If you live in the U.K. then you may already know the answer to the question what is ex-Classic Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team star Dirk Benedict doing these days. He is one of the last bunch of brave celebrities to enter the house in the U.K. version of the reality show "Big Brother". In [...]
The Mist Hits Town
January 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter) Dimension Films and writer-director Frank Darabont's vision of "The Mist", an adaptation of Stephen King's collection of short stories called "Skeleton Crew" will be ready for filming by February 20th. Thomas Jane (Punisher) will star in this CGI laden flick which is set for a November 21, 2007 [...]
Weekend Box Office Total - December 29, 2006 - January 1, 2007
January 3, 2007 By Leave a Comment
4-day estimated totals are U.S. only. All genre films are in BOLD. 1. Night at the Museum (FOX)...........$46.7 Engagements:3,768 2. The Pursuit of Happyness (SONY).....$24.7 Engagements:2,870 3. Dreamgirls (PAR)....................$20.3 Engagements: 852 4. Charlotte's Web (PAR)...............$15.5 Engagements:3,745 5. The Good Shepherd (UNIVERSAL).......$14.5 Engagements:2,218 6. Rocky Balboa (MGM)..................$13.6 Engagements:3,019 7. Eragon (FOX)........................$10.5 Engagements:2,985 8. We Are Marshall [...]
Shatner DVD Club Closes Doors
January 3, 2007 By 2 Comments
Just in case you have been wondering why you haven't seen any adds on our site for the the William Shatner DVD Club, we thought we'd let you know that the Club has curtailed operations. Bill started hearing from the various film distribution companies he was dealing with to provide top-notch, hard-to-find genre films for [...]
Slice of SciFi #90: Interview with Matt Vancil and John Frank Rosenblum on "The Gamers: Dorkness Rising"
January 3, 2007 By 3 Comments
On This Week's Show: Interview with Matt Vancil and John Frank Rosenblum News Bytes: Casino Royale is the first Bond film to top the $300 million mark The next Star Trek: New Voyages project is "Blood and Fire", written by David Gerrold A list of some of the biggest box office bombs of 2006 is [...]
Poor Girl - The Price of Fame
January 3, 2007 By 30 Comments
Evangeline Lilly has hinted she will quit 'Lost' unless the show's fans stop hassling her, according to the U.K.'s Life Style Extra. The actress is growing weary of the constant attention she receives from followers of the program and admits she sometimes considers walking away from her role as sexy fugitive Kate in the hit [...]
Classic Trek Now on iTunes
January 3, 2007 By 2 Comments
Apple iTunes is now making available the original classic Star Trek series with Captain James T. Kirk. Currently 29 of the episodes are ready for downloading at $1.99 per episode. The first in the series begins with episode one "Where No Man Has Gone Before," with William Shatner as Kirk for the very first time. [...]
Turbulence Detected in Space
January 2, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Source: SPACE.com Witten by: Michael Schirber The highly ionized solar wind blows around our planet, disrupting satellites and endangering unprotected astronauts. A flotilla of four satellites have recently measured random variations in the solar wind's propagation, providing the first definitive detection of turbulence in space. The observation could improve space weather forecasts, as well as [...]
Roswell Considers Theme Park
January 2, 2007 By 3 Comments
Source: SCI FI Wire Zach Montgomery, planning director for the city of Roswell, N.M., said that the city is the ideal place to build an alien-themed amusement park, the Roswell Daily Record reported. According to a feasibility study completed by New Mexico State University's Arrowhead Business Center, the universal association between the city of Roswell [...]
"Meg" De-Toothed
January 2, 2007 By 6 Comments
Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter) The Steve Alten novel "Meg" is about a humungous prehistoric shark (the fourth book in his Meg series, Meg 4: Hell's Aquarium is being written now). For nearly ten years the first book has been in development for a big screen film adaptation and it looked like 2007 [...]
Shat At Space Camp
January 2, 2007 By 2 Comments
Source: The Hunstville Times (AP) -- The U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and William Shatner, most famous for portraying Captain James T. Kirk of the Federation starship the U.S.S. Enterprise, is planning to attend the party. "Shatner has agreed to be the emcee for the Space Camp Hall [...]
Hollywood Defeats China Pirate
January 2, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Chinese court rules Sohu must pay fine for posting LOTR and Potter films SHANGHAI (Reuters) -- Hollywood movie studios have won a lawsuit in China over the posting of movie clips on the Internet, the Motion Picture Association said on Friday. A unit of Sohu.com Inc., which runs some of China's most popular Web portals, [...]
Slice of SciFi #88: Voicemail Show
January 2, 2007 By 10 Comments
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 we can't even fit all of it into it's own show anymore. But that's okay... Keep it coming! SPOILER ALERT!! SPOILER ALERT!! Here There May Be Spoilers for "Battlestar Galactica" and "Heroes"... [...]
"24" Adds Jones To 2007 Lineup
January 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Jamison Jones (Alias, Hollywood Homicide) will be seen in a recurring role on the upcoming season of the Emmy-winning Fox drama "24." Jones has guest starred in a bevy of television dramas and comedies ranging from "Navy NCIS" to "that 70's Show." This will be his first major semi-regular TV gig, to the delight of [...]
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