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First Look at the Battle Room Stars

Blogger Mike Pierce (from iwatchmike.com), a.k.a. mikethemovieguy on Twitter, has made it his job to hang around the Summit booth and the Ender’s Game Interactive Experience to provide us all with footage on how everything is coming together.

Watch Mike’s socialcam video below for your very first look at the battle room stars! Look how huge they are!

Mike also talks about some interesting rumors concerning “some interactive people there who are playing the characters.” We have wondered why some of the cast members were rumored to be going to Comic Con, but weren’t listed in the official autograph signing line-ups. Could this be where they’ll be hanging out?

Follow Mike on Twitter (@mikethemovieguy)!

Source: Mike’s Twitter

July 17, 2013
Summit Teams Up with HGTV for Ender’s Game Home Makeover

As we’ve discovered earlier today (see photo above), Summit has teamed up with Home and Garden TV for its Ender’s Game Experience. According to several news outlets, Summit and HGTV have issued a press release concerning HGTV’s involvement in the Experience as well as the home makeover visitors can hope to win.

Inside the “Ender’s Game” activation, located outside the Hilton Gaslamp district, HGTV showcases its “Journey Begins at Home” space—an interpretation of the Wiggins home living room—among eight elaborate, specially constructed, unique rooms that represent the most iconic environments of Ender’s world, complete with original film props and set pieces used in the movie.

Visitors will be able to “enter the sweepstakes for the chance to win $10,000 courtesy of HGTV for their own “out of this world” home makeover.”

Sources: CNBC, The Slanted

July 16, 2013
New Interview with Orson Scott Card

Yesterday, The Digital Universe (Brigham Young University’s online news outlet) published a new interview with Orson Scott Card. None of the things he says about the book and the movie are entirely new, but the interview may clear up a few matters that people have been confused about. Here are a some excerpts:

About morality in Ender’s Game:

The novel doesn’t answer those questions, anyway — rather it raises them, and if anything it shows that the best you can do is muddle through, trying to do what’s right, as far as you can figure out what that is. That’s all that human beings can ever do. Even the great ones like Lincoln and Churchill are right only some of the time. Ender Wiggin, though fictional, is no better.

About his involvement in the movie:

My work as co-producer was all done in the early stages. Once Gavin Hood took over, my help was no longer required. […] The screenplay you see on the screen was 100 percent Gavin Hood. None of my writing was used. That was the decision that Odd Lot and Summit made; it was their money at risk, and they invested in the writer they believed in. I have no complaints.

Read the entire interview HERE.

Source: The Digital Universe

July 16, 2013
VIDEO: Building the Ender’s Game Experience

San Diego, California News Station – KFMB Channel 8 – cbs8.com

Watch the Ender’s Game Experience come together in San Diego, just in time for Comic Con. They are building the entrance to the battle room! Thanks to CBS8 for the story and to Darian (@Darian_Robbins) and Fernanda (@franiahs) for the tweets!

July 16, 2013
PHOTO: Ender’s Game Fan Experience at Comic Con

When I first heard of the Ender’s Game Fan Experience, I was in shock. It sounded like they were dragging the entire set to Comic Con for something so epic it just couldn’t be believed!

Thanks to a photo from @DanoFernandez, we now see now massive the thing is shaping up to be! It’s obviously still being built and I can just imagine the chaos those people are going through to get this up in time for tomorrow.

We’ll be there taking video and interviewing fans. Be sure to follow EnderWiggin.net on Instagram for a photo journey of the experience!

July 16, 2013
Hailee Steinfeld on Petra and Strong Female Roles

In an article on the “new wave of strong female-led sci-fi” published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times, Hailee Steinfeld speaks up about what attracted her to the role of Petra in Ender’s Game. According to the article, it wasn’t easy for her to find a challenging enough project after her highly acclaimed performance as Mattie Ross in True Grit (2010). The role of Petra Arkanian seems to have changed that.

When ‘Ender’s Game’ came along with Petra, I found that I’m really attracted to the strong female roles. Not only do you have to look harder for those parts but you have to fight for them. But fighting for what you want is the best part of the job. It’s what I love.”

The rest of the article focuses on other strong female characters in young adult franchises such as Divergent, The Mortal Instruments, and The Hunger Games. While many fans of Card’s novel are tired of Ender’s Game constantly being compared to The Hunger Games, Hailee nevertheless has something to say about which kind of impact the Hunger Games movie had on her and the rest of the young cast during the filming of Ender’s Game:

We all sat in the theater and we were all in awe. Most of us had read the book and we were excited. It was cool to see that ensemble cast just bring it 110%. It motivated us to really come together and make a great movie.

Check out the entire article HERE!

Source: LA Times

July 13, 2013
Confirmed Autograph Signings for Ender’s Game

Comic Con released their autograph signing schedule and there are two scheduled for cast and crew of Ender’s Game. The first will be held on Thursday morning.

