Amateur Holmesian Scholarship

‘Sherlock Holmes’ won an Art Directors Guild Award for ‘Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film’, much congrats’ to Sarah Greenwood and fingers crossed for the Oscars.

The Mirror’s revealed that David Mitchell and Robin Webb are going to spoof Holmes & Watson in their new series, it features them as OAPs! Look out for the new series in the Spring.

Bartitsu.org have an interview with Richard Ryan, fight director for the film.

Here’s the trailer for Aslyum’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ film. It looks awesomely bad! I’ve been sent a copy of the film and I will be watching it when I get a moment, don’t worry I’ll post a review! Their website has some production stills up.

Volunteers in Portsmouth have finally finish cataloging the many thousands of items from the collection donated to them by Richard Lancelyn Green and it’s due to go on public display in Central Library.

There’s been a boom in watch fob sales since the film!

David Stuart Davies’s productions ‘Sherlock Holmes – The Last Act’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes – Death and Life’ performed excellently by Roger Llewellyn are now avialable to buy on Big Finish’s website. Pre-orders are open for ‘Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper’ staring Nicholas Briggs as Holmes.

Finally, the New York Times talks about the copyright issues still surrounding Holmes.

Well, not for anything massive like Best Picture but it’s been nominated for Original Score and Art Direction, and I think it’s very likely to come away with the Original Score award.