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The WizardMaster Will Save the Day....Or Not  There certainly isn't a lot of room for humor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. We're dealing with the end of mankind here, so it's kind of grim. But we nearly fell off the couch laughing at one part of tonight's episode. The terminator Cromartie has taken the appearance of a B movie actor named George Lazlo. Well in one scene tonight we get a news clip about how a little seen movie called WizardMaster has become a cult hit after the actor went berserk and single handedly killed 20 FBI agents. The film plays in the background and it's a hilarious Beastmaster riff -- the hero wears a loincloth, orders tigers around and consorts with blond bimbos lurking in the jungle. There's one problem with the addition of Shirley Manson to the cast as the shapeshifting terminator who is a wealthy CEO. She's so scary and efficient it's really hard to see how Sarah and John have any chance at all of stopping Skynet. Still, there's always hope we suppose. Posted on September 23, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Harold Ramis has written the Chicago Tribune to confirm that Ghostbusters 3 is in the works. "yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we'll take it from there."Harold Ramis was great in Knocked Up. And if Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd are also on board, we're on boards. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters: The New Generation, that's who. Posted on September 9, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Stephen King's N is Here 
A series of video episodes based on a Stephen King story debuted recently at NisHere.com. The series was created through a partnership between Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital, Marvel Entertainment, and CBS Mobile. There will be a total of 25 videos in all. The series will also be available for purchase at major online digital content retailers.
The episodes are based on King's original and previously unpublished story "N.," the tale of a psychiatrist who becomes the victim of the same mysterious and deadly obsession as his patient. This short story will be included in King's forthcoming collection of short stories Just After Sunset (Scribner, November 11, 2008) and published as a comic book miniseries by Marvel in 2009. The episodes were drawn by comic-book artist Alex Maleev, whose work has appeared on NBC's Heroes and colored by comic-book colorist Jos Villarrubia. The comic episodes were adapted by Marc Guggenheim, co-creator of the ABC-TV series Eli Stone with creative oversight from Stephen King. The voiceover cast includes Emmy and Golden Globe award nominee actor Ben Shenkman. Stephen King said, "I'm always interested in new delivery systems for stories and always curious about how those systems work with the old storytelling verities. This one, it seems to me, works extraordinarily well." Those who have been on the Internet long enough may recall Stephen King's online download project called The Plant. Below is the first of the Stephen King videos. They can all be seen on the CBS YouTube channel in addition to NisHere.com. Posted on August 8, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View)  HBO has come up with a number of clever websites to promote their upcoming show True Blood which debuts September 7th. Here's a few of them.
Posted on July 27, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) 34th Annual Saturn Award Winners Announced  The 2008 Saturn Award Winners have been announced. Cloverfield won for best sf film and Disney's Enchanted won for best fantasy movie. Sweeney Todd won in the horror category. Lost won for best network tv series. Some of the winning actors and actresses included Will Smith, Amy Adams, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Matthew Fox, Summer Glau, Michael Emerson and Elizabeth Mitchell. Here is the complete list of winners.
You can find more information about the Saturn Awards on the official website. Posted on June 26, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Dan Vergano of USA Today interviews M. Night Shyamalan, director of the new film The Happening. (Note: spoilers are ahead.) Q: How do you come by your interest in science? Science isn't a hot topic with most film directors, is it?The film opened in third place this past weekend, with over $30 million in box office sales. The reviewers have been absolutely vicious, although both Ebert and Roeper quite enjoyed it. Wired has an interesting article about the science behind the film. We haven't seen it yet. M. Night is a puzzle. We absolutely loved Unbreakable -- it's a must see -- but we really hated Signs. He's a kind of "love him or hate him" kind of writer. Posted on June 17, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Spielberg Planning Social Network About Ghosts and UFOs  Stephen Spielberg is planning to launch a social network about the paranormal and UFOs sometime this summer. The site will be called The Rising. As fantasy/sf fans are aware Spielberg has directed many films that focus on ghosts and aliens including Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Artificial Intelligence: AI. Spielberg also wrote the screenplay for Poltergeist.
