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Uh-oh: Amazon announces Kindle Worlds

Club Jade clued us in this morning to Amazon’s new plan to pay fanfic authors to publish their works via Kindle.  Introducing Kindle Worlds, which is getting around the fuzzy legal grey area of fanfiction by officially licensing these Worlds, … Continue reading

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Think Geek wins at listening to customers

It made the rounds this week that Fox started sending cease and desist orders to Etsy sellers who were producing their own version of the iconic ‘Jayne hat’ from Joss Whedon’s cult TV show Firefly. Both Ripple Junction, who now … Continue reading

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DVR watch: Mark Hamill will guest-star on Criminal Minds

TV Guide at Yahoo! is reporting that Mark Hamill will be guest-starring in the two-part season 8 finale of CBS’ procedural drama Criminal Minds. While there’s no word yet on exactly who Hamill will play, TV Guide speculates that he … Continue reading

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Lucasarts Shuttered, Employees Laid Off

Kotaku is reporting that Disney has officially shut down Lucasarts and laid off all employees. Given the lingering hard feelings over Lucasfilm Animation and the cancellation of The Clone Wars, it’s easy to get upset at Disney. I would caution against … Continue reading

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Just Keep Swimming: Pixar Announces Release Date for “Finding Dory”

Just when we thought Disney couldn’t get any more awesome: Disney and Pixar announce that Dory, Nemo, and Marlin will be swimming back into theatres in 2015 in Finding Dory. Lest you think that this is an April Fool’s joke … Continue reading

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Spoilers: Star Trek Into Darkness Brings Back Some Old Enemies

SPOILER WARNING: The link below and the text beneath the jump contains spoilers for the upcoming film Star Trek Into Darkness. Yahoo! is at it again, and it turns out that the new Star Trek film is going to be … Continue reading

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Stuart Freeborn Passes Away at 98

Original trilogy makeup supervisor Stuart Freeborn has passed away at age 98. Freeborn’s accomplishments in the film industry were remarkable, having worked on notable films such as 2001: A Space Oddysey and Superman. Perhaps most notably were his contributions to the original Star Wars … Continue reading

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