Continuum a Sci-Fi Thriller, indie, web series, set in space begins production February 22.  Continuum is about:

“Reagen, a young woman who awakes on a space ship without any memory of what she is doing there. Her only companion on board is the ship’s computer, a female spin on 2001’s “Hal,” From the creators of pink.

I like seeing more independent series being produced.  It gives me hope for the future while watching the main TV studios go mad with not getting the paradigm shift in their industry.

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I was initially intrigued when I saw a post on Sci Fi Wire by Wil McCarthy called: Is Mysticism overtaking science in sci-fi?

It sounded interesting, and I really wanted to discuss the question until I saw the Movies they decided to pick on:

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Paranormal Activity
• 9
• Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
• 2012

Wait, wait, what?  They picked a:

• Kid’s Movie
• Horror Movie
• Fantasy Movie
• Fantasy Movie
• Disaster/Supernatural Horror Movie

They didn’t list a single science fiction or sci-fi movie!!

The closest they came is maybe Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, but that is like comparing Spy Kids to a James Bond movie.

Fantasy and Horror are genres that change something about the nature of the world to affect their Fantasy or Horror.  That is the nature of these genres.  Asking them to be scientifically accurate is to ask them to stop existing.

(sigh)  I hope Sci Fi Wire would at the very least go to Wikipedia, and learn a little something about genre before they lose all their credibility on the issue…

How embarrassing!

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Theater or Renter: March 2009 includes Five Speculative Fiction movies Watchmen, Race to Witch Mountain, Knowing, Monsters vs. Aliens, and The Haunting in Connecticut.  Will we watch? Will we rent? or do we even care?

Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the Trailer. Then share with us your comments: does the movie, it’s trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?

Watchmen:

Release Date:   MARCH 6th

Listed as:  Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Studio: Legendary Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions, DC Comics

Director: Zack Snyder

Produced by:  Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Deborah Snyder

Written by:  David Hayter, Alex Tse, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman

Stars: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson

The Plot / Story: Set in an alternate 1985 America where tensions between the US and the Soviet Union is high and the “Doomsday Clock” is set at five minutes to midnight, former superhero-turned vigilante Rorschach discovers that one of his former colleagues has been murdered. As he investigates the murder he uncovers a plot that is intent on killing and discrediting all past and present superheros. As he reconnects with members of his former crime-fighting legion, including Nite Owl II, Silk Spectre II and Dr. Manhattan, they uncover a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy that not only links to their shared past but has catastrophic consequences for the future. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

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Race to Witch Mountain:

Release Date: MARCH 13th

Listed as:  Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Director: Andy Fickman

Produced by:  Andrew Gunn, Mario Iscovich, Anne Marie Sanderlin

Written by:  Andy Fickman, Mark Bomback, Matt Lopez

Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Tom Everett Scott

The Plot / Story: Advancing the storyline from the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain, a Las Vegas cab driver and a discredited astrophysicist attempt to rescue two paranormal siblings from the hands of a villainous man. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

Knowing:

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Release Date:  MARCH 20th

Listed as:  Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Studio: Summit Entertainment

Director:  Alex Proyas

Produced by:  Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch

Written by:  Alex Proyas, Stuart Hazeldine, Juliet Snowden

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne

The Plot / Story: John Koestler, a professor, finds that the contents of a time capsule at his son’s elementary school make predictions of the future that have come true. The predictions lead the teacher to believe the world is ending, and that he and his son are involved in the apocalypse. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

Monsters vs. Aliens:

Release Date:  MARCH 27th

Listed as:  Animation, Sci-Fi

Studio: DreamWorks Animation, Paramount Pictures

Director: Conrad Vernon, Rob Letterman

Produced by: Lisa Stewart, Jill Hopper, Lisa Stewart, Latifa Ouaou

Written by: Maya Forbes, Wallace Wolodarsky, Rob Letterman, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger

Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Colbert, Paul Rudd, Jimmy Kimmel

The Plot / Story: When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall.  She is labeled a monster and captured by the military and held at an institution that houses other monsters.  When a UFO lands and an alien overlord named Gallaxhar demands that Earth be given to them, General W.R. Monger suggests to the President that the monsters can provide the firepower to defeat the aliens. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

The Haunting in Connecticut:

Release Date:  MARCH 27th

Listed as:  Horror, Thriller

Studio: Lionsgate, Gold Circle Films

Director: Peter Cornwell

Produced by:  Scott Niemeyer, Norm Waitt, Steve Whitney, Paul Brooks, Daniel Farrands, Phyllis Laing, Wendy Rhoads, Andrew Trapani

Written by:  Adam Simon, Tim Metcalfe

Stars: Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas, Amanda Crew, Martin Donovan, Sophi Knight, Ty Wood, Erik J. Berg, John Bluethner, D.W. Brown, John B. Lowe

The Plot / Story: Based on a “true” story, Lionsgate’s The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family’s terrifying, real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner’s clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits, when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the powerful dark forces of the supernatural, returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family. (Wikipedia) (The Official Site)

The “true” story was featured on the Discovery Channel television show called “A Haunting.”  It was actually one their pilot episode called “A Haunting in Connecticut.”  For more on the episode check out wikipedia episode guide here

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According to the LA Times

Ackerman, a writer, editor and literary agent who has been credited with coining the term “sci-fi” in the 1950s, died Thursday of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, said John Sasser, a friend who is making a documentary on Ackerman.

Ackerman was 92 when he passed away and an inspiration to many. One of the ways he influenced our generation and those that came before us, was his position as editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland. Though of his more famous achievements he was the writer/creator of the characters Vampirella and Jeanie of Questar.

He was a huge fan of all things fantasy, horror, and sci-fi which as stated in his LA Times Obituary, he was

a man who actually had known Lugosi and Karloff and whose priceless collection of science-fiction, horror and fantasy artifacts ran to some 300,000 items.

Which could possibly be the largest in the world, if not close.

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His death is a great loss to all of fandom across the greater Speculative Fiction genre.

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