Director Mel Stuart Dies
Documentary film maker Mel Stuart (1928-2012) made very forays into fiction, but one of them was Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory...
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Tag Archives: Los Angeles
64th Annual Emmy Award Nominees—the sf/f/h nominees
The 64th Annual Prime Time Emmy Award nominations include a better showing by genre productions (though most of them are in technical categories), including 17 nominations for American Horror Story...
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Horror, Sci-fi genre vets launch Dark Ride Entertainment with investment from Struans Media
Creative Team of Emmy-Award Winning Filmmakers To Release Eight Low-Budget Genre Films In Two Years...
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Author Ray Bradbury Dies
Writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) received all the lifetime achievement awards in our fields, and wrote the classics The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, The Golden Apples of the Sun, Something Wicked This Way Comes...
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Worldcon Announces Membership Sale for Memorial Day
This year's WorldCon is cutting the cost of attending memberships by $20, but only on Monday, May 28...
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2012 MTV Movie Award nominees
The 2012 MTV Movie Award nominees have been announced. Many of the categories are open to the public for voting, with a respectable number of sf/f/h films among the nominees...
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Harlan Ellison to appear at special Hollywood event tonight
TV Tuesdays presents The Other Glass Teat: More of Harlan Ellison on Television, with Harlan Ellison in a rare live appearance tonight...
Read more [...] Special Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha Launch Event, Jan 28th, in Los Angeles
VIZ Media announces a special launch event for new Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha digital manga magazine in West Hollywood on January 28. Free event in Los Angeles gives fans a sneak peek of upcoming debut of North America's first digital weekly manga anthology...
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2012 WorldCon discounts membership rates for a week
Chicon 7, the 2012 WorldCon, is offering discounted membership rates for those purchased between 20 and 26 December...
Read more [...] Author Thomas J. Bassler, aka TJ Bass, dies
Thomas J. Bassler, MD (1932-2011) wrote sf in the 1960s and '70s, and placed two novels on the Nebula Award final ballot. An early proponent of running for health...
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Mysterious Galaxy opens second store, in Los Angeles area
San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy bookstore has opened a second location, in Redondo Beach, and plans a month-long celebration with appearances by Larry Niven, R.A. Salvatore, Vernor Vinge, and...
Read more [...] Teen Choice Awards 2011
The Teen Choice Awards included a fair leavening of sf/f/h works...
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63rd Annual Emmy Award Nominees—the sf/f/h nominees
The 63rd Annual Prime Time Emmy Award nominations include a much better showing by genre productions, including 13 nominations for Game of Thrones...
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Bram Stoker Award Winners
The Horror Writers Association handed out its Bram Stoker Awards last night. Winners include Ellen Datlow and Al Feldstein...
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2010 Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for this year's Stoker Awards, from which the winners will be chosen. The nominees are...
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