- The winners of the World Fantasy Awards have been announced: NOVEL: The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK/ Del Rey); NOVELLA: “Sea-Hearts” by Margo Lanagan (X6 ); SHORT STORY: “The Pelican Bar” by Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three); ANTHOLOGY: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now edited by Peter Straub (Library of America)
- Interesting. Stephen Fry has been reprimanded for posting Tweets of the Harry Potter set — and now the Tweets have mysteriously vanished.
- I’m deliberately ignoring the success (or failure) of this weekend’s Saw 7 3D. It’s not really fantasy, plus I get depressed about human nature whenever two things happen: (1) people start listening to Republican fear-mongering again, and (2) “torture porn” movies like this do well at the box office.
- Variety has Oscar predictions; fantasy-esque movies in the running for one of the ten Best Picture slots include Inception, How to Train Your Dragon, and Toy Story 3. I personally think Toy Story 3 is a shoe-in and the other two are extreme long-shots.
- Foxtrot’s Jason (a classic geek) tells it like it is (h/t: io9.com):
- I happen to think that The Goonies is one of the stupidest, most-overrated movies of all time (I completely agree with this article we published last year), so I’m happy to report there’s no longer a sequel in the works (but there might be — Oh, Lord! — a Broadway musical).
- Roland Emmerich, the blockbuster-producer who hasn’t made a non-sucky movie since Independence Day, wants to do a Cloverfield-type alien-invasion movie.
- John Carpenter to direct a movie version of the Darkchylde comic.
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the movie, gets the “rush” treatment, slated for 2012. But 30 years later, they still can’t manage to make a movie out of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the music behind the upcoming Disney Epic Mickey video game:
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I don’t really care for either Republican or Democratic fear mongering but that’s all missing the point. The important thing is, there is no Goonies sequel!! Not that I was that big of a fan of the original Goonies but Jeeesh, can’t Hollywood do anything original?
Also, I’m with Jason. I know I’m writhing in horror at the thought of all 3 Star Wars movies being re-released in crappy 3-D.
This is your site, and you can do whatever you want with it, but do you really want to make it political? I can’t see it doing anything but turn people away from the site, especially at a time when everyone is being bombarded from all sides with negative political ads.
I’ll definitely keep that feedback in mind. But it is just one line, two days before an election. And truthfully, those really ARE two things that depress me.
Thanks, your rewording is much less likely to start a flame war.
LOL. That’s exactly what I thought.
I do appreciate the feedback. Editing a website is a lonely, self-centered business. ;-)