TALKING HAMILL

Mark is going to be at STAR WARS Celebration Japan!

The convention will be held July 19 to July 21 in the Makuhari-Messe Convention Center near Tokyo.

Mark is scheduled to sign autographs in the Celebration Japan Autograph Hall on all three days and he will also do a rare appearance on the Main Stage.

All important information is at www.celebrationjapan.com. 

Please let me know if you can attend! :)

Mark is embarking on a huge new voiceover project titled NEW-GEN.

After a six-issue comic book series launching April 9, NEW-GEN will branch into motion pictures, television series, toys, merchandising and video games.

Mark voices Gabriel, the leader of the new generation of super heros.

A teaser is availabe here or via the official website www.new-gen.info.

Mark will also be celebrity judge of the NEW-GEN Challenge which will kick off April 18, 2008 at the New York Comic-Con upon NEW-GEN's official launch. Winners will be announced July 24-28 at Comic-Con San Diego. This might mean that Mark will actually be at Comic-Con, but there's been no official word on that yet.

Citing Mark:

"Watching NEW-GEN™ evolve from a fascinating idea into a fully-realized, beautifully rendered comic book universe has been a real thrill for me. Fans of science-fiction/fantasy owe it to themselves to give NEW-GEN™ some serious attention!"

Read the full press release at Comics Bulletin.

I've been thinking about how to best archive all the images and other media I've collected from Mark's appearance at Celebration Europe. I'm still not entirely sure how to best do this; I have very limited webspace at Just The Best, so I can't really upload them all there.

For the moment, I have added ALL images I found at Flickr.com to my favorites there, so in case you're catching up, you don't need to follow every single link I posted throughout the last couple of weeks separately.

Here are my Flickr.com favorites. Enjoy! :)

I'll wait a couple of days before I add all Mark images (i.e. all that are not of CE) I find on that site to my favorites.

There's also a piece of voiceover news, sort of. Mark has been interviewed on a feature called The Dark Knight Revisited, which is a special on the recent DVD release of the 1977 animated series The New Adventures of Batman. Thought you'd like to know.

Again it's been a couple of days since I posted. At least today I'm coming before you with a whole lot of news.

First of all, I found another photo of Mark at Celebration Europe:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jan-quicoran/969510977/

Then there'll be two things to add to your DVD collection of Mark's voiceover work.

On August 14, the complete 2nd season of Loonatics Unleashed will be released on DVD, featuring the episode A Creep in the Deep, in which Mark voiced the lead villain Adolpho.

On November 20, the complete 4th season of The Batman will be released on DVD, featuring the episode A Matter of Family, in which Mark voiced the character of Tony Zucco. Find out more at Superhero Times.

There's another piece of voiceover related news where I'm not sure whether I'm interpreting it right. Once again this year Nickelodeon is holding the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival. If you check out the
Frederator blog, it says "Patrick, Genndy, Mark, Joanna, Steve, and Michael join our previous judges – Gabor Csupo, Andreas Deja, Michael DiMartino, Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg, Mark Hamill [...]". I'm not sure whether this means that Mark WILL BE a judge on the festival or whether he won't be. To learn all about the festival regardless, visit its official website!

I haven't gotten around to posting during the last couple of days and I apologize for that. This week was crazy; too much to do and too little time. Of course much of it is my own fault, since, to be straightforward with you, I'm totally chaotic. ;) I need to do one thing at a time instead of everything at once...

Anyway, I haven't got much Mark to share right now, expect that I want to point you to all the lovely links Hope has posted. I gathered them in today's update at Just The Best, or you can just dip to the entry below and read all the comments she gave to it. There are plenty of Mark images and a Mark video.

The point of this entry... Actually, I just wanted you all to know that I'm in the process of cooking some things up. 'S all. :)

There's another clip of Mark's Q&A panel at Celebration Europe. The clip I linked to below shows the very beginning of the show, when the host Warwick Davis receives a spiritual visit and then introduces Mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEaXl1iXr7c

The following link has a short written recap of the session.

http://www.rebelscum.com/story/euro/CE_An_Hour_With_Mark_Hamill_107511.asp

There's a first clip of Mark's Question & Answer session at Celebration Europe up on YouTube. I hope more of that will be shared eventually, but these are already three wonderful and funny minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqLEpG63d6E

There's also one more new image at Flickr.com:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebellegion-uk/860253662/

Enjoy!

It's amazing how hopelessly buried you can be after just one day off the computer; we're talking of a factual 9 hours here, minus the time I spend working, sleeping or eating. And my inbox was deliciously EMPTY when I powered down the computer at noon on Wednesday! Help!

The best medicine against stress is, of course, Mark images, and so here are links to the latest images I've found.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebellegion-uk/841702076/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebellegion-uk/841708596/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebellegion-uk/841706264/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9129167@N07/854107662/

I'll try and get caught up now. :)

Can't break the flow while it's so strong, right? Here are some more images I found. I'll be gone until tomorrow afternoon, so it might be Friday morning, German time, until I will have more again. But these should tend you over the wait.

