by Brendon Connelly, Source: Bleeding Cool.com Though it will be eventually post-converted and released in 3D, JJ Abrams has decided to shoot his Star Trek sequel on film and in 2D. And while it still sounds to be up in the air, he also says that there have been discussions
By Jeff Spry, Source: Blastr, The final frontier got a bit more crowded today with NASA’s cosmic discovery of two Earth-size planets. Astronomers monitoring the Kepler spacecraft found the twin orbs, one as big as Earth, the other smaller than Venus, 950 light years away from our solar system. But
by Jeff Labrecque, Source:EW; For years now, LEGO-playing fans of Tolkien’s universe have been forced to re-enact their favorite Middle-earth scenes with Han Solo, Dobby the House Elf and other franchise’s miniatures. But beginning next June, those days are history. Warner Bros Consumer Products has finally relented to bring all
By Carol Pinchefsky, Source: Blastr.com In 2003, LucasArts released a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMO) called Star Wars Galaxies … and last night, the controversial MMO ended. Cleverly, Sony Online Entertainment let the players decide who would win the game. And the rulers of the galaxy are … The
By Michio Kaku, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Michio Kaku is professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and author of Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Doubleday). (CNN) — In my book, Physics
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com Legendary comics writer, artist, editor and publisher Joe Simon, whose work included the co-creation of Captain America and other Golden Age icons, passed away Thursday at the age of 98. A New York native who worked as an editorial cartoonist and art director from an
Source: Doctor Who TV; More changes are afoot for the next series of Doctor Who. Steven Moffat has said it is unlikely that there will be any two-part stories in Series 7. ”The big thing is, nothing in the next run is starting out as a two-parter,” he confirms in
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com Rise of the Planet of the Apes was successful and acclaimed enough to definitely merit a sequel, and director Rupert Wyatt (like us) is excited about where the rejuvenated franchise will go next. In fact, he’s so excited about the future of the apes that
By Nathalie Caron, source: Blastr.com We still have a looong year to wait until we can finally go back to Middle-earth again when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey makes it to theaters. But in the meanwhile, the studio’s just released the first official synopsis for the film. If the blurb
This week we are down one Mike but are joined by Kevin Parker when we are on the road again on location at Titan Comics in Smyna Georgia to talk about all things StarGate, from the original movie and the various TV incarnations. Join us for yet another episode of
By Matthew Jackson, Source Blastr.com; The Black List, an annual grouping of the most-liked unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, is out this week, and that means it’s time for the scripts at the top of the list to get a publicity bump and a chance at new life. Lots of promising
By Carol Pinchefsky, Source: Blastr.com We love Doctor Who. He’s a time-traveling, happy-go-lucky man-about-town. And it seems that U.S. iTunes users love him too. According to Apple’s famed digital distribution service, Doctor Who was the most popular television show in 2011. That’s not all. In what is yet more proof
