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Cons or events starting or continuing through this coming week include the following. - For cons throughout the year visit the Northwest Science Fiction Resources Conventions list. And if I have missed a con, group or anythuing else let me know. To see what is happening this coming month, click and expand...
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For those who cannot wait for the first of two Hobbit movies, there is now a youtube news site called Hobbit in 5 that gives a weekly run down of what is happening on the set. Check out the latest Hobbit in 5 below. I will post it here and include in the movie trailers area in the future. As always visit the main page of one ring for the most information.
GeekGirlCon is going through its creation period/phase. Via both Twitter and their web site it has been announced that a convention for, by and about girl geek fandom is in the works for Seattle. The Con has announced its inaugaral outting for October 8 - 9, 2011 - Seattle Center Northwest Rooms - Seattle, Washington Sounds like it could be a fun outing.
Fan Boys are announcing that Discworld, Terry Pratchett's fantasy masterpience, is coming to the big screen. Quoting from the article "directors Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Princess and the Frog) will be directing a traditionally animated Discworld movie for Disney."
Blastr is reporting that Lucasfilm is remastering the entire Star Wars saga in 3D and then release in theatres. Check out the Blastr site for details. For additional information check out the the Starwars.com article on the same subject.
Cameron going to the bottom of the Marianne's Trench
This was actually reported in September, but just found this article in the last day or so spelling out the details. Cameron is setting the stage for a dive to the bottom of the Marianne's Trench replete with a new two person submerssible and 3D cameras to catch footage for the sequel to Avatar, which, BTW, is supposed to have a substantial component of Pandora's underwater environment. Followup, the site for news about the second Avatar movie, avatar2movie.net has additional statistics. They are now reporting the second and third movies will be released in 2014 and 2015, filmed back to back. Also, the submerssible will be called Challenger Deep and will involve 8 tons of pressure per square inch. Check out the news site to get more info and ignore some of the fan created trailers, especially the avatar stars wars crossover ;-). And in hyping his latest produced underwater movie he had occasion to talk about some of the changes he has planned for the 3D staging for the next avatar movies that will hopefully solve some of unexpected problems for a limited number of people.
Seattle in 2015 Worldcon Bid Exploration Opened
Alexander von Thorn has posted information about SWOC possibly touching it toe back into the Worldcon Bid process and seeing if Seattle could possibly host a 2015 worldcon. If this is of interest, visit his facebook note and add your thoughts.
movie and television series of Dark Tower
According to Deadline New York " Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television Entertainment have closed a deal to turn Stephen King’s mammoth novel series The Dark Tower into a feature film trilogy and a network TV series, both of which will be creatively steered by the Oscar-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code." Read the complete article, but this could either be a big success or the great fiasco. Given the track record of some producers in translating King masterpieces onto the big or little screen it could go either way. The fact that Ron Howard has committed to direct the first feature and the first year of the television series which will follow gives hope that this will be a successful big success both artistically and financially, but we will see.
now to be known as ConClusion
Bobbie DuFault reports that " We won the 65th Westercon in 2012 and it will be in Seattle" or, rather, the Seattle area :-) For more details check out their web page or their facebook presence. As a past bid chair for a westercon and vice chair for the actual westercon I bid for I more than fully understand the work ahead for them and wish them all the luck and support they can use, with the certainty that northwest fandom is some of the best around and this will be one of the best westercons yet :-
Further details were passed on a link on facebook: Westercon 65 is to be called ConClusion in honor of the whole 2012 end of the world thing. The convention theme is A Step Out of Time. Many traditions speak of an end of time as we know it, but we present it as an end of life as we know it and the dawn of a new age..."
Below you will find a Calendar of events of interest to fandom. In many cases the map links will be of varying use depending on addressing information available from the events.