Submitted by: Kurt Armbruster (SoSF Fan)
Source: CBC
The entrepreneurs behind the Skype telephone service unveiled their new video venture Tuesday, calling “Joost” the world’s first internet TV station to stream shows in crisp broadcast quality.
While still in its beta testing phase, the video service — formerly code-named the Venice Project — is intended to eventually give [...]
Join The Xfire Debate Club’s First Meeting
Horde Vs. Alliance?
New Character or Level 70?
Raid or PvP?
On January 31st, 2007, Xfire will host the inaugural session of the Xfire Debate Club: The Two-Handed Sword with very special guests and a tantalizing topic, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade! Industry insiders, experts, and hardcore gamers will [...]
Gwyneth Paltrow will be joining Robert Downey Jr. and Terrence Howard in “Iron Man,” the Jon Favreau-directed film due out in May 2008. Paltrow will play Virginia “Pepper” Potts, personal assistant to an industrialist who develops an armored suit to battle bad guys.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Terence Stamp are set to join Steve [...]
Process more clear for parents, filmmakers
Looking to reform and demystify the ratings system, the MPAA and National Assn. of Theater Owners are planning a series of changes, including a new admonishment to parents that certain R-rated movies aren’t suitable for younger kids, period.
Another key change: For the first time, a filmmaker will be able to [...]
Submitted by: Michael Hickerson & Walter Gass (SoSF Fans)
The Hugo Award winning “A Song of Ice and Fire” is one of George R.R. Martin’s greatest works and a bestselling fantasy series. HBO has decided to turn the set of stories into a cable dramatic series.
Taking on the screenwriting and producing duties are David Benioff [...]
Slice of SciFi #92: Interview with Peter S. Beagle
January 17, 2007 || Category: Slice of Scifi | 9 Comments
On This Week’s Show: Interview with Peter S. Beagle
News Bytes:
SciFi Channel’s ratings hit their highest marks since 2002’s “TAKEN”
Toon Disney re-ups “Yin Yang Yo!” for another season
“The Equalizer” is next up for the big screen treatment
MovieTalk:
A smackdown appears to be in the making over the name “Avatar” for upcoming big screen [...]
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (SoSF Managing News Director)
After we, or should I say, Shatner and some unnamed sources on the backlot at Paramount, let the cat out of the bag about some of the characters that will be cropping up in the next Star Trek film dubbed Star Trek: XI, speculation has been running [...]
XM and Sirius Satellite Radio Talking Merger & Commercials
January 16, 2007 || Category: The Biz In Show Business | 2 Comments
The smoke-filled, backroom negotiating tables of the two huge satellite radio companies have been buzzing about this for nearly two years now, but it is starting to look like it may become a reality sooner than expected.
Journalist Peter B. de Selding, reporting for SPACE News in Paris, France has stated that the two big U.S. [...]
Live Near Houston, Texas? Free Passes To See Carrey’s “The Number 23″
January 16, 2007 || Category: Events, Film News | Leave a Comment
ComingSoon.net and New Line Cinema have teamed up to give away passes (each good for 2 people) for a screening of “The Number 23.” The psychological thriller stars Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Logan Lerman, Rhona Mitra, Maile Flanagan, Patricia Belcher, Lynn Collins, Mark Pellegrino and Tara Karsian. The screening will take place [...]
Brazeal Takes On “Enterprise Flashed”
January 16, 2007 || Category: Fan Productions | Leave a Comment
Tim Brazeal, founder of the “Save Enterprise” campaign, owner of Trek United and President of SciFi Studios, has agreed to lend his vocal talents for the popular online animated feature Enterprise: Flashed.
While Tim has had some small involvement with the series in the past, this new episode called “And Justice For All…� will mark his [...]
Pioneering service that provides DVD rentals by mail to give customers a chance to view movies, television shows on PCs at no additional cost
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Online movie rental service Netflix introduced a new feature Tuesday to allow customers to watch movies and television series on their personal computers and said it will make [...]
MOVIES
Best Motion Picture/Drama: “Babel”
Best Actor/Drama: Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”
Best Actress/Drama: Helen Mirren, “The Queen”
Best Motion Picture/Musical or Comedy: “Dreamgirls”
Best Actor/Musical or Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, “Borat”
Best Actress/Musical or Comedy: Meryl Streep, “The Devil Wears Prada”
Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy, “Dreamgirls”
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, “Dreamgirls”
Best Animated Feature Film: “Cars”
Best Foreign Language Film: [...]
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!
Michael, Joe, Brian and Tim swim through the voicemails this week:
Enormous in Australia on Charlie [...]
Source: SFX
Toppermost of the Poppermost
Ever wanted to wrest control of the charts from the usual gyrating meat-puppets? Here’s your chance. Doctor Who fans across the known galaxies are currently mobilising in a bid to lob Love Don’t Roam - the Northern Soul-flavoured ditty from this year’s Christmas special - into the upper reaches of [...]
When no one else can help, call Harry Dresden, wizard. Solving impossible crimes is his business. Don’t miss the premiere of this new SCI FI Original series.
Admiral Adama risks everything to find Earth as D’Anna and Baltar tempt fate to unlock the Cylon’s greatest hidden and most provocative secret.
It all begins this Sunday, January 21st [...]
