On This Week’s Show: Talking TV distribution streams and more news
This week, Michael, Evo and the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas kick around TV news.
News Bytes:

Rockne O’Bannon creates a new Cult designed with the fan community in mind
Sci Fact: bipedal molecules
Charlotte Church joins Torchwood cast

Movie Talk: Will Serenity generate the numbers needed for Universal to greenlight a […]

Source: South Bend Tribune
Written By: Evan Gillespie (Tribune Correspondent)
Submitted by: Lesmond
‘Beyond Tomorrow!’ exhibit imagines humanity’s future
SOUTH BEND — It’s comforting to know that some things never change. Ask artists to present their visions of the future, and it seems that many of them focus on the same anxieties and fascinations that have characterized ruminations on […]

Source: CNN Entertainment
Actor takes award for ‘Sin City’

LONDON, England (AP) — British movie fans have voted Mickey Rourke “man of the year” for his portrayal of the swaggering down-on-his-luck Marv in “Sin City.”

Source: SciFi Wire
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Horrormeister Stephen King has joined forces with Marvel Comics to launch a new comic-book series adapted from King’s The Dark Tower series of best-selling fantasy novels, Marvel announced. The comic series will mark the first time King has produced original content for an ongoing comic project.
The series will expand […]

Source: CNN Money
Horror film scares up $30.5 million to take weekend crown; ‘Zorro’ sequel second at $16;5 million.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A sadistic serial killer named Jigsaw carved up Zorro at the Halloween box office in North America as moviegoers opted for the gruesome thrills of “Saw II” over the light comedy of “The Legend […]

Guest Contributor: Marty Olver-Archer
How fascinating are the Maya?! I came across an article on MSN today about Mel Gibson’s next movie, “Apocalypto.”
Set in Central America and to be filmed in Veracruz, Mexico, it deals with a Maya family before the Spanish conquest of the 1500s. And it will be spoken in a Maya tongue […]

Source: MSNBC
Submitted by: Nina
James Marsden, a.k.a. Cyclops on X-Men, will star as Lois Lane’s fiance’ in the next big screen version of Superman.
All he was allowed to reveal is that he and Lois have a child together while Superman, upon his return to Metropolis realizes that Lois has moved on in her life without him.

Source: Coming Soon.net
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Walden Media to Journey to Earth’s Center
Empire has learned that Walden Media, one of the production companies on Disney’s “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” is planning to update Journey to the Center of the Earth.
The magazine says that the modern day set movie will […]

Source: The Daily Record
Written By: John Ferguson
Submitted by: Cougar
Experts ‘crack’ riddle of TV island
MAPMAKERS believe they have figured out the location of the desert island in cult TV serial Lost. The drama features plane crash survivors stranded on a strange island in the middle of the Pacific.

Source: CNN Entertainment
TV movie is a follow-up to ‘Locusts’
For someone used to confronting vengeful gods, vampire bats must seem like chicken feed.

The MASTERS of HORROR Anthology of movies begins tonight on The Showtime Cable Channel.

Source: Seattle pi
Written By: Nicholas K. Geranios (The Associated Press)
Submitted by: Lesmond
Life beyond Earth likely to be alien to sci-fi fans
Bad news, “Battlestar Galactica” fans: If there is life on other worlds, it probably doesn’t look like a swimsuit model.

Source: The Advocate
Star Trek star George Takei comes out

Veteran actor George Takei, best known as Mr. Sulu on the classic TV series Star Trek, comes out of the closet in the new issue of Frontiers. Or rather, as he tells editor Alexander Cho, “it’s not really coming out, which suggests opening a door and stepping […]

Source: Insight News
Submitted by: Lesmond
Science fiction writer Keshawn Dodds launches new ’space adventure’ book, “Menzuo S.W. (Solar Warriors) Legend of the Blue Diamond”
Science fiction writer Keshawn Dodds has launched his new adventure series, Menzuo S.W. (Solar Warriors) to focus on space exploration and adventure. Dodds’ first book, “Menzuo in the Calling of the Sun Prince,” […]

Source: SciFi Wire
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Due to the continued interest by fans for the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” franchise, Joss Whedon is seriously considering bringing many of the series’ characters to a Direct-to-DVD format.
These movies would be totally focused “on some of the secondary characters,” says Marti Noxon, UPN executive producer of the TV Series.
Noxon […]

