Two live-action movies from the manga Gantz will be coming out in 2011 according to Nippon Cinema. From Funimation Films, both Ichi and Evangelion 1.0 are making the rounds of some big-screen theaters prior to their release on DVD; you can find the list of theaters and showtimes here.
Once more, the team from the Annals of Improbable Research have handed out another year’s Ig Nobel Prizes. From the Gas Mask Bra to Tequila Diamonds, this years winners share a trait in common with each other and all previous winners. First they make you laugh… and then they make you think (mostly about how gullible some grant organizations may be, but every so often about the real-world problem that inspired the research in the first place). Some of the winners are just plain silly, and some, like the financial and mathematical winners, are very scary, but the fact that real scientists do this kind of thing gives me hope for the world. And then there is why people explore other worlds… one of my favorite SG1 moments starring Adam Baldwin, this video embed was inspired by SciFi Fangirl’s posting last night.
The first trailer is out for the new miniseries Riverworld, based on the classic work of Philip Jose Farmer. There is also an extended sneak peek of Stargate Universe over at Syfy.
SciFi Wire has posted what it claims is every science fiction trailer for the new Broadcast TV season. It certainly looked fairly complete to me, including both new shows and returning favorites. While bouncing to the YouTube page of one of them to watch the Hi-Q version, I found this wonderfully silly video and had to post it here: The Guild with Do You Want To Date My Avatar.
The announcement was made today: Summer Glau is going to join the cast of Dollhouse as a recurring character! On top of yesterdays news that Even Rachel Wood is joining the cast of True Blood, the upcoming TV season is looking better and better.
Once more they are making Wolfman into a movie (not to be confused with Werewolf Women of the SS). This time around the director is Joe Johnston (another project of his is The First Avenger: Captain America, due out in 2011), and Benicio Del Toro gets to grow fang-first into the fur. Since the trailer is now out, it seemed an appropriate time to mention it. And Seth Green knows what happened to Jazz at the end of Transformers II…
