April 2008
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- SciFi Short Wins Filmaka's First Prize; Director Receives $5 Million in Funding
- Batman and Star Trek Have Been Rebooted. Should Star Wars Follow Suit?
- SciFi Dept - The Richard Matheson Renaissance
- Actual Journey to the Center of the Earth Yields Two-Billion-Year-Old Rocks
- Seeking Some of Indy's Spotlight, Carrie Fisher Recalls Her Fling With Harrison Ford
- Daily Scan: 04.30.08 - A Tribute to Michael Moorcock; Favreau Working on Iron Man Sequels
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- Site of the Week - io9
- Lemony Snicket Director Sticks with Costumed Creatures for Land of the Lost Remake
- Will Iron Man's Marketing Campaign Cause a Snakes on a Plane Backlash?
- Is the New Grand Theft Auto IV a Work of Dystopian Fiction?
- Daily Scan: 04.29.08 - Gandalf and Gollum on Board for Hobbit; Universal Options Resurrection
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- SciFi Power Ranking - Of Iron Men and Golden Armies
- Daily Scan: 04.28.08 - Boll Challenges Bay; Star Wars Collecting in Poland
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- The Scanner's Top Five: Week of 04.21
- The Four-toed Foot of Lost Is Planted in Science Fiction
- Superman Overpowers Fellow Superheroes at New York Comic Con
- Starship Troopers 3 Q&A - Johnny Rico and the Big Bugs Are Back
- Finding Darth Vader Under Barney's Skin
- Daily Scan: 04.25.08 - Arnold Talks T4; How Star Wars Influenced Takashi Murakami
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- Could Soylent Green Become a Reality?
- D Is for Death Star
- Three Underappreciated SciFi Satires - Demolition Man, Idiocracy and Starship Troopers
- Go Ninja, Go! Awful Music From SciFi Soundtracks
- Daily Scan: 04.24.08 - Transformers 2's Disinformation Campaign; More Universal Soldiers
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- Hellboy's Viral Campaign Will Only Infect Die-Hard Fans
- A Get Smart Primer - Author Kristie Macrakis Tells the Truth About Spy-Tech
- SciFi Dept - New York Comic Con 2008
- Sneak Peek of Hellboy's Golden Army at New York Comic Con
- Daily Scan: 04.23.08 - Muppetstar Galactica; Marvel's Ender's Game
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- With WarGames, the Stage Was Set for Our Fear of Hackers
- Site of the Week - DoctorHorrible.net
- Cloverfield Made for TV, Says J.J. Abrams
- Why Are There No Robot Butlers? Science vs. SciFi
- Lucasfilm Unveils New Products, Lacks Indy Cred
- Daily Scan: 04.22.08 - Dark Knight Trailer; Wonder Woman on Track
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- SciFi DVD This Week - Cloverfield
- High Tech Noon Brings Laser Guns to the Wild West
- Sarah Connor Chronicles Will Be Back on Fox
- Will Mulder and Scully Lock Lips in The X-Files: I Want to Believe?
- Daily Scan: 04.21.08 - Guillermo Del Toro's Next Film; the History of Speed Racer
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- The Transformation of T2's Sarah Connor
- The Scanner's Top Five - Week of 04.14
- Expect Star Wars Cosplayers to Overrun Comic-Con
- Incredible Shrinking Man Remake Sinks to New Lows
- Photographs Let Stars Wars Characters Step Into Our World
- Daily Scan: 04.18.08 - The Geography of Mars; How to Bake a Yoda Cake
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- Sigourney Weaver Says Avatar Character Is No Ripley
- Would a Real ET Phone Your Home? Probably Not According to Science Mag
- C Is for Cyberpunk
- X-Files 2 Gets Title, Wants to Reconcile Faith and Science
- Daily Scan: 04.17.08 - A Real Tattoine; Iron Man's Foes
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- Why Does Sci-Fi Hate Utopia?
- Edward Norton Reassures Fans He'll Deliver the Hulk They've Been Waiting For
- Enjoy Some Soma - Vintage Advertising Meets Famous Sci-Fi Brands
- Meet Today's Speed Racers - The Rocket Racing League
- SciFi Dept - Five Most Evil Computer Villains
- Daily Scan: 04.16.08 - 3D Ghost in the Shell; J.G. Ballard for Kids
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- Does Serenity Have Longevity as a Franchise?
