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Glen A. Larson's "Battlestar Galactica" has evolved into a sizable franchise since the original series (of the same name) aired in 1978. No matter the medium, these stories always find their way back to the Twelve Colonies — a group of planets representing humanity during the Cylon War — as it falls under attack. The attackers in question are the Cylons, who wish to exterminate the human race at all costs, and to this end, they destroy the Colonies, save for a small group that manages to escape. Among the remaining spacecrafts, only the Battlestar Galactica, which doubles as a battleship and a carrier, is able to offer refuge to the survivors in search of a mysterious new colony: Earth.

Yep, this is a really cool premise, and "Battlestar Galactica" explores the age-old themes of morality, survival, conflict, and faith through an intriguing narrative lens. The techno-jargon employed throughout is not ornamental,...

With its shared DNA from Ronald D. Moore, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine can be seen as the predecessor of Battlestar Galactica's 2004 reboot. Both sci-fi series are acclaimed, with DS9 holding a 91% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and BSG even higher with a 95% Fresh rating. Premiering in 1993, Deep Space Nine is a spinoff of Star Trek: The Next Generation that ran 7 seasons in syndication. Battlestar Galactica launched a decade later, first as a 2003 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries that spawned a 2004 ongoing series running for 4 seasons, as well as a prequel, Caprica, and spinoffs Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, and Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome.

Ronald D. Moore joined the writer's room of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine after achieving great success on Star Trek: The Next Generation, including co-writing with Brannon Braga Tng's acclaimed series finale, "All Good Things..." and the feature films Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact.

Made-for-tv movies have developed from their Hallmark stereotype in recent years, thanks to the rise of companies such as HBO. Although these films feature lower budgets and smaller casts than larger productions, they offer directors and actors greater freedom – leading them toward more successful results.

Related: Top 10 Best TV Series of All Time, Ranked by Viewers

Despite this shift away from melodrama for sensationalism’s sake, made-for-tv movies remain a viable alternative to seeing stories on screen without spending too much cash or time in cinemas.

10 Highest-Ranked TV Movies on IMDb Duel (1971) – 7.6 You Don’t Know Jack (2010) – 7.6 Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) – 7.6 Conspiracy (2001) – 7.6 61* (2001) – 7.7 A Christmas Carol (1984) – 7.8 The Normal Heart (2014) – 7.9 Prayers for Bobby (2009) – 8.0 Threads (1984) – 8.0 Temple Grandin (2010) – 8.2 10 ‘Duel’ (1971)

Genre: Action, Thriller

Director: Steven Spielberg

Stars: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell

IMDb: 7.6/10 74K | Popularity: 1,865 | Metascore: 81 | Awards: 3 (1 Primetime Emmy Award)

“Duel,” a 1971 suspense thriller from the mind of acclaimed director Steven Spielberg, follows...

Exclusive: Rosario Dawson has picked up 2022 GLAAD List script selection Re-Live: A Tale of an American Island Cheerleader as executive producer.

Last week, it was announced that Re-Live was selected for the 2022 GLAAD List, a curated list of the most promising unmade LGBTQ-inclusive film scripts created by GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, in partnership with The Black List, an annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays.

In Re-Live: A Tale of an American Island Cheerleader, a transgender Hollywood actress returns to her estranged home island of Guam for her high school reunion’s “do over week,” to live out her childhood dream of becoming a cheerleader. But she discovers a different reunion: family. In addition to co-writing, starring, and producing, the film will mark Rain Valdez’s feature directorial debut.

“I am thrilled to be a part of this compelling and absolutely necessary story created...

Elton John will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his 1971 album Madman Across the Water with a deluxe reissue that pairs the LP with demos and BBC recordings from the era.

The reissue, due out June 10, features 18 unreleased tracks, mostly in the form of John’s piano demos of all of Madman’s album tracks, including his classics “Tiny Dancer” and “Levon,” as well as three different takes on the title song: Piano demos from 1970 and 1971, plus the original version that featured guitarist Mick Ronson.

The deluxe edition’s third disc...

Lucasfilm has announced new video game projects coming in the near future, including a sequel to Jedi: Fallen Order.

“In the last year, Lucasfilm has announced its intent to bring Star Wars to a broader range of gaming developers, ahead of a decade-long exclusivity deal with EA Games that end in 2023. But just because Lucasfilm has altered the deal doesn’t mean it’s not working with the developer on more Star Wars adventures.”

Read more at Gizmodo

Check out these iconic scenes from famous Netflix shows turned into Lego!

