In the News:
- One year after YouTube opened up its partnering program by adding advertising to the videos, a small but growing number of entrepenuers are beginning to see a profit from using YouTube.
- The King of Rock and Roll has become an avatar.
- Universal Pictures has moved around the opening dates for three movies in 2009
Special Holiday Song: “Satan Baby” (Special thanks to Imp for this new take on the holiday classic)
Movie Talk:
- Darren Aronofsky wants a “hard core” RoboCop.
- Alfred Molina will voice the bad guy in next year’s direct-to-home-theater animated “Wonder Woman.”
Slice of Trivia: This week Kurt in St. George proves that made for TV sci-fi films don’t have to be SciFi Saturday with three new clips. Email your clips to Kurt, your entries could get picked and played on the show.
TV Talk: In a recent column, the Hollywood Reporter‘s Andrew Wallenstein called for a revolution in the way we watch webisodes–possibly a DVR of sorts for “recording” and keeping up with them.
Interview: This week, we talk to Michael Davies and Taryn O’Neill of “After Judgment”, a new webseries. The story was originally envisioned as a feature-length film that follows the world 100 years after Judgment Day has happened. Michael and Taryn talk about the series and where it’s headed, and the show’s on-line community of fans.
Special Segment: “Christmas Day”
What’s Coming in the Future:
- The voice of the Enterprise computers will be a familiar one in J.J. Abrams’s upcoming “Star Trek”.
- The sequel to “Alvin and the Chipmunks” has a director
- Kevin McKidd, formerly of “Journeyman” is in the running to play Thor
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I’ve been pretty surprised that nothing regarding Majel Barret-Roddenbery death on the 18th hasn’t been posted anywhere here. I mean did you guys tape before the 18th? I know you had the story about her voicing for the JJ Abrams Star Trek… Or am I just missing it?
I think Kevin McKid can definitely pull it off for Thor but I think he is actually kinda short. I work in down town San Francisco and I was going for lunch when they were filming the journeyman pilot (didn’t know anything about it, just knew they were filming someting) and I saw the guy from rome in a sports coat and I think he was shorter than me by a bit and I’m only 5’11.
who seaid “meh” to BSG grrrrr. BSG and SCC are the only real sci-fi games in town worth my time. I’m finding the writing on SCC very understated yet compelling; they’re not trying to do too much at once just living in the moment with the arc creepin along. Heroes I still watch but its more like a casual sci-fi party.