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Paul Darrow, best known for playing anti-hero Avon in the television series Blake's 7, has died at the age of 78 after a short illness. Darrow featured in over 200 television productions.
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"Superman" actor Dean Cain chatted with Digital Journal about the new sci-fi film "2050," which deals with sexbots. He stars in "2050" as Maxwell. Cain also spoke about the digital transformation of the entertainment business.
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Blake 7 star Jacqueline Pearce has died, aged 74. She was best known for her role as Servalan in the dystopian science fiction series. Aside from acting, Pearce was an active conservationist.
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A missing series of six episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s have been brought to life through detailed animation. The first episode has been unveiled by the BBC, 50 years after it was first broadcast.
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The next Star Trek television series ('Star Trek Discovery') will feature a female lead, and the lead will not hold the rank of captain, overturning the tradition of the previous five shows.
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The third Star Trek movie on the alternate timeline has been released this week and it continues in the good vein of the previous two offerings. This movie has a more 'episodic' structure and this allows for a more character-driven story.
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Actor Gareth Thomas, best known for playing the lead role in the BBC series 'Blake's 7' has died of heart failure aged 71.
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While physicists toy with the theoretical idea of teleportation, neurologists have been considering if our brains could cope with being scrambled and reassembled. The outcome of this inquiry has recently been published.
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Author George Clayton Johnson, who co-wrote the dystopian science fiction novel 'Logan's Run,' has passed away at the age of 87.
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CNET writer Eric Mack is attempting his first novel, but if things go his way, he'll be getting a lot of help from the Internet at large.
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Writer/director Joe Begos talks about the many inspirations of his sci-fi splatter movie, ‘The Mind’s Eye,’ which premiered in the Midnight Madness programme at TIFF.
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A sci-fi movie that's a weird melange of Robocop, Call of Duty, Short Circuit, and a Michel Gondry music video all in one. Clearly, Chappie suffers from an identity crisis.
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Canberra -
Two Australian laser physicists have developed the world's first first long-distance optical tractor beam, capable of not only attracting objects, but repelling them as well.
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In ‘Coherence’, all logic is thrown out the window as a comet passing overhead causes a strange things to happen during an already somewhat uncomfortable dinner party.
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"Guardians of the Galaxy" rocketed to an August record as it beat expectations and shot down the competition to the tune of $94 million.
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Movie trailers do one of two things — succeed or fail.
Trailers offer no middle ground, No grey area. No margin for error.
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‘Snowpiercer’ is a remarkable post-apocalypse picture that takes place on a train-turned-ark, which houses all that remains of humankind at its most vulnerable and totalitarian.
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Set 10 years after the simians escaped captivity, ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ is an epic account of how a fragile peace between the apes and humans is revoked due to the fear and defiance of a few.
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Miami -
BBC Worldwide, Monday, issued an appeal to the public not to divulge plotlines from the upcoming series of Doctor Who as five scripts from season 8, due to start airing from August 23 leaked online.
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Tantalizingly short the Sharknado 2 trailer gives fans exactly what they want: terrible 3D sharks, cheesy acting and a chainsaw.
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The Doctor Who 50th Birthday celebrations kicked off this weekend with a special convention held in London. The exhibition featured stars of the show and mixed classic era Doctor Who with costumes and exhibits from the show's successful revival.
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Contemporary author Pittacus Lore is among the most recognized names for voracious young readers. His bestselling series, The Lorien Legacies, offered a glimpse of possibilities for those who wish to explore the unknown.
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‘The World’s End’ is a sci-fi comedy about five friends who reunite to complete an epic pub crawl in their hometown, only to unwittingly become mankind’s last hope for survival.
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Matt Damon took his "Elysium" to the top as it beat the comedy about a fake drug smuggling family in "We're the Millers."
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In ‘Elysium,’ the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while everyone else lives on a devastated Earth, but one man embarks on a mission that could return a balance to a divided world.
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It was another one of those early starts as two films blasted out of the gate on Wednesday. That leaves two more wide releases for Friday. In all, the movies offer diversity for the audience.
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Do you enjoy watching DVDs of TV shows from the '50s and '60s? Image Entertainment has issued stellar seasons of Combat! and The Twilight Zone you'll want to add to your collection.
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As a war between mankind and massive sea monsters wages on, a troubled pilot, a haunted rookie and a relic become Earth’s only hope of survival.
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The American TV channel SyFy is developing a bit of a reputation for its original movies featuring a slew of monsters, often involving sharks. Now, SyFy is ready to introduce the latest menace to society — the Sharknado.
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The author Iain Banks has died aged 59. This news comes two months after he announced that he was suffering from terminal cancer.
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A scene from the film Prometheus, in theatres June 8. Here Charlize Theron and Idris Elba are helming the Prometheus ship Courtesy 20th Century Fox
Gareth Thomas as Blake, from the cult TV show Blake's 7. BBC
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A stand selling a mix of film related items and replica swords, at the 2106 London Film and Comic Con.
A scene from 'Time Lapse' Time Lapse
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Fans intermingling at the 2016 London Film and Comic Con.
Emily Baldoni in a scene from 'Coherence' D Films
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Scene from sci-fi film "Los últimos días" or "The Last Days", made in Spain YouTube
Bradley Hall's 2013 English translation of Robert Heymann's 1909 sci-fi novel, Der Rote Komet (The Red Comet) Illustration by Digital Journal
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