October contest!

Fringe premiered last night to 3.2million viewers. Our contest question - predict how many viewers you think will tune in next week for episode 5x02 In Absentia to win this gorgeous signed Anna Torv photo!!

 All you have to do is in the comments section, leave your guess of how many viewers you think will watch.  Also, for a tiebreaker in case of multiple guesses, put down who you think will speak the first line of the episode. Please also leave your email so we can contact you if you're the winner!

 

The winner will be contacted on Saturday, October 6th. Only 1 entry per person, please! Good luck!

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Kimbra

Aussie songstress Kimbra (who you may know as the female vocals on Gotye's hit "Somebody That I Used to Know") flew into Vancouver yesterday to kick off her North American tour. She signed a couple photos for us while her manager tried to keep rushing her out the door and stop her signing.

We had heard really bad things about her attitude and signing habits and at the airport, it was obvious her manager was the one telling her not to sign, keep walking. But she ignored and signed for us while the manager tried to stop it.

The next day while she was out for a walk around the city, we got up to her again, sans manager. She was extremely sweet and happy to sign multiples. Amazing how a person can be without their "handlers" around.

Sterling Beaumon

Sterling Beaumon of Red Widow flew back into Vancouver from a couple days back in Los Angeles and signed a few autographs for his upon arrival. He was super cool to us and even asked us if we had a silver pen because on one of the photo he didn't think the blue would turn out as nice.

John Barrowman (again!)

We were tipped that John Barrowman would be flying in again from London to do 2 days of work on Arrow and went out to the airport to greet him. He was again very, very cool and signed what we had. He told us he was a little jetlagged and looking forward to filming a bit more. Afterwards he was a little cheeky while Ken was taking his picture, grabbing his crotch playfully. What a super awesome guy.

Assorted TIFF signing photos

Pics that I just didn't blog about of people who signed for us at TIFF

Pics that I just didn't blog about of people who signed for us at TIFF

Moon Bloodgood

While in the process of sorting and scanning a LOT of TIFF photos, as well as running through our personal collection (something we do at least twice a month) and putting some older photos up for sale (who actually needs 25 Arielle Kebbels, Laura Vandervoorts, Adrienne Palickis, in their collection right?) we took the day off from desk work and went downtown in the gorgeous sunshine.

We managed to catch up with Moon Bloodgood who is looking rather pregnant. She said she's due in December but production is giving her from October off so she'll only be briefly in this season. It's the first child for her and her husband and they're extremely excited, and she's glowing. Moon was super sweet and signed a rare full name autograph on all the photos we had for her. She said season 3 of Falling Skies will be even better than 2.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

M.E.W. was in Toronto for her premiere of Smashed. We got her at the airport and she was super sweet and signed a ton of photos. We then went down to her premiere to also get Aaron Paul and she continued to sign up a storm. The graphs from the carpet were rushed as she was trying to get one for everyone.

Top 20 Update

Sadly we missed Emma Watson completely, which sucked because we would have liked to start a couple duals with her and Daniel since Radcliffe will be filming in Vancouver for a couple months. But as of right now, over halfway through TIFF and the trip winding down, we're 11/20.

Of the Top 20 list we have managed autographs from:
2) Olga Kurylenko
3) Marion Cotillard
4) Rachel McAdams
5) Gemma Arterton
6) Nina Dobrev
10) Aaron Johnson
11) Jennifer Lawrence
12) Mary Elizabeth Winstead
15) Chris Evans
17) Saoirse Ronan
20) Christina Hendricks

Also got autographs from people that might have been on the list, had it been longer; Ralph Fiennes, Bryan Cranston, Sam Rockwell, Liana Liberato, Dustin Hoffman, Greta Gerwig.

 

Chris Evans TIFF

While not on the confirmed list, we kind of figured Chris Evans would go to TIFF 2012 seeing as his schedule wasn't too busy right now.

He showed up today to do the press conference for The Iceman and he, along with Michael Shannon came over and signed a bit for the people waiting.

Saoirse Ronan

2 years in a row now we've been able to get Saoirse Ronan. She's a very sweet girl and extremely talented so it's always a delight to get her.

Top 20 TIFF wish list

Taking a page out of Canadagraphs book, we've decided to create a Top 20 wish list for people we want to get autographs from this year. Most of the people on this list we've already gotten multiple times before (like Jennifer Lawrence & Ryan Gosling) but it's always nice to get them again. A couple people on this list aren't *confirmed* to attend, but there's a good chance they show, and it will be nice to get them. And laugh all you want at Joseph Gordon Levitt (the guy is notorious for not signing autographs, EVER) but he was awesome in Dark Knight Rises, and there's a reason it's called "Most Wanted."

1) Emma Watson

2) Olga Kurylenko

3) Marion Cotillard

4) Rachel McAdams

5) Gemma Arterton

6) Nina Dobrev

7) Jude Law

8) Lily Collins

9) Johnny Depp

10) Aaron Johnson

11) Jennifer Lawrence

12) Mary Elizabeth Winstead

13) Hugo Weaving

14) Abbie Cornish

15) Chris Evans

16) Joseph Gordon Levitt

17) Saoirse Ronan

18) Vanessa Hudgens

19) Ryan Gosling

20) Christina Hendricks

As of this post we've already completed 3/20 with Hendricks, Cotillard & Johnson.

Bryan Cranston & Christina Hendricks

Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and Mad Men babe Christina Hendricks both flew into Toronto earlier this evening. They will be taking part in Jason Reitman's live reading of American Beauty tomorrow for the opening day.

Have heard Bryan is getting a lot tougher but he held a signing clinic at YYZ.

Karl Urban

Karl Urban flew into Toronto today for his Midnight Madness premiere of Dredd 3D. We managed to get a bunch of photos signed by him.

 

First 2012 TIFF autograph

We got into Toronto earlier this afternoon and in a couple hours got our first autograph of the 2012 festival.... KickAss himself Aaron Johnson. Very cool guy, signed a bunch of photos.