Friday, July 29, 2011

SciFi News For 7-29-11

"Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes" - 3 New Clips (Videos 1:06 :39  1:03):
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/07/24/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-3-new-clips/

Is "In Time" The Intelligent SciFi Film We've Been Waiting For? (Story, Video 3:55):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/jul/29/in-time-andrew-niccol 

Hillary Swank Leads Revolt On Venus in 2250 With "Shrapnel" 
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/2011/07/22/hilary_swank_goes_sci-fi_with_shrapnel/

Based On The Popular Board Game,"Battleship" Now A Movie (Trailer):
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2011/07/28/battleship-trailer-released/ 

The Deleted (And Expensive!) Opening Scene From "Superman Returns: (Video 5:00):
http://geeksofdoom.com/2011/07/28/watch-now-the-deleted-opening-sequence-from-superman-returns/ 

2001's "Planet Of The Apes" - It's Tough Filling Heston's Shoes (Story):
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/07/never-send-marky-mark-to-do-hestons-job-2001s-planet-of-the-apes 

"Wherever You Go, There You Are" - A Look Back At "Buckaroo Banzai" (Story):
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/07/wherever-you-go-there-you-are-a-look-back-at-buckaroo-banzai 

Star Trek DS9's Chase Masterson At Comic-Con (Interview):
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/2007-comicon/chase-masterson-of-star-trek-d-41054.aspx

The Beginning Of The End Or The End Of The Beginning?. Life After The Shuttle (Story): http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1890/1

Is Colonizing Mars A Priority? USA's New Space Strategy Points To Yes (Story):
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/07/is-colonizing-mars-an-imperative-usas-new-space-strategy-points-to-yes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond+%28The+Daily+Galaxy%3A+News+from+Planet+Earth+%26+Beyond%29 

Momentum Building On Google+ (Story):
http://singularityhub.com/2011/07/26/dont-look-for-me-on-facebook-ive-moved-to-google/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SingularityHub+%28Singularity+Hub%29 

Visionary SciFi Artist And Illustrator Chris Foss (Images):
http://www.chrisfossart.com/ 

Are You Part Of The SFX Book Club? (Promo):

OTHER NEWS 
It’s official. We won’t get a new "Star Trek" movie next summer.Paramount removed the movie from next summer’s release list and has replaced it with the sequel to "G.I Joe: The Rise Of The Cobra". The next Trek film is supposed to begin filming in January and may be ready for release in the holiday season of 2012. 

Raw Leiba is to star in sci-fi thriller "Cybornetics", now in pre-production and set for release sometime in 2012. The film is about a group of scientists, working for the United States government, who are in a competitive race to develop a cyborg.

Actor Daniel Craig says the script for the next Bond movie is even better than the one for "Casino Royale". The actor says he’s more excited to start work on the film than he was before Casino and that director Sam Mendes will bring something new to the franchise.“I think it’s a great choice because Sam has a fervor and energy to really direct a Bond movie with a capital B,” Craig says.  

China's first space station is undergoing final tests before its launch later this year. Tiangong-1 is built to serve as a rendezvous and docking platform for China's future spacecraft. Once in Earth orbit, it would be followed by blastoff of an unpiloted Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in the latter half of this year, to carry out the nation's first space docking. 

BOOK REVIEWS
"On Basilisk Station" - David Weber
"The Mandel Files" (Re-release) - Peter F. Hamilton
"Amortals" - Matt Forbeck

SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." (1911) - Ferdinand Foch. French soldier, military theorist, and writer.

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