Sci-Fi Storm

AtomFilms and Lucasfilm have joined again to do the 2005 Star Wars Fan Film Awards, so get you video cameras rolling. Check out the past winners, and also Star Wars Gangsta Rap: The Special Edition.

The official website for Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, the long awaited anime sequel, has been updated, including an interview with Writer/Director Mamoru Oshii, and a full list of where you can see it when it opens in Friday 9/17. GITS2 features a hybrid of traditional 2D anime with 3D CGI.

Updated 9/15: The first 8 minutes of the movie are now available at iFilm.

blacknite writes “Check out these behind-the-scenes pics: http://www.sixbyte.net/fireflynwn/serenity/“

The first part of the second season of Lost in Space will be released Tuesday, containing 16 episodes on 4 discs – no special features as far as I can see. The second part will be released on 11/30.

TheForce.Net is running an article that Lucasfilm has confirmed at the DVD release press conference that a Star Wars TV series has been planned – but offered no details at all. And ComingSoon.net reports that Mark Hamill at the same event recalled a discussion he had with George Lucas years ago, regarding the fabled Episodes 7, 8 an 9.

SCI FI Wire has a report regarding the changes Lucas has made to the upcoming Star Wars Trilogy DVD set due out on the 21st, as well as Lucas’s feelings on making changes. I’ve already got both versions on laserdisc – now I’ve got to get another version…

In this remake happy world, the SCI FI Channel wants to be king. Both The Andromeda Strain and The Thing are on the table for the miniseries treatment, with Ridley Scott heading up Strain and Frank Darabont on The Thing.

This past weekend was the 62nd annual World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), held at Noreascon Four in Boston (which unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend depsite being nearby). As usual, the fan-voted Hugo awards were presented – see the winner’s list including the voting details for their “Australian” (or Intant Runoff Voting) ballot system. No suprises in Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form was taken by The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with 69% of the first-place votes. Short Form was won by “Gollum’s Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards”…

Jeremiah finally finishes its second season on Showtime starting at 8PM ET, with a second episode at 9PM. Two episodes will be shown each Friday for the following three weeks.

Countess Fenrig writes “A nice taste of what is to come. Farscape:The PeaceKeeper Wars concludes the Farscape series, after it was left on a cliffhanger and then cancelled by your friends and mine,”The SciFi channel.

Anyway, the trailer looks fab and looks to have had a decent budget too.

I dont do html but heres the url http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/farscape /“