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Countdown to NovEnder Day 13: Third and Dragon Army Pins

Sorry for missing this one, Launchies! I blame it on unlucky #13. 😉

For Countdown to NovEnder Day 13, we’re giving away some Third and Dragon Army pins from our friends over at Smart Pop Books. We’ve got two sets of buttons up for grabs.

This giveaway is open to the US only.

How to Enter

Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway. If you already like or follow, simply log in your entry and you’re done!

You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

For today’s comment, simply tell me if you’ve read Ender’s World.

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October 13, 2013
Countdown to NovEnder Day 12: Ender’s Game Pins

Day 12, Launchies, and just over 19 days to go until NovEnder 1st! For today’s contest, we’re giving away 3 Ender’s Game pins from San Diego Comic Con! I have an IF pin, a Condor, and a Rat up for grabs!

This contest is open worldwide.

How to Enter

Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway. If you already like or follow, simply log in your entry and you’re done!

You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

For today’s comment, simply tell me which pin you’d wear to the premiere? The IF one? Rat Army? Or would you just wear all three?

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October 12, 2013
Enter EnderWiggin.net’s Ender’s Game Pumpkin Carving Contest
It’s almost Halloween, Launchies, and with a midnight premiere coming up on Halloween, it’s a perfect time for a pumpkin carving contest! (that’s the front of my finished pumpkin above!) This contest is actually for Countdown to NovEnder Day 31, but is being posted now to ensure a lengthy entry period.

If you’ve never carved a pumpkin before, I urge you to give it a try! I first began carving pumpkins about 6 years ago and I’ve had tons of fun every year since. Eventually I started carving foam pumpkins so that I could keep them every year rather than watching all my hard work rot away just a few days later.

How to Enter

To enter, carve an Ender’s Game themed pumpkin and send us photos of it to valentine@enderwiggin.net. Please read the rules carefully. Feel free to download and use our Ender’s Game pumpkin stencils available HERE.

Please include:
- Pumpkin lit in the dark
- Pumpkin in light
- Verification photo – Example of verification photos: the pumpkin with a newspaper with the date clearly showing, the pumpkin next to your computer with the EnderWiggin.net site up, or a photo of yourself with the pumpkin. EnderWiggin.net will NOT post photos of people.
- A description of your pumpkin’s Ender’s Game theme.
DEADLINE: Entries must be submitted by November 1st, 2013 at midnight ET.

This contest is open worldwide.

Rules
1. Pumpkin entries must have a CLEAR Ender’s Game theme.
2. Acceptable types of carvings: pumpkin, watermelon, foam pumpkin.
3. Entry must have been carved in October 2013.
4. Multiple pumpkins are acceptable, but will be judged as one entry unless you submit them separately.
5. You may enter as many carvings as you wish.
6. Limit one prize packet per person.
Pumpkins will be judged on the following criteria:
- creativity
- attention to detail
- quality of photos
Tips for Good Pumpkin Photos

Do not use flash.
Keep camera very still, such as on a tripod or propped up on something.
Do not submit very small images as this can hurt the amount of points you are awarded by judges. If we can’t see it, we can’t judge very well!

Prizes

Prizes are subject to change. This post will be updated if prizes are added.

First Place wins the Grand Prize packet which includes:
- Ender’s Game movie tickets from Fandango.com
- Ender’s Game Comic Con bag
- Ender’s Game Comic Con static clings (8)
- EnderWiggin.net bookmarks
- Ender’s Game buttons
- Ender’s Game Comic Con dog tags (3)
- Ender’s Game score by Steve Jablonsky from Varese Sarabande
- Ender’s Game book (movie tie-in edition) from TOR Books
- Ender’s Game movie poster
- Ender’s Game keychain
- Dragon Army and Third pins from Smart Pop Books
- Ender’s Game IMAX fan collage
Second Place Prize packet includes:
- Ender’s Game movie calendar
- Ender’s Game score by Steve Jablonsky from Varese Sarabande
- Ender’s Game Comic Con static clings (8)
- Ender’s Game Comic Con bag
- EnderWiggin.net bookmarks
- Ender’s Game keychain
- Ender’s Game Comic Con dog tags (3)
- Dragon Army and Third pins from Smart Pop Books
Third Place Prize packet includes:
- Ender’s Game Comic Con static clings (8)
- EnderWiggin.net bookmarks
- Ender’s Game keychain
- Ender’s Game Comic Con dog tags (3)
Fourth Place Prize packet includes:
- Ender’s Game Comic Con static clings (8)
- EnderWiggin.net bookmarks
October 12, 2013
VIDEO: Harrison Ford Talks Ender’s Game with Graham Norton

Last night, Harrison Ford was on BBC One’s Graham Norton Show to promote Ender’s Game. The whole show was hilarious as usual, Harrison Ford also talked about Halloween, Indiana Jones, and even a little bit about Star Wars, and it’s got some delicious Benedict Cumberbatch bits, so you might wanna watch the whole thing HERE! (Note: blocked in UK, US and Australia, but you can watch it in three parts HERE, HERE, and HERE)

Watch the part in which Harrison is talking about Ender’s Game below.

Source: BBC, Youtube

October 12, 2013
GALLERY: Ender’s Game Photo Call / Press Conference in Moscow

After the London Ender’s Game event Harrison Ford, Gavin Hood, and Bob Orci went on to Moscow for a photo call and press conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Moscow. Photographer Mikhail Pochuyev took some awesome photos at the event. See some of them below! (via Corbis)

Check out the entire gallery HERE at Corbis!

