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Riese: The Hunt Begins 2011 on SPACECAST.com

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).

Irvin Kershner Remembered

from StarWars.com:

Irvin Kershner, known to most fans as the director of the first Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, passed away in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 28. He was 87 years old.

“The world has lost a great director and one of the most genuine people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing,” says George Lucas. “Irvin Kershner was a true gentleman in every sense of the word. When I think of Kersh, I think of his warmth, his thoughtfulness and his talent. I knew him from USC — I attended his lectures and he was actually on the festival panel that gave the prize to my THX short. I considered him a mentor.

“Following Star Wars, I knew one thing for sure: I didn’t want to direct the second movie myself. I needed someone I could trust, someone I really admired and whose work had maturity and humor. That was Kersh all over. I didn’t want Empire to turn into just another sequel, another episode in a series of space adventures. I was trying to build something, and I knew Kersh was the guy to help me do it. He brought so much to the table. I am truly grateful to him.

“He was a friend as well as a colleague. He will be missed.”

Irvin Kershner was very proud of his work on The Empire Strikes Back, as these interviews conducted with the director in 1990, 2000, and 2010 can attest. Fans and celebrities have also chimed in to offer their regards, and many tribute articles have been appearing throughout the press and blogosphere — check StarWars.com’s Facebook and Twitter feeds for updates as the world mourns the loss of one of the Star Wars saga’s brightest stars.

“Cinematic Titanic”: Tickets on Sale for 2011 Shows

from Cinematic Titanic:

Hi Everyone,

With our shows last Saturday night at the NJPAC in Newark, New Jersey, we completed our 2010 touring schedule. Thanks to everyone that has come out to see us this year! We’ve had a great time out there with shows all over the country. It never fails to amaze us how great the people are that we get to meet and perform for, it’s a true honor to be on the receiving end of all that love — it’s mutual, we assure you. We are already looking forward to getting back out there in 2011, trying to get into new markets and return to others with new movies.

Which brings us to the next item on this email agenda —

Tickets for our 4/15 (it’s tax day, you’ll need a laugh) show in Morristown, New Jersey, at The Community Theatre at the Mayo Center go on sale tomorrow (Friday 12/3 – 8:45am) here: Tickets — Box office opens at 10am — Box Office phone lines open at 10 am December 3 at 973-539-8008.

Other Shows on Sale Now:

1/29 — Concord, New Hampshire — Capitol Center for the Arts — Get Tickets

2/18-19 — Milwaukee, Wisconsin — Pabst Theater — Get Tickets

2/26 — Royal Oak, Michigan — Royal Oak Music Theatre — Get Tickets

3/12 — Mesa, Arizona — Mesa Arts Center — Tickets on Sale 12/6

4/16 — Princeton, New Jersey — McCarter Theatre Center — Get Tickets

Here’s hoping you have a wonderful holiday season. Thanks for your continuing support of Cinematic Titanic.

Best,
The CT Crew
cinematictitanic.com

The Console Killer

from GeekChicDaily:

The history of video game development is littered with failed gaming systems. There was the Nokia N-Gage, a game system/cell phone that actually required you to remove the phone’s battery to switch game cards. Remember Nintendo’s Virtual Boy? Everyone loves an eyepiece on a stand that produces 3D images… and ocular damage in young children. How about the RDI Halcyon? Price? $2500. Total number of games released? Two.

You can forget the aforementioned. The eggheads at OnLive have engineered what may finally become button-mashing’s next great leap forward. Today marks the debut of their OnLive Game System, a device that lets you stream video games for the Xbox, PC and PS3 while owning almost no hardware.

