The original Star Wars from 1977 has been voted as the most influential visual FX film of all time in a poll organised by the Visual Effects Society (VES).

The classic sci-fi movie secured votes from 1,500 members of the film trade organisation in a worldwide poll that will be the focus of the film society’s Festival of Visual Effects that is scheduled to take place between June 7 and 10 in Los Angeles.

The top five list of the poll included Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey,  The Matrix, and Jurassic Park.

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Executive producer David Eick has told SCI FI Wire that Battlestar Galactica’s search for Earth will continue to be an open-ended adventure with no end in sight.

Flying in the face of comments made by Edward James Olmos (Adm. Adama) at the recent Saturn Awards, no end has been announced for the award-winning sci-fi show. Battlestar Galactica is preparing to film its fourth season, one that will include 22 episodes, rather than the previously announced 13.

‘For those of you who have been paying attention over the years, this is not the first time Eddie has made an announcement about the possibility of the show’s end,‘ chuckled Eick. ‘I promise you that when [executiuve producer] Ron [Moore] and I make a decision about Galactica’s future, we’ll let you know.’

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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Men In Black director Barry Sonnenfeld is in negotiations to helm a supernatural action adventure ‘event movie’ for 20th Century Fox called The Box.

With a screenplay from Evan Spiliotopoulos, the movie is set to be a contemporary take on the myth of Pandora’s box as a college grad with an uncertain future who is tricked into opening the mythical box, unwittingly unleashes the evils trapped within.

The youth then must team-up with Pandora to save the world from destruction.

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