From Sci Fi Scoop Comments Off - Star Wars
US Star Wars fans wishing to attend Star Wars: In Concert will be pleased to hear that Anthony Daniels (aka C3PO) will definitely be participating as the narrator who introduces each musical segment.
The Star Wars: In Concert show is a full multi-media spectacular with live orchestral music from all six Star Wars films set to [...]
Jul
31
2009
‘District 9′ L.A. Press Interviews
From Sci Fi Scoop Comments Off - Movies
District 9 follows events post the arrival of a million ‘Prawns’, aliens that find themselves marooned in a spacecraft above the skies of Johannesburg, South Africa. The story takes place 28 years after their arrival at a time when humans and aliens have been forcd to coexist in a violent, poverty stricken town-like camp referred to [...]
Jul
31
2009
Five New Images From ‘Gamer’
From Sci Fi Scoop Comments Off - Movies
Five new images have arrived for Gerard Butler’s Gamer. In Gamer Gerard Butler plays Kable, a death row inmate who has become the champion of an online game called ‘Slayers’.
The story takes place in a future where mind-control technology has become the norm and the game ‘Slayers’ provides humans the ability to [...]
From TrekMovie.com Comments Off - Star Trek
Next week, after a three month hiatus, IDW returns to their second series of Star Trek Alien Spotlight with an issue focusing on the enigmatic Q. Today we have an exclusive 5-page preview of the new comic, check it out below.
PREVIEW: Star Trek Alien Spotlight: Q
Written by Scott Tipton, art by Elana Casagrande, [...]
Jul
31
2009
‘Captain Blood’ Goes Sci-Fi
From Sci Fi Scoop Comments Off - Movies
Warner Bros. is remaking, or perhaps the better term is “re-imagining”, the 1935 pirate classic, Captain Blood. The original Captain Blood starred Errol Flynn as a wrongly imprisoned British doctor named Peter Blood who escapes and joins up with a French pirate and becomes a pirate in the Caribbean.
Jul
31
2009
First TV Spot for Gerard Butler’s ‘Gamer’
From Sci Fi Scoop Comments Off - Movies
In Gamer Gerard Butler plays Kable, a death row inmate who has become the champion of an online game called ‘Slayers’. The story takes place in a future where mind-control technology has become the norm and the game ‘Slayers’ provides humans the ability to control other humans on a mass scale. To those that run [...]
Jul
31
2009
‘Deadland’ Wins Two Awards at the AOF Festival
From Sci Fi Scoop Comments Off - Movies
After being nominated for a whopping seven awards at the Action on Film International Film Festival, including a nomination for Best Picture, Deadland has pulled in two award wins. The post-apocalyptic action/drama, in which a lone man searches for his missing wife after a nuclear war, won the awards for Best Editing and director Damon O’Steen [...]
Jul
31
2009
‘Burden’ Wins Best VFX Award at AOF Festival
From Sci Fi Scoop Comments Off - Movies
It’s been a great few weeks for Michael David Lynch and his short independent sci-fi film Burden. First, Burden received four nominations from the Action on Film (AOF) International Film Festival including Best Sci Fi Film, Best Sound Design, Best VFX and Best Special Effects - Short.
Jul
31
2009
Excerpts From ‘Star Trek’ Magazine Issue 20
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Star Trek Magazine #20 includes an interview with J.J. Abrams, an interview with the Borg Queen Alice Krige, and a rundown on the history of the Borg. Here are extracts from each of those features:
Excerpt from the interview with J.J. Abrams
Q. Every director approaches a script differently initially; when you read a script for the [...]
Jul
31
2009
‘Warehouse 13′ – Magnetism/Claudia
From Airlock Alpha Comments Off - Warehouse 13
Be careful of the door you choose to knock on ...
Jul
31
2009
Box Art for Star Trek Season 2 Blu-ray + Individual Star Trek Movies on Blu-ray & DVD [UPDATED]
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This Fall is going to be big for Star Trek on home video. We had announced some box art previously, but we now have art for the whole collection, including and exclusive look at the TOS Season 2 on Blu-ray set. We also have art for the new ‘even numbered’ individual movies releases on Blu-ray [...]
From TrekMovie.com Comments Off - Star Trek
Star Trek Magazine #20 is just arriving on newstands as a focus on the Borg. STM have provided TrekMovie with excerpts of their interview with the Borg Queen (Alice Krige) and an article on the history of the Borg. We also have an excerpt from an interview with JJ Abrams and a closer look at [...]
Jul
31
2009
Science Friday: Transparent Aluminum + WhiteKnightTwo Preview + Enterprise v Nuke + Killer Comets + more
From TrekMovie.com Comments Off - Star Trek
This week in Science Friday, discover a new state of matter with transparent aluminum, preview a trip into space with the WhiteKnightTwo, bet all in on the USS Enterprise in a fire fight, and avoid Earth-ending cometary impacts. All this and more, plus our gadget of the week: Panasonic’s capsule hotel.
Transparent Aluminum is New State [...]
Jul
31
2009
Why Stargate Universe is no Voyager/BSG mashup
From Sci Fi Wire Comments Off - Stargate
After more than a decade of Stargate series established lengthy backstories for both the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies, where does a new entrant in the franchise take the story? How about the vast frontier of the universe?
That's the approach the creators of Syfy's upcoming Stargate Universe have taken. The new show centers on the adventures of a group of military personnel and civilians who gate inadvertently to the Ancient starship Destiny during an attack. They find themselves stranded and must explore the Destiny to find a way home as it soars through the uncharted reaches of space.
Jul
31
2009
‘Alien’ Prequel Launches With Ridley Scott
From Airlock Alpha Comments Off - Movies
Original movie's director returns to helm the franchise
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