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  • ABC looks to grow brand through science fiction

    ABC looks to grow brand through science fiction

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster ABC is going the sci fi route. It has picked up IDT Entertainments drama series Masters of Science Fiction featuring works from some of the most well known authors of science fiction.

    Negotiations are underway to include works from Isaac Asimov who wrote I Robot and Nightfall, Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Harlan Ellison and Robert Heinlein. IDT Entertainment, in association with Industry Entertainment, will produce a minimum of four one-hour episodes.

    ABC Entertainment senior VP motion pictures for television and miniseries Quinn Taylor says, With IDT Entertainment and Industry bringing such high-end talent, we are very excited about this anthology. We have been trying to put together this kind of series because it has great potential to become appointment television.

    IDT Entertainment COO John Hyde says, We are delighted that Masters of Science Fiction has found a broadcast home on ABCs primetime lineup. ABC is the perfect venue for these interpretations of science fictions seminal literary voices.

    Industry Entertainment partner Keith Addis says, We are in advanced discussions with distinguished screenwriters and directors to bring the works of these science fiction icons to a broad audience in the most compelling and entertaining way.

  • Star Movies zooms into future with ‘I Robot’ on 31 Dec

    Star Movies zooms into future with ‘I Robot’ on 31 Dec

    MUMBAI: Star Movies is looking to end 2005 with a bang with the back-to-back premiere of the futuristic thriller I-Robot on 31 December 2005 from 9 pm onwards.

    The film stars Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan.

    The character of Sonny, a special robot that holds the key to a murder – and perhaps the survival of the human race – represents the cutting edge in photo-realism.

    Sonny is said to be one of the most realistic, emotionally complete, three-dimensional CGI character ever created on film.

    In the year 2035, Detective Del Spooner (Smith) is sent to an experimental space station to investigate the death of brilliant, eccentric scientist Dr. Alfred Lanning. Spooner is aided by psychologist Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), and the death is initially labeled a suicide. Spooner, though, suspects that a robot may have perpetrated the crime.

    That seems unthinkable since robots are governed by The Three Laws of Robotics. These state that a robot may never harm or allow harm to come to a human being. As Spooner and Calvin investigate the death, they come to believe that a robot did, in fact, commit the crime. If robots can break those laws, there’s nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots.