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- The Large Hadron Collider has been shut down till spring after a fault opened up and dumped one ton of liquid helium into the the tubes and caused 100 magnets to overheat.
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has sold over 1.5 million copies in its first week making it the fastest-selling Star Wars game of all time. TFU is expected to go into a second printing early. (Good thing they didn’t make it Sith The Force Unleashed and have STFU)
- Russel T Davies of Dr Who renown has turned down George Lucas’s offer to work on the live action Star Wars Show. Which is good for everyone, probably.
- The 2 disc The Dark Knight dvd set will include special features “The World of Batman Seen Through Real Life Psychotherapy” “Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight”
- Astro Boy starring Nicolas Cage and Donald Sutherland will be coming Oct 23, 2009. Yes, that Astro Boy, from 5 am on Adult Swim.
- The Heroes: premiere was down 25% from last years premiere with experts blaming the writers strike for weakening the already historically weak 2nd season, cutting it short followed by a 9 month hiatus.
- Billy Crystal will join Dwayne Johnson in the cast of Tooth Fairy, Michael Lembeck is directing the Fox fantasy comedy that begins shooting Monday in Vancouver, Canada.
- Walt Disney Co. is developing an action-adventure movie set in space, to star Dwayne Johnson, supposedly inspired by the Tomorrowland section of its Disneyland theme park.
- Brisingr, the third volume in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle, sold 550,000 copies on its first day of release, making it the best-selling Random House Children’s Books title ever, the publisher announced. Proving once again that taste has “no more control over its powers than a spider does over spinning its web.”
- Columbia Pictures announced that Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) will co-star in and helm The Green Hornet, a reboot of the crime-fighter franchise, starring Seth Rogen.
- Star Trek star William Shatner has posted a video on YouTube to J.J. Abrams, who is helming a reboot of the franchise. Shatner, as is well known, does not appear in the new movie. In the video, Shatner disputes why.
- ABC’s Pushing Daisies was the only science fiction/fantasy program that took home a prime-time Emmy Award The fantasy series won the award for outstanding directing for a comedy series, for the pilot, “Pie-Lette.” Battlestar Galactica won 2 Emmys, Tin Man took home 1, and Chuck, Lost and Smallville took home a technical Emmy each.
- Joan Winston, the New York Star Trek fan who was instrumental in organizing the first Trek convention, died on Sept. 11 of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 77. The first convention took place in January 1972 at the Statler Hilton in Manhattan. The organizers had expected a crowd of about 500. In the end, more than 3,000 fans turned up: “Winston earned the love of Star Trek fans everywhere by helping to orchestrate an afterlife for the series beyond the television set–initially by organizing conventions and persuading stars from the series to attend, and later by appearing at the conventions as a star in her own right, a superfan whose undying devotion inspired awe among Star Trek devotees, the newspaper reported.”
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