In a bold vote of confidence, Starz announced a second season of the ground-breaking new original series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” set to premiere Friday, January 22nd at 10 pm ET/PT. The unusual timing of the renewal, more than one month prior to the debut of the highly anticipated program, …
Read More »Stargate Universe and Sanctuary Get Renewed
Syfy has greenlit production on a second season of Stargate Universe (SGU) and a third season of Sanctuary. Noth received orders for 20 new hours for each series. SGU and Sanctuary commence production in Vancouver, BC in winter 2010 with a new season premiere slated to debut on Syfy fall …
Read More »Limited Edition Star Trek Online Collector’s Edition Debuts In February
Atari and Cryptic Studios announced a Collector’s Edition and a Digital Deluxe Edition of Star Trek Online, available for purchase on February 2, 2010, for a limited time only. Both packages include exclusive content, collectibles and game access. In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe will appear for the …
Read More »Princess Reigns Over Box Office
Disney’s animated feature “The Princess and the Frog” leaped into first place at the box office with an estimated $25 million weekend performance roughly in line with pre-release expectations. The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, December 13, 2009 include: The …
Read More »Cameron Returns To The Big Screen With AVATAR
AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a newcomer from Earth embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home. James Cameron, the Oscar®-winning director of “Titanic,” first conceived of the film 15 years ago, when the means …
Read More »“Durham County” Launches Second Season In January
The lesson that “love hurts” is well learned by the characters who inhabit the eerie suburb of “Durham County,” when the second season of ION Television’s critically acclaimed series launches with a two-hour premiere on Sunday, January 3 from 9:00 – 11:00 PM, ET. “Durham County,” which debuted this past …
Read More »Twilight Gets Blindsided
The Sandra Bullock-toplined football drama “The Blind Side” topped the weekend boxoffice with an estimated $20.4 million third frame and $129.3 million in cumulative boxoffice. Summit Entertainment’s vampires-and-werewolves drama “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” was second with $15.7 million.
Read More »Syfy Finds Haven
Syfy has ordered 13 episodes of the supernatural drama series Haven, based on the novella “The Colorado Kid,” from renowned author Stephen King. “Haven is the quintessential Stephen King town, full of complex, yet identifiable, characters and compelling supernatural situations. Sam and Jim wrote a great pilot, and we can’t …
Read More »Comcast and GE Merge Entertainment Assets
Comcast and General Electric announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture that will be 51 percent owned by Comcast, 49 percent owned by GE and managed by Comcast. The joint venture, which will consist of the NBC Universal (NBCU) businesses and Comcast’s cable networks, …
Read More »Twilight Takes Another Bite From The Box Office
“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” took the top spot at the box office for a second week, with its $42.5 million weekend tally producing a remarkable $230.7 million in cumulative boxoffice through just its first 10 days in theaters. “New Moon” rung up $66 million over the Thanksgiving holiday despite …
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