Future’s SFX Celebrates Tenth Birthday
Special interest magazine group Future’s sci-fi and fantasy magazine, SFX, will celebrate its tenth birthday next month with an exclusive first look at the eagerly awaited new movie Batman Begins.
Celebrating the first ten years of the magazine, the birthday edition also features a bumper collection of celebrity interviews, including the complete League of Gentlemen team. The actors and writers behind the cult BBC TV show talk about their forthcoming Apocalyspse and their plans for the future.
SFX also features an exclusive interview with Christopher Ecclestone and Charmed star Rose McGowan discussed her role in the long-sorcery and witchcraft based show.
In addition to the special SFXbirthday package are ten limited edition postcards, featuring the biggest sci-fi TV shows in 2005, including Doctor Who, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Charmed and Battlestar Galactica.
Commenting on the birthday edition, Mike Lamond, publisher of SFX said: “SFX is a magazine that created its own created its own market an in its ten years it has seen the launch of many imitators but no-one has come close to challenging its position as Europe’s best selling science fiction magazine.”
Lamond continued: “As SFX starts its second decade, sci-fi and fantasy films and TV are now crossing over into the mainstream, completely dominating audience charts. TV shows like Lost and the renewed Doctor Who have breathed life back into the genre. Like the subject matter it covers SFX continues to develop and this will help propel SFX to it’s 20th birthday and beyond.”
Future recently acquired 38 magazine titles from rival publishers Highbury House Communications (see Future Acquires 38 Magazines From Highbury House), despite Future dropping its proposed bid for Highbury following an announcement by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) that the deal would be referred to the Competition Commission before being allowed to go ahead (see Future Drops Highbury Merger After OFT Referral).
The merger would have created the UK’s third-largest consumer magazine group, overtaking the BBC’s magazine division and thought to be worth £96.5 million (see Future Acquires 38 Magazines From Highbury House).
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