Back by popular demand, Starbase Indy returns to a three-day format for Thanksgiving weekend 2009 in the Indianapolis Marriott East, 7202 East 21st St. The science fiction convention has drawn people from around the Midwest since it started in 1988.
Headlining this year’s list of guest stars will be Garrett Wang, known to Star Trek fans [...]
Who: Trade&Row - a Los Angeles based 501c3 nonprofit organization established to develop and support community-oriented programs that engage current issues through the visual, performing and literary arts. For more information about Trade&Row, please visit: www.tradeandrow.org
What: Trade&Row, a nonprofit community organization, is happy to present its second annual Saturday Fantasy Film Festival Fundraiser. Indepen dent [...]
Universal Theme Parks Ready To Scare You
October 1, 2009 || Category: Events, Other | Leave a Comment
It’s October and that means only one thing–Fox preempting your favorite shows for baseball playoffs.
Oh yeah–and Halloween.
If you’re looking for a spooky, creepy or downright scary experience, you may want to make plans to visit one of the Universal Pictures family of theme parks. For October, the parks are going haunted and will offer [...]
Tony Todd, star of the Candyman horror film series, Star Tek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, will make his first ever Pittsburgh convention appearance at Horror Realm, September 18th through 20th
Todd, whose screen credits include the lead role in the 1990 version of Night of the Living Dead, is also an [...]
The Fright Night Film Festival has announced their official selections for the fifth annual celebration of Horror and Science Fiction films in Louisville, KY. Among them is the newest short film “EZ-CHEWIE” from Nashville based director Cameron McCasland. This will be the big screen premiere of the movie which has been gaining momentum on the [...]
Nimoy Donates Prized “Spock Ears” for Charity
August 6, 2009 || Category: Collectibles, Events, Featured | Leave a Comment
Los Angeles, CA - The world renowned star of Star Trek television, Leonard Nimoy, has has donated Spock ears from Star Trek IV (with authentication) valued at about $10,000 to be auctioned at the highly anticipated Company of Angeles’ Charity Awards Gala, along with additional one-of-a-kind Star Trek Memorabilia.
Co-founded in 1959 by actor Leonard Nimoy, [...]
2009 Star Trek Cruise Boasts Stellar Passenger Guest List
August 2, 2009 || Category: Events, Featured | Leave a Comment
Coming this October 11th 2009, take the cruise of a lifetime with Star Trek Cruise, and watch Star Trek: Of Gods and Men on the big screen, along with 5 of its guest stars: Tim Russ, Alan Ruck, Chase Masterson, Garrett Wang, Tim Russ & Marina Sirtis from TNG and Inalienable.
Do not miss this once [...]
Starship Farragut at Creation Star Trek Con - East
July 30, 2009 || Category: Events, Fan Productions | Leave a Comment
Starship Farragut will be exhibiting at CREATION’s The Official STAR TREK Convention - East Coast. The convention will be held at the Hilton Parsippany on Friday, July 31 through Sunday, August 2nd, 2009.
Starship Farragut will provide complimentary DVDs of all their film efforts, as well as posters, autographed photos, costume swatches, patches, [...]
Star Wars: In Concert Worldwide concert tour begins October 1 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California - USA
Massive multi-media event features stunning visuals, a live orchestra, choir and narration, plus an exclusive exhibit of Star Wars costumes, props and production artwork.
John Williams’ epic Star Wars scores, begins its worldwide arena tour on October 1, 2009 [...]
Leias in Metal Bikini Event To Take Place At Comic Con
July 1, 2009 || Category: Cool Stuff, Events | 1 Comment
In what could be one of the most popular and largest gatherings at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con, website Leiasmetalbikini.com is organizing a a Slave Leia Group Photo and Video Shoot at Gentle Giant’s booth on the San Diego Comic-Con floor.
Participants should be clad in their costume by noon Friday during the event and [...]
Tennant To Attend Comic-Con
June 18, 2009 || Category: Cool Stuff, Events, Featured, TV News | Leave a Comment
If you’re an American “Doctor Who” fan and haven’t made plans yet to attend this year’s San Diego Comic Con, you may want to try and change those plans.
BBC America announced yesterday that the man who brings the 10th Doctor to life, David Tennant, will attend the the annual San Diego Comic Con. Tennant will [...]
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SHORE LEAVE
AMERICA’S PREMIERE FAN-RUN SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
(BALTIMORE, MD.)-Shore Leave 31 will be held July 10-12, 2009 at the Marriott Hunt Valley Inn in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
Shore Leave is hosted by STAT (The Star Trek Association of Towson, Inc.), and is one of the oldest and largest fan-run science fiction conventions [...]
“The Shatner Project” Winner of First Streamy Award
April 2, 2009 || Category: Events, On the Net | Leave a Comment
Iron Sink LLC, a new media company, announced that its reality web show, “The Shatner Project” received a Streamy Award from The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV). The Shatner Project follows the adventures in life of pop culture icon actor William Shatner as he goes on the greatest adventure of all; his life.
Iron [...]
