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Watchmen and 300 director Zack Snyder is working with Australian special effects studio Animal Logic on an animated adaptation of Kathryn Lasky's best selling children's fantasy series, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, which is centred on a band of owls on a post-apocalyptic Earth.
Snyder has also teamed up with Electronic Arts to create three new video games.
The new games will be produced at EA's Los Angeles facility, with EA owning the intellectual properties of any films made from them.
However, if EA decide to adapt them for cinema audiences, the movies will be produced by Snyder's own company, Cruel & Unusual Films.
The air is so thick with nostalgia you could cut it with a phaser!
Cool site wowio.com is showing the world a series of Star Trek comics from the sixties - and you, dear reader, deserve to see them. Step back in time and relive the future through eyes that saw the world VERY differently.
Enter a universe filled with giant man-eating plants, phasers that go 'ka-zaaap!' and classic dialogue like 'what's that loathsome thing doing with Janice?'.
You can read them online or download to enjoy in the comfort of your own computer. It's great fun. Just click on the pic below to for a feast of original series Star Trek goodness:
Our first sci-fi-fantastic week in October gets the only 'O' month off to one hell of a bang. A Galaxy sized bang!
Welcome to the week that holds SCI FI's Stargate: Atlantis Season One Marathon.
The Whole Season. The Whole Weekend. This Weekend. You'd be crazier than a human-starved Wraith to miss it!
Starting from 9am on Saturday morning and 9am on Sunday morning, with all twenty episodes, one after the other.
Join Colonel Sheppard, Dr Weir, Rodney, Teyla and Ronon as they begin the adventure that has spawned five fantastic seasons. Relive the first moments on Atlantis base in the feature-length pilot that actually cost more to produce than the hugely successful DVD movies, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate:Continuum.
The long awaited battle between Clint and Chad is finally here...
See! the expensive, high quality stunt work you've been crying out for!
Experience! the pathos of one man's struggle against self doubt, self loathing and a day manager who's a bit of a bully!
Feel! the raw powaah of the force as it rips through the grocery section!
"I sense there's a clean-up in aisle five..."
Sure the concept of a computer keyboard being 'cool' is something alien to many of us. Many of us may consider the idea of having anything more interesting than the slab of plastic that Dell sent to you as a complete and utter waste of time.
But some of us beg to differ.
Some of us embrace the geeky. And we loves the sexiness of this here keyboard. The Luxeed Dynamic Pixel LED Keyboard (or the LDP LED Keyboard, as we like to call it) comes with a fully customizable colour set.
With the SCI FI Forum alive with talk of retro Sci Fi, it seemed only sweet and fitting to scour the net for good examples or trailers of some classic Sci Fi of yesteryear.
The thing that really strikes you when you look upon these clips is, firstly, just how tremendous genre theme music can be, and secondly (but more importantly) just how thin the line between Sci Fi TV themes and bass-slapping porn stylin' really is.
Wafer thin.
Enjoy the goodness, and for those who have never seen anything even remotely like this before, now you can begin to understand what all those fogies are going on about.
The penultimate chapter in the Chad Vader saga will have everyone on the edge of their seats. Or at least guffumping into their coffees with unexpected splashes of mirth. Chad is desperate to get his job back as day manager, and with the help of his young apprentice 'Commander Wickstrom' he may just get it.
Although, as usual, it is the customers at the Empire market who must pay.
It looks like Chad might finally win the day, but first of course, he must deal with his nemesis - Clint. Which is going to be a little tricky because Clint is actually played by Matt Sloan, who is in fact, Chad Vader.
Starring (the voices of) Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver, John Retzenberger, MacinTalk, and Fred Willard (in person).
Director Andrew Stanton
Released Sep 18
Rated G
Wall-E is a movie that makes you glad that either a) you have kids, b) you have access to kids or c) you permit yourself to be a kid.
The story is very simple, but the psychology is rather complex, which belies a rather straightforward and honest appeal to the child and the child within. The only way that you can walk out of Wall-E disappointed is if you have something rather dark and sad where your inner child used to be.
Amanda Tapping has posted on her website (amandatapping.com - duh) after the completion of photography of the first ever season of Sanctuary.
It could quite possibly be the next big Sci Fi milestone, with Stargate star director Martin Wood on board, and some pretty swish visuals doing the rounds.
For those of you unfamiliar with the former Stargate star's next big thing, (which started life as the world's most expensive made-for-the-web series) be sure to check her out (with her big brown hair - and her English accent!) as Dr Helen Magnus, at http://www.sanctuaryforall.com/.
Look.
Everyone knows that JJ Abrams' reboot of Star Trek is going to be something pretty spesh. No matter how much you hate it. The one little anti-flurry in the slow build up of its hypernado is the back and forth about William Shatner (the original Captain Kirk) and his non-appearance in the film.
Apparently the official line, that he was offered a cameo, and refused, is bogus. According to William Shatner that is.
Here The Shat clears the air and tells the world straight. He also points out what years of Trek will do to a man (or character) - make him entirely unkillable.
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