Blackfish Publishing

Blackfish Publishing
Type Limited company
Industry Magazine Publishing
Founded 2006
Founder(s) Matt Bielby
Headquarters Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
Key people Matt Bielby
Employees 5+
Website Official website

Blackfish Publishing is a magazine publishing company based in Bath, UK. Its first title is Death Ray, a science fiction and fantasy title.

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History

Blackfish Publishing was founded in late 2006 by Matt Bielby, best known for his work at Future Publishing, also based in Bath, UK, where he worked on some of the company's most successful magazines, including Total Film, PC Gamer and SFX. Blackfish's launches so far are Death Ray, a science fiction and fantasy title intended to go head-to-head with the runaway market-leader, Future's SFX (which Bielby edited from 1995 to 1996) and Filmstar, a general film magazine in competition with Total Film and Empire. Death Ray launched in May 2007 and Filmstar in May 2009. The company logo is a deep sea angler fish, and the corporate motto is We Go Deeper.

In August 2008 Blackfish Publishing announced it had been bought by Rebellion Developments, the video game producer who already publish 2000 AD and Abaddon Books. Death Ray will change to a new format (longer but quarterly) and the changes will allow Blackfish to launch other monthly special-interest titles.[1]

In October 2009, it was announced that Blackfish Publishing had split from Rebellion and that both Death Ray and Filmstar would cease production. Matt Bielby was quoted as saying

I've got some sad news, I'm afraid. Blackfish Publishing is currently in the process of splitting from its parent company, the video game developer and publisher Rebellion, which means that the current issues of Filmstar and Death Ray magazines will, at the very least, be the last for some time.

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Titles

Filmstar
Editor Matt Bielby
Categories Film
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 55,000[3]
First issue 28 May 2009
Final issue
— Number		 October 2009
5
Company Blackfish Publishing
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Website http://www.filmstarmag.com/

References

  1. ^ All change at Blackfish, August 18, 2008
  2. ^ a b http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2009/The-death-of-Death-Ray--14295.php
  3. ^ a b "May launch for new film mag - Brand Republic News". Brand Republic. http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/898526/May-launch-new-film-mag/. Retrieved 2009-07-16. 
  4. ^ "Filmstar #1 out 28 May". Blackfishpublishing.com. 2009-05-22. http://www.blackfishpublishing.com/content/view/121/1/. Retrieved 2009-07-14. 
  5. ^ "Blackfish launch Filmstar magazine". Thisisbath.co.uk. http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/news/New-movie-mag-launched-Bath/article-1031663-detail/article.html. Retrieved 2009-07-14. 
  6. ^ John Reynolds (2009-04-14). "May launch for new film mag - Media news". Media Week. http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/898526/. Retrieved 2009-07-27. 
  7. ^ "Blackfish Publishing Ltd". CISION.net. 2009-05-27. http://www.cision.net/tag/blackfish-publishing-ltd/. Retrieved 2009-07-16. 

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