Make way for more newbies! The Walking Dead Season 4 is now filming, and we recently learned Episode 4 will be titled “Indifference,” with two survivors named Jack and Erin added to the cast. Now SpoilerTV has scoop on Episode 6 and a few more new characters.

According to the site, Episode 6 is called “Rise,” and two recurring roles are being cast — “a single mother and former nurse named Laura and a tough and funny woman named Melody.” Single? Tough? Funny? Recurring? Love interest alerts?

There’s also a guest-starring role for Don, a 50-70-year-old guy described as kind but sometimes grumpy, who has a granddaughter. Sounds like he’d get along well with Hershel.

What do you think of the new additions? Any guesses on how we’ll meet them or if/when they’ll join the prison group?

Share your thoughts and theories below!

Source: SpoilerTV

Article source: http://www.wetpaint.com/walking-dead/articles/2013-06-18-season-4-episode-6-title

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Production on season 4 of “The Walking Dead” is now well underway, and so is the remodeling of the prison. That’s right, upon the arrival of Woodbury residents, the prison gang will be buffing out the old, dingy concrete corners and converting it into a luxurious oasis. Okay, maybe they won’t take it that far, however they will be stepping it up a notch for their new guests.

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As Wet Paint reports, “The Walking Dead” production designer Grace Walker recently discussed what she has planned for the new season.

“We’re trying to form better conditions for the survivors at the prison,” Walker said. “We figured because we had a lot more people coming in – like the people coming from Woodbury – that the cellblocks were starting to overflow, so we made more room for them. We had to have better shelter, and conditions where they can now eat outside.”

What’s interesting here is that in the wake of the season 3 finale, Robert Kirkman said that the show would be moving away from the prison at the beginning of season 4. So why would Walker and the rest of “The Walking Dead” crew spend the time, money and effort to polish the prison? It’s exciting to hear that a new and improved prison is on the way, but the two statements are somewhat contradictory.

The former showrunner says that there had to be an “ultimate sacrifice” in order for season 3 to have a proper impact.

“I knew Rick was going to finally open up the gates of the prison after a season in which he’s trying to hide away from the world and lock everybody away and keep them safe,” said Mazzara. “At the end of the finale, he brings in these women, children and elderly people and the group is going to transform. There needed to be a blood sacrifice for that, and there had to be a price that was paid.”

He continues,

“Andrea paying that price was important. She is unable to re-enter the group. In a way, a lot of what she did was bring the two groups together. But she’s never able to enter the prison and be reunited in a full way with Rick’s group. That was an ultimate sacrifice that was worthy of the season finale.”

Glen Mazzara is aware of the conflicting reports on how people feel about Laurie Holden’s character death on season 3 of “The Walking Dead.” For the people that are dissatisfied with her death, he says that it means that her dying meant something and targeted their emotions.

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“The Walking Dead” Premiere Raffle is being offered by Oklahoma County’s Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). Twenty percent of ticket sales will go to the United Way of Central Oklahoma’s May 2013 Tornado Relief Fund and the remaining funds will go to CASA to assist in giving children a voice in court.

The winner of this raffle will receive a ticket to “The Walking Dead’s” fourth season premiere in October in Los Angeles, with free airfare and lodging included, according to a news release.

Fans can visit the Center Court of Penn Square Mall today (June 18) through June 23 to buy a raffle ticket for $10.

Tickets can also be purchased at the Hn8th Night Market, Friday, June 28, or by calling (405) 713-6456.

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Earlier this month, Anchor Bay Entertainment announced The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season on Blu-ray and DVD. Now, IGN has new info on the home video release, including an overview of products and exclusives available at major retailers.

As we already know, the standard 5-disc collection includes all 16 episodes from the past season and comes packed with tons of bonus features: exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, featurettes, audio commentaries from cast and crew and deleted scenes. We also learned that the Season 3 Blu-ray will be available in a Limited Edition Zombie Head Tank package specially made by McFarlane Toys.

Additionally, Target will sell a 5-disc Steelbook Blu-ray Only set for $79.99; Best Buy will sell an 8-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack for $89.99; and Walmart will sell a Blu-ray ($79.99) or DVD (69.98) with soundtrack, featuring artists Lisa Marie Presley, Band of Skulls, Willy Mason and others. All sets will include the special features listed above. Here’s the lineup:

Standard/Walmart Blu-ray

Limited Edition Zombie Head Tank Blu-ray

Target Steelbook Blu-ray

Best Buy Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack

The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season hits stores on August 27. Pre-book is July 31.

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Article source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/18/new-details-on-the-walking-dead-season-3-blu-ray

Last week, Brits didn’t get their copies of The Walking Dead #111. It happens sometimes. But they haven’t turned up this week either.

UK retailers have been told that the comic has been lost in transit, and both Diamond and Image are trying to find it.

