They should have consulted me

Take a look at this:

Love that there’s actual free Newspaper at the theme park.

Love the design. I’ve done something similar during me time as a page designer — especially when there is no art to accompany a story.

BUT, take a closer look:

Notice the paper’s slogan: THE WIZARD WORLD’S BEGUILING BROADSHEET OF CHOICE

Pretty cleaver, but it’s a TABLOID!

At least the movie got it correct:

This screen grab from Wizarding World shows there’s a fold right under the photo, so it’s a good bet it really is a broadsheet so the slogan is correct. Kudos to the movie props department for getting it right! At least in the example above.

BTW: Still waiting on magical, moving photography

Own some Hollywood Newspaper history

Head on over to Propstore Auction if you think you can drop some major money on this. Estimate is for $6k to $12K

Most will cognize this issue of the Hill Valley Telegraph from 1990’s Back to the Future Part III.

The prop newspaper was printed without the headlines, so they could FX two different headlines depending on Marty’s ability to change the timeline:

For a prop that only needs the front page above the fold, it’s surprisingly complete:

But wait, there’s more. This prop from BTTF Part II, is estimated at $8k to $16k

A bit faded after all these years, here’s how it looked in the film:

Note mention of Queen Diana and the President referred as She. Sigh.

Also from BTTF Part II. Estimate is $6k to $12k. I like how the prop masters committed to stories about Biff Tanner

Aside from the lede of the Emmett Brown story, it’s all cut and paste for some other non-related story.

Young Johnny says my lines!

Screenshot from “Johnny Dangerously.”

It’s been so long since I watched this movie, but in this 1984 movie, “Johnny Dangerously.” young Johnny, played by Byron Thames says my lines that I must have asked hundreds of times.

Sorry — I can’t include the audio clip because I don’t pay for the pro version of Worpress, but take my work for it, he says, “Paper, Mister?”

Johnny is available to stream on HBOMax and Hulu

Alaska’s newest Newspaper!

The Alaska Daily is soon to join our fake Newspaper community!

Thanks to ABC TV, a new show casts Hillary Swank as a big-city newspaper reporter transplanted to Alaska to work for the Alaska Daily to investigate a missing/dead woman.

Here’s the blurb;

Recently disgraced reporter Eileen Fitzgerald leaves her high-profile New York life behind to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska, on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.

From tv.YouTube.com

Of course, there is no Alaska Daily, but there is an Anchorage Daily News

Normally, I would include some screen shots of the promo video, but for some reason WordPress is not letting me. So go here for a look: https://abc.com/shows/alaska-daily

THe new series kicked off on Oct. 6

Back in the newsroom … for a hot minute

The CW

Supes is back, but ****slight spoiler alert***** he gets fired from The Daily Planet fairly quickly in the pilot episode of Superman & Lois, currently airing on The CW.

But Superman without The Daily Planet, The Daily Planet without Superman? What sort of world is that? I hope that Clark lands a job with the local hometown Newspaper. There’s nothing in the Supes cannon about what it might be called, so I’m going to name it the Smallville Sentinel & Shopper.

The CW

Here’s our beloved Newspaper, minus the giant globe of past incarnations.

After years of facing supervillains, monsters and alien invaders, the world’s most famous superhero, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent and comic books’ famed journalist Lois Lane come face to face with one of their greatest challenges ever — dealing with being working parents in today’s society.

Complicating the already daunting job of raising two boys, Clark and Lois worry about whether their sons, Jonathan and Jordan, could inherit their father’s Kryptonian superpowers as they grow older. Returning to Smallville to handle some Kent family business, Clark and Lois are reacquainted with Lana Lang and her Fire Chief husband, Kyle Cushing.

The adults aren’t the only ones rediscovering old friendships in Smallville as the Kent sons are reacquainted with Lana and Kyle’s rebellious daughter, Sarah. Of course, there’s never a dull moment in the life of a superhero, especially with Lois’ father, Gen. Samuel Lane looking for Superman to vanquish a villain or save the day at a moment’s notice.

The CW

Welcome to the latest crop of fictional newspapers!

