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Star Trek fans from around the globe are set to descend upon Las Vegas early next month for Creation Entertainment’s annual mega-convention. The event will take place from August 6-10 at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino. It’s essentially one-stop shopping for Star Trek fans, as Creation gathers together talent from across the entire franchise, from The Original Series to Strange New Worlds, from the animated shows to the live-action features, including actors, writers, producers, directors, stunt people, makeup artists, and more.

In recent years, Creation has started to welcome talent from other popular sci-fi franchises, including Galaxy Quest, Battlestar Galactica, and more. The 2025 event will be no exception. And that doesn’t even begin to touch on all the other activities within the event, among them photo ops, autographs, panels, costume contests, live staged readings, auctions, karaoke, parties, etc.

Among the Star Trek guests: William Shatner, Kate Mulgrew,...

There’s nothing quite as illuminating as visiting a sci-fi conference and realizing that more than 5,000 model makers are in attendance. It was an eye-opener for actor/producer Nick Tate, who played the stalwart Alan Carter in TV’s Space: 1999 back in 1975. “I thought they wouldn't take any notice of me because they're so interested in the models, but I was overwhelmed with the reaction from these guys because they love the Eagle Transporter in the show, and they know that my character Alan Carter was the pilot. I was signing model Eagles, which was extraordinary to find yourself doing.”

Tate may be doing more of that in the near future, thanks to Jeffrey Morris. The filmmaker is diligently raising funds via Kickstarter to produce his much-anticipated documentary The Eagle Has Landed. The doc will feature interviews with Tate and co-star Barbara Bain, who played Dr. Helena Russell on the show,...

Brace yourself sci-fi fans. Space: 1999 is ready for another takeoff. Thanks to the valiant attempts of one filmmaker, a captivating documentary on the British-produced cult hit, which ran from 1975-1977, will find its way to the screen by 2025, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the show. But filmmaker Jeffrey Morris is putting a fabulous spin on the doc, honing the focus more on one of the stars of the series. Hint: It isn’t an actor. It’s a spaceship. In this case, the intrepid Eagle Transporter, which, like the U.S.S. Enterprise before it in Star Trek, captured viewers’ attention.

Morris’ Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary, called The Eagle Has Landed, is gaining traction. The filmmaker was fascinated by the show when he first saw tuned in as a child back in 1975. Now, as an adult, he realized that he’s one of millions of fans who...

The Space: 1999 TV series was released nearly 50 years ago, and a new documentary, titled The Eagle Has Landed, will celebrate the show’s anniversary.

Space: 1999 aired in first-run syndication for 48 episodes, between 1975 and 1977. The sci-fi series stars Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt, Prentis Hancock, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, Anton Phillips, Suzanne Roquette, Clifton Jones, John Hug, Jeffery Kissoon, Yasuko Nagazumi, Sam Dastor, and Alibe Parsons. The story follows the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, a research center in a crater on the Earth's moon. Following a nuclear waste accident, the moon is ripped from Earth's orbit and sent hurling through space. While trying to find a new home planet, the center's crew encounters various alien civilizations, dystopian societies, and mind-bending phenomena.

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Updated with participation of Space: 1999 cast member Nick Tate in the documentary The Eagle Has Landed: Exclusive: Actress Barbara Bain, star of the British sci-fi series Space: 1999, is preparing to board an upcoming documentary about the Eagle, the famed spacecraft at the heart of the show that ran from 1975-1977.

Bain will appear in The Eagle Has Landed as will Nick Tate, her cast mate from Space: 1999. The documentary includes the participation of several other notable figures: Apollo XVI astronaut Charles Duke Jr., Academy Award-winning visual effects artist Bill George, and Brian Johnson, the VFX artist on Space: 1999 whose work is said to have influenced Star Wars. The film is being directed and produced by Jeffrey Morris, who also hosts the documentary.

The Eagle spacecraft in ‘The Eagle Has Landed’

The Eagle Has Landed “explores the cross-generational impact of the iconic vessel...

Severin Films is celebrating the late Peter Cushing with an unprecedented box set highlighting the most unexpected gems from the filmography of the legendary horror actor.

Cushing Curiosities, releasing August 29, presents 6-discs of rarely seen feature films and television broadcasts restored and scanned from original vault sources, plus a curated plethora of Special Features that celebrate Cushing’s unique career like never before.

From Hammer Films to Star Wars, he remains one of genre films’ best-loved actors. Now celebrate six of the most unexpected, rarely seen and decidedly curious performances from the legendary career of Peter Cushing: Cushing delivers a rare villain turn in the 1960 aviation thriller Cone Of Silence. That same year, Cushing brought gentle dignity to The Boulting Brothers’ cold-war drama Suspect. In 1962’s The Man Who Finally Died, Cushing co-stars opposite Stanley Baker as a former Nazi hiding a grave post-war secret.

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Kate Austen's (Evangeline Lilly) fugitive status on Flight 815 is a riveting mystery on Lost, and the reason behind her crime defines her character ac. Kate lived in Iowa with her mother Diane (Beth Broderick) and stepfather Sam (Lindsey Ginter) and when she ends up on the island, she doesn't tell anyone about her past. On the plane, Kate is seated next to a U.S. Marshall named Edward Mars (Fredric Lane) and it's clear that she's keeping a secret. She alludes to what happened while connecting with Jack Shepard (Matthew Fox) in season 1, and in season 2, episode 9, "What Kate Did," Kate's crime becomes evident through flashbacks.