- Site of the Week - Galacticast
- The Star Wars, Lego and Chess Trifecta
- Sci-Fi DVDs of the Week: AvP - Requiem, Alien Nation and Name of the King
- Will the Iron Man Hype Drive Tony Stark to Drink?
- Daily Scan: 04.15.08 -- Celebrating Weird Tales; Ronald D. Moore's New Series
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- Michael Chabon's Proposed Script vs. Spider-Man 2
- Rose McGowan on Her Barbarella Blues
- Clone Wars to Feature 70% More Space Battles and Jabba the Hutt
- Aliens to Attack Hollywood in Battle: Los Angeles
- Daily Scan: 04.14.08: Long Version of Babylon A.D. Never Existed; BSG Final Season Theories
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- The Scanner's Top Five: Week of 04.07
- B Is for Body Snatchers
- Jason Reitman Turned Down Justice League
- Steampunk Take on Star Wars
- Artists Illustrate Jules Verne's Pre-Hollywood Voyages
- Daily Scan for 04.11.08 -- Superman's Shortcomings, Batman's Camp Factor
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- Can Vin Diesel Come Out of the Pitch Black and Regain SciFi Stardom?
- R2D2 Illness Is Harbinger of Star Wars Plague
- Who Is the Most Reluctant Astronaut in Movie History
- Daily Scan: 04.10.08 -- X-Files 2 Spoilers; Roald Dahl's Subversive Storylines
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- If You Liked Alien, May We Recommend The Color Purple?
- The Black Hole Will Trap Ernest Borgnine, Destroy the Universe
- Behind the Scenes of an FX Designer's Day in Digital Grunt
- SciFi Dept: Sequels You'll Never See
- Daily Scan: 04.09.08 -- Comcast, Podcasts and Wingmen Carry the SciFi Torch
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- Site of the Week: Newsarama
- Battlestar Galactica Watch: Of Gods and Cylons
- Gumby Fights Giant Robots at Gallery 1988
- Pastor's Sci-Fi Epic Reportedly Ordered by God
- Daily Scan: 04.08.08 -- the Women of Battlestar Go Barbarella; Bill and Ted Remake?
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- Watching the Watchmen Marketing Campaign
- The Thing Reminds Us to Trust No One; Not Even E.T.
- Race Speedster: A Parody of Speed Racer
- Daily Scan: 04.07.08 -- Remaking Short Circuit; Charlton Heston R.I.P.
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- Tezuka's The Amazing Three - A Lost Classic From the Father of Anime
- The Scanner's Top Five: Week of 03.31
- Space Shuttle Construction Rivals 2001 for Visuals
- Q&A: Paleontologist Jack Horner -- Bringing Science to the Big Screen
- Nexus: The Animated Classic That Almost Was
- Hellboy 2 Trailer Hits the Web
- Daily Scan: 04.04.08 -- Origins Is Out; Believe It or Not, William Katt Is Writing a Comic Book
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- 2001 Looking Fit at 40
- The Eight-Minute Battlestar Galactica Recap
- EW Just Doesn't Get Swamp Thing
- Doctor Who Versus the Metropolitan Police Authority
- A Is for Android
- Daily Scan: 04.03.08 -- Aliens Attack Spidey, Happy Birthday Lightning Lad
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- A Boy and His Robot: Fun Sci-Fi Finds on Hulu.com
- Paintings Capture Superheroes at Their Most Lonely
- From Iron Man to Iron Men: Will We See Them If They Walk Among Us?
- Kooky Items Inspired by Star Wars
- SciFi Dept: Fantasy Cars of Tomorrow... Today
- Daily Scan: 04.02.08 -- Inside Bjork's Mind, Wheeled Warriors, and Halo's Script
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- Larklight: The Next Narnia... or the Next Golden Compass?
- This Week's DVD Releases: Return of Swamp Thing, Appleseed: Ex Machina
- Upcoming SciFi Games to Rock Your World
- John Carter Almost Went to Mars 70 Years Ago
- Daily Scan: 04.01.08 -- April Fools Day Edition (Spot the Fake Story!)
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