Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
We will have loads of Comic Con details and news on the next Slice of Sci Fi show (#120) due to air on Saturday, August 4th…but, until then here are a few details that will not be mentioned during the news segment.
One of the most popular panels at Comic-Con […]

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
OK, so I am abusing that great line from The Simpsons’ “Marge vs. the Monorail” episode…but really, is there anything that Joss Whedon can’t do?
He gave us “Buffy,” “Angel,” and “Firefly.” He has written comics, he has written movies…he’s done it all. And yet, he’s still not […]

The History Channel’s “Naked Underground” investigates the Alien City in Turkey called Kafeterya (Cap-i-do-kia).
Explore a unique city in central Turkey. Many believe the city was built by aliens.
You can view the short video by clicking on the MSN icon.

“Battlestar Galactica” and “Bionic Woman” producer/writer David Eick says that he has completed the pilot for the Fox SF series “Them,” which the network has slated for its 2007-2008 mid-season. “Them” tells the story of a L.A. alien (non-Earthling) sleeper cell.
Apple announced that its online downloading giant iTunes has topped the 3 billion mark […]

Totals are U.S. box office only. Genre films in bold.
1. The Simpsons Movie……$74,036,787 Engagements:3,922
Cume: $74,036,787
2. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry….$19,132,965 Engagements:3,501
Cume: $71,680,080
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix….$17,733,085 Engagements:4,005
Cume: $242,439,214
4. Hairspray…….$15,899,890 Engagements:3,121
Cume: $59,657,287
5. No Reservations……..$11,704,357 […]

While doing his stint on Howard Stern’s talk show, the legendary actor George Takei, who works as Howard’s star announcer, made a startling announcement.
Takei revealed that his character on “Heroes” — Kaito Nakamura, the father of Masi Oka’s Hiro, has powers of his own that will be made manifest in the second season of the […]

French actor Michel Serrault, whose hit performance as a gay club owner in the film and stage versions of “La cage aux folles” (done in the US as “The Birdcage” starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane) catapulted him to international stardom, has died after losing his battle with cancer. He was 79.
While Serrault, who […]

Submitted by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Jorunalist)
This news from SciFi Wire should make our own Michael R. Minnenga extremely happy…
Milla Jovovich, who stars in the upcoming sequel film Resident Evil: Extinction, told SCI FI Wire that she not only reprises her character Alice, but also plays a cloned version of her as well.
“It was […]

Tribute written by: LOUISE NORDSTROM, Associated Press Writer
Film great Ingmar Bergman dies at 89 –
Master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest artists in cinema history, died Monday at his home on an island off the coast of Sweden. He was 89.
Bergman’s dozens of works combined deep seriousness, indelible imagery and unexpected flashes of humor […]

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Nicolas Cage loves comic books so much, he created one of his own.
The actor and his 16-year-old son, Weston, took their new comic book, “Voodoo Child,” to the pop culture expo Comic-Con on Sunday.
Weston dreamt up the main character, Gabriel, a biracial teenage ghost who fights the evil of bigotry in […]

TrekMovie.com was fortunate enough to snag Zachary Quinto for a brief interview at Comic Con last weekend. Here is a snippet of what the new Mr. Spock had to say about the next film.
TrekMovie.com (TM): What can you tell me about the Bob [Orci] and Alex [Kurtzman’s] script?
Zachary Quinto (ZQ): It is a really […]

We have a winner in the “Slice of SciFi — Who Wants To Be A Superhero Contest.”
That lucky winner is John Taber. Congratulations John, you have won the SuperHero prize pack- with a “Frakk off” T-shirt. Included is the Season One DVD of “Who Wants To Be A Superhero” personally autographed by Stan […]

Dean Haglund, known throughout the world as Langly, the computer geek/whiz from “The X-Files” and its spin-off show “The Lone Gunmen,” stand-up comedian and real-life inventor extraordinaire, takes center stage in this premiere event.
For complete details and ticket information — Click on the image

The success of re-mastering the original “Star Trek” has led the digital team behind the project to consider its next project–re-mastering “Star Trek: The Next Generation” for HD.

