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Stargate Movie News: It Has A Working Title

Bruce Simmons — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:08:34 +0000

For most of this year, I’ve been hovering and watching for any news about any Stargate movies. Various articles or snippets around the internet suggested one thing or another.

Back in September, Amanda Tapping mentioned that the Stargate SG-1 movie was approved and could start filming after Stargate Universe is done filming.

Now comes news that the working title for the next Stargate SG-1 movie is called Stargate: Revolution and it includes bringing Jack O’Neill back “in a big way.”

Brad Wright and Carl Binder penned the script and the story in the script takes place in the time between Stargate: Continuum and Stargate: Universe.

The original plans were to shoot the movie this fall but the economy put that off. Now we just need to wait for Universe to stop filming, and if everyone sticks to the rumored schedules, we’ll be having ourselves a new Stargate movie.

I personally can’t wait to see a new movie. I can’t get enough of the old-styled Stargate show. I don’t mind Universe, when I don’t try to compare it to the 15-year track record that Stargate developed. But I need some of what we’ve become accustomed to and it’s great news to hear that they’ve got a working title for the Stargate movie project.

I hope they keep Stargate: Revolution as the title. Catchy title, for whatever that might mean!

Source: GateWorld

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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 gone and both were fantastic extensions of the franchise. But we were suppose to get a third film and even a fourth based on the Atlantis series but alas, that may not happen anytime soon.

The reason Stargate Universe executive producer Robert C. Cooper gives for the delay is the recent downturn I the economy. In an exclusive interview with SCI FI Wire, Cooper had this to say:

“We’re ready to go. We’re just waiting for the right opportunity. We want to be successful with it. The studio wants to be successful, and we really don’t want to proceed with something in the wrong climate, which I think financially it is right now.”

By “ready to go” he means the scripts for both films have been written but it could be some time before we see any movement on them. Cooper blames a recent drop in DVD sales as the major reason behind delaying both films. Cooper explains:

“Since [the release of the first two films], the economics have changed a little bit. DVDs aren’t selling the same way they were when we released those even just a year, and a year and a half ago.”

According to The Numbers website, Stargate: Continuum had sold over 450,000 units as of July 29, 2008 and Stargate: The Ark of Truth did better than that with over 530,000 units sold as of March 11, 2008. Those are fairly respectable numbers for a straight-to-DVD movie from a TV show. I don’t know if I totally agree with Cooper about it being the wrong economic time to produce another DVD movie. I would think fans are more apt to purchase straight to DVD movies because they haven’t been on television and buying or renting it would be the only way to see it.

Either way, I’m saddened to hear we will have to wait a little longer to see SG-1 back in action, but until then, we at least have Stargate Universe to keep us entertained.

Do you agree that now is a bad time to release straight-to-DVD movies and how pumped are you for Stargate Universe?

Stargate Universe’s two-hour premiere is October 2, 2009 at 9 p.m. ET/PT and on Fridays at 9 p.m. after that, all on SyFy.

Source: Cinema Static, Scifi Wire

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Weekly TV Wrap Up – April 2nd, 2009

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:40:53 +0000

It’s been an interesting week indeed. Today I bring some DVD news about Star Trek: TOS, Pushing Daisies, Ugly Betty, Breaking Bad and Friday Night Lights. It’s all good!

I’ve also have a couple of bits of business news about Disney and its slow, creeping take over of the entertainment world!

REMINDER: Don’t forget, Friday night on The Sci-Fi Channel: Stargate Continuum. It’s a great movie. Vic and I saw it last year with the cast of the show. There was a great time had by all.

Let’s start the show with the numbers from the last week of television viewing:

Since many of you said you were interested in numbers for a lot of shows, well, I slapped in a lot of show! As you can see, American Idol trumped everyone yet again. The first non-reality show, The Mentalist, was third on the list and then the shows scatter throughout from there!