However, in the likelihood that it will not be found, Image will publish a new UK-only printing to cover orders.

Article source: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/18/british-copies-of-walking-dead-111-go-walkabout/

In a zombie apocalypse, anyone can die at any time, especially given that human evil is frequently more extreme than zombie appetites. But Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) died the way too many women have died throughout history, from a birth gone wrong. Her daughter survived, but Lori bled to death, and it was then when her son, Carl, was faced with a cruel choice. Rather than let his mother rise again as a zombie, he put her down with a shot to the head. At that moment, Carl became a hero. (“The Walking Dead” begins its fourth season this fall on AMC.)

Article source: http://magicvalley.com/entertainment/carl-makes-a-choice-the-walking-dead/article_0ed1e92f-81d8-5734-9c79-71c1fb5ffbf4.html

Telltale has narrowed down the launch window for The Walking Dead‘s $5 DLC ’400 Days’ from summer to July. That’s it. Yup. The DLC introduces five new characters, who each star in their own story as they live through the first 400 days of the zombie apocalypse.

As we noted in our preview, some choices made in Season 1 will be reflected in 400 Days, and choices you make in the DLC will carry over into Season 2, whenever that arrives.

400 Days will hit PC, Mac, Xbox 360, PS3 and iOS in July. The game’s also coming to Vita this summer, Telltale announced during E3, with 400 Days included.

Article source: http://www.shacknews.com/article/79789/the-walking-deads-400-days-dlc-arrives-in-july

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June 17th, 2013

It’s Monday again, which means we have a new “Dispatch” from the set of “The Walking Dead,” and this week we hear from production designer Grace Walker, who talks about cleaning up the prison for Season 4 and the secret to making it look like the world has ended.

Q: What projects have you been working on for the new season?

A: We’re trying to form better conditions for the survivors at the prison. We figured because we had a lot more people coming in — like the people coming from Woodbury — that the cellblocks were starting to overflow, so we made more room for them. We had to have better shelter and conditions where they can now eat outside.

Q: Last season which episodes were more difficult for you: those that took place at Woodbury or the prison?

A: I think we learned a lot with the Woodbury stuff. We only used to have, like, three hours to get it set up. We’d get in there early in the morning and put up our big barriers and the walls and get everything all ready in the main street area. We’d go like crazy, and then we’d shoot for a day, and then we’d have to pull it all down again. And if we went back the next day, we’d have to do it all over again. The exteriors were kind of easy, and we were fortunate enough to have a couple buildings within the town where we’d build out a set as well.

Telltale Games made everybody a fan of the adventure game genre last year with season one of The Walking Dead. We’re still a few months away from a second season, but the storytellers at Telltale have something in store to tide you over.

At E3, Telltale Games announced The Walking Dead 400 Days as new DLC content for The Walking Dead. The new episode will serve as a bridge of sorts between season one and two with the choices made in the episode impacting events in season two. Here’s the full synopsis:

Centered on a truck stop on a Georgia highway, The Walking Dead – 400 Days is a DLC episode for Season One of Telltale’s award-winning game series. 400 Days tells five linked stories; each taking place at different points in time and from the point of view of a different survivor, from day one of the undead apocalypse to day 400.

The five stories can be played in any order and will change based on the choices that you make. Echoes of the choices you made in Season 1 will carry over into 400 Days and the choices you make in 400 Days will resonate into Season 2.

In a FAQ on the developer’s Web site, Telltalle says that 400 Days will not feature Lee or Clementine in any way. Instead, the developers say the DLC episode serves as “interesting connective tissue between the two seasons.”  Read more... (263 words, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)

Casting details on the upcoming season of AMC’s hit zombie series, The Walking Dead, continue to circulate, as more news has recently surfaced.

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According to Spoiler TV, the creative brass is looking to bolster up its cast with the addition of three new characters.

Laura is a former nurse and a single mom, who should be an asset to Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the prison group if/when they are wounded. The respective role is recurring.

Melody is described as “tough and funny” and will reportedly serve to minimize the stress on the group through her comic relief. However, no details were given on the frequency she’ll appear.

The site also stated that TWD is on the lookout for the part of Don, a guest star that’s between the ages of 50 and 70. He’s said to be cranky and has a granddaughter.

While no back-stories have been released thus far, it’s undoubtedly feasible that that all or a majority of the characters came from the Governor-led town of Woodbury.

AMC’s The Walking Dead will be kicking off on Sunday, October 13 at 9/8 p.m. Central. Be sure to keep checking back for more of the latest details on the hit zombie series. Get an inside look at the fourth season below!