Summit Entertainment is excited to announce a special autograph signing by Bob Orci, Gavin Hood, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin for their upcoming release ENDER’S GAME. Please visit http://www.comic-con.org/cci/autograph-area or the Autograph Area Information Booth for details on how to participate in a Limited Signing Drawing.

Limited Signing – Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Thursday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
Thursday July 18, 2013 9:00am – 9:30am
Sails Pavilion – Autographs

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The second signing will be on Saturday morning.

Talent from Enders Game
(Aramis Knight, Suraj Parthasarathy, Jimmy Pinchak, Conor Carrol, Cameron Gaskins)
Limited Signing – Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Saturday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area

Saturday July 20, 2013 9:00am – 10:00am
Sails Pavilion – Autographs

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July 12, 2013
Entertainment Weekly Reveals New Ender’s Game Cover

Check out this awesome cover of Entertainment Weekly featuring none other than Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield in Ender’s Game!

We get a great look at Ender in his Dragon Army flash suit, carrying in his arm his Dragon Army helmet. It’s a “bonus” cover, so you may have to check around to find this one for yourself!

Source: Entertainment Weekly

July 10, 2013
Behind the Scenes Photo from ‘Ender’s Game’ in Empire Magazine

Thanks to a photo by @charloteburows, we can see that Empire magazine has a cool behind the scenes photo of Asa Butterfield as Ender (right in white), Suraj Partha as Alai (center), and director Gavin Hood (left).

The article was released online in May with an exclusive photo of Graff watching Ender in the Battle Room.

We’ll try to get a better look at the image soon!

July 3, 2013
VIDEO: Moises Arias on Ender’s Game

In their interview with Moises Arias at the Despicable Me 2 premiere, DesdeHollywood asked Moises about his experience filming Ender’s Game. Here is what he had to say:

Reporter: How was it to work on Ender’s Game with Harrison Ford, a movie that will catapult you into stardom in the entire world?

Moises: Ahm, I hope that people will really see the variety of roles that I’m doing, and that they’ll start to see the different kinds of acting that I can do. I liked it a lot, and Ender’s Game gave me a big opportunity – to be an antagonist. Kings of Summer is a comedy and Ender’s Game is solely drama. There is a very big chance that if people like it it will be one of the biggest things in my career.

Many thanks to Fernanda (@franiahs on Twitter) for the translation!

July 2, 2013
PHOTOS: El Juego de Ender @ Cinemex Mexico City Event

Thanks to a tip by @franiahs and some Google-fu of Ender News, we’ve got some photos taken from an event that took place in Mexico City, sponsored by Cinemex. The road race was themed to several upcoming movies including El Juego de Ender, which is the Spanish title for Ender’s Game.

Here’s a photo of the t-shirt several racers wore.

Along with some of the other items available. That green card looks like it goes straight to my “never see because I’m a wuss” list.

Here’s a great photo of some racers wearing their El Juego de Ender shirts. Looks awesome!

Photo source: MKT Film

June 24, 2013
Ender’s Game Cast Watch #2

As usual, the young Ender’s Game cast has been really active on Twitter this week, with Abigail Breslin taking home the “Most Obsessive Tweeter” award with 33 original tweets since Monday.

Moises Arias has been busy promoting his new film The Kings of Summer, which was released this week. He attended a Q & A at the Landmark Theater in LA on Wednesday. Check out Twitter user Devan Abharis photograph of the event (as retweeted by Moises himself).

Moises also spoke to Papermag about The Kings of Summer. He briefly mentions Ender’s Game, saying:

It was honestly one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had. It was inspiring to see the professionalism. The cinematography! The special effects look amazing. I’m excited. I’ve gotten to work with the most amazing actors and the most amazing child actors right now.

Hailee Steinfeld has been spending her time filming the Civil War drama The Keeping Room (with Sam Worthington) and photographing cows in Romania.

Asa Butterfield has finished school and has left London for warmer pastures as well, spending his summer vacation in Greece.

Suraj Partha is still travelling the world. After France and England, he is rounding off his trip with a visit to Disneyland.

June 22, 2013
Viola Davis to appear on Oprah’s Next Chapter

According to Vibe, Viola Davis, who will play Major Anderson in the upcoming Ender’s Game movie, is set to appear on next week’s Oprah’s Next Chapter. The show, which was launched in 2011 on the Oprah Winfrey Network, features Oprah travelling around the country meeting with and interviewing celebrities and other people of public interest. For next week’s installment, Oprah sits down to chat with not only Viola Davis, but also Alfre Woodard, Philicia Rashad, and Gabrielle Union about African American women in the entertainment industry.

The show will air on Sunday, June 23 at 9/8c. American viewers can check out a sneak peek on oprah.com and youtube.

Source: VIBE Vixen

June 18, 2013