No one is more surprised (or pleased) at the success of THE WALKING DEAD than the cast of the series. They share their thoughts with us including how they avoid the internet “reviews”, plus the cast of HUMAN TARGET talk about how the show is drifting farther from its comic roots. And be sure to…
Warner Bros. is now so committed to getting a Superman film out the door by 2013 that it’s now showing up in press releases from partners. IMAX, as part of their earnings statement, announced that they’ve signed a deal with Warner Bros. to release 20 films in IMAX format up to 2013. And on the…
Gotta love those studio bigwigs. Even in the midst of an impending Screen Actors Guild strike and the greatest financial crisis in modern American history, these head honchos still have dollar signs in their eyes. Variety is reporting today that studios are planning 40 or more films to begin production between spring and summer of…
ICv2 reports that Warner Bros. has pushed back the release of the sixth film in the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, due to fallout from the recent Writers Guild strike. Instead of being released on November 21, 2008, the next Harry Potter film will appear in theaters on July 17, 2009….
The Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced their annual Nebula Award winners this weekend in Austin, TX. The non-profit association honors writers of speculative fiction each year with the awards, and this year’s list of winners included some familiar names and series to fans of comics and science-fiction/fantasy: Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by…
A videogame has set the all-time record for most revenue earned in a single day by any entertainment property. Any property. Ever. That game, for anyone hiding under a rock, is Halo 3 by Bungie, a subsidiary of Microsoft. Who knew there were so many Xboxes out there? CNet notes that the game "netted $170…
Greg Rucka has some post-Comic-Con thoughts, mostly about how crowded it was. How about this: next year, just rope off the whole city of San Diego, and use the streets for aisles. Brilliant, right! Publishers Weekly has a whole load of Comic-Con wrap-up today: photos, general news, manga news, movie news, and even more. The…
Saturday noon, and it still hadnât arrived. Voldemortâs work? Or the machinations of something a bit more prosaic â book ninjas, maybe, or gremlins? But no. We fretted in vain. At about three, the doorbell rang, and there he was â Mr. Delivery Man, bearing our own copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows….
The Seattle Times reviews Jasper Fforde’s “Thursday Next” series. Slate looks at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Agony Column reviews Alan Campbell’s Lye Street, a novella-as-a-book prequel to Scar Night. Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist reviews Jeff Somers’s The Electric Church. Blogcritics has what I think is their sixth review for Harry Potter and the…
Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review looks at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Guardian reviews Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr. Y. OF Blog of the Fallen reviews Daniel Wallace’s Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician. Blogcritics reviews Warren Hammond’s KOP. The Kansas City Star reviews The Dark River by the secretive and mysterious John…
Well, it’s a book, now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows went on sale at the crack of Saturday, and the world will never be the same. (Or something.) For this link round-up, I’ll corral the stories into groups, by theme, proving that there are only about a dozen potential Potter stories, each of which…
Jennifer Fallon loves Wile E. Coyote, and doesn’t care who knows it. (She also lists Chuck Jones’s very interesting rules for Roadrunner cartoons, which show just how much of a brilliant formal exercise those shorts were.) But Wouldn’t It Be Cool? lists nine reasons that he reads SF. The Philadelphia Inquirer uses the Harry Potter…
