Fox Green-Lights Beyond
Posted by steelcage at February 2, 2006, 11:11 pm.
Fox on Feb. 1 gave a green light to the SF drama pilot Beyond, from writer David Self (Road To Perdition), Variety reported.
Twentieth Century Fox TV and Imagine TV are behind the thriller, which takes place at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A global crisis helps launch a new race to space as the show opens, the trade paper reported.
Self will executive-produce with Imagine's Brian Grazer and David Nevins.
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Stargate enters MMO universe
Posted by steelcage at January 31, 2006, 10:47 pm.
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment secures TV license for its maiden voyage into game development.
With Stargate SG-1 on the verge of becoming the longest-running American sci-fi TV show ever, it seems about time that someone took a crack at turning it into a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for PCs. That someone will be the new development house Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the company announced today.
Stargate Worlds will let players explore the universe of the film as soldiers and scientists, creating alliances and trade while defending humanity from hostile alien forces. Little has been revealed about the title, but it will draw upon both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis for inspiration.
While Cheyenne Mountain has no games to its credit, its management team has plenty of industry experience. Vice president of product development Joseph Ybarra started in the industry more than two decades ago as a producer with Electronic Arts. Games to his credit include PC classics such as M.U.L.E. and Wasteland and MMO games like Shadowbane and The Matrix Online. Art director Stu Rose worked on many of Blizzard's PC hits, from Diablo to World of Warcraft, while creative director Chris Klug cut his teeth as a game designer with the 1981 sci-fi RPG Universe and in more recent years worked on the sci-fi MMORPG Earth & Beyond.
Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and MGM Interactive entered into the licensing agreement for Stargate Worlds last September, shortly after a previous game based on the TV series apparently imploded. A release date for Stargate Worlds has yet to be announced.
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News Flash: Internet Men Find Alba Desirable
Posted by steelcage at January 31, 2006, 10:42 pm.
 LOS ANGELES ( Zap2it.com)- This just in to our news headquarters -- if we had presses, we'd stop them -- Internet users of the male persuasion think that Jessica Alba isn't bad to look at.
According to a scientific survey conducted by the good folks at AskMen.com, the "Into the Blue" star ranks at the pinnacle of site's Top 99 Most Desirable Women list for 2006.
Who, pray tell, made this decision? Apparently more than 2.5 million votes were cast between the site's editors and readers. That major criteria is that women in question be "alluring." Apparently the survey asked users to vote on the woman they would most want a relationship with, would consider marrying or thought best-suited to be the mother of their children, whatever that means.
The list begins at No. 99 with former tennis hottie Anna Kournikova (fallings from No. 52 last year) and continues on in variety of predictable directions leading up to a Top 10 of Eva Longoria, Natalie Portman, Amerie, Jessica Biel, Charlize Theron, Maria Menounos (Seriously?), last year's No. 1 Adriana Lima, Angelina Jolie, Sienna Miller and Alba.
Alba soared into the top spot after only coming in at No. 78 last year. How did Alba prove to the readers of AskMen.com that she was the right woman to mother their children? Was it her "Sin City" turn as a stripper with a heart of gold? Or her "Into the Blue" work as a bikini-clad fish trailer? Or her invisible "Fantastic Four" stint? Clearly, when it comes to desirability, 2005 was just a splendid year for the Alba.
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Spike Green-Lights Blade Series
Posted by steelcage at January 31, 2006, 10:36 pm.
 Spike TV—which had previously announced a two-hour TV movie based on the Blade movies and Marvel Comics franchise—has given the green light to 13 hours of the vampire drama as a TV series from New Line TV, Variety reported.
Batman Begins writer David Goyer, who also wrote the three Blade movies, will executive-produce the series, along with show runner David Simkins, Marvel Entertainment principal Avi Arad and New Line's Jim Rosenthal and Jon Kroll. Goyer wrote the two-hour TV movie pilot with comic author Geoff Johns, the trade paper reported.
