not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources blackfish publishing news newspapers books scholar jstor free images april 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message blackfish publishing type limited company industry magazine publishing founded 2006 founder matt bielby headquarters bath somerset united kingdom key people matt bielby number of employees 5 website official website blackfish publishing was a magazine publishing company based in bath uk . 2 3 its first title was death ray a science fiction and fantasy title . contents 1 history 2 titles 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 total film pc gamer and sfx . blackfish s launches were 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 was a deep sea angler fish and the corporate motto was we go deeper . in august 2008 blackfish publishing announced that it had been bought by rebellion developments the video game producer which already published 2000 ad and abaddon books . death ray was to change to a new format longer but quarterly and the changes were to allow blackfish to launch other monthly special interest titles . 4 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 . 5 the company was formally dissolved on the 7 august 2012 . 1 titles edit death ray filmstar editor matt bielby categories film frequency monthly circulation 55 000 6 first issue 28 may 2009 final issue number october 2009 5 company blackfish publishing country united kingdom language english website http www.filmstarmag.com filmstar was a british magazine devoted to films . launched on 28 may 2009 filmstar was the second magazine launched by blackfish publishing . 2 6 7 it was published monthly and aimed at movie goers aged 25 and over . 8 filmstar ended in october 2009 with issue 5 . 5 references edit a b https www.duedil.com company 05880746 blackfish publishing limited a b new movie mag launched in bath . thisisbath.co.uk . may 28 2009 . retrieved january 12 2012 . external link in publisher help sfx founder returns to sci fi . press gazette magazine . april 27 2007 . retrieved january 12 2012 . external link in publisher help all change at blackfish august 18 2008 a b the death of death ray a b reynolds john april 14 2009 . may launch for new film mag . mediaweek.co.uk . retrieved january 12 2012 . external link in publisher help filmstar 1 out 28 may . blackfishpublishing.com . 2009 05 22 . retrieved 2009 07 14 . blackfish publishing ltd . cision.net . 2009 05 27 . retrieved 2009 07 16 . dead link external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title blackfish publishing & oldid 661600645 categories magazine publishing companies of the united kingdomrebellion developmentshidden categories cs1 errors external linksall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010articles with topics of unclear notability from april 2015all articles with topics of unclear notabilitypages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 may 2015 at 20 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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