In the wake of last night’s Golden Globes Awards, it became apparent The Muppets were being overlooked (largely because their movie, Muppets Most Wanted, doesn’t open until March), but that didn’t stop them from being pissed off about it.
Blue Beetle writer John Rogers has created and will executive produce Leverage for TNT. The other executive producers include Dean Devlin (Independence Day) and Chris Downey (The King of Queens) for Electric Entertainment. According to a studio press release, “As a former stand-up comic with a degree in Physics, Rogers uses subtle comedy, high-tech gadgetry,…
20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment took advantage of yesterday’s International Star Wars Day to formally announce the details surrounding this September’s Blu-ray debut of the original Star Wars trilogy along with the more recent trilogy. The six films are accompanied by three discs of extras totaling a stellar 40 hours of material – some new, some…
Legend of the Seeker debuts on Saturday as a first-run syndicated series. To let people sample the series, an extended preview is available as a free download at Apple’s iTunes store. Legend of the Seeker: A First Look is actually the first 30 minutes of the two-hour first episode. The series is from executive producers…
THE LONG MATINEE-Movie Reviews by Derrick Ferguson BATTLE: LA 2011Columbia PicturesDirected by Jonathan LiebesmanProduced by Jeffrey Chernov and Neal H. MoritzWritten by Christopher Bertolini Much of the creative entertainments we enjoy are done according to formula, agreed? Why is such practiced, especially in movies? Because there are certain movie formulas that are guaranteed to work…
Patrick Nielsen Hayden makes a comment on Tor.com that really deserves wider dissemination: "SF fans in general tend to be discursive sorts…" Which is another way of saying that SF readers tend to get invested in not just the story, but the argument. And once you care about the argument, you care about the people…
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, in America promoting the release of his acclaimed Let the Right One in, seems to have softened his stance against an English-language remake. As we reported last week, he was critical of the need to reinterpret his efforts. Now, he told Sci Fi Wire that it’s okay for Matt Reeves (Cloverfield)…