AppleTV+

“For All Mankind” opens its second season this week with a montage of alternative history presented, of course, through the lens of fictional newspapers! If you haven’t followed the series, the premise is that the USSR beat the U.S. to the Moon.

Here are the latest made-for-TV newspapers:

New York Inquisitor

AppleTV+

Note: Jimmy Carter won the US Presidency in 1976.

Houston Sentinel

AppleTV+

Note: The N-3 rocket never got built. The N-1 and its iterations were intended to compete with the USA’s Saturn V.

New York Daily Telegram

AppleTV+

New York Ledger

AppleTV+

NOTE: The New York Ledger was a real newspaper that shuttered in 1898, and has been used by several TV shows in the past. Guess I’m headed over to Wikipedia to make an edit noting its appearance this this episode.

And, again, Jimmy Carter was the 39th US President.

Le Report de Paris

AppleTV+

Los Angeles Chronicle

AppleTV+

Chicago Herald Recorder

AppleTV+

New York Standard

AppleTV+

“Bullets miss John Lennon” If only. Still miss you, John!

Probably fake Russian?

AppleTV+

Anyone know how to translate this into English?

And one bad typo!

AppleTV+

Guess that they didn’t have the budget for a copy editor.

Welcome, Tulsa Sun

From the first episode of HBO’s new series, “Watchmen,” (fictional) The Tulsa Sun makes its debut.

The Tulsa Sun is fictional, the Tulsa World is real. The race riots were real.

Here’s a link from The Washington Post:

HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ depicts a Tulsa race massacre that was all too real. Hundreds died.

In 1921, a white mob descended on an area of the city known as ‘Black Wall Street,’ killing at least 300 black people and leaving 10,000 homeless.

‘Noelle’ gives us a new fake newspaper

Here’s the movie synopsis from Youtube: In Disney+’s holiday comedy “Noelle,” Kris Kringle’s daughter is full of Christmas spirit and holiday fun, but wishes she could do something “important” like her beloved brother Nick, who will take over from their father this Christmas. When Nick is about to crumble like a gingerbread cookie from all the pressure, Noelle suggests he take a break and get away…but when he doesn’t return, Noelle must find her brother and bring him back in time to save Christmas.

Of course there’s a newspaper at the North Pole!

And when the new Santa goes missing, The Daily Carol is ON TOP of the story!

… Love the play on the Daily Caller. The movie streams on Nov. 12

Overthinking ‘Dumbo’

V. A. Vandevere, aka Batman, aka Michael Keaton reads The New York Herald in the latest “Dumbo” from Disney and Tim Burton.

In the latest Dumbo movie, there’s this scene where V. A. Vandevere reads about Dumbo’s flying…

I love that they’ve used a real life newspaper, The New York Herald. Assuming the timeline of the movie is pre 1924, the Herald would have been around.

I love the heds, but not so crazy about the all caps:

WONDER ELEPHANT SOARS TO FAME

MIRACLE MAMMOTH STARTLES

OUR REPORTER ATTESTS: ‘THE TALE OF DUMBO IS TRUE!’

… fake headlines

Where I have a problem is the photo. Let’s take a closer look:

Dumbo

So, it’s a pretty cool photo of a flying elephant, but notice that it’s taken from above, which means:

A. The photographer was somehow positioned at the top of the tent,

B. Only the camera was up there and the photog somehow managed to trigger the camera, somehow, again, managing to perfectly frame Dumbo AND have a sharp focus.

C. There is no C.

I know I’m overthinking this, but it’s the little details, right?

Who’s with me?

Welcome to the Castle Rock Call

Still waiting for a release date of  Hulu’s “Castle Rock.”

Stephen King fans will recognize Castle Rock as home to many of his stories, including “Cujo,” “Needful Things,” “Stand By Me,” and “Gwendy’s Button Box.” It’s also mentioned in a variety of other King stories over the years.

Watch the trailer here

Welcome to our latest Hollywood/TV/Internet fake newspaper family!

But …. some thoughts:

1. Hate the mix of serif and sans serif.
2. DAILY PUBLICATION? No. Published Daily or some other motto, such as Your Hometown news Published every day since ?
3. That 1-column on the left that’s labeled as Column A, I think is a prop error… I would have thought the label would make better sense so say STATEHOUSE or something like that.