“Watched a lot of Netflix Originals lately? Made a lot of Lego? You’re not alone. All this extra time at home has driven everyone to obsess over old and new pastimes alike. In fact, fan fiction is the lockdown equivalent of cave painting. Our cave-dwelling ancestors painted their walls with scenes from their daily lives – but today’s daily...

Psychological art horror film now available on special edition Blu-ray from Darkside Releasing From director, composer, writer and Delirium magazine editor Chris Alexander comes Girl With A Straight Razor, a psychotronic, sensual horror film starring Ali Chappell. The film follows themes and moods explored in previous Alexander-helmed films like …

The post Chris Alexander’s Girl With A Straight Razor appeared first on Horror News | Hnn.

The rapper Belly was born in the Palestinian West Bank and moved to Ottawa as a kid. While he’s a big-ticket rapper by today’s standards — Belly’s list of collaborations includes stars like The Weeknd and Nas — music was the last thing on his mind as a teenager. A familiar rap origin story, he and his friends in Ottawa used to hustle to make ends meet. It might explain the rapper’s natural affinity for street-level entrepreneurs like Jay-Z, whom he now counts as one of his personal friends and mentors.

Where did everybody go?

They certainly weren’t watching the Friday night Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. The audience dropped to about 17 million, down 37 percent from 26.5 million viewers for the Rio de Janeiro opening in 2016. (Though Saturday was better.)

We know they weren’t at the movies. The box-office dropped 25 percent from last week, as Old and Snake Eyes had weak openings, and Black Widow continued its precipitous fall.

Streaming, or social media? Kinda, sorta, maybe. But it’s hard not to notice that Netflix last week reported a loss of about 400,000 domestic subscribers, while Twitter, though up nicely from a year ago, saw a decline of about 1 million in its active user base, compared to last quarter.

In the media world, it’s beginning to feel like that wispy old song from 1965. Everyone’s Gone To The Moon.

For a while, case-by-case analytics—plus a vague, obligatory reference to Covid...

(Warning: This post, which was originally published July 16, contains spoilers through the finale of “Dr. Death.”)

In Peacock’s limited series “Dr. Death,” the existence and significance of the email Dr. Christopher Duntsch (portrayed by Joshua Jackson) sends to his nurse and lover Kim Morgan (Grace Gummer) the night before he performs an ill-fated spinal surgery on his friend Jerry Summers (Dominic Burgess) is revealed much earlier than the letter’s actual contents.

Due to the twisty nature of the based-on-true-events show’s dual timelines detailing Duntsch’s horrifying missteps as a neurosurgeon and his subsequent trial for the crimes against his patients, viewers get even more teases about how vital the email, which has the subject line “Occam’s Razor,” is going to be for putting Duntsch behind bars before we have enough evidence to understand why.

The reason for all of this build-up to the email’s delusions...

Mj Rodriguez, a.k.a. the Mother Blanca, is finally getting her flowers at the Emmy Awards.

The Pose actress, who has starred as the fierce and unapologetically ambitious and caring Blanca Evangelista, made Emmy Awards history becoming the first transgender nominee for the best actress category on Tuesday, opening the doors for more celebration of the transgender community and artists in the Emmy space. The singer-actress joins fellow nominees Uzo Aduba, Emma Corrin, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Moss and Jurnee Smollett for the best actress race.

Rodriguez is the third openly transgender person to be nominated for an Emmy in the award’s history. She comes after multi-hyphenate actress and filmmaker Rain Valdez, who received an outstanding actress in a short form comedy or drama series nom for Razor Tongue in 2020, and Laverne Cox who in 2014 made Emmy’s History as the first ever nominated openly transgender actor for her...

Atx Televison Festival has added a slew of additional titles to the lineup for its 2021 event, including Kevin Can F*** Himself, Central Park and The Good Fight.

The 2021 edition will run from June 11 to 20 and will take on a virtual format amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Like its in-person iteration, this year’s Atx Television Festival will feature industry-focused panels with a number of showrunners, executives, teasing what’s the to come in the television scene.

Prospective attendees can book their festival badges, day passes, single tickets and find more information here.

This year’s edition will spotlight a number of upcoming AMC and AMC+ projects, ranging from Kevin Can F*** Himself, Ultra City Smiths and Untitled Black Horror Anthology. Panels and Q&As will feature stars such as Annie Murphy, Mary Hollis Inboden and the creative minds of Greg Nicotero, Tanarive Due, Steven Barnes and more.

Apple TV+ will...

Merely two years after kickstarting a supposed new franchise, the Hanzo the Razor saga came to an end, with the release of the third and final production of the series, “Hanzo the Razor, Who’s Got the Gold?” In keeping with the tradition of the first two, this too had a different director at the helm in Yoshi Inoue. However, Yasuzo Masumura, the director of the second story, would stay on as the scriptwriter even if the directorial duties were handed over to Inoue, with this ending up being the final feature film he’d do.

