Submitted by: Kyle Nin
The USA Network began the trend a few years ago with The Dead Zone. Then CBS got onboard with the critically successful Joan of Arcadia and NBC followed with the highly successful Patricia Arquette vehicle, Medium. More followed with SciFi’s Ghost Hunters, CBS’ Ghost Whisperer and The WB’s Supernatural.
Now it […]

If you are a collector or just have a fetish for Mal, Barbie and action figures from the verse, Scott Frey clued us into this little nugget that Firefly/Serenity lovers and Browncoats might find interesting. It’s called Serentity Stuff.com and boasts of merchandise inspired from all over the verse.
Let’s face it, you gotta love […]

Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (Slice of SciFi Producer & Managing News Editor)
When a published author and his copyrighted work is used in a film or TV show does that author have the right to be paid for the use of his or her creation?

Peter S. Beagle wrote a pretty famous book called The Last […]

Guest Contributor: Michele Helberg
The Rockne O’ Bannon supernatural thriller Cult is going to be another casualty of the WB/UPN merger into the CW Network. Originally a WB project as a summer replacement, the production on the pilot has been brought to a screeching halt amid the shakeup at Warner Bros. television.

Director/producer Roland Emmerich is busy with six films in the offing for future release. That is just how hot this many faceted filmmaker from Germany is at the present time.
In 1990 he came onto the Hollywood radar with the semi-successful, low budget scifi film Moon 44. He followed that with big box office […]

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Sam Raimi acquiring the rights to Japanese video game “Siren”, and working on The Grudge 2
Trek […]

Kipleigh Brown (STAR TREK: Enterprise) stars in the James Kerwin scifi mystery Yesterday Was A Lie. John Newton (Desperate Housewives) co-stars along with Chase Masterson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Chase is a good friend of Slice of SciFi and has provided us with some of our voice-over work for the show.
The story […]

It’s going to be hard to top Jim Carrey, but Steve Carell (40 Year Old Virgin) is going to try to fill the shoes of the comedic giant by starring in the Bruce Almighty sequel entitled Evan Almighty: The Passion of the Ark.
Everyone behind the camera will be the same and Morgan Freeman revives his […]

Guest Contributor: Mark
If, like many in the scifi community, you like to collect studio props, stage collectibles and hard-to find gadgets and gizmos, The Trek Prop Zone is the new go-to site.
Dedicated mainly to collectibles and props from the sets of the different Star Trek venues, the creators of The Trek Prop Zone have created […]

Studio to use file sharing network to sell films and TV shows in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
LONDON (Reuters) - Warner Bros. said Monday it would soon begin selling movies and television shows in Germany, Austria and Switzerland using a peer-to-peer network, embracing the very technology that has rattled the entertainment industry.
Starting in March, the new […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Val Kilmer joins Acadamy Award winner Denzel Washington in Tony Scott’s upcoming scifi flick Deja Vu.
As we reported in an earlier story Denzel will star as a FBI Agent who can go back in time for the purpose of stopping a terrorist bombing. Kilmer has signed on to play an agent […]

Source: Variety
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE ESTIMATE
Jan. 27 - Jan. 29, 2006
1. Big Momma’s House 2 (FOX)………..$28.0
Engagements:3,261
2. Nanny McPhee (UNIV)……………..$14.1
Engagements:1,995
3. Underworld: Evolution (SONY)……..$11.1
Engagements:3,207
4. Annapolis (BV)…………………..$7.7
Engagements:1,605
5. Hoodwinked (WEINSTEIN)……………$7.4
Engagements:3,020
6. Brokeback Mountain (FOCUS)………..$6.4
Engagements:1,654
7. Glory Road (BV)………………….$5.2
Engagements:2,397
8. […]

AiT/PlanetLar creator Larry Young sat down for a telephone interview with Sturgeon’s Law producer and editor R. Francis Smith this week, resulting in an audio interview podcast episode posted as Sturgeon’s Law #022 at the Sturgeon’s Law website and available via for podcast clients via its RSS feed as well as via iTunes, […]

Submitted by: Summer
Hey kids, want to give you all a heads-up that the SciFi Channel will be running a Battlestar Galactica marathon on Feb 7, starting at 8AM ET.
They’re running everything from “Final Cut” through to next Friday’s episode, “Scar”.

