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Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in The Dark Knight, told reporters that it's really him standing on the top of a Chicago skyscraper for a particularly dangerous scene.
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British writer and producer Adrian Hodges told SCI FI Wire on July 8 that a remake of the 1970s post-apocalyptic TV series Survivors will be ready to broadcast this fall on the United Kingdom's BBC One and that more episodes are going into production. The show could eventually find its way to the United States on BBC America, he added.
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Rob Cohen, director of the upcoming The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, told SCI FI Wire that the third installment in the franchise will focus as much on the familial relationships among the characters as it will on special effects and action sequences.
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HDNet network president Mark Cuban told reporters that the network is looking to program more science fiction and fantasy independent films on the network and to encourage a generation of people who haven't seen big blockbusters on the big screen to return to theaters.
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Laura Ramsey--whose SF horror film The Ruins is now on DVD--told SCI FI Wire that making the film was the toughest experience of her life.
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SF author David Louis Edelman told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, MultiReal, is about characters who reach a major crossroads in their lives and have to make difficult decisions--and what would happen if they had access to a technology that let them choose both alternatives at once.
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The cast and filmmakers behind the Batman sequel The Dark Knight uniformly praised Heath Ledger's performance as the villainous Joker, which some are already suggesting may garner the late actor an Oscar nomination.
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Rob Cohen, director of the upcoming action sequel The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, told SCI FI Wire that changing the setting from 1930s Egypt, where the first two films took place, to 1940s China offered a chance to do something completely new with the franchise.
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In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, the troubled relationship between the title character and his firestarter girlfriend was drawn in part from writer-director Guillermo del Toro's own marriage of more than two decades.
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David Bowers, who is directing the upcoming animated feature Astro Boy, told SCI FI Wire that the appeal of the original manga and comic-book series helped attract big-name actors such as Nicolas Cage to the project.
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A new report predicts that Fox's J.J. Abrams SF series Fringe and CBS' Jerry Bruckheimer SF procedural drama Eleventh Hour will be the highest-rated new shows, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Chris Corry, executive producer of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, told SCI FI Wire that the real-time SF strategy video game is adding a Japanese campaign that will add robotic battle mechs and transforming vehicles.
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Young-adult SF author Susan Beth Pfeffer told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, the dead & the gone, further explores the post-apocalyptic world Pfeffer first wrote about in Life as We Knew It. In the books, an asteroid has knocked the moon a little closer to Earth.
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Multiple-award-winning SF author Thomas M. Disch died in his New York apartment on July 4 of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Ben Downing, Disch's co-literary executor, confirmed to SCI FI Wire. Disch was 68.
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SCI FI Wire was among the few outlets invited to visit a post-production house in Santa Monica, Calif., on June 24, where director Rob Cohen was putting the finishing touches on the upcoming sequel film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
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Producer Charlotte Huggins has teamed with Hollywood-based studio Super 78 to produce Flight of the Dragon, a live-action fantasy film that will be made in 4K resolution for release in IMAX and other giant-screen venues, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Great Britain's Channel 4 is airing a 65-second spot that painstakingly re-creates the set of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, complete with lookalikes of the crew and cast members, to promote a week of Kubrick films.
A fourth video blog from the making of Zack Snyder's upcoming Watchmen movie has gone live.
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Stargate Atlantis |
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Source: Nielsen Galaxy Report, 6/16/08 to 6/22/08. Fewer than 10 listings appear because fewer than 10 different SF&F series aired in syndication this week. |
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