Posting on the Sci-Fi Heaven Forums, Ascension Events runner Heather Amos posted the following: So excited! Things are moving full pace ahead now, and I’m jumping back on board to notify anyone…
Category: Analysis and News
An in-depth look at Sci-Fi events and news.
Serenity Rankings
Serenity once again has astounded and amazed by being ranked #9 in Yahoo’s “Top 10 Rated Movies of All Time” poll, beating out The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of…
Ascension Events Call Out
Posting on our forums, Ascension Events organiser Heather Amos posted a shout out to all guests both booked and on the fence. Please take a moment to read: I am calling on…
Serenity opens to disappointing box office results
According to BoxOfficeMojo, SERENITY pulled in just about $4,000,000 on Friday, a further $3,500,000 on Saturday, and a projected $2,500,000 today. This totals a weekend estimate of ten million dollars, far short of the fifteen million that was hoped.
Having said that, it is the most successful new movie this weekend (beating Jessica Alba’s INTO THE BLUE).
It remains to be seen how happy studio executives will be with these figures, but bearing in mind that they are heavily estimated, the final numbers could change considerably either way. Opening to almost unanimous critical praise (yes, it would seem RottenTomatoes got their act together and painted a more positive picture), fans hope that positive word of mouth will contribute to a strong overall run in American theatres.
Serenity certainly doesn’t appear to be in any danger of not making a profit, the only question is whether or not this profit will be strong enough to warrant a sequel, or (preferably in my mind) another television run.
From Russia, With Horror…
From Russia, with horror, comes NIGHT WATCH, the stylish horror fantasy film that has revolutionized post-Soviet cinema. “Ancient prophecy foretells that one day a “Great One” will arrive who can end the…
INTERVIEW: Keith R.A. DeCandido
Sci-Fi Heaven.net spoke to sci-fi/fantasty author KEITH RA DeCADIDO about his writing, fans and what’s coming up soon! Keith has written dozens of novels, short stories, eBooks, comic books, and nonfiction books…
War of the Worlds DVD Details
Paramount Home Entertainment this evening sent us the latest news and images from the upcoming DVD release of the summer blockbuster “The War of the Worlds”. The UK is the first territory…
Serenity and the Rotten Tomatoes of Death
Well there we have it, Serenity has just fallen to a ROTTEN rating on RottenTomatoes.com, a popular film review site. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of the site, Rotten…
Is Lost sci-fi?
Given the amazing success of the Lost show, many hardcore anti-sci-fi viewers are anxious to disprove the theory that Lost is, infact, science fiction. They’d never watch something has geeky as that!…
Insane plot, brother! (Spoilers for Lost Season Two)
Lost’s second season rocketed onto US screens this week, with the premiere pulling in an astounding 23.5 million viewers (over a fifth of all US TVs on at the time).
Curiously, the premiere didn’t bother to even touch upon the fate of the raft outside of one short and cryptic scene, and chose to dedicate itself entirely on the hatch. What a bizarre twist, eh?
The second part will air next week… but I can’t honestly see how they’re going to explain this one.
No new Trek progress
Speaking to Trek fans in the STAR TREK MAGAZINE, Star Trek franchise-runner Rick Berman said “There’s nothing new to tell you right now. There is absolutely nothing new. We’ve talked about where things were at our last couple of interviews, and those things haven’t changed. You’ll be the first to know when there’s anything new to discuss.”
He went on to say, “We’re done with ENTERPRISE, and the film is still in the infant stages. The only things I’ve contributed to are the Star Trek DVDs. I did a commentary for the STAR TREK NEMESIS DVD. I’ve done commentaries for the ENTERPRISE DVDs. But that’s really it.”
Caption Contest 23
Greetings all.
The results can be found in our forums.
And, if you’ll care to take a gander at the Caption Contest page, you’ll notice a new one is readily available for your comedy expertise!
Let’s let those girlish tendencies out lads! Or in the case of Craig, reel them back in.
You know. Whatever.
Sci-Fi to reinstate full Stargate credits
In a somewhat bizarre twist to the Stargate-intro story, Sci-Fi Channel announced that the full-length intro sequence would indeed return to broadcasts in the second half of SG-1’s ninth season, and the second half of Atlantis’s second.
The intros of both shows were cut to a mere 10-seconds at in July to allow for more advertising space. Canada had been airing the show with the full credits anyway, but now it seems these will also be shown in the US.
Why the change? Who knows, it doesn’t seem to make an awful lot of sense really. Perhaps Sci-Fi couldn’t get enough advertisements to fill the slots, but that doesn’t really seem feasible if the demand was so great that they cut the sequence to ten seconds in the first place.
Serenity site gets makeover
The official Serenity movie website has been redone, with perhaps the most extreme and over-the-top flash animations yet seen by mankind. Dodging past the nifty effects and video clips and dots flying about the screen, you should be able to find some content somewhere.
Maybe.
R.I.P. Brock Peters
It is with great and heartfelt sadness that I must report the death of Brock Peters at age 78.
Best known to Star Trek fans as Joseph Sisko on Deep Space Nine, Peters touched the hearts of many fans with his talented and wonderful acting.
A wonderful man with an extensive career. Please take a moment to reflect on the achievements he made during his career over at IMDB
Footage from Serenity world premiere
World Exclusive footage from the Red Carpet at the world premiere of Serenity.
REVIEW: Serenity (Major Spoilers)
Without a doubt the most anticipated movie of the autumn, “Serenity” is the sci-fi epic from Buffy creator Joss Whedon. A spin-off of the brilliant, if somewhat short-lived series “Firefly” that was cancelled prematurely, Serenity is a low-budget movie designed to bring some closure to the series, and also to bring the possibility of a greater re-birth in some form.
After 44,000 people struggled to get tickets for the World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the movie started attracting plenty of media attention, culminating for the moment in the Premiere last night… Sci-Fi Heaven.net was there in the first audience ever to see the movie.
Here’s how it is.
New Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire Trailer
A very low quality copy of the new (rumoured to be international) Harry Potter movie trailer has surfaced online. If you’re willing to put up with the low quality audio and video, then we have mirrored the file here.
Goblet of Fire Movie Trailer 2 [LOW QUALITY]
We’ll get a high-quality copy up as soon as we can, but as of yet there isn’t one in existance.
From what we can tell (since its not unlike to standing in the night, looking through a dirty window and into an unlit room, while a heavy hurricane tears past), the movie appears to be quite impressive, adopting a more epic scale than its predecessors.
Roll on November.