For an ancient artifact made by a bunch of guys who essentially lived in the jungles many thousands of years ago, the Mayan Calendar sure is getting a lot of airplay in recent years. Of course, the fact that people say the calendar predicts the end of the world in the year 2012 might have something to do with it. Hollywood loves that stuff.
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Bryan Singer to Investigate the Mayan Calendar with SyFy
Is NBC Already Planning the Cancellation of Jesse Alexander’s Day One?
Well this is interesting news. According to this interview with NBC president Angela Bromstad at the Television Critics Association summer press tour(via SciFiWire), it sure sounds like NBC doesn’t have very high hopes that Jesse Alexander’s Day One will last past Season 1. Or does it mean something else?
Um, Mainstream Media? Newsflash: District 9 is NOT Low-Budget
I’m scouring my newsfeeds as I usually do every morning looking for viable movie news, when I ran across this headline on the USAToday feed: “Peter Jackson is back to basics on low-budget ‘District 9′”. You see, because in Hollywood, a $30 million dollar movie is considered low-budget.
Zak Penn’s Alphas Lands at SyFy
Zak Penn has been writing superhero movies for a while now, so it probably makes perfect sense that he would also pen a TV series about people with superpowers. Or, actually, superpower. The premise behind Penn’s Alphas (originally called Section 8 when it was being sold around town 2 years ago) needs a little explaining.
Richard Stanley’s Hardware Remastered DVD Cover Art and Specs
It’s been ages since I first saw Richard Stanley’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror movie “Hardware”, and I recall that it was one of the most brutal, dark, depressing, and perverted movies I’ve ever seen. Of course that was back in 1990, so who knows how I’ll feel about the film now, 19 years later.
Supernatural Season 5 Hints, Storylines, and Season 6 Talk
Supernatural was one of the panels at Comic-Con last month that I wanted to attend, but unfortunately it was on a Sunday, one of the few worthy panels in the whole day, and I had to catch a flight earlier in the morning. If I had attended, I would have told you about what show creator Eric Kripke said about the coming Season 5 and the possibility of an additional Season 6, though that’s not a given since the CW hasn’t told the crew if they would be back after this year yet.
Reshoots Underway for the V Pilot, Including Ending
According to V’s producer and showrunner Scott Peters, reshoots are currently underway to “tweak” the V pilot that will premiere later this year. Though a finished copy of the pilot was already shown at Comic-Con last week, Peters says they’ve gone back to add more Visitor “tech” to the showdown that takes place at the end of the pilot between the Visitors and a group of human underground resistance fighters.
Official Poster for Cameron’s Avatar
This one has been floating around for a bit ever since the San Diego Comic-Con last week, but this looks like a more finished, polished version of the poster for James Cameron’s “Avatar”. It actually has text on it, which I’m assuming means it’s official. Could be wrong, of course.
First Promos from SyFy’s New Riverworld TV Series
Here’s your first look at Tahmoh Penikett in the new SyFy channel’s relaunching of Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld. The new TV series will star Pinikett (of Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse) as war journalist Matt Ellman, who dies while on his honeymoon with his wife Jessie (Smallville and the new V’s Laura Vandervoort) and wakes up in the titular Riverworld, a mysterious planet where every person who has ever lived on Earth is brought after their death.
Spierig Brothers to Remake Captain Blood … in Space!
It sounds like the punchline to a joke, but it’s not: According to Variety, Warner Bros. has attached Australian siblings Michael and Peter Spierig to direct a space version of the classic 1935 swashbuckling pirate movie “Captain Blood”. They’ve also hired John Brownlow to pen the script, which will follow the plot of the original closely, except, er, you know, that whole space thing.
Ridley Scott Now Attached to Direct Alien Prequel
It looks like Twentieth Century Fox has gotten its way. The studio balked when a fifth “Alien” movie was brought to it with a director not named Ridley Scott attached, and said it wouldn’t front the bill for the movie unless Scott changed his mind. Hey, who says the studio doesn’t have the power to make things happen? Variety now reports that Scott has indeed been attached to take over the directorial chores on the prequel, which will now move forward.
New Explosive Images from Gamer
If you’ve seen the trailers for Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s “Gamer”, then you know this thing has the makings of a crazy, balls-to-the-walls sci-fi action movie, the kind that guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger and company used to make by the bushel loads in the ’80s and ’90s. Except, well, crazier. From the guys behind “Crank”, you don’t expect anything less. Here are five more images from “Gamer” for your viewing pleasure.
New Dollhouse Promo Image Reveals a Dangerous Echo
I don’t know about you, but I was one of the people who was shocked when the Powers That Be at the FOX network decided to cancel Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, while giving Joss Whedon’s show Dollhouse a second season. Really? Dollhouse over Terminator? It just didn’t seem right. Anyways, the second season of Dollhouse is coming back Fridays starting on September 25, 2009 at 9/8 central time, and here’s a new promo shot of Eliza Dushku doing her Echo thing. Girl looks good, I’ll give her that, although these new batch of Dollhouse promos can’t possibly match the near-nude ones she did last year. Now those were promos!
Rodriguez, Pena and Moynahan Suit up for Battle: Los Angeles
A tough-talking chick, a tall drink of a water ex-model, and some guy name Michael Pena. What do they have in common? They’ve all joined the cast of the Aaron Eckhart-fronted science fiction actioner “Battle: Los Angeles”, one of those movies that sounds so good if you’re a sci-fi fan that you immediately thought it had to be based on a videogame when you first heard about it. But nope, it’s an original script, and wouldn’t it be cool if they spun it off into a franchise that looks at other parts of the movie’s battle against the same alien invaders, but from the perspective of other cities? It will, of course, depend entirely on how “Los Angeles” does, box office-wise.
Tron Legacy Director Heads for Oblivion
We’ve all seen the “Tron Legacy” footage, but to be honest with you, no one really knows how the actual movie will turn out. It could be a visual feast for the eyes, filled with great action scenes and sfx, or it could be, well, “Aeon Flux”. In any case, with “Tron” still in the pipe, director Joseph Kosinski has already announced his next project — a sci-fi action movie called “Oblivion” (a piece of concept art from the film above and to your left).