Article source: http://www.enstarz.com/articles/19878/20130617/walking-dead-season-4-spoilers-three-brand-new-characters-revealed-laura-melody-don-video-details.htm

Money: Cash is worthless in the zombie apocalypse, but upcoming The Walking Dead credit cards will probably carry plenty of weight at comic shops in our reality. [THR]

Gaming: The Green Machines trash mousers and more in the latest batch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows video game screens. [Game Informer]

Anime: No word on when Ghost in the Shell: Arise will come to the US, but a new trailer for the four-part OVA should intrigue fans. [Crunchyroll]

Toys: Robert Kirkman, Nick Spencer and Shawn Martinbrough’s Thief of Thieves will get the Minimates treatment this fall care of Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum. [USA Today]

Movies: The latest Space Pirate Captain Harlock CG animated feature trailer is a bit more subtle than the first, albeit with plenty of new footage. [JEFusion]

Article source: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/06/17/link-ink-walking-dead-visa-ghost-in-the-shell-tmnt-game/

The Walking Dead’s production designer Grace Walker talks about cleaning up the prison for Season 4 and the secret to making it look like the world has ended.

Q: What projects have you been working on for the new season?

A: We’re trying to form better conditions for the survivors at the prison. We figured because we had a lot more people coming in — like the people coming from Woodbury — that the cellblocks were starting to overflow, so we made more room for them. We had to have better shelter, and conditions where they can now eat outside.

Q: Last season, which episodes were more difficult for you: those that took place at Woodbury or the prison?

A: I think we learned a lot with the Woodbury stuff. We only used to have, like, three hours to get it set up. We’d get in there early in the morning and put up our big barriers and the walls and get everything all ready in the main street area. We’d go like crazy and then we’d shoot for a day, and then we’d have to pull it all down again. And if we went back the next day, we’d have to do it all over again. The exteriors were kind of easy, and we were fortunate enough to have a couple buildings within the town where we’d build out a set, as well.

Q: What are some tricks you’ve learned on the show that have made set construction easier?

June 17th, 2013
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The title already spoils it, but you have to see this to believe it. Sprite Stitch forum member Cross Stitch Ninja backs up his or her moniker with this jaw-dropping cross stitch piece. If you think cross-stitch is only good for pixel art, think again. Prepare to have your mind blown brain eaten.

I guess the letters kind of give it away, but other than that if I saw the image above with the unstitched borders cropped out I would’ve thought it was a ballpoint pen drawing.

Even Tony Moore, the artist who drew the original panel, was thoroughly impressed by what Cross Stitch Ninja did. You can see a higher resolution version of the piece as well as in progress shots on Cross Stitch Ninja’s Flickr page.

[via Sprite Stitch via io9 via Boing Boing]

Article source: http://technabob.com/blog/2013/06/17/walking-dead-cross-stitch/

Walking Dead artist Tony Moore says: “Knowing how long it took me to draw this damn thing in pen and ink, I’m particularly honored and impressed by this painstaking Walking Dead cross-stitch!”

ion: A page from The Walking Dead incredibly recreated in cross-stitch

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• I’m a big fan of cross-stich, and have done some myself (http://thesketchypixel.com/projects/slow-news).  My critique of this piece would be that while it is extremely impressive on a technical level, on an artistic level, the transformation from ink to stitches adds very little to the original work. It doesn’t add the essential pixelated quality that cross-stitch provides, but rather tries to match the original forms too exactly, and ends up as merely a copy.

  • Yours are pretty great. But this piece seems like it was created with a different objective completely. The greatest artists of history spent plenty of time trying to make exact copies of extant work.

Article source: http://boingboing.net/2013/06/15/cross-stitch-recreation-of-a-p.html

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Telltale Games has announced The Walking Dead: 400 Days, a new episode for “The Walking Dead: Season One.” 400 Days follows five characters — the subjects of the developer’s numerous teases last week — whose stories all play out in a single new episode.

Writer Gary Whitta, who penned Episode 4 of The Walking Dead, teased more Walking Dead ahead of Season Two on IGN’s Up at Noon in February.

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Article source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/11/the-walking-dead-400-days-announced

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It’s summer. AMC’s “Walking Dead” is in its offseason, but that doesn’t stop the zombie craze that consumes fans and keeps them yearning for more brain chomping action. Walkers never sleep, so why should their fans? Luckily, there’s plenty of flesh eating news trickling down from season 4 production to keep them satisfied.

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At the end of season 3, fans expected to see one of the show’s most malicious villains, The Governor (David Morrissey), to be offed in typical “Walking Dead” fashion. He deserved to be munched on by trolling zombies. It would have been a satisfactory way to end the season, but of course, in typical “Walking Dead” fashion, the show took an unexpected turn and had The Governor prevail, killing one of the show’s most beloved heroes. As upset and shocked as fans were, the writers had planned the tragic turn of events all along.

“The question will be answered [in] season 4,” said comic book writer and executive producer Robert Kirkman to Horror-Movies. “We always had a plan for this guy. We always knew that it was a bigger story than would fit into one season. There’s still a lot more to be done with this guy. We’ve known from the very first minute of season 3 that we would be keeping The Governor around for awhile.”

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