- New Jedi Order analogies in Penny Arcade.
- Heart of the City takes a ride in the Falcon.
- And while not technically being a comic in this entry, My Elves are Different tries casting Lost with Star Wars characters.
- And on xkcd: Truth.
Cable rights to air Indy 4 already sold
That was quick… USA is picking up the tab to air Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, as well as the three previous Indy titles, for what may end up being as much as $40 million, depending on Kingdom’s box office. The network will air Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade in May to help give the new film a boost.
Are you prepared for the Indy 4 teaser?
If you really must catch the absolute first showing of the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull teaser trailer on Good Morning America tomorrow morning, set your DVRs for ABC between 8 and 9am. If you think all that morning show chipperness will make the thing explode or are otherwise occupied with whatever it is normal people do at such ungodly hours, you’re probably just best off clicking over to IndianaJones.com sometime after 9am.
Genre TV Aftermath
Let us enjoy this strike-free period (until the actors threaten to strike, that is) and see who’s going to be attempting to do what with genre TV, now that the writer’s strike is over. This is gleaned from various sources.
- Battlestar Galactica – They managed 14 episodes before the strike. It looks like they’ll show the first 10 in the April 4 run and then pick up the last 10 in the fall or early 2009.
- Bionic Woman – No big surprise. She’s dead, Jim.
- Chuck – It won’t be back until the fall, but it will be back!
- Heroes – They’re going to forgo new episodes in favor of regrouping with a series bible and moving things back to the Season 1 vibe. But it looks like they’re going to try for a late summer start.
- Journeyman – Also dead, Jim.
- Lost – No game plan announced, as of yet, but signs are pointing to trying to finish out this season.
- Moonlight – Could be back with some new episodes this season? Could be cancelled? Apparently, this show’s looking a little shaky.
- Reaper – Some new episodes in April or May
- Smallville – Some new episodes in April or May
- Stargate Atlantis – Never really affected by the strike, but Carl Binder’s back and they start filming next week.
- Supernatural – Some new episodes in April or May
- Terminator – Maybe some new episodes? Not much news on this one.
The most important survey of our time, or not
Half the men in the UK would swap sex for a 50-inch plasma TV, compared to only a third of women. So, ladies, the obvious question: What would you swap half a year of sex for?
WGA strike is over!
Harrison Ford on Barbara Walters’ Oscar show
Harrison Ford is among the stars that Barbara Walters will talk to on her Oscar Special. Expect lots of questions on Indiana Jones. The Barbara Walters Special will air February 24th at 7pm Eastern, just before the Oscars. (West Coast viewers can catch it after the show.)
UPDATE 02/25: Video is here.
ABC, gearing up for their Crystal Skull trailer debut, also take a look at Indy stars past and present in Indiana Jones: Then and Now.
Gate Geek – Oh, you tease….
Plenty of teases abound in the Stargate universe, this week:
- In the long-standing tradition of Stargate romance, Joe Mallozzi posts a deleted scene from last week’s episode Trio in which Sam and Jennifer talk romance (or the lack thereof) without ever getting too specific. Head to the end if you don’t want to be spoiled for Season 5 because…
- In that very same post, we get a description of a new team! Names only. No other details.
- And we also get an episode name and some hints as to things that will be needed for said episode. (Confused, yet? Head on over if you’re brave.)
- Then GateWorld got themselves a nice little video preview of The Ark of Truth featuring a little behind-the-scenes look about how much fun the SG1 cast have messing with each other.
- Not to be outdone, the official site has a really great video preview of this week’s SGA episode Midway that’s not just one scene, but a montage of a bunch of scenes. It looks like Bam Bam has been busy!!
- And this is confirmed by another new video of an extended interview with Jason Momoa about Ronon, how Ronon’s lack of sex life helps the warrior come out and that he has knocked someone out while filming fight scenes. (Yet more fight scenes from Midway in this one, as well.)
ILM dominates VES with giant robots, tentacles
Industrial Light & Magic was the big winner at the Visual Effects Society awards Sunday. They received six awards: Four for Transformers and two for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
Transformers got Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture, Best Single Visual Effect of the Year (for the Desert Highway Sequence,) Outstanding Models or Miniatures in a Motion Picture, and Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture. At World’s End took Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture (for Davy Jones) and Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture (for the Maelstrom.)
Other genre winners included Battlestar Galactica – Razor (Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Miniseries, Movie or Special) and Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix (Outstanding Special Effects in a Motion Picture.)
Gate Geek – They’re a-comin’ and a-goin’….
A few casting tidbits have sprung forth from Joe Mallozzi’s blog in the last few days. We’ll go to the GateWorld summaries to save you from reading through the entire entries:
- Tori Higginson (Elizabeth Weir) has elected not to come back in Season 5 to flesh out a certain storyline from a certain episode. Hopefully it’s just new opportunities and not ongoing hurt feelings that are keeping her from coming back. I’m sure the fans would welcome it should it ever come to pass again.
- Another actress who briefly appeared in Tao of Rodney as the source of more than a few dialogue exchanges, Leela Savasta, has been cast as a new character named Alicia Vega. (Always be nice when you’re on a set, boys and girls. Ya just never know where it could land you.)