different tone in their sound, with a slant toward the Southern and progressive subgenres of rock. Gass has described the group's music as "a cornucopia of rock and a five-headed hydra of pleasure." The roots for the band go back as far as 1997, and aside from opening for bands such as...

Writer J. Barton Mitchell has revealed details about Boom! Studios's upcoming mini-series based on the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe will provide a fictitious account of the American author's life, casting him as a detective in nineteenth century Baltimore and weaving elements from his writing into the plot. "The mini-series follows Poe in 1847 Baltimore where, in addition to being a struggling writer, he's thrust into this role of a Sherlock Holmes-style detective who focuses on the supernatural," Mitchell told Newsarama. "The story picks up just after the death of his wife, the pain of which (more)...