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MG's script auction to raise money for the Red Cross’ California Wildfires Disaster Relief Fund closed yesterday afternoon...

https://bsky.app/profile/marcguggenheim.bsky.social/post/3lge5tmsmr22w 

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This auction is now closed.

Thank you to all who bid.

I'll be DM'ing the winners to work out donation details.

I'll also honor any "losing" bids with digital copies of their requested script.

Thanks again. I think we raised a lot of money!

Edited January 23 by tv echo

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“The Queen of the Ring” Official Trailer: Emily Bett Rickards Fights for Women in Wrestling as Trailblazing 1930s Wrestler Mildred Burke in New Sports Biopic with Josh Lucas and Walton Goggins
TheMovieBox   Jan 21, 2025
https://www.themoviebox.net/p/the-queen-of-the-ring-official-trailer-mildred-burke-biopic-emily-bett-rickards

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Here, Emily Bett Rickards delivers what seems to be a poignant performance as a young Mildred Burke, a single mother from a small Kansas town who, with the full support of her son, enters the male-dominated world of professional wrestling. She leads the way in bringing more women into the sport, defying the social norms of her time and challenging expectations of what a woman could achieve in a traditionally male field.

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Emily Bett Rickards on the refreshing nature of “Autumn and the Black Jaguar”
By Matt Conner   Jan 27, 2025
https://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/emily_bett_rickards_on_the_refreshing_nature_of_autumn_and_the_black_jaguar 

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Coming out of a global pandemic and a sidelined industry as we all sheltered in place, Autumn turned out to be the ideal first acting gig out of the gate for Rickards. The film, which centers on a 14-year-old girl (played by Lumi Pollack) who moves from NYC back to her native home in Peru to help save her village and the jungle cat she’d grown up, provided the sort of buoyant, hopeful narrative that an ailing world needed. Or at least it worked that way for Rickards.

“I think just for me, as Emily, that was the sort of the cylinder that was wanting to get filled there,” Rickards says. “I think as an actor, and not as the character, I think I was searching for what Lumi just naturally brings, which is this freshness, this fun, this lightness to life.”
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Rickards says the production of Autumn itself was healing, especially as she got to work with Pollack. “When we went to go shoot it, I’m shooting with this amazing young actress, Lumi. It’s not only due to her age, but to who she is—she brought a freshness and lightness to how she interacts. She’s also incredibly bright and was having fun. I think it was a good reminder that no matter how old you get, you have access to those things that get burned out of us sometimes.”

Rickards’ character (Anja) allowed her to channel some of her own anxieties in getting back to work as she portrayed a nervous biology teacher who accompanies Autumn on the adventure. “I think my nerves were there. I hadn’t been on a set in two years, and it was the perfect character for it. I needed something that Anja was able to fill and she needed something that I was able to fill, right? There’s this beautiful exchange, like an alchemical thing, right? When you have the privilege of meeting a character and embodying them. I think I was nervous, but she was nervous and that was fortunate.”

After receiving the script, Rickards, who is most famous from her work in Arrow (as Felicity Smoak) and is also starring in the upcoming Queen of the Ring, says she knew she was in fairly quickly. “I remember reading it for the first time and it was almost this cradling of the world. You didn’t have to beat the message into someone. Using the eyes of youth to tell a story where our hope gets lost is a real accessible way to get to all of us. When you grab something and it resonates with you, then you’re like, ‘Oh, this will be great. Let me help serve this message, right?”

Edited January 28 by tv echo

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Caity Lotz is one of the confirmed guests (so far) for this "Salute to the Women of Sci-Fi" charity event in March...

Salute to the Women of Sci-Fi (A Creation Charity Event), March 22-23, 2025 (Burbank, CA)
Caity Lotz 
https://www.creationent.com/cal/scifi_bur/index.html 

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What Joseph David Jones Learned from working on Green Arrow and Stephen Amell
Cheat Codes   Jan 29, 2025

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From the Cheat Codes Podcast EP 9 - Joseph David Jones

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Posted on official Queen of the Ring Instagram yesterday...

https://www.instagram.com/queenofthering/p/DFjBJ0HT9O1/

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queenofthering In Theaters March 7th.
Thank you to @newportbeachfilmfest @buffalointernationalfilm @heartlandfilm @portlandfilm @fliffofficial for having us.
The final theatrical cut has had some magical little changes from the festival cut.
We will see you opening weekend.
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Queen of the Ring is based on a true story. See it early. Be part of the conversation.

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TV Does Groundhog Day: 25 Shows That Got Thrown for a (Time) Loop
By Nick Caruso, Vlada Gelman, Keisha Hatchett, Matt Webb Mitovich, Dave Nemetz, Andy Swift   January 31, 2025
https://tvline.com/lists/best-tv-time-loop-episodes-list-star-trek-x-files/arrow-time-loop-episode/ 

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Arrow, “Reset” (Season 8, Episode 6)
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In one of the farewell season’s final episodes, Oliver woke up in a reality where he needed to thwart a hostage situation at the SCPD and keep a bomb from going off, all while dealing with a resurrected Quentin, a seemingly duplicitous Lyla, an oaf telling bad party jokes and a similarly time-looping Laurel. In this test by the Monitor, Laurel got to say a much-needed goodbye to her “dad,” while it was Oliver’s lot to realize that he can’t always win — since in the Crisis, he won’t.

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Spotlight with Kat Siggers' podcast interview with Katherine McNamara (see audio and video links below - Mia Smoak comments start at around the 19:00 mark in the video)...

-- Podcaster asked KM how she made the character of Mia Smoak her own and whether she drew inspiration from anything. KM said that she did not know that she would be playing the daughter of Oliver and Felicity "until after I had booked the part." For her audition she was given "dummy sides," and her character was "a rookie cop with a dark past." After she booked the part, she started researching all the things that rookie cops would need to know and the training they went through. A few weeks later, she got a call from Arrow showrunner Beth Schwartz, who told her: "Everything you know is a lie. You are Oliver and Felicity's kid." KM said that, coming from Shadowhunters, she was familiar with media/fan lists of beloved show couples (like Malec), so she had seen "Olicity" and "how beloved they were." She added that she knew what "high esteem they were held in... mostly because of Stephen and Emily's incredible work and all the effort they put into crafting that relationship." So when she found out that she would be playing their daughter, she knew that she "had big shoes to fill" and that she "definitely had to do it right." She had six seasons of Arrow to watch and go through and figure out what "qualities, good and bad, of Oliver and Felicity" she could steal for Mia: "So, you know, I stole Emily's sense of humor. I stole Oliver's walk. And I stole all these little tiny things from each of them. And as they wrote the character, I think the writers kind of picked up on that, because they wrote me the most beautiful storyline."  Because Mia Smoak is not canon in the DC comic books, KM was "really nervous" about what people would think, so she was "very grateful at the warm reception she was given."

-- Because Arrow showed Mia's back story and also because they showed different timelines, KM "got to work with both Stephen and Emily in the process." She added: "They were so wonderful and so welcoming to me.”

Spotlight with Kat Siggers
Katherine McNamara
Season 1, Ep. 4 • Monday, February 3, 2025
https://shows.acast.com/spotlight-with-kat-siggers/episodes/katherine-mcnamara 

Katherine McNamara Interview - Shadowhunters, Arrow, Maze Runner
Nerdspin   Feb 3, 2025

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