Everyone’s favorite Wookiee was spotted among Colourlover’s Inspirational Monsters and Dubious Characters. (Thanks, Bonnie!) Star Wars color palettes? How novel!
Legacy Revealed picks up 3 Emmy noms
Potterdämmerung Midnight Bulletin
J.K. Rowling is ‘staggered’ by pre-release reviews, but they won’t stop fans from buying.
So far tonight…
- AP interviews Rowling
- Authorities could find leakee by tracing camera
- Crossover! John Ostrander speculates on Hallows.
- The story so far…
- It’s hard saying goodbye to Harry. Buck up kids! Write fanfic!
- What lurks beyond HP for the the literary world?
- You might be a Potter addict if…
- Now I’ve seen everything: Harry Potter grief counseling. (via Boing Boing)
Harry Potter Week: Fan Art
Be sure to click through to see the whole thing!
Since the list is currently speculating on Snape’s role in the new book, here’s a take on his vital moment from Half-Blood Prince: The Lightning-Struck Tower by Margaux Kindhauser.
Eureka! You can go green!
So, okay. They can’t give you a house with SARAH running things. But the smart folks at Eureka are offering a contest to help you turn your home eco-friendly with the Eureka $mart House Energy Efficiency Challenge. (Since Global Warming was the result of one of their experiments going wrong, they have to make up for it somehow!)
Sadly, this does require some decent and/or creative writing as you need to come up with 250 words about why you deserve to win. (Oh. And save the planet and all that stuff.)
Real Men Love the Fifth Element?
Not just men… The more I see it, the more I realize that The Fifth Element is really one of the most underrated post-SW sci-fi movies. And it’s now ten years old! So much was made of The Matrix as the ‘heir to Star Wars,’ but TFE is the movie that truly captured the ‘sci-fi is fun!’ aesthetic of A New Hope. (And it didn’t even need sequels!)
And also, Bruce Willis getting his shit wrecked by Ian Holm is indeed awesome.
Check your mail!
Possible Half-Blood Prince casting
Stuart Townsend, Joseph Fiennes and Naomi Watts in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Now given there’s not a single legitimate source involved yet it’s far from certain, but folks are speculating Watts for Narcissa Malfoy, Fiennes for Tom Riddle Senior (ha ha!) and several parts for Townsend, most of which he seems to be too young for. (Rufus Scrimgeour? Fenrir Greyback?)
Warning: Don’t expect the comments at the link to be spoiler-free for Deathly Hallows.
Genre Shows get some Emmy Love
Dare we think that the Emmy’s have finally woken up to some new shows with this year’s nominations? At least they’re finally giving some love to genre shows in the major categories.
A big shout-out to ILM-er and fellow Star Wars geek Masi Oka for his Heroes nomination. It’s always nice when a geek does good.
Pixels, CGI, not this crude matter
Yoda is #5 on Entertainment Weekly’s ten favorite CG characters. Aside from the fact that most of us first fell for Yoda in puppet form, I have a hard time taking seriously any list that includes Casper the Friendly Ghost. Fun fact: ILM is responsible for 60% of the list. (Including Casper. Sorry dudes.)