On This Week’s Show: Interview with Peter Mayhew
This week, Peter Mayhew drops by to talk about portraying Chewbacca over the past 28 years.
News Bytes:

Having Famous Fathers works out for Ahmet Zappa’s movie deal for an unpublished novel, and for Breck Eisner landing a director gig for the Creature of the Black Lagoon remake
Hasbro is […]

Written by: Uncle Sam
Here We Go Again!
The longer I am on this planet the more I have come to appreciate the wisdom of Solomon. He stated nearly 3000 years ago that “there is nothing new under the sun.” That statement is very befitting to the current situation in today’s worldwide space program.

Submitted by: Sevens
Serenity broke $30 million in box office sales worldwide. While far from steller results, this normally is enough to keep studio execs interested enough to consider approving a sequel. And, on a bright note, it will probably do much better than that in DVD sales.
Of course, the big question will be; […]

The SGC and the SGA will be busy again for another season.
Written by: Uncle Sam
Stargate-SG1 will begin an unprecedented 10th Season on The Sci-Fi Channel in Summer 2006. Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks and Beau Bridges will be returning to save the Earth from alien incursions. I love this show […]

If you have listened to our show here at Slice of Sci-Fi for any length of time then you are aware that Mike, Evo and all the staff love Sci-Fi and just about anything connected to it. Also, we enjoy promoting new avenues that can further bring the genre to a wider audience. […]

Source: SciFi Wire and Variety
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
This television viewing season has been a ratings boom for Sci-Fi fans, and it looks like things won’t be changing anytime soon.

Submitted by: Cougar
Source: The Force.net
Earlier we reported that The Sky Network obtained exclusive rights to show all six episodic Star Wars movies chronologically. Well U.S. audiences got good news this weekend. The SPIKE Cable Channel slapped down a reported whopping $65 to $70 million to have exclusive rights over the next six years […]

Source: News Day
Written By: Noel Holston (A Freelance Writer)
Submitted by: Lesmond
It was half a century ago that science fiction played on our biggest fears. Now, three new shows prove its popularity wasn’t an alien notion.

Source: CNN Entertainment
BOX OFFICE Weekend of 10-21-05
1. “Doom,” $15.4 million
2. “Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story,” $9.3 million
3. “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” $8.7 million
4. “The Fog,” $7.3 million
5. “North Country,” $6.5 million
6. “Elizabethtown,” $5.7 million
7. “Flightplan,” $4.7 million
8. “In Her Shoes,” $3.9 million
9. “A History of Violence,” $2.7 million
10. “Two for […]

Submitted by: Cougar
Those counting on LOST, lost big-time!
Many Powerball Lottery players slapped down their hard-earned cash for a chance to play the largest Powerball totals in the game’s history. Those that gambled on Hurley’s cursed numbers and played them to win, walked away empty-handed.
This most recent Powerball Jackpot was $340 million. While this […]

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Warner Bros. Pictures is planning a remake of Stephen King’s 1982 Creepshow anthology.
Unlike the original film, the stories in this new project will have interweaving plots and interconnected characters.

Source: Yahoo News & Live Science
Military: New Aluminum Windows Stop .50-Caliber Bullet
A new type of transparent armor made of aluminum could one day replace glass in military vehicles.

Source: Moviehole
Submitted by: Kyle Nin
David Hasselhoff (Michael Knight) has bought up all the rights to “Knight Rider” and plans on having K.I.T.T. return as a big-screen project.
In this movie sequel to the TV Series, Knight and his son both have cars and fight injustice wherever it looms its ugly head. Hasselhoff says that it […]

Source: Yahoo News
Written By: Sue Zeidler
Blu-Ray winner in DVD war: industry group
Technology group Forrester Research on Wednesday declared Blu-Ray, a new DVD format backed by electronics makers led by Sony Corp as the winner in a heated battle over next-generation DVD technology.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes
Written By: Scott Weinberg
Submitted by: Lesmond
Screenwriter/producer Simon Kinberg and his pal Brett Matthews will soon be collaborating on a big science fiction epic for Universal, says Variety, and Mr. Kinberg compares the project to a sci-fi Jason Bourne exploit.

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