Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder,” co-starring Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., remains the top box office grossing film in the United States for the third weekend in a row. The satirical comedy about actors shooting a war film in a real jungle who end up fighting in a real war has garnered over $83 […]

A fan of George Lucas’ Star Wars universe named Daniel Deutsch decided he could make his own piece of Star Wars coolness and has built a working, electric landspeeder, the same kind used by Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. The only difference, unlike the one from the set, this one works in the real world […]

The Winners and Nominees of the 2008 Parsec Awards are:
Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form)
Winner — “Red Man” - Scott Sigler
Nominees
“Metamor City: Huntress,” -
“Kissyman” - Scott Sigler
“Delve”, Variant Frequencies - Matt Wallace

Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form)
Winner — “Heaven - Season Four: Wasteland” - Mur Lafferty
Nominees
“The Arwen, Season 2: Ulliam” - Tim Callahan
“Beautiful Red” […]

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Last week we asked which new 2008-2009 SF show would likely get a major Emmy nod. This week we look at those same shows but want to know which one do you think will be the first to be canceled?

Caprica

Crusoe

Dollhouse

Eleventh Hour

Fringe

Kings

Knight Rider

Life On Mars (US version)

The Listener

The Mentalist

Merlin

My Own Worst Enemy

Sanctuary

True Blood

Valentine

Virtuality

View Results

Slice of SciFi is proud to announce that we have won the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction News Podcast.
The Parsec Awards ceremony, the podcasting equivalent to the Oscars or Emmy, is held every year during the Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia and is the top award offered for podcasting and vidcasting.
The 2008 Parsec […]

E*Online’s Ben Lyons has released his list of the Top 10 Summer 2008 films. See if you agree with him.

10. Traitor: Clearly, Don Cheadle’s been hanging with Matt Damon so much, he wanted to make his own Bourne-style film—and he made a pretty good one while he was at it.
9. Mongol: A sweeping epic […]

Indy Mogul interviews Felicia Day and Kim Evey, the creators of “GTCMS,” “The Guild” and star of Joss Wedon’s “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog.” One of the great tid-bits from the interview was the girl’s news that Joss is working on a special DVD release of “Dr. Horrible.”

Interview: Dennis Hope, American entrepreneur and self-proclaimed Head Cheese of the Lunar Embassy World Headquarters
In the News: This week’s news has a theme!
Kevin McKidd, star of “Dog Soldiers,” “Rome” and “Journeyman” is in the running to be the next Highlander when Summit Entertainment jump starts the “their can be only one” film franchise.
Sean Connery, […]

We have three DVD copies of Uwe Boll’s Unrated version of “Postal” to give away beginning Saturday, August 30 and running until midnight Pacific time September 20, 2008.
The DVD package explains this film best: “Disgusting, offensive, stupid.” Prepare yourself for Uwe Boll’s idea of a hilarious, laugh-packed comedy that is based on the popular […]

Genre: Action-Adventure, Sci-fi
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Producer: Alain Goldman, Mathieu Kassovitz
Screenwriter: Éric Besnard, Mathieu Kassovitz, Joseph Simas
Stars: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Charlotte Rampling, Gerard Depardieu
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Film Critic SCORE =
1.0 out of 5 Stars
“More inert than argon gas and given over to obvious directorial hissy fits, Babylon A.D. is like a bad dream a cyberpunk […]

Please say it isn’t so. Rumor has it that Academy Award winning actress/singer/songwriter Cher, now 62, is negotiating for the part of Catwoman opposite Christan Bale in director Christopher Nolan’s next Batman movie.
A Warner Bros. studio executive is quoted by the UK’s Telegraph as saying “Cher is Nolan’s first choice to play Catwoman. He […]

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 […]

The “Heroes” Storyline Continues on NBC.com
BURBANK, CA – NBC.com premiered the 100th “Heroes” graphic novel this week. This seminal edition begins the series that will reveal the secret identity of Evs Dropper, the central character in Heroes Evolutions.
These graphic novels set the stage for the “Heroes” season premiere, September 22, 9/8C on NBC. […]

Visual computing technology company Nvidia has unveiled the first mainstream 3D gaming technology at the inaugural NVISION 08 conference in San Jose, which focused on the convergence of technology with Hollywood, games and business, according to Reuters.
Using the same kind of 3D glasses technology found in IMAX theaters when viewing 3D movies, the gaming industry […]

We have the latest publicity shot from Disney Pictures for the upcoming syndicated fantasy series “Legend of the Seeker,” which is being produced by Sam Raimi and based on Terry Goodkind’s “Wizard’s First Rule and The Sword of Truth.”

