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SciFi Update

The Forever War Movie to be Made

August 4, 2010

Ridley Scott has been planning to bring the Joe Haldeman book, The Forever War to the big screen.The science fiction novel serves as an allegory for the Vietnam War. It seems that this is a few steps closer to reality as Joe recently let the writer’s identity drop:
Andrew, anybody can write a script for [...]

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The Lost Room – Final thoughts

February 8, 2007

Well the third and last episode of The Lost Room miniseries aired yesterday evening concluding the mysterious drama.
The miniseries centred around detective Joe Miller who lost his daughter in The Lost Room and tries to track down objects from the room that held magical properties in an attempt to retreive his daughter.
The miniseries also featured [...]

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Heroes Comes to the UK

January 24, 2007

Heroes, the latest smash hit show to rock the US, will be debuting on the Uk’s Sci-Fi channel on February 19th. The show centres around a group of ordinary people who gain extraordinary powers. There’s a cheerleader with the ability to recover from bodily injuries or disease at a superhuman rate, a Tokyo [...]

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American youth indifferent to space exploration

January 8, 2007

In recent surveys by Dittmar Associates Inc carried out in 2004 and 2006, it was revealed that vast amounts of 18- to 25-year-olds in the US were indifferent to manned trips to the moon and mars.  What worries Nasa is that this apathy may have a negative impact for future space projects.  Their taxes are [...]

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Marvel Franchises To Get The Big Screen Treatment

January 7, 2007

More Comic Books to Film Releases
 
2006 was a big year for films based on comic books and 2007 is set to continue the trend with a whole host of new movies.  In particular a number of marvel franchises are to get the big screen treatment and those already established such as Spiderman, are set to [...]

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ADRIENNE BARBEAU writes a book

June 3, 2006

ADRIENNE BARBEAU is interviewed over on UGO, in the interview she discusses why she decided to write the book and also goes on to discuss the stuff that is not in the book, and her journals.
“‘I’ve done daily journals for every day for 40 years. So once I got the contract and they said, “Ok, [...]

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