TrekMovie reports that at ComicCon the team at CBS Digital behind the re-mastering of classic “Trek” would like to tackle the 178 episode of “Next Generation” next. […]

Director JJ Abrams has chosen TV star Zachary Quinto as his next big screen Spock. JJ likes taking small screen actors and turn them into big screen stars. Whom among these 11 television age 20 to 30 something actors do you think would make the perfect young Starfleet officer James T. Kirk to […]

On This Week’s Show: Interview with Colin Ferguson
Be sure to go to the Contest Section on our homepage (upper left-hand corner) to find out about Slice of SciFi’s “Dark Crystal CD” contest, currently underway. Just click on the image to learn more.
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Ratings for SciFi Channel’s “Eureka” are up 18% over last […]

Oscar and Emmy winners – along with the fans – team to complete a Sulu Star Trek episode that actually was begun 30 years ago.
George Takei, as we have been reporting here at Slice of SciFi, may be playing a hero on “Heroes” and serving as Howard Stern’s recurring sidekick on subscription radio, but it’s […]

Movie Pulse’s Joe Russo was one of the many members of the press that got to see a first look screening of the new Robert Zemeckis/Neil Gaiman film “Beowulf.” He gives us his take on the day and the viewing. Joe also got to spend some time with controversial director/producer Uwe Boll and […]

In the 1960’s daytime television broke new and untested ground with the launch of a different kind of soap opera and it introduced the world to an actor that would forever be typecast and shadowed by his award nominated portrayal as the dark one. That actor was Jonathan Frid and the soap was “Dark […]

This Week’s Voicemail Show!
This is the show for our fans and listeners! Voicemails, emails, we want to hear your comments and feedback… Keep it coming!

This week, Michael, Summer, Brian and Tim ponder the questions posed by your voicemail submissions, and once again HERE THERE BE SPOILERS!!

Don’t forget to check out the latest episode of […]

Joe Lawson, the guy behind those ingenius Caveman Geico commercials and producer of the new show that will showcase them, indicated that it was the network’s desire to get all the original actors from those commercials to be cast members for the new sitcom he created that revolves around them. However, two of the […]

We are only two days into the Con and it is already a record-setter with visits from more celebs and participants than ever before. The crowd that showed up yesterday for the JJ Abrams announcement exceeded 6500 and the room was filled to capacity.
Here is an update to what has occurred since the Con […]

“Heroes” star Zachary Quinto has indeed been cast as the new younger Mr. Spock for the upcoming eleventh film of the Star Trek franchise that currently has the working title of simply “Star Trek.”
This announcement was made by JJ Abrams himself last night at the Comic Con in San Diego, California. Paramount has been […]

On this week’s Slice of SciFi show #119 we have as our special guest, actor Colin Ferguson who plays Sheriff Jack Carter on the hit SCI FI Channel show “Eureka,” seen every Tuesday at 9/8C.
Ferguson was born in Montreal, Canada but grew up in Toronto, Hong Kong, England and the State of Connecticut in the […]

And you thought superheroes existed only in fiction? Inspired by fiction superheroes such as Batman and Superman, these people wear masks and capes in order to fight real crime on their streets. Oddee.com lists 10 of the most famous real-life superheroes.
You have Superbarrio from Mexico, Terrifica in New York City and Citizen Prime from Phoenix, […]

Source: Publisher’s Weekly
Comic book stores are pretty good at keeping their regular customers coming back again and again. What they often aren’t as good at is bringing in new customers or turning first-time customers into regulars. In the past few years, the industry’s been trying to convert “civilians” into comics readers with initiatives like Free […]

Written By: Darren Schuettler
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Star Trek actor Walter Koenig urged fans of the iconic sci-fi series on Tuesday to turn their wrath on Myanmar’s military junta, an earthly “outpost of tyranny”.
Koenig, who battled alien Klingons and Romulans as an original member of the Starship Enterprise crew, said he hoped to mobilise Trekkies to […]

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
Once again, “Family Guy” looks to follow in the footsteps on “The Simpsons,” this time taking the popular Fox cartoon series to the big-screen.
Creator and producer Seth McFarland said recently a “Family Guy” movie could be in the formative stages.
“We have been trying to figure out how […]

As a special thanks to all their fans, Star Trek: New Voyages is holding a contest where one lucky winner will be flown from anywhere in the United States to the August 23, 2007 Premiere Event at the glorious FINE ARTS THEATER in Beverly Hills, California and have dinner with George Takei, the writers and […]

Compiled by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)
As DVD shows, there’s always a way to reinvent (or repackage) a classic. Two more are coming around again:
Blade Runner (1982)
Dec. 18 –
Details: Blade Runner: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, $79, five standard DVDs. (Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD versions planned; no price yet.) Four versions of the film, plus a […]

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