A welcome sight in the newstream this morning is a small avalanche of articles whose titles declare Dune leading the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award nominations.
Dune received an impressive eleven nominations out of a total of twenty-five categories.
Submitted by ionscifi on December 18, 2021 - 19:14
As part of their Directors on Directors series, Variety have published a virtual rountable between two of sci-fi's heaviest hitters, James Cameron and Denis Villeneuve.
German developer Nukklear have announced a partnership with Funcom on the upcoming multiplayer surival game, Dune.
There aren't any substantial new details here but we might infer that the popularity of this year's Dune film has encouraged Funcom, or new owners Tencent, to upscale their vision for this project.
David Lynch's 1984 Dune is widely regarded as a bit of a stinker and even Lynch himself disowns it citing interference from above. It won Worst Picture in the 7th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.
In an interview with Games Radar, Ridley Scott reveals that it was stink which caused him to leave that Dune during pre-production.
Submitted by ionscifi on November 23, 2021 - 12:42
We recently reported on a rifle from the original series of Star Trek selling for US $615, 000 (US). At the time no-one - including us - realised that this was a new record for Star Trek, beating the previous record holder of an Enterprise D model which sold at a Christie's auction for $576, 000 (US) in 2006.
