Sci-Fi Storm

Seems Universal isn’t going to be writing the check to Arnold’s $30M payday. Variety reports that Universal has dropped out of the bidding for the Cameron-less third installment, estimated to cost about $170M. A number of other studios are still interested.

Update 12/11: And the winner is…Warner Bros., who plans to release July 4th weekend, 2003, bookended by the Matrix sequels.

George Lucas, in an interview with Post Magazine (and scooped by Dark Horizons) said that it will take time to release DVDs of the first three movies, mostly because of the lack of materials to put together to make it a special release. A lost of stuff “just didn’t exist in those days,” Lucas said. Maybe they can scrape up the deleted Biggs scenes.

JMS’ new series for Showtime, Jeremiah, has been in limbo since the September 11th attacks because of its post-apocalyptic storyline. Read More for the message from JMS on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated…

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The Into the Fires Auction has a number of items signed by Babylon 5 actors (and a few others such as Virginia Hey of Farscape up for auction to support a number of charities, including Pat Tallman’s Penny Lane. Items include March of Dimes beanies and cartoons from Tye Bourdony of The Lighter Side of Sci-Fi.

The Sci Fi Channel has given the green light to begin production on the sequel to last December’s Dune miniseries, entitled Children of Dune. It actually encompasses both the second (Dune Messiah) and third (Children of Dune) books in the Dune series by Frank Herbert. It is set to air in 2003.