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New Sherlock Holmes Posters:First look at Holmes and Watson art @ Empire

Permission to Kill continues its series of Holmsian posts with this review of Sir Christopher Lee's Teutonic turn as the great detective in Sherlock Holmes & The Deadly Necklace (1962)

Permission to Kill reviews the James D'Arcy (Holmes) / Vincent D'Onofrio (Moriarty) led Sherlock: Case Of Evil (2002)

"Promotional video for The Baskerville Experience - a unique evening of fine cuisine, drama and entertainment set in one of the original locations for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel ..." The Baskerville Experience and an older, slightly different version The Baskerville Dining Experience

Anne Schmidt of The Sherlock Holmes Social Network posted this groovy music video tribute to TV's top Holmes... Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes- 'Secret Agent Man'

Detecting Past and Future Sherlock Holmes at the terrific vintage film site Greenbriar Picture Shows

The classic radio podcast Boxcars711 presents The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Unfortunate Tobacconist (04-30-45)

In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram; establishes a link between two missing light-house keepers and the royal treasures of King John; contends with a supernatural curse placed upon an eccentric aristocrat and discovers a lost epic of Lord Byron. But it is all in a days work for the great detective, who continues to defy the odds and lives to ratiocinate another day.

Sherlock Holmes, Obsessed Nerds, and Fan Fiction @ Wired via The Baker Street Blog Sherlock Holmes Isn't So Elementary This Time Around @ Horror Hacker

At Telegraph.co.uk ... We still believe in Sherlock Holmes, even in the age of DNA 150 years after his birth, Conan Doyle lives on in his greatest creation, says Melanie McDonagh "...Holmes's appeal shows no sign of diminishing, but in an odd way, he has become less relevant than ever. In my edition of the stories, the publisher assured readers that Scotland Yard had incorporated Holmes's scientific methods into its own investigations. But the science outran the deduction: practically every contemporary crime (and practically every contemporary crime drama) seems to revolve around the use of DNA or forensic evidence, which renders the Holmes method pretty well redundant. I can't, alas, think of a single modern murder that could have been cleared up by a man with a magnifying glass and a remarkable capacity for reasoning. It's the size of the DNA database that delivers modern criminals to justice...." Read the full article here

Wired's This Day in Tech celebrates ACD's 150th ... This Day In Tech Events That Shaped the Wired World May 22, 1859: It's Elementary, My Dear Reader Conan Doyle became a medical doctor, a vocation that didn’t become his destiny but led him to to it. He impatiently filled the many patient-less hours of a struggling practice, creating a character who became the archetypal protagonist of crime fiction. He was also sowing the seeds for generations to come of eccentric, cerebral detectives whose crime-solving technique was light on physical prowess and heavy on the powers of observation and deduction... Read the Full Article Here

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She Likes to Watch on Sherlock Holmes ... "Well, my dear Watson, it appears that we have a far different Holmes on our hands."

Here's the official site for Guy Ritchie's upcoming Sherlock Holmes flick starring Robert Downey Jr . and Jude Law . check out the trailer, if you haven't already, and see what you think of Ritchie's take on the venerable sleuth.

Lots of coverage this week on the news that Guy Ritchie is to helm a comic book inspired Sherlock Holmes feature film. I'll reserve judgement until 2010 rolls around and I actually see the film but I can't help but worry that it may end up being another "Van Helsing" or "From Hell" - an expensive mediocrity. Here are links to just a few of this week's press dispatches on the news.. Empire : "Guy Ritchie's mined the criminal underbelly for some time now, with all his tales of less-than-diamond geezers wheelin' and dealin' around the East End. But he's looking now to the, er, sleuthing overbelly with the news that he is to direct a new Sherlock Holmes for Warners...." The Guardian : "Jason Statham is Sherlock Holmes. Dexter Fletcher is Dr Watson. And Madonna is Irene Adler. Well, not quite, but Guy Ritchie has signed up to helm a film based on the famous tenant of 221b Baker Street and, if previous experience is anything to ...

At Blue Sky Disney a look at The 5 Best Scripts Hollywood Never Made includes an unproduced gem featuring the Master: Sherlock Holmes and the Vengeance of Dracula- Screenplay by Michael B. Valle PITCH: Think literally Sherlock Holmes meets Dracula. Everything that "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" got wrong, this script got right. It takes two classic characters from the turn of the century, that occupied a similar place and has them meet. Taking place in 1891, it involves a great deal of characters from both books and has Holmes investigating a series of murders as Dracula has made it back to London. Holmes, a man of absolute logic has to come to grip with the fact that the criminal he's hunting doesn't correspond to his "elementary" view of the facts. Many of the characters that populate the novels of each book are here... including that "Napoleon of Crime, Professor Moriarty" as well... ( read complete article )

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William Powell as Philo Vance; Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes; Warner Oland as Fu Manchu, with Eugene Palette and Jack Oakie. Scene from "Paramount on Parade" (1930)

From YouTube comes this 10 minute long short film... Sherlock Holmes - Case of Copper was made as an IBH Film Studies project, which turned out rather well. I attempted to write a script as if it had been Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote it, using the same language and style of writing. Aside from writing the script, I was also the Director, Editor, and Chief Actor in the film. A lot of work, that turned out well. There was numerous other crew members who where a crucial part in making the film, not only actors, but people behind the set as well, including youtube member M4771, who was the chief camera man. I hope you all enjoy 'Sherlock Holmes - Case of Copper'