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Available as a 9 disc set on Blu-ray September 16th
Bring home the adventure and share Star Wars™ with your whole family – when [sfs=1098]STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA[/sfs] comes to Blu-ray Disc from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment! To be released beginning on September 12 internationally and on September 16th in North America, the nine-disc collection brings the wonder of the entire Saga direct to your living room, where you can revisit all of your favorite Star Wars moments – in gorgeous high definition and with pristine, 6.1 DTS Surround Sound. Dive deeper into the universe with an unprecedented 40+ hours of special features, highlighted by never-before-seen content sourced from the Lucasfilm archives.

Why Star Wars Stands the Test of Time

It’s been in our lives for nearly 35 years, and yet Star Wars is as great now as it was in 1977, and with the new prequels to boot, still popular with audiences everywhere! This feature looks as why Lucas’ space saga is still on the “most loved” list.

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In case you haven’t heard (because you are somewhere stuck outside the space-time continuum), the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is just two years away (sad that nowadays that seems to close, at least in the entertainment industry), and actor John Barrowman would LOVE to appears as Captain Jack Harkness on the show again, and appear with 11th Doctor Matt Smith (which would be his third Doctor, which I think elevates his multi-Doctor companion status to levels only exceeded by Elisabeth Sladen and Brigadier Nicholas Courtney, both of who sadly passed away this year).

But if you want to see them together, you need to ask the BBC, according to Barrowman. “I don’t think it’s a question of whether I would like to come back as Captain Jack, I’d be very happy to do that any time. I know the fans would really like that. But it’s a decision left up to the BBC and the drama department.” Captain Jack currently belongs with the Torchwood gang, which is still run by Russell T. Davies, whereas Doctor Who is now run by Steven Moffat. So it would really likely be up to Moffat to bring Jack back, and he isn’t talking about the anniversary much yet.

But it seems if you want to see it happen, it can’t hurt to start letting the BBC know…

In honor of the 45th anniversary of Star Trek (it was yesterday, but I was pretty busy), here is a neat infographic that puts the franchise into a timeline with a few other events…
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In an interesting move that involves three separate studios, both Dreamworks and Fox have agreed to co-finance Steven Spielberg’s next directorial effort, Robopocalyse, based on the [asin=0385533853]novel by Daniel H. Wilson[/asin], about the day when our robot servants turn against us. The third studio involved is Disney, who will distribute the film domestically, likely under its Touchstone Pictures banner.

Following up to an earlier tweet (you are following us on Twitter, aren’t you?), Syfy announced today that they have renewed freshman series Alphas for a second season.

Mark Stern, President, Original Content, Syfy, and Co-Head, Original Content, Universal Cable Productions, made the announcement. Syfy is ordering 13 episodes of the breakout scripted summer hit from series producers Universal Cable Productions and BermanBraun Television to air in 2012.
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It’s never too late: KatzSmith Productions (a partnership between David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith) have reportedly signed a two-year first-look deal with Warner Bros – and one if the fruits of this deal could be a true sequel to the 1988 Tim Burton-directed Beetlejuice.

Seth Grahame-Smith wrote the screenplay for the upcoming Tim Burton movie Dark Shadows, which helped spark the deal. He will write two scripts, one of which is expected to be Beetlejuice 2. No word on whether Burton or title star Michael Keaton will be involved yet.

Powerful Mondays is back on Syfy next Monday, so here are the previews for Eureka and Alphas. If you’re looking for the Warehouse 13 preview, check out the separate article.
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Caprica star Alessandra Torresani (who played the first Cylon, Zoe Graystone) reunites with co-star Sasha Roiz (who played Sam Adama) who returns as the mysterious Marcus Diamond next Monday on Warehouse 13!

Torresani will portray Megan, a young girl whose destructive power seems to violently incinerate those around her. In trying to deal with this ability, Megan finds an unexpected confidante and friend in Claudia (Allison Scagliotti).

Also returning as guest stars from last week’s episode are Anthony Michael Hall (“Sykes”) and Kate Mulgrew (“Jane”).

Here is a quick preview of the episode, “Shadows”: Myka and Claudia are rummaging through an apartment in search of an artifact until they realize that it may be taking affect on the girl that lives in the apartment even though it’s not there. They decide they have to take her with them to find it and control it. Her landlord catches them leaving the complex and claims she’s two weeks late in paying. The situation escalates to anger and the girl affected by the artifact takes her state to a physical level of harming the landlord, and runs away in fear of her own power. You’ll have to watch the clip and tune in at 9/8c on Syfy to see if Myka and Claudia can not only find the artifact, but first find the person it’s controlling.
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The latest in the X-Men movie franchise, X-Men: First Class comes out on [asin=B004LWZW4C]Blu-ray[/asin], [asin=B004LWZW42]DVD[/asin] and [asin=B005HNMPBM]Amazon Instant Video[/asin] this Friday, September 9th. I’ve had an early look at the DVD, and here are my impressions.
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It may not be surprising that there is some backlash to the changes being made to the upcoming [sfs=1098]upcoming Blu-ray release[/sfs] of the Star Wars saga. But some hardcore fans are calling for a boycott.

As we discussed before, some of the changes seem to be for he better, and we do Lucas has always detested when he had to settle for OK because technology didn’t allow for what he wanted. But are the changes to drive up sales as claimed? I’m not so sure. They don’t seem to be complaining about the inclusion of extras that easily could have been included in past releases – if anything that is going to be the driving factor on getting money from people who have already purchased it before. It is also a technology refresh – Blu-ray is still gaining steam to replace DVD, and with HD televisions also gaining, the higher resolution does make a difference. I really don’t think anyone is going to buy set set just to see an Ewok blink.
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