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With all the exciting news about the new Star Trek stuff being worked on as we speak (keep it tuned to Krypton Radio over the next few days, because we have a lot to tell you) we thought today’s Video of the Day should be right on target – and here it is: This Valentine’s Day, don’t beg like a human, celebrate Valentines Day the Klingon Way, with the throwing of heavy objects and righteous love poetry while your sweetheart roars like a wild beast at you! Enjoy ! - 30 -       Stolen Droids If it’s fandom – of pretty much anything – Stolen Droids is all over it. Tune in every Tuesday at 4PM as Zuke, Schmidty, Zohner, and Stark pry the lid off a can of pure fan geekitude and show you what the world of scifi fandom looks like from their unique perspective. A new show every week! Stolen Droids can be heard on Krypton Radio on Tuesdays at 4PM, PSTYou can also download the shows as podcasts right from their web site from the Stolen Droids web site, or hear them on Stitcher.com. Join them on Facebook too! Guys, welcome to the family – we’re proud to have you with us! And the rest of you lot, tune in. You’re gonna love this! - 30 - by Gene Turnbow What does the 16th President of the United States, Tim Burton and vampires all have in common? Beats me. But it made a great mashup novel in 2010 as Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, written by Seth Grahame-
It didn’t take Twentieth Century Fox long to snap up the movie rights, and counter to how these things usually go in Hollywood, they got it right on the first try. Behold the first look at the new trailer for the movie, produced by Tim Burton and directed by Timur Bekmambetov, with a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smnith himself, so you know it’s going to be as true to the book as it was possible to make it. This crazy, goofy take on vampire lore is sure to be the best thing that’s happened to vampires in the media since Buffy. The movie stars Benjamin Walker in the lead role. And from what we see here, the guy definitely has an ax to grind. Literally. Not that this is really what you’d call literature – but frankly, do we care about its high-brow appeal? No. I didn’t think so either. - 30 -
To find us in iTunes, open the list of radio stations and go to the Ecclectic grouping. We’re there, about half way down. We’re proud of this moment, and we hope this will help many more listeners find us. As our news anchor Tony “Vagabond” Carter would say, “Look to the skies – and enjoy the tunes!” - 30 - P.S. On an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can use an app called ‘TuneIn’ , find us in search, and Krypton Radio will be there for you any time you want! The same app is available on Android – but on Android you can also use WinAmp and look us up in Shoutcast. There are lots of ways to stream Krypton Radio goodness on portable devices now, so everyone can tune in! Federal Trade Commission Sued Over Failure to Enforce Law on GoogleKrypton Radio Newswire
In a slightly unusual turn of events, EPIC didn’t sue Google but instead the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over what it felt was a failure to keep Google in line and enforce the federal order that the FTC had imposed on Google over sharing of consumer information with third parties. EPIC issued the following statement:
ITV Studios America and HDFILMS are resurrecting Space:1999 – but adding a century. Because, you know, 1999 isn’t the future anymore..by Gene Turnbow  'Man's giant leap was just a stumble in the dark', this Space 2099 poster proclaims. Frankly, we think Neal Armstrong got it right the first time. It was cute – it wasn’t Star Trek, but it was all we had, so we watched it. Space:1999, the British sci-fi series by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson (Supercar, Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds), ran for only two seasons and aired between 1975 and 1977. It was done on a television budget, but it was the most expensive show ever done for TV to date. ITV Studios America and HDFILMS are rebooting the show. Now, I know there are a lot of Space:1999 fans out there. Or there were. Remembering that as this TV show was going out, the whole world was going nuts for Star Wars and promptly forgot all about what they’d just been watching. I’m sorry about what happened to the TV show, I truly am. But sometimes a show is canceled for a reason. On Space:1999, 321 crewmembers living in a moon base are suddenly thrust into space due to a nuclear explosion which drives the moon away from Earth at breakneck speeds. And I’m not exaggerating here – to push the moon out of Earth orbit and out of the Solar System would have required so much explosive force that the first thing that would have happened would have been the utter liquification of the entire natural satellite we’ve come to know and love. And depend on, you know, for the tides and all that. Now if you can get past the liquification problem, the next issue is that this happened while people were going about their business on the moon base. These people went from about 0.13 G to several hundred times the force of Earth-normal gravity in a microsecond. This should have reduced the entire population of the moon base to strawberry slime coating the decks – yet somehow, Barbara Baine simply ended up lying on her back and passing out, and her underwire bra didn’t even deform. That’s some bra. Finnish WW2 Science Fiction Dark Comedy “Iron Sky” to Hit Theaters April 4thBy Staff
I’ll admit that I wasn’t a fan of Star Wreck, it was impressive as far as the CGI used in it but you could tell it was more of a major fan project. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen some fan work that far surpasses Hollywood’s attempts at film-making, but the acting made me shiver in pain a bit (although that could have been the point). That being said, after seeing some of the previews for this movie, I’ve gotta say that this looks like a 5-Star winner. Being a lover of science fiction and general weird and dark humor, I’m calling this a must see!. In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers. When American astronaut James Washington (Christopher Kirby) puts down his Lunar Lander a bit too close to the secret Nazi base, the Moon Führer (Udo Kier) decides the glorious moment of retaking the Earth has arrived sooner than expected. Washington claims the mission is just a publicity stunt for the President of the United States (Stephanie Paul), but what else could the man be but a scout for the imminent attack by Earth forces? The Fourth Reich must act! Two Nazi officers, ruthless Klaus Adler (Götz Otto) and idealistic Renate Richter (Julia Dietze), travel to Earth to prepare the invasion. In the end when the Moon Nazi UFO armada darkens the skies, ready to strike at the unprepared Earth, every man, woman and nation alike, must re-evaluate their priorities. The summer of 2012 will be the summer of the blockbuster superhero movies, most of them Marvel. Are you ready?by Gene Turnbow This summer is a paradox. Industry comic books are in serious trouble at the news stands in terms of sales, but the characters they spawned are huge at the box office and pushing what’s loosely termed as the entertainment industry to new heights – but if there was any question that being a scifi geek has now become socially acceptable, the sheer number of movie trailers shown during the Superbowl this year should lay the issue to rest. Let’s have a look at what’s coming.
I think the biggest problem we’re going to have is that we’re going to want to see pretty much every one of these films. We may even want to see them all in 3D, because probably most of them are going to be offered that way. The only trouble is going to be how much that’s going to cost. Let me whip out my pocket calculator here. What? Yes, I still have one. Okay – $14 each for a family of four, plus popcorn and drinks, times four must-see blockbusters (if you don’t count Chronicle), that comes out to – holy crap. For a family of four, seeing these four films (I’m obviously not counting Iron Man 3 either) with popcorn and drinks will set you back something in the neighborhood of $350. That’s a whole lot of fan devotion they’re counting on. I think a lot of us may be waiting for them to come out on Blu-Ray, and then waiting a year after that for them to hit the bargain bins, no matter how good they are. I was recently asked whether 3D movies are really better, or did I think they were just overhyped? The answer is definitely “overhyped”.In nearly all cases, if you see the 2D version of the film you don’t miss the 3D – except in the case of the Transformers movies where the scene is so busy that if you don’t see it in 3D, you can’t pick foreground from background. Very often the 3D is an effect added afterwards, meaning the film wasn’t even composed for 3D in the first place – so why would you want to see it screened that way? There’s a limit to how much we as consumers can be expected to absorb – hey, Hollywood, are you listening? You want us back in the theaters? How about just giving us a break on the price of those tickets? - 30 - |
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