Author Appearance: Marjorie M. Liu

Marjorie M. Liu, paranormal romance novelist and writer for Marvel comics, will be signing at Comicopia in Boston, MA on two upcoming dates:

• May 26th, 12:00pm-3:00pm
  
• June 23rd, 12:00pm-3:00pm

[Tip via Convention Scene]

Premiere Party for “The Final Shift”

“The Final Shift” is science fiction thriller film made by Wild Beagle Productions, an independent film company based in North Andover, MA. The film will premiere on June 2nd with the party starting at 6:00pm and the film screening at 7:30pm at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA.

Written and directed by John Depew, who also costars in the film, “THE FINAL SHIFT” dishes up a dynamic cast of nasty characters who converge at a local diner — and turn a peaceful evening into a perilous showdown. Hollywood actor Robert Miano guest stars as Maslow, the malevolent father of two deadly young women. Renowned New England actress-model Vanessa Leigh plays Miano’s daughter Margot, a genetically altered assassin who forges an unlikely partnership with an aging hit man in an effort to resolve her past — including issues with her dad. Diana Porter plays Alpha – the deadlier of the two assassins.

A full-throttle thriller with action, psychological tension and local flavor, “THE FINAL SHIFT” was shot on location in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, with most scenes filmed at a diner in Haverhill.

Learn more at http://www.regenttheatre.com/details/the_final_shift and https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Final-Shift/210018812357255.

[Tip from Skye at "The Final Shift"]

Star Wars Uncut

What if you took the original Star Wars movie, broke it up into 15-second chunks, and got fans from around the world to re-create those parts of the movie however they liked? The result is Star Wars Uncut, which retells the film using animation, toys, kids, pets, puppets and more. Star Wars Uncut will be screened at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA on June 7th at 8:00pm.

We probably won’t ever be able to screen the original Star Wars here at the Brattle but we’re thrilled to be able to present this amazing crowd-sourced, fan remake of the most famous and revered science fiction film of all time. The creators of this innovative project chopped the original Star Wars into 15 second chunks and solicited the internet to find filmmakers to remake each scene. Now, they have stitched together a feature length version of the project that retells the entire story of the film entirely through the eyes of fans. With quality ranging from remarkable to dismal, STAR WARS: UNCUT roams from animation to amateur child performances to hilarious reinterpretations of the material including appearances from Moe the Bartender, the stars of The Big Lebowski, and several out of place cats.

Here’s a brief sample:

Learn more at http://www.starwarsuncut.com/ and http://brattlefilm.org/2012/06/07/star-wars-uncut/.

Author Appearance: John Scalzi

John Scalzi, author of the Old Man’s War series and President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, will be at the Harvard Coop in Cambridge, MA on Friday, June 15th at 7:00pm to present his new book Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas. He will do a reading and Q&A discussion. More details are available at http://harvardcoopbooks.bncollege.com/.

[Thanks to The Coop for the tip!]