Entertainment Weekly has just announced their upcoming Game of Thrones Season 5 themed-issue.
James Hibberd spent a total of ten days on various sets spread over three countries. His coverage will be in the March 20/27 issue, available this week. The magazine will contain “an unprecedented 30 pages to exploring the past, present, and future of Game of Thrones,” and be spoiler-free, EW promises.
With all the drama of new trailers and bombings, it’s been a wild week for Game of Thrones fans. Here are a few funny Thrones-themed videos for you to enjoy.
First up, check out one of our favorite video reviewers, OzzyMan. (No connection to our own Oz!) He’ll be covering the show again this year, so be sure to subscribe.
VanityFair is running an amazing series of Quick Draw comics by 1A4 Studio. Currently, The Life of Ned Stark and The Life of Khal Drogo are up for your enjoyment.
HBO is taking further steps to make its programming as widely available as possible, with least hassle and delay, removing the incentive to pirate their shows. The recent moves have all been timed with Game of Thrones, their most popular programme of all times, in mind and the latest one is no exception.
Game of Thrones S5 will premiere simultaneously in over 170 countries around the globe on HBO subsidiaries and partner channels, and the practice will continue each week for the entirety of the 10-episode season. Says Michael Lombardo, President of HBO Programming:
We are thrilled to see our international partners jumping on board to bring Game of Thrones, one of the most universally loved television shows in the world, to global audiences at the same time it airs on HBO in the U.S. It’s going to be a great season.
Full press release after the jump.
At the Apple Keynote event today, the new Game of Thrones trailer that fans have been waiting for made its grand debut!
The trailer was presented as part of the announcement of Apple’s partnership with HBO in bringing HBO Now to viewers on Apple devices this April.
HBO has confirmed that the standalone streaming service will launch in April in time for Game of Thrones and that for the first time, HBO subscriptions will be made available directly to Apple customers through HBO NOW.
The confirmation of easy availability of HBO is long-awaited, along with the now-confirmed pricing of $14.99 a month.
But, onto the good stuff- the new trailer!
The set of Game of Thrones was the target of a foiled bomb plot, according to The Belfast Telegraph. The paper reports that the plot took place “several months ago” but was kept secret until exposed recently by the Telegraph‘s sister paper, Sunday Life.
Reportedly, the terrorists conspired to leave a bomb by a catering unit in Paint Hall at Titanic Studios. The motivation for the attempt is understood to be the studios’ hiring of former police officers to work security on Game of Thrones. The security personnel were expected to gather in this particular catering area.
The plot was foiled by an informant who alerted the authorities. Subsequently, security was beefed up at Titanic Studios and a plan was put into place to protect people working at the location.
This week has been very busy with updates surrounding episode titles, and the crowning confirmation is that the HBO schedule has been updated with the reported titles of the first three episodes.
Episode S5E1: The Wars to Come
Episode S5E2: The House of Black and White
Episode S5E3: High Sparrow
Additionally, each season 5 episode lists the regular and significant recurring cast members as usual. This is notable in this instance for one particular reason which I’ll tuck below a cut for spoiler reasons.
The episode synopses for the first three episodes of the season have surfaced today, just after the revealing of the titles of episodes 501-504.
Courtesy of SpoilerTV and HBO, the descriptions of the episodes are:
UPDATE: 3/23/15: HBO has released the synopses for the first three episodes officially, and they are identical to these, confirming the leaked info.
This is a guest post and survey by WotW reader James Rivers.
About 400 of you responded to the Game of Thrones season 5 episode title survey. A nice turnout! And just as we closed this up, the first three episode titles leaked (and were confirmed by WatchersOnTheWall sources). To be on the safe side, we discounted any entries for those three episodes that were submitted afterward. The Episode 4 title leaked and was confirmed after the survey closed. Let’s see what we came up with!
Here are the titles for each episode given by at least five people. (Note that similar responses, like “Black and White” and “The House of Black and White,” were combined into one slot).
Spoilers note: We took care to avoid spilling outright spoilers below, like “This Character Dies!” or something. But naturally the suggested titles will hint at certain events, and the commentary talks around them, so Unsullied should proceed with caution.
We’ve been running a survey this week to guess the episode titles of Game of Thrones season 5, and the poll closed this morning- apparently just in time! GeeklyInc is reporting that a source has informed them of the first three episode titles.
We’ve run the titles by our own sources, and we can now confirm that they are accurate.
Update: The fourth episode title has been revealed by Spoiler TV, and again we’ve confirmed with our sources that it’s accurate.
The previews from volume two of Catch the Throne are flowing freely this week! Yesterday, HBO dropped several more video clips on Youtube, offering samples of the Thrones-inspired tunes.
Plus, via Complex, HBO has released a complete track, “Lord of the Light,” by hip hop artist Talib Kweli.
Update: HBO has confirmed that Catch the Throne Vol. II will be released on March 17th on Soundcloud, and that each act has been aligned with a Game of Thrones family, displayed in their track.
The full list of artists includes: Anthrax, Estelle, Kap G, Killswitch Engage, Mastodon, Melanie Fiona, Method Man, MNDR, Mushroomhead, Raquel Sofia, Snoop Dogg, Stalley, Talib Kweli, Ty Dolla $ign, and Yandel.
In a statement released by HBO, Talib Kweli says, “I am a big fan of the books and the series,” and that, “As an MC, I’m not adverse to the concept of battles and ability to tell compelling stories and the Game of Thrones series does just that. It is the reason I wanted to be a part of this mixtape.”
Check out his song and the newest video samples from the others below the cut: