SyFy Portal is reporting that Fox is seriously considering pulling the plug on “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” due to poor ratings. While it’s possible (we are talking about Fox) – with 10 un-aired episodes already in the can and nothing ready to fill the slot, it doesn’t seem likely — YET!
Official Marvel Shop opens virtual doors offering everything from paperweights to board games, DVDs to posters, Halloween costumes to new comic editions of fan’s favorite superheroes.
Thanks to Filmax’s Fantastic Factory, “The Orphanage,” “REC” and the Sitges fest, Barcelona, Spain ranks among Europe’s foremost horror hubs.
Marathon Group is launching animated series “Gormiti, the Lords of Nature Return” at the Mipcom Junior TV mart, set to take place in Cannes Oct.11 and 12, says Variety Europe. The 26-minute show follows the adventures of four kids who travel to a fantasy world, Gorm Island, where they gain superpowers to fight dangerous creatures called Gormiti. Series is based on the popular European toy Gormiti, created by Leandro Consumi, group brand manufacturer for Italy’s Giochi Preziosi, the world’s fourth largest toymaker and distributor, which has sold some 100 million of the action figures.
The Chronic Rift, a public access show that aired in New York in the early 1990’s has returned as a podcast. The program features fans and pros alike gathering to discuss various aspects of the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comics fields.
A Ukrainian airship visionary based in California has won further U.S. military funding to develop his miraculous “Aeroscraft” sky-leviathan design. However, some question marks remain over the craft’s unique – almost miraculous – buoyancy-control technology. The biggest question, however, is how much of this technology was Vorlon?
Fans try to save the home of Superman creator with an auction that included everything from original artwork to a role on the hit television show “Heroes.” The month-long auction, which ended on Tuesday, was done to save the dilapidated Cleveland, Ohio, house where Superman was dreamed up by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster more than 70 years ago. The auction’s goal was $50,000 and more than twice that was raised with $101,744.
Despite what is being said by director McG or what you may have read on the internet, director James Cameron, the force behind and co-creator of the Terminator for the first film in 1984, has not given his blessing to this fourth film of the franchise. “It could be a big steaming pile, or it could be brilliant,” Cameron said. “There was no blessing involved.” Cameron was responding to a comment in a blog from McG where the director of the fourth film wrote, “I’ve spent time with James Cameron, spoken to Arnold Schwarzenegger, gone over the story with Jonah Nolan, and enlisted Stan Winston.”
“Terminator Salvation,” starring Batman’s Christian Bale is set to premiere May 22, 2009.
Scientists have unearthed the remains of a large meat-eating 85 million year old dinosaur with a breathing apparatus much like a modern bird, fortifying the link between birds and dinosaurs and helping to explain the evolution of birds’ unique system of breathing.
A Norway consumer agency said it aims to take computer group Apple to court over what it calls unfair barriers to playing music from the iTunes music store on devices other than Apple’s iPod. Consumer Ombudsman Bjoern Erik Thon told Reuters he hoped other countries would follow the Norwegian example and file their own cases against the U.S. computer giant.
Technology company RealNetworks and major film studios on Tuesday squared off in a legal battle over a new product allowing consumers to make computer copies of DVDs that the studios claim is illegal. RealDVD, a software product from RealNetworks subsidiary RealNetworks Home Entertainment Inc, allows users to create a copy of a DVD for their computer’s internal or portable hard drive.
Daniel Craig’s next James Bond flick “Quantum of Solace” will open in India November 7, one week before its big premiere in the United States. India is quickly becoming a major film player in the world and is proving to be Hollywood’s biggest competitor with China and South Korea on its heels.
The AMPTP reject an offer (in letter form) from SAG to return to the bargaining table reminding the leadership of the actor’s guild that they already know and have the producer’s final offer.
Emmy nominated television writer Oliver Crawford, who wrote for “Star Trek” – The Original Series after being blacklisted in the 1950s, has died at the age of 91. He also wrote for many other shows including the SF weekly series “The Outer Limits.” His Star Trek teleplay episodes were “The Galileo Seven,” “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” from an original story by Lee Cronin, and “The Cloud Minders,” which he co-wrote with David Gerrold.