Surfing the Event Horizon of SF Pseudo-Cyberspace
No, this isn’t a still from a sci-fi movie. It’s actually the Sofia and Varna Air Traffic Control Hall in Bulgaria. Pretty amazing. [ Airliners.net ; Thanks, Jason! ] (more…)
John Barrowman was a guest on a BBC radio show this morning to promote his new DVD An Evening with John Barrowman. Jumping straight to the big news he said, “Most definitely, Torchwood will come back to the BBC.”
He says that the whens and hows are still being talked about but they’re looking at another 13 episode run, not 5 which is extra great news.
As for appearing with the new Doctor Who, John says it hasn’t been discussed but followed with, “I’m prepared that it won’t happen.”
If you’re a John Barrowman fan, you’ll want to listen to the full interview [...]
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Yahoo! posted the first poster from Jon Favreau’s upcoming Iron Man 2, featuring the title superhero in his new armor and a first glimpse of War Machine!
The sequel features the continuing adventures of billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and his alter ego, Iron Man. It opens May 7, 2010.
Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, who wrote the book on which the hit ABC series FlashForward is based, foresees real Terminators in our own future and talks about the ways the Terminator series of films should be taken seriously as cautionary tales.
Who cares if Black Friday is done and gone? For sci-fi fans, Cyber Monday is where it’s at! Hundreds of online retailers are offering special deals for today only, including the LEGO Star Wars Death Star, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game and many others.
Check out 11 great deals below!
The Children’s BAFTAs were announced yesterday. The winner in the Feature Film category is Henry Selick’s adaption of Coraline.
Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff joined other stars of Fox series for a photo shoot in Hollywood to promote the network’s upcoming midseason shows, including 24, which Sackhoff joins when it returns on Jan. 18, 2010. You can watch a video of the shoot below.
The winners of the first ever Premi Ictineu, for science fiction in Catalan, were announced over the weekend. The winners are:
Catalan Novel: for La mutació sentimental (The Sentimental Mutation), Carme Torras
Translated Novel: Planeta Blau (The Stone Gods), Jeanette Winterson
Catalan Short Fiction: “El gat” from El mirall venecià (”The Cat” from The Venetian Mirror), Antoni [...]
We knew the kids in the Harry Potter movies were growing up fast, but we didn’t realize this was in the cards: David Yates, director of the final two movies—based on the seventh and final book, The Deathly Hallows—confirms a nude scene for star Daniel Radcliffe as Harry.
According to a report on the Video Business Web site: