TOS and TNG on G4?

Apparently that’s what the Comcast-owned tech channel is trying to do. This is part of a larger rebranding effort on G4’s part to snag the male geek audience. No word on if this means Sci-Fi will lose TOS and Spike will lose TNG. More from Sci-Fi Wire.

“Kong” is King of the Box Office

Surprising no one, “Kong” takes the box office top spot ($50 Million). Narnia slips to number two, but still pulls in a respectable chunk of change ($31 Million).

  1. King Kong *
  2. Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  3. The Family Stone *
  4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  5. Syriana
  6. Walk the Line
  7. Yours, Mine, and Ours
  8. Brokeback Mountain
  9. Just Friends
  10. Aeon Flux

* – New Release. More data and stuff at Box Office Mojo

Saturday Movie Review – “1984”

And just what is a “Saturday Movie Review” you might
ask? I’ve got a lot of unreviewed movies in my
collection. I plan to review one movie every
Saturday until that has been rectified. I’ll be
skipping most of the horror films, to save them for
another Halloween event, and passing on the
superheroes for now because we’ve got a lot of that
content anyway with new releases and comic books.
Aside from that, I’m going through them all, and I’ll
be reviewing them in alphabetical order (with the
exception of next week’s holiday themed review.) My
collection is sorted with numbers first, so here we
go: 1984.
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Star Trek XI: The Mirror Universe?

It’s been all over and frankly, I just don’t believe it. Not that powers that be aren’t that stupid, it just doesn’t make any sense. Only we few geeks even know about the whole Mirror Universe concept and I doubt that Paramount will attempt anything with that narrow an audience. Here’s the original story from Ain’t it Cool News.

Update: Paramount has quashed the rumor, but has confirmed the existance of a Star Trek script that is being looked at by the studio.