John Scalzi put together an analysis of the history of SNL SciFi, from which he drew one major conclusion: don’t do it! Moon opens tomorrow for a limited engagement. Very limited, in fact: two towns, New York and Los Angeles. According to the official site it is going to gradually ramp up, adding a few more towns each week, until by July 10th it will be accessible from most major cities. Cinematical just launched two new blogs; one each for Sci-Fi Movies and Horror films. They appear to be off to a good start.
The new Transformers Movie will be hitting the big screen in 2 weeks, so I wanted to include a trailer here. This is the official US movie release trailer, but you will also want to check out the SFX link to the Japanese Premier…
The movie Offline began life as a cyberpunk short, put together by Matthew Santoro and released in 2007. According to the folks at The Quiet Earth it is now being extended into a full length feature film. After looking at the trailer, I tend to think this one is worth waiting for, and the Offline home page shows promise as well.
O F F L I N E from Matthew Santoro on Vimeo.
Paul did not join the cast of anything, since the movie itself is Paul. Nick Frost and Simon Pegg are the main characters, uber-geeks who stop off at area 51 after a visit to Comic-con. When they get to Area 51, they meet Paul, the alien voiced by Seth Rogen, who asks for their help escaping from the government. There are several other great actors on this project, including the just announced Sigourney Weaver. Chicago has seven cons still to go this year, 3 this month alone. This weekend is Torchsong, the Who/Torchwood convention headlined by John Barrowman. Next week is Duckon 18, and finishing the month is ZombieCon. You can see the full list at the Chicago Tribune gallery site, one con per picture. Finally, Borders has started its own SciFi blog, called Bable Clash; it will be interesting to see how it evolves.
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).
I couldn’t resist; this is too silly to avoid! Just to keep it balanced, the original version is after the updated-for-destruction version, for comparison.