From www.voltron.com:
As announced by WEP VP Bob Koplar at the Voltron San Diego Comic Con Panel, Relativity Media (The Fighter, Immortals) have optioned the feature film rights to the classic animated series Voltron: Defender of the Universe. The production will be led by producers Charles Roven and Richard Suckle of Atlas Entertainment (The Dark Knight, Man of Steel) and producer Jason Netter (Wanted). While no release date has been given at this time, screenwriters Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (Conan the Barbian, Sahara) are penning the screenplay.
“For nearly three decades, Voltron has captured the minds of a nostalgically loyal and rabid fan base and has long been considered a hotly-pursued project. We are beyond excited World Events Productions and Atlas Entertainment have placed their trust and faith in Relativity to bring this coveted property to the big screen, and usher in a new generation of devoted fans,” Relativity Media president of worldwide production Tucker Tooley said in announcing the project.
From The Doctor Who Site:
Doctor Who In Comics Exhibition
27th July – 30th October
Cartoon Museum
35 Little Russell Street
London WC1A 2HH
Doctor Who is the world’s longest‐running comic character based on a TV programme. He is a uniquely British superhero by turns eccentric, wise, often kind, sometimes dangerous, but ultimately mysterious. This exhibition of over 100 works is the first to showcase the Doctor in his many incarnations and shows how the character has evolved in comics over the last 47 years. The museum hopes that during the exhibition the public will help solve the mystery of who created a number of early comic pages including iconic images of the Daleks and Davros.
From Dalek Omnibus, 1976 Artist unknown and The Crimson Hand, (detail ) Doctor Who Magazine, 2010 Martin Geraghty, David Roach, James Offredi © Doctor Who Magazine/Panini UK…
The show includes all eleven Doctors – plus his early film incarnation played by Peter Cushing. Doctor Who in Comics is of course intimately connected to the TV programme, but the comic stories have also taken fans on imaginative and far‐flung adventures which would have been way beyond the budget and special effects capacity of the BBC. The Doctor has been appearing in comics for 47 years and has been drawn by many great comic artists including Frank Bellamy, Martin Geraghty, Dave Gibbons, Dave Lloyd, John Ridgway and Lee Sullivan. Between 1989 and 2005, when the programme was off the air, apart from a one‐off TV film in 1996, the Doctor lived on in comics, the only place where fans could continue to see their hero in new adventures.
Doctor Who: The Usual Suspects Revisited,Specially produced for Doctor Who in Comics Exhibition 2011 © Lee Sullivan…
Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television on 23 November 1963. The programme rapidly attracted a following – particularly with the appearance of the Daleks in the second story. What is less well known is that on 14 November 1964 the Doctor featured in his own strip in TV Comic and he has continued to appear in comics in every year since. In 1979 he finally got his own title with the arrival of Doctor Who Weekly. Its descendent Doctor Who Magazine continues to this day and is the biggest selling SF magazine in the UK.
In his comic life the Doctor was sometimes ahead of his time. In 1980 he was accompanied by his first black companion Sharon – 25 years before Mickey or Martha Jones appeared on screen. Favourite villains such as the Daleks, the Cybermen, and the Master make several appearances and many important characters such as Sarah Jane Smith, K‐9, Brigadier Lethbridge‐Stewart, Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Martha Jones and Amy Pond all feature. It also includes the original illustrations from the 2006 story which went on to inspire the famous TV episode ‘Blink’, and artwork from the only story to be written by a ‘Doctor’ – The Age of Chaos by the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker.
The exhibition includes stories from TV Comic, TV Century 21, Doctor Who Weekly, Doctor Who Monthly, Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who Adventures and the American Doctor Who magazine. It has something for fans of Doctor Who of all ages, showing how a story evolves from script to finished page. The museum is also running special Doctor Who themed workshops for kids over the summer.
The Cartoon Museum is open Tues – Sat, 10.30 – 17.30; Sun, 12‐17.30.
Admission £5.50, £4, £3. Free to under‐18s.
All Doctor Who material is © BBCtv © Doctor Who Magazine/Panini UK
Artists in the exhibition: Frank Bellamy, Doug Braithwaite, Mark Buckingham, Mike Collins, John Canning,Paul Crompton, Vincent Danks, Al Davison, Dave Gibbons, Steve Dillon, Martin Geraghty, Paul Grist,Gerry Haylock, Walt Howarth, Dicky Howett, Richard Jennings, Daryl Joyce, Roger Langridge, Dave Lloyd, Paul Neary, John Ridgway, John Ross, Andrew Skilliter, Ben Templesmith, Ron Turner,Barrie Mitchell, Adrian Salmon, Lee Sullivan and Andy Walker.
Torchwood Long Time Dead by Sarah Pinborough – Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base. DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance, fascinated by the process. There are people in his dreams. People he feels he should know. The disbanded Torchwood Institute spent a century accumulating non-terrestrial artifacts and catching aliens. Who knows what – or who – might still be intact down there. But by the time they find the first body, Suzie Costello is long gone.
