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When Fanfiction Goes Bad: Meyer Reimagines "Twilight" In All The Wrong Ways

When Fanfiction Goes Bad: Meyer Reimagines “Twilight” In All The Wrong Ways

Emily Solomon ‘17 / Emertainment Monthly Executive Alumni Engagement Editor In honor of the 10th anniversary of the original Twilight release, Stephenie Meyer announced that the Special Edition re-release would include a copy of the story where Bella and Edward are instead Beau and Edythe. In other words, Meyer pulled out one of the oldest fanfiction tropes in the book and labeled it “Twilight…

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#fanfiction #Gender Roles #Life and Death #Stephanie Meyer #Twilight #YA Lit

Top 10 'Ham4Ham' Performances

Top 10 ‘Ham4Ham’ Performances

Nora Dominick ‘17/Emertainment Monthly Stage Section Hamilton is continuing to take Broadway and the entire world by storm. Although tickets are hard to come by, fans can enjoy Hamilton through the cast recording and the “Ham4Ham” Lottery performances. During its run, Hamilton is offering a $10 dollar lottery the day of performances. The aptly named, “Ham4Ham” Lottery has taken the Internet by…

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From YouTube to the Big Screens: Everything Before Us Review.

Law Jia-Yun ‘19/ Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Agents of Secret Stuff. Strangers, Again. Away We Happened. After over a decade of creating unforgettable and heart warming content on YouTube, Wong Fu Productions (WFP) has finally made a full-length film called Everything Before Us. Everything Before Us Poster. Source: Wong Fu Productions Spoiler Alert! Everything Before Us follows two couples…

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Banned Book Weeks Expresses Itself on YouTube

Allyson Floridia ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Copy Edited By: Caitlin Muchow By 2015, more than 11,300 books have been petitioned by parents, schools, and others to remain unavailable to their readers. Outraged, book lovers have come together to form Banned Books Week. This week-long event, which began in 1982, was intended to celebrate books, the ones that were controversial, the ones…

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#ALA #banned #banned book week #Banned Books #book week #books #ellen hopkins #leslea newman #Lois Lowry #Mariam Gates #persepolis #SAGE #Stan Lee #The Perks of Being A Wallflower #Whoopi Goldberg #YouTube

NYCC: Dark Horse Announces “How To Train Your Dragon” Graphic Novels Morgan Maslow '17 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer One of Dreamwork’s most successful franchises is now making it’s way to ink and paper.

#Dark Horse Comics #Dean DeBlois #Dreamworks #How to Train Your Dragon #NYCC15 #Pierre-Olivier Vincent #Richard Hamilton #Riders of Berk

Why Playing House should be renewed for a Third Season

Caroline Fortuna ’19/ Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair in Playing House. Photo Credit: USA. In April of 2014, the sitcom Playing House appeared on USA’s show roster. In the show, childhood best friends Maggie Caruso (Lennon Parham) and Emma Crawford (Jessica St. Clair) decide to live together after a pregnant Maggie finds out her husband has cheated on her.…

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#Brad Morris #Jame Kaczmarek #Jessica St. Clair #Keegan-Michael Key #Lennon Parham #Playing House #USA #Zach Woods

YouTube to Release Subscription Video Service in Near Future

Shannan Singletary ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Source: Youtube A YouTube video subscription service will become a reality very soon. The purported service would allow viewers to watch videos free of ads for a monthly fee. The cost of the program or its expected rollout date have not yet been released, though rumors of an October release date have been circulating. News of the…

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#Partner Program #Subscription #YouTube #youtube music #Youtube Music Key #Youtube Partner #Youtube Subscription

‘Survivor’ Review: “We’ve Got a Rat”

Lucy Philips-Roberts ‘16 / Emertainment Monthly Contributor Peih-Gee Law, Andrew Savage, Tasha Fox, Jeff Varner, Abi-Maria Gomes and Woo Hwang at Tribal Council. Photo Credit: Monty Brinton/CBS. Survivor episodes always start with the losing tribe returning from tribal council, and this episode was no different. However, this time the person who was almost voted out, Spencer Bledsoe, was…

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#CBS #Jeff Probst #Survivor

NYCC 2015: Firefly Panel, Browncoats Keep Serenity Flying

Robert Tiemstra ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer What is it that made Firefly such an enduring series over the last decade? Ask a Firefly fan this question, and you’ll get any number of answers: affection for Joss Whedon’s blend of science fiction and western iconography, a cast of characters that leapt up from western archetypes to become fully formed individuals, and a truly compelling…

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#Alan Tudyk #Browncoat #Firefly #Gina Torres #Jewel Staite #Joss Whedon #Nathan Fillion #Serenity

