Sci-Fi Storm

Omnilab Media and The Jim Henson Co. announced a sequel (PDF) to the 1982 cult classic The Dark Crystal entitled The Power Of The Dark Crystal, and like the original will blend live action and visual effects, but this time will also incorporate 3D. Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig (Daybreakers, Undead) will direct from a screenplay written by Craig Pearce (Moulin Rouge).

The finale for Lost on May 23rd was already clocking in at two hours, but ABC has now added another 30 minutes after the episode completed post-production. The show will now run from 9:00-11:30pm ET, and push back local news and the “Aloha to Lost” Jimmy Kimmel special.

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory snapped this interesting image – is Apollo giving us a message?

In honor of today apparently being “Star Wars Day” (May The 4th Be With You) and this year being the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, you can now star in your own personal version of the movie, thanks to JibJab.

It seems a production still from the upcoming episode of Doctor Who, entitled “Amy’s Choice”, has fans all a-twitter…as companion Amy Pond is visibly pregnant. Of course we have no idea what is going on, but in this show pretty much any speculation is conceivable, and it will probably still be wrong. UK viewers will find out at least some of the story on May 15th, but the US will have to wait two more weeks…as River Song says,”Spoilers…”

The entire 1987 TV series of Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future, a series perhaps ahead of its time (hundreds of TV channels competing for the limited attention spans of viewers in a cutthroat business), finally comes back to the future with a [sfs=1024]DVD release on August 10th[/sfs]. Ah, the Commodore computers (I owned one at the time), the Amiga graphics…I’m getting nostalgic…

Here are two new exclusive pictures from makingof.com: http://www.makingof.com/posts/photos/1716/1/makingof-iron-man-2-on-set-photos

SyFy will show all four hours of its upcoming miniseries (and backdoor pilot) The Phantom on June 20th starting at 7pm. There hasn’t been much I’ve seen on this…is that a good or a bad thing?

The Thunder Child fantasy and science fiction webzine has established a new e-publishing arm, Sacred Poet Press. Our first book is From Forry Ackerman to Orson Welles: The Views and Reviews of Steve Vertlieb.

Check out all the details at: http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2010/04/from-forry-ackerman-to-orson-welles.html