Madefire creating ‘Batman: Arkham Origins,’ ‘Injustice: Gods Among Us’ a series of choose-your-own-adventure books

Published on Dec 18, 2013
From YouTube.com

“The blockbuster video game is now a groundbreaking digital graphic novel! Batman: Arkham Origins – A DC2 Multiverse Graphic Novel immerses readers into the world of Batman through dynamic artwork integrated with a full soundtrack. In this new story set before the events of the game, you make the choices for the Dark Knight…and reap the rewards or consequences.”

Press release here:

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2013/12/19/batman-arrives-on-the-app-store-in-epic-new-interactive-graphic-novel-batman-arkham

Harry Potter’s Early Years: J.K. Rowling to co-produce magical new stage play

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hpfascinating – a transmedia extension to explore Harry Potter’s early years.  Warner Bros is involved and who knew that WB is behind a musical version of  Roald Dahl’s Charlie And The Chocolate Factory? That production is  currently at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and directed by Sam Mendes. Smart smart, as either one will be touring production gold.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2526685/Harry-flies-West-End-J-K-Rowling-produce-new-stage-play-based-best-selling-books.html#ixzz2o1Ey3bnL ;

X-Men viral video tags Magneto as key to JFK assassination

Produced by Ignition, the X-Men Days of Future Past viral campaign takes Don DeLillo’s Libra twist on history a step further into the X-Men universe, creating a new conspiracy theory linked to the upcoming movie, X-Men: Days of Future Past. Seems the campaign is fleshing out the eleven year gap between movies.

Clever start to a new transmedia campaign and, thinking back to the genius transmedia content built for Prometheus, I cannot wait to see Fassbender in this one (please more Fassbender virals!)

You can delve further at BentBullet.com

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Fan Activism: HPA creates Fantastic Activist Tumblr Campaign with We Are The Districts

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Again, props to The Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) for acting on Suzanne Collin’s critique of social inequalities that define The Hunger Games dystopian world and for taking fan activism out into the world again. Looking through the posts, HPA has partnered with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations and members are posting pics of their three-fingered salutes!

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HPA defines the goals of We are the Districts as

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And HPA has created a set of badges representing key social concerns

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I love HPA. Thank you. You can check it out here:

http://wearethedistricts.tumblr.com/