OnLive’s new MicroConsole is about the size of a deck of cards and it does little processing work on its own. Instead, it connects your TV to the company’s servers, which stream games that you’ve bought or rented. What’s the catch? You need a pretty speedy internet tap to avoid diminished graphics and controller lag. For max performance, OnLive recommends an internet connection speed of 5Mbps, although it should still function at 3 Mbps. The best part? Because the console is portable and the games live in the computing cloud, you can start playing a title on your home PC, pick up a saved game on your laptop and maybe finish on the TV at your hotel. (Although why you’d be playing a game at a hotel and not watching Skinemax is beyond us.)

Grab ‘Bot + Save 20% on All MIMOBOTs! + 10% more on “Star Wars”!

from Mimoco:

20% OFF ALL MIMOBOTs* (for a limited time only!) *Excludes Grab ‘Bot promotion. Save Now!

In Memoriam Irvin Kershner (Director of The Empire Strikes Back). In his memory, we offer this humble celebration from our favorite Star Wars movie. A MIMO-fied reenactment of the infamous deleted scene “Wampas Attack”. R.I.P Mr. Kershner. May the Force be with you. Watch Now!

Weekly Special: Star Wars MIMOBOT! We’re kicking off the holidays with a Star Wars MIMOBOT Series Special! Take an extra 10% off all Star Wars MIMOBOT drives for ONE WEEK ONLY, thru December 8, 11:59PM PST! Shop Now!

Grab ‘bot! Save big with grab bag style MIMOBOT multi-packs!

Stuff We Like: Freeman’s Vader Project Auction Catalog: A 200-plus page, full-color, limited edition catalog that features all 100 helmets, artist bios and some history on the project. Now only $26.00! Save 35% — Get Me!

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*FREE domestic shipping on ALL MIMOBOT orders over $40! (Excludes Hawaii, Alaska)

“Ghostbusters” PKE Meter

from Matty Collector:

Long awaited and fan-demanded, this movie-accurate prop replica is available for the first time from Mattel at a special sale on December 1st only at MattyCollector.com!

Perfect for all your psychokinetic energy measurement needs, our PKE Meter features:

Light sequences from both Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.
3 screen settings as seen in the films: diagonal display, arc display, off.
Adjustable LED and screen animation speeds.
Opening wings!

Check It Out

Split Reason: Happy Holidays!

from Split Reason:

In a few more days it’ll be time to dust-off your battleaxe and slay a tree. If you’re not up for the hunt don’t be afraid to choose the synthetic alternative: no mess, no moral dilemma, and you can buy the fresh tree scent in a can. (Isn’t the future great?) In the spirit of the holiday season we’ll be offering FREE shipping on orders of $75 dollars or more and 10% OFF using the promo code CRINGLE, until December 31st, 2010.

We have some new products from our community and partners this month, as well as new UPS shipping services that offer fast delivery times and tracking at great low rates. Refer to our shipping schedule to make sure you receive your order in time for the holidays and keep checking back for new products and re-stocks throughout December.

We hope everyone has a safe and festive holiday with their friends and families, filled with good times, great food, and countless hours of video games! Facebook Friday and Win Wednesday will continue to run during the holidays so hit us up on Facebook and Twitter for a chance to win, you might catch the competition in the midst of a turkey nap!

Tired of Turkey? How about some Cheezburger!

from I Can Has Cheezburger?:

It’s Here!!! After years of requests from adoring fans, it has finally arrived…
The Cheezburger 2011 Calendar is Here!!!
Our very first calendar has arrived at LOLMart.com! A year of Cheezburger! Twelve LOLs to keep you laughing through the seasons with special holidays so you’ll never forget Chocolate Cupcake or Talk Like a Pirate Day again!

Cheezburger Collectibles
Keep an eye out for our new collectibles! The Winter Collectibles Set is available now!

Looking for Goods?
Get your LOLs off the Internet! Mugs, Mousepads, and Print LOLs OH MY! Your favorite LOLs custom printed on Mugs, Mousepads, or Printed and Framed at LOLMart.com.

