Halcyon moves forward on fifth Termintaor movie
The Halcyon Company, which is currently producing series reboot film Terminator Salvation, has announced that they've started work on its sequel, also to star Christian Bale...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in December
No moves at the top of the charts, still a slim week for the sf/f/h genres, but there's one film at #2, another earning more than half a billion dollars, and a third marking more than four years on the charts...
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Most Popular Articles: 7-13 December 2008
The most popular SFScope articles during the last week...
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Updates to Previously Published Articles (7-13 December 2008)
This is a list of previously published articles that were updated between 7 and 13 December 2008.
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Past Imperfect—a review of Pushing Daisies’ “Lighthouse”
Now that the show has been canceled, the episodes are getting better and better, yet for the show's brilliance, how can we be the only ones to see it? (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Audible’s December Frontiers offerings include Hugo and Nebula winners
Audible.com's sf/f line, Frontiers, will have titles by Gregory Frosst, Elizabeth Moon, Mike Resnick, Kim Stanley Robinson, Dan Simmons, Vernor Vinge...
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Orbis pro vox—a review of Pushing Daisies’ “Robbing Hood”
Wonderful writing, incredible Easter Eggs, and a quickly dwindling audience mean only a few of us will be missing Pushing Daisies when it's last bloom is struck, but we will miss it... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Actor Robert Prosky Dies
Actor Robert Prosky (1930-2008), who preferred acting on the stage to on screen, was best known for his role on Hill Street Blues, turned down a role on Cheers, and appeared in...
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First Farscape comic coming in December, with three covers
The first of the comic book series Farscape, which picks up immediately after the miniseries, will debut on 24 December, with three different covers...
Read more [...] Natasha Rhodes sells new Kayla Steele novel to Solaris
British-born, US-based Natasha Rhodes sold her third Kayla Steele novel, Circus of Sins, to Christian Dunn at Solaris via agent John Jarrold...
Read more [...] 2009 Golden Globe Nominees Announced
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, once again, almost completely overlooked sf/f/h in announcing this year's Golden Globe nominees. The few genre titles mentioned include...
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N.K. Jemisin sells The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms in Germany
N.K. Jemisin sold German language rights to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and two sequels to Holger Kappel of Blanvalet. Bastian Schlück of Thomas Schlück GMBH was the subagent for agent Lucienne Diver of The Knight Agency.
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Book View Cafe signs partnership agreements to distribute on phone and paper
The 20-author cooperative Book View Cafe has signed partnership deals with PortableReading and AnthologyBuilder to bring their stories to cell phone and paper distribution...
Read more [...] Clarion Names 2009 Instructors
The 2009 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop will be its second in San Diego, California. Instructors for the six-week long intensive workshop will include Holly Black, Larissa Lai, Robert Crais, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Hand, and Paul Park...
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Sharon Lee sells “urban fantasy” novel to Baen Books
Sharon Lee sold Carousel Tides to Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books, via agent Jennifer Jackson of the Maass Agency. The book is...
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