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New Galactica on indefinite hold
by Doc on Nov.13, 2001, under Television
Bureau42 had it first, but because of our previous coverage it’s worth repeating – Yahoo has an article stating that Fox has put a hold on the new Galactica series because Bryan Singer is unavailable to direct the pilot, committed instead to X-Men 2. Apparently some internal squabbling between the TV and film divisions of Fox prevented him from doing both. Perhaps they should check on how many things JMS is up to nowadays… :^)
Straczynski Update
by Doc on Nov.13, 2001, under Comics
djryan writes “After what seems like ages it looks like JMS’ new Spiderman Comic will be hitting the newstands on Wednesday the 14th of November. This one’s special as it deals with the aftermath of the World Trade Centre disaster on September 11th. Expect it to be sold out fairly quickly. In other news, the hardback comic “Delicate Creatures” is reported to have been sent to the printers on the 9th of November and should be turning up in stores soon enough.” If you ordered Delicate Creatures from Amazon through our B5 Store and got a cancellation message, you may want to order again closer to its release.
Area 23 pilot movie website
by Doc on Nov.11, 2001, under Television
Just got e-mail from Will Crawford at Mindshadow Entertainment. They have a new web site up for their pilot TV movie, Area 23. The premise is that Area 23 is a Psu Ops division of the Pentagon, dealing with paranormal and terrorist threats, “by any means necessary”. Sounds X-Men-ish, and we’ve already go Mutant X, but I’ve seen clones outdo the original before. They’ve got some genre-related names already – Virginia Hey (Zhaan, Farscape), Carrie Dobro (Dureena Nafeel, Crusade), Brandon Scott (Alien Quest), Maggie Egan (ISN Reporter in Babylon 5), Anson Dekker (remember the bald biker from Wierd Science?) and Christine Steel (Jenny Andrews, Team Knight Rider)
Original Trek items going up for auction
by Doc on Nov.09, 2001, under General News
Got a few extra thousand dollars? Want a piece of television history? On Dec. 12th, eBay will be hosting a live auction of original Star Trek items, put up by members of the original production crew. I don’t think everything has been listed yet, but you can get Captain Kirk’s tunic, a complete set of scripts, and even the last remaining production model of the Enterprise. Time to sell the house…
Downtime
by Doc on Nov.07, 2001, under General News
I will be travelling the next two days, so the site is not likely to be updated until at least Friday morning. You can help by submitting the interesting stories in the meantime so I can slap them up on the page when I get back…
Shrek video beats Monsters, Inc. box office
by Doc on Nov.06, 2001, under General News
Seems the lovable ogre has staying power. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the DVD/Video release of Shrek managed to bring in $110 million in three days of sales (breaking all video records for the past six years). Monsters, Inc. managed only a meager $62.6 million this weekend… :^)
Offiical Ep 2 Trailer
by Doc on Nov.05, 2001, under Movies
Dragthor writes “StarWars.com has the official “breathing” trailer online. You have to have a registered version of QuickTime Pro 5 to view the larger resolution one. However, the medium and small versions do not require registration. It is the exact same trailer that was before Monsters, Inc.”
Dustrunners trailer released…
by Doc on Nov.03, 2001, under General News
Anonymous Coward writes “The upcoming animated web series, Dustrunners, has released an official trailer at: www.dustrunners.com. Really cool visual style for this ambitious sci-fi epic. Worth a look!”
Toy Story 3 in the works
by Doc on Nov.02, 2001, under Movies
SCI FI Wire has a story that Tim Allen, in a syndicated interview, said they are working on Toy Story 3. In addition, filming on Santa Clause 2 begins in January or February.
“Kirk, you ARE the Weakest Link — Goodbye!”
by Doc on Nov.02, 2001, under Television
According to the sidebar at SCI FI Wire, Zentertainment is reporting (I couldn’t find it) that there will be a special Star Trek episode of The Weakest Link airing Nov. 26th. It will feature William Shatner, Denise Crosby, John De Lancie, Wil Wheaton, LeVar Burton, Robert Picardo, Roxann Dawson and Armin Shimerman.