Fannish Items of Interest

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At Least 14 Dead, 50 Wounded At Batman Screening In Colorado. The story is still developing—some are saying it started during the previews, some during a scene with gunfire. For a while, they were saying two gunmen—it was one. Deepest sympathies to the victims and their families.

Grace Phipps joins the cast of The Vampire Diaries.

Jennifer Jason Leigh joins the cast of Revenge.

What Viacom and DirecTV Are Really Feuding Over: Epix.

DreamWorks set to buy major library of cartoon, comic characters.

The Dark Knight Rises breaks box office records for advance ticket sales.

A Company Of Women: Fabulous Female TV Ensembles.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira talks about Stan Lee’s Comikaze.

Andy Warhol’s Batman? 10 Wacky And Forgotten Versions Of Famous Movies. Generation X is on this list.

SDCC 2012: Twitter-verse Questions With Kyle Higgins.

Belgium’s Open-Air Library. The main problems I can think of immediately would be rain, birds landing on things, mold, animals tearing things apart…

What It Would Really Be Like To Be Aquaman.

From Think Geek: Alien Chopsticks.

Boomerang Makes Big Schedule Changes Starting July 23 With 11 Shows Returning.

The hit films Hollywood studios didn’t want.

Comic Con 2012: Steven Moffat, Matt Smith, and more talk Doctor Who. There are spoilers for season 7.

Film Sack Podcast #124: The Game.