Fantasy and Science Fiction

Jackson adapts another book series to film Jeffrey Sullivan "Mortal Engines" is a book by author Phillip Reeve based on the theory of Municipal Darwinism, which basically states that stronger cities and towns will absorb and assimilate weaker cities and towns. The book itself deals with a post-apocalyptic world in which massively...  

Peter Jackson is making the Hobbit sequels with Guillermo del Toro, we know that. And he's making Tintin with Steven Spielberg, we know that too. But now word has come that he may also be working on a super-secret sci-fi project...  

As of late, extreme interest in established franchises has created more than a fleeting disinterest in the spec script market, leaving original ideas out in the cold. However, the science fiction genre has reinvigorated a taste for original scripts with the success of Moon and District 9. Now another sci-fi spec script gets a shot at glory as Variety reports that director Peter Cornwell (Ward 13, The Haunting in Connecticut), seen above, has...  

Dan O'Bannon, whose rich imagination brought us the screenplays for the first Alien movie and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Martian adventure Total Recall, has died of Crohn's disease at 63 in California. His name was often seen in credits for sci-fi television shows as well as movies. O'Bannon adapted Total Recall from a story by prolific sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. But the inspiration for Alien - and a scene none of us can forgot - came from a...  

DescriptionThe time is the 1990s. The place is the fabled Scottish highlands. The players hail from different worlds. The dimensions are countless. At stake is the planet Earth. From the BBC and the Sci Fi Channel comes INVASION EARTH, an ambitious, thought-provoking sci-fi epic on DVD for the first time. When an ace pilot [...]  

In anticipation of the upcoming release of Daybreakers on January 8th, Lionsgate would like to share with you a newly launched Facebook Connect experience that will certainly satiate your thirst for vampire history... Daybreakers takes vampires in a new direction with the futuristic sci-fi thriller where a mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world's population into vampires. Humans are now an...  

(Notice: In July, the Sci Fi Channel rebranded itself as Syfy. This writer joins the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in boycotting this unsupportable offense against orthography.)[more ...] Syfy - Arts - Science Fiction and Fantasy - Science fiction - Sci Fi Channel  

Filed under: Woman Up, Culture James Cameron's "Avatar" has been receiving a lot of attention for its (admittedly cool) special effects. And, yes, it is an appealing, occasionally quite stunning, film. But some critics have suggested that there may be one other thing that distinguishes it from other big-budget sci-fi / fantasy flicks that have come out recently: a story that features a number of strong female characters. Gawker highlights...  

Disney is developing a reinvention of the 1979 sci-fi film The Black Hole, with Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey on board, along with Clash of the Titans scribe Travis Beacham working on the screenplay. Kosinski might direct if he can find time in his schedule, with his planned sci-fi epic Oblivion and further possible Tron sequels. The details of the update are being kept tightly under wraps, though HeatVision...  

Think you're worked up by Google's Nexus One phone? Then you should have a chat with Isla Dick Hackett, daughter of sci-fi author extraordinaire Philip K. Dick. She's pretty worked up too, but for totally different reasons. Hackett is considering...  

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (12/06/09) Sun: 9/8 -- Alice -- SyFy 10/9 -- The Prisoner -- AMC Mon: 9/8 -- Alice -- SyFy Tue: 9:30/8:30 -- Outer Space Astronauts -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com Also starting this Thursday on the SciFi Channel, the Twilight Zone Marathon...  

Don't tell that to Hollywood, though: It could get nine Oscar nominations! Speaking of awards, don't forget to vote for me in the 2009 Malkin Awards. Last time I checked, I was in second place behind Glenn Beck. Bookmark and Share ...  

JoeGee writes "On December 8th, Canadian sci-fi author Peter Watts, author of the Rifters trilogy and Blindsight, was crossing the US/Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan when he was involved in an altercation with US Border Patrol agents. According to Watts, he was beaten, left half-naked in a cold cell, and finally dumped on the Canadian side of the border with no coat. A legal consultant from the Electronic Frontier Foundation was...  

It will be interesting to see how the Monday following Avatar’s opening weekend will shape director James Cameron’s future plans, but today Production Weekly tweeted that Cameron “is developing a Shane Salerno-scripted sci-fi action script for Fox, described as an ‘event’ film set in the future.”  For those who don’t know, Salerno is credited with [...]  

Cryptic Studios sent us a list of 10 reasons while true Trekkies* will love their upcoming massively multiplayer online game, Star Trek Online. Rather than just tell you what those reasons are, we'll let you guess using these screen shots. *Trekkies are true Star Trek fans, for all you readers unfamiliar with Sci-Fi**. **Sci-Fi is science fiction for all you readers not familiar with science fiction. Don't ever call it SyFy to my face unless...