Torchwood: The Men Who Sold The World by Guy Adams – Agent Rex Matheson investigates the disappearance of a CIA squad transporting secret Torchwood cargo – a Torchwood: Miracle Day prequel.
Torchwood First Born, by James Gross -Gwen and Rhys are on the run with their baby daughter, but it seems that Torchwood will never leave them behind.
At San Diego Comic-Con Karen Gillan confirmed to Zap2It that she will be returning as Amy Pond in Season 7/33 of Doctor Who. She later reiterated this at the Doctor Who panel at Comic-Con. This will make Amy Pond the longest running Companion of the Doctor since the series returned in 2005.
BBC America have confirmed that Doctor Who will return on Saturday August 27th at 9/8c, with the episode Let’s Kill Hitler. The BBC have yet to confirm an airdate, but I imagine it will also be on August 27th. The BBC have released a fall 2011 trailer.
They have also released a trailer for Episode 11 The God Complex
BBC Books have announced that for the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who in 2013 they are going to start publishing original Past Doctor Stories. Starting with Harvest of Time written by Alastair Reynolds, who worked for the European Space Agency for over a decade. He has won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel with Chasm City and shortlisted for the for the British Science Fiction and Arthur C Clarke awards with Revelation Space.
He said:
“Doctor Who has been a big part of my life for forty years. To put things into perspective, when I was little I did not want to go round to another boy’s house because he had Dalek wallpaper, a concept I found unspeakably terrifying. I am delighted and honored to have the chance to write a novel featuring not only one of my favorite Doctors, but the single greatest villain ever imagined: The Master.”
Editorial director of BBC Books, Albert DePetrillo, commented:
“We’ve been carefully planning our venture into Doctor Who’s past for a while now, first with our reissues of six of the Target novelisations, then our novelisation of Shada in 2012. The next step is all-original adventures with past Doctors, and we knew we needed to publish those in a special way. I’m absolutely delighted that Alastair can be part of that plan. He is simply one of the best science fiction writers around, and we’re thrilled to have him contributing to the Doctor Who list.”
Harvest of Time is due to be released in hardback in 2013.
I for one am really looking foward to this. I have missed the Past Doctor Novels since they were cancelled when the 2005 Series of Doctor Who started, and I think it is a huge market that BBC Books has been missing out on for the past 6 years. There are plenty of stories that can be told with the previous Doctors and companions. 2013 is shapping up to be a huge year for Doctor Who fans.
Set to premier this Friday on Cartoon Network at 7PM Eastern Time. Check out the trailer. How can you go wrong with Lego and Star Wars?
From the official site…
The new Adventure Game will be released October, 2011 and is called The Gunpowder Plot.
It’s the most ambitious Adventure Game to date and stars Matt Smith as the Doctor, Karen Gillan as Amy and for the first time, Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams. This new, dazzlingly epic story gives you the chance to battle aliens in London, 1605. But as well as extra-terrestrial monsters, you’ll meet Guy Fawkes (visualisation above) and really get a feel for what was happening at this incendiary moment in Britain’s history. It’s your chance to virtually step back in time, chat to famous figures and participate in one of the most notorious plots the world has ever known.
We’re delighted to say that The Gunpowder Plot also sees the return of two old enemies… more about them soon! Right now we can confirm that this, the fifth Adventure Game, was written by Phil Ford (Doctor Who: The Adventure Games, The Sarah Jane Adventures and co-writer of The Waters of Mars) and produced by Gary Russell. The executive producers are Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger, Beth Willis, Anwen Aspden and Charles Cecil.
The Gunpowder Plot will be the most advanced of the Adventure Games so far. Gamers will be able to play as the Doctor, Amy and Rory, exploring the immersive environments of this historic period. The adventure will feature multi-linear gameplay, even more sophisticated puzzles, and a complex lighting system specifically designed to recreate the atmosphere of 17th Century London. And for the very first time, the introduction of portal technology will enable gamers to experience for themselves that the TARDIS really is bigger on the inside…
To accompany the game, BBC Learning will be offering teachers an online resource pack containing unique, downloadable assets to support History and Literacy in the classroom. And in the adventure itself you’ll be meeting not just the main figures from the plot, but everyday Londoners who lived through an exciting, dangerous and fascinating era.
The Adventure Games have received over 2.6 million download requests since the launch of the first adventure, City of the Daleks, which SFX called ‘the best Who game to date.’ The series was a finalist at the Develop Awards and nominated at the Banff World Media Festival for Best Branded Entertainment.
As always, the Adventure Game will be free in the UK and we’ll be giving you more information soon. The Gunpowder Plot explodes in approximately three months time. It may not rhyme, but remember, remember… October!
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Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Series on Blu-ray
Also included are audio commentaries from the cast and crew on nearly every episode, plus all the same bonus featurettes that were previously released on the DVD edition.
The Box Set has a suggested retail price of $199.99 but right now on Amazon.com for $114.99
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