TechCrunch reports that Stephen Spielberg has experienced a paranormal experience first-hand. Spielberg has apparently had at least one paranormal experience himself. There are stories of him staying in a hotel called Excelsior House and being so frightened by ghosts that he fled the room and moved 20 miles away. We've also heard anecdotes about Spielberg seeing the ghost of a dead relative repeatedly as a child. Whether based in reality or the product of an exceptional imagination, these experiences may have had an impact on his life's work and this upcoming social network.If it done right this new social network could be very popular. Here is an animated logo for the planned website. Posted on May 22, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Ellen Page Not Going to Raimi's Hell Juno star Ellen Page has dropped out of the new Sam Raimi horror film, Drag Me to Hell. Alison Lohman will take Ellen's place. Lohman will play a woman who is the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse in the story written by Raimi and his brother, Ivan. Principal photography begins March 31 in Los Angeles.We do love a good Raimi horrorfest. Posted on March 6, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View)  Ghost Whisperer starring Jennifer Love Hewitt is one of the shows that has been renewed in what has been a slew of renewal announcements. The Denver Post listed a few of the renewals and show restart dates in this article. Numb3rs and The Big Bang Theory were among other CBS renewals.
Post-strike, the networks are posting return dates for original series. On the CW, nine episodes of "The Game" return beginning March 23; six of "One Tree Hill" return April 14; five of "Smallville" return April 17; five of "Gossip Girl" starting April 21; five "Reaper" April 22; four "Supernatural" April 24.For Ghost Whisperer you can also catch season 2 of The Other Side webisodes on the show's official website. Things are less clear for Moonlight, the great show that started following Ghost Whisperer last year. Hollywood Reporter writes that the fate of Moonlight is still up in the air. There will be four new Moonlight shows beginning April 4th but CBS really needs to hurry up and renew Moonlight! Posted on February 21, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Bram Stoker Award Nominees Announced  The Horror Writers Association has announced the nominees for the 2007 Bram Stoker Awards. The winners will be announced at the 2008 World Horror Convention. Here's the list of nominees.
NOVEL: FIRST NOVEL: LONG FICTION: SHORT FICTION: ANTHOLOGY: COLLECTION: NONFICTION: POETRY: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Posted on February 18, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Stephen King Talks Duma Key  Stephen King discusses his new book Duma Key, which is the first book he has set in Florida.
In "Duma Key," which hits bookstores Tuesday, Minneapolis building contractor Edgar Freemantle moves to Florida and takes up art after being injured in a construction accident. His new life takes another turn when the supernatural intrudes.Duma Key is now available in bookstores everywhere and at Amazon.com at a nice discount. Posted on January 25, 2008 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Paranormal State premieres Monday on A & E The moguls walked out on the writers' strike negotiations, and it doesn't look good. That means that the future of fantasy and sf television programming is rather bleak in the near future. Reality shows and non-scripted shows will fill the gap. The new show Paranormal State premieres on Monday, Dec. 10th at 10PM ET with back-to-back episodes on A&E. Here's a clip from the second episode entitled "The Name." The episode description is: "Ryan and company enlist the assistance of psychic Chip Coffey to help a single Mom who is experiencing paranormal activity in a home that was once the site of brutal murders. But the case is turned upside down when it's discovered that Ryan himself is the target of a taunting demon whose name spells pure evil." Posted on December 8, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Horror Writers Perform Exorcism on Studios On Tuesday November 27th, the horror writers of the WGA took inspiration from the classic film The Exorcist and descended upon the gates of Warner Bros. to save the corporate souls which clearly are being possessed by the devil (he hates writers, you know). The writers explained: "Believing the media moguls not to be evil, but invaded by evil spirits, an exorcism was performed for the mutual benefit of the entire entertainment industry. The horror writers may be dark souls, but they do believe that good eventually triumphs over evil." See the video of the ritual here: Posted on December 3, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Stephen King Approves of New Ending For The Mist Stephen King approves of the shocking new ending for the feature film version of his novel, The Mist. He also is thinking very violent thoughts towards anyone who reveals the surprise ending. Though for most of its running time it's a faithful adaptation, in the last five minutes Darabont takes The Mist in a completely different direction from the way it finishes in King’s story. I loved it, but it's the kind of finish that's almost certain to inspire equal parts hatred and adoration among moviegoers.It's good to see that Stephen is as laid back as ever. The Mist is currently playing in theaters nationwide. And no, we're not revealing any spoilers. Posted on November 21, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) The Mist Trailer is Here Here is the trailer for the film version of Stephen King's novella, The Mist. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) wrote the screenplay and is directing the horror film. It looks dark, creepy and very scary as the ordinary people trapped in supermarket battle what's in the mist as well as their darkest fears. Posted on October 24, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Michael Bay to Remake Friday the 13th  Hot off the heels of his Transformers box office blast, Micheal Bay is recreating another franchise: he remaking
Friday the 13th.
