4+ hour, 23+ min ago (441+ words) Will Smith is one of the biggest movie stars of all time. In the '90s and early 2000s, he had a nearly unmatched run, ranging from blockbusters like "Independence Day" to rom-coms like "Hitch." One might think that pairing him with one of the creators behind HBO's smash hit fantasy series "Game of Thrones" would be a slam dunk. Instead, it resulted in the 2019 box office flop "Gemini Man." "Every now then, I'd read in the trades that 'Gemini' is still alive. But it was hard to keep that torch lit," Lemke said in a 2019 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. When Lee was announced as the new director of "Gemini Man" in 2017, Lemke was still skeptical. The writer added: "I had heard variations of this 20 times before. I was calloused. I had been down that path so many times before, but it…...

20+ hour, 23+ min ago (272+ words) These days, it's hard to imagine anyone taking the side of the short-lived 1970s'series'over the acclaimed "Battlestar Galactica" reboot, but that was the sentiment among many vocal critics early on. However, the newer show's success quickly overshadowed the shortsighted sexism on the early Internet. "I logged on, and I saw this thread, and just the hate that I was getting in this thread, I was like, 'Oh, don't Google yourself,'" Sackhoff explained. "I would be lying if I said it didn't upset me, but luckily, there were enough people that were championing the show that I really didn't pay any mind to it." We all know that "fans" of certain genre properties can be, to put it delicately, the worst. But when the same sort of bigoted drivel seeps from the mouth of the actor who previously played the role…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago (537+ words) In addition to his decades of writing and reviewing experience, Witney Seibold has also been podcasting professionally since 2011 as the co-host of "The B-Movies Podcast" and then the Critically Acclaimed Network, both with co-host William Bibbiani. He once served as film editor for the defunct newspaper NoHo>LA, and he has written for CraveOnline, Nerdist, IGN, and Blumhouse. Legendary Sci-Fi Writer Isaac Asimov Didn't Mince Words When It Came To Battlestar Galactica Glen A. Larson's 1970s series "Battlestar Galactica" was a curious mix of high-end sci-fi and down-and-dirty pulp adventure. The premise was a little highfalutin. Set in an unspecified year in a very distant part of the galaxy, humans had been waging war with a species of intelligent robots called Cylons. The Cylons have gotten the drop on humanity and wiped out most of our species, leaving only a few scant…...

1+ week, 23+ min ago (457+ words) Jeremy Smith is an entertainment writer with over two decades of experience that stretches back to the infancy of online journalism. He found his love for film criticism on Usenet forums in the mid-1990s, and quarreled his way into a staff position at Ain't It Cool News under the nom de plume "Mr. Star Trek: The Motion Picture Was Plagued By Injuries And A Threatened Strike When NBC canceled the cult science fiction series "Star Trek" in 1969, it seemed like the USS Enterprise would be consigned to drydock for good. Then, to the surprise of many in Hollywood, the show became a bona fide hit in syndication, at which point creator Gene Roddenberry was able to convince Paramount Pictures to mount a big-budget motion picture. Robert Wise, a two-time Oscar winner for Best Director (for the musicals "West Side Story" and…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago (524+ words) In addition to his decades of writing and reviewing experience, Witney Seibold has also been podcasting professionally since 2011 as the co-host of "The B-Movies Podcast" and then the Critically Acclaimed Network, both with co-host William Bibbiani. He once served as film editor for the defunct newspaper NoHo>LA, and he has written for CraveOnline, Nerdist, IGN, and Blumhouse. Why Halston Sage Left The Orville In the first season of the sci-fi comedy series "The Orville," actor Halston Sage appears as security chief Lieutenant Alara Kitan. Alara comes from the planet Xelaya, which has gravity much greater than that of Earth's, giving her amazingly high muscle density for her size. Although she's young and small, her super strength makes her a formidable fighter among Earthlings. The makers of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" must have been paying attention to "The Orville,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (620+ words) In addition to his decades of writing and reviewing experience, Witney Seibold has also been podcasting professionally since 2011 as the co-host of "The B-Movies Podcast" and then the Critically Acclaimed Network, both with co-host William Bibbiani. He once served as film editor for the defunct newspaper NoHo>LA, and he has written for CraveOnline, Nerdist, IGN, and Blumhouse. What Foundation Writer Isaac Asimov Thought About Star Trek Isaac Asimov was asked about science fiction a lot. He would be an expert in the topic, after all, seeing as he wrote some of the most influential and ambitious sci-fi stories ever penned. His "Foundation" book series (1951 " 1993) is still pored over by sci-fi nerds to this day, and every single robot story owes a debt to his book "I, Robot" (1950), the first time the Laws of Robotics had been codified in print....

