My friends over at HP Fan Tripsâ„¢ have ecured exclusive access to a private party at Waterstone’s West End bookstore July 20 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The party celebrates the release of the final book in JK Rowling’s series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Traditionally, UK Potter fans have had to wait outside in “queue […]
The Mütter Museum has launched a unique free service: the Cell Phone Audio Tour Guide, one of the first of its kind in the Philadelphia region. “The cell phone audio tour is a relatively new idea, and we are so excited to be able to offer this feature free of charge to our visitors,” said […]
Wannado City, America’s first indoor role-playing theme park for kids based in South Florida, has recently opened M-Lab. Created by Motorola, M-Lab emplowers young visitors to discover a career in innovation while touching upon science and technology in a high-tech, highly immersive environment. In a press release, Peter Aloumanis, vice president, Motorola Sales & Services, […]
OK. This isn’t really genre travel, but I thought it would be of interested anyway. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game,” iPulp Fiction Library will publish this classic story exclusively online. First published in the August 1977 issue of Analog, Ender’s Game tells the story of a child prodigy […]
Turning a amusement park ride into a movie can be a tricky endeavor. Take the above named examples, for instance. The first spawned a very popular trilogy (so far), with the latest currently in theaters. The latter didn’t do so well. Well, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the animated 3-D stereoscopic ride, Corkscrew Hill, at […]
Wes Craven said in a recent interview with Matt Withers of JoBlo.com that his Las Vegas show, Wes Craven’s Magick Macabre, is coming along well. “It’s coming along well. [Producer] John [McColgan] has been preoccupied with PIRATE QUEEN on Broadway. We’re just kind of waiting for that to settle down, but it’s good. We’ve got […]
To promote Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Fox put up a replica of the Surfer on the London Eye, according to Variety. Do any of my British readers have any photos they’d like to share? I’d love to post them for the rest of the readers to see, if you do. Send me […]
I met Mike at Haunt X in February. He’s a really nice (although somewhat shy) and very talented artist. I found his work compelling and am working on an interview with him for the October issue of The Genre Traveler. Anyway, I just found out that he’ll be at Comic-Con in San Diego next month. […]
Michael Uslan, producers of such genre fare as Swamp Thing (1982), several Batman movies, and Constantine, will be shooting a documentary on the history of Comic Books at the Florida Supercon next weekend. Chip Conkrite (Walter Conkrite’s son) will be making his directorial debut with this project. According to Supercon oragnizers, “plans call for them […]
Last week, organizers of Comic-Con International revealed a partial list of films that they will preview during the convention next month. The list includes: Alien vs. Predator 2: No Peace on Earth Babylon AD Beowulf Coraline The Golden Compass Hellboy 2: The Golden Army I Am Legend Indiana Jones 4 Resident Evil: Extinction Stardust Star […]