Genre: Drama, Adventure and Fantasy
Running Time: 117 min.
Theatrical Release Date: May 9th, 2008 (limited)
MPAA Rating: R for some violent images.
Directed By: Tarsem
Starring: Catinca Untaru, Lee Pace, Emil Hostina, Robin Smith, Jeetu Verma
Note: Listen to Slice of SciFi show #163 (Sat., May 31, 2008) for more about “The Fall”
“A Byzantine mix of The […]

Source: BBC Press Release
Julie Graham, Max Beesley, Nikki Amuka–Bird and Paterson Joseph star in “Survivors,” Adrian Hodges’s exciting new action adventure drama series for BBC One produced by BBC Drama Production.
Imagine being the only survivor of a disease that kills every member of your family, that kills lovers, friends, nearly everyone you’ve ever met.
You […]

DC COMICS’ SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF CREATIVE AFFAIRS GREGORY NOVECK DISCUSSES “BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHT”

DC Universe original animated movies are created by a unique collaboration between four diverse units within the Warner Bros. family – Warner Premiere, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros Animation and, the source of the characters and many of the stories, DC Comics. […]

Beginning Saturday, May 31, 2008 and running until midnight Pacific time July 5, 2008 two lucky winners will receive a 2-DVD Pack containing the complete Volumes 1 & 2 of “Oban: Star Racers.” In Volume 1 the race begins with 13 uncut episodes of the ALWAS Cycle followed by the Volume 2 grand finale in […]

Written by: Emilio D’alise (SoSF Staff Journalist)
Sam looked around the room. They were all there, looking back at him, for he was one of two people in the room who knew the identity of the murderer. The murderer was the other; the murderer who […]

A new web show from the producers of Prom Queen: Foreign Body!

From the creators and producers of “Prom Queen” comes a sexy and exotic thriller that will take you from streets of Delhi, India to the sunny shores of California as a group of young medical professionals will go to any length to get ahead […]

This Week’s Voicemail Show!
This is the show for our inquiring fans and listeners and their voicemails, emails. We want to hear your comments and feedback… No, really, we do! Pay no attention to how much Mike grumbles about them…you know - that guy sitting in the dark corner with all the knobs […]

Parade Magazine and Slice of SciFi collaborated for The Ultimate Star Trek Quiz. Think you know about Captains Archer, Pike, Kirk, Picard, Sisko and Janeway, or all the other important members of their crews? Now is your chance to test your Trek knowledge with our 50-question quiz.
Also available is Parade Magazine’s exclusive interview […]

Proving that there are still places in the world where pre-modern culture humankind exists - members of an unknown Amazon Basin tribe and their dwellings are seen during a flight over the Brazilian state of Acre along the border with Peru in a May, 2008 photo distributed by Survival International. The organization calculates that […]

“Saved By the Bell” alum Elizabeth Berkley who made her big screen debut showing all in the overly-hyped flop of the 20th Century in “Showgirls” is joining the cast for the sequel to “Donnie Darko.”
Titled “S. Darko,” this next film continues the bizzare tale in the Darko family tree and picks up seven years after […]

Source: SCI FI Wire
SCI FI Channel announced summer premiere dates for new and returning series, including “Ghost Hunters International,” “Stargate Atlantis,” “Eureka” and a new version of “Scare Tactics.”
The new third season of “Scare Tactics” kicks off July 9 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with two back-to-back episodes. New host Tracy Morgan (NBC’s “30 Rock”) […]

Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear are ending the first season of Shadow Unit with a serialized novel set during the week it appears on the web. Through Saturday (May 31), new installments are being released each night at 7 PM CDT that cover the past 24 hours in the lives of the characters.

Shadow Unit […]

Written by: Michael Logan for TV Guide
Cylon Centurions courtesy NBC Universal

This is officially the coolest frackin’ sci-fi collectible ever — and it’ll only set you back $7,900 (USD)!
Fans of Battlestar Galactica can now purchase their very own 7-foot-tall, museum-quality Cylon Centurion complete with stereo sound and a menacing red LED-scanning eye.
“This is not a mass-produced […]

Actor/writer/producer and director Walter Koenig made a visit on “The Que?,” Marc Wade’s video feature from Roddenberry Productions.
Walter Koenig has had an illustrious career that has spanned four decades and shows no sign of ending anytime soon. His most memorable roles were Starfleet officer Pavel Chekov on Star Trek the original series and seven […]

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights - underground. But Ember’s once powerful generator is failing… and the great lamps that illuminate the
city are starting to flicker. Now, in a race against time, the citizens must search Ember for clues that will unlock […]