Rank, Show, Millions of Viewers

1	American Idol	24,096,000
2	Dancing With the Stars	21,643,000
3	The Mentalist	16,920,000
4	NCIS	16,830,000
5	Grey’s Anatomy	16,545,000
6	Two and A Half Men	14,439,000
7	60 Minutes	13,522,000
8	CSI:Miami	13,359,000
9	Dancing With the Stars: Results	13,000,000
10	Without A Trace	12,700,000
11	House	12,186,000
12	Extreme Makeover: Home Edition	12,163,000
13	Hell’s Kitchen	12,021,000
14	Amazing Race 14	11,461,000
15	Cold Case	11,457,000
16	24	11,209,000
17	Private Practice	11,147,000
18	Rules of Engagement	10,993,000
19	E.R.	10,568,000
20	Celebrity Apprentice	9,976,000
21	Castle	9,814,000
22	The Big Bang Theory	9,765,000
23	Biggest Loser: Couples	9,560,000
24	Law & Order: SVU	9,340,000
25	Osbournes Reloaded (premiere)	9,330,000
26	How I Met Your Mother	9,228,000
27	*The Unit*	9,193,000
28	America’s Funniest Home Videos	8,829,000
29	The Office	8,445,000
30	Family Guy	8,198,000
31	20/20	8,050,000
32	Cupid (premiere)	7,560,000
33	Medium	7,260,000
34	30 Rock	7,173,000
35	In the Motherhood (premiere)	6,720,000
36	48 Hours Mystery (first 30 min)	6,660,000
37	Simpsons	6,582,000
38	Samantha Who?	6,531,000
40	Heroes	6,318,000
41	American Dad	5,995,000
42	My Name is Earl	5,870,000
43	America’s Most Wanted	5,830,000
44	Chuck	5,625,000
46	Dateline	5,390,000
47	Kings	4,583,000
48	Castle (repeat)	4,010,000
49	Smallville	3,989,000
50	Friday Night Lights	3,950,000
51	Dollhouse	3,870,000
52	The Sarah Connor Chronicles	3,830,000
54	Cristina	3,430,000
55	Better Off Ted (repeat)	3,360,000
56	Supernatural	3,264,000
57	Gossip Girl	2,479,000
58	American Dad (repeat)	2,379,000
59	Reaper	2,370,000
60	One Tree Hill	2,288,000
61	90210	2,040,000
64	America’s Next Top Model (R)	1,710,000
65	Jericho (repeat)	812,000

Source: TV By The Numbers

Star Trek TOS Coming To Blu-ray

The first season of Star Trek: The Original Series comes out on Blu-ray April 28 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. It’s a seven-disc set including all 29 first-season episodes and many special features.

It will have both newly enhanced and original special effects. Also, an enhanced soundtrack and the original one.

Source: Sci Fi Wire

Speaking of Star Trek

Jeri Ryan, who portrayed 7 of 9 on Star Trek: Voyager, will be playing a lawyer on Law & Order: SVU for a few episodes.

She’ll be playing attorney Patrice Larue on the April 7 episode, and will reprise the role in at least 2 other episodes.

She’s come a long way from her space faring ways!

Source: TV Guide

Pushing Daisies News

For the fans desiring the fulfillment of seeing the last episodes of Pushing Daisies, well guess what? Though you won’t get the final unseen episodes on TV, they will be included in the complete second season release on DVD and Blu-ray. Hey! The release date is my birthday: July 21st.

Source: EW.com

Ugly Betty

The final 3 episodes of Ugly Betty, which you have yet to see, will be returning to air after its surprise spring break. Expect them to show up starting on May 7th.

Source: EW.com

Friday Night Lights

NBC and DirecTV have come to terms and Friday Night Lights will be given 2 more seasons! As you know, the two networks have worked out an agreement to share the costs of production, keeping the show on the air. DirecTV airs it first, then NBC.

Something you should prepare yourself for is that it’s a show about high school. Students do move on after graduating. I just thought you should know.

Source: E Online

Breaking Bad

A late breaking bit to add to my article here is that Breaking Bad, despite only being 4 episodes into its second season, has been picked up for a third season.

Source: THR

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS AND OTHER NOISE

ABC, ESPN and YouTube

The Leader of the Band, Disney, is eyeballing a deal that will put ABC and ESPN videos on YouTube. This is all a plan that will help Google make YouTube a more commercial entity for them from the advertising that will ensue.

This means that Disney Media Networks will be able to sell advertising attached to its content. Oh lord, that means an ad about a Disney movie every few minutes. Goody.

Google and Disney will be splitting the ad revenue generated from their partnership.

Starting next month, you’ll start seeing channels for ESPN, ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Family and SOAPnet.

When I watch On Demand, CBS has an ad or two. NBC, well, I don’t know. They charge 99 cents on this venue that has mostly free content. ABC, egads. The ABC On Demand venue has just as many ads for their upcoming movies as they do ads on the network when it airs live. The hard part is, it’s the same ad, over and over. I hope they don’t do that with their online content.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Speaking Of Disney: Hulu

Huh? Not only is Disney looking to spread out to YouTube, they’re also looking to buy an equity stake in Hulu. Disney will probably look to distribute content to Hulu once this takes place.

The funny angle to this is that this is the cheapest route for Disney to get their content on Hulu, versus a direct licensing deal.

Crumbs… more ads on some Hulu content now. I’m doomed!

Source: THR

Guiding Light To End

I know you all probably have secretly scheduled this in your TiVo… It’s OK, you don’t have to admit it! All joking aside, the milestone this show represents warrants a little attention.

