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Stargate: Universe 1.08 Time Promo Images

I’m all for allowing a show to gradually introduce itself as much as the next guy, but all the survival arcs in the first seven episodes of “Stargate: Universe” is starting to wear a little thin. And it’s not as if they’re even slowly introducing new characters with each...

November 10th, 2009 | Read More

Pandorum (2009) Movie Review

Christian Alvart’s “Pandorum” is a creature feature horror film set in space. In that respect, the movie doesn’t really depend on its sci-fi elements in the least, and its premise could have been easily transplanted to any isolated location that requires a large group of people to be locked away...

November 10th, 2009 | Read More

Another Stargate Universe Producer Takes Umbrage with SGU Criticism

This is actually getting pretty amusing. As you’ll recall, last week we posted a blog posting by “Stargate: Universe” producer Joseph Mallozzi, who fired back at critics of “SGU” through his blog. Today, SciFiWire has another intriguing fight with another “SGU”...

November 9th, 2009 | Read More

Avatar’s Latest Trailer Goes for the Kiddie Adventure Vibe

Apparently whoever is cutting the trailers for James Cameron’s “Avatar” got word from high up at 20th Century Fox that the first few trailers were too gosh darn serious, what with all the military occupation, political backstabbing, planet razing, and alien genocide-attemptin’...

November 9th, 2009 | Read More

Five Preview Clips from V Episode 1.02 There is No Normal Anymore

Five preview clips from “V’s” Tuesday episode, 1.02, “There is No Normal Anymore”. My favorite clip: Erica stumbling into Father Jack at the FBI, and her priceless quote, “You’re a friggin’ priest???” Love it. Also, Chad the reporter realizes he just...

November 9th, 2009 | Read More

Jake Gyllenhaal and Duncan Jones Find the Source Code

Fans of sci-fi have been looking forward to Duncan Jones’ follow up to his cerebral thriller “Moon”, and recently he’s been talking up the “Blade Runner”-ish film called “Mute”. As it turns out, that may not be his next film after all. THR reports that...

November 8th, 2009 | Read More

Some More 2012 Run for Your Lives Images

A couple of more pics from Master of Disaster Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster porn, “2012″. These features more of the ladies of “2012″, including Thandie Newton as the Prez’s daughter, and Amanda Peet as the suffering wife of John Cusack’s Everyman Hero character....

November 8th, 2009 | Read More

Roland Emmerich Blames Fox, George W. Bush for the Lack of an Independence Day 2

German director Roland Emmerich, aka the man who made death porn on a global scale (aka disaster films) popular again, blames the lack of a sequel to “Independence Day” on the studio’s unwillingness to pay Will Smith his due. And oh yeah, that guy George W. Bush is also to blame, too....

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

Micronauts the Movie? J.J. Abrams? WTH?

The Wall Street Journal, of all places, currently has an article on Hollywood’s gold rush to make movies out of toys and board games following the phenomenal success of Michael Bay’s “Transformers”. Toward the end of the article, it mentions that “Star Trek’s”...

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

V Promo Images: Episodes 1.02 and 1.03

Promo images from the next two “V” episodes: 1.02, “There is no Normal Anymore” and 1.03, “A Bright New Day”. “V” 1.02: “There is no Normal Anymore” Erica and Father Jack, having quickly determined they’re both against the arrival of the...

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

The Apocalypse is Still on Hold on Tonight’s Supernatural

You knew it had to happen: Dean and Sam Winchester REALLY breaks through the fourth wall in tonight’s episode of “Supernatural”, titled, “Changing Channels”. It looks like the apocalypse and all that end of the world stuff will just have to wait while the boys have to figure...

November 5th, 2009 | Read More

Mandalay Pictures Has Eyes for the Machine Man

Mandalay Pictures would like to make a movie based on the novel “Machine Man” by author Max Barry, only they don’t quite know how it’s going to end. Because, see, the book itself isn’t finished, and as we speak, Barry is putting one up one page from his novel online every...

November 4th, 2009 | Read More

Chuck’s Scott Rosenbaum Takes Over V Showrunner Duties

Man, what is going on over at ABC’s “V”? First there were all those rumors of delays, network unhappiness with the episodes that have been produced so far (resulting in rewrites and reshoots), and now word is that “Chuck” veteran Scott Rosenbaum has moved over to “V”...

November 4th, 2009 | Read More

Open Discussion Thread: The New V Pilot

Anna and her Visitor buddies are about to touch down tonight on ABC (in case you missed the gazillion commercials on TV last night), and this is your open discussion thread to talk about the pilot. Did you love it? Hate it? Somewhere in-between? I saw a version of the pilot a while back in San Diego...

November 3rd, 2009 | Read More

SGU Producer Joseph Mallozzi Would Like you to Stop Being Idiots

Well, this, er, is not going to prove very fruitful. Apparently tired of all the “Stargate: Universe” bashers showing up at his blog and leaving, well, SGU bashing comments, SGU producer/writer Joseph Mallozzi has responded with a long statement on his blog. Besides addressing the overall...

November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Quick Promo for Lost’s Final Season 6

ABC has put out a quickie promo for the upcoming final season of their hit show “Lost”, which is set to begin and end its original TV run in 2010. As far as I can tell, there are no new footages, just old ones from the previous five, including the Kate-Sawyer cage match. Nice of them to include...

October 30th, 2009 | Read More

Men in Black 3 is Defintely Moving Forward

We’ve known that Sony wants to make another “Men in Black” movie since April, but we haven’t really heard anything concrete about the movie since. That change today, with word that Sony has already hired “Tropic Thunder” writer Etan Cohen to pen the sequel and that...

October 29th, 2009 | Read More

Ridley Scott Talks Alien Prequel Plot

Ridley Scott is looking forward to doing an “Alien” sequel. Or, er, prequel. Speaking to Empire, the director gives out a little bit more detail about the setting for his “Alien” movie, which he has boarded to direct after 20th Century Fox bulked at having someone else take over...

October 29th, 2009 | Read More

SyFy Greenlights American Version of Being Human

Sure, the BBC original show “Being Human” might have been good, even great, but it’s, you know, got them funny accents, and who wants to deal with that? As a result, the SyFy Channel has just greenlit a 13-episode order for an American version of the supernatural UK show. The premise...

October 29th, 2009 | Read More

Nathan Fillion’s Firefly Tribute on Castle

In case you missed it, “Firefly” fans (oh yeah right what are the chances of that?), here’s the opening scene from a recent episode of Nathan Fillion’s crime show “Castle” on ABC, which co-stars the oh-so-lovely Stana Katic. The episode was a Halloween-themed episode,...

October 28th, 2009 | Read More