Submitted by: Jeffrey Willerth (FarPoint Media Managing Director - West Coast Office)
The SCI FI Channel and SciFi.com are launching consumer game site Fidgit today. Fidgit’s fun and factual games will feature the language and attitude of gamers, but will be designed to appeal to both genre and non-genre game players.
The Web site will include game […]

It only seems appropriate since tonight is the ABC “Lost” season finale that those crazy entertainment geniuses, The Fine Bros., should have their own Lost Parody season finale as well…..and they have been kind enough to send us a copy to share with all our Slice of SciFi fans.
Featured for the parody finale is “Indiana […]

Our special guest on this week’s Slice of SciFi show (#163) will be producer/writer Robert Wertheimer, the executive producer of “Charlie Jade.”
Robert Wertheimer has been working steadily in the entertainment industry for nearly 30 years and has produced or been involved in the production process of many well known projects including the “Friday the 13th” […]

When news of the first series of the revived Doctor Who hit the Internet, it seemed that everyone and his uncle and aunt was being approached to write an episode for the new series. The rumors ran rampant from any number of writers for the on-going novel series to best-selling author J.K. Rowling.
One of […]

We pay tribute to two Star Trek veterans who have away in May. Veteran television and film director Joseph Pevney and music composer and director Alexander Courage.
Joseph Pevney has passed away at the age of 96.
Pevney directed fourteen episodes of the original Star Trek, tying him with Marc Daniels as one of the series […]

According to Wired.com, Joss Whedon fans are already beginning a big campaign to save the popular writer/director/producer’s next SF project titled “Dollhouse,” before it has even hit the air.
There doing this, not because they think Whedon has a stinker on his hands, but because they all know which network the television series will be premiering […]

The Walt Disney Studios Forms “KINGDOM COMICS” to Create Graphic Novels & Film Projects
The Walt Disney Studios has signed a multi-year deal with Ahmet Zappa, Harris Katleman and Christian Beranek to oversee the newly christened Kingdom Comics, an innovative new venture of developing graphic novels to create new film projects for the Studio as well […]

The SCI FI Channel will be moving into a new market this year. The genre network has plans to begin airing soon in Russia.

“Iron Man” rockets into outer space for real this time without icing up when the blockbuster film gets a special viewing aboard the International Space Station!

Why is Ghost Rider Johnny Blaze […]

The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have come to a tentative agreement for their next three-year contract.
According to union sources this new contract deal will establishe fees for content streamed and downloaded over the Internet and preserve an actors’ rights of […]

Our friends over at io9.com have sent us the first set of images that show the concept art for what Bruce Willis and the cast of “The Surrogates” will be wearing in this strange, but interesting film about a futuristic society in which very few venture out of doors. All interaction is done through […]

Congratulations to our three lucky winners of the “Avatar Airbender — Book 3: Fire, Vol. 3″ DVD set. Be looking for your copies in the mail within the next week.
Debbie Criss of Lyons, In.
Hy Tang of San Jose, CA
Diane Rykken also from San Jose, CA
Slice of SciFi is currently running contests for Season […]

Our roving interviewer was invited to participate in a Q&A press conference with Emmy winning producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, the creator of the new ABC Family original SF television series “The Middleman,” due for the cable network’s summer season.

“The Middleman,” is based on the graphic novel created by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine. It […]

All totals are U.S. box office only. SF and genre-related films are in bold.
Title (Distributor)….Weekend Total…Engagements….Accumulative
1 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount)….$100,137,835….4,260….$125,178,907
2 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Buena Vista)….$22,794,989….3,929….$90,839,999
3 Iron Man (Paramount)….$20,447,253….3,915….$252,614,669
4 What Happens in Vegas (20th Century Fox)….$9,116,935….3,188….$54,362,827
5 Speed Racer (Warner Bros)….$3,942,756….3,112….$36,152,093
6 […]

“The Andromeda Strain” miniseries aired yesterday and will continue to air today on the A&E Cable Network. And, in even more exciting news the DVD of the miniseries will hit the streets beginning next Tuesday, June 3. Ridley Scott (”Blade Runner”) is producing the remake of this classic sci-fi tale based on the […]

On this week’s show we reported that George Lucas revealed that he has an idea for the next installment of the Indiana Jones franchise.
Given the box-office success this weekend of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a fifth Indy feature would seem like a no-brainer?
Well, maybe. 
Before Indy would don the legendary fedora […]

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