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59th Annual Emmy Award Winners
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The winners of the 59th annual Emmy Awards include several genre nominees...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of September
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Only five genre films in the top 25, although last week's number 1 is this week's number 2, and last week's number 10 is this week's number 10...

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of September
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Only two genre films in the top 10: number 1 and number 10. Two more genre films, which have been in theatres for more than two months each, are still in the top 25...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of August
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Genre films have nearly vacated the top 10, leaving only two in that rarified realm. But in the top 25, one we lost has staged a comeback...

Keanu Reeves to star in remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still
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Keanu Reeves is taking the role of Klaatu, the humanoid alien, in Fox's upcoming remake of the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of August
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There are now four genre films in the top ten, but only two more in the next 15...

Oz may be a darker film sequel to The Wizard of Oz
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Todd McFarlane and Josh Olson, under the umbrellas of Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow Pictures, are plotting Oz, a somewhat darker, more mature sequel to...

UK National Movie Awards now taking votes
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The UK National Movie Awards are being voted by the public on the web, and will be announced at the end of September. The nominees, in six categories, are...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of August
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The highest ranking genre movie this week was Stardust which only managed a fourth-place opening, but there are three other genre films in the top ten...

Potential Fantastic Voyage Remake
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Roland Emmerich is planning to remake the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage with a script potentially written by Marianne and Cormac Wibberley, who wrote...

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of August
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With the arrival of Underdog to save the day, there are now three genre films in the top ten, but only four more in the next 15...

HBO picks up Charlaine Harris's True Blood (produced by Alan Ball) as a series
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HBO has signed Alan Ball's southern vampire series True Blood, based on the novels of Charlaine Harris. A pilot was shot earlier this year, starring...

Moore lengthens his ties with Universal
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Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore signed a two-year contract with Universal Media Studios to stay on through the end of the series and develop new films and series...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fifth Week of July
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Genre films are fewer and farther between, as only two make the top ten box office grossers last week, and only another six are in the top 25...

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of July
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Yet another new week, yet another new release, and yet another new number one. This week, however, it isn't a genre film, but a faux-gay comedy that beats off the young wizard's run (although the release of his seventh book may have been part of what kept them away in droves)...

NYC Horror Film Festival Accepting Entries
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The 6th Annual New York City horror Film Festival will be held later this year. The deadline for filmmakers to enter their short or feature films is 1 September. For more details...

Blade Runner: The Final Cut to include five versions of the movie
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This December, Warner Brothers will release the five-disc Blade Runner: The Final Cut, which will include five versions of the classic Ridley Scott film...

Dark Horse to Publish Comic Indiana Jones
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Dark Horse Comics has acquired the rights to publish the comic book tie-ins to the Indiana Jones series of movies, including a comic novelization of movie #4, which is due out in May...

Fantasia Film Festival 2007 Awards
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North America's Premier Genre Film Festival awarded prizes in about twenty categories, for genre films from around the world...

Third Annual Science Fiction Short Film Festival
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The Science Fiction Museum and the Seattle International Film Festival Group are co-sponsoring a competition for short science fiction films. Entry deadline is...

Harlan Ellison to Present Dreams with Sharp Teeth
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Harlan Ellison will be present at two special screenings of Dreams with Sharp Teeth, the new documentary biography film of his life. The first, in Santa Monica, California, will be 9 August. The second will be in Cleveland, Ohio, on 21 September...

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of July
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Yet another new week, yet another new release, and yet another new number one. It's wizards by a mile, with robots falling behind. And remarkable enough, the web spinner climbed a bit this week...

59th Annual Emmy Award Nominees Include Genre Programming
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The nominees for the 59th annual Emmy Awards were announced this morning. Genre nominees in a wide variety of categories include...

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of July
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A new week, a new release, and a new number one. Robots took the top spot this week, but expect them to give way to a wizard next week. And the web spinner is still in the top 25 after more than two months of crawling...

Harry Potter sales: they're not just for books and movies
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The Nielsen Company has compiled a large report on the Harry Potter series's impact on the entertainment industry, breaking it down by category and country. We've excerpted the 11-page report here, and provide a link to the complete document...
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