Things kick off when Hanzo Itami’s assistants Devil-Fire and Viper encounter a female ghost while fishing at a lake and run to Hanzo to inform him of the same. Unperturbed and excited by the idea of catching and having sex with a “ghost”, Hanzo sets off to investigate and upon catching said ghost,...

Less than a year after the success of “Sword of Justice”, Shintaro Katsu returned as the lawman with an enormous penis, a disgust for corruption and very questionable interrogation techniques for a new mystery, this time helmed by none other than Yasuzo Masumura.

Early on, we see Hanzo Itami run into government treasurer Lord Okubu while chasing two thieves with his assistants Devil-Fire and Viper. Once again, Hanzo stresses on his dislike for corrupt officials in this encounter, which then gives way for the mystery central to the story. These two thieves, as it turns out, were running away from a nearby rice mill after discovering a half-naked dead woman there. Upon investigating, Hanzo deduces that the death was in fact not a murder but the result of a botched illegal abortion. This leads Hanzo into uncovering, once again, a conspiracy going way high, this time involving shamanic rituals,...

With the Zatoichi series running out of steam (there would be only two more of those releasing after 1972), actor/producer/director Shintaro Katsu and his newly formed production house Katsu Productions were looking to kickstart a new series of chanbara films as leading vehicles for the star, as well as to keep the company functioning. For this purpose, they turned their eye towards a gekiga (Japanese version of a graphic novel) by writer Kazuo Koike, an outlandish tale of an Edo-era law enforcer. For the first one, Katsu called upon Kenji Misumi, the director with the most directing credits on the Zatoichi features, and regular cinematographer Chikashi Makiura to lend their vision to this new tale. If, however, you go into the Hanzo films expecting anything similar to Zatoichi, you’re in for a very rude surprise!

This is the story of Hanzo Itami, an incorruptible magistrate...

The Match Factory is taking a strong slate to the European Film Market, including two world premieres: Anne Zohra Berrached’s “Copilot,” which is in the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section, and Christian Schwochow’s “Je Suis Karl,” which is in Berlinale Special. Also in the festival program is Dash Shaw’s “Cryptozoo,” the critically acclaimed adult animation awarded at Sundance, which is in the Generation lineup.

Berrached, whose “24 Weeks” played in Berlinale Competition in 2016, is back at the festival with “Copilot,” a bold feature set in the mid 90s, an era of optimism, when the conflicts of the old-world order seemed to dissolve, and long-lasting peace seemed achievable. Asli (Canan Kir) meets Saeed (Roger Azar), whose love at first changes her life, before shaking the world to the core.

The producers are Germany’s Razor Film, France’s Haut et Court and Germany’s Zero Films. Neue Visionen...

Actor and boxer Florian Munteanu is set to play the villain Razor Fist in the upcoming Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, but he might not be a baddie you've heard of up until now. Razor Fist, like many of the heroes and villains in the Marvel comics, isn't a title held by just one person. The one thing all Razor Fists have in common? They're enemies of Shang-Chi. Marvel hasn't revealed which incarnation of the supervillain will be the baddie in the upcoming film (although we have a guess), but he's almost certainly one of these guys.

The original Razor Fist was William Young, a mercenary, assassin, and guard hired by ambitious crime lord Carlton Velcro. Velcro mutilated Young to make him a more formidable foe, surgically replacing his hands with "hands" made of steel blades. Young fought against Shangi-Chi at Velcro's command, but he lost and...

Exclusive: Campbell Grobman Films, executive producers on action pics Rambo 5, The Hitman’s Bodyguard and the Angel Has Fallen, is teaming up with comic book writer Everette Hartsoe and E! Entertainment co-founder and producer Alan Mruvka to produce a feature film based on new Hartsoe character Bayonet.

The Bayonet story will follow Emma Harlow, a biracial British Sas officer stationed in Afghanistan. After Harlow is thought to be killed in combat, she wakes up in an underground lab with no memory or identity. Instead, she is told she is now a ‘Bayonet’. Because of a chip implanted in the brain, a Bayonet is an agent whose lethal skills are second to none and is called upon by the British government to complete the most lethal black ops missions.

The companies are aiming to create a franchise around the character.

“Bayonet will lead the next generation of superheroes that every...

There’s been so much mythology surrounding “The Mandalorian’s” Baby Yoda (The Child), thanks to co-star Werner Herzog’s outspoken support of the puppet, that it’s hard to determine what’s practical or CG about its performance. The truth is, the 50-year-old, 16-inch infant companion to bounty hunter Mando (Pedro Pascal) was always intended to be a hybrid character, though the original plan was to lean more heavily on animation whenever possible.