Best known for playing Hope Van Dyn/The Wasp in the Ant-Man movies, Lilly's Lost character is also a fugitive, which likely helped her with her MCU role. While Kate's relationships with Jack and Sawyer Ford (Josh Holloway) are also memorable, her crimes...

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Los Angeles – September 11, 2019 – Attention all sections Alpha: prepare for transmission! To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Space: 1999’s Breakaway Day, Shout! Factory TV will stream a two-day marathon of the landmark sci-fi series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Breakaway Day celebrates the day in series lore in which the moon broke free from the earth.

The marathon comes complete with fantastic bonus features, including interviews with director Kevin Connor, actors Barbara Bain and Nick Tate, and author John Muir, and can be viewed on ShoutFactoryTVLive.com; Shout! Factory TV’s Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and Android apps; and the following digital streaming platforms: Twitch, Samsung TV Plus, Xumo, and Stirr.

The Space:1999 Breakaway Day marathon joins the slate of Shout! Factory TV’s Saturn Awards Week, a showcase of Saturn Award-winning and nominated films,...

"What's going on in this guy's head must be vast." Netflix has debuted a trailer for a new art documentary titled Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, a Searching for Sugar Man-esque story about a forgotten Polish artist, directed by Ireneusz "Irek" Dobrowolski. Don't know who this Szukalski is? That's the point of the film. The doc is about Polish painter and sculptor Stanisław Szukalski, an artist that not many people are familiar with. The story goes that in 1968, pop culture collector Glenn Bray discovered a book with his art. Then on a trip to a local bookstore, discovered that the artist was still alive, and lived near him. So he went to find him. The film is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, and features narration by Nick Tate. This trailer is incredibly captivating, I'm already entirely sold on this. I need to hear his story! And learn more about him!

The first trailer for the live-action adaptation of Lupin III has arrived. Shun Oguri stars as Ars&#232ne Lupin III, the world's greatest thief. Watch as Interpol Inspector Zenigata (Tadanobu Asano) begins his worldwide hunt for this infamous anti-hero from the iconic Japanese Manga. No U.S. release date has been announced just yet. It makes its debut in Japan on August 30.

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Lupin III comes to theaters in 2014 and stars Tadanobu Asano, Nick Tate, Meisa Kuroki, Jerry Yan, Shun Oguri, David Asavanond, Nirut Sirichanya, Geoffrey Giuliano. The film is directed by Ryûhei Kitamura.

Voiceover artist Hal Douglas has died at the age of 89.

Douglas was known to millions around the world as the voice of numerous blockbuster movie trailers, narrating promos for films including Forrest Gump, Meet the Parents, Philadelphia and Lethal Weapon.

Douglas died on Friday (March 7) at his Virginia home as a result of complications from pancreatic cancer, his daughter Sarah told the New York Times.

Born in Connecticut in 1924, Douglas trained as a pilot and served in the navy during World War II. He then trained as an actor, starting his radio career in the 1950s before moving into voiceover work full-time.

Based in New York and later Virginia rather than Hollywood, he lent his distinctive voice to countless movie trailers, documentaries and promos for TV networks.

Douglas made a rare appearance on screen in a trailer for the Jerry Seinfeld documentary Comedian playing Jack, a voiceover artist who can only speak in trailer clichés,...

On the Internet, everything old is eventually new again. People stumble across bits of Web history and share them with folks who maybe missed them on the first go-round (or liked them so much that it’s nice just to see them again). It’s sort of like recycling, only more entertaining. Take, for instance, today’s video clip. Titled 5 Guys in a Limo, this vid first made the rounds back in 2008. Featuring five of Hollywood’s trailer voiceover kingpins (including the greatly missed Don Lafontaine) spouting off nearly every hoary movie trailer cliché you can think of, the video has a certain cheesy charm. If you ever wondered if guys like Al Chalk, John Leader, Nick Tate, Mark Elliot and Lafontaine took themselves as seriously as they seem to when narrating...

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Back in the 1970s, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson created the syndicated sci-fi series Space:1999. Set some 25 years into the future, humans had established a research center on the moon and had been storing nuclear waste on the far side. After a massive explosion, the moon is ripped from Earth's orbit and sent hurtling through space. The 311 men and women that are trapped on Moonbase Alpha encounter strange aliens out in space as they search for a new planet to colonize and call home.

Space: 1999 ran for two seasons and stars Martin Landau and Barbara Bain, a then-married couple who'd worked together on from Mission: Impossible. Barry Morse co-starred on the first season and season two saw the addition of Catherine Schell and Tony Anholt. Other castmembers include Nick Tate, Zienia Merton, and Anton Phillips.

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ITV Studios America and Hdfilms have announced plans for "Space: 2099", a contemporary re-imagination of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's classic 70's British sci-fi series "Space: 1999" says The Hollywood Reporter.

The original series follows the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha after a catastrophic accident involving nuclear waste from Earth knocks the Moon out of orbit and sends it hurtling uncontrollably into space. During their interstellar journey they encounter alien civilizations, dystopian societies, and mind-bending phenomena.

Martin Landau, Barbara Bain and Nick Tate starred in the series which ran for two seasons, the first dealing with more metaphysical themes and hints of a larger storyline while the second proved a more straightforward action series.

Hdfilms were behind ABC's recent revival of 80's sci-fi franchise "V" and Jace Hall will serve as executive producer. The project is still in development phase and has yet to be shopped to networks.