Starship Farragut Open House Event
April 1, 2009 || Category: Events, Fan Films, On the Net | 1 Comment
Beam Aboard Starship Farragut for a TREK in Georgia!
WASHINGTON, DC — Starship Farragut, an independent film project based on the original series of Star Trek, announced the hosting of an Open House Event on April 17th from 10 AM to 4 PM at its new filming studio just off the corner of Church and Osborne [...]
MIFFF Debuts the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival
March 31, 2009 || Category: Events | Leave a Comment
Seattle, March 31, 2009 - The Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival(MIFFF), a three day international showcase of animation, fantasy, horror, and science fiction cinema, is pleased to announce its inaugural launch September 18-20th, 2009 at the SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall in Seattle, Washington USA.
As a genre film festival in Seattle, MIFFF(www.mifff.org) is a unique [...]
The late Heath Ledger’s has been awarded the SAG award for Best Supporting Actor in his role as the Joker in last year’s hit film “The Dark Knight.”
Other SF and genre-related winners were “Heroes” and “The Dark Knight” for Best Ensemble Stunt performances in a television series and motion picture.
SF and genre programming were prominent [...]
As the convention date draws near, the Phoenix Comicon has added yet another guest: Chase Masterson. Along with the lady herself, her most recent film will be showing during the convention.
“Chase has worked in everything from film noir to sci-fi to dramas like ‘ER,’†says Matt Solberg, Convention Director, “She’s loved by fans, and we [...]
Citing the current economic climate, Wizard has postponed its annual Los Angeles WizardWorld Convention and cancelled its convention in Texas.
The Los Angeles show was scheduled to take place on March 13-15 and the Texas show was scheduled to take place in November. No word yet on when the Los Angeles convention will be re-scheduled.
WizardWorld will [...]
Death Stars and Combat Robots at the Phoenix Comicon
October 30, 2008 || Category: Events | Leave a Comment
The Phoenix Comicon has added two more sci-fi guests. They are Richard LeParmentier (“Admiral Motti†from “Star Warsâ€) and Marjean Holden (“Sheeva†from “Mortal Kombat: Annihilationâ€) — “Don’t mess with these people,†said Amy Black, Guest Liaison Director, “One is an Imperial Officer and the other a killing robot, so be on your [...]
MileHiCon, the Rocky Mountain Region’s largest literary science fiction convention will be celebrating its 40th anniversary October 24-26 at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center-Denver.
Run entirely by volunteers, MileHiCon will feature more than 80 authors and speakers, programming on every aspect of the science fiction and fantasy genres, the largest science fiction/fantasy art show in [...]
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Future of Television Forum (FTF) , now in its 8th year, is a 2-day executive conference, unlike any other, that brings together key decision-makers from cable and broadcast networks, cable and satellite operators, high-tech, Internet, mobile and advertising to focus on the future of television.
The event, which is widely recognized as one of the most [...]
What:
Los Angeles Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention
When:
Sunday, October 12th 2008
Where:
At Shrine Hall - 700 W. 32nd Street
Los Angeles, California — (across from the USC campus)
Cost:
Admission: $8.00
Special Guest:
Brent Spiner — Appearing 1:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M. To sign his new “Dreamland” CD
Brent Spiner starred as Data on the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” TV series and in [...]
The third annual “SCREAM,†Awards, a celebration of the best in horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic genre premiering on Spike TV Tuesday, October 21 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) from The Greek Theater in Los Angeles, CA. With categories including The Ultimate Scream, Best Superhero, Best Villain, Best Director, Most Memorable Mutilation and Best Fantasy Movie – [...]
Jonathan Coulton is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures, and a past guest on Slice of SciFi. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, partially-imagined historical figures, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store are insanely clever without ever being too [...]
The Phoenix Comicon has signed Yuri Lowenthal (The Prince in “Prince of Persia: Sands of Timeâ€) and Reuben Langdon (Dante from “Devil May Cry†3 and 4) to come and speak at the January ’09 convention being held on January 23-25, 2009 at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona.
“Everyone be polite,†laughed Convention Director [...]
The award winning actor Samuel L. Jackson has been a past guest on our Slice of SciFi show and it brings us great pleasure to announce that Sam will be offering up a chat with his fans on his newly revamped official Website on Thursday, September 18.
For more details about time REGISTER or LOGIN on [...]
Four New Sci-Fi Guests Explode onto the Phoenix Comicon Stage
September 13, 2008 || Category: Events | Leave a Comment
In addition to the already stellar guest line-up, which includes the iconic Lou Ferrigno (TV’s The Incredible Hulk), Motion Capture and Voice Actor of Dante from Devil May Cry - Reuben Langdon and Matt Greenfield, the American co-founder of ADV Films — the Phoenix Comicon has added actors Marina Sirtis, “Deanna Troi†from “Star [...]
The Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California (USA) will be presening Eric Joyner’s new paintings for his upcoming show, “Artificial Enlightenmentâ€.
Inspired by science fiction, toys, and Brandywine artists and illustrators of the 1900’s, Eric’s second solo with the gallery reveals the grittier side of robot life: mysterious donut factories, runaway steam trains and vintage [...]
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” [...]
