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'Watchmen' Fate Up To Judge
7 January 2009 11:41 AM, PST
Believe it or not, two sides battling over millions of dollars can agree on something. And that's exactly what happened in Los Angeles Wednesday as both Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. has asked a judge to decide whether or not "Watchmen" from Zack Snyder can be released in March as originally planned. Warner Bros. had planned to release the film March 6, but ran into a major snag when a judge ruled just before the holiday break that Fox owned the distribution rights to the film, a claim they asserted only after Warner Bros. paid to have the film produced. U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess is expected to make his ruling Jan. 20, according to the Los Angeles Times. That will avert a jury trial that could've delayed any ruling for months. Although both sides agreed it should be up ...
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Roddenberry Family Releases Video Tribute To Majel Barrett
7 January 2009 8:09 AM, PST
The Roddenberry family has honored its matriarch with a special video highlighting the amazing life of Majel Barrett Roddenberry.The video, offered exclusively to SyFy Portal ahead of its Jan. 8 premiere on Roddenberry.com, features never-before-seen photos of Mrs. Roddenberry growing up, with her late husband "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, with her son Eugene W. Roddenberry Jr., and from some of her most memorable television and movie appearances, including "Star Trek," "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Star Trek: The Animated Series," "Family Guy," "Earth: Final Conflict" and more.Mrs. Roddenberry died Dec. 18 at the age of 76. Funeral services were held last weekend in Los Angeles.Click here to view the video.
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Welling Nearing 'Smallville' Deal For Season 9?
7 January 2009 7:44 AM, PST
You can be forgiven for believing "Smallville" would be facing a kryptonite-infused series conclusion at the end of the current eighth season. But now it looks like The CW are keen to keep the Boy-of-Steel around for another year ... and they are willing to pay to get their wish. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that series actor Tom Welling is in serious discussions with the network to renew his contract for a ninth season. Even better, the deal involved some series additions to his paycheck. "There's news, and it's good. Some would even call it, ahem, super," Michael Ausiello said in his column. "According to a well-placed 'Smallville' insider, Welling is nearing a deal to return for a ninth season. I'm told they're just ironing out some minor deal points, such as should the Brinks ...
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Gil Gerard, Erin Gray On SyFy Radio Wednesday
6 January 2009 11:37 PM, PST
SyFy Radio returns with its final four episodes with Michael Hinman as its host with a special night celebrating the 1979-81 NBC series "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century." Hinman will be joined by the two stars of that show, Gil Gerard and Erin Gray, during Wednesday's two-hour broadcast which begins at 10 p.m. Et/7 p.m. Pt at www.SyFyRadio.com. They will begin a slate jam-packed shows going straight to the end of January when Hinman hands the reins of SyFy Radio over two new hosts Wayne Hall and Nick Chase. That includes the married voice acting team of Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt Jan. 14, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" actress Marina Sirtis on Jan. 21, and a special good-bye to Michael Hinman special Jan. 28. Many of these guests will attend Phoenix Comicon, which takes place Jan. ...
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'Sarah Connor' Returns To Serialized Format
6 January 2009 2:44 PM, PST
The experiment to create more standalone adventures within the universe of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" is over. The push by Fox to move away from serialized episodes following the first season is no longer existent as producers try to find that magic captured in the first season of the series. "I think that initially, when we started the second season, kind of one of the requests of sort of the powers that be was that we did more singular episodes," star Thomas Dekker told SciFi Wire. "That's why they invented the wall with all the names on it so that we would be able to do a mission an episode. But that involved a lot of Terminators coming back, and to me, that's always irritated our writers. And now they have permission to be more serialized again, and more science-fiction, ...
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Did Bettors Know New 'Doctor Who' Too Soon?
6 January 2009 2:24 PM, PST
Fans were in the dark right up until the last minute last weekend on who would portray the 11th Doctor in the BBC series "Doctor Who," but some journalists are pointing out that a flurry of bets on actor Matt Smith just before the announcement increased his odds from 31-to-1 to a favorite 1-to-3. BBC executives said they had no plans to investigate any potential leak from its production department leading up to the announcement saying that it's unaware of any of its employees that interested in entertainment gambling, and any tainting of betting lines would be a problem of bookies, not them, according to Brand Republic. Before Smith's announcement, many people believed that one-time "Doctor Who" guest Paterson Joseph would take control of the Tardis from David Tennant, creating the first ...
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Lionsgate Buys TV Guide.com
5 January 2009 11:57 PM, PST
The non-print versions of struggling entertainment magazine TV Guide is being passed around like a hot potato, first being purchased by Macrovision Solutions Corp. last May, and now moving into the pocket of movie studio Lionsgate Entertainment Corp., which has bought the magazine and Web site for $225 million. This will mark the third owner for the online and television version of the magazine in two years, beginning with Gemstar-tv Guide International, which was partially owned by News Corp., the owner of the Fox Network and the Twentieth Century Fox movie studios. "I'm looking for more diversification from our company," Lionsgate's chief executive John Feltheimer, told Bloomberg. "You'll see more things come down the pike." Marcovision had originally said it would sell the Web site ...
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The CW Makes Horror A Game
5 January 2009 6:24 AM, PST
This story is an advertising editorial feature. Imagine Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers all competing in "Big Brother;" that could be the next step as The CW is taking reality television to the terrifying extreme as an unlucky 13 people will be placed in their very own personal horror movie in "13 - Fear Is Real" . and there is a fitting $66,666 for the one who survives. Part horror experience and part game show, all of the contestants will go up against not just each other, but a number of scream-worthy surprises and "beware of the dark" moments designed by a "mastermind" of the genre. There will even be a few familiar situations lifted straight out of some of the worlds most notorious and celebrated horror movies. Some of the contestants will also have their personal ...
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SciFi Wire Revamps Into Blog Format
5 January 2009 3:36 AM, PST
The new spinoff version of SciFi Wire from its parent SciFi Channel Web site is complete ... and it's a blog! The new site, located at www.scifiwire.com was launched Monday months after NBC Universal, the parent corporation of SciFi Channel, first announced the move. The first stories on the new site feature a set visit to the film "The Uninvited," and interview with comics movie writer David S. Goyer, and an exclusive sneak peek at a scene from the upcoming "Battlestar Galactica" spinoff "Caprica." The new SciFi Wire will focus on movies, television, games, books and celebrities, as well as provide coverage of red carpet events, according to the site. It also will have movie trailers, sneak peeks, and on-set interviews. It also will work much more closely with the online SciFi Weekly ...
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SyFy 101: When Worlds Expand, Part 2
5 January 2009 1:09 AM, PST
My last column, .When Worlds Expand.Too Far,. generated a number of responses, positive and otherwise. Included in the responses were suggestions of other worthy science-fiction worlds that I either overlooked or, more likely, chose not to mention. The focus of the original article was to move from highly successful worlds like Star Trek and move gradually into ones that, in my view, expanded a bit too far. My criteria for selection were worlds that had made an impact, good or bad, in multiple formats (i.e. movies, television, literature). I tried not to confuse .worlds. with .franchises.. I view something like .Alien. or .The Matrix. as franchises more than a worlds, since they really only exist as a series of movies. Outside of the feature films, they simply have not made a noteworthy impact ...
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