[scifinoir2] McFarlane Returns To Oz

2007-08-22 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
I LOVED Spawn on HBO!!! McFarlane Returns To Oz Spawn creator Todd McFarlane and Josh Olson are preparing Oz, a revisionist take on the L. Frank Baum books that hatched The Wizard of Oz, Variety reported. Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow Pictures are teaming up for the movie. The project

[scifinoir2] Bay Recants Transformers No Sequel Vow

2007-08-22 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Who do you think will prevail: Blue ray or HD DVD. I think the money and politics is behind HD DVD TRacey Bay Recants Transformers Vow Transformers director Michael Bay backed off an Internet statement that he was dropping out of a sequel film because Paramount studios decided to back the

[scifinoir2] JLA Casting Update

2007-08-22 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
JLA Casting Update And is it going to be a motion-capture film?! by Stax http://movies.ign.com/articles/814/814614p1.html August 22, 2007 - It appears that Warner Bros. is moving ahead with their planned live-action Justice League of America movie, with casting reportedly set to commence shortly

[scifinoir2] X-Men and Wire Actors Join Lost

2007-08-22 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
X-Men and Wire Actors Join Lost Two new additions for Lost: Season 4. by Eric Goldman August 22, 2007 - Two new actors are coming to Lost next season. Recently TV Guide reported that Ken Leung will be playing a character believed to be named Russell, though TV Guide's Michael Ausiello is now

[scifinoir2] Sandworms Wraps Dune Cycle

2007-08-22 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Sandworms Wraps Dune Cycle Best-selling SF author Brian Herbert—whose latest novel (co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson), Sandworms of Dune, is the SCI FI Essential book for August—told SCI FI Wire that the book is the grand conclusion to Frank Herbert's original Dune cycle. [Sandworms of

[scifinoir2] Blu-ray Responds to the Paramount/DreamWorks Shift

2007-08-22 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
Apparently, their format is bigger than yours. by IGN DVD August 21, 2007 - The Blu-ray Disc Association released a formal statement yesterday in response to the recent announcement that both Paramount and DreamWorks Animation have opted into the camp of HD DVD. Numbers and facts and figures

Re: [scifinoir2] Bay Recants Transformers No Sequel Vow

2007-08-22 Thread Martin
Tracey, the answer to your question and the reasoning behind Bay recanting his no sequel vow are one and the same- *money*. For the former, whichever format makes the most money will prevail. I won't begin to venture a guess, because I don't particularly care. I'm not going to get sucked into

Re: [scifinoir2] Sandworms Wraps Dune Cycle

2007-08-22 Thread Martin
HALLELUJAH! Martin (firmly believes that Dune should've been the start and the finish of the cycle) Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sandworms Wraps Dune Cycle Best-selling SF author Brian Herbert—whose latest novel

Re: [scifinoir2] Bay Recants Transformers No Sequel Vow

2007-08-22 Thread Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)
I've heard the HD/Blue ray can be disturbing to watch because the actors have not been made up for HD/Blue ray so you see every little flaw, pimple, dark circle, pore, etc in more detail than we are used to. Making everyone on screen much uglier Tracey Martin wrote: Tracey, the answer to

Re: [scifinoir2] Bay Recants Transformers No Sequel Vow

2007-08-22 Thread KeithBJohnson
I should send you my e-mails over this from the last couple of years. I've been following this battle for a few years now, and my money's on Blu-Ray. For several reasons, I support Blu-Ray. One, it has higher storage. Blu-Ray has a maximum possible storage capacity of around 45 - 50+ gb per

Re: [scifinoir2] JLA Casting Update

2007-08-22 Thread KeithBJohnson
i'm more interested that Bale mentioned a Batman 3 film... As for JLA, I honestly don't know how to feel yet. Too much depends on script, director, actors playing the characters. I fear another X3: okay, but not inspiring, fairly soon forgotten. -- Original message --

Re: [scifinoir2] X-Men and Wire Actors Join Lost

2007-08-22 Thread KeithBJohnson
may be just me, but I'm starting to fade on Lost. I felt it should have ended after three seasons, don't see it going another two or so. so this info makes me feel almost tired. Also, i have that feeling that the more shows like this start adding new actors and getting all the press, et al, the

[scifinoir2] OT: Atlanta City Councilman Proposes Anti-Saggy Pants Law

2007-08-22 Thread KeithBJohnson
I'm not in favor of this. Though I find the number of young people showing their drawers irritating at times, I don't believe in crafting laws to legislate every little aspect of how people behave. Maybe if individual businesses want to enforce dress codes--like restaurants or clubs that