Category: Web Series

The Legend of Neil: Award Season Has Begun

from The Legend of Neil:

Hey Neil fans,

Now that The Legend is over we’d really like to punctuate all of our hard work with some awards! Clicker.com has nominated us for Best Comedy Series here. It takes all of 2 seconds to scroll down and click to vote. No registration is required. You can even easily click to “like” it on Facebook or post to Twitter which will help our cause. Aid us in our quest to go out Return of the King style, and win a few. Our team worked so hard to bring you an epic finale on a small budget, give us the gift of your vote!

Oh and tomorrow is probably your last chance to buy some Neil shwag from our store and have it delivered in time for Xmas. (we can’t guarantee it, but I’ll ship everything 2-3 day priority mail Monday & Tuesday so it should arrive on time). The 2 for 1 poster deal from the previous blog post/email is still on, so simply buy 1 poster and then email legendofneilstore@gmail.com with your transaction ID or receipt number and which other poster you want. Sandeep will sign the finale posters!

Legend of NOEL! X-mas Merch Deals

from The Legend of Neil:

Neil lovers,

Christmas is almost upon us. Can you imagine the disappointment on your loved one’s face when he/she DOESN’T receive a Neil T-shirt or poster from our official Legend of Neil store? To motivate you, we’re offering a limited time buy 1 get 1 free deal with the posters! Buy any poster, get another one of equal or lesser value for absolutely FREE!!! It’s a perfect stocking stuffer. All you’ve got to do is purchase the poster you want and then email legendofneilstore@gmail.com with your Transaction ID and which other poster you want for FREE. And that’s not ALL (hell yeah, we’re going all infomercial on you) the first 10 to take advantage of this offer, will get their posters signed by Neil creator Sandeep Parikh.

This offer expires on Sunday the 19th, and really the earlier you do it the higher the liklihood you’ll get it in time for the big ho-ho-holiday.

Oh, and buy some T-shirts too, we have a really limited supply and these will be the LAST RUN of these T-shirts, so snatch em up before someone else does. We’re already running out of sizes for the Heart and This Crap is Free shirts, and running low on Fog shirts, so move, baby, move! Fog T-shirts are only $14.95! Here’s the LINK to the store one more time. Pun intended. Thanks for supporting the show you love!

“Mister French Taste” – The Newest Project from “Lumina” Creator Jennifer Thym

Since independent filmmaker Jennifer Thym first wowed viewers globally with her dark, modern-day fairy tale Lumina, she’s been busy winning awards on the festival circuit and producing short films and web series. While most of her productions have a dark element in them, such as Lumina and her upcoming films Bloodtraffik (a vigilante and an ex-cop in the middle of a vampires vs. angels holy war) and Jasmine (a widower decides to take justice into his own hands after his wife is murdered), this time out, she tries her hand at something different. Thym spent this summer directing what she calls a “quirky comedy” and a romantic fish-out-of-water story, Mister French Taste.

Mister French Taste is an etiquette coach who is faced with the challenge of a lifetime: transforming the unruly Leon, the only son of a conservative Hong Kong family, and a constant source of scandals and shame, into a perfectly groomed gentleman, while at the same time trying to steal the heart of Lily, the beautiful young heiress to a Hong Kong fashion empire who’s educated and smart, and fluent in the art of shopping. Watch Hong Kong and France collide in this hilarious comedy of manners!

Watch the trailer above and then check out the official website at misterfrenchtaste.com.

You can also check out Bloodtraffik (download some cool wallpapers) and Jasmine at Jennifer Thym’s website: rockginger.com.

You can watch (or rewatch) Lumina at luminaseries.com.

Riese: The Hunt Begins 2011 on SPACECAST.com

from SPACE:

Canadian sci-fi fans have been clamoring to see the web exclusive Riese that has only been available online in the U.S. … until now! SPACE announced that the hunt is set to begin in Canada early in 2011, premiering exclusively on spacecast.com.

Centered around a reluctant heroine, Riese flees across the dying lands while being hunted by a terrifying religious group, The Sect. Her past is shrouded in mystery as even Riese can’t recall the events of the tragic night when her entire family was slaughtered and she was forced to flee. On her journey she will piece together her past and her destiny.

What The Globe and Mail has called “the hottest new Canadian fantasy series”, the Steampunk-styled Riese has a stellar cast with genre faves, including Emilie Ullerup and Ryan Robbins (Sanctuary), Allison Mack (Smallville), Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica), Patrick Gilmore (Stargate Universe), Sharon Taylor (Stargate Atlantis), Ben Cotton (Caprica) and starring Christine Chatelain (Sanctuary, Supernatural) as Riese. The series is narrated by Amanda Tapping (Stargate, Sanctuary).

