Dark Shadows Film Set

Dark Shadows, the new film by Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp (with Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter and Alice Cooper) is currently being filmed in Bourne Woods near Farnham in Surrey.

the Film is a Gothic Horror tale based on the 60's TV series set in the Collinwood Mansion.

I have been lucky enough to get access to the set and have a range of pics to share with you.

My Journey started here with warnings for unwary wanderers that a film set was up ahead:

I had permission to pass and went on to the famous Gateway to the Collinwood Mansion:

More Pics to follow .......


For Sci Fi Pool Highlights on 24th July see links below at bottom of page in Sci Fi Mashup:

John Carter Trailer

John Carter Trailer is now up on You Tube - click here and it will take you through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rf55GTEZ_E

Looks Awsome - Edgar Rice Burroughs' books are amoung some of my favorite so I can not tell you how excited I am too see his wonderful vision of swashbuckling Mars brought to the sliver screen with full modern day blockbuster CGI - and it's in 3D!! Roll on March 2012.

For Sci Fi Pool Highlights for 21st July See links below at bottom of page in Sci Fi Mashup for more news and information:

Bond Bombs

Sci Fi Pool Highlights for 21st October Include:

• Bond Bombs - the new Bond film Quantum of Solace has received some big knocks in its pre-view last night to the press .... not enough sex, too much violence and bored .... comments you just wouldn't think could be associated with a Bond movie!!

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All Hail Ridley Scott & Joe Haldeman

Sci Fi Pool Highlights for 15th October Include:

• Ridley Scott to return to Sci-Fi films with The Forever War - Joe Haldeman's epic sci-fi masterpiece is finally to made into a film and who better by then the illustrious Ridley Scott ... can't wait

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EM Drive Potential, Advice for Writers, Inspiration from Heinlein and will Watchmen be watched?

Sci Fi Pool Highlights for 10th October Include:

• Is the EM Drive Possible? - converting electro-magnetic energy int propulsion? ..... well there have been crazier theories ..... like turning chip fat oil into propulsion .... oh yea that actually worked didn't it?
• Advice for Aspiring Writers - from some of the top editors of today's short story magazines
• Even Robert Heinlein wasn't sure if he was any good - in a similar vein to the above ... some inspiration from one of the greats
• How will the Watchmen Movie go down in the US - the all important first market to crack ... but is it the right kind of story to appeal? ... Sci-fi.com has some reasons why it may not be

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Cargo Ship Dies, Dick Trilogy, Computer Gamer Death, Paul Newman RIP, Sci-fi writers after death, Turn off Autism, End of HCL, Dark Flow, Singularity

Sci Fi Pool Highlights for 29th September Include:

• Death Dive of Space Cargo Ship on Monday - sad way for a successful mission to end
• New Philip K Dick trilogy - an it is introduced by the man himself ... apparently
• When computer games go too far - British gamer murdered .... is there a connection
• Actor Paul Newman dies at 83 - the great screen icon will be missed
• What happens to sci-fi writers after they die - some interesting cases
• A switch to turn off Autism - they have identified ways in which they could potentially control Autism ... hope for thousands
• Not the end of the world just the end of the Hadron Collider - until spring next year anyway
• Dark Flow - the new theory that permeates the darker regions outside our Universe
• Singularity just our fear of change? - The Web site at the end of the Universe thinks so anyway
• The End of Star Trek:The Experience - I would like to add my commiserations to what I thought was an excellent experience and one of the only good thing about Vegas
• Free e-Books from Award winners - Will Shetterly and Emma Bull offer you something for nothing

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The Day the World Ends or Time Travel Begins

Sci Fi Pool Highlights for 10th September Include:

• The Hadron Collider fires up today - aimed at re-creating events just after the Big Bang, the atom smashing Hadron Collider successfully fired its fist particles around the 17km tunnel earlier on today ... to some this means the end of the world or the beginning of Time Travel.
• The experiment hopes to create small black holes which the scientists at CERN in Switzerland say are perfectly safe (makes you wonder if they know what a black hole is??!!) while others say that this will create a Black Hole inside our planet (where the tunnel is located) and suck us all into oblivion. Luckily they don;t start smashing atoms together to create these black holes for a few days yet.
• There are still others that believe that these small black holes will actually manifest themselves into multiple Einstein-Rosen Bridges ... these wormholes will connect, through time or inter-dimensionally, thus enabling the start of Time Travel or portals into alternate Universes
• How exciting today is ....

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