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April 22, 2008
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago on April 22, 2008
Thanks to the lovely people over at Movies.ie, we have two pairs of tickets for the preview screening of Iron Man movie to give away. The screening will be held at Cineworld Cinemas, Parnell Street, Dublin 1 on Wednesday the 30th of April, so this is going to be a very fast competition!
So, to be in with a chance to win tickets, just tell us in which year did the character of Iron Man first appear in comics: was it 1953, 1963, or 1973? Send answers, along with your land address, marked Iron Man Competition, to pomealoid[at]yahoo[dot]com, and the first two answers out of the hat on the evening of Thursday 24th April will get tickets sent to them, courtesy of Movies.ie. That’s in two days, so get to it!
You can also enter another competition to win tickets on the Movies.ie website, here. All you have to do is sign up to the site.
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March 15, 2007
Posted 3 years, 9 months ago on March 15, 2007
To coincide with Lá ‘le Gaeilge, the Irish Language Day, Filmbase, in association with the St. Patrick’s Festival, are presenting a screening of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in the Irish language.
The screening is in Filmbase, Curved Street, Temple Bar on Sunday 18th March at 5PM, and tickets cost €7 for adults and €5 for children.
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January 31, 2007
Posted 3 years, 10 months ago on January 31, 2007
It’s less than 40 days to the next P-Con. This year’s Phoenix Convention, the fourth, will be held in Wynn’s Hotel on Abbey Street in Dublin over the weekend of the 10th and 11th of March next.
Guest of Honour at the convention is Kim Newman. Other guests include the editorial team from Albedo 1, Michael Carroll, Paul Cornell, Raven Dane, Diane Duane, George Green, Conor Kostick, Oisin McGann, Juliet E McKenna, Ken MacLeod, Deborah J. Miller, Leah Moore, Peter Morwood, C E Murphy, John Reppion, John W Sexton, Colin Smythe and Charlie Stross.
More information as always from the P-Con website.
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July 6, 2006
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago on July 6, 2006
John Hendrick tells me this:
The 3rd Place in Association with Warner Brothers proudly presents:
SUPERMAN RETURNS
Date: July 14th 2006
Venue: Cineworld, Parnell Street
Film Time: 21:00
How To Qualify For a Free Ticket:
1: Spend 20 Euro or more in The 3rd Place between now and 8 P.M. on July 13th and you will be entered into a draw to win one of 20 passes to Superman Returns.
2: Winning Entrants will be notified by 1 P.M. on the 14th of July, passes will be made available for collection at The 3rd Place on July 14th up to 7:30 P.M. Winning entrants will be notified by phone once only. If you don’t answer the phone you don’t get your pass.
3: For Further information contact The 3rd Place on 01-6336964 or info[at]irishcomicshop.com
4: One entry per purchase of €20. Customers can enter as often as they like.
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July 2, 2006
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago on July 2, 2006
The Navan Film Festival to be held in Diamond Cinema, Kennedy Road, Navan, County Meath on the 16th August 2006. According to Festival Director Paul Cotrulia, The Navan Film Festival was created to offer exposure to genre films which are often overlooked by the traditional festival circuit.
The festival’s programme includes action, science fiction, fantasy and animation as well as panels, parties and special guests. Amongst the films being shown are American SF thrillers Into the Maelstrom and Microgravity and the award-winning Canadian SF short Cost of Living, all receiving their Irish festival premiere. Also showing are Irish-made fantasy films The Four Horsemen and Nowhere Man, directed by the festival chief Paul Webster.
The festival kicks off with a champagne reception at the Diamond Cinema on the night of the 15th of August at 11:00 pm followed by a special screening of Ireland’s first martial arts movie Fatal Deviation at midnight.
For more details visit the festival’s website.
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March 27, 2006
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago on March 27, 2006
Occasionally I get mail from far-flung parts of the globe, far beyond the shores of Ireland. This is from one of them. Dawn Wiercinski, who is Screenplay Competition Director of the Austin Film Festival which is being held in Austin, Texas from the 19th to the 22nd of October, 2006, asked me to pass on the following message.
The Austin Film Festival is searching for the best Sci-Fi script containing one or more of the following elements: fantasy, myth/legend, horror, science fiction, surrealism and fantastical storytelling. Enter your script into either Adult/Family or Comedy category, and you may also choose to be considered or the Sci-Fi Award. Winner will receive $2500, and much more. Please email dawn[at]austinfilmfestival.com, or check out our site at www.austinfilmfestival.com.
Don’t say I don’t do my bit for international goodwill!
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March 6, 2006
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago on March 6, 2006
Warner Brothers have very kindly donated ten sets of double tickets for the preview screening of V for Vendetta to the raffle and charity auction at P-CON next weekend. The screening will take place in a Dublin city cinema on the evening of Monday the 13th. As timing would have it, Leah Moore & John Reppion, who are attending the con, will still be in Dublin, so will also be attending the preview.
The tickets will be available both as raffle prizes and also in the charity auction. The charity auction, in aid of the Oesophageal Cancer Fund, will take place at 4 PM on Saturday afternoon, and the raffle at the closing ceremony on Sunday evening.
Other donations to the charity auction include original artwork from some of Ireland’s leading comics artists, numerous signed books from the attending authors, as well as books form some writers who were not able to attend, like Kim Newman and Ian Watson, and original dust jackets from the first editions of Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic.
So, if you’re not already signed up for P-CON, what’s keeping you?
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February 25, 2006
Posted 4 years, 11 months ago on February 25, 2006
There will be a special showing of Nosferatu in The Sugar Club in Dublin’s Leeson Street. What makes this showing of the film, made in 1922 by F. W. Murnau, particularly noteworthy is the fact that it has a musical accompaniment, composed by Peter Sheridan and Cormac McCann, and performed live on the piano at the performance.
Nosferatu is actually the first movie made based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, although it had its name changed, as Stoker’s widow wouldn’t give permission for Murnau to make a film of the book.
The performance is at The Sugar Club on Leeson Street, Dublin 2 on Sunday the 26th of February at 8 PM, and admission is €12.
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October 2, 2005
Posted 5 years, 4 months ago on October 2, 2005
UT Events are holding Ireland’s first Serenity/Firefly event in Belfast in November. The event, called SERENITY: Two by Two, will be held in Belfast’s Odyssey Pavilion on Saturday the 12th of November 2005, and will feature appearances from two of the stars of the Serenity movie, Summer Glau and Jewel Staite, who play River Tam and Kaylee Frye respectively.
Tickets for the event currently cost £27, and can be bought through the UT Events website. (The UT stands for Uncharted Territories, by the way…) For regular information about the event, and future UT Events, eh, events, there is a UT Events Yahoo! Group you can subscribe to.
What: SERENITY: Two by Two
Where: Village Cinemas, Odyssey Pavilion, Belfast
When: 12 November 2005
Who: Summer Glau and Jewel Staite
How Much: £27
Website: utevents.co.uk
Contact: info [at] utevents.co.uk
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September 25, 2005
Posted 5 years, 4 months ago on September 25, 2005
As part of the Holylands Arts Festival in Belfast from the 2nd to the 9th of October, there will be a Sci-Fi Extravaganza night in the Menagerie, University Street, on Tuesday 4th October at 7.30 PM.
Although there is a full programme of events on the site, this, their only SF event, doesn’t get any further details beyond the listing, where it is clearly marked with a X to let people know it’s not for the norms! My information leads me to believe that this will be a Doctor Who night, though, run by Michael Perkins, chairman of Mecon 9, coming up next August. Michael is one of the most energetic of the SF fandom folk in Northern Ireland, so it promises to be a good night.
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