From the monthly archives:

February 2007

Scanners to be remade

February 28, 2007

David Cronenberg’s 1981 SF horror movie Scanners is going to be remade by Dimension Films. The original Scanners told the story of a weapons corporation trying to use people with telepathic and telekinetic abilities (Scanners) as weapons. Still don’t know what film I’m talking about? It’s the one with the exploding-head finale.
The [...]

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Heroes and Zeroes

February 27, 2007

Heroes is going digital. The hit American TV series on the the NBC network is relaunching its Web site with new interactive features coinciding with a batch of new original on-air episodes. NBC hopes the multiplatform strategy will deepen the “Heroes” mythos with additional content for Internet and mobile applications.
Some of these new [...]

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Abrams Will direct the next Star Trek

February 26, 2007

J.J. Abrams the guy behind Lost and Alias and director of Mission Impossible 3 is going to direct the next Star Trek movie. For months there has been countless speculation over who will direct with Abrams’ name cropping up only for another rumor to say that he won’t. Now sources have told The [...]

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Spocks suit goes on ebay

February 26, 2007

Spock’s space suit from the original Star Trek Movie has been sold on ebay for $10,100, roughly £5,000 and quite of a lot of money though not as much as you would expect for the suit.
The suit was worn by Spock as he drifted through space to mind-meld with the V’Ger Probe in [...]

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Warner Bros plans Justice League of America film

February 23, 2007

Warner Bros. is planning a live-action feature film version of the Justice League of America. JLA is a society of DC comic book’s most popular heroes who come together to thwart evil. The League has included Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and the Green Lantern.
The screenplay will be written by Kiernan and Michele [...]

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret heading to the big screen

February 23, 2007

Martin Scorsese could be directing to the best-selling Brian Selznick children’s fantasy novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The book’s story centres around a young orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station in 1930 and a mystery involving the boy, his late father and a robot.
Variety reported that Warner Brothers [...]

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Welsh Roswell debunked?

February 23, 2007

Contributions to Wikipedia claim that the Welsh Roswell, a UFO incident in which aliens are said to have crash-landed into a remote Welsh mountain range in 1974 was actually a combination of an earthquake, a meteor shower and poachers carrying lanterns.
The Berwyn Mountains Incident which is often referred to as the Welsh Roswell has been [...]

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Miller ready to shoot Sin City 2

February 23, 2007

Frank Miller, who wrote and co-directed Sin City and executive-produced 300 both films based on his graphic novels, is now ready to start shooting the sequel to Sin City according to SCI FI Wire. He hopes to start shooting the film in late spring in Texas.
The sequel will be based on A Dame to [...]

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NASA and Virgin Galactic team up

February 22, 2007

NASA has teamed up with Virgin Galactic to develop space tourism. The agreement which will last for two years will feature NASA astronauts taking Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo on test flights 62 miles above the earth next year.
There are a number of possibilities for NASA and Virgin Galactic to collaborate on such as the development [...]

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Tapping to join Stargate Atlantis

February 21, 2007

With the longest running sci fi show coming to an end there has been much talk about what will happen to the stars of Stargate SG-1.
One cast member has been confirmed to move onto a familiar show. Amanda Tapping who plays astrophysicist Samantha Carter will be moving to the show’s spin off, [...]

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