Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello has confirmed that Emmy host Neil Patrick Harris will be part of a “Dr. Horrible-themed production” tonight. Horrible picked up a Creative Arts Emmy last week. (If you haven’t seen it by now, we’ll have to revoke your geek card. Sorry.) Also appearing? John Hodgman. This could be the most nerdalicious Emmys ever!
Mickey Rocks! Congrats to Club Jade SDCC Masquerade winners
They had a little help from some friends, but we are thrilled for the Club Jaders who helped create and present ‘Bring it On: Rock the Mouse;’ winner of Best Presentation at Comic-Con Masquerade 2009.
Congratulations to Caitlin Shindler (choreographer and costumer extraordinaire). Other Club Jade participants included Rogue Shindler, Mike Chiesi and Stephanie Chiesi. Um. You rock?
Io9 has a nice gallery up featuring the cast.
Emmy’s are Diggin’ the Geeks
The Emmy Award Nominations are out and the geeks seem to be doing the same as always. But hey, the folks who do all the technical stuff work hard on it. Let’s congratulate the great crew of our favorite geeky shows on jobs well done. (And there are some major ones in there.)
- Robot Chicken – Animation Series, and Voiceover for the Star Wars Episode II episode
- The Big Bang Theory – Best Comedic Actor, Art Direction
- Lost – Best Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor, Sound Editing (Series), Writing (Drama)
- Heroes – Art Direction, Visual Effects (Series)
- Battlestar Galactica – Directing (Drama), Single-Camera Editing (Hour-Long), Sound Editing (Episode), Sound Editing (Series), Visual Effects (Series) and Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Program
- Legend of the Seeker – Original Music Composition
- Smallville – Sound Editing
- Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog – Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Program
- Terminator – Sound Editing
- Sanctuary – Visual Effects (Series)
- Chuck – Stunts
We scour the complete PDF so you don’t have to!
Digital artists name McQuarrie Grand Master
The CG Society has named Ralph McQuarrie a Grand Master in the forthcoming artbook EXPOSÉ 7. (via)
Gate Geek – Atlantis movie and Awards!
There has been much angst and gnashing of teeth about the lack of movement on the promised Stargate Atlantis movie. Producer Joe Mallozzi vaguely tries to reassure fans that these things take time in this wacky business and they haven’t forgotten about us. Maybe in the fall?
Speaking of Stargate movies, Stargate Continuum racked up 11 Leo Award nominations! And the above-mentioned Stargate Atlantis? Sixteen. (Okay, so Leo’s are a kinda local thing to the Vancouver area, but still nice to have kudos.)
In a slightly better-known award, Brad Wright was nominated for a Nebula for the SGA episode “The Shrine.”
Miller’s Wild Space and Rollin’s Crystal Skull novelization up for tie-in awards
The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers has announced their nominees for the 2009 Scribe Awards, and two Lucasfilm works are on it. Karen Miller’s The Clone Wars: Wild Space got a nod for Best Speculative Fiction Adapted, while James Rollins’ adaption of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is up for Best General Fiction Adapted. Miller is “massively chuffed!”
This is the first Scribe nomination for any Star Wars (or Indy, though that pool is considerably smaller) work, though Alan Dean Foster was named last year’s Grandmaster.
Indy IV, The Clone Wars up for Saturn Awards
The nominations for the 35th Annual Saturn Awards are out, with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull scoring five nominations, including Best Science Fiction Film and nods for both Harrison Ford and Shia LeBouf. The Clone Wars also picked up two nominations, one for Best Animated Movie and another for Best Syndicated/Cable series.
The Saturns are presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor genre film and tv, so pretty much everything of note has a nod. The Dark Knight leads with 11 total. Expect to hear about the winners in June.
Heath Ledger, WALL-E lead Oscar genre wins
No big shockers here: The late Heath Ledger received Best Supporting Actor and WALL-E Best Animated Film. Less predictable was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button winning Best Visual Effects over The Dark Knight and Iron Man. Button also took Art Direction and Makeup, while The Dark Knight nabbed Sound Editing.
Slumdog Millionaire was the night’s biggest winner, with Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, both music awards and several others.
The Razzie ‘winners’ are announced
First the ‘good’ news: The Clone Wars did not take home the Razzie for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. The bad news is that Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull did. Oh well!
(I still think it should have been the other way around. ::ducks fruit::)
Tidbits from the sci-fi world…
Some little bits from the world of genre:
- io9 thinks that Dollhouse is possible now, with our existing brain manipulating tech. But will they make us as good looking as Eliza Dushku? Meanwhile, the Dollhouse first episode “Ghost” climbed to the top of the TV episodes list on iTunes.
- Sophie Winkleman, (Susan from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) has been cast in the upcoming Red Dwarf special: Back to Earth.
- Andrew Liptak lists out 9 sci-fi books that would be great movies. Karen Traviss and Tim Zahn make the list.
- Joss Whedon will be receiving the Bradbury award for excellence in screenwriting, to be presented at this year’s Nebula Awards this April.