Shout! Factory: A Little DARKSTAR for the MSTies

from Shout! Factory:

Last month we told you all about the release of Darkstar: The Interactive Movie starring Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast members Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, J. Elvis Weinstein and Beez McKeever. Well, guess what? You can soon order it directly from ShoutFactory.com. And while you’re visiting the site, check out the newest addition to our contest page. Enter to win the Darkstar: Special Edition Captain’s Box plus MST3K: Volume XIX. This absolutely unique Darkstar package features five hand-autographed glossies of the cast (including Beez McKeever, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff and Clive Robertson); a Darkstar flash drive preloaded with the All Revealed Guide and Coffee Table Book (PDFs); a Darkstar T-shirt autographed by Joel Hodgson, J. Elvis Weinstein, Trace Beaulieu, Mary Jo Pehl, Frank Conniff and creator J. Allen Williams; a copy of Darkstar: The Interactive Movie autographed by all of the above; and the Darkstar soundtrack album. Three runners-up win MST3K: XIX, Darkstar: The Interactive Movie and soundtrack.

Deals And Schpeals
We plan to be fat and sleepy come Friday morning, but not too groggy to miss out on treating you to some great deals. Check ShoutFactory.com on Friday morning to see what we have up our sleeves. You’ll be glad you did!

Keep up with the latest Shout! news throughout your day by following us on Twitter and Facebook. Plus, visit our YouTube page for trailers, clips and music videos.

“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.

It’s a Happy Thanksgiving from Cinematic Titanic!

from Cinematic Titanic:

Hello Friends,

All of us here at Cinematic Titanic are very thankful for you, our fans. In appreciation, we are having an unprecedented 4-day sale!

From Thursday, November 25 through Sunday, November 28, 2010
ALL DVDs are only $9.99!

Hey, that’s more than 30% off our normal prices! Huzzah!

For those of you who haven’t yet experienced the heightened energy of our live show DVDs, now’s the time to stock up, what with the highly anticipated return of East Meets Watts to our shelves. They won’t last long, so get ’em while you can at cinematictitanic.com!

The sale begins and ends at midnight Eastern Time.

Can’t order this weekend, but want to make sure your order arrives by December 25th?

Here are our 2010 holiday shipping deadlines:

Domestic US: Order by December 19
Africa, Central and South America: Order by December 2
All other International locations: Order by December 9
Military zip 093: Order by December 3
All other Military locations: Order by December 9

Happy Holidays and thank you for your support!

Love,
The CT Crew

J!NX: Our “World of Warcraft” Holiday 2010 Line is Here!

from J!NX:

The World of Warcraft Holiday 2010 Line is Here!
Just in time for the holidays, here’s a whole new set of awesome World of Warcraft apparel for you! While you’re recovering from your turkey-and-stuffing gorge-fest, load up your shopping cart with a hefty helping of new tees (including two new Legendary tees to complete your set), but remember to save room for our eagerly anticipated polos and hoodies, as well! The new Murloc hoodies will be on the top of many a wishlist this season, so order yours before they sell out!

Something for the Ladies: DIY Shirt-Dress Tutorial from Leeloo!
Ladies, listen up! Have you been lamenting that your favorite J!NX tee isn’t offered in a women’s size? Well, lament no more! Our amazing fashion designer, Leeloo, has put together a DIY tutorial to show you how to turn an over-large t-shirt into a fabulous shirt-dress! It’s easy enough for even the greenest of sewing n00bz to follow. Check it out here!

The More You Buy, the More You Save!
The Holiday season can be an expensive time, so to keep your wallet as stuffed as your stockings, we’re running a very special promotion, where the more you buy, the more you save. Orders over $50 will get 5% off, orders over $75 will get 10% off, and orders over $100 will save 15% when you enter the code SPARECHANGE. Happy Shopping!

5% off $50+ order
10% off $75+ order
15% off $100+ order
Use Promotion Code: SPARECHANGE

This offer expires Friday, December 17, 2010 at 11:59PM PDT, so don’t wait!
*can’t be used in combination with any other offer or discounts