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New Twilight trailer, Tom Swift

The trailer for Twilight: New Moon hit the web shortly ago, and it looks like the franchise might be good for another movie or two. Although I am not sure you can use the word franchise when speaking of a body of work one film deep so far. Now that Barry Sonnenfeld is no longer making Pushing Daisy’s episodes, his new project looks to be the iconic Tom Swift. If done right, that could be a fun movie, particularly for anyone addicted to the books as a kid (even more so for us budding mad scientist youngsters).

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON trailer in HD

Doctor Who Movie, new Oshii anime

According to this BBC announcement, there is more in store for David Tennant’s run as the Doctor. Besides the remaining specials we already knew about, he is signed up for a major part in two episodes of season three of the Sarah Jane Adventures. The new season of SJA starts in September in the UK and will run for 12 episodes. I addition, David has signed on for a series of short animated Who episodes which will also feature the voices of Georgia Moffett, David Warner and Lisa Bowerman. And while he was not directly mentioned, the BBC has confirmed that a movie script is in development for a theatrical Doctor Who treatment. I can’t wait to see it on the big screen! On the small screen, new this week is Mamoru Oshii’s The Sky Crawlers, based on the book series by Mori Hiroshi. Oshii used the same 3D CG animation team involved with his Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence production. Besides the Ghost in the Shell series of movies and TV shows, previous creations of Mamoru Oshii include Urusei Yatsura, Blood: The Last Vampire, Patlabor, and a whole lot more.

US SF TV listings

The folks at SFX have put together a listing of the New Fall Season Roundup of science fiction TV shows. Which I found just a bit strange, as they are all US Broadcast Network TV programs, and SFX is a UK magazine. Nowhere in the list is mention of current or upcoming Brit series, like Afterlife, Misfits, Paradox, or Primeval. More expected was SciFi Wire putting together a nice little chart of Every Sci-Fi Show, except its not; just like the previous list, it only includes US Broadcast Network TV programs. Which is again a bit strange, this time because the web site is owned by a US cable company, but it made no mention of Eureka or Warehouse 13, both of which start in July. Guess I’ll just watch the new trailer for Surrogates instead…

New TV and Old Movies

Fancast has a few video pieces and a nice blog entry about upcoming SciFi series Flash Forward and V. Flash Forward is based on the Robert J Sawyer book of the same name, while V is of course a remake of that classic 80s TV series. I am looking forward to both. John Scalzi has a history lesson for us about pre-Star Wars SciFi hit movies. I never knew the number one movie in 1916 was a version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which I am now going to watch.