posted by Doc
on Thursday July 02, @09:18AM
from the who's-your-Jedi? dept.
Kerrie Lopez from Atom writes in to let us know that Atom.com and Lucasfilm Ltd. have announced the 22 finalists for the 2009 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge, a contest featuring the best Star Wars-related short digital videos created by fans. Users can view and vote for videos at StarWars.Atom.com from Wednesday, July 1 until Friday, July 10 to determine the Audience Choice Award, which will be presented in a lavish ceremony at Comic-Con San Diego July 24th. Past honorees include such popular hits as "Chad Vader" and "Star Wars Gangsta Rap."
Movies: Asteroids to move from vector graphics to big screen?
posted by Doc
on Thursday July 02, @05:16AM
from the costs-more-than-a-quarter dept.
The bidding war is over, and Universal has won a big screen adaptation of the early video game Asteroids. Given the lack of any story to the game itself, it is pretty much a blank slate for newcomer writer Matthew Lopez (Race To Witch Mountain). Also interesting is that Universal is adapting board games "Battleship" and "Candyland".
Television: Alien Nation reboot on the event horizon?
posted by Doc
on Wednesday July 01, @12:29PM
from the slags-are-back dept.
Apparently the soon to be SyFy has big eyes for the reboots of other franchises...next up is the Fox series Alien Nation, about alien slaves being integrated into the general population after their crippled spaceship lands on Earth. The show dealt a lot with the political and social issues in a procedural drama more than the science fiction aspects, although when the scifi did come in, it often was dealt with in a fun way, making the series interesting. Apparently the focus on this will be less oriented on arc-based stories, instead taking a more mainstream self-contained approach, but there will be a developing mythology
Games: Toy that can train future Jedi to use the Mind Trick
posted by Doc
on Wednesday July 01, @12:22PM
from the expensive-toys dept.
It's not cheap, but it looks like it could be fun for a few hours - the Star Wars Force Trainer is expected to retail for $120 starting in August, and uses a headset that measures brain waves to allow you to control a fall floating in a column. This is the toy you are looking for...
posted by Doc
on Monday June 29, @01:23PM
from the wallets-transform! dept.
I guess it didn't need all the promotion Michael Bay wanted...Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen took in a whopping $201.2 million in five days, second only to The Dark Knight, and even took in another $181.6 million globally.
Movies: Star Trek Magazine interview with Kurtzman and Orci
posted by Doc
on Saturday June 27, @04:12AM
from the treading-space dept.
Also from Issue #19 of Star Trek Magazine is an interview with Star Trek producers/screenwriters and frequent J.J. Abrams collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Here is a brief excerpt.
Movies: Star Trek Magazine interview excerpt with Eric Bana
posted by Doc
on Saturday June 27, @03:57AM
from the galaxy-of-villains dept.
Issue #19 of Star Trek Magazine is on shelves now in the U.S. (July 9th in the U.K.) with plenty of interviews included. Read More for an excerpt of an interview with Eric Bana, who played the Romulan Nero.
Torchwood: Children of Earth beginning July 20th in US
posted by Doc
on Wednesday June 24, @02:06PM
from the back-in-the-hub dept.
Just learned this yesterday...Torchwood: Children Of Earth - the third series of the Doctor Who spinoff, except it is airing as a 5 part miniseries - will debut in the U.S. on BBC America on July 20th at 9pm ET, with the remaining parts airing on consecutive nights. It will debut in the U.K. on July 6th on BBC One.
Updated: Transformers makes $16M midnight run, $60M day
posted by Doc
on Wednesday June 24, @01:06PM
from the autopaybots dept.
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, with an unusual midnight opening on a Wednesday morning, took it $16 million in midnight showings, the biggest for opening on a Wednesday, and near the midnight haul of Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith. Updated 6/25: It concluded its first full day at a hefty $60.6 million, second only to The Dark Knight ($67.2M with a Friday opening), and may be on schedule for surpassing the goal of $150M through Sunday.
posted by Doc
on Wednesday June 24, @12:39PM
from the I-am-not-Wesley dept.
PumpHunter writes "Wil Wheaton, once dislike by school kids everywhere for portraying Wesley Crusher on the star ship Enterprise - a young man who actually wanted to do his homework, is going to be in an episode of TNT's "Leverage". Wil Wheaton told the world this via his twitter account, and posted a picture on set of himself and Leverage regular Aldis Hodge. Hodge plays Alec Hardison an all around smooth talker and computer nerd. Wheatons description of the picture suggests his role is along the same lines. Leverage returns July 15th." Wil has definitely moved from Hated Geek to Cool Geek...he even appeared on an episode of This Week In Tech back on February.
