Marathon Continues

January 9, 2014 at 12:33 pm

The GAME OF THRONES marathon continues next Monday at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, with a special guest.

RON DONACHIE, best known to GAME OF THRONES fan as Ser Rodrik Cassel, the master-at-arms at Winterfell, will be joining us from Glasgow via Skype for a Q&A after the screening. We'll be showing two episodes this week: — "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things," and "The Wolf and the Lion," episodes four and five from season one.

rodrik

The show starts at 7:00pm, and we will probably start admitting people into the hall at 6:00. But come early. Last week we had to turn hundreds away, and my loyal staffers tell me that those who joined the line after 5:30 did not get in. (Sorry. We have only 125 seats). It's all first come, first seated; there's no advance ticket purchase, no reservations, no seat saving. But admission is FREE.

The following week, January 20, we will be joined by MAISIE WILLIAMS, our own Arya. And not via Skype. Maisie is coming to Santa Fe. (If you want to start lining up now for that one, it might not be too soon).

arya

See you at the marathon.

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Marathon Begins

January 6, 2014 at 11:39 am

The GAME OF THRONES marathon begins tonight at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, at 7pm.

It's first come, first seated, and we have only 125 seats, so get there early if you want to be sure to get in.

You won't be the first in line, though. That honor goes to these brave souls, who camped out overnight (and it was COLD last night):

Tonight we will be screening the first three episodes of season one: "Winter Is Coming," "The Kingsroad," and "Lord Snow."

Admission is FREE.

We will have plenty of GAME OF THRONES merchandise on hand, along with pizza, soft drinks, candy, ice cream, pastries, burritos, and our famous popcorn, the best in New Mexico. And… for the first time… tonight the Jean Cocteau will be offering BHEER!

See you there!

((AFTERWARD))

Whew. That was fun.

Huge crowd. We filled every seat. We could have filled two more theatres the same size as the Jean Cocteau. The show started at 7:00 pm and we opened the door by 6:00 to get folks in from the cold… but no one who got in line after 5:30 made it inside. My apologies to all of you who got turned away. Better luck next week. Those who did get in had fun, I think. The show, as expected, looks great on the big screen.

Next week (Jan 13) we hope to have one of our cast members joining us via Skype. And the week after… drum roll, please… MAISIE WILLIAMS will be joining us in person right here in Santa Fe. That's Monday, January 20. Mark it down on your calendars.

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Winter Is Coming…

December 19, 2013 at 5:48 pm

And I have saved the best part for last.

Admission to all GAME OF THRONES screenings will be ABSOLUTELY FREE.

No tickets, no passes, no payment required. First come, first served. Come to the Cocteau and come on in… so long as we have seats. But we only have 125 of those, so best come early if you want to be sure of a place.

We'll have door prizes as well. Not to mention the best popcorn in town.

See you at the cinema, for GAME OF THRONES as you've never seen it before.

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SAG, AFI Honor THRONES

December 11, 2013 at 1:19 pm

It's been a great week for GAME OF THRONES in Hollywood, with both the Screen Actor's Guild and the American Film Institute bestowing honors and recognition on the HBO series, and some of the folk who work so hard to make it great.

SAG announced the nominees for its annual awards this morning. I'm thrilled to say that the cast of GAME OF THRONES are nominated as Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Television Drama, on a shortlist that also includes our familiar rivals BOARDWALK EMPIRE, BREAKING BAD, DOWNTON ABBEY, and HOMELAND. The guild members also nominated our fearless stuntwomen and stuntmen for Outstanding Action Performance by Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series. BOARDWALK EMPIRE, BREAKING BAD, and HOMELAND are up in that category as well, along with THE WALKING DEAD. And Peter Dinklage, our once and future Tyrion Lannister, was nominated as Best Actor in a Television Drama. He will vie for the award against Steve Buscemi (BOARDWALK EMPIRE), Bryan Cranston (BREAKING BAD), Jeff Daniels (THE NEWSROOM), and Kevin Spacey (HOUSE OF CARDS).

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For a full list of the nominees, go to:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/sag-awards-2014_n_4422434.html

The SAG nominations follow close on the heels of AFI's annual announcement, recognizing their ten favorite films and television shows of the previous year. GAME OF THRONES made the list for the third year in a row. The AFI recognition is especially nice since it has no winners and no losers; all ten of the chosen films and television shows share the recognition.

AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
AFI AWARDS 2013 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR
12 YEARS A SLAVE
AMERICAN HUSTLE
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
FRUITVALE STATION
GRAVITY
HER
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
NEBRASKA
SAVING MR. BANKS
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR
GAME OF THRONES
THE AMERICANS
BREAKING BAD
THE GOOD WIFE
HOUSE OF CARDS
MAD MEN
MASTERS OF SEX
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
SCANDAL
VEEP

Tomorrow the Golden Globe nominations will be announced, and we'll see if the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will make us three for three. Keep your fingers crossed.

A DAY LATER: Skunked in the Golden Globes. 🙁 As Vizzini would say, "Inconceivable!"

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Media Access Award

October 22, 2013 at 12:57 pm

Last week I made a quick two-day visit to Los Angeles to attend the 2013 Media Access Awards at the Beverly Hilton, where I was pleased and proud to accept the 2013 "Visionary Award" on behalf of GAME OF THRONES.

The Media Access Awards honor films and television programs that champion disability as a feature of humanity — and as a component of great storytelling. In recent years, this industry-wide, multi-guild celebration has spotlighted talents including Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, the casting office of Glee, actor Marlee Matlin, The Sessions writer-director Ben Lewin, and others who have continued to support and encourage the intersection of disability and visibility in media.

