Sean Bean: Things Don’t Look Good For Sean Bean In The New Silent Hill: Revelation 3D Trailer Kirk Hamilton (KOTAKU)

Poor Sean Bean. Dude can't really catch a break, can he? Good things rarely happen to the characters he plays. We don't quite know anything for certain yet, but it looks like nothing good will happen to him in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, either. It sort of looks like a lot of pretty not-good things will happen in this movie, starting with the acting, which is CW-level at best. And is the "3D" seriously an official part of the title? That is not! Very! Scary!

 
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Game Of Thrones: Battle Of Blackwater The Finest Tv Moment Of 2012? 29 May 2012 13:26 (CONTACT MUSIC)

Stephen Dillane - winner of the best actor category. British Academy Television Awards held at the . Royal Festival Hall - Press Room. London, England - 26.04.09

'Games of Thrones' cemented its status as one of the most popular shows on U.S. television on Sunday night (May 27, 2012), delivering an explosive episode which featured 'The Battle of Blackwater'. Fans of George R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' saga - on which the show is based - have been waiting for the epic dual for some time, and it didn't disappoint.

Lord Stannis, played by Stephen Dillane, sends his ships into battle, and his troops outnumber the royal fleet ten to one. However, the Lannister's have a trick up their sleeve, thanks to the savvy thinking of Lord Tyrion Lannister, played by Peter Dinklage. In one of the highlight exchanges from the episode, Tyrion tells Lord Varys, "I'm the captain of the ship, and if the ship goes down, I go with her", to which Varys replies, "That is good to hear, though I'm sure many captains say the same while their ship is afloat". The episode won unanimous praise on Twitter, with singer-songwriter Josh Groban saying, "The battle of blackwater is one of the single greatest things I've ever seen on TV. Bravo". Another user said, "The Battle of Blackwater was done quite brilliantly in the latest episode of gameofthrones".

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Sean Bean Reacts To New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Poster – Exclusive (ACCESS HOLLYWOOD)

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. -- CaptionSean Bean hit the red carpet on Saturday for the “Mirror Mirror” premiere, where he reacted – for the very first time – to the brand new HBO promotional poster for HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

After Access Hollywood showed Bean the poster, released earlier this week, which features Ned Stark’s head on a spike, a reference to his character’s death in Episode 9 of Season 1, the actor grinned and laughed heartily.

“Have you seen that?” he said to one of his reps, who was with him on the “Mirror Mirror” red carpet.

“I like that! I like that,” Sean then said to Access Hollywood.

Sean confirmed he had not yet seen the poster before, and when Access pointed out the show was using his character to promote Season 2, he laughed again, saying,

“They’re not! I’m dead.” “I like it,” he added.


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Sean Bean: Will Game of Thrones survive without him? (About.com)

Game of Thrones—George R. R. Martin is also thinking ahead anxiously to the second season of the show based on his novels. In this case, he's worried about how with show will fare now that the central figure of Eddard Stark, played by Sean Bean, has been killed off. Martin is feeling unnerving parallels to a series he used to write for, Beauty and the Beast. "Linda Hamilton decided to leave after the second season, and so we killed off her character right at the beginning at the third season and the ratings just went through the floor," Martin said at the Golden Globes. "People hated it and the show was done after that."

Eddard Stark with snuffed in the penultimate episode of season 1, following the storyline established in the novel. "We've only had one episode after Sean's character died and, well, we'll find out how it affects things," Martin said. "It was a big shock to a lot of people and it was interesting to see the response to it. It's something I did, you know, 16 years ago when the book came out. So it wasn't a secret, of course, but I could see the shock of it in the emails I got and on the blogs and the headlines. Time will tell how it affects the show, but hopefully the rest of the characters and their stories have become compelling to people... but I have to admit I worry about it a little after the experience with Beauty and the Beast and Linda Hamilton." I don't think George has much to worry about, do you?


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George R.R. Martin is our Author of the Year (USA Today)

By Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY

Updated 14h 51m ago

Sean Bean portrays Eddard Stark in a scene from the HBO series, 'Game of Thrones', based on the George R.R. Martin series.

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In 2011, everybody wanted to journey to the fantastical land of Westeros — a place teeming with dragons, monster-sized wolves, incestuous aristocrats, teen virgins and impossibly tall walls of ice.For his epic Game of Thrones, author George R.R. Martin wears the crown of USA TODAY's Author of the Year.

Thanks to HBO's hit adaptation, Martin ascended from best-selling cult writer (especially popular with young men) to king of the book world.

The former Hollywood writer meticulously crafts an intricate world out of the fertility of his own imagination. Inspired by the dynastic wrangling of the War of the Roses in 15th-century England, the sexy, violent saga features three warring clans: the Starks, the Lannisters and the Targaryens.

Martin's mammoth, page-turning "A Song of Ice & Fire" fantasy series proves that the human attention span hasn't shriveled to the size of a starlet's thong or an Ashton Kutcher tweet. The five-book saga, which began in 1996 with A Game of Thrones (HBO dropped the "A"), spans 4,197 pages. More than 12 million copies are in print.

In July, Martin, 63, published the series' fifth book, A Dance of Dragons, sending fans into a frenzy. It hit No. 1 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list — a first for the Sante Fe resident.

And he's still writing.

With Game of Thrones set to return to HBO for a second season in April, we say… long may he reign.

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