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Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Series on Blu-Ray – Winner!

Anthony Ocasio — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:50:18 +0000

Here is the winner of our latest giveaway:

Jacob Luker – Jasper, IN

Thanks to everyone who entered – we’ll have another contest coming VERY soon!

Explore the celestial wonders of an unknown world and experience the ultimate Sci-Fi adventure in stunning high-definition with Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Series Blu-ray gift set, now on sale from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. From award-winning Executive Producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, Stargate: Atlantis is anchored with a compelling ensemble cast including Jason Momoa (Conan the Barbarian, Game of Thrones), David Hewlett (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Joe Flanigan (Ferocious Planet), Rachel Luttrel (Imposter) and Torri Higginson (The English Patient). Continuing the journey of Stargate: SG-1, television’s longest running sci-fi series, Stargate: Atlantis ...

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Stargate Universe/Stargate: Atlantis Crossover Confirmed

Rob Keyes — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:49:36 +0000

Season 1 of Stargate Universe came to its conclusion on June 11th and its finale left fans eager for more. Stargate Universe (SGU) is the third Stargate television series to air on Syfy, another spin-off from Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis before it.

Stargate: Atlantis was known for its cameos and cross-overs with SG-1 and the Stargate Universe series has followed suit with cameos of several main cast members from the original series. If you’re a fan of of the Stargate franchise, you’ll be excited to know that deals are in place for SGU to continue the tradition and crossover with Stargate: Atlantis for the first time during its second season.

Unlike its predecessor series’, SGU is strictly based within the confines of an ancient starship with limited exposure to planet surfaces through ...

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Jason Momoa Cast as Conan the Barbarian!

Rob Keyes — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:56:37 +0000

The remake of 1982′s Conan the Barbarian is on its way and replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger as the infamous warrior will be Jason Momoa (Stargate: Atlantis, North Shore). Yeap, Ronon is the new Conan and if that’s not all, Mickey Rourke may be playing his father!

Ronon Dex is the character that Momoa is most well known for playing from four of the five seasons of Stargate: Atlantis and the upcoming film, Stargate: Extinction.

It was reported that Momoa met with Lionsgate last week and did a great job in his screentests and presenting himself with the execs, however they held off offering him the role until a certain other actor had the chance to audition. Long story short, Momoa had another test this week and now he’s got a career-defining ...

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NBC’s Spin on Stargate Universe Ratings Falls Short

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:51:49 +0000

All we ever hear from NBC when it pitches Stargate Universe is how it beat Stargate Atlantis in some fashion. They keep trying to equate Stargate Universe ratings to something spectacular. Sure, the way they spin it, the numbers are great. But let’s take a closer look at a few items from both shows.

When Stargate Universe (SGU) premiered on October 2nd of 2009, Syfy announced its excitement about the viewer numbers. The 2-part SGU premiere produced 2.3 million viewers, which for Syfy on a Friday night, were decent numbers.

The show averaged almost 2.9 million viewers through October and Syfy noted with a press release that 2.9 million viewers was better than the last season of Stargate Atlantis. Or 36% more viewers.

The First 8 Episodes of SGU

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New Stargate Movies on Stand By

Paul Young — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:31:23 +0000

Very few TV shows make it to the magical tenth season; especially those of the sci-fi genre. So, when Stargate SG-1 called it quits after their tenth season, I, along with thousands of fans worldwide, were very disappointed. We don’t even have Stargate: Atlantis to whet our wormhole whistle any more – but the spin offs are hardly ever as good as the originals – notable exception is Torchwood from Doctor Who.

That’s why even though Sony Picture Television and MGM decided to cancel the series after 214 episodes, they knew the sci-fi cash cow wasn’t finished delivering some prime time space milk. To continue pleasing fans and to keep the franchise viable, it was announced that three full length movies would be released. Stargate: Continuum and Stargate: The Ark of Truth have already come and ...

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Weekly TV Wrap Up – Jan 15 2009

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:58 +0000

All kinds of goodies took place this last week. Let’s get on with the tidbits of TV!

1. Bruce’s Public Service Announcement: Be aware that the season premiere of season 4.5 (Is that just not the most ridiculous thing ever?) of Battlestar Galactica that is airing this Friday on January 16th will run over by 3 1/2 minutes. That means you need to make the appropriate changes to whatever recording device you may employ, if that is indeed what you are doing. Me, I’m gonna be there live! Despite in-laws crawling all over my place, they’ve been warned. Back off when my show comes on. Go to sleep, go for a walk, go for a drive, or watch it with me, but git out of my way and don’t talk during my show! I take my BSG serious! Source: SciFi ...