NYCC 2015: Firefly Panel, Browncoats Keep Serenity Flying

Robert Tiemstra ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer What is it that made Firefly such an enduring series over the last decade? Ask a Firefly fan this question, and you’ll get any number of answers: affection for Joss Whedon’s blend of science fiction and western iconography, a cast of characters that leapt up from western archetypes to become fully formed individuals, and a truly compelling…

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Review: ‘The Walk’ is a Relaxing Ride 110 Stories in the Air

Neil R. Feeney ’19 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk. Photo Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing. A juggler tosses fiery bowling pins into the air and catches them behind his back. A giant elephant shows its nose on top of a ball. Silly clowns spray each other with water. All acts are entertaining, bold, and safe, for that is simply the point of a circus: fun, safe,…

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#Ben Kingsley #Joseph Gordon-Levitt #Philippe Petit #Robert Zemeckis #The Walk

NYCC 2015: Teen Wolf's Tyler Posey “By the Time Teen Wolf Ends, I Want to Be Running the Show”

NYCC 2015: Teen Wolf’s Tyler Posey “By the Time Teen Wolf Ends, I Want to Be Running the Show”

Michael Moccio ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Editor-in-Chief For those of you who haven’t been in the loop, Tyler Posey kicked off Teen Wolf Season 5 in his new role as Co-Producer. “This producing thing is igniting a huge part of what’s next in my career,” Posey said with his one-of-a-kind style of energy. “I want to do anything and everything—I’m really ambitious. I think I have a good eye and I…

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#derek hale #Dylan O&039;Brien #lydia #MTV #Scott McCall #Stiles Stilinski #Teen Wolf #Tyler Posey

NYCC 2015: Star Wars Rebels EP Dave Filoni on the Importance of Diverse Characters and Star Wars Rebels’ Female Characters

Michael Moccio ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Editor-in-Chief Compare the Star Wars universe to how it was when Return of the Jedi came out to today and you’ll see a significant increase in diversity within the Star Wars universe. That push for more diverse characters isn’t lost on Star Wars Rebels Executive Producer Dave Filoni. “I’m just trying to get to a point where [representation is] equal,”…

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#Ahsoka Tano #Ashley Eckstein #Buffy #Dave Filoni #Sarah Michelle Gellar #Star Wars #Star Wars: Rebels

NYCC 2015: Teen Wolf EP Jeff Davis Envisions “Six Seasons and a Movie”

Michael Moccio ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Editor-in-Chief “Six seasons and movie” has been the battle cry of Community fans, but it looks like it’s also on Jeff Davis’ mind as well. After their rousing New York Comic Con panel, the Teen Wolf crew met with members of the press to give more insight on the next season of Teen Wolf and its ultimate future. “We always joke about six seasons and movie,…

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#Angel #Buffy #Colton Haynes #Dylan Sprayberry #Jackson #Jeff Davis #Joss Whedon #lydia #new york comic con #NYCC #Ryan Kelley #Teen Wolf #TV

NYCC 2015: Star Wars: A Galaxy of Fandom Panel

Joey Sack ’17 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Official Description: The new era of Star Wars is here! Join Special Guests from the worlds of games, books, comics and entertainment as they share memories of seeing Star Wars for the first time; discuss how the sprawling space epic shaped their lives; and more. Geek out over your favorite parts of that galaxy far, far away with Superfans from…

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#Darth Vader #Knights of the Old Republic #KOTOR #Kylo Ren #Revan #Spaceballs #Star Wars #The Force Awakens

NYCC 2015: Bear Witness to the Ultimate Fanservice in Con Man!

Robert Tiemstra ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Is a work still technically pandering if the author genuinely believes in what they are writing about? There’s a Transformers film that halfheartedly sets its entire third act in China, and then there’s 90% of the cast of Firefly, Nolan North, Seth Green, and Felicia Day starring in a series about thinly veiled parodies of themselves…

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#Alan Tudyk #Con Man #Felicia Day #Firefly #Nolan North #PJ Haarsma #Sean Bean #Seth Green

NYCC 2015: The Adventure Continues: A Justice League Reunion Event

Joey Sack ’17 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer Official Description: The league is back! For the first time in over a decade, the founding members of the acclaimed series “Justice League” will reunite at NYCC! Join Batman (Kevin Conroy), Wonder Woman (Susan Eisenberg), Superman (George Newbern), Green Lantern (Phil LaMarr), Hawkgirl (Maria Canals-Barrera), Martian Manhunter (Carl Lumbly) and…

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#Batman #Carl Lumbly #DC Animated Universe #DCAU #George Newbern #Green Lanter #Hawkgirl Maria Canals-Barrera #JLU #Justice League #Justice League Unlimited #Kevin Conroy #Martian Manhunter #PhilLaMarr #Superman #Susan Eisenberg #Wonder Woman

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