Film & Television
| Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in January | |
| News > Film & Television | February 2, 2009 |
| A new horror film sequel opens at #2, but other than that, it's mostly a down week for genre films (with the exception of Benjamin Button's rise)... | |
| The Thing morphing into a new movie | |
| News > Film & Television | January 30, 2009 |
| Universal is planning a third film version of The Thing, this time written by BSG's Ron Moore... | |
| Third Narnia film once again "on" | |
| News > Film & Television | January 30, 2009 |
| About a month after Disney announced it was dropping the Chronicles of Narnia franchise after two films, Walden Media has found a new partner in 20th Century Fox, and will continue with the third book... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in January | |
| News > Film & Television | January 26, 2009 |
| A scant two genre films in the top ten, and three fell off the charts, meaning it's a non-sf/f/h week in the theatres... | |
| 2009 SAG Award Winners | |
| News > Awards | January 25, 2009 |
| This year's Screen Actors Guild Awards didn't completely ignore genre productions, but it was slim pickings... | |
| 2008 Academy Award Nominees Announced | |
| News > Awards | January 22, 2009 |
| The nominees for this year's Academy Awards include very few genre pictures, but one of them is the top of the heap, with 13 nominations... | |
| 2008 Razzie Award Nominees Announced | |
| News > Awards | January 21, 2009 |
| The Razzie Awards, honoring the worst in film, have announced this year's nominees. They include... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in January | |
| News > Film & Television | January 20, 2009 |
| Genre films get pushed down the charts this week, except for the one that got pushed off... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in January | |
| News > Film & Television | January 11, 2009 |
| With no new releases to speak of during the week, most of the films on last week's are still here, with only minor position moves... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Fifth Week in December | |
| News > Film & Television | January 5, 2009 |
| Again, several genre films in the top ten (though not the #1 slot); a bunch of fast openers climbed... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in December | |
| News > Film & Television | December 29, 2008 |
| It's holiday time, it's genre movie time. Lots of films for the sf/f/h fan taking in lots of money this week... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in December | |
| News > Film & Television | December 22, 2008 |
| A new (well, remake) genre film tops the charts, but it's still a slim time for sf/f/h at the box office... | |
| 2009 SAG Award Nominees | |
| News > Awards | December 18, 2008 |
| The nominees for the Screen Actors Guild awards include a few more genre productions than last year... | |
| Sookie Stackhouse and True Blood around the world | |
| News > Books | December 17, 2008 |
| Charlaine Harris's "Sookie Stackhouse" series is big news nearly everywhere, with translations into two dozen languages, and the HBO series True Blood, based on her novels, is or will be airing on at least four continents... | |
| BSG season 4 starts with web story The Face of the Enemy | |
| News > Film & Television | December 16, 2008 |
| Reminding viewers that Battlestar Galactica will debut its fourth and final season next month, SciFi is posting a serialized webisode on their own site and Hulu... | |
| Halcyon moves forward on fifth Termintaor movie | |
| News > Film & Television | December 15, 2008 |
| 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... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in December | |
| News > Film & Television | December 15, 2008 |
| 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... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of December | |
| News > Film & Television | December 8, 2008 |
| Another slim week for sf/f/h at the box office, even with vampires and batmen... | |
| Another Day of the Triffids... | |
| News > Film & Television | December 5, 2008 |
| 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?" | |
| Sci Fi Channel greenlights Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica | |
| News > Film & Television | December 2, 2008 |
| 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... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of November | |
| News > Film & Television | December 1, 2008 |
| A new genre film opens with a stunning debut in the #1 spot: vampires are back... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of November | |
| News > Film & Television | November 26, 2008 |
| It's another sparse week for sf/f/h movies, but a new classic stages a comeback... | |
| 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 |
| With only two sf/f/h genre films in the top 25, this wasn't much of a week... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of November | |
| News > Film & Television | November 10, 2008 |
| Only four sf/f/h movies wound up in the top 25 this week... | |
Canadian sf author Robert J. Sawyer will host Supernatural Investigator, a 17-part, half-hour documentary series...




