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Fox, Warners settle Watchmen rights
by Doc on Jan.16, 2009, under Movies
The drama over the rights to Watchmen appears to be over. Warner Bros. and Fox have reportedly reached a settlement over the rights to the Watchmen movie, due to be released in March. No details were disclosed.
JMS gets BAFTA nomination
by Doc on Jan.15, 2009, under General News
PumpHunter writes “J. Michael Straczynski, creator and writer most known for the sceience fiction TV series “Babylon 5”, has been nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (the British Oscar) in the category best original screenplay, for the movie Changeling directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Angelina Jolie, both also nominated in their respective categories.
The awards ceremony will take place Sunday 8th of February 2009 at the Royal Opera House in London.” Update: JMS’s response? “Sonuvagun…” and “And I’d thank my hairdresser if he or she could just find some hair to dress…”
Ricardo Montalban has passed away
by Doc on Jan.14, 2009, under Obituaries
Ricardo Montalban, best known as Mr. Rourke on Fantasy Island and perhaps some Chrysler commercials but better known among genre fans in perhaps his best role as Khan Noonian Singh in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and also won an Emmy for role in How The West Was Won and the SAG Lifetime Achievement award in 1994, passed away this morning at the age of 88.
Patrick McGoohan of The Prisoner has passed away
by Doc on Jan.14, 2009, under Obituaries
The Thunder Child writes “Practically every news outlet is sharing the sad news that Patrick McGoohan passed away today at the age of 80, after a short illness.
Despite over 60 years of work, his classic series The Prisoner remains his most enduring legacy, and if you visit my blog entry today on Mr. McGoohan, you can view a 9-minute video of him being interviewed by Warner Troyan in 1977, in front of a live studio audience (posted at YouTube).
I’ll be having a Prisoner marathon tonight…
http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2009/01/patrick-mcgoohan-has-died.html“ I changed the title of the article to reflect the news, which I was about to post. Aside from his well known role in The Prisoner, McGoohan’s most recent major role was as King Edward Longshanks in Braveheart, also the evil Roger Devereau in Silver Streak, but also guest starred several times on Columbo, for which he won two Emmys.
Lots of Galactica videos
by Doc on Jan.12, 2009, under Television
Sorry for the delay – there was a problem getting webisodes 4 and 5 due to some confusion, but I finally have them – along with 6 through 9. You can find them all on our YouTube Channel. They may not be in perfect order, however because of how they got uploaded. I’d embed them, but NBC Universal loves to mark these as “copyright infringing”, even though their promotion company supplies them to me for this purpose. Until the “dispute” is resolved, I can’t embed them, but at least parts 4 and 5 are below if you Read More. I’ll add the rest when possible. Update: The three parts of “The Top 10 Things You Should Know” are now available as well below. Update 1/13: I’m afraid I’ve failed you. Well, my non-US readers at least. Apparently because of their “exclusive” relationship with Hulu, NBC Universal is not allowing me to post all of the videos – even though it was allowed in the past and they didn’t say anything this time. Not even sure why they provide the files then. Webisode 7 has already been stricken, and I expect 6 and 8 to go as well. No idea why 4, 5 and 9 haven’t been tagged. So I’m afraid I’m done with them. Update again: I am pulling the webisodes from my channel. SCI FI is supposed to upload these to their own channel for the non-US viewers shortly.
Reminder: Stargate Atlantis finale tonight
by Doc on Jan.09, 2009, under Television
Just a reminder that the series finale for Stargate Atlantis airs tonight at 9pm ET on the SCI FI Channel.
Ian McKellen talks Number 2 about The Prisoner
by Doc on Jan.09, 2009, under Television
Ian McKellan, who plays Number 2, the controller of The Village in the upcoming AMC The Prisoner miniseries, talked a bit about the role and the show to some journalists. He talks about the approach to the role, about the show itself and how things will actually be explained, contrary to the original, and a bit about street surveillance. The Prisoner will air next November.
Peek at new Star Trek tech
by Doc on Jan.08, 2009, under Movies
TrekMovie.com has some images of the props to be used in the upcoming Star Trek movie – which in some ways are faithful to the originals, but others not so much. It is difficult to judge size, but Kirk’s communicator has what appears to be the basic shape but might as well be the Motorola cell phone I had a few years ago – even the logo reminds me of it. Uhura’s earpiece looks spot on. Bones’ medical tricorder, however, looks more like a haphazard flashlight with a dentist’s mirror on top, and there is some speculation that it is perhaps just the sensor part. In addition, Playmates will be producing toy versions of the communicator, tricorder, and phaser. The props are currently on display at the Lenovo booth at CES.
Tron gets young lead actor
by Doc on Jan.07, 2009, under Movies
The lead actor has been cast for Disney’s sequel to Tron (which is now currently just being called Tron. Garrett Hedlund (Troy, Eragon) will play a man pulled into the computer world and must follow in the footsteps of programmer Flynn, originally played by Jeff Bridges who will reprise the role as the now CEO of a software corporation. No word if the title character himself will be back, originally played by Bruce Boxleitner.
SCI FI Wire gets redesign
by Doc on Jan.05, 2009, under Web Sites
SCI FI Wire has gone through a redesign (the third web site I’ve been to today), and I just have to say I’m not impressed. It was always a good site to at least know what was going on in SF, although the stories could be terse and require more investigation. Recently they seemed to be more interested in making “lists” instead of news, and the new site design bears that out. I did eventually find the news, but the formatting of the pages is completely off.