The SciFi Channel Website gets a shiney new look.
Matt Nix will be doing the scripting for The Giants of Groil, a screen adaptation of the English book The Giants and the Joneses.
Demon Keeper is a Seattle Washington teenager who has the job of keeping a house full demons in order while keeping them safe from […]

Submitted by: Cougar
The previously announced Star Wars Battlefront II Expansion Pack will be available on Xbox Live starting January 31. For only $4.99, this new downloadable game pack allows you to play Star Wars Battlefront II with four of your favorite maps from the original Battlefront, additional modes and two new heroes.
With several new modes […]

Our thanks to Mark from NY for this followup to our research on this story.
Will Firefly Season Two Fly?
A spokesman for Joss Whedon, creator of Firefly and its spinoff movie, Serenity, told SCI FI Wire that Whedon hasn’t heard of Ace Underhill, an entrepreneur who said he is trying to acquire the rights to the […]

I have finally found the ultimate Star Trek fan. Gary Reighn has built many interesting modeling projects such as scaled vintage American streetcars and trolleys; a trolley-cam that gives one a unique view of modeling in motion.
But, the creme’ de la creme’ has to be the Star Trek Bridge Home Theater Viewing Room that […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Robin Williams is set to star with Ben Stiller in the 20th Century Fox high-tech production of Night At The Museum.
Stiller garnered some well known names, both old school and new to fill other character slots — Mickey Rooney, Dick Van Dyke, Carla Gugino and Bill Cobbs.
Williams is also currently busy with […]

Lionsgate and Marvel media have joined forces for a direct-to-DVD presentation of Ultimate Avengers: The Movie.
The animated flick is based on The Ultimates (a.k.a. The Avengers), a best selling Marvel comic series. The real exciting news is the movie stays right on track with the original comic book premise.
Ultimate Avengers: The Movie is expected to […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin

ULTRA, the comic book series based upon a young single superheroine is coming to the small screen.
CBC/Paramount Television has given the pilot a go and handed Barbara Hall, creator of the award winning Joan of Arcadia script duty.
There has been no confirmed schedule date for Ultra’s debut on the CBS Fall lineup.

Mike and Evo,
Check out this link of a merger between the WB and UPN
(http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22277). I hope that us long
suffering sci-fi fans will have a new home on the CW. Could a new Star
Trek and Buffy series be on the slate? With Veronica Mars from UPN,
Smallville and Gilmore Girls from The WB, there are some decent […]

STAR TREK’s Walter Koenig is starring in “Mad Cowgirl,” an independent film that has broken the trend of low-budget fair.
Mad Cowgirl is an experimental-art-comedy-horror-tragedy-Kung Fu epic. You can’t get any more campier or stranger than that. In the pic a woman who works for the LA Health Department investigates an outbreak of mad […]

Submitted by: Nina
Bethesda Softworks has been given exclusive rights as the maker of all STAR TREK video games. These rights include every type of game format.
Viacom, the parent company of CBS/Paramount gave the acquisition to Bethesda after a tortuous legal battle with one-time license holder Activision. The two media giants have apparently worked […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin
I know we haven’t written much about MEDIUM, the NBC supernatural series, but for fans of the show there is good news.
Glenn Gordon Caron, the show’s creator and Executive Producer, feels confident that NBC will give the thumb’s up for a third season.
Medium stars Emmy Award winner Patricia Arquette as a soccer […]

Written By: Leonard David (Senior Space Writer)
With a projected $225 million being spent to create a “purpose-built” spaceport near Upham, New Mexico—expected to be completed by 2009-2010—for many of the principals involved there remains but one question: what is a 21st century spaceport supposed to look like?
Bulldozers have yet to start pushing dirt around. Nonetheless, […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin
Amy Acker (Illyria on Angel) will be joining the regular cast of the ABC - Jennifer Garner hit series Alias. She guest starred last season as the cold-blooded assassin Kelly Peyton and will revive that role in what remains of the award-winning show before its series finale this coming spring.
There has […]

UPDATE on our most recent The Book of Daniel story:
NBC has shut down all production of The Book of Daniel indefinitely. The show was to go on hiatus for the Winter Olympic Games, but NBC execs decided to close the book altogether amid its lackluster ratings and public pressure on sponsors.
So to quote Mr. […]

Written By: Ker Than (SPACE Staff Writer)
A spinning black hole in the constellation Scorpius has created a stable dent in the fabric of spacetime, scientists say.
The dent is the sort of thing predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It affects the movement of matter falling into the black hole.
The spacetime-dent is invisible, but […]

Guest Contributor: David Bates
Got this from Dave and wanted to get it out there for all of our Browncoat listeners and viewers of Slice of SciFi.
NOTE:
This article is for information only. Slice of SciFi, after some extensive research could not completely verify those involved with the project save one Ace Underhill listed in the […]

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