As the final notes of the Eagles' "Journey of the Sorcerer" fade into silence, so ends the legacy of Douglas Adams in the medium that gave birth to it. The fourth installment of theQuintessentialPhase of THEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY closes one ...
There seems to be a pattern forming with respect tothe Dirk Maggs produced installments of THEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY. When each series begins, Maggs is forced, as a byproduct of the late Douglas Adams's style, to dramatize a substantial quant...
When Dirk Maggs set about adapting the latter three volumes of Douglas Adams' increasingly inaccurately named HITCHHIKER'S trilogy, fans of the twelve original radio episodes were understandably confused. While the first series basically follows the same...
Each installment of the Quandary Phase has made marked improvements on its predecessors, and the fourth part is no exception. It is now readily apparent that adapter Dirk Maggs has integrated the final volumes of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series into on...
Suffering from less of the heavy-handed narration that's marred the two previous installments of this series, the third episode of TheHitchhiker'sGuidetotheGalaxy's Quandary Phase seems more suited to audio adaptation than its narrative-drenched forb...
Somewhat overshadowed by thetheatrical release of the long awaited cinematic adaptation, TheHitchhiker'sGuidetotheGalaxy has returned once more to its original medium. Following on from 2004's Tertiary Phase (just released on CD in expanded form) i...
No matter the series, author, or even the medium used, science fiction is a genre inherently linked to (and some may say delimited by) technology. Hard line SF creators like Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and William Gibson may make extrapolating curre...
Michael Hanlon has been the science editor for The Daily Mail (London) for more than four years. The fact that Hanlon is a Brit probably gives him a sharper insight intothe work of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers GuideToTheGalaxy. Hanlon's bo...
We've just received word that the teaser trailer for THEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY was shown moments ago at the Pixar panel held at the San Diego Comic Convention. Running between 30 to 60 seconds long, here's how our correspondent described the im...
VARIETY reports Karey Kirkpatrick has been tapped to co-adapt the oft-reworked touchstone of geek culture, THEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY. With novels, radio and television series already long available, the movie plans continue a feature adaptation...
Contrary to what you might think, author Douglas Adams premature demise doesn't seem to have put the kibosh on a film based on his THEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY, according to his ex-agent.While talking tothe BBC's Drive program, Ed Victor spoke of...
After almost two decades of being trapped in development hell, Walt Disney Pictures has finally given a greenlight for the feature film adaptation of THEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY. Filming is scheduled to commence next year in England, with city sc...
Remember the long ago mini-series of Douglas Adam's HITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY? The 1981 translation of his classic science fiction comedy that ran all of six episodes and starred Peter Jones, Simon Jones and David Dixon?No? No matter. It's being re...
"TheHitchhiker'sGuidetotheGalaxy" took the number one spot at the North American box office this past weekend. The film brought in $21.7 million. "The Interpreter" came in second with a take of $14.2 million in its second weekend. "XXX: State of th...
Amazon.com is debuting the trailer for theHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY on their website. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy, and John Malkovich, and opens April 29, 2005, in theaters everywhere.Click he...
Yesterday Dark Horizons was the first to publish the news and today it's confirmed by Variety: the actors assigned tothe roles of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Trillian have been signed, sealed and delivered for THEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY film....
'There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are 'Why are people born?' 'Why do they die?' 'Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'' This was only one of the many biting phil...
So the news came out that the Half Life movie directed by Quentin Tarantino is destined to join the list of the greatest science fiction movies that were never actually filmed. It has damned good company ...
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MONSTER-IN-LAW took the number one spot at the box office this weekend with a take of $24 million. Will Ferrell's KICKING AND SCREAMING took the number two spot with $20.9 million worth of ticket sales.Jet Li's UNLEASHED came in at number three with a tak...
By 1979, Tom Baker was firmly entrenched in his role as the fourth version of the intergalactic time-traveler known as Doctor, who had acquired two companions, Romana II (Lala Ward) and a robot pooch, K9. With this faux family in tow, the Time Lord mater...
IGN FilmForce recently interviewed British actor-writer Stephen Fry (Hitchhiker'sGuidetotheGalaxy) who happened to be in Berlin. And why was he in Germany? It turns out he was there filming a role in the big-screen adaptation of the Alan Moore/Dave Gi...
STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH has grossed $158.5 million in its first four days. SITH has already taken in $303 million worldwide -- a new opening record. Ridley Scott's KINGDOM OF HEAVEN fell tothe no. 6 spot with a take of $3.4 million a...
Here are the estimates for the four day Memorial Day weekend box office take. SITH held on tothe number one spot even though Adam Sandler's YARD opened strongly on Friday. The remake eventually fell tothe number three spot behind SITH and MADAGASCAR.H...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:James Farr / Alfa Robbi / Papillon StudioTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:N/AWhat They SayTwenty minutes from now, visitors from a far-off world will fall into Earth\'s orbit and issue a most unexpected request... These \"Emis...
Celebrated orchestral composer Inon Zur has created the original musical score for the new video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow. Internationally recognized as one of the A-list composers in the video games industry, Zur was comm...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Mark Isham's score for CRASH, Paul Haggis' feature directorial debut, a compelling mystery film of strangers brought together through happenstance, has been released on CD by Superb Records. The score is as introspective a comp...
The highest rated story in the 26 year history of the original run of DOCTOR WHO, THE CITY OF DEATH a perennial fan favorite. Written by Douglas Adams (THEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY) and Graham Williams and featuring Catherine Schell of Space 1999...
Every once in a while, THE DEAD ZONE hits a home run and "The Inside Man" is the second in as many weeks. Springing from the mind of former series showrunner Karl Schaefer, the episode concerns an exhibit of spiritual relics assembled by Reverend Purdy t...
In a recent conversation with CINESCAPE, best-selling AMERICAN GODS author Neil Gaiman shared some of his memories of Douglas Adams, author of THEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY. Gaiman became acquainted with Adams when he was just a 23 year old journal...
Hollywood is a slaughterhouse where cool movie ideas go to die. Here are ten films that were tragically cut down before their time, simply because they were just too friggin' awesome. #10. Peter Jackson's Halo Fans of the popular video game wept tears of ...
“Mummy Returns” heads to HD DVD in early 2007: Universal has announced that it will release the Brendan Fraiser movie The Mummy Returns on January 16, 2007. The film will boast a Dolby Digital-Plus 5.1 surround track as we...
Welcome to another edition of Book Notes. We've had some great comments this week and I'm excited to get tothem. First though, we respond to a question from James Mackey in LA, who asks about the existence of an unpublished manuscript by Frank Herbert fo...
Warner Bros. has moved the release date of its horror remake "House of Wax" back a week tothe week of May 6 weekend. "Wax" stars Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, and Paris Hilton.In addition, 20th Century Fox's "Kingdom of Heaven," Disney's "Hitchhi...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Alan Menken hasn't entirely dropped out of site since scoring a run of successful Disney animated features from THE LITTLE MERMAID through HERCULES. He did some TV work, scored Disney's humdrum animated HOME ON THE RANGE as wel...
This weekend I plan on going tothe movies. Yes, I know I go tothe movies almost every weekend, and quite a few weekends as well, and maybeyou do, too. But this weekend I'm going tothe movies for 24 hours! That's right, on Friday B-Fest returns for it's...
Ridley Scott's KINGDOM OF HEAVEN took thetop of the box office, with a take of $20 million for its debut weekend. HOUSE OF WAX came in second with BO pull of $12.2 millionTHEHITCHHIKER'SGUIDETOTHEGALAXY fell to third place with draw of $9.13 million...