Month: June 2005

The new War of the Worlds movie opened today. In the spirit of Kung Fu Monkey— for those who loved the voiceover from the trailer, but who’ve never read the original novel— here’s the first paragraph from the book, read…

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later… Firefly filk. Someone’s taken the theme song from the TV show, used it as a chorus, and written verses around it to produce “Mal’s Song.” Now, maybe it’s just me, but…

Seems like NBC et al. are having some trouble getting their new reality show, “Treasure Hunters,” off the ground. They originally announced it and began soliciting applications back in March: BURBANK, Calif. — March 17, 2005 — Imagine Television and…

This past weekend was strange, busy, and good. Friday night, we drove up to Walnut Creek to see our own Brian Rosen in Baby. It’s a good show, and is running for one more weekend– go if you can. Saturday…

You are not a viewer, you are a consumer. For proof, see the chart at the bottom of CanWest Media Sales’ Gilmore Girls info page. I guess we all knew that already, but having it powerpointed out like this is…

The Sci Fi Channel has bought exclusive cable rights to “Firefly” from Twentieth TV for a total license fee of about $450,000 in a deal that includes three episodes Fox never ran. — “‘Firefly’ spreading wings”, Variety On second thought,…

I hate the peer-pressure psychology of newspaper movie ads. It seems like every film wants to proclaim itself “number one” at something (usually based on opening weekend box office grosses). I’ve seen “the #1 Movie in America,” “#1 Romance,” “#1…

“Like anyone is the slightest bit appalled anymore by the breathtaking litany of utter BS oozing forth from the White House these days… “They lie about why a gay male model and former prostitute who ran gay porn Web sites…

Many Firefly fans were not able to purchase tickets for the June 23rd preview screening of Serenity, since they sold out so quickly this morning. A few people bought extra tickets, and a few of those still have unclaimed tickets…

At 9:49 AM today, one of my faithful perl scripts emailed me to say that a movietickets.com page had changed– specifically, that a new link had appeared for a 10:00 PM show of “Special Advance Preview” (the not-so-secret code name…