Film & Television
| Further to Lucasfilm/Ainsworth suit over Star Wars storm trooper helmets | |
| News > Film & Television | August 4, 2008 |
| Further to this article from April, about Lucasfilm's suit against Andrew Ainsworth of Shepperton Design Studios over copyright infringement for Ainsworth's sale of Star Wars storm trooper outfits, there is now a ruling. High Court judge anthony Mann has issued... | |
| Watchmen film trailer pumps book sales | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | August 4, 2008 |
| Watchmen was first published in 1986, but with the impending release of next year's feature film, sales of the graphic novel have skyrocketed... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Last Week of July | |
| News > Film & Television | August 4, 2008 |
| The Dark Knight is an incredibly bright spot in the financial film firmament, leading seven genre films in dominating the top ten... | |
| Isaac Asimov's Foundation may find its way to the movies | |
| News > Film & Television | July 30, 2008 |
| New Line Pictures' founders Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne have formed the new Unique Features, and are working on Isaac Asimov's Foundation series as their first project... | |
| Rockne S. O'Bannon turning Farscape into Boom! comic book | |
| News > Film & Television | July 28, 2008 |
| Series creator Rockne S. O'Bannon will be writing Boom! Studios' Farscape comic book... | |
| Cartoon Network turning three comic titles into feature films | |
| News > Film & Television | July 28, 2008 |
| Cartoon Network is turning Firebreather, Mice Templar, and The Vanishers into feature films... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of July | |
| News > Film & Television | July 28, 2008 |
| Once again, genre films own the top of the charts (with only one non-genre title in the top ten). And The Dark Knight is doing to the foreign box office what he's doing at home... | |
| Boom! Studios and Disney Publishing team up to bring Pixar films to comic books | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | July 25, 2008 |
| Boom! Studios and Disney Publishing Worldwide have teamed up to allow Boom! to publish comic books for kids based on most of Pixar's films, including The Incredibles, Toy Story... | |
| VIZ Media launches VIZ Productions; hires Jason Hoffs | |
| News > Film & Television | July 22, 2008 |
| VIZ Media has launched VIZ Productions, a Hollywood company to produce and license manga and animation for live action films. Producer Jason Hoffs has been hired to run the new company... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of July | |
| News > Film & Television | July 21, 2008 |
| Some new release, some new moves, but still, genre films dominate the top of the list, holding the top six spots... | |
| 60th Annual Emmy Award Nominees | |
| News > Awards | July 17, 2008 |
| The 60th Annual Prime Time Emmy Award nominations include a fair showing by genre productions. Pushing Daisies is the fourth-most nominated program... | |
| Free anime evening in Kansas City | |
| News > Film & Television | July 15, 2008 |
| The University of Missouri Kansas City hosts the 13th Vince Koehler Film Festival on 26 July, featuring a selection of anime films... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of July | |
| News > Film & Television | July 14, 2008 |
| Another stunning week, with genre films holding the top six spots, and taking in a combined $207 million... | |
| Winners of the 2008 Nominees for Constellation Awards for Canadian SF Film and Television | |
| News > Awards | July 13, 2008 |
| The winners of the two-year-old Constellation Awards, which honor Canadian science fiction film and television, are... | |
| Missing third of Metropolis rediscovered | |
| News > Film & Television | July 8, 2008 |
| Nearly 100 missing minutes of Fritz Lang's 1927 classic film Metropolis have been discovered in the archives of a museum in Argentina... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Last Week of June | |
| News > Film & Television | July 7, 2008 |
| Genre films hold the top 7 spots and an incredible 8 of the top 10. Too many to choose from... | |
| Eleven Fans Donate Babylon 5 Mask to Museum of the Moving Image | |
| News > Fandom | June 30, 2008 |
| A group of 11 Babylon 5 fans, otherwise unconnected, were able to pool their resources to purchase and then donate a lifemask of Andreas Katsulas and a prop mask of G'Kar, his character... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of June | |
| News > Film & Television | June 30, 2008 |
| Yet another week where seven of the top ten films are genre pictures, and another returns to the top 25 after an incredible 11 weeks below the radar... | |
| 34th annual Saturn Film/Television/DVD Award Winners | |
| News > Awards | June 26, 2008 |
| The Saturn Awards, for sf/f/h film and television, were just handed out. Big winners were 300 and Lost... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week of June | |
| News > Film & Television | June 23, 2008 |
| The Incredible Hulk was incredible, and seven of the top ten movies are genre films... | |
| AFI honors top 10 films in 10 different genres | |
| News > Film & Television | June 19, 2008 |
| The American Film Institute, continuing its tradition of issuing lists of films, listed the top ten films in ten different genres... | |
| Campaign to expand release of Clive Barker's Midnight Meat Train | |
| News > Film & Television | June 18, 2008 |
| The Midnight Meat Train, based on Clive Barker's story, is the victim of cuts by distributor Lionsgate Entertainment. A campaign is now running to increase its distribution... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of June | |
| News > Film & Television | June 16, 2008 |
| There are still five genre films in the top 10, with combined box office takes approaching $800 million... | |
| ERB's Barsoom may be coming to the big screen | |
| News > Film & Television | June 9, 2008 |
| Pixar's Andrew Stanton confirms that he's writing a screenplay for John Carter of Mars... | |
| Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of June | |
| News > Film & Television | June 9, 2008 |
| There are still five genre films in the top ten, and another four in the next fifteen (including one reappearance)... | |
