What Part Will Summer Glau Play On Dollhouse? [Dollhouse]

from Triviagasm: 10 Greatest Science Fiction TV Show Endings Ever by Charlie Jane Anders

Joss Whedon works fast: now that Summer Glau is no longer busy with Terminator, he's already talking to her about showing up on Dollhouse. But she won't be playing the role you might expect. Possible spoilers below.

Whedon tells EW that he pounced on Glau even before Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was officially canceled:

If anybody thinks [bringing Summer onto Dollhouse] hasn't occurred to me already then they have not met me. I mentioned it to her before [SCC] was canceled. I was like, 'You know, we should get you in the 'house.' But first we have to come up with something that works.

First Look At An Alien World From James Cameron's Avatar [Avatar]

from Triviagasm: 10 Greatest Science Fiction TV Show Endings Ever by Meredith Woerner

The first official concept art from Avatar is out, giving us a glimpse at what could be an alien species from planet Pandora — and it reminds us slightly of the Pitch Black beasties, which apparently you can ride like Falcor.

Thanks to MarketSaw for finding these official, yet exotic, pictures from the book The Art of Avatar. I'm actually slightly more excited about motion-capture now, if the world is as lush and intricate as it's being depicted below.

In one picture, you can clearly see the power suit mentioned before and that certainly looks like Sam Worthington steering the suit. You could even go as far as to guess that behind him is his downed space ship and this is how he will be getting around on planet Pandora.

The additional piece of concept art shows some local wildlife racing(?) a robotic-flying machine. Flying animals you can ride are usually a big win for epic movies. The landscape looks lush with green and blue, hopefully it will continue to look as real on screen.

Will Transformers 2 Be The Perfect Movie? [Rant]

from Triviagasm: 10 Greatest Science Fiction TV Show Endings Ever by Charlie Jane Anders

Here's our first look at Alice, the co-ed with a secret, in Transformers 2. After a whole summer of wannabe Michael Bay films, we're finally going to get the work of Bay himself. It'll be ludicrous, fiery, splodey, car-crazy and slapsticky. In short, the perfect film. Spoilers and pics below.

I never expected to be saying this, but I'm actually sort of eager to see Transformers: Revenge OF the Fallen. I actually liked the first one, which was a fun, silly romp as long as you took it on its own terms. But I held fairly low expectations for TF2, whose script Michael Bay allegedly worked on during the writers' strike. It's like the first one, only sequel-ier. So I wasn't that pumped.

5 New Photos from The Book of Eli

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Warner Bros has released five new photos from The Hughes Brothers‘ The Book of Eli in Wednesday’s edition of USA Today. Described as a post-apocalyptic western, the film tells the story of a lone man (Denzel Washington) who fights his way across America in order to protect a mysterious sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. The film is set in the future after the sun has exploded, leaving earth to rot.

The Future of Logan’s Run in Comic Books?

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Bryan Singer was at one point attached to direct a remake of the sci-fi classic Logan’s Run, but got pulled away to direct Superman Returns. Commercial director Joseph Kosinski was then brough on board, with screenwriter Timothy J. Sexton working on a script. But Kosinski got sidetracked with a little side project for Disney called Tron 2. I’m not sure what the current status of the Joel Silver-produced 70’s sci-fi redo, but the series is getting a new life in comic book form.

Terminator Salvation Makes $13.3 Million on Thursday Opening

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Terminator Salvation took in an estimated $13.37 million on Thursday, including $3 million from midnight screenings. Steve Mason was predicting that the film would make around $70 million for the first five days of release, and these first day numbers fall in line with that estimate.

'Battlestar Galactica' Takes Over United Nations...Really

By Jeremy Hsu
posted: 18 March 2009 02:24 pm ET

ABC gives Flash Forward the green light for a series

from SCI FI Wire by Wire Staff

As expected, ABC picked up the sci-fi drama Flash Forward for a series late Friday, giving a green light to the fall series, Variety reported.

The news wasn't a surprise: The network has already been teasing the show via a series of viral marketing spots during Lost.

Just watched J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek wow nice job.

Sam Worthington hints at what James Cameron's Avatar is about

from SCI FI Wire by Fred Topel

Sam Worthington, who stars in James Cameron's secretive sci-fi film Avatar, told a group of reporters on Friday that the movie will deal with basic questions about what it means to be human. Cameron's first narrative film since Titanic combines motion capture, computer animation and live action in 3-D.

"Jim's very in touch with personal relationships, what it means to be, especially with Avatar, what it means to be a man," Worthington said in a group interview in Beverly Hills, Calif., where he was promoting Terminator Salvation. "I can take that from it. How people were affected by bullies, all those kind of themes and a sense of hope, if you settle that and then surround it with great technology and f--kin' whiz-bang explosions, then you're on the path to making something that people remember when they leave the cinema and not kind of go, 'What did we just see?'"

11 things about Star Trek that made us go 'WTF?'

from SCI FI Wire by Thomas Mill

We love J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek and reservedly recommend it to all, including longtime fans, those who've never heard of Star Trek, and everyone in between. Call it a reboot, a re-imagining, a crime against canon—we're in, and we're ready for Star Trek 2.

That said, there were more than a few moments in the new film that left us shaking our heads and wondering, "What was J.J. thinking?" After conferring with a bunch of people who've seen the film too, we compiled a list of the 11 most egregious problems with the movie, which opened in theaters today. (Big spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the movie!)

Leonard Nimoy offers inside details about his role on 'Fringe'

May 1, 2009, 01:20 PM | by Dan Snierson

Categories: Television

Fringe fans are bracing for a Spock: Leonard Nimoy will guest-star in the May 12 finale of J.J. Abrams' Fox drama as...William Bell. That's right -- we will finally meet the mysterious founder of Massive Dynamic. (He'll return next season for at least two episodes.) Here's what Nimoy, who also stars in Abrams' big-screen update of Star Trek, revealed about his TV guest gig.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You worked with J.J. on Trek. Is that how this role came about?
LEONARD NIMOY: Yeah, he called me and said: "We have this character that's been referred to but never seen." He gave me some backstory on the guy and sent me some episodes to look at. I think the show's extremely well done. And there's enough intrigue about the guy to make it interesting.

6 Star Trek technologies that are almost here (and 3 that are really far off)

from SCI FI Wire by Wire Staff

Want a piece of those incredible technologies from Star Trek? You've already got it. Those automatically opening doors existed when the first Star Trek episode aired 43 years ago. Cellphones (think Motorola StarTAC) and smartphones blow away the capabilities of the communicators of Kirk, Picard, Janeway and Archer. Bluetooth earpieces make Lt. Uhura's look primitive by a parsec and a half, and today's speech recognition could easily hold its own against the Enterprise computer's.

Still, Kirk and Co. have plenty of stuff that we can only dream about at this point. When you start talking about traveling many times the speed of light, holographic simulations that are indistinguishable from reality, replicating food inside an everyday appliance and beaming quintillions of atoms from one place to another... those are a ways off.

George Lucas Plans To Build Digital Film Production Studio in Northern California

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George Lucas wants to build a new state of the art digital film production studio in Northern California. Lucas has asked Marin County to consider plans to build a 262,728-square-foot building that would house a maxim of 340 employees at the former Grady Ranch in Lucas Valley.

Terminator Salvation in 4 Minutes, McG Explains PG-13 Rating

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Director McG tells SciFi that he only cut one shot in Terminator Salvation to earn the PG-13 rating. The quick cut involved featuring Sam Worthington’s character Marcus “stabbing a screwdriver through the shoulder” of a thug. You might be wondering, what about that much talked about topless scene featuring Moon Bloodgood? McG claims that in the end “it felt more like a gratuitous moment of a girl taking her top off in an action picture, and I didn’t want that to convolute the story or the characters.” Sure… sure…

Trailer now live for alien refugee movie District 9

from SCI FI Wire by Wire Staff

Sony has released the first teaser trailer for District 9, the film produced by Peter Jackson, which takes place in a South African refugee camp for extraterrestrials, which you can view at Apple.com and after the jump.

Is J.J. Abrams eyeing a film adaptation of Dark Tower?

from SCI FI Wire by Wire Staff

Star Trek director J.J. Abrams and his producing partner, Damon Lindelof (Lost), told IGN.com that they have been working on a film adaptation of Stephen King's classic novel series The Dark Tower, according to a report on MTV.com.

"Damon Lindelof and I talked to Mr. King," Abrams told IGN. "We got the rights for [Dark Tower] as a film. Damon is obviously still on Lost, and we've been working on Star Trek together. As soon as Lost is done, hopefully we'll begin tackling that."

New Star Trek Pics Take You Back To Starfleet Academy [Star Trek]

from Triviagasm: 10 Greatest Science Fiction TV Show Endings Ever by Charlie Jane Anders

Paramount just released its entire gallery of promotional images for next week's Star Trek movie, including this great shot of Spock (and another alien) at Starfleet Academy. Plus Captain Pike's away-mission uniform, and Uhura's workstation.

First look at Iron Man 2

from SCI FI Wire by Wire Staff

USA Today has posted the first look at Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 2 (above), as well as director Jon Favreau's comments on the sequel's themes.

The sequel began shooting three weeks ago in and around Los Angeles and opens May 7, 2010. It takes place six months after Stark revealed his identity as Iron Man, Favreau told the newspaper.

"How many superheroes are open about their true identities?" he asks. "We wanted to play with that idea. But it obviously has consequences—in his relationships, on the team. There are a lot of areas we can explore."