Pocket lays off Star Trek editor Margaret Clark
Simon & Schuster had another round of cost-cutting, which this time caught Pocket Books Editor Margaret Clark, who had responsibility for the Star Trek line...
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Tag Archives: Star Trek
Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of August
Another new sf release, another new #1 film; sf/f/h films are once again dominating the top of the charts, but there are larger gaps in the mid-range...
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Actor/Announcer Ed Reimers Dies
Actor and announcer Ed Reimers (1912-2009) was best known for telling people "You're in good hands with Allstate"...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of August
A new (sort of) genre release gives us a new #1, and there's some remarkable staying power among sf/f/h films this week...
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Fox TV’s Teen Choice Awards Recognize Genre Movie Winners
Fox's Teen Choice Awards were almost a slam-dunk for sf/f/h films and folks in the movie categories, but much less in the television categories (and we won't even discuss music here)...
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Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in August
Not a great week for genre movies, but there's still some serious money to be made with sf/f/h films...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in July
The guinea pigs surpass the wizards, and sf/f/h films still own a significant portion of the top of the charts...
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2009 Scribe Award Winners
The winnners of this year's Scibe Awards, for media tie-in writers, have been announced. The winners are...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in July
Don't mess with the wizard. At least, not in his first week in release. But we hear there are some guinea pigs making a bid for the top spot. And there's surprising staying power farther down the charts...
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David Dvorkin now represented by Fineprint
David Dvorkin, author of 15 novels, is now represented by Brendan Deneen of Fineprint Literary Management...
Read more [...] Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in July
To absolutely no one's surprise, the newest Harry Potter movie tops the weekly charts after being open only one day. But there are other genre films deserving of box office attention, too...
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Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in July
Little movement at the top of the charts, and the return of one of our movies that fell out a few weeks ago, and some strength in the mid-range, but mostly it looks like waiting for this week's comedy opener and next week's fantasy...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fifth Week in June
Other than transforming robots, sf/f/h films are moving out of the top spots, because most of the recent new flicks aren't ours. We still own the mid-range in the charts, and there are animated dinosaurs and live-action wizards a-comin'…
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Beside Himself—a review of Moon
Moon is truly a science fiction movie, in which the characters and story are far more important than the special effects, which are great in themselves... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in June
Another one of those 'open one day and still topping the charts for the week' weeks, this time with the Transformers sequel. Still a lot of sf/f/h strength...
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