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Published on
September 25, 2008 in
News.
- Eoin Coller, author of the Artemis Foul series, has been asked to write the next chapter in the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. And Another Thing… will be published in October of next year.
- Anonymous may have broken into Sarah Palin’s yahoo mail account. The offending posts, screenshots, and unseen family photos and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan and the account itself has since been deleted.
- Stephanie Jacobsen, who played Kendra Shaw in the Battlestar Galactica TV movie “Razor,” is coming to Sarah Connor as another resistance fighter from the future to hunt down Terminators.
- David Tennant vetoed the idea of an episode with J.K. Rowling, where the author drags the Doctor into the Harry Potter universe.
- Paris Hilton will be making her horror musical debut in Repo! The Genetic Opera, as surgery-addicted Amber Sweet. Fortunately, her character isn’t in the movie a lot, but when she’s there, she looks great.
- Sony is in talks to bring back xXx with original director Rob Cohen, under the title xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.
- Ricky Gervais agreed to star in Ghost Town with three firm rules: no accent, no wigs, and no kissing. He plays a grumpy dentist in New York who can suddenly see and hear ghosts after a near-death experience.
- The Whedonopolis fansite will sponsor a Halloween night screening of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Felicia Day’s web series The Guld, to benefit charity. The screening will take place in los angeles and proceeds will benefit Path Ventures, an affordable-housing community group.
- SCI Fi Channel has cast its upcoming Children of the Corn remake with David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey, and Daniel Newman.
- George Takei married his longtime boyfriend on September 14th in a Los Angeles ceremony that paid homage to the actor’s Japanese heritage.
- Kevin Smith’s QuickStop Entertainment site posted a teaser trailer for director Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was the last movie that late actor Heath Ledger was working on. (The trailer has since been removed.)
- Evil Dead: The Musical in 3D may begin shooting as soon as next spring, hopefully with the cast that has performed more than 300 times in Toronto. The bloody comedy has songs such as, “What the F—K Was That?”, “I’m Not a Killer”, and “Look Who’s Evil Now.”
- The latest in the Dune series has been released.
Published on
September 25, 2008 in
News.
- The BBC brought Torchwood to the radio as Captain Jack Harkness ran around trying to shut the Large Hadron Collider down, because it was really a portal to an evil dimension. In reality, the LHC was tested successfully with two proton beams fired the length of the $4 billion campus.
- Scientists have theorized that aliens could possibly send messages using Cepheid star pulses as an intergalactic Morse code.
- CBS has ended all Fox shows the production company, Benderspink, was working on, including Kyle XY and a tv spin-off of the Butterfly Effect.
- A live action Incredibles will be brought to TV by ABC; the Nelsons will air, but Craig T. Nelson may or may not reprise his role.
- Russel T. Davies wants Catherine Zeta Jones to play the Doctor’s companion in an upcoming Dr. Who feature film, but David Tennant must be available to be the Doctor.
- Scientists have concluded that a visible stream of gamma radiation from a collapsing star was almost exactly centered on Earth, almost as if it was aimed…
- Frank Miller’s All Star Batman and Robin have been ordered destroyed due to language. Miller had censored the language, but the bars were printed in a lighter black than the words, making them fairly easy to read.
- A real chemist named Louis Slotin was exposed to the same radiation as Watchmen’s Dr. Manhattan while improperly using a screwdriver to work on a fission reactor. The critical reaction caused a dose of radiation equal to being 1500 meters away from an atomic bomb. He died nine days later.
- Marvel is denying that Will Smith has ever been offered the role of Captain America.
- Aaron Eckhart has confirmed he is not signed on to do another Batman and Christopher Nolan will not be doing the next film. Frank Miller might be doing the next film, not as a sequel, but as a stand-alone, with Stallone as Batman.
- Harold Ramis has announced that there will be a Ghostbusters 3, perhaps to coincide with the release of the game. No word on if it is a reboot or a new generation yet.
- Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire have signed on for Spiderman 4 and 5.
Published on
September 24, 2008 in
News.
- 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.”
Published on
September 17, 2008 in
News.
- Do you know where your towel is? Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Foul series, has been asked to write the next chapter in the Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy universe. Adams’s widow Jane Belson said: “”I love his books and could not think of a better person to transport Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new. The project has my full support.” And Another Thing… will be published in October next year.
