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Geek Media Round-Up: December 1, 2009

1 Dec 2009  Media

Art

Robot in love by Jan Faber

  • Comic Alliance has posted a gallery of paintings of Cubist Superheroes: If Marvel and DC Were Drawn by Picasso.
  • Miskatonic Valley Fine Art specializes in sculptures from the Cthulhu Mythos.

Film

  • News: Disney Plans The Black Hole Remake with Tron Legacy Team.
  • News: Fox Films CEO Jim Gianopulos thinks we should disconnect file sharers from the internet to “protect independent film makers.” Wink wink.
  • News: Third Twilight movie to be split in two.
  • News: Harlan Ellison, the whiniest bitch in the business, wants to write Star Trek 2.
  • The AV Club picks The best film performances of the ’00s.
  • Can you name a film involving each of the planets of the solar system. SciFi Scanner can and does in A Cinematic Voyage Through Hollywood’s SciFi Solar System.
  • Entertainment Weekly wonders Are Edward and Bella in an abusive relationship?
  • io9 asks Did James Cameron Rip Off Poul Anderson’s Novella?
  • io9 looks back at 12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice.
  • The poster and a series of still photos from Iron Man 2 have been released.
  • USA Today has the first picture from Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1. And, yeah, Radcliffe will be doing a nude scene.

Internet

  • Check Out Concept Art From Marvel’s Futuristic Theme Park over at Cinematical.
  • ScreenJunkies has posted a gallery of 25 Sweet Home Theater Systems.

Literature

  • Interview: The Literary Project interviews Dan Abnett“>Dan Abnett.
  • Interview: Lomography interviews Neil Gaiman“>Neil Gaiman.
  • Interview: The New York Post interviews William Shatner.
  • Interview: NPR interviews Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris, and Martin Jarvis.
  • Interview: The Rumpus interviews Richard Kadrey, author of Sandman Slim.
  • Interview: The World SF News Blog interviews Vandana Singh.
  • News: Paramount has acquired the rights to “Area 51,” the sequel to the hugely profitable sleeper hit, “Paranormal Activity.”
  • The AV Club has chosen The 10 best short-story collections of the ’00s,
  • Jesse Bullington, author of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, discusses History, Fantasy, and the Blurry Lines of Literature.
  • PaidContent makes Ten Predictions For The E-Reader Market In 2010, some of which are fairly certain to come true.

Science

  • Charlie Stross explains why we’re probably never going to build starships.

Television

  • News: An alternate version of the pilot episode of the original Star Trek series has been discovered in Germany.
  • News: Stephen King returns to TV with a new Syfy series.

Video Games

  • SciFi Scanner has posted a list of The Top Five Documentaries About Video Games.

Writing

  • Diabolical Plots offers some advice on Technology and Writing.



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