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Slice of SciFi News Briefs

2008-08-28 05:51:11 by Sam Sloan in Slice of SciFi
 
...initial demise. The victim then acts violently until final death ensues. No reports if they also have an appetite for human brains Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet, according to Reuters ....
 
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Two version of Fanboys on DVDBut What About the Theatrical Release?

2008-03-25 16:00:29 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
 
...initially produced by Kevin Spaceys Trigger Street and featured a slate of up and coming young actors including Kirsten Bell, Seth Rogan and Jay Barachul. The initial script made the Hollywood blacklist as one of the top 40 projects in town when it began shooting Fanboys was initally set to be a story of a road-trip undertaken by several...
 
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28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later (No Spoilers)

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2007-10-28 22:59:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
...initial outbreak, Don and Alice are hiding away in a little village with about 5 other survivors. They hear a pounding at the door and small boy screaming to get in. Alice insists they rescue him. They let him in, but after being chased by loads of Infected, the hideout is now compromised. Suddenly the group is under attack. The little boy...
 
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WGA Contract Details

2008-02-10 21:59:11 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
 
...initially not covered due to the projected budget but later costs exceed a threshold, the program/series is covered retroactively Compensation: If a new media program is derivative of an MBA-covered program, minimums for initial compensation apply. The minimum for derivative dramatic programs is $618 for programs up to two minutes, plus $309...
 
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DAY 7: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

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2007-08-07 16:29:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...initial release (performing well at the box office and receiving good reviews from critics) but Spielberg himself wasnt completely satisfied with the product and had wished that he had at least two more months to complete it. After approaching Columbia and asking if he could shoot some more footage to complete his initial vision for the film,...
 
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Modern Times & The Post-Industrial American Dream

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2007-02-23 20:18:00 by johanna in the lone revue
...initial, synoptic review , this film has summoned me back for a closer look. I invite you to do the same with me, keeping in mind that the film was made by a man who, for better or for worse, outshone his peers and engraved himself indelibly upon mass consciousness as a classic character and filmmaker--a feat a lot of people have wasted good...
 
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31 Days of Zombie!, Day 30: Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978)

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2007-10-30 01:39:00 by rob humanick in The Projection Booth
...initial release but its success came slowly through word of mouth on the nickelodeon circuit. Ten years later, Dawn of the Dead was ready to capitalize on its predecessor's already extensive influence, and thus a brilliant film was granted the luxury of finding its audience immediately. I myself have seen the film around a half dozen times or...
 
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31 Days of Zombie!, Day 27: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Jorge Grau, 1974)

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2007-10-27 00:48:00 by rob humanick in The Projection Booth
...initial release, its intelligence in approximating the cultural conflicts of the day has since earned it the quality of timeless relevance, even if the film itself is relatively unknown compared to many of its 70's horror brethren. Two young people en route from London to the countryside are united in their heretofore separate journeys after...
 
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ONE FOR THE ACHIEVERS: THE BIG LEBOWSKI CULT

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2007-10-23 22:12:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...initial reluctance or confusion, topped off by a dawning realization of the movies brilliance. And this story gets told many times in the new fan book Im a Lebowski, Youre a Lebowski , writtennah, compiled by the Bums, a.k.a. Bill Green, Ben Peskoe, Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt, the originators of Lebowski Fest . This is a book that...
 
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