Sci-Fi Storm

If you can be in the Pasadena area on January 16-18, 2009, and have a hankering for some Colonial gear, props and costumes from Battlestar Galactica are set to be auctioned in a live auction at the Pasadena Convention Center. Friday the 16th will be a preview day, and the auction will take place on the weekend. After that, on Monday there will be an online auction of smaller items.

SF author, director and producer Michael Crichton, who wrote Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park and more, and created the long running TV drama ER, passed away at the age of 66 after battling cancer.

For the 40th anniversary of the release of Planet of the Apes, 20th Century Fox re-released all the movies on Blu-Ray today, including the original with a slew of extras, and a box set of all five films. Here is a review of the Blu-Ray release of the original movie. See the Sci-Fi Movie Store for all the individual movies (and DVD releases as well).

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Defying Gravity, a 13 episode series, is set to go into production in Vancouver January 19th by Fox TV Studios – but isn’t sold to a U.S. outlet yet. Gravity is more of an international production, and won’t be shopped to networks in the U.S. until it is completed. The series stars Ron Livingston (Office Space)and German actress Florentine Lahme (Impact), and is about eight astronauts from five countries who take on a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system. Executive producer Michael Edelstein says the inspiration came from the BBC docudrama Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets.

Tired of the same old same old? Stormtroopers stopping you on the street? Empire taking all your hard earned credits? Economy stopping you from taking that ski vacation on Hoth? Perhaps you should vote for Lando Calrissian!

Depending on who’s report you read, Heroes producers Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb were either fired or left over creative differences. Either way, ratings of the show have continued to slide, probably not helped by the complex storyline this season.