Seems kinda anti-climactic after the sheer horror that is that Star Wars story… anyway, the DVD of “Philosopher’s Stone” (or, if you insist, “Sorcerer’s Stone”) is due out on May 7th. (Speculation persists that the fifth book is due out at about the same time, but there’s nothing official out there about that one.)
And J.K. Rowling got married to an anesthesiologist she’s been seeing for about a year. Congrats!
When the studios start spending buckets of money, that’s how you know they’re actually planning to make it into a movie. Case in point: “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” which just got a $70 million cash infusion in exchange for the foreign distribution rights. Requisite news story.
I’ll never complain about those Star Trek/WWF crossovers again… Lucasfilm has confirmed that the members of ‘N Sync will appear in “Star Wars II”. It’s reportedly a non-speaking, non-singing, non-credited role, but that just doesn’t quite get the ill taste out of my mouth.
At some point over the weekend, the database server got toasted, and everything posted after about noon on Sunday was non-recoverable. “We apologize for the inconvenience.”
So now, my New Years’ resolution is to get even better backups in place. How about you? What are you looking forward to this year – Star Wars II, Harry Potter II, Lord of the Rings II, or something that doesn’t have a Roman numeral behind it?
Okay, so it’s not due out for almost a year, and I’m not actually sure how it’ll work (unless it focuses on events after Series 8, when there are more than a dozen people in the universe), but Deep 7’s Red Dwarf RPG oughta be good for a laugh.
No, it’s not about the next movie, “The Matrix: Reloaded.” Instead, The Matrix: Revisited is all the backstage stuff, documentary stuff, and other cool stuff that didn’t fit on the original DVD. Read the review at IGN, then plan to buy it tomorrow.
They kept getting re-scheduled, and with good reason… We’ll try to get the complete list of winners posted soon (the nominees list is already available), but the short version is: “The West Wing” cleaned house. SF/fantasy winners noted below… A complete list is available from E! Online.
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This could just be Standard Hollywood Rumor #46887541, but Variety is reporting that Chris Carter and 20th Century Fox (shouldn’t they change their name at some point?) are in negotiations to make a second X-Files movie, slated to star Gillian Anderson and (gasp!) David Duchovny.
This sparked a lot of debate on a couple of local mailing lists I’m on, and maybe it’ll do the same thing here. Short version: In the upcoming DVD release of E.T. the Federales won’t be wielding shotguns anymore. In their place will be… walkie-talkies? (Full story follows)
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