That is, until creator Jon Favreau and the rest of the team witnessed the full extent of the puppet’s charm and capabilities early on during the shooting of Season 1. “Initially, the puppet was going to be in a supporting role, and it was going to be a CG character,” said John Rosengrant, co-founder and special effects supervisor at Legacy Effects.

“We did a proof of concept three weeks before shooting, and even once we started shooting,...

Syfy will sate your need for bingeable quarantine fare by serving up full-series marathons of both Xena: Warrior Princess and Battlestar Galactica, to be hosted respectively by Lucy Lawless and Tricia Helfer.

Making its Syfy network debut, Xena‘s six seasons (totaling 134 episodes) will begin unspooling April 16, airing eight to 10 episodes every Thursday morning and afternoon (exact scheduling is Tba). Lawless will provide wraps for the marathons, which will be presented by Syfy Fangrrls and also feature surprise guest appearances. (The complete Xena series is available to stream now via Syfy.com and NBCU’s OneApp.)

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It doesn't matter what side of the good vs. evil divide they land on, characters who hold grudges are some of our favorites, especially when they won't let them go. 

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As a noun, a grudge is defined as a persistent feeling of ill will or resentment resulting from a past insult or injury. 

In the realm of TV, sometimes it's easy to spot a particular moment or incident in these character's pasts that'll leave them with these emotions. Other times, it's a little harder to define. 

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Here are 23 grudgeholders that have graced our television screens. 

1. Emily Thorne (Revenge) Let's start off with the epitome of grudgeholders, Emily Thorne. Better known as Amanda Clarke, she returned to the Hamptons to get revenge for her father's wrongful imprisonment and death. Throughout four seasons she...

Lionsgate is proud to announce Occupation, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital September 25.

Prepare for invasion when the sci-fi epic Occupation arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital September 25 from Lionsgate. This film is currently On Demand. When a fleet of spaceships cover the sky in darkness and invade Earth, a small group of civilians band together to fight off their attackers to save their lives along with all of humanity. Featuring eye-grabbing special effects, the high-stakes action film stars Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, and Stephany Jacobsen. Occupation will be available on Blu-ray (plus Digital) and DVD for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.

Check out the trailer:

A town is suddenly plunged into darkness. In the sky, a fleet of spaceships appears. The aliens have been watching Earth for centuries; now they have arrived to seize control of our planet. As alien storm troopers cut...

From Saban Films comes Occupation, a story of survival and fighting off an alien invasion. The sci-fi film is arriving on Blu-ray, DVD and digital from Lionsgate. Read all the details below.

Prepare for invasion when the sci-fi epic Occupation arrives on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital September 25 from Lionsgate. This film is currently On Demand. When a fleet of spaceships cover the sky in darkness and invade Earth, a small group of civilians band together to fight off their attackers to save their lives along with all of humanity. Featuring eye-grabbing special effects, the high-stakes action film stars Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, and Stephany Jacobsen. Occupation will be available on Blu-ray (plus Digital) and DVD for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.

Official Synopsis

A town is suddenly plunged into darkness. In the sky, a fleet of spaceships appears. The aliens have been watching Earth for centuries...

If only every Defiance episode could work as well as this week's, which had great story flow and characteristically strong SFX...

This review contains spoilers.

3.5 History Rhymes

From the outset, History Rhymes was a much slicker and tighter narrative than we’ve been graced with so far this season.

The centre-piece is the often turbulent relationship between Nolan and Irisa, and how they’re now bonded together to share a common memory collection.

It might seem somewhat late in the process to give Nolan more backstory, but as this progressed, his failings and Irisa's were better revealed. As it went on, I began to wonder if Irisa is actually more guilt-ridden than Nolan, but surely the point is that only these two characters can understand the pain of the other, even if they’re not exactly bonding right now.

The only problem with the memory sequences was that taken out...

“Space travelers in the gray mists of time? An inadmissible question to academic scientists. Anyone who asks questions like that ought to see a psychiatrist.” • Erich von Danniken

“It’s just one more thing to remember to charge throughout our busy days.” • Joseph Volpe of Engadget.com critiquing the Apple Watch

Well, I finished rewatching Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica.

The most popular question (dissatisfaction?) I remember floating around the message boards connected with the finale of BSG was: “What, or who, was the returned-from-the-dead Kara Thrace, a.k.a. Starbuck?” And I also remember that there was a lot of frustration and unhappy people who were really angry with Mr. Moore for not giving a black-and-white answer. I suppose these dissatisfied viewers wanted to see an extension of Kara’s final scene with Lee Adama in which, in their imagination, she would say – sort of a Spoiler Ahead!

