RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a newsfeed that will let you access Sci Fi Wire with a newsreader such as Newsgator or Bloglines. Get Feed     Get SCI FI Wire News delivered to your Palm or other handheld device!     Comments or questions about SCI FI Wire? Send us feedback, news tips or queries!     Hancock SCI FI Wire talks to the cast of "Hancock" on the red carpet.   The Saturn Awards, Part One SCI FI Wire interviews presenters and recipients at the 34th annual Saturn Awards in Los Angeles.   The Saturn Awards, Part Two More SCI FI Wire interviews with presenters and recipients at the 34th annual Saturn Awards in Los Angeles.   Wall-E SCI FI Wire talks to the cast and filmmakers of the new Disney-Pixar feature.     PLAY VIDEO   PLAY VIDEO   PLAY VIDEO   PLAY VIDEO     Knight's Bale Did Own Fights 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. More ...   Survivors Gears Up For More 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. More ...   Cohen Talks Mummy And Daddy 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. More ...   MGM OKs Whedon's Cabin MGM, under the direction of worldwide motion picture group chairman Mary Parent, gave a green light to a spec script from SF mavericks Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard called The Cabin in the Woods, according to The Hollywood Reporter. More ...   HDNet To Air More SF&F 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. More ...   Warner Rides On Elfquest Warner Brothers and Rawson Thurber are developing Elfquest, a fantasy movie based on the cult comic by Wendy and Richard Pini, according to The Hollywood Reporter. More ...   Ramsey: Ruins Was Hell 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. More ...   MultiReal Has Cake, Eats It 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. More ...   Knight's Ledger Praised 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. More ...   Mummy III Moves To China 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. More ...   Del Toro Inspired Hellboy II 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. More ...   Astro Voice Talent Is Tops 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. More ...   Fringe Predicted To Hit 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. More ...   C&C: Red Alert 3 Adds Robots! 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. More ...   dead Explores Post-Apocalypse 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. More ...   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next >> ©2008, SCI FI. All rights reserved.   Sony has picked up the U.S. distribution rights to the animated SF family film Planet 51 and has scheduled it for a Nov. 20, 2009, release through its TriStar Pictures label, according to The Hollywood Reporter; the movie is about an Earth astronaut (Dwayne Johnson) who is stranded on an alien planet. ComingSoon.net reported that The Dark Knight will screen with the first trailers for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, Watchmen and Body of Lies when it opens July 18. 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. More Stargate SG-1 0.8 Star Trek 0.8 The Dead Zone 0.7 Stargate Atlantis 0.6 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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