These are all at Flickr.com again.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stormcab/837060463/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stormcab/837123299/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinmcmorran/839072478/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinmcmorran/838196581/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinmcmorran/839074658/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinmcmorran/838197029/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinmcmorran/839060040/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinmcmorran/839058778/

I also found the original video clip of the radio show Heart Breakfast. I know you've already seen the YouTube clip, but this one here is in sync. Mark's gestures and movements match the answers, so that's cool.

And let's not forget the yellow press. It's loving Mark right now. :)

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/17/mark_hamill_has_only_seen_the_star_wars

You just have to adore the age of digicams and the internet. All these pictures help so much to forget at least for a while the disappointment of not having been there yourself. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grazulis/828067308/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10142777@N02/830464181/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10142777@N02/830462729/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10142777@N02/830465751/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10142777@N02/830469613/
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=141285&id=509572639&l=8c0f3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bethgabor/828164892/in/set-72157600853630699/
http://walkamongthestars.blogspot.com/2007/07/celebration-europe-docklands-london.html
http://byfiles.storage.msn.com/y1p5OaD7E98smJ-utWL16wYLhx8tkcSggnctXwaL6ffeXTlejurxUQNPncflKUaaaO-rcmgfNHzgW4

Oh, and before I forget it... Here are some yellow press articles... What, you didn't know yet of Mark's crush? Why, where have you been? *winks*

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/16/mark_hamill_confesses_his_crush_on_natal
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/ent?guid=20070716/469aed40_8c0_224020070716-1619657717

Isn't the yellow press amusing?

There've been some more pics up on Flickr.com.

Let's see:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bis4pp/820973719/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bis4pp/820974005/in/set-72157600839174789/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bis4pp/821806792/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bis4pp/820931433/in/set-72157600838631890/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bis4pp/821806448/in/set-72157600838631890/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bis4pp/820930431/in/set-72157600838631890/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bis4pp/821805710/in/set-72157600838631890/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/globalnix/817713755/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philofphotos/809665961/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarebatemanking/801167091/

There's also a very sweet article at the link below. There are no pics, but it perfectly illustrates how nice Mark is to his fans, so go read it.

http://www.thisisswindon.co.uk/display.var.1546512.0.luke_skywalker_meets_his_hero.php

I hope there will be more images surfacing on the internet throughout the next couple of days, but these ones are really, really nice for a first start.
Let me just say one thing first - whoever took the pics at WireImage really should let the FAN-MADE pics inspire him, because they're so much better and do Mark much more justice.

The first ones I found this morning are these two, posted on Yahoo!

 


Nice, hu?

Then there are various of excellent quality that I found at Flickr.com.

These are all of Mark:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarebatemanking/802048110/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarebatemanking/802019724/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hatters/813415408/

These are from the crowds at the autograph session and his panel respectively:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinmcmorran/808645807/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarebatemanking/802045320/

There are also some pictures of the Opening Ceremony (one of Mark) at
TheForce.net.

I'm sure there will be many more soon and of course I'll post anything I find here.

So I'll try to do this in some kind of ordered way. Already I have found PLENTY of media from Celebration Europe and I suspect this is only the beginning, as people return home and get their stuff ordered. So let's start. You're going to love this.

First there is an article at The Sun Online. They had Mark and Dave Prowse meet up for a photo shooting and an interview. There are great pics and there's a video clip from the photo shoot as well!!! Rex Features has a large collection of shots from the shooting as well.

So that's that, but of course there is MORE.

There is a video clip of Mark at the Opening Ceremony of the celebration, where he's introducing Ian McDiarmid and does the Joker! He's so brilliant and funny!!! There is another video of the Opening Ceremony at the Official STAR WARS Blog. It's better quality, but you don't see as much of Mark and you don't hear him speak because it's dubbed over with a SW theme.

Mark was guest on a radio show called Heart Breakfast. Check out the video on YouTube! It's somewhat out of sync and I had some trouble understanding some things, but I'm sure native English speakers will fare much better than I did.

Then there's a wonderful GMTV webcast of Mark online. Thanks go to sueprano for pointing this one out.

Then there's the interview Mark gave on a BBC 2 radio show. The interview will start playing once you load this site. Use the buttons to fast-forward to 2:40:00 and wait for the song to end for Mark to come on.

I'll be back soon with a post on Mark images that I have found. :)

Yes, he will! Mark will be at Celebration Europe in London! This is an awesome piece of news, considering that speculations and rumors have been thriving for weeks and weeks and that he couldn't make the US Celebration IV at all. We all feared that if he couldn't make a con a stone's throw away from where he lives he definitely wouldn't be able to make Celebration Europe either.

But he WILL BE THERE! :)

According to the International Mark Hamill Fan Club, Mark will be at the convention in London July 13 (Friday) and July 14 (Saturday). There will be autograph sessions and a 2-hour panel.

What are you waiting for? Go and get your tickets at the website of 'Celebration Europe'!!!