Amazon is getting in on the Black Friday deals early as in really early and I have the first batch of sale items listed for you directly below, the most notable of the bunch being the the complete Battlestar Galactica series available on both Blu-ray and DVD for $82.99 and $72.99 respectively, which is a savings of more than $209 on the Blu-ray collection. Additionally, Home Alone and Home Alone 2 are available as a Blu-ray bundle for $12.99. Check out the complete list below and stay tuned as I will have more for you next week and whenever they come available. As for these deals, they are available through November 22 so if you're interested get in on it now. Blu-ray Battlestar Galactica (2004): Season 1 Blu-ray Battlestar Galactica 35th Anniversary Blu-ray Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome - Unrated Edition Blu-ray Battlestar Galactica: Season 2 Blu-ray Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 Blu-ray Battlestar Galactica: Season...

Sometimes, there’s a movie project that just doesn’t go away. They rumble on in the background for decades, with concepts kept alive only by the sheer willpower of those dedicated individuals involved. Battlestar Galactica is one such project – but now, it seems like it’s one step closer to fruition as Transcendence writer Jack Paglen has been hired to deliver a script.

Created by Glen A. Larson (Knight Rider, Magnum P.I, Quincy M.E) as a science fiction TV series in 1978, Battlestar Galactica ran for one season – ending in April 1979. It featured the premise that would provide the basis for every iteration of the show that followed – that our future humanity has migrated to a distant area of the galaxy, known as the Twelve Colonies, from where they have been defending themselves against a cybernetic race known as The Cylons. During a vicious attack, human survivors flee aboard spaceships,...

Cinephiles go gaga over Wong Kar-wai. When he’s at his best his films have a dreamlike quality to them, blooming with narrative puzzles and visual beauty that just scream “cinema classic.” It’s no wonder then that his film In the Mood For Love is the most recent film of them all to show up on Sight & Sound’s definitive “Greatest of All Time” poll from last year. But now, after production troubles and seemingly endless release delays, he presents his epic The Grandmaster, the story of the martial arts master named Ip Man who is known to Western audiences as the guy who taught Bruce Lee. Apparently there are various cuts of the film out there with varying runtimes and excised footage with the general consensus being that the original Hong Kong cut is the superior version. What I talk about in this review is the Us cut...

Press Release:

La-la Land Records Re-engages In The Cylon Wars With Two New Soundtracks Composed By Bear McCreary Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome on March 12th

Caprica: Original Television Soundtrack in April

La-La Land Records announces the release of two new soundtracks Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome on March 12th and Caprica: Original Television Soundtrack in April. Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica) composed the music for both series.

“In scoring the Battlestar Galactica prequels Caprica and Blood & Chrome, I returned to the unique combination of world and orchestral sounds that defined my previous score,” McCreary described. “But, both prequels had their own distinct approach. Caprica was interlaced with delicate chamber orchestra textures, solo harp and other-worldly source songs. Blood & Chrome is energized by heavy distorted-synthesizers and searing electric guitar performances. Listeners will hear, however, that all three series have a common musical DNA.”

Battlestar Galactica:...

Blood and Chrome has been released on DVD and Blu-ray today. You can get it on Amazon.

Here are the specs and list of extras, from Sci Fi Mafia:

Special Features

Blu-ray/DVD Special Features

Deleted Scenes – Which like any movie are probably removed to keep the story tighter, but a lot of these are essential bits of storyline that would otherwise be missed. So interesting to watch, since they are all filmed, but not taken through CGI enhancements.Blood & Chrome Visual Effects Featurette – This gives you the full scope of what was involved in the CGI production of every single shot. Amazing.

Program Information

Technical Information – Blu-ray Combo Pack: Street Date: February 19, 2013

Layers: Bd-50

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen

Rating: Not rated

Languages/Subtitles: English Sdh, Spanish, French Sound: 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio

Technical Information – DVD:

Street Date: February 19, 2013

Layers: Dual Layer

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen

Rating: Not rated

Languages/Subtitles: English Sdh,...

Last year Syfy took a brief return trip to the world of its deep-space (and deep-thinking) epic Battlestar Galactica with the prequel Blood and Chrome. Originally conceived as a two-hour pilot, Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome was ultimately released as an online series of ten 12-minute acts. Now the whole two-hour movie is set for an unrated, uncut edition on Blu-ray and DVD, which will be released this Tuesday.

