An Inside Look at Pixar
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 11, 2006 in Animation
The Bionic Woman Returns: Why?
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 11, 2006 in Television
A remake of a spinoff? Is there a law in Hollywood against doing something new? And I bet those bastards don’t even let poor Lindsay Wagner get a cameo role, thus forcing her to do more matress commercials:
“David Eick, executive producer of SCI FI Channel’s original series Battlestar Galactica, will reinvent another 1970s SF show: The Bionic Woman, which he will executive-produce with film writer Laeta Kalogridis for SCI FI’s parent TV network, NBC, Variety reported. The original spinoff of The Six Million Dollar Man starred Lindsay Wagner as tennis-pro-turned-superwoman Jamie Sommers; it aired for two seasons on ABC before shifting to NBC in 1977 for its final year.”
We found the above Bionic Woman lunchbox photo at Eric Neely’s website.
Lego Chewbacca
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 10, 2006 in Hobbies and Collections, Star Wars
A Wookie made of little plastic brick bits:
MTV George Lucas Interview
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 10, 2006 in Star Wars
This is cool, it looks like Lucas may do a live action TV show:
“In 2007, Lucas will begin work on a live-action “Star Wars” show set during the 18-year gap between Episodes III and IV. “We haven’t started yet; I start that next year,” the filmmaker said, adding that he’s determined to write an entire first season before shooting begins on the show that will star “background” characters from that time period.
None of the Skywalker story, none of that stuff is in there,” he explained, shooting down any depiction of a young Han Solo acquiring the Millennium Falcon or running with Lando Calrissian. “It’s completely different. The animated series has got all the characters in it. The one that comes after, the live-action one, is with people who were in ‘Star Wars,’ but they’re not the main characters.” Lucas said the plot will be steered by characters such as Tie-Fighter or Rebel pilots, most only briefly glimpsed in the six “Star Wars” films.”
Alien Loves Predator
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 9, 2006 in Comic Books
A silly webcomic worth checking out:
Space Invader Skateboards
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 9, 2006 in Videogames
For the 8bit skateboaring fanboy:
Invader x Mekanism Skateboards
“Paris-based skateboard company Mekanism invited Space Invader—the French graffiti artist known for his mosaics—once again to have his way with their decks. Expanding on the limited edition turquoise and red mosaic print that Invader came up with on their first collaboration (back in ’05), there’s only one per edition and they’re made with actual tiles.”
The Galileomobile
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 8, 2006 in Star Trek
A very cool automobile based on the Galileo, found via Geek24:
New Class of Planets
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 8, 2006 in Science
This is amazing to think about, imagine a planet the size of Jupiter that goes around the sun in a single day:
‘Bulge’ yields new planet class
“Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets that take less than a day to whiz round their parent stars. Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the existence of the planets, which orbit closer to their stars than any previously known. Dr Kailash Sahu and colleagues report finding the planets in a faint, crowded star field in a region of the Milky Way known as the galactic bulge.
The team has published its findings in the scientific journal Nature. It uncovered the existence of 16 planets in the category of close orbiters, taking between 0.4 and 3.2 days to go around their respective stars. Many of the planets are the size of Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System. Two of the 16 have orbits of less than a day, creating a new category of “ultra-short” orbit exoplanets.”
Comic Book DS
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 7, 2006 in Comic Books, Videogames
So you have a Nintendo DS and you want to read comic books? Here’s the answer:
Sundance goes Sci Fi
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 7, 2006 in Cinema
I’m always down on the Sci Fi channel for nottaking chances, well this time I’m wrong! It seems they are doing something quite cool and joining up with the Sundance channel to have a contest for science fiction films:
SCI FI, Sundance Launch Exposure
“SCI FI Channel announced that it will join forces with Sundance Channel to launch Exposure, an eight-week short-film competition to find the best science fiction, horror or fantasy films to post on SCIFI.COM and SundanceChannel.com, with a grand prize of the chance to pitch a project to SCI FI Channel’s Pictures Group. Both sites are now accepting submissions from up-and-coming filmmakers of two-to-eight-minute movies in the genre.
The short films will be judged by a committee of SCI FI Channel and Sundance Channel experts, who will review the submissions and post the best ones online each week. Viewers will cast their votes on either Web site to determine a weekly winner, ultimately determining the eight finalists. The eight shorts will be featured in an on-air special, to be broadcast on SCI FI Channel (airdate to be announced) preceding the online voting to determine the grand prize winner. That winner will be awarded a trip to New York to pitch his or her project.”
