Friday, December 16, 2011

SciFi News For 12-16-11

New Trailer For "MS One: Maximum Security" - Formerly "Lockout" (Video 1:57):
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=msone

Another "G.I.Joe" Film...This Time With The Rock And Bruce Willis (Trailer 2:51)
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2011/12/13/g-i-joe-retaliation-trailer-released/

Two Earth's Still Equals One Review. "Another Earth" (Image & Trailer 2:17):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-2071889/Another-Earth-film-review-An-ill-considered-mixture-realism-science-fiction.html 

2012 Loaded With Science Fiction Movie Choices:
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/1166414/10_potentially_great_scifi_movies_coming_in_2012.html 

Filmmakers Going Retro With SFX In Upcoming Sci-Fi Short (Video 1:56) 
http://techzwn.com/2011/12/filmmakers-reviving-sci-fi-with-lights-miniatures-and-imagination/

The Six Million Dollar Man - First Season DVD Review:
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1987/1

"The Hunger Games" New Poster:
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/12/16/the-hunger-games-new-poster/ 

With Missions Complete Long Ago "Voyager" I And II Head Out of Solar System:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111213144717.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 

A Closer Look At The "Large Hadron Collider" (Dr Michio Kaku - Video 2:45):
http://www.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/large-hadron-collider.htm#mkcpgn=em16

"Lucasfilms' Version Of A Christmas Card:
http://blastr.com/2011/12/image-of-the-day-lucasfilms-humorous-2011-holiday-card.php

OTHER NEWS
It's been a few years since we've had a Mars-related movie, but a new film titled 
"The Last Days On Mars" is in the works directed by Ruairi Robinson. The films plot centers around an astronaut crew on their last days on the planet who suddenly discover evidence of life from rock samples. However as their relief crew's ship approaches the astronauts have to deal with impending danger back at the excavation site.

Director Bryan Singer is doing a theatrical release "Battlestar Galactica" movie,  unrelated to the prequel TV series "Blood and Chrome." Its writer is John Orloff, who when interviewed said that his version is pretty bold. He likes the recent TV series and said his movie won't contradict it.

There is word that Denzel Washington will appear as the lead in film "The Equalizer" It's based on the 80s sci-fi show that originally starred Edward Woodward as a retired secret agent who tries to atone for his violent past by offering his services to those in need. 

Warner Bros. has just bought the rights for an action sci-fi film called ‘Rise’ from up and comer David Karlak. Although details of the production are shrouded in mystery sources say there are some heavy hitters involved in the making of this movie.

If you weren't that impressed by the last James Bond movie, "Quantum Of Solace"  your not alone.  But Daniel Craig says don’t give up on the franchise, promising the new Bond movie "Skyfall" will be better. Craig says the "Solace" ran into problems due to the writer’s strike."We had the bare bones of a script and then there was a writers’ strike and there was nothing we could do. We couldn’t employ a writer to finish it. I say to myself, ‘Never again’, but who knows? There was me trying to rewrite scenes...and a writer I am not.”

Anonymous U.S. government sources confirm that Iran probably did scoop up one of America’s stealth RQ-170 Sentinel spy drones after the aircraft crashed near the Iran-Afghanistan border last week. What’s still uncertain is exactly why the drone went down, what it was doing in or near Iranian airspace and who was operating it. The Iranians claim they captured the RQ-170 “with little damage” after an electronic-warfare unit jammed its control signal. But the RQ-170, like most modern drones, doesn’t need orders from its human operators to stay in the air.

The most expensive weapons program in U.S. history is about to get a lot pricier.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, meant to replace nearly every tactical warplane in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, was already expected to cost $1 trillion dollars for development, production and maintenance over the next 50 years. Now that cost is expected to grow, owing to 13 different design flaws uncovered in the last two months by a hush-hush panel of five Pentagon experts.

BOOK REVIEWS
"A Mirror For Observers" - Edgar Pangborn (1954)
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/12/quiet-martians-edgar-pangborns-a-mirror-for-observers 
"Sisterhood Of Dune" - Brian Herbert And Kevin J Anderson (Jan 3)
http://www.vjbooks.com/Kevin-Anderson-Brian-Herbert-Sisterhood-of-Dune-p/andsist01-b.htm
"Earthbound" - Joe Haldeman:
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780441020959  
"Axis" - Robert Charles Wilson:
http://sfreviews.net/rcw_axis.html

SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it." - Sir Henry Royce

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