Archive | October, 2007

AnimWatch podcast

23. October 2007

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Steve Ogden has posted a new (and very slick and professional-sounding) AnimWatch podcast with news, an interview with Lucas Martell about his Pigeon Impossible (which I notice is making noise on a number of animation sites now) and Josh Burton talking about his animated movie The Potter.

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James Bond, first class spy

23. October 2007

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On January 8th 2008 the Royal Mail – assuming it isn’t out on strike again – will celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth by issuing a series of stamps featuring the covers of six of the most popular James Bond novels, including Casino Royale and Dr No (first class) and Goldfinger, From Russia With [...]

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When the tenth met the fifth – Peter Davison and David Tennant to appear together

22. October 2007

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The BBC has confirmed that Peter Davison’s fifth Doctor will meet David Tennant’s tenth Doctor for a special scene for this year’s Children in Need on November16th. There are precious few details, although the Beeb did announce that the Hugo award-winning Steven Moffat would be writing the scene, entitled Time Crash, for the charity event. [...]

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O for Origami

22. October 2007

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How cool is this origami V For Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask? It was made from a single, uncut sheet of paper by Brian Chan. With his eye for art I suspect Codename V would have approved of it. (link via Boing Boing)

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Gaiman in the Independent

22. October 2007

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With Stardust hitting UK cinemas now and the Beowulf movie heading this way soon, Neil Gaiman has been doing the meet-the-press thing, with the Independent noting that Gaiman’ stature as a writer – and the fantasy and comics-based genres in general – have grown enormously to a level where they receive coverage in mainstream press [...]

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Comics man turns comic

22. October 2007

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Jonathan Oliver, editor of graphic novels and general all-round good egg at Rebellion, home of 2000AD, will be turning to a different meaning of the word ‘comic’ this week: Jon is going to be doing the comic thang as in stand-up comedy, this Tuesday (23rd) at the Wheatsheaf pub on Oxford’s High Street. The gig [...]

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Bloodspell goes feature length

22. October 2007

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You may recall that several times last year I blogged about new episodes of the Machinima story Bloodspell which Hugh Hancock and the team from the Strange Company were producing. For those unfamiliar, Machinima is a form of animation which utilises the advanced 3-D movements of the software engines used on modern computer games; some [...]

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Midnight Fiction’s first anniversary

22. October 2007

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Richard Krauss’ Midnight Fiction, a site dedicated to promoting the creativity of small press comics, celebrated its first anniversary at the weekend. Updated every weekend, Richard has just posted his 52nd update, with reviews of Ka-Whump! #3 (which has a theme of ‘the women of the small press scene’ this time round) and Aron Nels [...]

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Potter nominated for BAFTA Children’s Awards

22. October 2007

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Hot on the heels of the nominations for both the Harry Potter books and movies in the Nickelodeon awards comes news that the films are in the running for the BAFTA Children’s Awards too. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is nominated in the Best Feature Film category and is also in the [...]

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Dracula’s cape

22. October 2007

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Angel’s, the world-famous theatrical and film costumiers, have found the original cape worn by the Prince of Darkness while stock-taking in their fancy dress shop. The cape was worn by the actor who once described himself in his autobiography as ‘tall, dark and gruesome’, Christopher Lee, in his iconic Dracula role for Hammer in the [...]

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Potter and Simpsons score at awards

21. October 2007

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Harry Potter and the Simpsons have picked up gongs at the first UK Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards: the final book of the boy wizard’s adventures, the Deathly Hallows, won the best book category while Emma Watson won the best actress award for her portrayal of Hermione in the Harry Potter films. The Simpsons won both [...]

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Collected Comics Podcast

20. October 2007

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Chris Marshall, host of the fine Collected Comics Library, has changed the URL of his main site and blog, so if you have a link to it, you may want to update it to this address (meantime the old links will be diverted on to the new site). On the CCL podcast this week Chris [...]

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Dinner and a movie – Gaiman talks with Rotten Tomatoes

19. October 2007

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Rotten Tomatoes continue their ‘dinner and a movie’ interviews (which previously included getting comics and movie scribe Kevin Smith to chat over food) with a talk with Neil Gaiman as the UK finally gets the general release of the enchanting movie adaptation of his book Stardust. There’s an MP3 file of the interview to listen [...]

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More Trek film cast members announced

19. October 2007

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Following a lot of internet speculation Paramount has finally confirmed that relative newcomer Chris Pine has landed the role of the young James T Kirk for JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek movie, which is due to start shooting next month for a release date of Christmas 2008 in the US. The film news sites are [...]

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Gaiman’s Ananzi Boys on the BBC

19. October 2007

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Neil Gaiman’s highly entertaining comedic novel, the August Derleth Award-winning Anansi Boys, is being adapted for broadcast by the BBC World Service on the 17th of November. (source: Alex Fitch)

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