Archive for March 2nd, 2008

Star Wars Tops Wire Poll

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008


SCI FI Wire readers have spoken, and the Force is with them: Readers picked Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope as the top SF movie of all time.

3-D Tron Sequel Due In ‘11?

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008


Disney plans to release a 3-D sequel to its classic SF movie Tron in spring 2011, Dark Horizons reported.

Page Quits Raimi’s Hell

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008


Ellen Page, who was nominated for an Oscar for her breakout role in Juno, has dropped out of Sam Raimi’s upcoming supernatural thriller Drag Me to Hell.

Oz Actor Drops Wolverine

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008


Dark Horizons reported that young Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee (Romulus, My Father) has dropped out of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in which he was slated to play young Logan.

Butler Voices Watchmen’s Freighter

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008


Gerard Butler confirmed to Empire Magazine that he will lend his voice to Tales of the Black Freighter, the comic-within-a-movie that is part of Watchmen, the superhero film being directed by Butler’s 300 helmer Zack Snyder.

SF Hall Of Fame Inducts Serling

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008


The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling was among this year’s inductees into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, along with book publishers Ian and Betty Ballantine and authors William Gibson and Richard Powers.

Transmitter Seeks New Readers

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008


Dekker Dreyer, president of Illusion, a video-on-demand science fiction network, told SCI FI Wire that the channel has just launched a new online SF anthology called Transmitter.

Around the World Roundup: ‘Jumper’ Clings to Top Spot

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Edwards goes back-to-back with win at Las Vegas

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Carl Edwards has won his second straight race, holding off the field on two late restarts to win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Viking: Battle for Asgard Updated Impressions [PlayStation 3 Xbox 360]

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Gear up for sword-swinging warfare, blood-curdling battle cries, and pint upon pint of mead.

13,000 Abused in Juvenile Detention

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

The Associated Press contacted each state agency that oversees juvenile correction centers and asked for information on the number of deaths as well as the number of allegations and confirmed cases of physical, sexual and emotional abuse by staff members since Jan. 1, 2004. According to the survey, more than 13,000 claims of abuse were identified in juvenile correction centers around the country from 2004 through 2007 — a remarkable total, given that the total population of detainees was about 46,000 at the time the states were surveyed in 2007.

de Blob Updated Hands-On Impressions [Wii DS]

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

We take another roll through Chroma City with superhero revolutionist de Blob in the latest build of Blue Tongue’s amorphous game.