The remake of the original 1980 horror classic, which turned the villainous Jason into a cultural icon, is being produced for New Line Cinema by Bay's Platinum Dunes banner. Platinum Dunes was also behind the revival of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "The Hitcher."We think it's terribly important that every successful movie from 1970 on should be re-made over and over again, so audiences won't have to be shocked by seeing a new, original script. And one re-imagining is not enough. Unless at least three directors have done a version of it, it really hasn't been done at all. Posted on October 2, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Sci-Fi Channel Announces Fall Lineup 
Sci-Fi Channel has announced its fall lineup and schedule.
The fourth season of Stargate Atlantis debuts on Sept. 28 and will air Fridays at 10 p.m. Atlantis will have a midseason finale on Dec. 7, a finale that will feature the return of Torri Higginson as Dr. Elizabeth Weir. The Atlantis team must ally itself with a known enemy to join forces against an even greater foe.It's a good lineup, except for the fact that The Dresden Files and Stargate SG-1 won't be around. Because we're still ticked off about those omissions. Still, Samantha Carter will be moving over to Stargate Atlantis, so that's good. And speaking of Stargate Atlantis, fans who don't want to be spoiled should be careful what they read online -- there are massive spoilers for the whole season everywhere. Apparently, they've already shown part of the season in Canada, which makes absolutely no sense to us. You've been warned. Posted on August 16, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Saw IV Coming in October  On October 26, 2007, Saw fans will be deliriously happy once again. Yes, there's going to be a Saw IV. Yawn. But what is cool is the annual Halloween Blood Drive which is undertaken in association with The Red Cross.
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Since the first SAW blood drive in 2004, SAW filmgoers have donated nearly 38,000 pints of blood. Some from their eyes.Horror fans have big hearts. And lots of blood that they don't mind sharing. It's a good cause, so why not donate some blood? Even if you have no intention of ever seeing another Saw movie as long as you live. For us, two of the movies was more than enough. But if you're already planning your outfit for October 26th, we won't judge. Posted on August 9, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) ABC Offers Masters of Science Fiction ABC will offer an anthology series this fall called Masters of Science Fiction. It sounds like The Twilight Zone meets Amazing Stories. The show at hand is "Masters of Science Fiction," a limited series of adaptations of short stories, offered in August by ABC. In some ways, this is pretty amazing stuff: material from top-flight authors like Robert Heinlein and Harlan Ellison, directed by well-known directors like Mark Rydell ("On Golden Pond") and Michael Tolkin ("The Player"), with actors like Sam Waterston, Judy Davis, Brian Dennehy, Anne Heche and Malcolm McDowell. On the other hand, the series will be broadcast in the dead of summer on Saturday nights, suggesting that the network sees its likely audience as pudgy misfits in "Star Trek" costumes, their vintage plastic phasars set for "stun."Sounds worth checking out, for the source material and guest stars alone. We know Judy Davis and Anne Heche can do weird and spooky. Posted on August 1, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) Sunshine Director Danny Boyle Talks Science Fiction In this video Danny Boyle, the director of the recently released film Sunshine, discusses the science fiction genre and the difficulties of science fiction conventions with Kurt Loder. Sunshine takes place fifty years from now. Our Sun is failing and a vital mission has been sent to explode a bomb inside the Sun to try and reignite it. A couple other interesting Sunshine videos include this video that shows the filmmakers simulating the experience of Zero G and this more horrific video that shows the deaths of each crew member of the Icarus II. Posted on July 26, 2007 Permalink | Subscribe | | | Comments (View) |
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