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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE QUINTESSENTIAL PHASE: Fit the Twenty-Six
by Jason Davis (Tue 06-28-2005)

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 the Quintessential Phase of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY closes one ...

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE QUINTESSENTIAL PHASE: Fit the Twenty-Third
by Jason Davis (Mon 06-06-2005)

There seems to be a pattern forming with respect to the Dirk Maggs produced installments of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. When each series begins, Maggs is forced, as a byproduct of the late Douglas Adams's style, to dramatize a substantial quant...

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE QUINTESSENTIAL PHASE: Fit the Twenty-Four
by Jason Davis (Sun 06-12-2005)

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...


THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE QUANDARY PHASE - Fit the Twenty-Second
by Jason Davis (Sat 05-28-2005)

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...

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE QUANDARY PHASE: Fit the Twenty-First
by Jason Davis (Sat 05-21-2005)

Suffering from less of the heavy-handed narration that's marred the two previous installments of this series, the third episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Quandary Phase seems more suited to audio adaptation than its narrative-drenched forb...

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY THE QUANDARY PHASE: Fit the Twentieth
by Jason Davis (Sat 05-14-2005)

Somewhat overshadowed by the theatrical release of the long awaited cinematic adaptation, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has returned once more to its original medium. Following on from 2004's Tertiary Phase (just released on CD in expanded form) i...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
by Corona's Coming Attractions (Wed 02-16-2005)

Genre:Science Fiction/Comedy.Studio:Hollywood Pictures.Production Company:Spyglass Entertainment.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Martin Freeman (Arthur Dent); Mos Def (Ford Prefect); Sam Rockwell (Zaphod Beeblebrox); Zooey Deschanel (Trisha "Trillian" ...


SF Obstacles
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 10-08-2007)

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...

The Science Of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
by M. Steven Felty (Tue 11-29-2005)

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 into the work of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. Hanlon's bo...

COMIC-CON: The HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY teaser is shown!
by Patrick Sauriol and David Wharton (Fri 07-23-2004)

We've just received word that the teaser trailer for THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 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...

HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY adds scripter
by Mike Whybark (Wed 09-18-2002)

VARIETY reports Karey Kirkpatrick has been tapped to co-adapt the oft-reworked touchstone of geek culture, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. With novels, radio and television series already long available, the movie plans continue a feature adaptation...


HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE Still Alive?
by Frank Kurtz (Fri 01-04-2002)

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 THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, according to his ex-agent.While talking to the BBC's Drive program, Ed Victor spoke of...

HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE finally sees green
by Patrick Sauriol (Fri 10-03-2003)

After almost two decades of being trapped in development hell, Walt Disney Pictures has finally given a greenlight for the feature film adaptation of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. Filming is scheduled to commence next year in England, with city sc...

HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY hitches onto video
by Christopher Allan Smith (Mon 02-25-2002)

Remember the long ago mini-series of Douglas Adam's HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY? 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...

GALAXY Goes Big at the Box Office
by News Editor (Mon 05-02-2005)

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 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...


HITCHHIKER'S Trailer Online
by News Editor (Wed 02-16-2005)

Amazon.com is debuting the trailer for the HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 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...

HITCHHIKER'S casting is confirmed
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 01-29-2004)

Yesterday Dark Horizons was the first to publish the news and today it's confirmed by Variety: the actors assigned to the roles of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and Trillian have been signed, sealed and delivered for THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY film....

Douglas Adams - So Long and Thanks...
by James T. Voelpel & Arnold T. Blumberg (Fri 06-08-2001)

'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...

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films Never Made
by David Wong (Sat 11-22-2008)

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 ...   10. The "Real" Alien 3 The...


MONSTER Eats Up Box Office
by News Editor (Mon 05-16-2005)

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...

DR WHO: Nightmare on Eden
by Frederick C. Szebin (Tue 04-11-2000)

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...

Vendetta Gets Fry-ed (Tue 04-19-2005)

IGN FilmForce recently interviewed British actor-writer Stephen Fry (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) 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...

SITH Sucks in the Box Office
by News Editor (Mon 05-23-2005)

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 to the no. 6 spot with a take of $3.4 million a...


SITH Holds off MADAGASCAR and YARD
by News Editor (Mon 05-30-2005)

Here are the estimates for the four day Memorial Day weekend box office take. SITH held on to the number one spot even though Adam Sandler's YARD opened strongly on Friday. The remake eventually fell to the number three spot behind SITH and MADAGASCAR.H...

EV Vol.#01
by Ben Leary (Tue 07-29-2008)

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...

Inon Zur Scores "Pirates of the Caribbean" Video Game
by RANDALL LARSON (Tue 07-11-2006)

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...

Soundtrack Roundup
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 06-16-2005)

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...


Doctor Who The City of Death
by John Sinnott (Wed 09-27-2006)

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 (THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY) and Graham Williams and featuring Catherine Schell of Space 1999...

THE DEAD ZONE - The Inside Man
by Jason Davis (Fri 07-21-2006)

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...

Author Neil Gaiman remembers mentor/friend Douglas Adams
by Chris Wyatt (Fri 03-08-2002)

In a recent conversation with CINESCAPE, best-selling AMERICAN GODS author Neil Gaiman shared some of his memories of Douglas Adams, author of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY. Gaiman became acquainted with Adams when he was just a 23 year old journal...

The 10 Most Awesome Movies Hollywood Ever Killed
by David Wong (Fri 01-04-2008)

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” and more!
by John Sinnott (Sun 11-19-2006)

“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...

DUNE Book 7? Asimov on Screen? Browder Loves Hobb?
by Chris Wyatt (Mon 03-17-2003)

Welcome to another edition of Book Notes. We've had some great comments this week and I'm excited to get to them. 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...

Warners & Others Set Release Dates for 2005 and 2006
by News Editor (Fri 02-04-2005)

Warner Bros. has moved the release date of its horror remake "House of Wax" back a week to the 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...

Shaggy Dog Story
by Randall D. Larson (Thu 03-23-2006)

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...


Jody Foster hijacks a plane
by BRIAN THOMAS (Tue 01-24-2006)

This weekend I plan on going to the movies. Yes, I know I go to the movies almost every weekend, and quite a few weekends as well, and maybeyou do, too. But this weekend I'm going to the movies for 24 hours! That's right, on Friday B-Fest returns for it's...

HEAVEN Not Enough to Help Slow Weekend
by News Editor (Mon 05-09-2005)

Ridley Scott's KINGDOM OF HEAVEN took the top 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 millionTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY fell to third place with draw of $9.13 million...