Adam not going to QuorToth

[Vera]

I hope it's not Adam himself...

But who thought it was a good idea to:-

1. Tell Sean Harry of Starfury events Adam was busy over the weekend of Quor'Toth with filming 'the Insider'.

2. And then have him announced for a rival event also in the London area THE SAME WEEKEND.


Vera

[petitrhino]

vera said:

1. Tell Sean Harry of Starfury events Adam was busy over the weekend of Quor'Toth with filming 'the Inside'.

Who said that?

From what I understand, the other event will attract a broader 'audience', so it's a chance to promote Serenity.

[Fireflyfanuk]

From the show masters forum

"Dear Showmasters forum members, Giggle and Rowan, and event promoters using this forum for their own ends.

It saddens us to yet again have to make a statement and waste our time quashing slanderous rumours about our behavior within fandom, and deal with negativity which only serves to spoil the guest announcement. People often do not realise that the guests themselves do sometimes read these forums and the garbage written about their appearance. Could it be that some of these so called fans actually want the guests to be put off from attending this or any other event at all?

So here is the truth. In the early hours of the morning on June 2nd we were contacted by Mr Baldwin's appearance agent, a company we have worked with several times before. Mr Baldwin had been approached about possibly attending an event and meeting the fans of Firefly over here, however we were informed that the offer to appear at this convention had been withdrawn by the organiser. I was also told the reason for the UK convention organiser withdrawing his offer was down to an imposed deadline of the 1st of June for Mr Baldwin to decide on his flight days. The organiser gave Mr Baldwin an ultimatum, to fix his schedule by the end of the day or the offer that had been forwarded to appear at the convention would be retracted. The organiser felt he could not delay in booking his flights as available seats for that time were running out, however as it was apparent that Mr Baldwin's shooting schedule for his new show had not yet been fixed he would be unable to confirm anything at such short notice. The convention organiser was informed of this and was asked if he could be a bit more flexible. Unfortunately it seems he felt this was not an option and did retract his offer to Mr Baldwin, withdrawing his offer.

This information was related to us, as well as the fact that Mr Baldwin and his family were hoping to take a trip to Europe and were looking forward to meeting fans in the UK before the offer was withdrawn. His agent asked us if we were willing to book him for LFCC to replace the previous offer, on the understanding that his flights needed to be booked as late as possible to fit in with his shooting schedule. We checked that the previous convention offer was definitely dead in the water, and were assured that it was definitely over, as was confirmed to the agent by the previous organiser himself. We were also informed that the previous offer had never been formally accepted and permission had not been given to announce Mr Baldwin's potential appearance. It was only once we knew there were no conflicting offers or confirmed appearances that we decided to take up the offer of Mr Baldwin's appearance at LFCC.

On a personal note we are sorry that this statement needed to be made, but we felt we should let those of you who always look upon us as the aggressors know that this simply is not the case. We have been accused of aggressive practices before and have been vindicated every time (for example over Chris Judge and Corin Nemec). Let us make this clear, these accusations will always be wrong, poaching is something that we would never do and never will do and these lies you are feeding other people just make you look stupid. Please don't let other organisers manipulate this forum to save their reputations or to cause trouble.

Jason Joiner
Showmasters"

[Vera]

6/3/05 at 3:45, Vera wrote:
1. Tell Sean Harry of Starfury events Adam was busy over the weekend of Quor'Toth with filming 'the Inside'.


>Who said that?

Sean Harry of Starfury, on his message boards. He was told [presumably by someone connected to Adam] that Adam wasn't free any longer because of The Inside. 24 hours later, Adam is announced for the London film and comic event.


>From what I understand, the other event will attract a broader 'audience', so it's a chance to >promote Serenity.


You presumably haven't been to a Starfury event then <G>. We had United Pictures filming the Serenity convention last time.


Vera