- MOAR LIPSTICK! Anonymous may have broken into Sarah Palin’s yahoo mail account. The offending posts, screenshots, and unseen family photos, and emails have all been deleted from Imageshack and 4Chan and the account itself has since been deleted, no word on which side did that.
- Stephanie Jacobsen, who played the druggie officer Kendra Shaw in the Battlestar Galactica TV movie “Razor,” is coming to Sarah Connor as another resistance fighter from the future to hunt down
Cylons Terminators…
- Tardis versus broomstick, Tardis wins. If Doctor Who’s head writer Russell T. Davies had had his way, an episode would have starred Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. Not only that, but Rowling would have dragged David Tennant’s Doctor into the Potter universe. David Tenant vetoed this claiming it would come off as a Spoof. Oh well, even writers can write fan fics.
- Paris Hilton will be making her horror musical debut in Repo! The Genetic Opera, as surgery-addicted Amber Sweet. Fortunately her character isn’t in the movie a lot, but when she’s there she looks great.
- Poor Ice Cube, everyone’s favorite overly tribal tattooed action hero Xander Cage is back in yet another XXX film. Sony is in talks to bring back xXx with original director Rob Cohen the title, xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.
- When Ricky Gervais agreed to star in Ghost Town–an odd hybrid of romance, buddy comedy and ghost story–he had three rule. No accent, no wigs, and he didn’t want to kiss someone,” Gervais portrays a grumpy dentist in New York who can suddenly see and hear ghosts after a near-death experience of his own.
- I hate the homeless….ness problem. The Whedonopolis fan site will sponsor a Halloween-night screening of Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Felicia Day’s Web series The Guild, to benefit charity. The screening will take place in Los Angeles. Proceeds will benefit Path Ventures, an affordable-housing community group.
- GENTLEMEN BEHOLD! SCI FI Channel has cast its upcoming Children of the Corn remake, with David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Preston Bailey and Daniel Newman coming aboard the two-hour TV movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
- Former Star Trek cast member George Takei married his longtime boyfriend on Sept. 14 in a Los Angeles ceremony that paid homage to the actor’s Japanese heritage, the Reuters news service reported.
- Kevin Smith’s QuickStop Entertainment site posted a teaser trailer for director Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus–otherwise known as the last movie actor Heath Ledger was working on at the time of his death in January.
- Goody Goody Two Shoes! Evil Dead: The Musical in 3-D may begin shooting as soon as next spring, hopefully with the cast that has performed more than 300 times in Toronto. The bloody comedy has songs such as “What the F–k Was That?”, “I’m Not a Killer” and “Look Who’s Evil Now.”
Published on
September 3, 2008 in
News.
- Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is promising the Pentagon that it’ll have weapons-grade electric lasers by the end of 2008. PEW PEW PEW.
- A rubber Dalek toy from the 1960′s sold for three thousand times its original sales price. It sold online for around $3000.
- James Marsters will be playing Piccolo in the upcoming Dragonball movie. As of now, he is NOT green. Color correction may still be done before release, which is set for April 10th, 2009.
- The firefly population of Thailand has fallen 70% over 3 years. “Curse you FOX curse you!”
- A remake of Heavy Metal has recently been dropped by Paramount, and now David Fincher and Kevin Eastman are shopping it to other studios.
- Kevin Eastman‘s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is going to be another origin story that reveals more about where Shredder comes from.
- The Siegel & Shuster Society is trying to save the house where Jerry Siegel created Superman in the 1930′s. Help at www.ordinarypeoplechangetheworld.com.
- Daniel Radcliffe admits that he lost his virginity to a much older woman, in addition to admitting that he would love to play a cross-dresser just so he could wear lots of slap and eye make up.
- The trial date for FOX vs. Warner Bros over Watchmen has been set for January 6th. This may cause delays as it is close to the March release date.
- Coca-Cola has agreed to a £5million deal to plug its brand alongside the new James Bond movie. It is coming out with limited edition black bottles and a special Coca-Cola Zero Zero Seven logo.
- Wanted creator Mark Millar pitched Warner Bros on a “big three-picture Superman thing, like a Lord of the Rings epic, starting over from scratch again with a seven-hour Superman story.”
- Voiceover Master Don LaFontaine has died. He was 68.
- Disaster Movie made a miserable $6.2million and will likely be in the bargain bin by Halloween.
- The voice actor for Snoopy, Bill Melendez, has died. He was 81.