A film about an outlaw hobo starring Hollywood actor Michael Pitt is filming in Tacoma through Thursday.

“You Can’t Win” features Pitt, one of the stars of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” and Hannah Marks of this year’s “The Amazing Spider-Man.”

The film is an adaptation of a 1926 autobiography by hobo and burglar Jack Black. Filming with Pitt is taking place in and around Old City Hall now through May 3.

Black’s autobiography covers his life on the road in the western United States and Canada. He was born near Vancouver, B.C. in 1881. His writings influenced author William …

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Oliver and James Phelps, the identical twins who play the Weasley twins in the Harry Potter films, wowed a full house of fans today at Emerald City Comicon. Several young female fans could barely contain their excitement when they asked the young men questions.

I hosted the twins at their fan panel so I wasn’t able to make notes or take photos but here are the highlights:

- They look different. Not only from their characters but from each other. First, they have dark brown hair. James’ is long, Oliver’s is short. The guys said over the course of …

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Lea Thompson greets fans at the SIFF cinema after arriving from Emerald City Comicon via DeLorean.

“This is the best day ever,” actress Lea Thompson said as she stepped out of a DeLorean behind the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle Saturday night. A fleet of 22 more DeLoreans surrounded her. “They’ve had babies,” she said.

A few minutes later the 23 DeLoreans – one holding Thompson – were headed to the SIFF Cinema at the Uptown for a showing of the classic 1985 movie, “Back to the Future.”

Thompson, who played

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Jason Momoa has made a career out of playing big, tough bad ass characters. The star of “Game of Thrones,” “Conan the Barbarian” and “Stargate Atlantis” said that’s OK with him Saturday at Emerald City Comicon.

“You can typecast me. I like playing those characters.”

He won’t be returning as Khal Drogo in the next season of “Thrones,” of course, but he said he’s seen the second season opener and, “You guys are going to love it.”

Momoa said he spent a great deal of time learning the language he spoke in “Thrones.” That involved many days in …

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It all starts tomorrow: Three days of pop culture fandemonium at Emerald City Comicon.

Read my interview with George Takei here.

Tomorrow, we’ll publish an interview with Jon Bernthal of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”

All weekend I’ll be blogging from ECCC and on Sunday I’ll interview James and Oliver Phelps on stage at 1 p.m. They’re the Weasley twins from the “Harry Potter” films.

In addition to Takei, Bernthal and the Phelps men other media stars include “Battlestar Galatica’s” Edward James Olmos and “Game of Thrones’ ” Jason Momoa. Most will be speaking at fan panels, signing

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The stars of “The Hunger Games” film are coming to Seattle on March 10.

The movie version of “The Hunger Games,” based on the best-selling young adult literary phenomenon by Suzanne Collins, is opening March 23. The stars will be on a cross-country mall tour next week and one of those stops is at University Village in Seattle.

Stars Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss), Liam Hemsworth (Gale) and Josh Hutcherson (Peeta) will stir up fan fervor with a Q and A and merchandising giveaways.

Gates open at noon and the Q and A will be at 3:30 p.m. in the …

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Yes, you are seeing double. James and Oliver Phelps, The Weasley twins from “Harry Potter,” are coming to Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon this month.

The British twin actors who play Fred and George Weasley have just been added to the pop culture explosion that is ECCC March 30-April 1 at the Washington State Convention Center.

The Phelps boys were recurring characters in the decade-long HP franchise, featured in all eight of the films. They played the brothers of Harry Potter pal Ron Weasley.

The twins will appear at a fan panel which I will moderate on Sunday, April …

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Is there a limit, and more importantly, a price to pay when it comes to compassion? Those are some of the questions raised in a Pacific Lutheran University MediaLab documentary, “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion.”

The film explores the complexities of “compassion fatigue,” a condition that affects care givers and those repeatedly exposed to tragedy and trauma like police officers and firefighters.

After nearly a year of research and filming the student filmmakers premiered the film in Seattle in fall of 2011. They’re hosting a screening at PLU on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

The event will include a …

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