Week 34 - August 21st to August 27th

[akamine_chan]

Community News and Announcements

• Announcements
  
  • c_regalis is working on updating Wikipedia entries for various c6d/CKR-related things and could use some help. Check out this post for more information.
    
  • meresy posted a blurb from the Flashpoint Facebook group. Flashpoint is on hiatus for the next two weeks. The next new episode will air on September 11th.
    
• Awards
  
  • The Gemini Award nominations have been announced.
    Articles about nominations: The Hollywood Reporter's here, Reuters' here, The Whig Standard's here and here, andPop's here, and The Canadian Press' here. [note outside LJ links]
    
  • malnpudl wrote an excellent guide to c6d works/actors that have been nominated for Geminis.
    
• Archives
  
  • mergatrude keeps a masterlist of c6d wing!fic here.
    
• Books
  
  • The Savvy Reader has a list of top 10 book-to-movie tie-in which includes a blurb about Passchendaele. [note outside LJ link]
    
• Chats
  
  • Next week's C6D chat will be held on August 30th and will feature Season 2 Slings & Arrows, episodes 2x02, 2x03, and 2x04, starting at 9 PM EST. Contact sisterofdream or malnpudl for more information.
    
  • vsee is continuing to hold live Flashpoint chats. See theconstabulary for more information. Canceled until mini-hiatus is over. Next episode will be broadcast on September 11th.
    
• Conventions
  
  • get/together, a slash-oriented, multi-fandom gathering held in New Zealand has started planning for this year's conclave. Please contract arysteia or check out get__together for more details. The convocation is planned for October 3rd through October 5th.
    
• Communities
  
  • A new community, lovebindsall has been set up for all expressions of
    Battlestar Galactica Sam/Kara/Leoben love. Please check it out.
    
  • Waymarking.com is a site that is "a scavenger hunt for unique and interesting locations in the world." There is a "movie location" section, which includes two "waymarks" from due South by user Team Farkle 7. These two locations are the Avon Motel from A Cop, A Mountie, And A Baby (puffin!face) and the Canada Malting Company from Mountie On The Bounty Part 1 ("The quality of the water alone will probably kill us."). [note outside LJ links]
    
• Movies
  
  • The Gastown Drive-In will be showing movies on the roof level of the EasyPark parkade in Gastown. On September 3rd they will be showing Hard Core Logo. Cost is $6CD per car. [note outside LJ link]
    
• Movie Festivals
  
  • The Toronto International Film Festival 2008 has been scheduled for September 4th to September 13th. The current Canadian film line up can be found here.
    Articles: Movie Moxie's here, globeandmail.com's here, Julie Kinnear's here, and guardian.co.uk's here. [note outside LJ links]
    
  • The globeandmail.com has a fascinating article about a short film about grief written and directed by Susan Coyne and Martha Burns that will be shown at the TIFF. [note outside LJ link]
    
  • The Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival has been scheduled from September 13th to September 21st. [note outside of LJ link]
    Articles about Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival: SooToday.com's here. [note outside LJ link]
    
• Television
  
  • Flashpoint has premiered to excellent reviews and continues to show on both CTV (Canada) and CBS (US), Thursdays at 10pm.
    
  • INK: Alter Egos Exposed will be shown Fridays on the IFC (Independent Film Channel) Canada. It will be rerun Saturday and Sunday mornings and is a must for any comic fans. There are ten episodes planned.
    
• Theater
  
  • A review of DMacI's play “Cul-de-Sac." [note outside LJ link]
    

Aspen Extreme

• Fanfic
  
  • No Hope Of Survival (T.J., Dex, R) by akamine_chan. (Why, Paul, why?)
    

Battlestar Galactica

• Fanfic
  
  • Elysium (Kara, Leoben, Zak, PG) by rjsteamboat76.
    
  • Thy Will Be Done (Natalie, Leoben, Eight, centurion, PG) by exploding_candy.
    
  • Awake (Leoben, PG13) by sionnain.
    
• Fanart/Icons/Etc
  
  • em1983 posted some icons.
    

BMcD

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • Part 3 of the Juicebox interview with BMcD. [note outside LJ link]
    

CKR

• Fanart/Icons/Etc
  
  • stardust78 created some icons.
    
• Screencaps/Pictures
  
  • neu111 scanned in a picture.
    
  • neu111 has found a clip from Californication and has made some screencaps of the CKR bits.
    
  • scriggle by way of tyrella_2008 posted another G4 picture.
    
• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • neu111 posted an article from Inside Soap from 1998 to the_ckr_files.
    
  • brigantine1 posted a link to an article on WatchingBSG.com that mentions the_ckr_files.
    

Degrassi : The Next Generation

• Screencaps/Pictures
  
  • wakingbreath posted a “fun with Google" picspam of HD.
    

DMacI

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • An article about his work at the Writing Outside The Margins, Canada's queer literary arts festival that was held on August 24th. [note outside LJ link]
    

Flashpoint

• Screencaps/Pictures
  
  • ahkna posted episode stills.
    
• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • Flashpoint has been renewed for a second season. Articles about the renewal:
    globeandmail.com's here, Zap2it's here, C21 Media.net's here, Jam! Television's here., Variety's here, The Hollywood Reporter's here, TV Squad's here, TV Decoder's here, Buddy TV's here, IGN.com's here, CNW Group's here, and TV, eh?'s here.
    Articles about Ratings - US:Media Life Magazine's here and MediaWeek's here.
    Articles about Ratings - Canada: BBM's here.
    General reviews: Fair View's here and globeandmail.com's here.[note outside LJ links]
    

Hard Core Logo

• Fanart/Icons/Etc
  
  • neu111 posted some icons.
    
• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • Articles about HCL sequels: The Canadian Press' here, CBCNews.ca's here, Montreal Gazette's here, and theglobeandmail.com's here. [note outside LJ links]
    

HD

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • Interview with HD: Exclaim!'s here. [note outside LJ link]
    
  • Articles about HD: theglobeandmail.com's here and The North Bay Nugget's here and here. [note outside LJ links]
    

Multi-Fandom

• Challenges/Ficathons
  
  • ds_snippets's Challenge # 82 is another Dief Challenge and has lovely new Dief-related prompts: scent, shed, quarry, feral and domestic. Snippets are due by August 31st. See this post for rules and regulations.
    
  • slashthedrabble's Challenge # 177 is Old Challenges Revisited. Drabbles are due by September 3rd . See this post for rules and regulations.
    
  • smallfandomflsh's Challenge # 10 is Intoxicated. Fics are due September 10th. See this post for further details.
    
  • rounds_of_kink is having Amnesty Round 2 from August 17th to August 27th. This is the time to drag out those unfinished fics from previous rounds and get them done. See this post for more details.
    
  • fandom_quote is a fanfiction challenge community that uses quotes from your favorite fandom as prompts. Information is here. Quote submissions for Game 2 has started and will continue until August 31st. July 1st to August 31st is the claiming and posting period for Game 1. There are three c6d fandoms that were submitted for Game 1 - dS (specific episode - Mountie On The Bounty), season two of Slings & Arrows and HCL. Please feel free to submit quotes for either.
    
  • bringthehappy is holding Happy Fest II, for happy fic. Anything goes except for RPF/RPS. There are several C6D prompts included. Claiming of prompts starts August 27th. Fics are due in *handwaves* a couple of weeks. See this post for details.
    
  • The schedule for round_of_kink's Round 8: prompting starts September 1st and runs until September 15th. Claiming will start September 19th and posting will be from October 1st through October 16th. See this post for more details.
    
  • The Fall Fandom Free-For-All is being held. Go post your list of up to 10 fannish things you would like (icons, fics, vids, wallpapers,etc) and hopefully someone will fulfill your wish. Hopefully you can turn around and fulfill someone else's wish. A masterlist will be posted October 29th.
    
  • film_by_fandom is starting Round 1. This is a community where you re-write your favorite movie with your favorite fandom. Round 1 is Sci-Fi/Horror movies and are due October 31st. Minimum word count is 5k. Check out this post for more details.
    
  • Planning for the ds/ds6d/c6d big bang challenge is starting. Please visit ds_c6d_bigbang for more details. Sign-ups start September 14th
    

Passchendaele

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • The Savvy Reader has an article about top 10 books to movies includes Passchendaele, as well as the top 15 books on sale this week. [note outside LJ links]
    
  • General articles: Ælfhere's here. [note outside LJ link]
    
  • bjohan57 posted a link to an article from Post City Magazines here. [note outside LJ link]
    

PG

• Screencaps/Pictures
  
  • amiga_ksana posted a picture to pg_daily.
    

Pontypool

• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • BloodyDisgusting.com has a link to the first official stills from the movie, including a great candid of BMcD.
    
  • Maple Pictures has picked up the distributioin rights for Pontypool. Articles about the deal: Movies and Music's here, globeandmail.com's here, The Hollywood Reporter's here, Variety's here, and Row Three's here. [note outside LJ links]
    
  • Articles about the movie in general: io9's here, ShockTillYouDrop.com's here, and Quiet Earth's here. [note outside LJ links]
    

RPF/RPS

• Fanfic
  
  • _unhurt_ posted links to several HDxCKR fics to ckr_actorfic, including the most recent fic, The Name Of The Game. [note this is a locked community]
    

Slap Shot 2

• Screencaps/Pictures
  
  • callumvixen did a picspam. (Why, Callum, why?)
    
• Reviews/Interviews/Articles
  
  • neu111 posted a movie post for Slap Shot 2 plus the polls.
    

Slings & Arrows

• Fanfic
  
  • Another musical never produced in New Burbage (gen, G) by petronelle.
    

Tin Man

• Fanfic
  
  • In The Service Of The Queen (Zero/Azkadellia, R) by airspaniel.
    
  • Irresistible Forces Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 (Zero/Cain, NC17) by godess_jessie.
    
  • Strange Bedfellows, Lab Work, Adora Cain, Hawk Eyes, and Paper Pushing and People Pleasing (all Zero-centric cast ensemble, R) by diabolicalfiend.
    

Twitch City

• Fanfic
  
  • The bird in the Kensington cage (gen, R) by petronelle.
    

Please let me know about any broken links, incorrect information or anything that was missed. Submissions are welcome. Contact the moderator at c6d_weekly at livejournal dot com or akaminechan at gmail dot com.