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Geek Media Round-Up: June 29, 2011

29 Jun 2011  Media

Art

Portal Chalk Art

  • The 30 Greatest Hand Drawn Movie Posters
  • Get your Portal 2 Stickers now

Comics

  • Interview: The very peculiar world of Alan Moore: Comic book icon talks mysticism, snake gods and Hollywood.

Cross-Media

  • Genre in the Mainstream: Does SFF Marginalize Characters?

Film

  • Interview: Harry Potter FX Supervisor Talks ‘Good’ 3D for ‘Deathly Hallows Part 2′
  • News: The ‘300’ Sequel-Prequel Gets a New Title and a Director… Short List
  • News: James Cameron Says Avatar 2 & 3 Won’t Be a Trilogy
  • News: Jeff Bridges To Produce & Star In Young Adult Novel Adaptation ‘The Giver’
  • Review: 12 best (and worst) mainstream review quotes about Transformers 3
  • The 10 Most Masterful Movie Scores of All Time
  • The 50 Greatest Movie Robots
  • Check These Out A Couple Spectacular Unused Posters for ‘Super 8′
  • Harrison Ford calls Shia LaBeouf a ‘fucking idiot’ for criticising Indiana Jones
  • Hollywoodonomics: how Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix “lost” $167M
  • A letter by director Michael Bay helpfully advising projectionists the proper way to show his new film Transformers 3 in movie theaters and a very grateful response from the Projectors’ Guild.
  • ScreenRant picks their Our 20 Favorite Movie Robots
  • Who should be the villain of The Avengers? io9.com has their top 10 list of who should be cast as the big bads and why.
  • Netflix for Theaters: MoviePass Lets You Watch Unlimited Movies in Theaters, but is it worth $50.00/month? I don’t know, but it’s enough to make me consider moving into the apartments next to the theater to give it a try for a semester.
  • Watch the Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol trailer online now.

Internet

  • The Professor is Dead. Long Live Netflix! As Netflix rebrands itself as a cable TV alternative rather than a by-mail video rental service, it’s killing off its user community and anonymizing reviews. Top reviewer The Professor is philosophical about the change (see main link), others less so.

Literature

  • Interview: City of Ruin: Mark Charon Newton on His Legends of the Red Sun.
  • Interview: Daryl Gregory briefly talks about Raising Stony Mayhall.
  • Interview: Ellen Datlow plugs her new anthology, The Best Horror of the Year 3.
  • Interview: Fantasy Book Critic discusses Mob Rules with author Cameron Haley.
  • Interview: Keeping SF Relevant In A Technological Society
  • Interview: N.K. Jemisin of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms talks with the SFWA.
  • Interview: OneMetal Talks to Mark Chadbourn
  • 10 Diverse Sci-Fi Authors You Should Know
  • Public libraries fight to stay relevant in digital age
  • Science Fiction Languages vs. Fantasy Languages

Technology

  • A robot gets sensitive skin
  • Where Jules Verne Meets Star Wars: GE’s Walking Truck of the 1960s

Television

  • Interview: Guillermo del Toro Dishes On Upcoming ‘Hulk’ TV Show on ABC
  • Interview: Steven Spielberg Talks Falling Skies and Upcoming TV Projects
  • It’s no secret that Aimi Eguchi is beautiful and talented. But human? Not exactly.
  • “Objects in Space” an Objectively Great Series Finale? The last episode of “Firefly” makes The A.V. Club’s list of accidental TV finales that worked well as finales.

Video Games

  • Games at Google is Hiring
  • Video Games Make Lots of Money – But is That a Good Thing?
  • World of Warcraft Now Offers Unlimited Trials

Writing

  • 25 Things You Should Know About Revisions
  • Capcom will let you complete your purchased game. Once. In a very sad twist, Capcom’s fighting back against the second-hand game market with a game that can only support one save file — for life. I’m pretty sure I’ve just bought my last Capcom game, but I’m guessing Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D is going to set new records for most-pirated game in history.
  • Flirting and Writing Good Dialogue
  • Poor Little Thing: Making Readers Care About Plot-Centric Characters

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