Net Treatment for Animation
January 15, 2007 || Category: The Biz In Show Business | Leave a Comment
Yahoo! has signed a first-look deal with the firm of Gotham Group for its original animated content to be distributed online via the netco.
This is a gigantic step toward providing original, professional animated-shorts content geared strictly for the online audience.
Yahoo! has been looking for a product to take them in that direction and they feel [...]
“Lost” May Find Its Stay On the Island Ending, but Not Soon
January 15, 2007 || Category: Uncategorized | 4 Comments
Producers are trying to decide an end date for the hit ABC SF drama “Lost,” according to Variety.
Touchstone TV and the producers behind “Lost” are actively discussing how and when to retire the hit castaway drama, reported the industry paper.
According to “Lost” exec producer Carlton Cuse, picking an end date for “Lost” would help the [...]
The surprise B.O. hit of late 2006 and early 2007 has to be Ben Stiller’s “Night at the Museum.” We trashed it, critics trashed it, but moviegoers loved it, and that really is all that matters in the end.
The SF comedy featuring Ben Stiller and Robin Williams sharing the top spot was a runaway [...]
Which of these Battlestar Galactica characters may meet their demise before or by the end of Season Three? (If Cylon - No Regeneration process)
Admiral William Adama
President Laura Roslin
Gaius Baltar
Number Six
Lee “Apollo” Adama
Kara “Starbuck” Thrace
Col. Saul Tigh
Sharon “Athena” Valerii
Karl “Helo” Agathon
Galen Tyrol
Felix Gaeta
Anastasia Dualla-Adama
D’Anna Biers
Senator Tom Zarek
Cally Tyrol
None of the Above - All Will Be Coming [...]
Author Peter S. Beagle Visits Slice of SciFi for Show #092 — January 17th
January 14, 2007 || Category: Coming to Slice | 1 Comment
Peter S. Beagle is the famous author of novels (fantasy and nonfiction), and screenplays. He is also a talented musician and singer. His very first novel, “A Fine and Private Place,” was published when he was only 19 years old and is considered a classic. But, his most recognized work is “The Last [...]
Do you want to be a superhero with your own special name, unique ability and individual costume? Well, you can as the SCI FI Channel begins holding local auditions for their Second Season of surprise breakout reality hit “Who Wants To Be A Superhero.”
The unique and entertaining show was created by the [...]
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Wright State University President Kim Goldenberg received a surprise at his retirement bash — a visit from Mr. Spock of “Star Trek,” aka actor Leonard Nimoy.
Nimoy greeted Goldenberg with the Vulcan salute, usually paired with the well-wishing, “Live long and prosper.”
Goldenberg, 59, said he and his wife, Shelley, are Trekkies.
“We don’t [...]
Hugo and Nebua Award winner Neal Stephenson will be adapting his best-selling novel “The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer” into a six-hour miniseries for the SCI FI Channel.
The story centers around a family, in which the father has decided that the futuristic society they live in has grown stale and stagnant and [...]
Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter)
NBC Universal has announed that it has an all-new digital cable network in the works. This new outlet will be entirely dedicated to the Horror/Suspense/Thriller genre.
“Chiller Network” will debut on March 1st of this year on DirecTV, with the peacock network currently negotiating with other cable providers to [...]
More Star Trek XI Leaks — Where’s the Dutch Boy When You Need Him?
January 12, 2007 || Category: Film News | 5 Comments
According to IESB.net, an inside annonymous source close to the Star Trek IX movie production has revealed the contents of the first few pages of the script. Not sure what can be gleaned from just a few pages, but like all good Star Trek geeks hungry for data, that won’t prevent us from trying.
According to [...]
Source: SPACE.com
Written by: Edna DeVore (SETI Institute)
Eavesdropping on ET Sooner Than We Think
SEATTLE — On Wednesday, January 10, here at the American Astronomical Society Meeting, theorist Dr. Avi Loeb from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics led a press conference on the search for ET. “Soon, we may be eavesdropping on signals from Galactic [...]
William Shatner revealed to SCI FI Wire that the upcoming 11th Star Trek movie will indeed, as rumored, deal with the early years of Capt. James T. Kirk and Spock—and that he will definitely appear in the movie if director J.J. Abrams can find a place to use him. Shatner, who originated the role of [...]
Source: Variety
ASC nominates five for top honors
The American Society of Cinematographers has nominated Emmanuel Lubezki for “Children of Men,” Dick Pope for “the Illusionist,” Robert Richardson for “The Good Shepherd,” Dean Semler for “Apocalypto” and Vilmos Zsigmond for “The Black Dahlia.”
The winner will be announced during the organization’s awards ceremonies on February 18th at the [...]
Submitted by: Kreg Steppe (Co-host of Technorama)
It is being reported that Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams will be joining the ranks of Harold Ramis and will do a director’s stint in “The Office.”
Harold Ramis (“Caddyshack,â€? “Groundhog Dayâ€?) directed the hillarious Christmas episode of “The Office.â€? “Star Trek: XI’s” J.J. Abrams (”Lost,” [...]
Source: Variety
The Writers Guild of America has tapped the screenplays for “Babel,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Queen,” “Stranger Thank Fiction” and “United 93″ for its original screenplay award; and “Borat,” “The Departed,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “Little Children” and “Thank You for Smoking” for the adapted award.
Winners will be announced Feb. 11 in simultaneous ceremonies [...]
