'Truth' and Venom
This year’s San Diego Comic Con may have been taken over by big budget superhero films and popular television shows, but it’s films like Joe Lynch's Truth in Journalism – which pays homage to the film Man Bites Dog while remaining original and highly entertaining – that really make the convention a spectacular avenue for projects to get notice. Truth in Journalism was produced by Adi Shankar (Dredd), who last year shocked the SDCC convention with the release of Dirty Laundry, a short film starring Thomas Jane, who reprised his role as the Marvel anti-hero, The Punisher. This time around Shankar enlisted Ryan Kwanten (HBO’s True Blood) to play the Marvel villain Venom, aka Eddie Brock.