[Pictured in the ABC Photo are: Craig Horner as Richard Cypher and Bridget Regan as Kahlan]
“Legend […]

The animated movie, “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea” from anime filmmakerHayao Miyazaki is well on its way to becoming the most successful box office film in the country of Japan.
Now passing over $109 million (12 billion yen), the film is on track to surpass current champ “Spirited Away,” also from Miyazaki. First […]

The biggest news for SF fans will be the Blu-ray release of Michael Bay’s “Transformers,” starring Shia LaBeouf. The shape-shifting bots are brought to life in real clarity as never seen in HD that can’t even be experienced on the big screen in neighborhood theaters. The film was a blockbuster summer 2007 hit […]

A security flaw in Apple iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked, but the company said a fix is on the way, according to Gizmodo. The techi-blog said that it only took them three taps to gain access to locked iPhones, which […]

While we don’t know who will shuffle off this mortal coil on the second season of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” series star Thomas Dekker told the New York Daily News that when he heard, the news “shocked” him.
The actor first heard about the development following series producer John Wirth’s panel at ComicCon and thought, […]

It’s Barbilicious!

How To Build A Better Being is a new documentary from the National Geographic Channel (NGC) which examines unexpected genetic truths behind Spore, the upcoming highly anticipated simulation game from EA and Will Wright.
“What are the things that evolution has at its disposal to define a creature, to mix and match the parts, and eventually […]

Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II is currently recruiting crew for their fall 2008 shoots…and beyond

Principle photography on “Enemy: Starfleet” is scheduled to continue on September 4-7, 2008; and “The Child” is scheduled to film from October 6-18, 2008. Both film shoots will take place at Retro Film Studios in Port Henry and Ticonderoga, […]

It’s compact, its futuristic, it scrunches up and shape-shifts like a Transformer. What is it? It’s the automobile of the future…that is, if the Norwegian designer of The Peugeot 888, has his way.
This new design for future road travelers is set to hit the market with the manufacture hoping that this kind […]

At this years Pusan Festival in South Korea the main theme will set around eleven superheroes in a tribute called “Superheroes in Asia.” The event takes place beginning October 2nd, according to Variety Asia.
Some of the other themes to be highlighted at the festival are anime with its “Ani Asia! A Leap of Asian […]

Marvel and Madhouse are joining forces to bring some of Marvel’s best known superheroes to anime in a push to make the comic giant’s cast of characters better known in Japan and a major competitor in the tight Japanese anime market.
The first set of superheroes to hit as a series will be Iron Man and […]

“Chuck” fans will be happy to hear that NBC has ordered up a full season of episodes for the SF dramedy about an IT geek who gets the entire United States security database downloaded into his brain and becomes a secret agent while still working at the electronics store. The series stars Zachary Levi […]

In December 2006 on our Slice of SciFi show #86 we reported that the HBO pay cable channel would develop a live-action series based on the Garth Ennis graphic novels titled “Preacher.” After nearly two years in pre-production it now looks as if HBO is backing down from its proposed presentation of the series.
In […]

Actress Tina Fey (”30 Rock”) and Robert Downey Jr. (”Iron Man,” “Tropic Thunder”) are in negotiations to voice characters in DreamWorks Animation’s “MasterMind,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
The animated feature film centers on a super villain who, after accidentally killing-off his nemesis and good guy superhero called Uberman, must find a new motivation for continuing […]

Microsoft Corp has released its beta version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). This test version, its second in these many months, is a total upgrade to the most used Web browser in the world, about three-quarters of Web users across the globe, from the world’s largest and most successful software company.
This release comes on […]

Due to overwhelming demand, “Star Trek: Of Gods and Men” is getting its own DVD release. Details on the DVD will be given out soon on the official Star Trek: Of Gods and Men website.
Sign up for the STOGM-DVD email list and you will be notified when the DVD becomes available, click the following: […]

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