Mars Rover Photos
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 7, 2006 in Science
An upclose view of Mars’s Victoria Crater:
Wookieepedia
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 6, 2006 in Star Wars
I was pretty impressed by the level of detail and scale (over 38,000 articles) that I found in this Star Wars wiki:
Wookieepedia
A Star Wars encyclopedia that anyone can edit
Below: “The Wookiees, although primitive compared to us, are surprisingly capable editors. They’re pretty strong, and pick up wiki techniques pretty quickly.”
Star Wars meets the Muppet Show
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 6, 2006 in Star Wars
“It seems we’ve landed on some sort of comedy variety show planet”:
Cruise & Kidman Ruined Eyes Wide Shut
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 6, 2006 in Cinema
It seems an interview has come out which claims that Kubrick thought that Cruise and Kidman ruined ‘Eyes Wide Shut’, and I have to say that I agree! Cruise gave a a great performance in ‘Magnolia’ and Kidman was fantastic in ‘the Hours’, but they two together just didn’t work on screen:
Cruise and Kidman ruined Eyes Wide Shut – Kubrick interview
“Director Stanley Kubrick thought his last movie Eyes Wide Shut was a “piece of s**t” that was ruined by interference from its stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, according to actor R Lee Ermey. Ermey starred in Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and remained in contact with the legendary film-maker up until his death in 1999.
When the pair spoke shortly after Kubrick had completed work on Eyes Wide Shut, Ermey recalls the legendary director expressing his disappointment with the movie. He says: “Stanley called me about two weeks before he died, as a matter of fact. We had a long conversation about Eyes Wide Shut. He told me it was a piece of s**t and that he was disgusted with it and that the critics were going to have him for lunch.”
…however I’d have to note that Sydney Pollack gave a great performance:
Clone Wars
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 5, 2006 in Star Wars
Can’t Lucas do anything new? I get the bad feeling that they are about to ‘Star Trek’ Star Wars into the ground:
‘Star Wars’ Creator Readies ‘Clone Wars’
“The wars aren’t over for “Star Wars” creator George Lucas. Lucas said Wednesday he’s making an animated TV series of “Clone Wars” that could air next year, although he hasn’t sold the show to a network yet. The series is set during the time when the Republic is fighting a civil war against separatists led by Count Dooku.
The mythic period hasn’t been dealt with too much in the popular “Star Wars” movies, so “it’s a fun place to go,” Lucas said. “It basically has all the main characters” such as Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lucas said, but the stars who played them in the movies won’t voice them for the TV show.”
RayRay Parade
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 5, 2006 in Videogames
Try to get every RayRay to StandStand:
He discovered ‘Lost’, and then lost his job…
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 5, 2006 in Lost
Lloyd Braun gave the go ahead for ‘Lost’ and then lost his job:
The man who discovered ‘Lost’ – and found himself out of a job
“The discovery could not have come at a better time. ABC had dropped to fourth in the ratings after NBC, CBS and Fox, and had not posted a profit for seven years. There was just one stumbling block. Braun’s bosses were unconvinced. While he, swept along on a tidal wave of enthusiasm, commissioned JJ Abrams, the award-winning scriptwriter of the hit series Alias, to write an initial episode and lavished £7 million on what was to become the most expensive television pilot in history, his bosses at Walt Disney, which owns ABC, looked on in horror.
“A crazy project that’s never going to work” was how Michael Eisner, the chairman and chief executive of Disney, described it. “This is a waste of time,” said Bob Iger, his deputy. They could not have been more wrong.”
Push For Season 5 of Enterprise
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 4, 2006 in Star Trek
I always rather liked Enterprise, and I wouldn’t mind seeing another season of the show, or at least a special or two. I think Enterprise suffered from “Voyager fatigue” it seemed like they just wanted to run the franchise into the ground. I think once people see the series solo that it may gain some fans:
Push For Season 5 of “Enterprise” Continues With SCi FI Channel
“The folks over at Trek United have never given up on the idea of a season five for Star Trek: Enterprise and now that the show has been picked up for syndication on The SCI FI Channel, the organizers of the Save Enterprise campaign are focussing their attention there for a possible fifth season. In a surprise announcement, one of the leaders of the campaign who goes by the screen name AussieTrek released this call to all members of the Trek United website and to anyone interested in helping with the 5th Season Campaign:
This week, the fans of Star Trek are encouraged to participate in the preparation of the postcard campaign to Sci Fi Channel. The organizers are hoping to persuade the Sci Fi Channel (the new home of syndicated Star Trek: Enterprise reruns), to negotiate with CBS Corporation for the continued production of new episodes of Enterprise. We are asking everyone to choose their favorite ‘slogans’ for use on the postcards to kick off the mailing phase of the resurgent campaign.”
Calls For Cthulhu
Posted by Michael Pinto on Oct 3, 2006 in Pulp Fiction
It’s the show that answers the question “What would it be like if Cthulu hosted a cable-access talk show?”