Blood and Chrome takes place during the First Cylon War and features an origin story for BSG’s Admiral William Adama. In this prequel, young Adama, recently graduated from the Academy,...

Blood and Chrome has its television premiere tonight at 8 pm on Syfy.

The TV version will include additional footage, and the unrated cut will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on February 19. The DVD will contain about 30 minutes of deleted scenes.

From the press release:

This highly anticipated chapter in the Battlestar Galactica saga from Universal Cable Productions originally debuted as a weekly web series on YouTube’s premium channel Machinima Prime, drawing upwards of 8 million total views. On February 10, fans will get to see it for the first time in its film version entirety, including additional scenes not included in the online release. The unrated edition from Universal Studios Home Entertainment will then be available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download on February 19th.

Blood & Chrome takes place in the midst of the first Cylon war. As the battle between humans and their creation, the sentient robotic Cylons, rages across the 12 colonial worlds,...

The Caprica season one soundtrack is finally getting released! Bear McCreary has just made the announcement on Twitter. The soundtrack will be out in April.

The Blood and Chrome soundtrack is coming even sooner. It will be released on March 12th. B&C will have its television premiere this Sunday, February 10, from 8 to 10Pm Et/Pt.

Then, at long last, a multi-cd album of "#Caprica" is coming in April, featuring the songs & score from the entire series, w/ bonus demos.

— Bear McCreary (@bearmccreary) February 5, 2013

The "Caprica" CD is happening because of you guys. Passionate fans never let this go. To each of you, I offer a rowdy "So Say We All!"

— Bear McCreary (@bearmccreary) February 5, 2013

Here is the full press release from Cinemedia Promotions:

La-la Land Records Re-engages In The Cylon Wars With Two New Soundtracks Composed By Bear McCreary

Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome on March 12thCaprica: Original Television Soundtrack in April

(February 5, 2013 – Burbank,...

Machinima has posted two new episodes today. You can watch them below or on the Machinima Prime channel. The first episode has over 2 million views so far and episodes 2, 3, and 4 around 600,000. To watch all the episodes from start to finish, go here.

Jill Teed and Ty Olsson are back in episode 5 and John Pyper-Ferguson shows up to take the kids for a walk in episode 6. Also, there is the cython.

Watch the episode, and there is more stuff after the jump.

Adama dogfights Raiders while the Battlestar Osiris tries to hold off a Cylon Basestar.

Just a few more tidbits from this week for people who aren't on Facebook and Twitter.

First, there was Patton Oswalt talking to the A.V. Club about his most memorable roles:

Caprica (2010)—“Baxter Sarno”

Po: That was very frustrating, because I got a glimpse of what the second season of Caprica was going to be,...

Well, holy frak. The sequel has a release date.

Entertainment Weekly reports that Blood and Chrome will be released online on Machinima Prime's YouTube Channel in ten 7-12-minute installments starting this Friday, November 9.

The full two-hour pilot will air on Syfy early next year, and an unrated version will be released on home video some time after that.

Refresher course from EW (because it's been a while):

For those who haven’t followed the B&C saga, the project was originally developed as a series for Syfy following the conclusion of the critically beloved Battlestar Galactica reboot and its movie spin-offs The Plan and Razor. BSG vets David Eick and Michael Taylor are executive producers, with Taylor writing the script from a story by Eick, Bradley Thompson and David Weddle. Jonas Pate (Caprica) directed.

The prequel follows young William Adama (Luke Pasqualino, UK’s Skins) during the first Cylon War.

It’s a three-year wait for more Star Wars. Six months for more Star Trek. But guess what? Battlestar Galactica returns in only four days.

Universal Cable Productions’ long-awaited Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome has not only found a distribution outlet, but it’s getting a super-close premiere date. Plus, there’s a rather spectacular new trailer (below).

Here’s the raw essentials: BSG: B&C is a prequel movie being presented as ten, 7-12-minute episodes on young-male-targeted entertainment company Machinima’s YouTube channel, called Machinima Prime. The first episode will be released on Friday, Nov. 9, with the...

A couple of weeks ago, it was rumored that the Batman villain Firefly/Garfield Lynns was set to appear in a future episode of The CW's Arrow, which was recently picked up by the network for a full season. Now, Entertainment Weekly confirm that the villain will make his debut on the show on its tenth episode, titled "Burned". The episode is scheduled to air in early 2013. Actor Andrew Dunbar (Tower Prep, Battlestar Galactica: Razor) will play Firefly. In the comics, Garfield Lynns becomes a villain after suffering severe burns as a firefighter. As with every character on Arrow, expect this take on Firefly to be more grounded/realistic than the comic book version. You can check out Arrow on The CW Wednesdays at 8 Pm Est. Follow @PaulRomCBM !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.

