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Glenn Ford Remembered

August 31, 2006   || Category: Human Interest | Leave a Comment

Actor Glenn Ford, who began his acting career in the 1930’s and often played the strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as “The Blackboard Jungle,” “Gilda” and “The Big Heat,” has died. He was 90. Ford had suffered several strokes since the mid 1990’s.
Ford found early fame in horse opera features. The roles […]

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STAR TREK: TOS CGI Makeover Is Official

August 31, 2006   || Category: TV | 4 Comments

TV Guide is reporting that the rumors on the internet of late that Gene Roddenberry’s STAR TREK: The Original Series (TOS) would be getting an update with CGI enhancements has now been placed in the official column. Here is what they had to say:
Exclusive! “New” Star Trek Is Set on Stunning
Star Trek purists, take […]

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Joseph Stefano Remembered

August 31, 2006   || Category: Human Interest | Leave a Comment

Joseph Stefano, the man behind the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and the co-creator of television’s science fiction mega-hit anthology series “The Outer Limits,” has died at age 84.
Stefano never intended to become a screenwriter. His first love was music. He enjoyed composing, singing, dancing and played piano. He even went as […]

The FUSE Network is quickly becoming MTV’s biggest competitor in the cable music business, and is beginning to branch out into other areas of entertainment, just as MTV has done over the last several years.
FUSE will be bringing its first annual “FUSE Fangoria Chainsaw Awards” to its network on October 22, 2006 at 9:30 PM […]

20th Century FOX will be releasing a new family oriented film about what it means to be a superhero in real life. The film will highlight a whole array of award-winning acting talent from a diverse group of entertainers, young and old alike, who have made us laugh, cry and cheer for more […]

Submitted by: Summer Brooks (SoSF Co-Host)
As you may already know, “THE ILLUSIONIST,” which was just reviewed on Slice of SciFi Show #072 by MovieTack.net, opened this month to the #1 per screen average 2 weekends in a row.
What you may not know, is that “THE ILLUSIONIST” is also giving one lucky magician the chance to […]

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STAR TREK CGI Makeover and Reboot?

August 30, 2006   || Category: Editorial, Film, TV | 5 Comments

From: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter)
Word on the scifi street is Paramount may be getting ready to do a facelift on Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS), which stars the gang who started it all…Captain James Tiberius Kirk and crew. The rumor-mill is a-flutter over the idea that CBS Paramount has a secret plan […]

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Could Stargate SG1 Have a New Home At STARZ?

August 30, 2006   || Category: TV | 3 Comments

Some interesting news has come down the pike about the Starz Pay Cable Network. Variety is reporting that John Malone has started the push to turn his Starz pay TV operation into a full-fledged media company, with Chris McGurk in line to run the film side.
The newly named Starz Media plans to produce up […]

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BSG: Season 3 Teaser & New Show Sneek Peek

August 30, 2006   || Category: TV | 2 Comments

Can’t “fracking” wait until the premiere of Season Three of “BATTLESTAR GALACTICA?” Well, you still have a few weeks to go - but we have some footage from the new season right now!
Feel free to download the 3-minute series recap HERE or by clicking on the BSG image. Don’t forget to […]

 
icon for podpress  Slice of SciFi #72: Dragon*Con TV [56:29m]: Play Now | Download (15716)

On This Week’s Show: Dragon*Con TV

News Bytes:

SciFi Channel may have cancelled “Stargate SG-1″, but it’s home studio MGM believes there’s lots of life left in the franchise cornerstone
Bollywood studios are fast becoming Hollywood players
USA Network announced a green light for Season 4 of “The 4400″. Look for 13 new episodes in […]

Movie reviews from Movietack.net will be featured on our shows in a rotating basis with Doug’s Trivia Segment. On the same day of the show, we will be offering a text copy of the movie review. Here is the first installment of this brand new feature brought to you by Slice of SciFi […]

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HUGO Awards for Beagle and Ellison

August 29, 2006   || Category: Events | Leave a Comment

Source: StarTrek.com
Peter S. Beagle — writer of the Next Generation episode “Sarek” — won his first Hugo Award on Saturday during the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Anaheim. Beagle won in the category Best Novelette for his story “Two Hearts,” a follow-up to his most famous work, “The Last Unicorn.”
In addition, previous Hugo […]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter)
Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of the SCI FI Channel’s mega-hit “Battlestar Galactica” took fans to the mat in Anaheim, CA at this past weekend’s WorldCON.
Moore told fans that in this upcoming season of BSG, “We’re going to lose some people this year. Not all of our friends are […]

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And Now For the Rest Of Sarah’s Story

August 29, 2006   || Category: TV | 4 Comments

Variety is reporting that Warner Bros. TV has selected director David Nutter (Dark Angel, Smallville, Supernatural) to helm the TV pilot for “The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” The Terminator-themed television show will be broadcast on FOX. Could that automatically spell doom for the new series?
Nutter, whose last 12 pilots have all been picked […]

 
icon for podpress  Slice of SciFi #71: Voicemail Show [57:41m]: Play Now | Download (6205)

This Week’s Voicemail Show!
This is the show for our fans and listeners! 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!

Michael, Summer and Joe happily jaunt through a new batch of voicemails!

