Visual Effects Society announces VES Awards nominees
Visual Effects Society has revealed the nominees for this year’s VES Awards. Iron Man leads the pack with five nominations, followed by The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Cloverfield and Hellboy II: The Golden Army with four nods each.
Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Jericho and Pushing Daisies [...]
Blade Runner sequel rears its head again
Screenwriter Travis Wright has addressed the rumours about the Blade Runner sequel being in development, rumours he himself started at the Creative Screenwriting special screening of his critically panned summer blockbuster Eagle Eye the other week. At the event, Wright told the audience at the Q&A that he and John Glenn, who co-wrote Eagle Eye, [...]
Fringe: The Same Old Story review
While the Fringe pilot suffered from a severe identity crisis, trying to decide whether it was a police procedural, comedy, or a conspiracy mystery, the second episode, The Same Old Story, steers the show sharply into The X-Files sphere.
The premise of the episode is a little shaky. We have a scientist’s son who kills women [...]
New television shows in the fall season – hits and misses
In the aftermath of the writers’ strike and fewer pilots being developed this year, the major networks are launching only 13 new shows this season, which is half as many as a year ago.
Experts at the independent media buying agency TargetCast tcm believe that the fall season may lack any breakout hits.
“We are facing an [...]
Fox to stream premieres of Sarah Connor Chronicles and Fringe to on-campus students
In an unprecedented event, FOX will stream the premieres of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES and FRINGE exclusively for on-campus college students at www.fox.com. Only students on college campuses accessing through a college internet domain (.edu) will have the opportunity to watch the episodes online simultaneously with their primetime premieres.
TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES will [...]
Fringe pilot review – J.J. Abrams’ latest
J.J. Abrams‘ new television series Fringe had an official press screening at Comic Con.
The pilot for the new show, which a Horizon Media report recently said would be the highest rated new series alongside CBS’ SF procedural Eleventh Hour, has all the trademark J.J. Abrams ingredients: a whole lotta teaser questions to kick off the [...]
Blood, peanuts and the future of television
It’s been two months since CBS cancelled one of its most popular scripted dramas, Jericho, starring Skeet Ulrich and Lennie James, the show that fictionalizes a possible aftermath of nuclear fallout in the U.S. Even if there has not been much concrete news lately, the hope that the Jericho story may be continued is [...]