After 72 years, Guiding Light will be coming to an end. SEVENTY-TWO years… that was not a typo.

That comes out to 15,700 episodes that aired on radio and television. It started out as a 15 minute radio program and just grew from there.

I know this will probably shock you, but the 72-year-old veteran show is getting dumped because of reality shows like Judge Judy and Dr. Phil which crank in better ratings and cost less to produce. As it stands, the production company is looking at some other options to try and continue the show, like DirecTV or other avenues.

A few alums that ran across the show through the years: Kevin Bacon, James Earl Jones, one of my favorite vampires – Chris Sarandon*, Christopher Walken and Billy Dee Williams – just to name a few.

Its final episode airs on Friday, September 18th.

I have to go now. I’m going to go pray to my porcelain container after writing that Judge Judy and Dr. Phil helped destroy a television legacy.

*Does anyone know what I’m referencing when I call Chris Sarandon one of my favorite vampires?

Source: NY Times

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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 Sci-Fi Channel is planning to air the DVD movies next season as Sunday night movie events.

The senior VP of programming for Sci-Fi, Thomas Vitale, says their plans are to show Stargate: Ark of Truth, in early spring, and Stargate: Continuum, late in the spring.

Tentative plans are for Stargate: Universe to air in July 2009.

Additionally, Sci-Fi ordered from MGM an SG: Atlantis TV movie to follow up after Atlantis‘ 100th and final episode. We probably won’t see that movie until near the end of next year and it will most likely be a filler for when Universe takes a mid-season break.

There are also plans in motion for a third SG-1 movie. I look forward to that.

If you don’t recall, Ark of Truth concluded the Arthurian storyline of SG-1’s final season.

And Stargate: Continuum, which is being considered for inclusion to the Guinness Book of World Records for the “Most Northerly Filmed Shoot,” is a stand alone movie episode.

When I saw Continuum, I really enjoyed it. Of course, watching it on the deck of an aircraft carrier might have had something to do with it… or watching it with the stars of the movie might have juiced the event up for me too. Nahhh… it was a good movie.

It sounds like Sci-Fi Channel is putting their focus into one of their more robust franchises and keeping their fanbase alive with ongoing developments and plans. It’s good to hear they’re tying to keep the electricity alive for the fan who are still energized about the franchise.

Source: MultiChannel News, Image: SciFi.com

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Comic-Con ‘08: Stargate Continuum Panel

Bruce Simmons — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:16:08 +0000

This panel was a follow up to the premiere of Stargate Continuum the night before.

As the Stargate SG-1 cast came in and were introduced, everyone applauded wildly – but by far the big fan favorite (judging by how deaf I went from the cheers) was Christopher Judge, hands down, for this Stargate Continuum forum.

Amanda Tapping talked briefly about her new web-to-TV show, Sanctuary, which has filmed eight of its scheduled thirteen episodes so far.

As for Ben Browder, he’s enjoying some quiet time between acting gigs and volunteering his time coaching pole vaulting at a local high school.

Christopher Judge is working on a project called Rage of Angels with Michael Shanks and a substantial announcement about the project is coming out in the next few weeks. He also had been hired to play the bad guy in Fox’s 24, but things didn’t seem to work out in that regard.

Michael Shanks will be appearing in a few episodes of USA network’s Burn Notice.

Beau Bridges touched on appearing in My Name is Earl, as Earl’s dad and his role in the Max Payne movie.

The most anticipated announcement from the panel was that there is another Stargate movie in “development”. As Wright put it, he is one “i” dot away from making it happen and it is also looking good for for the new spin off, Stargate Universe. I touched on Universe with a wee bit of an apprehensive approach, seeing as how unpredictable the Sci-Fi Channel can be.

The panel played a touching memorial clip of Don S. Davis scenes that created an endearing, quiet moment that was met with a roar of approval from the crowd when the lights came back on. I miss him already and felt odd watching him in Continuum Thursday night.

The cast was asked about their favorite episodes and “Heroes” was a hands down favorite amongst the panel, followed by Continuum… of course.

The atmosphere of the panel was pretty light and funny for the most part and after having seen Continuum, I’m not sure I could argue that.

Richard Dean Anderson’s response to his favorite episode was: “The next one.” The man is as witty as ever.

As far as their favorite part about Continuum, Anderson, Browder and Tapping all said it was the opportunity to film up in the Arctic. The film is being considered for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records for a production show filmed in the most northerly location of any show.

Richard Dean Anderson added a quip about cold weather survival and noted how anything freezes upon contact with the cold, and he gave us way too much information when he apprised us that poop freezes in the outhouses rather quickly. Thanks Rick.

When they asked Judge what his favorite part of Continuum was, he responded “That everyone else went to the Arctic and he stayed in L.A. and played golf in a balmy 85 degree weather.”

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