1+ week, 4+ day ago (456+ words) Danielle is an experienced writer with bylines at The Washington Post, Fandom, Bustle, CNN, Paste Magazine, and more. She has written in a variety of fields, including local crime, global public health, and the entertainment industry. A Stargate Veteran Is Bringing The Cult Sci-Fi Franchise Back From The Dead For Prime Video The science fiction franchise that started with the 1994 Roland Emmerich blockbuster "Stargate," starring Kurt Russell and James Spader, is returning to our screens with new stories after more than a decade away. According to The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Prime Video will be the home for the new "Stargate" series from Amazon MGM Studios and creator and showrunner Martin Gero, who fans might recognize as a writer and producer on all three of the previous live-action "Stargate" shows. Following a timeline where humanity discovered stargates that can connect us…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (590+ words) In addition to his decades of writing and reviewing experience, Witney Seibold has also been podcasting professionally since 2011 as the co-host of "The B-Movies Podcast" and then the Critically Acclaimed Network, both with co-host William Bibbiani. He once served as film editor for the defunct newspaper NoHo>LA, and he has written for CraveOnline, Nerdist, IGN, and Blumhouse. The Woman Who Saved Star Trek From Cancellation Appeared In The Franchise's First Movie Many Trekkies know all about the marvelous fan accomplishments of Bjo Trimble, often called the Woman Who Saved "Star Trek." Trimble is a sci-fi fan going back to childhood, and became involved in nascent sci-fi fan communities back in the 1950s. She used to tool around with noted sci-fi authors like Robert Bloch, August Derleth, and Harlan Ellison. She says that she met her husband, John, while attending a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (961+ words) After writing for Image Comics' preview magazine Image+ from 2016 to 2018, Sam transitioned to writing for Comic Book Resources (CBR) in April 2018. Expanding his expertise to professionally covering film, television, and video games, Sam drew from a lifetime of his own interests and fandom to write news, columns, reviews, and interviews. Gene Roddenberry's Non-Star Trek Projects, Ranked Just as "Star Wars" has George Lucas, "Star Trek" has Gene Roddenberry as its visionary creator who brought its iconic science fiction world to life. Giving birth to "Star Trek" was a true labor of love for Roddenberry, though "The Original Series," as it came to be known, only ran for three seasons. However, as "Star Trek" found a new audience and grew, Gene Roddenberry landed a Hollywood first for his creative contributions, with television creators becoming actively associated with their properties. Roddenberry went…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago (540+ words) Ben has been writing professionally about film and television since 2009. He has attended and covered the Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, AFI Fest, San Diego Comic-Con, CinemaCon, and other major events, and he's traveled to multiple countries to report on movies being filmed. Paramount's Next Star Trek Movie Beams Up Dungeons & Dragons Directors The long wait for a new "Star Trek" movie is finally almost over. According to Deadline, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the duo behind films like "Game Night" and "Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," have been hired to write, produce, and direct a new "Star Trek" film, which will be the first since 2016's "Star Trek Beyond." The report is light on plot details, but this movie is supposedly going to consist of "a completely new take" that is not connected to any…...