The new Bethesda Softworks PC and Xbox 360 fantasy single-player RPG “Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion” is opening with rave reviews from players and critics alike.
This one boasts of some very creative interaction between the player and game elements with Bethesda Software making the claim that it would take nearly 21 days of continuous play just […]

It looks like when “Superman Returns” to the big screen, it will be the BIG SCREEN and part of it will be 3D.
Warner Bros. announced this week that this summer the Man of Steel will be shown on IMAX as well as conventional theater screens and 20 minutes of the film’s action will be viewed […]

Roddenberry.com’s LIVE Chat will have Tim Russ (a.k.a. Commander Tuvok of STAR TREK’s Voyager) as a special guest on April 14, 2006 at 5PM ET/2PM PT.
Besides taking questions and reminiscing about his Voyager days, Tim will also be speaking about an upcoming project that he will be directing called “Of Gods and Men” which will […]

Sony Computer Entertainment’s adventure video game “Shadow of the Colossus” has been chosen as the best game and took home that honor during this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards announced this week in San Jose, Calif.
“Shadow of Colossus” is a game that takes the player into ancient lands filled with mystery, mythical creatures and both […]

We have mentioned the new supernatural show called “Raines” (formally known as “Seeing Red”) in the past on this website and our show. This new Jeff Goldblum vehicle will air on NBC this fall with Goldblum playing the part of a strange and eccentric cop who gets his murder clues by talking to the […]

Walter Koenig’s 1988 novel “Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot” gets new life breathed into it eighteen years after its original publication.
Coscom Entertainment Book Publishers. an eBook and traditional print publishing firm, feels there is a new audience for this imaginative story about humans struggling to survive after a devastatingly destructive alien invasion and has ordered […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Reporter)
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” the classic psychological horror/scifi tale from Robert Louis Stevenson is coming to American television as “Jekyll” thanks to Kathryn Mitchell, the BBC America general manager.
James Nesbitt (Murphy’s Law) will star as the tortured doctor, bringing the character out of the Victorian era and up-to-date in […]

How many ewoks does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Okay, how about this? What do you get when you cross a Wookie with a droid?
Alright, I’m only kidding with those questions, but have you ever had a legitimate inquiry about the Star Wars universe and simply didn’t know where […]

An Uncle Sam Review:
Well, I have just finished watching the 2-part miniseries on The SciFi Channel, “Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King” and I must say I was surprisingly pleased.
Being a Norse tale the location scenery was of course stunningly beautiful to look at. However, what surprised me most was the oustanding acting job that […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Reporter)
Richard Dean Anderson (General Jack O’Neill) will make a return visit through the Stargate in season ten to mark and celebrate the show’s unprecendented 200th episode.
On the 200th, O’Neill and the SG-1 Team will be serving as consultants to a television series that has remarkable similarities to the real SGC. […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Reporter)
Paramount Pictures is aggressively looking for identtical twin boys for “The Spiderwick Chronicles.” They need to be between the ages of 9 and 11 years old.
“The Spiderwick Chronicles” is a fantasy feature from the bestselling series of novels written by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The film will […]

This Week’s Voicemail Show!
This show is for you! We’re receiving so much voicemail and email feedback commentary that it just won’t fit in one show anymore. But that’s okay… Keep it coming!

Evo says: Enough with the Snakes on a Plane trailer links!
Brad from PodCulture thinks Evo is insane for wanting Angelina Jolie to […]

The Austin Film Festival is searching for the best Sci-Fi script containing one or more of the following elements: fantasy, myth/legend, horror, science fiction, surrealism and fantastical storytelling.
Enter your script into either Adult/Family or Comedy category, and you may also choose to be considered for the Sci-Fi Award. Winner will receive $2500, and much more.
For […]

SAG gets animated with deal - Guild draws tentative cable animation pact
A day after receiving strike authorization from members on its live-action basic cable contract, SAG reached a tentative deal on its animation cable contract.
SAG said Tuesday that the new 2�-year animation pact represents a 20% hike in residuals, based on the typical pattern for […]

Have you seen this 2007 calendar. Photographed by Christopher Judge
(Teal’c) and produced by Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson) of SG-1.