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SR’s Inaugural Weekly TV Wrap Up

Bruce Simmons — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:21:15 +0000

Welcome! This is the first rendition of Screen Rants Weekly TV Wrap Up. This is where we pass on some of the TV news we come across, keeping you on the edge of news and updates. Our regularly scheduled day will be Thursday mornings, so be sure to check in every week with us.

When there’s TV news, it will be here!

1. Sci-Fi’s Eureka has a new character coming on board in the form of Tess Fontana (Jamie Ray Newman), who’s joining Global Dynamics. The 2nd half season will debut later this year. Source: SCI FI Wire

2. Sci-Fi Channel has ordered a second season of Ghost Hunters International and a sixth season for Ghost Hunters. Additionally, their new college based series, Ghost Hunters: Next Generation is headed at us with a 2010 premiere. Source: Sci-Fi Wire

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‘Stargate: Atlantis’ Is Coming To A Close

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:28:13 +0000

Stargate: Atlantis is coming to a close – it’s been a great ride. The show took a bit to adjust to, but after a while the characters and new location grew on me because it had the same feel to the writing that we’ve come to enjoy from the Stargate franchise.

It was hard not to know that last week’s episode was the next to last episode for Atlantis. I went into the episode, titled “Vegas” (written and directed by Robert Cooper), not really looking forward to it. I was coming into it with a bit of a dour perspective because it was some alternate timeline story. My thought? “Why would they do this to us in the next to last episode of the series?”

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Stargate Movies Coming To Sci-Fi Channel

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:29:07 +0000

Yes, that sounds confusing. It was weird to write also. Even though we watch Stargate on the Sci-Fi Channel, Sci-Fi does not own the rights to the franchise. They are allowed to telecast the shows, but they don’t own them. MGM owns the rights to do with the franchise as they wish.

One of the many theories of why Stargate: Atlantis is ending is that it’s so MGM can take advantage of the potential profits in moving Atlantis to the DVD medium.

So if the confusion is clearing up a little bit, would now be a good time to mention that the Sci-Fi Channel has purchased the U.S. television rights to televise the made-for-DVD movies? Yep. That’s what they did. This purchase also includes rights to the new upcoming series, Stargate: Universe.

With the rights under their belts, the ...

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Stargate Atlantis IS In Its Final Season Now

Bruce Simmons — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:41:43 +0000

Well Bite me.

Just when I get comfortable with Stargate Atlantis after losing Stargate SG-1, they go and pull the plug on it. Yep, it’s been announced today that this, the fifth season of Stargate Atlantis, is its final season on television.

With the culmination of this fifth season, Stargate Atlantis will air it’s 100th episode titled “Enemy at the Gate.” The 100th episode will air in January of 2009.

They’ve added to the cancellation message that the Sci-Fi Channel has green-lit a two-hour movie based on the series. It has yet to to be titled, but the film will be written by executive producers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie.

The movie will follow up on the final season of the series.

The successes of the previous two Stargate movies, The Ark of Truth and Continuum have been ...

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Comic-Con ’08: Stargate Atlantis Panel

Bruce Simmons — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:30:55 +0000

The panel for Stargate: Atlantis was lighthearted and fun to watch. The actors in the panel were Joe Flanigan, Jewel Staite, Robert Picardo and show scribe Brad Wright and Chris Sanagustin, the VP of Original Programming from the Sci-Fi Channel.

The crowd was pretty animated with the introductions and when Jewel Staite was introduced the energy of the crowd easily tripled. The Firefly demographic was well represented.

From the question and answer session I picked up the following snippets:

Atlantis will be hitting it’s 100th episode this, their fifth season.

Joe Flanigan is the only castmember on the panel that has been on the show for the full five seasons.

Robert Picardo’s humorous observation on the change of Atlantis commanders, to go from the nice-to-look-at Col. Carter (Amanda Tapping) to the bald, ...

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July 27th Comic-Con Report

Vic Holtreman — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:06:10 +0000

I didn’t make it to the Warner Bros. panel, but did get to sit in on the presentation for the upcoming direct to DVD Stargate SG-1 movies. On hand was the cast including Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Ben Browder along with director Martin Wood and producer Robert Cooper.

There wasn’t too much in regards to new info in these panels… mainly they answered questions from the audience.

Gary Jones who played gate operator “Walter” acted as moderator. He was quite engaging and introduced a trailer for Stargate: The Ark of Truth, the DVD movie that will complete the Ori storyline. It looked pretty epic and like they pulled out all the stops.

Then the actors came out to huge applause, the Ben Browder hamming it up for the crowd.

Christopher Judge stated that he will be appearing in the ...

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