Archive | October, 2005

Gamerz at BAFTA Scotland

31. October 2005

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I’ve just heard from Robbie Fraser, the writer/director of the fantasy-themed indy movie from Scotland, Gamerz, which was shown at Worldon and has been doing a circuit on some other releases, notably through Cineworld (the people who now own UGC cinemas). Robbie told us: “We have had a very warm response to the film both from [...]

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Paul McGillion at FPI

31. October 2005

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The Stargate news just keeps getting better here – Paul McGillion who plays Doctor Carson Beckett in Stargate Atlantis will be visiting the Emerald Isle and has agreed to meet fans and sign autographs in our Irish branches. He will be appearing at the Dublin FPI (5-6 Crampton Quay) on the 2nd of December from [...]

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Michael Shanks signing at FPI

31. October 2005

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Michael Shanks, adored by millions of fans for his portrayal of Doctor Daniel Jackson in the long-running Stargate SG-1, will be making personal appearances to meet fans and sign autographs at two of our Forbidden Planet International stores this week. Michael will be in our Derby branch at 1-2 Corn Exchange, Albert Street onthe 1st of [...]

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane…

30. October 2005

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Nestling among our latest batch of DC pre-orders (for January releases) is a simple-looking little collection entitled The Superman Chronicles Volume 1. DC have at last decided to start re-issung some of their classic material in a more affordable format – plenty of Golden and Silver Age material is available in the lovely Archive Editions [...]

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Halloween Haiku

30. October 2005

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Top fantasy author Jeff VanderMeer is running a Halloween-themed Haiku competition on his blog, with the winner bagging oodles of candy, in time honoured trick or treat fashion. Apparently some American delicacy called ‘corn candy’ is on offer. Jeff has also been telling us that his major new work, Shriek, should be coming in the [...]

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SF Mastermind

30. October 2005

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Ariel over on the Alien Online reports that this week’s BBC has a double-bill of Mastermind, with both episodes featuring contestants who have the special subject category of SF authors: Arthur C Clarke and Iain M Banks. The shows begin at 8pm on Tuesday November 1st at 8pm on BBC2; Banksie, of course, is due [...]

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San Francisco underground Comix

28. October 2005

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There is a very cool article on the website for the San Francisco Bay Guardian by Heather Smith on the Bay area’s influential independent comix scene, past and present. It takes in artists from the seminal 60s scene like Crumb to newer creators like Dan Clowes and Laurenn McGubbin of Image Comics. Dez Skinn wrote [...]

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King’s Dark Tower at Marvel

28. October 2005

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The comics internet has been buzzing with speculation these last few days regarding Stephen King writing for Marvel. The buzz was bang on the money as it turned out; Marvel and the master of horror have signed a deal to produce a series based not on his horror work but his best-selling fantasy work, the [...]

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Stardust memories

27. October 2005

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It has emerged this week that Stardust, the delightful fairy tale for adults written by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Charles Vess may be moving forward in movie development. Variety reports that Michael Vaughn, producer-director of Layer Cake (oh dear…) and producer of Snatch (oh, dearie dear…) is talking to Paramount about directing an adaptation. Stardust [...]

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Diggle at DC

26. October 2005

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DC has announced that Andy Diggle, who has worked on Swamp Thing, Adam Strange and the very cool The Losers for DC, has had his exclusive agreement extended by another year. Coming on the back of news of a Losers movie development it is looking like a good year for Andy (and comic readers). Karen [...]

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New Who awards

26. October 2005

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The new Doctor Who series, already a hit with fans and critics, has triumphed at the National Television Awards at the Royal Albert Hall. The lead actors Billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston won the most popular actress and actor categories respectively while the show itself beat rivals such as Desperate Housewives (Teri Hatcher’s cleavage was [...]

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Sin City TV

25. October 2005

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Tinseltown’s Variety reports that Sin City may become a TV series. Harvey and Bob Weinstein are currently trying to build a slate of TV programmes and Frank Miller’s hardboiled Noir is on their wish list. Any series would lead on from the second film, currently in the works from Miller and Rodriguez. I’d imagine it [...]

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Strangehaven en Francais

25. October 2005

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Gary Spencer Millidge is celebrating the recent publication of the third volume of his weird and wonderful Strangehaven series, Conspiracies and also not one but two further foreign language deals for the series. Gary wrote: “Strangehaven is now set to be published in the native languages of Portugal and France in addition to the already-published Italian [...]

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Writer’s Bloc

25. October 2005

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Andrew Wilson, co-editor of the successful (and very tasty) Nova Scotia anthology, drops FPI a line to let us know that the Writer’s Bloc will be holding The Cabinet of Doctor Calamari this week. Edinburgh’s premiere spoken-word performance group will be in the Canon’s Gait, 232 Canongate – that’s the bottom end of the Royal [...]

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Edinburgh SF Book Group November

24. October 2005

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In a change from the norm this November’s meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will be on a Thursday rather than the normal Tuesday; specifically Thursday 10th of November. The venue will be Henderson’s fine veggie cafe on Hanover Street in Edinburgh’s New Town and we will be meeting at the usual time of [...]

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