David Radcliff, of the Writers With Disabilities Committee of the Writers Guild of America, West, wrote to inform me of this honor, saying, "Game of Thrones seems a natural fit for this recognition. Since its earliest episodes, your gripping series has introduced us to a paralyzed boy with a supernatural gift, has endeared us to a Little Person defined not by his height but by his wit, and has regularly mined the lives of “cripples, bastards, and broken things” to celebrate their strengths and complexities. In fact, it is a fantastic credit to your work that Game of Thrones is not commonly thought of as a show that “deals with” disability — it is something even better: a show that embraces the reality that no one is easily definable."

The award was presented at a breakfast at the Beverly Hilton. It was a great event. Paul Chitlik, an old colleague of mine from my days on THE TWILIGHT ZONE, presented the award to me, and I had the chance to meet some terrific actors, writers, and directors.

For more about the awards, and a full list of this year's honorees, see:

http://mediaaccessawards.com/

This is one I am very proud of… but really, though it may be my name on the award, David Benioff, Dan Weiss, Brian Cogman, our amazing cast and crew, and our incredible directors won this just as much as I did. Would that all of them could have been there. And none of this would have possible without the support of HBO.

Thanks, all.

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Sunday, Bloody Sunday

September 23, 2013 at 11:55 am

My NY Giants got skunked, and so did GAME OF THRONES. Thank god for the Jets.

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Emmy Loves Us. Twice.

September 18, 2013 at 6:59 pm

The Emmy Awards are starting off nicely for GAME OF THRONES this year, and fabulously for HBO.

In the Creative Arts Awards given on Sunday (sometimes called the 'technical Emmys'), GAME OF THRONES took two awards.

In Outstanding Special Visual Effects, GOT beat out DEFIANCE, FALLING SKIES, HEMLOCK GROVE, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: BLOOD & CHROME. Our Emmy winners were

For Outstanding Makeup For A Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic), the series finished on top of BOARDWALK EMPIRE, THE BORGIAS, GLEE, MAD MEN, and ONCE UPON A TIME. They won for the episode "Kissed By Fire." The Emmys went to Paul Engelen (Department Head Makeup Artist), Melissa Lackersteen ( Key Makeup Artist), Daniel Lawson Johnston ( Makeup Artist), and Martina Byrne (Makeup Artist).

My heartfelt congratulations to our world-class SFX team and makeup artists. Well deserved.

It takes a lot of people to make a quality show, and the craftsmen and artists who do all the 'below the line' jobs contribute just as much as the 'above the line' talent like the directors, actors, and writers, though they seldom receive the recognition they deserve. So hats off to our terrific crew… not only Sunday's winners, but also all the other nominees from GAME OF THRONES, who lost out to other worthy shows. (You wuz robbed, as we used to say in Bayonne)

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HBO as a whole did even better, completely dominating the awards with 20 wins, way more than any other network. CBS was a distant second with 15, and the totals plunged sharply after that.

For a full list of the winners and nominees:

http://www.hitfix.com/news/creative-arts-emmys-2013-complete-winners-list/1

http://www.eonline.com/news/459135/creative-arts-emmys-2013-complete-list-of-winners

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Breaking Bad

September 16, 2013 at 3:29 pm

Amazing series. Amazing episode last night. Talk about a gut punch.

Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros.

(I need to do something about that).

This is the final season of BREAKING BAD. I think GAME OF THRONES may have a shot at upsetting BB for this year's Emmy (only a shot, though, I think they are the clear favorite), which pits us against their previous season… but there's no way in hell that anyone is going to defeat BREAKING BAD next year, when their last season is the one in contention.

Admittedly, trying to handicap the Emmys is a mug's game. You never know. But for what it's worth, I think this year is our best chance of actually winning one. Given the splash the Red Wedding made, our profile is likely as high as it is ever going to be. We had a great season. If the Academy is ever going to give their ultimate accolade to a fantasy show (something that is by no means certain), it's going to be this year, I think.

But we'll see. BREAKING BAD, MAD MEN, DOWNTON ABBEY, HOMELAND, and HOUSE OF CARDS will have something to say about that as well. All good shows, I think. A couple are great shows. HOMELAND is the defending champ, MAD MEN's won four, and HOUSE OF CARDS has that whole "gamechanger" thing going for it. Should be an interesting race. We'll all know on September 22.

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Somewhat Surreal Department

September 8, 2013 at 1:12 am

Given the popularity of HBO's GAME OF THRONES, it is only to be expected that various costume companies would be offering GOT-themed costumes for Halloween this year. So, unsurprisingly, you can go trick-or-treating as Arya, Daenerys, Melisandre, Jon Snow, and sundry other characters from the show.

Rather more unusual, however, is the outfit selling grisly Red Wedding costimes, complete with buckets o' blood:

http://www.halloweencostumes.com/blog/p-420-diy-game-of-thrones-red-wedding-costumes-spoiler-alert-.aspx

Even those outfits are not the most surreal offering for All Hallow's, however. Stranger still, you can also attend your favorite Halloween party as…

… me.

http://carboncostume.com/george-r-r-martin/

I am not entirely sure how I feel about being a Halloween costume. It does suggest a plan, however. Perhaps I should buy several of these outfits, and send forth my minions, appropriated costumed, to all my public appearances and booksignings for the next couple of years, while I stay home and write.

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Amazon Exclusive

August 15, 2013 at 3:20 pm

Looks like the folks at Amazon are planning something rather special for the Blu-Ray/ DVD of Season 3 of GAME OF THRONES.

Take a look at this spectacular packaging for the boxed set:

Do note: this is a LIMITED edition, and exclusive to Amazon. Not sure how many they are making, but they are limiting sales to two per customer.

So if you'd like one, pre-order now at:

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Complete-Limited-Exclusive/dp/B00DY9GSAU/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1376601653&sr=1-3&keywords=game+of+thrones+season+3

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