Lars von Trier's sci-fi drama Melancholia was named best movie at last year's awards, held in Berlin.
But Smith, who teams with his son Jaden in this summer's sci-fi epic "After Earth, " tells EW that he turned down the part because his character would've been second fiddle to the bounty hunter (played by Christoph Waltz) who teaches Django his trade.
She's co-starring with Samuel L. Jackson in the feature thriller "Reasonable Doubt, " will be appearing with Geena Davis in a comedy pilot for TNT, and has a recurring role during the third season of that network's sci-fi series "Falling Skies, " a gig that reunites her with "ER" alum Noah Wyle.
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"Starship Troopers" was adapted, by Ed Neumeier, from Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 sci-fi novel of the same name.
Speaking of cancelled series, we'll probably tune in to an HD rerun of last year's cancelled sci-fi show, Threshold.
Tezuka's 1951 sci-fi conflict ends with a dramatic conciliation that, Natume argues, mirrors Japanese hopes for a peaceful solution to the Cold War.
That might not be the easiest task, since there will be a lot going on at the show: from DJ Spooky's live performance to Veronica Belmont's appearance on the Sci-Fi panel to Make Magazine's Mark Frauenfelder co-hosting the Insert Coin awards - and then some.
This week's dose of sci-tech news, silly.
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Launched in July 2000, Edward's show on the Sci-Fi Channel regularly pulls in 600, 000 households, impressive by cable standards.
SCI's new website, dignitymemorial.com, allows visitors to find their nearest funeral home.
Once in a while we'd come across some cool DIY projects inspired by Doctor Who, the world's longest-running sci-fi TV show, but nothing beats this little TARDIS that would actually make you gasp out the classic line: "It's bigger on the inside!"
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"The phrase 'Renaissance Man' was derived from him, " says David S. Goyer, who has spent a lot of time studying and pondering him, and has created "Da Vinci's Demons, " a sci-fi thriller set in the 1400s.
Okay, so it's not all about deflating your sci-fi balloon, this next story should pump it right back up again.
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Conceptual artists in Houston and animators in Japan and South Korea are now at work on 26 half-hour episodes of Mutineer's Moon, based on a sci-fi pulp novel that Ledford and Greenfield read a decade ago.
There appears to be no waning of viewers' interest in science fiction, with Steven Spielberg's alien abduction series Taken giving the Sci Fi Channel its best ratings.
New York, NY - Monday, June 1, 2009 - BBC Worldwide launches BBC AMERICA HD on July 20 with the high-definition simulcast of BBC AMERICA. BBC AMERICA HD kicks off with an extraordinary week of sci-fi U.S. premieres - the return of the channel's highest rated series, Torchwood, the latest Doctor Who special, Planet of the Dead, the BBC AMERICA co-production, Being Human and the thrilling season finale of Primeval, Season 3.
Mr. MILLER: To be honest, a lot of the acceptance speeches in Sci-Tech, there's more of a problem of them being too short sometimes.
That gives SCI 15% of the U.S. market, still dominated by solo proprietors like the Fisher family in HBO's Six Feet Under.
Pain and Gain's success came at the expense of Tom Cruise sci-fi film Oblivion, which slipped down to second place after one week at the top of the US and Canada chart.
The great thing now, he says, is it's possible to work for someone who shares those sci-fi dreams, somebody like Paul Allen, who has a special museum to display all his sci-fi memorabilia.
He's the owner of both Secure Call Management and SCI At Home (now branded SCI Live), the latter of which is marketed as providing call center sales through home-based agents while it also focuses heavily on psychic hotlines.
Ustream says automated software designed to detect the unauthorized posting of copyrighted material was triggered when, before Gaiman's speech, the ceremony showed clips of "The Doctor's Wife, " an episode of the popular sci-fi series "Doctor Who, " that Gaiman penned.
But the two television series that really secured Portmeirion's place in the popular British imagination were 1960s sci-fi drama The Prisoner (with the village making an eerily jovial setting for the Kafkaesque story), and the more recent Cold Feet, the romantic comedy series whose final episode in 2003 turned Portmeirion into a popular wedding venue overnight.
But Burt Rutan, 61, has only ever read one sci-fi book: Carl Sagan's Contact.
Of course, the results were driven largely by the unit's cable channels--USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen and The Weather Channel--and the Summer Olympics, which aired across its network stable.
Universal continues it's trend of catchup titles on Blu-ray with the Sci-Fi cult classic Serenity.
Most of the credit for those numbers goes to Jeffrey Gaspin, 47, the boyish-looking head of all the company's entertainment cable channels--USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi and Oxygen.
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