Sci-Fi Storm

Disney XD will premiere the animated TRON: Uprising sometime in June, and you can catch the recently release TV spot right here.

Done in an anime style, TRON: Uprising will fill in some of the happenings between the original movie and Tron: Legacy, and features the voice of original Tron Bruce Boxleitner, who says that Tron will be more “badass” than the original.

Finally, something on Disney XD that I might watch instead of my kids…
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Check out this teaser video for the upcoming multimedia production from Syfy and Trion Worlds, Defiance. Not only will this be an MMO shooter, but a TV series in which events will cross over.

Set in the near future, Defiance introduces players and viewers to a completely transformed planet Earth, inhabited by the disparate survivors of a universal war who endeavor to build a new society among the devastation. The game combines the intense action of a “AAA” console shooter, with the persistence, scale, and customization of an MMO, while its TV counterpart weaves the rich tapestry of the world into a series with the scope, characters, and drama of a classic sci-fi epic. Because they exist in a single universe, the show and the game will influence each other and evolve together over time, with actions in both mediums driving the overall story of Defiance.
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As if it was really in question, HBO announced today that Game of Thrones has been renewed for a third season, after only two episodes shown so far of the second season. The ratings on those two episodes have been stellar, with the season opener reaching 3.9 million viewers on the first showing, which was up 74% from the series premiere and it’s highest ever, and overall getting a gross total viewership of 8.3 million viewers.

This Friday begins six consecutive all-new episodes of Grimm on NBC! In the first episode, “Love Sick”, Nick and Juliette join Hank for dinner, Hank’s mystery date is very familiar to Nick…check out this sneak peek!
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Summit Entertainment has postponed the release of adaptation Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game until November 1st, 2013, from an originally announced date of March 15th. No reason is known at the moment.

Ender’s Game stars Asa Butterfield (Hugo) as Ender, the child who is taken to be trained to help fight the insectoid Formics; Abigail Breslin (Zombieland, My Sister’s Keeper) as Ender’s sister, Valentine; Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones, Star Wars) as Colonel Graff, in charge in the Battle School; and Ben Kingsley (Hugo, Iron Man 3) as Mazer Rackham, a hero of the war.

Tonight’s season finales of Being Human and Lost Girl mark the end of the Winter season of Syfy’s Powerful Mondays – but the Spring season kicks in right away next Monday, with the premiere of the fifth and final season of Eureka at 9/8c, and the second season of Lost Girl at 10/9c!

As Eureka’s thrilling fifth and final season kicks off, the town is reeling after the Astraeus and her crew mysteriously vanished just before their planned launch to Titan. When they finally crash land, Allison and the crewmembers are shocked to find themselves back in Eureka – and that they’ve been missing for four years. As the town copes with the shocking personal changes that have happened during their long absence, Sheriff Carter and Henry try to uncover the truth about the forces behind the crew’s bizarre disappearance – with deadly results.

Eureka stars Colin Ferguson (Sheriff Jack Carter), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Allison Blake), Joe Morton (Henry Deacon), Erica Cerra (Jo Lupo), Neil Grayston (Douglas Fargo) and Niall Matter (Zane Donovan). Returning for the final season will be popular guest stars Wil Wheaton (The Big Bang Theory, Star Trek: The Next Generation) as the contentious Dr. Parrish and Felicia Day (The Guild, Red) as Dr. Holly Marten. Co-creator Jaime Paglia and Bruce Miller are executive producers. The series is produced and distributed by Universal Cable Productions.

In the Lost Girl season two opener, a nomadic Fae sideshow comes to town to take advantage of the chaos caused by both the bombing of the Light Fae headquarters and the declining physical condition of The Ash. Lost Girl stars Anna Silk as Bo, co-starring Kris Holden-Ried as Dyson; Ksenia Solo as Kenzi; Zoie Palmer as Lauren; Rick Howland as Trick, and K.C. Collins as Hale. Lost Girl is a Prodigy Pictures Production in association with Showcase. Executive producers are Jay Firestone, Michelle Lovretta and Peter Mohan. Lost Girl was created by Michelle Lovretta.

Here is the complete list of Hugo Award nominees for 2012, announced yesterday.

The awards will be given out on September 2nd, 2012, at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, which takes place in Chicago August 30-September 3, 2012.

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Check out the first five minutes of the upcoming SF/Action movie Lockout, starring Guy Pearce and directed by James Mather and Stephen St. Leger. Lockout will be released Friday, April 13th.

As we alluded to Wednesday, it now appears that writer/director Gary Ross is walking away from directing the sequel to The Hunger Games.

The Playlist is reporting that he is walking away from the franchise – and although pretty much everyone expects that Lionsgate didn’t offer him much, they believe that his motivation to walk away may have been more than that, preferring to move on to something very different than working on the same thing for several years.

However, the other gotcha for filming the sequel – Jennifer Lawrence’s X-Men: First Class commitment – appears to have already been resolved between Lionsgate and Fox to allow Lawrence to shoot the next two books of The Hunger Games back to back. This could mean that the sequel to First Class – if it happens – won’t start filming for a while.

Update 4/7: Back the train up…it seems awfully quick for Ross to have backed out already, and it appears that it might be the case – Deadline says that he has NOT officially bowed out, and is currently on a family vacation. However, I’d expect a decision one way or another to happen soon if they hope to make their November, 2013 release date, and also not run into issues with Jennifer Lawrence’s schedule.

Syfy’s newest unscripted show, Dream Machines, starts next Tuesday, April 10th, at 10/9c. It follows two brothers, Marc and Shanon Parker, who take the wild concept vehicles you see in science fiction movies and comic books and turn them in to real, functioning vehicles! In the premiere episode, the Parker Brothers build a dream machine specially designed for rapper, 50 Cent. Check out the clip below!
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