Of course his first love was science fiction – and these two stories are, indeed SF. I’m hoping that they do get translated into English.
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Sci-fi icon named UC San Diego grad speaker
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The kid-friendly book-to-screen animated fantasy, How to Train Your Dragon, swooped in and took over the box office this past weekend in its debut, knocking Tim Burton‘s Alice in Wonderland down to the second spot for the weekend ending March 28.
The other genre film debut, Hot Tub Time Machine, the Generation X science fiction bromance comedy came in at No. 3.
Up next week: the remake of the 1980s classic, Clash of the Titans, starring Sam Worthington (Avatar), Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes.
The Top 10 Genre films this past weekend are as follows:
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Video game designer and avid space enthusiast, Richard Garriott was profiled by National Public Radio (NPR) this past week. It wasn’t for his game production skills; the creator of Ultima and producer of City of Heroes, City of Villains and Tabula Rasa was noted because a junker car he bought in the 1990s that had been missing for years had finally been found – on the Moon (yes, The Moon … Luna).
That “junker” is the Lunokhod 2, a Soviet-era space exploration vehicle was abandoned by the USSR space program in 1973 after it broke down during one of its missions.
In 1993, for $68,000 Garriott bought the Lunokhud 2 vehicle at an auction at Sotheby’s in New York. At the time, that purchase was widely derided in the international press as an embarrassing showing of American hubris – especially because the lander/rover was lost and unseen for decades.
Unseen, that is, until earlier this month when a team at the University of Western Ontario, using photographs from NASA’s Lunar Orbiter, discovered the rover – after 37 years of being lost in space.
But now that it’s been found, Garriott has no interest in returning the rover to Earth.
A true Heinlein-esque capitalist, he says the rover is much more valuable as a stake of claim on prime Lunar real estate. And, he says, international treaties back this claim up. You can hear more about this in this attached audio link.
For a transcript:
http://ww.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=124956591
Here’s an interesting bit of tivia: This was not Garritt’s first brush with space.
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The son of Owen K. Garriott, a NASA astronaut who spent more than two months in space back in the 1970s, the younger Garriott instead made a name – and a fortune – for himself in entertainment gaming software. In 2008, some of that high-tech fortune was spent paying the Russian space agency to take him up on a trip to the International Space Station in 2008 – making Richard the first second-generation man in space.
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OPENS: March 26, 2009
GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Ghost Story
From the Studio: THE ECLIPSE tells the story of Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier. Lately he has been seeing and hearing strange things late at night in his house. He isn’t sure if he is simply having terrifying nightmares or if his house is haunted.
Each year, the seaside town where Michael lives hosts an international literary festival, attracting writers from all over the world. Michael works as a volunteer for the festival and is assigned the attractive Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an author of books about ghosts and the supernatural, to look after. They become friendly and he eagerly tells her of his experiences. For the first time he has met someone who can accept the reality of what has been happening to him.
However, Lena’s attention is pulled elsewhere. She has come to the festival at the bidding of world-renowned novelist Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn), with whom she had a brief affair the previous year. He has fallen in love with Lena and is going through a turbulent time, eager to leave his wife to be with her. But all Lena is trying to do is extricate herself from this mess and just get through the next few days.
As the festival progresses, the trajectories of these three people draw them into a life-altering collision.
Embellished by the supernatural, THE ECLIPSE is a film about the challenges of love, fear of the unknown and release from the burden of grief.
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Not as much of a genre film as it is a Gen X mid-life crisis “bromance” comedy with a 1986 soundtrack.
OPENS: March 26, 2010
GENRE: Comedy, Science Fantasy, Time Travel
Plot from the studio release: HOT TUB TIME MACHINE follows a group of best friends whove become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) has been dumped by his girlfriend; Lou (Rob Corddry) is a party guy who cant find the party; Nick’s (Craig Robinson) wife controls his every move; and video game-obsessed Jacob (Clark Duke) wont leave his basement. After a crazy night of drinking in a ski resort hot tub, the men wake up, heads pounding, in the year 1986. This is their chance to kick some past and change their futures one will find a new love life, one will learn to stand up for himself with the ladies, one will find his mojo, and one will make sure he still exists!
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The new Hubble 3D documentary – with eye-popping previews shown before most showings of Avatar – is set for a nationwide debut May 6. But Starting April 19, it is playing in limited release at 39 theaters in major markets.
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Opening wide starting April 19, 2010 – the new film Repo Men – is not at all related to the 1980s cult classic Repo Man. Judging by the trailer below, it has much more in common with the 2008 cult classic, Repo! The Genetic Opera.
Studio Description: In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you dont pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its propertywith no concern for your comfort or survival.
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Warner Brothers Pictures has released the following featurette to promote the new film, Clash of the Titans, a re-make of the 1981 film of the same name. It is set to open in theaters on April 2, 2010.
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After languishing in recent years at Harris Publications and its bizarre fight with Fangoria, the 40-year-old Vampirella comic book franchise has a new home with Dynamite Entertainment.
“Vampirella is one of the most well known and longest running comic characters in the history of the business,” Nick Barrucci, Dynamite’s president said in a March 17 press release. “Outside of Marvel and DC characters, very few comics characters that debuted in the 60′s still resonate with fans today.”
Created by N3F member, the late Forrest J Ackerman, as a mix of costumed superhero and horror heroine, Vampirella joins Dynamite’s growing stable of household name titles such as Green Hornet, Red Sonja and Buck Rogers. Niether a price tag nor a target launch date for the first issue of Vampirella under the Dynamite brand was announced with news of the sale.
Vampirella debuted in 1969 as a black-and-white title, but with memorable art by Frank Frazetta, the comic – the first to feature a vampire as the lead hero – quickly made a name for itself, spawning horror title imitaions at both Marvel and DC.
During its storied past, many writers have penned issues of the comic, including Alan Moore, Mark Millar, Grant Morrision, James Robinson, Jeph Loeb and Warren Ellis. After Frazetta left, other artists to step into his shoes in the following four decades included Joe Quesada, J. Scott Campbell, Michael Turner, Jae Lee, Adam Hughes, Mark Texeira, Joe Jusko, and Arthur Suydam.
Read the official Dynamite press release here:
http://www.dynamiteentertainment.com/htmlfiles/pressrelshow.html?display=PR03161083144
