The legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe turns a new page
Del Rey will continue publishing Star Wars tie-in novels, and announces how they'll interact with the forthcoming new Star Wars films... Read more [...]
Category Archives: Film & Television
Help save Tatooine
A fund-raising campaign seeks additional funding to save the Tunisian set on which several pivotal scenes in the Star Wars movies were filmed. The set is being covered by the desert... Read more [...]
85th Annual Oscar Winners Announced
All in all, not a bad year for sf/f/h at the Academy Awards, although nearly all of the genre attention was focused on Gravity, which was carefully not marketed as sf... Read more [...]
Oscars to celebrate the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz
This year's award ceremony will mark the 75th anniversary of the iconic film. And days ago, Ruth Robinson Duccini died; she was one of the last two surviving actors who played Munchkins in the film... Read more [...]
Calling All Filmmakers: Famous Monsters 2014 Film Fest submission time
Famous Monsters of Filmland and Big Wow Comicfest are hosting a film festival to seek out the next generation of storytellers and creature creators... Read more [...]
2013 Academy Award Nominees Announced
Though we may be cleaning up at the box office, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science deems fewer and fewer speculative fiction films worthy of its Oscar nominations... Read more [...]
2013 Razzie Award Nominees Announced
The 34th annual Razzie Award nominations have been announced. Mercifully, there are very few sf/f/h nominees... Read more [...]
2014 Golden Globe Award Winners
Once again, the HFPA all but ignored speculative fiction in its annual awards, but we're not really surprised... Read more [...]
Open casting call for Aladdin 3477 feature film
Independent sci-fi feature adventure film Aladdin 3477 is holding open casting calls in Michigan... Read more [...]
Cinema with the Right Stuff Marks 2013 National Film Registry
This year's inductees to the National Film Registry include Ella Cinders, Forbidden Planet, Mary Poppins, and The Right Stuff... Read more [...]
2014 Golden Globe Nominees Announced
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has once again shown a dislike of speculative fiction. It's like they don't respect the box office take... Read more [...]
2014 SAG Award Nominees Announce
The Screen Actors Guild Awards did not completely snub sf/f/h productions, but gave them very few nominations… Read more [...]
20-year-old Lucasfilm Millennium Falcon cut-away art revealed by illustrator Brian Sauriol
Artist Brian Sauriol is revealing 20-year-old artwork from the iconic original Star Wars, and offering it for sale... Read more [...]
Futurescape with James Woods reveals the advances that will redefine humanity this November on Science Channel
World Premiere Series Hosted by Award-Winning Actor James Woods Debuts Tuesday, November 19 at 10 PM ET/PT on Science Channel... Read more [...]
The Chronology Protection Case released with new, extended ending
Paul Levinson's novelette garnered a Nebula nomination, several reprintings, and spawned a short film. Now, eleven years after the release of the film, it's been revised and extended... Read more [...]