Film & Television
| Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of December | |||
| News > Film & Television | December 8, 2008 | ||
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Another slim week for sf/f/h at the box office, even with vampires and batmen...
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| Another Day of the Triffids... | |||
| News > Film & Television | December 5, 2008 | ||
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Quick link: Andrew Porter points at us this BBC news article about a forthcoming BBC adaptation of The Day of the Triffids, which starts by asking "why are we still prepared to believe in a post-apocalyptic world roamed by flesh-eating semi-sentient plants? And do we have a love affair with fictionalised destruction?"
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| Sci Fi Channel greenlights Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica | |||
| News > Film & Television | December 2, 2008 | ||
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The Sci Fi Channel has ordered 20 hours of its new series, Caprica, which will be a prequel to the current Battlestar Galactica, set fifty years earlier...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of November | |||
| News > Film & Television | December 1, 2008 | ||
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A new genre film opens with a stunning debut in the #1 spot: vampires are back...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of November | |||
| News > Film & Television | November 26, 2008 | ||
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It's another sparse week for sf/f/h movies, but a new classic stages a comeback...
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| Author Robert J. Sawyer to host documentary tv series | |||
| News > Film & Television | November 20, 2008 | ||
 Canadian sf author Robert J. Sawyer will host Supernatural Investigator, a 17-part, half-hour documentary series...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of November | |||
| News > Film & Television | November 17, 2008 | ||
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With only two sf/f/h genre films in the top 25, this wasn't much of a week...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of November | |||
| News > Film & Television | November 10, 2008 | ||
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Only four sf/f/h movies wound up in the top 25 this week...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of October | |||
| News > Film & Television | November 3, 2008 | ||
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A new horror film opens at #2, but overall, it's a bad week for sf/f/h movies...
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| Ghost Hunters going live for seven hours Halloween night | |||
| News > Film & Television | October 29, 2008 | ||
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Ghost Hunters will be running a live, seven-hour program from Fort Delaware on Halloween night, with live feeds...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of October | |||
| News > Film & Television | October 27, 2008 | ||
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This is definitely not the season for sf/f/h movies, with only one in the top 10, and only four more in the next 15 (although two of those have returned from the depths)...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of October | |||
| News > Film & Television | October 20, 2008 | ||
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Another poor week for genre films, even with the #2 opening Quarantine, but it wasn't a great week overall at the box office...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of October | |||
| News > Film & Television | October 13, 2008 | ||
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If Summer was the season for sf/f/h movies, autumn is definitely the season for straight dramas, as our films make a poor showing...
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| Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge winners on Comedy Central | |||
| News > Contests | October 6, 2008 | ||
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The winners of this year's Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge will be airing on Atom TV's program on Comedy Central several times this week...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Fifth Week of September | |||
| News > Film & Television | October 6, 2008 | ||
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'Tis the season for non-sf, fantasy, or horror films (surprisingly on the last), but there's only one of them in the top ten this week...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of September | |||
| News > Film & Television | September 29, 2008 | ||
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Apparently, summer is the time for genre films. With the coming of autumn, we see a departure from the top of the charts of genre films...
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| Charlaine Harris News: sales, premieres, and television fame and fortune | |||
| News > Book & Novel Sales | September 23, 2008 | ||
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Charlaine Harris's "Sookie Stackhouse" novels have debuted as HBO's Blood Ties to wonderful numbers, and an order for more episodes. Meanwhile, her writing career also continues apace, with new sales...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of September | |||
| News > Film & Television | September 22, 2008 | ||
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We're down to only two genre films in the top 10, but there are another 8 in the next 15 places...
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| Primetime Emmy Award Winners | |||
| News > Awards | September 22, 2008 | ||
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The main Emmy ceremony resulted in only one genre program win...
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| Additional Blood Ties airings | |||
| News > Film & Television | September 15, 2008 | ||
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Tanya Huff's literary agent Joshua Bilmes reports that "Lifetime Real Women, one of the digital spin-off networks of Lifetime, is now re-running Blood Ties, the TV show based on Huff's 'Blood Books' novels." The show is airing at 10PM on Saturdays and Sunday, with reruns a few hours later, at 3AM...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of September | |||
| News > Film & Television | September 15, 2008 | ||
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The Dark Knight continues to amaze, even though there are only three genre films in the top 10, but in the top 25, we've got four films that have grossed more than $100 million...
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| Creative Arts Emmy Award Winners | |||
| News > Awards | September 15, 2008 | ||
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The winners of the lesser-known Creative Arts Emmys were announced on Saturday, and those of interest are detailed here...
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| Britain's second annual National Movie Awards | |||
| News > Awards | September 11, 2008 | ||
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The recipients of the second annual National Movie Awards, which are voted by the public, are...
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| Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of September | |||
| News > Film & Television | September 8, 2008 | ||
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Only four genre films grace the top ten, but The Dark Knight moved up as it passed the half-billion dollar mark...
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| The Dark Knight is only the second half-billion dollar film | |||
| News > Film & Television | September 3, 2008 | ||
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The Dark Knight sequel to Batman Begins, became only the second movie in Hollywood history to take in more than $500 million at the US box office...
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