Things We Saw Today: Once More Unto the Beach With these Renaissance Surfboards

Ye Olde Surfeboardes are also available in The Garden of Earthly Delights print. Hanging ten: the ideal method for balancing one’s humors! (via Neatorama)

• Athena Film Festival’s lifetime achievement award nominee Jodie Foster on the need for more female directors: “Sometimes it would be a lady who played my mom. Occasionally, it would be a makeup artist, but most often it would really just be me and the script supervisor.” Read more over on The Hollywood Reporter.
• The Enchanted Forest fantasy amusement park in British Columbia, Canada could be yours for a mere $2.1 million! The park offers retro charm (Enchanted Forest had its heyday in the ’50s and ’60s), the natural beauty of the surrounding old-growth forest, and “over 350 jolly folk art figurines, BC’s tallest grandest treehouse that rises 50 feet into the forest canopy and a giant stump house with surprises around every corner.” (via io9)

Our first look at Funko’s Firefly figures is here, albeit blurry. (via Toybox)

• Ryan Gosling might star in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast reboot! Maybe he can use his influence as a feminist to give the story’s problematic central relationship a makeover? (via ComicBook.com)
• Milla Jovovich is reportedly in final talks to star in In the Lost Lands, a “fantasy adventure” film based on George R.R. Martin’s short stories. Yay! (via The Hollywood Reporter)

.@EmyBemy2 He was repatriated to Greece. Dumbledore liked to put Hagrid’s more foolish acquisitions back where they belong – not the forest.

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 6, 2015

J.K. Rowling answered a string of fan questions earlier this week following Harry Potter Book Night, including this important Fluffy-related Q. (via Mugglenet)

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