Battlestar Galactica

Terminator Salvation producers Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek have sold the rights to the Terminator franchise to Pacificor, a California hedge fund with no movie making experience, for the low, low price of $29.5 million, outbidding both Sony and Lionsgate. Anderson and Kubicek’s company Halcyon Holding Group was facing bankruptcy due to a dispute with Pacificor who had financed their original purchase of the franchise in 2007.

Either a dungeon master’s second deepest dream come to fruition or simply a stark reminder that it is generally nerds who work in technology: a video demo of Surfacescapes for Microsoft’s Surface has found its rightful place on the internet.

The stars were out Monday night at “SCREAM 2009,” the awards event honoring the best in fantasy, sci-fi, comics and horror.  It was a big night for genre fans, and the highlights were numerous, including a BSG cast reunion (see video after the jump).

 

Battlestar Galactica: The Reimagined Series producer Harvey Frand has died at 68 after hospitalization for respiratory problems. Frand was with BSG from 2003, and was described as the "man behind the curtain" for the series.

io9.com's Annalee Newitz wrote an interesting article on why Battlestar Galactica didn't need space because it was social fiction, not science fiction.
"Critically-acclaimed TV series Battlestar Galactica broke one of the cardinal rules of hard science fiction: It wasn't really about science. Instead it was hard social fiction, a realistic look at the future of human culture.