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They’ve Cast Grant Gustin as The Flash

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Setting up the TV pilot for a Flash TV series, The CW appear to have cast actor Grant Gustin - best known for his...

Best idea ever: Shatner and West kibbitz at Salt Lake City con

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HOW has no one ever thought of this before? Putting William Shatner and Adam West—the two most mellifluous, self mocking and endearing of legendary...

SDCC’13: South Park and the Stick of Truth

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By Nicholas Eskey This year at Comic Con International 2013, we were given a treat to have the South Park show creators Matt Stone and...

Life among the nerdlebrities: Wizard World NYC

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I had no idea what to expect as I approached the Wizard World Comic Con NYC Experience last Friday evening. First off it was located a new venue—Basketball City—in a part of Manhattan that I had never been to except on an FDR Drive flyover: a mysterious realm east of Chinatown, north of the Seaport and south of the Williamsburg Bridge. In local speak we call it "no mans land": the moody banks of the East River.

Patton Oswalt Pitches a Star Wars/Marvel Crossover Movie

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Patton Oswalt has been rather busy over the last few weeks. When not convincing the World that he should be cast as The Penguin...

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer Go “Live” at Bard College

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The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Red Hook, New York, hosted "An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer"...

WonderCon 2013: Tarzan tells a tale of Tiger at Warner Bros. Pulp TV Panel

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A powerful looking Ron Ely, star of the TV's "Tarzan"(1966-1968) and "Doc Savage: Man of Bronze" (1975) spellbound his audience at WonderCon Friday, relating...

On the Scene: WonderCon 2013, Nerdist’s Chris Hardwick Pushes Fan Empowerment

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While the Nerdist Industries’ arena event at WonderCon this year was ostensibly about the future of the Youtube based pop culture conglomerate, and, indeed,...

Tales of con: Meet The Sleepy Klingon

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While nerdlebrities are a big draw at comic-cons these days, as we've noted in the past, trying to throw a celebrity-only show can be a dismal affair. But with the rise of nerd culture, autograph shows seem to be picking up, even on the local level. For example: while going through our mail, we found a press release for a show called The American Music & Pop Culture Expo.

Nice art: Jim Rugg covers Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever #1…

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Jim Rugg does an alternate cover for Tom Neely's comic about Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig as a bickering old married couple. A new...

Radio 4 Gather Stunning Voice-Cast for Adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’

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Well, this is certainly one of the most British things I've ever heard. Please whistle the theme tune to The Archers while you read...

Visitors to Wellington now greeted by giant statue of Gollum

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New Zealand is proud of its role as the home of the Lord of the Rings movies, and now the Hobbit trilogy. And to...

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