Random House’s Sheila O’Shea writes to tell us of their newly launched site, Word & Film. The site “is designed for film buffs young, old and anyone in between. It gives the moviegoer (and book lover) inside information, sneak peeks, and industry background on films, writers, and what’s in the pipeline before anyone else. The site’s mission and focus is to bring under one site the tremendous content, expertise, and multimedia assets Random House, Inc. embodies. The site is consumer-friendly, fun, relevant and informative in ways in which other movies sites cannot be because of its inside-the-industry feel and content with features and opinion coming from Random House editors and tastemakers, media, and, of course, Hollywood (actors, directors, producers etc.).
“This is not a film tie-in site—Word & Film instead is a site that explores connections between books and movies, books and TV, Hollywood (as a business) and books, and exhibits Random House’s books from yesterday, today and tomorrow including background and intel on movie favorites from The Big Sleep, Jaws, A Christmas Story, and The Exorcist to The Millennium Trilogy, The Social Network, Never Let Me Go, and Dexter.”
Already available are interviews, trailers, and teasers, as well as information on forthcoming films.
While not exclusively an sf/f/h site, it does have a fair leavening of our favorite genres.