Mark from Memphis nitpicks USA’s “Psych”
Tony in KC: […]

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Breaking News About PPME

August 29, 2006   || Category: Podcasting | 1 Comment

The Podcast & Portable Media Expo (PPME) is the place to be if you are in anyway involved with podcasting. This year, Tim Bourguin (director of PPME), has announced that the keynote speaker will be none other than Ronald D. Moore, executive producer of the Peabody Award winning show “Battlestar Galactica.”
Ron has his own […]

All Genre films in BOLD.
Snakes On a Plane did better than projected. It was estimated on Sunday that the Samuel L. Jackson flick would tumble from number 1 to barely in the Top Ten at number 9. However, the late Sunday film goers kept the film at number 7 for the the weekend.
It […]

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Creation Entertainment had their 2006 Las Vegas Official STAR TREK CONVENTION GUESTS personally hand-sign a gorgeous SCHECTER DIAMOND SERIES GUITAR.
Autographs on both the front and back of the quitar by: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Avery Brooks, Scott Bakula , Kate Mulgrew , Gary Graham, Armin Shimerman, Michael Westmore, Diana […]

Here is a list of last night’s Emmy winners in each category:
COMEDY SERIES
“The Office”, NBC, Deedle Dee Productions, Reveille, LLC in association with NBC Universal Television Studios
DRAMA SERIES
“24″, FOX, Imagine Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Television in association with Real Time Productions
MINISERIES
“Elizabeth I”, HBO, Company Pictures and Channel 4 in association with HBO Films
MADE FOR […]

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November Isn’t Just For Eating Turkey

August 28, 2006   || Category: Events | 2 Comments

Time To Get To Get Ready For Starbase Indy With All the Fixins’
Beaming in to this year’s Starbase Indy will be the top-gun Viper pilot in Galactica’s fleet, a Jaffa rebel leader and warrior from Stargate SG-1, and the female security chief from Capt. Picard’s Enterprise. Convention action runs Thankgiving weekend, Nov. 24-26, in the […]

AREA 51 RADIO STATION will be having a Star Trek 40th Anniversary edition on the station’s website and newsletter next month, with EXCLUSIVE interviews with the stars of Star Trek!
There’s more:
The station is running a competition to discover the greatest sci-fi show ever made. Tell them (using between 30 and 200 words) what your favourite […]

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“Snakes” Drops Down the B.O. Hole

August 27, 2006   || Category: Film | 7 Comments

After barely squeeking into first place in its weekend opening and holding on to that position for its first full week of viewing in theaters, “Snakes On a Plane” took a real nose-dive in its second weekend. Soundly beaten by the football bio-pic “Invincible,” which is estimated to take over the number one slot, […]

SFF World recently caught up with fantasy writer Scott Lynch and had a sit down with him. They spoke about Scott’s novel “The Lies of Locke Lamora.” The novel, which only came out this June, has already been acquired by Warner Bros. for a motion picture deal. Its story revolves around the […]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the comic book tale about WWII soldiers on missions to fight supernatural powers is under serious consideration for a big screen treatment. The tabloid says that Rogue Pictures has obtained the rights to film the comic serial.
“Lost Squad” is about a detachment of US soldiers that have become America’s […]

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MGM Still Hot for Stargate SG1

August 27, 2006   || Category: Uncategorized | 4 Comments

In an interview with The Providence, a Canadian news outlet, executive producer Robert Cooper was quoted as saying that SG1 will likely live another day, just in another universe.
“The studio [MGM] is on the record saying that this franchise is extremely important to them,” Cooper said. He also was very clear on the fact […]

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Graham Relates To ThunderCats

August 26, 2006   || Category: Fan Mailbag | 1 Comment

Dear Slice crew,
I thought you might find this interesting.
Ain’t It Cool News posted an “article” that is clearly a joke regarding updates on a proposed remake of ThunderCats that has been rumored for the past few years to be in production by Warner Bros.
Here’s the original article, in en verbatim:
- Graham
“WB animation is remaking the […]

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Star Trek: Avalon

August 26, 2006   || Category: Fan Productions | 2 Comments

What is “Star Trek: Avalon”?
Avalon is a bold take on the Star Trek universe, taking the familier Trek archetypes and setting them in a dark world that is a script-based fan fiction project, more accurately, a virtual series, that aims to look at Star Trek from a different angle. The show is run by […]

This August 30, 2006 we welcome Brian Richardson (Stormtroopers Gone Wild) from DragonCon TV to the Slice of SciFi Show #072 starring Michael Mennenga, Evo Terra and Summer Brooks.
Brian makes his living as a sofware developer for a leading software company located in Atlanta Georgia. However, what Brian and his lovely wife Suzan do […]

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The Day the Earth Fell Over

August 25, 2006   || Category: Science News | 1 Comment

Source: LiveScience
Written by: Sara Goudarzi (LiveScience Staff Writer)
Earth might have spun on its side to keep its balance in the distant past, and could do so again, scientists reported today.
Alaska was suddenly at the equator, the thinking goes. [Graphic]
Scientists already know that the North Pole wanders over time. But a theory known as true polar […]

The NBC series Surface has resurfaced on DVD from Universal Home Video
The science-fiction adventure series was created by Jonas and Josh Pate, Winston-Salem natives, and was filmed and partially set in Wilmington. The Pate brothers split the duties on the show, with Jonas moving back to North Carolina to oversee filming and Josh staying in […]

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