Women of SciFi Calendar & SciFi DVD
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John from Ottawa, Ontario

On This Week’s Show: Chat with The Enterprise Blues Band

L to R: William Jones, Casey Biggs, Richard Herd, Vaughn Armstrong and Steve Rankin
Dark Kingdom Contest Winners: Congratulations to Slice of SciFi listeners H. R. Tucker (Grand Prize Winner), Michael Tiernan, and Chris Cioffi
News Bytes:

Richard Kind slated to return to Stargate galaxy in SG-1
Bruce Campbell dishes […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Reporter)
Disney has announced that Elton John’s new collaboration with them, an animated takeoff of the classic Shakespere story of Romeo and Juliet, entitled “Gnoemo and Juliet” has stopped production.
No reason has been give by Elton John or the studio for the cessation of production, but all the crew working on […]

Source: Variety
Genre titles are in BOLD:
1. Inside Man…………………….$28,954,945
Engagements:2,818 Cume: $28,954,945
2. V for Vendetta…………………$12,338,402
Engagements:3,365 Cume: $46,205,949
3. Stay Alive…………………….$10,726,406
Engagements:2,009 […]

TV producer Dan Curtis had a 5-decade career in television production and was involved in everything from drama to comedy, but his favorite was scarring people. He died late yesterday of a brain tumor, Dan was 78.
His most ambitious gift to entertainment was the highly rated and critically acclaimed miniseries “The Winds of War” […]

Contributed by: Kurt Armbruster
According to TVShowsOnDVD, all 26 episodes plus the 2-hour pilot of “The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.” is being released on DVD July 18, 2006.
The TV series ran for a full season 12-years ago in 1994 and was a real fan favorite.
The 8-disc set will run about $99.98 retail and includes loads […]

In the span of four decades, five television incarnations and countless motion pictures, the 23rd-century crew of the Starship Enterprise and the brave utopians of the United Federation of Planets have boldly gone where no one has gone before.
But now, with the franchise seemingly gone and no new Star Trek film or show in sight, […]

With China’s recent announcement of its agressive new space program (LINK to Story), including their own orbiting space station by the year 2020, the space race has started anew.
In response to this latest development President Bush has stepped up the U.S. space program to include a permanent U.S. presence on the Moon by 2020 with […]

Science Fiction writer Stanislaw Lem died today in Poland of natural causes at the age of 84.
Most famous for his novel entitled “Solaris,” (it was made into a motion picture twice), Lem wrote “The Invincible,” “The Star Diaries,” “The Futurological Congress,” “The Master’s Voice” and “The Cyberiad,” just to name a few.
Lem’s very first novel […]

“The Mutant Chronicles” is a 23rd Century scifi thriller that will star the award winning John Malkovich and Thomas Jane (The Punisher).
Malkovich will play Constantine, a coporate overlord of a four mega-business conglomerate that runs the world and has ravaged Earth of most of its natural resources.
The film is loosely based on the RPG of […]

Gary Oldman has confirmed that he will return as Sirius Black in the new Harry Potter film, “The Order Of The Phoenix.”
Just last month fans from across the world united and threatened to boycott this fifth film in the Potter franchise if Gary was not in it as Sirius. We are not sure how […]

This Friday, March 31st, beginning at 11:55PM PT a Serenity and Firefly Marathon will begin at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz, California.
Serenity will be featured as a midnight movie and will be followed by eight episodes of Firefly, the television series which will run into April 1st (Saturday morning).
Just picture it, Browncoats coming […]

Richard Fleischer, the director of some of the most memorable scifi/fantasy films of the 20th Century died on Saturday. He was 89.
If you have seen any wartime film made after 1970 about the attack on Pearl Harbor, then it is almost guaranteed that footage from Fleischer’s classic “Tora, Tora, Tora” has been included in […]

Submitted by: Cougar (SoSF Star Wars Reporter)
Have you ever wanted to sit in the director’s chair and make your own creation and have it recognized?
Host Atomfilms.com is giving anyone willing to put their director’s skills to the task a chance to create and direct in the first ever THX Trailer Contest. Atomfilms is also […]

Paizo Publishing, LLC. has announced it has formally ceased publication of AMAZING STORIES Magazine. AMAZING was first published in April of 1926, created by Hugo Gernsback, who the HUGO awards were named for, considered by many the ‘father’ of Science Fiction. He coined the term word “scientifiction”, which was eventually smoothed into science fiction.
After Gernsback, […]

Source: Variety
Movie Gallery, the second largest video rental chain in the U.S. has recorded its worse loss since its inception.
The vid-giant has lost more than half a billion dollars in its fourth quarter sparking a massive lay-off of hundreds of employees by the end of 2006.
Much of the loss can be attributed to Movie Gallery’s […]

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