“The Guild” Comic gets Trade Paperback release, and DVD out 12/21

from The Guild:

Today the initial three part mini-series of The Guild comic is released as a trade paperback (all three issues in a bound collection). The trade paperback includes some new extras, including a sketchbook section and pinups, as well as a foreward by director of The Guild Sean Becker. While many of you reading this may already have all three issues (and even in duplicate covers, and as a digital comic too!), hopefully you’ll consider buying this in “graphic novel” form or making it a gift to someone who might enjoy the show.

Publishing the comic in trade paperback form gets The Guild into traditional bookstores and gets it in front of new audiences. The Guild comic received great reviews, and that continues with the trade paperback. The New York Journal of Books calls it “Equal parts geeky love letter and cautionary tale … (it) succeeds on a number of nuanced levels and should appeal to most readers, regardless of their own backgrounds in pop culture,” and Tor.com has a great review which calls the book “a well-written, well-drawn mini-series that should entertain new readers and fans of The Guild alike.”

The Guild from Dark Horse Comics is available in bookstores everywhere, as well as comic shops (find your local store at ComicStoreLocator.com or by calling 1-888-ComicBook). Online you can purchase at TFAW.com, Amazon.com, Borders.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Chapters.ca and more.

In other release news, The Guild Season 4 on DVD will be released December 21 exclusively on Amazon.com. Yes, for the first time, we scrambled and got the DVD out in time for Christmas.

Warriors of the Unknown

It was just another day of online gaming, until a wild shootout and a cheater changed everything. Now the Warriors must hunt down a hacker, server-to-server, game-by-game, if they can have any hope of saving the Internet and their hard drives.

Visit cosmicradicals.com or www.youtube.com/CosmicRadicals for more Warriors of the Unknown!

“Riese: Kingdom Falling” Episode 8: Indoctrination

About Riese: Kingdom Falling:

Eleysia is a dying kingdom where resources are dwindling and compassion is fading. Distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. People have grown restless, almost feral. Rituals and mythology have resurged, and the darker side of mankind has begun to reveal itself.

Riese (Christine Chatelain), a wanderer, travels across the decaying lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Marked as a heretic by religious group The Sect and the new Empress, Amara, Riese must evade their assassins and discover their true intentions for Eleysia.

Riese is the Crown Princess of Eleysia, forced to flee into the wilds after her family was slaughtered. She will soon serve as a catalyst for a disparate group of supposed heretics, the Resistance, launching them into civil war.

Now is Your Chance to Help Get “Riese: Kingdom Falling” on Syfy!

Riese: Kingdom Falling

I think it’s no secret to anyone who visits ÜberSciFiGeek with any frequency that we have been huge fans and supporters of Riese: The Series since we first discovered some teaser footage on YouTube over a year ago. In case you are aren’t familiar with it, Riese is a sci-fi/fantasy series richly influenced by history, mythology, folklore and steampunk. The series follows a young woman named Riese and her companion, a wolf named Fenrir, who travel through a collapsing world trying to piece together the fragmented memories of her past while attempting to evade the dangerous religious cult that hunts her. The series is a visual and auditory feast with great attention paid to every detail, from the stitching of the wardrobe to the background noise in the high-definition sound. It caught the attention of Fireworks International and was pulled from the web while distribution rights were being negotiated. It was then re-edited with narration by Amanda Tapping (Stargate, Sanctuary) and re-released a few weeks ago on Syfy.com as Riese: Kingdom Falling.

From co-creators Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff (who shares directorial credits with Nicholas Humphries), Riese features sci-fi regulars such as Christine Chatelain (Sanctuary, Supernatural, The Collector), Sharon Taylor (Smallville, Stargate Atlantis, Eureka), Patrick Gilmore (Stargate Universe, Battlestar Galactica), Ben Cotton (Harper’s Island, Stargate Atlantis, Taken), Ryan Robbins (Sanctuary, Caprica, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis), Peter Kelamis (Stargate Universe, Dragon Ball Z, The X-Files), Emilie Ullerup (Sanctuary, jPod, Battlestar Galactica), Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Death Note), Allison Mack (Smallville, Alice & Huck), and Gina Chiarelli (The Dead Zone, Masters of Science Fiction, The Outer Limits).

For those of us who’ve been Riese fans (lovingly referred to as Rieslings) since the beginning, and the new ones who’ve been watching Riese: Kingdom Falling since it premiered on Syfy.com, it’s been a harrowing few weeks. Many of us watched Sanctuary get snapped up by Syfy after only eight episodes and have been hoping that Riese might be able to make the same move from hit web series to hit TV series. Syfy has been teasing us and watching the numbers while considering whether or not to make that hope a reality. We’ve all been waiting on the edge of our seats for news and running guerrilla warfare tactics to get our friends, family members and random strangers online to watch the show to help convince Syfy this should be on their New Original Series line-up for next season.

