Source: mLive Written By: John Douglas (The Grand Rapids Press) Submitted by: Lesmond If you saw the Chinese film In the Mood for Love, a 2000 release starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung, then you know it was quite the sumptuous, erotic experience. That love story, bathed in magnificent photography, is a slow-paced look at [...]
Lloyd Bochner Remembered
November 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: SciFi Wire Submitted by: Kyle Nin Twilight Zone's Bochner Is Dead Lloyd Bochner, a veteran character actor best known to SF fans for his starring role in the classic Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man," died Oct. 29 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., after battling cancer, the Associated Press reported. He was [...]
Fireballs Over Germany Fuel UFO Speculation
November 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: CNN World BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- Numerous sightings of massive fireballs in the skies over Germany this week have led to an upsurge in reports of UFOs, but scientists believe the cause could be a bizarre annual meteor blitz.
Museum Exhibit Melds Science and Fiction of Star Wars
November 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: The Boston News Written By: Theo Emery (AP Writer) Submitted by: Nina BOSTON --In a certain galaxy far, far away, fantasy -- not physics -- rules the frigid wasteland of Hoth and the infernos of Mustafar. Spaceships flit between planets, massive factories churn out robot and clone armies, and circuitry keeps alive the Empire's [...]
Jayne Goes Batty
November 4, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: Fangoria Submitted by: Nina Adam Baldwin (Jayne from Serenity & Firefly) is slated to be in a new Jeremy Kasten blood-sucking vampire flick called "Thirst." According to the zine and Moviehole, a young girl is dying from a terminal disease and decides to extend her life by becoming a vampire. Hmmmmmmm, just a tad [...]
CBS goes online with 'Threshold'
November 3, 2005 By 2 Comments
Source: Reuters/Hollywood Reporter CBS crossed a new "Threshold" on Wednesday when it announced it would offer three episodes of the rookie suspense drama free and without advertising on its CBS Website . Each episode will be streamed on demand following its airing in the Friday 9 p.m. time slot. At present, the episode "Blood of [...]
Cage is the NEXT Golden Man
November 3, 2005 By 1 Comment
Source: Variety Philip K. Dick's short story 'The Golden Man' is being turned into a big screen feature entitled "NEXT." It will star Nicholas Cage and Julianne Moore. Cage will also serve as one of the film's producers. Cage is Chris Johnson, a man with the uncanny ability to, not only visualize future events, but [...]
The Big Guy on a Really Really BIG SCREEN
November 3, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: ComingSoon.net Submitted by: Kyle Nin Superman Returns to be Released in IMAX IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Superman Returns will be simultaneously released to both IMAX® and conventional theatres on June 30, 2006. The epic action-adventure is directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men films, The Usual Suspects) and marks a soaring [...]
Fans of the Wizard Getting Scammed
November 3, 2005 By 1 Comment
Submitted by: Kyle Nin Warner Brothers Pictures has put out a WARNING on the site's Harry Potter official message board advising fans to steer clear of an email scam designed to target them. The fake email purports to be seeking people interested in auditioning for the next Harry Potter movie. Of course the crooks involved [...]
"The Dukes" of Smallville are on Tonight
November 3, 2005 By 1 Comment
Source: Zap2it Submitted by: Kyle Nin For going on five seasons, John Schneider has played Clark Kent's foster dad, Kansas farmer Jonathan Kent, on The WB's teen-Superman drama Smallville. That whole time, the question has been raised: When will Tom Wopat, Schneider's co-star on the hit 1970s-'80s series The Dukes of Hazzard, make a guest [...]
Kenneth Branagh to Helm Magic Flute
November 2, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: ComingSoon.net Submitted by: Kyle Nin Kenneth Branagh will direct a big screen version of the Mozart opera The Magic Flute, which will start shooting in January at London's Shepperton Studios, says Variety. The project, updated to the eve of World War I, will shoot in English rather than Mozart's original German, with an adapted [...]
Stay Out of the Triangle
November 2, 2005 By 3 Comments
Submitted by: Kyle Nin What JAWS did for swimmers the SciFi Channel's "The Triangle" may do for boating.
DOOM: Complete Mindlessness
November 2, 2005 By 1 Comment
Source: The Badger Herald Written By: Alec Luhn Submitted by: Lesmond Mindless entertainment in sci-fi movie Universal Pictures’ new action flick “Doom” plays like a videogame come to life. Oh, wait — it is a videogame come to life. Based off the id Software series of the same name, “Doom” was given a script, a [...]
It's 5-Year Mission: To Boldly Go.....
November 2, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: Space.com Written By: Tariq Malik (Space.com Staff Writer) The International Space Station So Far: Five Years of Service, But Incomplete The International Space Station (ISS) hit a milestone for human spaceflight Wednesday, marking five years of continuous human habitation in Earth orbit.
Serenity DVD Release
November 2, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Source: Browncoat Alliance BIG SERENITY DVD release announcement Universal Studios has revealed Joss Whedon's Serenity for release on 12/20/05. It will be available in dual anamorphic widescreen and full frame editions at the SRP of $29.98 each. Both of these versions will include Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, deleted scenes, a few outtakes, as well as [...]
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