Spellfury
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Spellfury | |
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Genre | ComedyAction |
Created by | Travis Gordon |
Written by | Travis Gordon |
Directed by | Travis Gordon |
Starring | Julie O'Halloran Robbie Drebitt Penu Chalykoff Ian Quick Matt Ficner |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Jason Devlin |
Original release | |
Release | 2008 – current |
Spellfury is a web series.
It is a live-action classic sword and sorcery tale with a sense of humor. Spellfury is written and directed by Travis Gordon and stars Julie O'Halloran as Druinia.[1] Each webisode of Spellfury comes out roughly every two months.
Synopsis
The first 10 webisodes focus on the adventures of a magic sword and an elf named Druinia. Throughout the series Druinia is being hunted by an evil sorcerer named Kruskull (Played by Robbie Drebitt) who claims the sword is his. Matt Ficner who was a puppeteer on Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (which starred Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman) often works on the show as an actor and as a puppeteer [2]
Cast
- Julie O'Halloran as Druinia
- Robbie Drebitt as Kruskull
- Penu Chalykoff as Castle
- Ian Quick as Xorn
- Matt Ficner as Tarek
Popularity
The first episode of Spellfury was watched 232,034 times on Youtube on August 13, 2008.[3] The Spellfury series has been watched 471,927 times on Youtube.[4] Due to the amount of views of the show, Youtube awarded Spellfury it's own special show page [5] As of June 20th 2010, Spellfury is the second most watched show on the Koldcast.tv network.[6] In May of 2009 Wired.com reviewed Spellfury and in an article called "7 webotainers worth watching" mentioned "Canadian writer-director Travis Gordon throws World Of Warcraft video games, Lord of the Rings pomposity and Buffy The Vampire Slayer snark into the blender for this live-action series" [7] The webseries was also reviewed by Tubefilter on July 8th 2009 in an article called "‘Spellfury’ is Low Budget, High Fantasy".[8] Ain't It Cool News also reviewed the show as well.[9] Spellfury the webseries (as of June 20th 2010) is the top rated show on the webseries directory Visioweb.tv. [10]
Due to the popularity of the show a distribution deal was signed with David Samuels the owner of Koldcast.tv and has been airing there since August 4, 2009.[11] David Samuels has said publicly that the Spellfury Series has over 200,000 views in 2010. [12]
Travis Gordon the writer/director of Spellfury won a Bronze for a Dramatic Short at the 2008 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival for a short called Revelation.[13][14] There is an interview with Mr.Gordon about Spellfury in 2 places, UberscifiGeek.com[15] and Innsmouthfreepress.com [16]
A recent newspaper article (EMC Perth) on the evolution of the show and an interview with writer/director Travis Gordon [17]
Spellfury Film Short
A film short that combined episodes 1-3 of Spellfury with a new ending was submitted to the 2009 DragonCon Film Festival and is available to watch on IMDB (The Internet Movie Database).[18]
See also
Spellfury can also be watched on itunes [19] on Blip.tv [20] and the webseries directory Scifinal [21]
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1557701/
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0974405/
- ^ "SPELLFURY Episode One". YouTube. 2008-08-12. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/user/tbonepearson
- ^ YouTube Show Page for Spellfury, Youtube
- ^ http://www.koldcast.tv/
- ^ Previous post Next post. "7 Webotainers Worth Watching | Underwire". Wired.com. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^ "'Spellfury' is Low Budget, High Fantasy". News.tubefilter.tv. 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^ "AICN COMICS REVIEWS: AVENGERS! JLA! VENOM! SAMURAI 7! dot.comics! & MUCH MORE!!! - Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news". Aintitcool.com. 2009-04-01. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
- ^ http://visioweb.tv/
- ^ http://www.koldcast.tv/#/show:spellfury
- ^ http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=tJ7&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=spellfury+200%2C000+views+david&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650428/
- ^ http://www.worldfest.org/downloads/winnerslist2008.xls
- ^ http://uberscifigeek.com/?p=9272
- ^ http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?p=1076
- ^ http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4629592&id=43562464005&fbid=406278299005
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1557701/
- ^ http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/spellfury/id295198707?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
- ^ http://spellfury.blip.tv/
- ^ http://www.scifinal.com/spellfury/