Big thanks to @VivianizCool for posting this Vine video of what looks like an ‘Ender’s Game’ theater display with a rotating Battle Room! (click above to play)
Are my eyes playing tricks on me? It looks insanely cool.
And why doesn’t my theater have one yet?!
Recently, I opened up a CafePress store for EnderWiggin.net and added a few designs, including some basic “Ender’s Game” ones and “The Enemy’s Gate is Down” ones with the EnderWiggin.net logo.
I just added a few new products with a rather simple, but very Ender’s Game design.
Yup, a baby onesie with the word “Third” on it. Obviously this would only be relevant to parents having a third child and happen to be Ender’s Game fans, but I thought it was funny nonetheless. The onesie comes in black or in blue/gray/pink.
There are also Third bibs, since baby Thirds have to eat.
And also Third hats, to help protect the precious minds that will eventually save our race.
If you have a request for a design, feel free to let me know!
Also, can you tell we’re desperate for news here? Sigh.
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
Kyle Clements, who plays Young Mazer Rackham in Ender’s Game, can be seen in this video campaign to raise post-production funds for his film ‘Silo’.
Silo is a project we’ve been working on for almost two years. The concept derived from our fascination with the power of the human mind, and how patterns of thought can shape our reality.
Silo is a story woven in both the past and present, about the relationship of James and Melissa, and how just as easily two people can come together, they can be pulled apart. It’s a story about holding on, letting go, and how the pressures of the world and our own mind can shape our lives…if we let them.
If you’d like to contribute to their film, visit their page at Indiegogo.
In this week’s EnderCast, Kelly and Crystal talk to Air Force colonel Tom Ruby, who contributed the essay “Ender on Leadership” to Smart Pop Books’ anthology Ender’s World. Among other things, they discuss
Listen to the episode here.
Also, check out Tom’s essay on the Smart Pop Books website and visit his site at www.bgcts.com.
Watch the Weekly Ender #5, in which Crystal confuses #5 and #6, talks about her Ender’s Game movie costume for Comic Con, and shows off her brand new Enderwiggin.net T-shirt.
The poster for Harrison Ford’s new movie Paranoia has been released. The film, which also stars Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth, will be released on August 16, 2013.
In this high-stakes thriller, Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is an ambitious junior technologist trying to climb the ranks of telecom giant Wyatt Corporation. But after one costly mistake, Adam is blackmailed by ruthless CEO Nicholas Wyatt (Gary Oldman) to turn corporate spy by going to work for the firm’s top competitor, which is run by Wyatt’s old mentor, Jock Goddard (Harrison Ford). Adam soon finds himself delivered into prepackaged success, living his fantasy life of old-world boardrooms, private clubs, exotic cars, and all the spoils of Manhattan bachelorhood. However, behind the scenes, he is merely a pawn in Wyatt’s power play, and must search for a way out from under his boss, who will stop at nothing, even murder, to gain a multi-billion dollar advantage.
View the trailer for the film here.
Since it’s been a pretty slow couple of days, I decided to stalk the Ender’s Game cast’s twitter and facebook accounts in the hopes of turning up some interesting tidbits. And guess what, the kids have been BUSY! Well, all except Asa Butterfield, who has apparently decided to spend the next week or so in front of his computer.
He did, however, hang out with Suraj Partha only a couple of days ago, when Suraj visited London on his trip to Europe. Hailee Steinfeld, on the other hand, stayed in the States to spend some days in Hollywood being honored by Max Mara. And Moises Arias just returned from a week of roughin’ it in Cabo San Lucas.
Jimmy Pinchak was in New Jersey yesterday visiting Jenkinson’s Boardwalk. Meanwhile, Aramis Knight has been busy planning to participate in the “One Child At A Time”-Celebrity Basketball match coming up on June 23.
In a video published just a few days ago from an interview done at last year’s Young Hollywood Awards, where Asa Butterfield received the Breakthrough Award, he talks a bit about filming Ender’s Game and what he was doing in LA at the time of the awards.
I’ve just finished filming Ender’s Game and I’m over here to do all the motion capture for that, it’s various training routines or fighting in zero g, which is amazing fun to film.
He’s also got a hilarious story about the mispronunciation of his name. Watch it in the video below!
Valentine Wiggin actress Abigail Breslin is set to star in Peste, a contagion thriller produced by Sheryll Clark (Cloverfield) and financed by IM Global. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she will play a teenage girl whose family is quarantined during a viral epidemic that turns people into monsters. It seems, however, that the quarantined might not be safe after all. Production on Peste is set to begin in September.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Photo Credit: Variety.com
According to Variety, Hailee Steinfeld’s upcoming film Romeo and Juliet (out July 26 in the UK) has found a US distributor with Relativity Media. The company will release the film in the United States on September 6, 2013! See a new still of Hailee as Juliet above and watch the trailer for the film below.
The film was shot early last year in Italy in Mantua, the Northern Italian city to which Romeo was banished in the play, and at Rome’s Cinecitta Studios. Producers have been touting “Romeo and Juliet” as an ageless story reimagined for the 21st Century and told in the traditional setting it was written.
Hailee has done several projects since Ender’s Game and Romeo and Juliet will be her first appearance on the big screen since her Academy award nominated performance in 2010’s True Grit.
Source: Variety
Check out this hilarious “homemade” parody trailer for Ender’s Game by the folks at CineFix. Thanks to @Darian_Robbins for the find!
What’s your favorite part? I think their Mazer is particularly hilarious, but the a capella score was aca-mazing!
Here’s their side by side comparison:
If you know you have to go to the Ender’s Game premiere in LA, CharityBuzz is offering you that chance by auctioning off two tickets to the LA premiere of the movie in October 2013.
The tickets, donated by Lionsgate, currently have no bids. Minimum bid is $250 and proceeds go to Variety NY, a children’s charity. As far as I know, this auction is only for tickets to see the film and does not include travel expenses.
If this isn’t something you can afford yourself, please share the auction anyway to help spread the word!