Sci-Fi Storm

If you are SXSW, stop by the Defiance Container Village, follow @DefianceWorld and tweet #DefianceSXSW and grab some swag…Jesse Rath is somewhere around there – ask him to teach you some Castithan swear words 🙂

But if you aren’t, you can follow the Storify feed of the tweets below…I’m getting jealous though…they are giving out T shirts…
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Our friendly neighborhood vampire sent is the first four minutes of next Monday’s Being Human, “Of Mice & Wolfmen”, along with some other clips:

Hey –

I may be sick, but I’m not going to take this virus lying down. That and when I sleep, I dream about my wife & kid—so, might as well get up & enjoy my last few days. You can catch the first four minutes of the show below. Remember to tweet, like & share posts so you can unlock these even sooner each week.

And, among other (painful & funny) clips, I couldn’t resist sending you some love—Josh’s proposal to Nora.

See You,

A

Let’s hope our buddy recovers…and tune in Monday at 9/8c!

Sneak Peek: On Monday, Josh meets an old hippie wolf. Aidan remembers his wife and nearly dies from the virus, but is saved at the last minute by werewolf blood. Meanwhile, Sally starts craving human flesh.
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I’ve been hearing about this for a while, but this is the first I’ve seen decent footage of it…After Earth features the father-son team of Will and Jaden Smith as a military father and son (shocking!) who failed Ranger training, who crash land on a distant future, hostile Earth and try to survive to be rescued.

After Earth opens June 7th.
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Syfy has formally announced their Spring TV lineup, which includes the debut of new series Defiance, Deep South Paranormal and Weird of What?, plus the return of Warehouse 13 and Ghost Hunters. Read on for the complete release.

An added programming note – Syfy has decided to push off the final five episodes of Merlin and will instead air them on each Friday in May (May 3rd-31st). For at least the next two Fridays, the slot will be taken by repeats of Robot Combat League.
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Grimm returns to NBC tomorrow night! Check out all these clips, including interviews with the stars and sneak a peek at what happens in the Nick-Renard-Juliette love triangle…
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If you are at SXSW this weekend, you can get a look at that the town of Defiance looks like, chat with one of the stars – and even eat Defiance-style!

Syfy is taking over SXSW Interactive with the transmedia adventure of the Defiance Container Village (San Jacinto & 4th) – an immersive environment that recreates aspects of the futuristic world of Defiance in downtown Austin.

The Defiance Container Village will be live 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. from March 8 – 11. Some of the highlights of SXSW & the village include the following:

– Cast member Jesse Rath will live-tweet from @DefianceWorld. Tweet #DefianceSXSW to join the conversation & possibly win some swag, including a private happy hour in the village.

– SXSW GEEK Stage: The Making of Defiance, A Living Transmedia World

– A Need/Want Social Bar will allow visitors to express & share their personal needs & wants with an app that aggregates the collective results and posts them to the bar’s interactive wall & individual’s social feeds. Throughout the course of SXSW, Needs & Wants will be fulfilled for some lucky participants.

– Chi’Lantro, a Korean-BBQ food truck, will be dramatically transformed & serving its menu Defiance-style.

– One container in the village will be open for the public to relax, charge mobile devices & use the internet.

– Experience Defiance, play the game, mix with cast members, & party with DJs.

If you go say hi to Jesse for me!

It seems the U.K. will find out who their superactor Benedict Cumberbatch is really playing before the U.S. will…according to Deadline, the movie premiere has been pushed up to Thursday, May 9th, the week ahead of the U.S. release (May 15th for IMAX, May 17th for wide release).

Buried on the last page of an article with Businessweek about Disney’s plans for the Star Wars franchise, George Lucas was asked the billion dollar question – have the Big Three – Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford – all signed on for the next Star Wars movie.

“We had already signed Mark and Carrie and Harrison—or we were pretty much in final stages of negotiation. So I called them to say, ‘Look, this is what’s going on.’ ” he said. “Maybe I’m not supposed to say that. I think they want to announce that with some big whoop-de-do, but we were negotiating with them.”

Did he let the Jawa out of the bag? Fisher is already saying she is involved but her rep is now retracting that saying she was “joking”, so it all seems to be just waiting for the official word from Disney. (Could they be waiting for Star Wars Weekends, which start in May? Seems unlikely…)

He added, “I won’t say whether the negotiations were successful or not.” Sure, George…

It’s looking more and more like the classic trio of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo will be returning to tell the further story of Star Wars. Although there aren’t any details about plot yet, Carrie Fisher did confirm in an interview with Palm Beach Illustrated that she will return to the role of Leia.

And when asked what Princess Leia would be like today, she said, “Elderly. She’s in an intergalactic old folks’ home [laughs]. I just think she would be just like she was before, only slower and less inclined to be up for the big battle.”

She did not say for certain if it would be for Episode VII, a later episode or one of the “out of saga” movies, but presumably if they were bringing in the classic characters, even for cameos to kick off a new story, it would be in Episode VII.

Update: Seems there is a bit of premature announcement damage control going on. Fisher’s representative is now saying that Fisher was “joking”, and that no announcement has been made. Well yeah, we know no announcement has been made yet…but George Lucas himself seems to be spilling the beans too…

Here is the latest trailer for Iron Man 3…we see War Machine has a more patriotic design, and we get a good look at The Mandarin…and of course lots of booms and Tony Stark out for revenge…it opens in wide release and IMAX in the U.S. on May 3rd, and internationally on April 25th.
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