Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment (the financing and production company behind The Blind Side and The Book of Eli) are in final discussions to secure film, television and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to Ridley Scott‘s iconic 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner. Not many details are known about
It seems like everything’s coming up Robo: First, Detroit’s original cyborg policeman, Peter Weller, comes out in favor of a proposed statue in the Motor City, and now MGM has hired a director to take over their long-simmering remake, replacing the Black Swan Oscar nominee. Before MGM recovered from the
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Oscar hostess let slip that the character she’ll be playing in the final chapter in Christopher Nolan’s Caped Crusader trilogy will, indeed, be a kitten with a whip. Both Nolan and Warner Brothers have been curiously tight-lipped about whether Selina Kyle will actually
Regardless of what you thought about the winners, the losers or the relative quality of the show itself, the 2011 Oscars did, in fact, happen. While this year’s big sci-fi hope, Inception, didn’t do as well as we’d have liked, there were still things to please—or infuriate—sci-fi fans. See Blastr’s
On this weeks show we get con reports from various contributors with their thoughts on Conooga, Trek Trax Atlanta, and The Gallifrey 22 Convention out in Los Angeles. Come strap in for another fun filled podcast that we like to call Episode 48: ESO’s All Convention Episode Table of Contents
FX has greenlit the pilot for Powers, an adaptation of the long-running comic series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The announcement was made tonight on Twitter by John Soldberg, the cable network’s senior vice president of public relations, who revealed the pilot will be directed by executive
According to Heat Vision, The Lord of the Rings alumnus Viggo Mortensen is said to be a “person of interest” for the role of General Zod. Sources say that Mortensen’s name tops the list, but there might be a problem: He’s been negotiating to star in another film, Snow White
Last season’s Doctor Who episode, “The Lodger,” was one funny piece of sci-fi television. It was helped along by the sweet and sympathetic character of Craig Owens, played by James Corden—and if you liked him, too, you’re gonna love the fact that the BBC has just confirmed that the character
John Scalzi’s epic science fiction novel Old Man’s War is coming to the big screen, and has a big name attached to direct it. Deadline reports that Paramount Pictures has bought the rights to Old Man’s War, the first in a four-book series by Scalzi, and has attached Wolfgang Petersen
It’s been a long time coming, but the Wookiee co-pilot will make an appearance on the season finale of Cartoon Network’s Clone Wars series, and Peter Mayhew—the man behind the mask—was instrumental in bringing the walking carpet to life. The reason it took so long for Chewie to make it
In comic books, if you get zapped by a particle accelerator, you’re turned into a superhero. But if you get zapped by one in the real world, you die, right? That’s the way it’s supposed to work out, but a Russian researcher stuck his head into a running particle accelerator
Nicholas Courtney, known to and beloved by Doctor Who fans worldwide as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, one of the longest-serving co-stars of the series who appeared opposite five television Doctors, has died, aged 81. His first brush with Doctor Who was to be as Space Security Agent Bret Vyon in