Update: Ria Novosti has a few smaller, but not watermarked photos from the press conference HERE!

Sources: Corbis, Ria Novosti

October 12, 2013
GALLERY: Cast and Producers Present Ender’s Game in Berlin

Last Sunday, October 6th, Ender’s Game director Gavin Hood, producers Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci, and cast members Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley attended a photo call at Hotel Adlon, Berlin. The official German facebook page Ender’s Game – Das grosse Spiel released pictures from the event. Check some of them out below! See the rest HERE!

In addition, RedCarpetReports.de posted some higher resolution pictures from the photo call. See the best ones below! They have a little watermark in the lower right-hand corner, but since it’s pretty small and unobtrusive I’m sure you guys won’t mind.

Sources: Ender’s Game – Das grosse Spiel (Facebook page), RedCarpetReports.de

October 12, 2013
GALLERY: Ender’s Game Photo Call London

On Monday, October 7th, most of the Ender’s Game cast and crew finished their European photo call tour in London (Ford, Hood and Orci went on to Moscow), where they presented the movie at Odeon Theatre during MCM London ComicCon. Check out some red carpet photos of Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Gavin Hood, Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci below!

Source: Zimbio

October 12, 2013
Countdown to NovEnder Day 11: Ender’s Game Comic Con Bag

We’re on Day 11 of the Countdown to NovEnder and today we’re giving away a Comic Con bag! But why are we calling it the “Ender’s Game Bag of Doom”? Because this thing is huge. It’s so big than I can fit both my kids in it!

I remember first seeing this image and thinking, cooool! A tote! And then you see this thing at Comic Con and you’re just like whaaat? It’s pretty sweet though!

Today’s giveaway is open worldwide.

How to Enter

Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway.

You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

For today’s contest, comment and tell us what you could possibly use this monstrous(ly cool) bag for!

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October 11, 2013
Steve Jablonsky: “Ender’s Game is Big But Also Very Personal”

Ender’s Game composer Steve Jablonsky has given a brief statment about his score for the film, out November 1 2013.

“Ender’s Game is big but also very personal, which is an interesting combination for any composer. For some scenes, I’m using an 80 piece orchestra and 32 member choir, while in other scenes I am using a simple solo instrument. Ender is a very isolated character for much of the film so I felt that a solo cello would play that isolation nicely and it became an important element in the score.”

Listen to three tracks from the score on SoundCloud:

Ender’s War

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Stay Down

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Battle School

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October 11, 2013
Countdown to NovEnder Day 10: Two Tickets to Ender’s Game

Just 22 day to go, Launchies! The Countdown to NovEnder continues today with two movie tickets for Ender’s Game from Fandango.com!

This giveaway is open to the US only and prize will likely be given in the form of a gift code good for purchasing tickets on Fandango.

How to Enter

Each day, check the Rafflecopter widget for the various ways you can enter and make sure you are eligible. After you complete each task, you must log in your entry in the widget or it will not count. We’ve put in a wide variety of methods for you to enter and for some you can enter once every day of the giveaway.

You MUST leave an email address that you check frequently so that you can claim your prize within 72 hours. Please DO NOT comment with your email address in your comment.

For today’s giveaway, simply comment and tell us when you plan on seeing Ender’s Game for the first time. Midnight showing on Halloween? Friday night in IMAX?

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October 10, 2013
VIDEOS: Ender’s Game Cast and Crew at MCM London Comic Con
Before their presentation of Ender’s Game at the Odeon Leicester Square during MCM London Comic Con, Hailee Steinfeld, Sir Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, and Gavin Hood talked to Entertainmentwise about Ender’s Game.

Not much new here, but I get some perverse enjoyment out of the reactions of Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield and, yes, Harrison Ford to being asked whether or not they would like to star/are starring in the next Star Wars movie. The Ben Kingsley one is cut off a bit in the beginning. If you’re interested in the whole Star Wars conversation, check it out HERE! Would someone please phone someone to get Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield into that movie. Look how excited they are at the prospect!

The fabulous five also talked to a couple of other news outlets prior to their London presentation. We already posted HeyUGuysUK’s interviews with Gavin Hood and Sir Ben Kingsley earlier this week. Their interviews with Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Harrison Ford don’t reveal anything new, but we didn’t want to keep them from you either way, so here they are:
Finally, The MCM Buzz interviewed the cast and crew on the Comic Con red carpet. Here is a video that collects some tidbits of what Gavin Hood and the four cast members had to say:

You can check out the full interviews with Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Gavin Hood on the TheMCMBuzz Youtube channel. I love the Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley ones especially.

They even posted a somewhat rarer interview with Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci. Check it out below.

Sources: Entertainmentwise, HeyUGuysUK, TheMCMBuzz
October 10, 2013
GALLERY: 15 Hi-Res Screencaps from ‘Ender’s Game’ TV Spot ‘Morality’

Yahoo! Movies debuted a new TV spot today called “Morality”. Watch it below and get 15 hi-res screencaps from the spot!

October 9, 2013
Yahoo! Movies Debuts New ‘Ender’s Game’ TV Spot ‘Morality’

Yahoo! Movies has just debuted a new TV spot for Ender’s Game called “Morality” which features new footage of the conflict between Ender and Graff, giving us more assurance that the heavy moral issue of the novel have indeed made it to the big screen.

Excuse me while I go find a box of Kleenex.

October 9, 2013