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LA Times Is Legendary

Yet another interview with one of our producers, this time at the blog Hero Complex which is part of the LA Times! The article is not only very fun and informative but also calls out Smallville for missing the boat on the cult-following that Chloe Sullivan / Allison Mack has.

Legendary gets some Variety

Variety chief TV editor, Brian Lowry, gave his wistful take on "Legendary." The old school print journalist complimented fans on their use of television marketing calling it, "...as amazing as a small-town girl from Kansas becoming pals with a boy from Krypton." Read more here an the Variety website.

The Legendary TVGuide

We have another interview, this time with TV Guide Magazine! Promoting our commercial, Rich Sands took a few minutes out to talk to another one of our producers, Margaret Bates, about what Legendary Women is and about Chloe Sullivan.  Read his article about us here and please feel free to thank him on twitter.

Chloe Sullivan is a TV Heroine

Heroine TV is promoting Legendary’s May 14, 2010 premiere date. The article chronicled growth of Chloe Sullivan from “meteor freak” obsessed cub reporter to the young woman and hero she is now. It noted, “Chloe is incredibly smart, brave, selfless, and sassy, and [that] ultimately Mack has demonstrated her crucial contribution to the show.” You can read more here or follow the twitter.

Legendary Makes a "Buddy"

Maria Gonzalez of BuddyTV wrote up Legendary and even promoted our newly forming organization, Legendary Women, Inc. She noted that it was "no surprise" that we chose Chloe Sullivan to honor as a "positive representation in the media." Check out the article here, their Smallville twitter here, or their general twitter here.

All About Legendary

Mark Wilson, the scifi columnist at About.Com, did a fabulous write-up of our Legendary project that is airing on May 14, 2010 on KTLA as well as our hopes to make it to WPIX in New York City and beyond! Wilson remarks upon how much he loves Chloe and how she is not just at the heart of the show, but the focus of fan attention. Read his article here or follow him on twitter.

Legendary hitting airwaves!

Danielle Turchiano, our friend who chronicled us first, has done a follow-up. She’s revealed in her article that we will be airing two sixty second spots during the 6-7pm hour on May 14, 2010 on the CW Los Angeles Affiliate, KTLA. Turchiano also was kind enough to explain what a prime spot airing this close to the season finale is!

"Nice Girls" Are Legendary

Nice Girls TV wrote an article about us on Wednesday, covering the basics of our campaign. The article about us (read it here) that Legendary is about women supporting other professional women. It also highlights the widespread number of Chloe fans who’ve contributed to our efforts! Follow them on twitter.

The Woman Protecting the Man of Steel

Feminist issues site, Young Women Misbehavin’, covered Legendary on Tuesday. Their article emphasized Chloe Sullivan as a role model for young women and girls to aspire to and how impressive it was to honor the woman behind the Smallville version of Superman.  Read it here or follow them on twitter.

USC Professor Gets Legendary

University of Southern California Communications professor Henry Jenkins wrote us up on Monday. His comment about our unique movement: "When fans become advertisers, Smallville [and Chloe Sullivan] become Legendary." Check out his interivew with us here or follow him on twitter.

Pop Culture Heroine Gets Legednary

Amazing write up in Pop Culture Heroine: "Chloe represents that era of female empowerment television, where a woman was expected to be smart and goal driven. She serves as a pop culture superheroine who is the antithesis of reality show airheads."  Check out the rest of the article over here.

TVLingo's Word Is Legendary

Legendary has been featured on TVLingo.  Check out the article all about the project over here; it includes two never before seen stills of the project, as well as some glowing statements about Chloe Sullivan and her importance to the Smallville series. You can also follow them on twitter.

Legendary Is a Paradigm Shift

Legendary has hit New York City! Paradigm Shift has done an excellent write up on our project. They are the first to get to announce our intentions to hit the New York market as well as our Los Angeles goal, as well as get a chance to talk about our goals as a group to "honor a character and an actress who remain positive role models of growth, creativity and strength."  Follow Paradigm Shift on twitter.

PodCast Interview with Legendary

Our producer, Maggie Bridger, was interviewed on Prime Time Geek this week.  Click here to take a listen, her interview starts about the twenty minute mark talking about Truth & Justice, Legendary, and Allison Mack.  Feel free to follow them on twitter.

Legendary Finds Cultura Comic

We have hit another exciting milestone! Legendary has finally come to Cultura Comic, which covers Latin America genre entertainment and is our second offical non-English feature! Check out their coverage of our project on their blog.

Another Legendary Producer Interviewed

This time it is Elizabeth De Razzo and it is on Scifi Latino. The interview is great, talking a bit more about who we are as fans, what we were aiming for, and how we did it. Elizabeth also talks about her work with IBG, Inc. Please feel free to leave comments there or follow Scifi Latino on twitter.

Bam! Kapow! Legendary!

Comic fansite Bam! Kapow! has also jumped on the Legendary train.  In addition to reposting our press release and our teaser vid, they did a very cool summary noting the journey of Chloe Sullivan from the Torch-obsessed friend of Clark, to being his Daily Planet working BFF, through her relationship with Jimmy into her current JLA exile.

Revolution SF Gets Legendary Too

Revolution SF did a fun little write up of our project.  Noting that it was time that someone did "something for Chloe" they did a nice summation of both the Legendary commercial project as well as noting the prior charity work done for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation by Operation: Truth & Justice.

Airlock Alpha Gets Legendary

This has truly shocked and delighted our inner geeks - Legendary has an amazing write up on Airlock Alpha.  They bring up her journalistic journey from the Torch to the Planet, as well as her rise up to hero status, not to mention how unique both the character and our commercial project is. They also bring up this years Smallville death spec so beware of spoilers!

Legendary on DVD Verdict

Legendary truly is making the rounds! We have now hit DVD Verdict, a nice site run out of Chicago IL which has put up our press release - even though we are not airing there.  Perhaps this is a sneaky way to get other people to join up and make it happen? We do not know but we do appreciate the attention!

Legendary Goes French

Legendary has hit the international scene! Mentioned along with spoilers for the season nine finale (so watch your step), Legendary got a nice write up complete with a huge photograph on Unification. For those of you who have not been to Unification, it seems to be a very large science fiction oriented website in France.  Very cool!

ComicVine Gets Legendary

Legendary has hit the big leagues as we got a full write up on Comicvine, the largest comic book resource online, last week.  We are thrilled to see so much positive reaction in the comments over there, as well as such a nice write up from Tom Pinchuk, who goes out of his way to point out how unique and never-been-done-before our project is.  Feel free to follow ComicVine on twitter, or join in the discussion on their website.

Legendary Producer Interviewed

GeekTwin whom gave us a nice press release write up yesterday, calling Legendary a "bold new initiative" in fan campaigns has released part two of their coverage on us.  They got to do a sit down interview with one of our producers and ask all about the process of creating this tribute, shipping, the series, and Allison Mack.  Additionally they talked about our sister project, Truth & Justice, as well as other Smallville fan campaigns. Go here to check it out.

Boston's CW Retweets Legendary

As Legendary continues to grow in popularity, we are starting to get some nifty endorcements. Hot on the heels of TV Guide Magazine the other day, we have been retweeted by CW 56 out of Boston. Those of you in the Boston area be sure to thank and follow their offical station twitter.

Sci-Fi Talk Covers Legendary

Tony Tellado did a nice set of write ups of Legendary on the Sci-Fi Talk blog where they shared our entire press release - including with its own tag to follow the project as it progresses.  Sci-Fi Talk also add our teaser to their video section as well! Be sure to check out the Sci-Fi Talk twitter.