One great thing about Dragon*Con is that sometimes it inspires me to check out new shows or genre fiction, and sometimes it inspires me to re-visit a past favorite. After this year’s Battlestar Galactica panel I had a super-cravi ng to go back and watch the show again; thanks to Netflix I’ve been re-living the intensity that is BSG.

What I love about the show, as someone pointed out in the panel (BSG – Bright Shiny Futures Are Overrated) is that it uses the harsh situation that the few remaining members of the human race find themselves in to explore numerous complex themes that resonate with real world conflicts and historical events. Along with plenty of action and drama, it’s an intellectual show that challenges viewers to think about the choices being made, and highlights the complexity and imperfections of the main characters as they constantly make...

The short-lived spin-off series Caprica may not quite have won the hearts of Battlestar Galactica's fan army, but SyFy have high hopes for Blood And Chrome, a showreel for which debuted at WonderCon over the weekend, and has now found its way online (spotted by AICN).Cut to the Trent Reznor/Karen O/Dragon Tattoo version of Immigrant Song, it's a breakneck glimpse of the battle-heavy pilot, but goes a long way towards showcasing the new system of virtual sets, which replaces the rebooted Battlestar Galactica's reliance on relatively limiting practical builds.Blood And Chrome was originally mooted in 2010 as a series of webisodes a la The Resistance, The Face of the Enemy and the Razor Flashbacks, before SyFy opted to give it the full works. It's set between Caprica and BSG, in the tenth year of the first war with the Cylons, and focuses on a young...

A quick round of updates, in very random order.

A new trailer for Playback, with Alessandra Torresani, has been released on iTunes. You can watch it here. The film will be available on iTunes on February 3 and hit theatres in early March.

James Marsters will make a guest appearance in The Wedding Band, a new comedy with Brian Austin Green, Harold Perrineau and Melora Hardin that will premiere on TBS in the summer. More details on James-Marsters.eu.

Avan Jogia directed a zombie film in Vancouver over the holidays. Nickutopia has an article and a Bts pic.

Born to Race with John Pyper-Ferguson was released on DVD and Blu-ray in France last week. You can see the French trailer here.

Two things on TV tonight.

There is Glee 3x10, "Yes/No," at 8 pm on Fox. Eric Stoltz directed it. Preview:

And a new episode of Arctic Air airs at 9 pm on CBC.

James Marsters (Buffy, Caprica), Stephanie Jacobsen (Melrose Place, Battlestar Galactica: Razor) and Naoko Mori (Torchwood) fans, hang in there! Syfy is still keeping Three Inches in mind for a series pickup. The series had initially lost out to Alphas for a place in the fall line-up, but network president Mark Stern states that they have not thrown Three Inches out of the window:

“We’re looking at another way to get Three Inches going. We love it, so we’re trying to figure out a way to do both [that and Alphas] right now.”

As SciFi Mafia reported to you last December, one of the options the network was looking at for Three Inches was to reformat it from a one-hour format into a half-hour structure. Hopefully, they can make this work!

Three Inches’ sci-fi star-studded cast includes James Marsters (Dragonball 2, Caprica, Smallville), Andrea Martin (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Not for Nothing), Stephanie Jacobsen (Melrose Place,...

The two-hour pilot for Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2011) has begun filming. As a fan of Battlestar: Galactica (both the original and the reboot), Battlestar: Galactica: Razor, and aspects of Caprica, I am looking forward to what the scifi show’s creators come up with. I am also looking forward to the early experiments on human beings by Cyclons and the space battles that occur with “a young William Adama during the 10th year of the first Cylon war.” We already reported how Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome cast Luke Pasqualino, Ben Cotton in the key roles in the upcoming series.

Here is the official press release.

New York – February 10, 2011 – Production has begun in Vancouver on Syfy’s highly anticipated 2-hour pilot, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the all-new chapter in the Battlestar Galactica saga. Universal Cable Productions will produce the event with Syfy utilizing cutting edge CGI and virtual technology.

The BSG universe gets a little bigger today as the first casting news for Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome has come to light. Luke Pasqualino of the UK’s Skins will play the young William Adama, while Ben Cotton will play his commanding officer, Coker.

Pasqualino is best known as Freddie Mclair on the original Skins (not the controversial MTV conversion). The 21-year-old hasn’t had time to do much else, though he has become something of a teen celebrity in the UK for his high-profile role. Cotton, like his Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome character, is a TV veteran whose resume includes CW’s cheerleader dramedy Hellcats and smaller parts on shows like Smallville, Psych and Supernatural. He’s had a few parts on previous SyFy projects including Stargate: Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica: Razor and the ...