Well, the wait may be close to over. Today, Syfy posed the following question on its Facebook page:

What do you think? Should Riese eventually make the jump to TV?

Twitter and Facebook have been busy for the past few hours as Rieselings repost and respond to the question. @Riesetheseries tweeted “Our tweet to @Syfy got so much buzz it made it to Twitter’s front page. Guess you do want to see more Riese. 😉 Good work Rieslings!”

So, here’s your chance to help make our dreams a reality.

If you have a Facebook account, visit Syfy and answer “YES!!!”

If you have a Twitter account, send a friendly “PLEASE make #Riese a TV show!” to @syfy.

So, what are you waiting for? Go… do it. Now!

Riese: Kingdom Falling Official Website
Riese on Facebook
Riese on Twitter
Riese on Amazon
Riese: Battle for Eleysia Game for iPhone

“Riese: Kingdom Falling” Episode 7: Beast

About Riese: Kingdom Falling:

Eleysia is a dying kingdom where resources are dwindling and compassion is fading. Distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. People have grown restless, almost feral. Rituals and mythology have resurged, and the darker side of mankind has begun to reveal itself.

Riese (Christine Chatelain), a wanderer, travels across the decaying lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Marked as a heretic by religious group The Sect and the new Empress, Amara, Riese must evade their assassins and discover their true intentions for Eleysia.

Riese is the Crown Princess of Eleysia, forced to flee into the wilds after her family was slaughtered. She will soon serve as a catalyst for a disparate group of supposed heretics, the Resistance, launching them into civil war.

“Riese: Kingdom Falling” Now Available at Amazon!

Riese: Kingdom Falling

Tired of waiting for new episodes? You no longer have to wait. Riese: Kingdom Falling, the fantastic 10 part steampunk-infused web series from creators Ryan Copple and Kaleena Kiff, is currently running on Syfy.com and will soon roll out to the rest of the world. New episodes air every Tuesday and Thursday at Syfy Rewind, with episode 7 premiering tomorrow. Fans in the US no longer have to wait, though. You can now download Riese: Kingdom Falling in two parts, in both standard and high definition. Part one features episodes 1 through 5 and part two features episodes 6 through 10. Here’s a chance for fans to help convince SyFy that Riese should make the move to a full one-hour series on television. Show your support and buy Riese now!

About Riese: Kingdom Falling:

Eleysia is a dying kingdom where resources are dwindling and compassion is fading. Distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. People have grown restless, almost feral. Rituals and mythology have resurged, and the darker side of mankind has begun to reveal itself.

Riese (Christine Chatelain), a wanderer, travels across the decaying lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Marked as a heretic by religious group The Sect and the new Empress, Amara, Riese must evade their assassins and discover their true intentions for Eleysia.

Riese is the Crown Princess of Eleysia, forced to flee into the wilds after her family was slaughtered. She will soon serve as a catalyst for a disparate group of supposed heretics, the Resistance, launching them into civil war.

Riese: Kingdom Falling Standard Definition

Riese: Kingdom Falling High Definition

“Riese: Kingdom Falling” Episode 6: Prey

About Riese: Kingdom Falling:

Eleysia is a dying kingdom where resources are dwindling and compassion is fading. Distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. People have grown restless, almost feral. Rituals and mythology have resurged, and the darker side of mankind has begun to reveal itself.

Riese (Christine Chatelain), a wanderer, travels across the decaying lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Marked as a heretic by religious group The Sect and the new Empress, Amara, Riese must evade their assassins and discover their true intentions for Eleysia.

Riese is the Crown Princess of Eleysia, forced to flee into the wilds after her family was slaughtered. She will soon serve as a catalyst for a disparate group of supposed heretics, the Resistance, launching them into civil war.

“Riese: Kingdom Falling” Episode 5: Dawn

About Riese: Kingdom Falling:

Eleysia is a dying kingdom where resources are dwindling and compassion is fading. Distrust and anxiety have clouded people’s minds, causing a regression into primitive ways of thinking. People have grown restless, almost feral. Rituals and mythology have resurged, and the darker side of mankind has begun to reveal itself.

Riese (Christine Chatelain), a wanderer, travels across the decaying lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Marked as a heretic by religious group The Sect and the new Empress, Amara, Riese must evade their assassins and discover their true intentions for Eleysia.

Riese is the Crown Princess of Eleysia, forced to flee into the wilds after her family was slaughtered. She will soon serve as a catalyst for a disparate group of supposed heretics, the Resistance, launching them into civil war.