You always have to keep in mind who the documentary is made for. If Searching for Sugar Man was made for South Africans, then, well, they already know all about the influence he had. It's the actual person that would be interesting.

I am way behind. I have yet to see any of the last year's worth of Doctor Who. I did, however, finally get around to watching The Hobbit, and was happily surprised to see the last REAL Doctor has a role in it. No Ace, though.

Bones should be holding the shovel in his RIGHT hand.

What's going to be missing is the age jump. In the trailer, we see a teen Ender. Ender at 6, at 10, undergoing all this is where the movie will probably deviate the most. Seeing a 6 year old kill a classmate, kicking him over and over when he's down...

As for Val, I suspect we'll see her part and Petra's be rather large, to make up for the all male cast.

Just for the fun of it, I signed up today.

http://www.patreon.com/invidfan

It's... well, to be honest, it's definitely still under construction. There isn't even any way to link my page there to my actual page, the one with my content. I'll keep you informed as to if this things works for stories, as opposed to videos.

From the Deadline article:

Does this tie in with the Intermission on FX companies? Now they're working for free!

Yes. This is one of those books where it's going to be interesting to see what parts they kept. Having the hero kill two other kids with his bare hands, even in this era of The Hunger Games, might still be too much.

I fully understand boycotting the thing. Card hasn't gotten any of my money in thirty years or so, unless he gets some residuals from re-releases of the Monkey Island game. I love the book, probably because I came to it at the right time as a teen, but I'm more curious with regard to the movie than excited.

http://thedevilspanties.com webcomic has something similar, where a $5 monthly subscription gets you extra content. When David Willis ended one web comic and started another, he kept the first going on a subscription only basis for those who REALLY wanted more. So, it's not a new idea. Something that other creators can use so they don't have to set anything up themselves, that would be new.

Back in the start of home video era, Japanese anime companies came up with a rather intriguing format, the "Original Animated Video". As first practiced, they'd release a standalone episode of a potential series, see how it sold, then do another with the money coming in funding it. You could see the increase in budgets as they went (or decrease, as the case may be). That worked because, one, the Japanese were willing to pay $60 for a thirty minute laserdisc, and two, because the studio had other projects. They would just switch their people between them as needed.

I honestly think Gerrold came out of his experience with Star Trek Phase II thinking, "Hey, it's not that hard!"

They were always fine if they just stayed out of the way. It was Blake's idea of attacking the Federation that got them into trouble. A ship is only as powerful as the person giving the orders