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The Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica, met its end far too soon despite being a very well-made show. For one reason or another, fans of BSG simply decided not to follow the show as religiously, leading to its untimely fate.

As we were waiting to hear the fate of Caprica from the executives at Syfy, they announced the plans for another spinoff series called Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome. The show was to be another prequel, set in between the storylines of BSG and Caprica when William Adama was still a young pilot. We saw a glimpse of this younger Adama in the direct-to-dvd movie (which they should make more of immediately -- we miss the real cast), Razor, and fans wondered if the actor that played the youthful future Admiral, Nico Cortez, would be returning for Blood and Chrome. Now we have that answer.

It's been announced that Cortez will Not be returning,...

Trying to find a nationality for William Adama is hard. Yes, we know he's Caprican with some Tauron ancestry, but the once Latino actor is now being played by a ... Sicilian? Luke Pasqualino has been tapped by Syfy as the star of its new backdoor pilot, "Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome." He will play a young William Adama, a young fighter pilot who will later lead a ragtag fleet to Earth. The move was a surprise to some, but not to all. Rumors had circulated the past couple weeks that Nico Cortez, the actor who played Adama in a similar time period in "Battlestar Galactica: Razor," had been passed over for the role. As early as Monday, Airlock Alpha's Twitter feed suggested that Cortez was not going to get the role. There had been some speculation Syfy would go with a more ...

Chicago – The high-def releases for “Battlestar Galactica” have been somewhat baffling. The problem for Universal was that A.) They had started releasing the series on standard-def when Blu-ray took off and B.) They needed a way to milk one of their most impressive cash cows for a bit longer. Consequently, the chance to individually buy all of one of the best science fiction programs of all time didn’t come until 2011. But that day has finally arrived with the release of the impressive “Battlestar Galactica: Season Four.”

Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0

Stick with me here. It’s going to get complicated. Technically, the entire run of “Battlestar Galactica” was available in July of 2009 but only in an expensive complete series set (currently running over $200). If you had a few seasons on standard that you were fine merely upconverting, you still had to open the wallet for the full series.

Battlestar Galactica...

Christmas has come and gone, and the week after offers a few Blu-rays worth whipping your gift cards out for. This week you have the chance to bring home the latest in the chronicles of the Umbrella Corporation’s shenanigans, an Amber Heard thriller, Joel Schumacher’s latest, one of the most quiet and contemplative “thrillers” released this year, and an extended sci-fi series episode.

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If you've got money or gift cards left over from Christmas that are burning a hole in your pocket, there are a few new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week that just might be worth picking up. Most notably, Anton Corbijn's The American starring George Clooney hits stores today, along with the fourth Resident Evil film Resident Evil: Afterlife, which is also available on Blu-ray in 3D! If that's not enough for you, there is also Joel Schumacher's latest crapterpiece Twelve, along with new seasons of Jersey Shore and Diablo Cody's The United States of Tara, plus the first season of the amazing animated spy comedy Archer, from the makers of Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo. Will you be buying or renting anything this week? The American [1] (+ Blu-ray [2]) Resident Evil: Afterlife [3] (+ Blu-ray [4], Blu-ray 3D [5]) Twelve [6] (+ Blu-ray [7]) Fubar II [8] (+ Blu-ray [9]) (Canada only) Legendary [10] Legacy [11] And Soon the Darkness...

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Not a whole lot to choose from this Tuesday after Christmas as most studios like to get their product on the shelves for gift-giving rather than counting on people spending their gift certificates the days after, but there may be something of interest for a couple of you.

The American I know a lot of people did not like this movie but I found it to be quite good. I wonder if anyone that didn't like this movie could possibly like Somewhere, both are rather quiet and meditative features. It's interesting Focus handled both of them this year. Resident Evil: Afterlife I will need to Netflix this one, but I won't be adding it to the home collection, at least not until I've seen it. I still don't own the third one and have no intention of buying it...

This week, we’re checking out feature films, TV series and Anime on our top DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of Dec 28, 2010.

On the feature film side we’re watching The American, Legendary Assassin, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Kamui Gaiden: Movie and Twelve. For TV releases, we’re checking out Archer Season 1, United States of Tara: The Second Season and Battlestar Galactica: Razor comes to Blu-ray. Our Anime hot picks include Baccano: The Complete Series (Viridian Collection) and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Part 3.

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Resident Evil: Afterlife [DVD + Blu-ray] Release Date: December 28, 2010

The fourth installment of the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil: Afterlife is again based on the wildly popular video game series.

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The American [DVD + Blu-ray] Release Date: December 28, 2010

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