Spike president Doug Herzog committed to the show just months after taking the helm of the network, hoping to make it the cabler's premiere drama launch, the trade paper reported.
Kirk "Sticky" Jones (F/X's Over There) stars as the title half-vampire warrior who fights to save the human race from a demonic underworld. Jill Wagner, Neil Jackson, Nelson Lee and Jessica Gower also star. Peter O'Fallon directed the pilot. Wesley Snipes played the title character in the movies.
The two-hour pilot will kick off the series as a movie event this June. Production on the remaining 11 episodes will begin this spring.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith Hits TV
Posted by steelcage at January 31, 2006, 10:35 pm.
 A TV version of the hit 2005 movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith is among the latest crop of pilot pickups at the broadcast networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
ABC has picked up Mr. & Mrs. Smith, based on Doug Liman's film about a married pair of assassins for hire, for midseason 2006-'07 or fall 2007 consideration, the trade paper reported. The movie starred Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Regency TV, a co-venture of the film's producer, New Regency, and Fox TV Studios, will produce the pilot, written and executive-produced by the feature's writer, Simon Kinberg.
Liman and Dave Bartis also are executive-producing through their company, which has changed its name from Hypnotic to Dutch Oven. Liman also is expected to direct, subject to availability.
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NBC Orders Supernatural Pilot
Posted by steelcage at January 30, 2006, 9:49 pm.
Conan O'Brien's production company has landed a pilot at NBC about a man who gets a second shot at life, Variety reported. CBS, meanwhile, picked up what it called an Indiana Jones-type drama pilot.
O'Brien's Conaco, along with NBC Universal TV Studio, is behind an as-yet-untitled hourlong drama, formerly titled The Haskett Chronicles, from writer Willie Reale (Keen Eddie).
The potential series revolves around a politician who is murdered but is given a chance to come back to the physical world in order to save his soul. This time, he's at a much lower stage in life.
Reale scored two Tony Award nominations in 2003 for A Year With Frog and Toad. He will executive-produce with O'Brien, Jeff Ross, A.J. Morewitz and David Kissinger, the trade paper reported. NBC and NBC Universal TV Studio are both owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.
CBS, meanwhile, ordered the pilot Under Pressure, which centers on a "modern-day Indiana Jones" who takes on mysteries from the past and the present.
News from SciFi Wire
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Ford: Still Fit For Indy 4
Posted by steelcage at January 30, 2006, 9:45 pm.
Harrison Ford, 63, told ComingSoon.net that he's fit enough to play Indiana Jones a fourth time, should the long-gestating movie ever come to reality. "I can't tell you anything about Indiana Jones, but I think you've just seen a film in which I perform physically to an extent [that will be] sufficient for Indiana Jones," Ford told the site, referring to his upcoming movie Firewall.
Ford referred to a specific scene in Firewall in which he and villain Paul Bettany get into a knock-down, nasty brawl in which Ford is thrown through glass and tumbles over a balcony, among other things.
There is still no word on when a final script will be approved for Indiana Jones 4, but Ford is committed to making the movie.
"The audience is there," he said. "Everybody involved is anxious to make the film again."
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PS3's 2006 game lineup updated
Posted by steelcage at January 28, 2006, 6:54 pm.
The list of PS3 games currently projected for release in 2006 is below:
Fatal Inertia, Koei, spring 2006
Mahjong Taikai, Koei, spring 2006
Ni-Oh, Koei, summer 2006
Shin Ten Makai VI, Idea Factory, summer 2006
Vampire's Rain, AQ Interactive, winter 2006
Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega, 2006
Unnamed RPG, Success, 2006
Hitsuji Mura, Success, 2006
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Watch the Trailer for Silent Hill
Posted by steelcage at January 25, 2006, 10:58 pm.
Check the Trailer for Silent Hill if you liked the game. (I found the game very scary when it first came out.) Check out the Trailer. NO MOOD SELECTED
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