The following are news items from the fantastic for the previous week.
The Vulture Transcript: Anne Rice on Twilight, Her Casting Dreams for a New Lestat, and Her Ever-Evolving Religious Beliefs
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Vampire stories are “inherently about salvation, about damnation, even if your vampires are total atheists like mine.”
The Walking Dead news:
The Walking Dead: Announces Anchor Bay /AMC DVD – BR release | Horror News.net | Horror Movies, News
horrornews.net
New York/Beverly Hills – November 30, 2010 – AMC and Anchor Bay Entertainment announced today that Anchor Bay Entertainment will distribute AMC’s original hit series, “The Walking Dead,” on Blu-ray™ and DVD in the U.S. and Canada.
Entire Walking Dead Writing Staff Fired
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As a reward for their success, The Walking Dead‘s show-runner Frank Darabont has fired his writing staff. Because their ratings were too good? Always weird when that happens! Darabont might not hire a new staff for next season.
Walking Dead executive producer rebuffs claims of writer’s room massacre
io9.com
Walking Dead executive producer Gale Ann Hurd has dismissed reports that Frank Darabont fired the show’s entire writing staff as “completely inaccurate.” Show writer Charles Eglee may have moved on to another project, but there wasn’t a mass firing.
www.guardian.co.uk
Namco has re-launched its Splatterhouse franchise, but what does this bload-soaked shocker say about the state of scary games?
Two unfortunate losses in the world of the fantastic:
R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen, star of Forbidden Planet and numerous science fiction spoofs
io9.com
Leslie Nielsen, who died last night, helped to pioneer the science fiction genre on screen when he starred in Forbidden Planet. And then he helped lampoon that genre in countless spoof movies, including 2001: A Space Travesty.
Empire Strikes Back Director Irvin Kershner Dies at 87
gawker.com
Irvin Kershner, the director of The Empire Strikes Back (and camp classic The Eyes of Laura Mars), has died after a long illness. He was 87 and will be missed far more than the Ewoks or Jar Jar Binks.
Riverside: New ‘Star Trek’ simulator ride opens | Attractions | InlandSoCal.com
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www.independent.co.uk
Avatar: The Exhibition, a museum show of artifacts, props and costumes from the all-time biggest blockbuster film, will go on display at Seattle’s Science Fiction Museum from June 4, 2011 through September 3, 2012. The show will then travel to other arts and cultural institutions in the US and around the world.
Singular Points: December is Science Fiction and Fantasy History Month
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Classic horror remains king in $1.486 million Beverly Hills movie poster auction by Heritage Auctions.
BOOKTRYST:
Enduring Power Of Frankenstein Inspires Two Monstrous Exhibitions
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