I hope that rant isn’t directed at my group. When we met Ernie yesterday, there was no line to meet him and while we were talking to him, he was signing stuff. He was nice enough to make a nice, 20 second video for our website.
Anyway,
As for the Con, itself, I actually wasn’t very impressed. Maybe it was the layout, but it felt smaller then the Philadelphia Wizard World. It felt like a vendor room with celebrities signing stuff in the corner. I did get to meet up with some fellow gbfans and chat a little, which was nice. There was literally no one dressed up in costumes. There were more Ghostbusters (probably about 5 that we saw) then all the other costumed people put together! That’s kind of sad when you think about it. I contribute that to the weather though.
All in all, the highlights of our trip were probably visiting the firehouse and meeting Ernie and getting to talk to him a little.
I hope the Steel City Con in December is bigger then this was.
Did anyone else talk to ernie about GB3? I was sure he was getting tired of being asked about a sequal, so I asked him if the game might get a sequal anytime soon. Although his assistant kept on interupting him, he was about to tell me that they where going to start shooting? That would be far more assured than any other reports that we’ve heard so far
He said some stuff to use about GB3 to us but I think our camera guy/website designer is going to load it up on youtube. So I’ll just wait till that’s up. He gave us a little bit of a time line that he had talked to Ivan Reitman about at a recent viewing of Ivan’s son’s latest movie. It was pretty cool.
Yea he spoke me with about GB3 and mentioned that he spoke with ivan 2 weeks ago. finished up with look out in Fall next year. well hope for the best on this.
As everyone may have read, I never specified Ernie during my rant - I saw many people getting interviewed at the con, not one of the interviews were pre-arranged and the interviewer had complete disregard for any attendees who were waiting.
It took me 30 minutes for a 10 minute interview with Helen Slater because people were stopping by her booth - I would stop. The same for Nichelle Nichols and I did the same with Ernie too.
I was just ranting as this was the place of the con and a place to rant.
And in regards to GB3 - Ernie is ‘hopeful’ of a production schedule of mid-2010 with a thought on a mid-2011 release date. As others said, he spoke with Ivan and felt very hopeful from his conversation. He also added that he and others were not happy with GB2.
It was a great interview, by my happiness was really getting the pack signed… highlight of the day… although my interview with Adam West was fun.
Okay, I didn’t want to start shit with anyone, I just wasn’t sure if you someone had a problem with how we conducted our time with Mr. Hudson. I felt we were very respectful of both him and other members of the con and I felt the need to explain ourselves in case there was a misunderstanding. I do appreciate your respect you seem to have for the other convention goers, and I personally appreciate it.
Now that that’s taken care of, picture time!
First, the Fire house!
Next, after we were done at the Con, we walked to Time Square and visited Planet Hollywood. Look who was hanging out!
And last, but least, may I present to you, my friend: Ernie Hudson!
Normally it would be a little awkward with another man’s arm around me, but I was strangely okay with it for this picture.
One of these days you guys are going to have to show me how to get press releases. Ernie looked like he might havebeen pressed for time since it was the end of the con, so I didn’t want to bug him with an intro request. John schnieder had already left his booth, and Brent Spiner was gone after he was at his booth autographing stuff.
I never get through the official press contact people on websites… sigh.
Well i had a blast at this big apple con. Saw some cool people and got two meet some great actors and what not. Definitely meeting Ernie was the greatest. I was able to give him my own ghostbusters Slimer t shirt and he was beyond touched that I would do that. He talked to me about gb3 and about himself and ever went over some lines with me lol.. I was so happy that I got to not just meet him, but actually give him something that actually made him happy.
He had never seen my kind of shirt before and was definitely surprised lol. I thought he was faking but when i came back to say bye before i left the con, i caught him looking at the shirt and putting it in his suitcase lol. THAT MADE MY DAY!
but I also got to show him my rare GB poster from Thailand i think that i had Dan Aykroyd sign a few months back. he had never seen that poster and was happy and joked about not having his face on the first movie poster lol. so he signed his name on the small picture of him and we joked about it lol. AWESOME TIME!
I’ve never been to a Con so I wouldn’t know but looking at the price list for autographs and so forth, do they really charge that much to have a photo of you and the person, i.e. Ernie and self? Does he get that money or what?
Ernie was on the cheaper side actually. Adam West, William Shatner, and William Dafoe were way more expensive. In fact, Adam West’s people chased us down because we took a picture of him from 10 feet away! “Hey, no photographs or videos without paying!”
On another note, my group made it on to Proton Charging news!
yea adam west is way more epxpensive lol. dude will charge you a buttload for anything you want signed. but i guess thats how they make their money. Ernie did charge 25 for a pic and 20 for an autograph. not too bad.
The prices are the prices - usually start around $20 (even lesser known actors) for name figures.. for the headliners they get pricey (I have seen $80-100 - depending on what you want). Add to that the cost of getting into the event… and (possibly) the cost of your own item it does get pricey - especially if you have a few guests you aim to get autographs and/or photographs of.
As for getting chased down - it is convention etiquette not to take a photo without paying (considered bad form). The headliners usually enforce it much more diligently than most of the others (who usually get assigned a convention volunteer).
I don’t speak from any position of authority (only been hitting the con circuit since Oct. 2006), but a lot of research into conventions since then has opened my eyes to (what many see) the subculture…
Ernie was on WMMR this morning and had a lot to say about GB3, expect a 2012 release. The show posts podcasts everyday, I’ll nab it when I can, edit it down to the Ernie interview and post.
Thanks for sharing that, man! I guess we’re getting some conflicting info depending on the source, but it looks more than likely that GBIII is going to happen. Sounds like Sony itself is the main hold-out at this point. If they greenlight the movie, I’m sure Murray will get on-board.
I think 2012 seems a bit too far off though. I’m sure they could get this out for summer 2011 no problem.