SCREAM 2009 Featuring BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’s “Final Farewell”
By Joe Beaudoin Jr. | Posted on October 14, 2009 at 12:17 am |
Posted in Category: Announcements, Exclusive News

VAMPIRES, VULCANS AND VILLAINS DESCEND UPON THE GREEK THEATRE
FOR SPIKE TV’S 4TH ANNUAL “SCREAM”

Tobey Maguire Presents Tribute To Comic-Con Icon Award Recipient
And Comic Book Marvel Stan Lee

“SCREAM” Will Celebrate The Year Of The Vampire And The Phenomenal Popularity
Of The “Twilight” Saga With Cast And World Premiere Footage From
The Highly-Anticipated “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”

“True Blood” Cast And Creators Alan Ball, Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgård, Sam Trammell And More Will Also Be On Hand

“Battlestar Galactica” Cast Reunites For Final Farewell And A Special Tribute To Horror Legend George Romero

Two-Hour Extravaganza Premieres Tuesday, October 27 At 10 PM, ET/PT

New York, NY, October 5, 2009 – As twilight descends upon The Greek Theatre, Spike TV presents “SCREAM 2009,” an evening where galaxies collide and genres unite for the ultimate celebration of all things sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comic book.  The 4th annual “SCREAM” is the first and only global event of its kind to honor and celebrate the hottest films, TV shows, comics, actors, creators, icons and pioneers who have influenced and shaped these genres.   “SCREAM 2009” will tape on Saturday, October 17 in Los Angeles, CA.  The two-hour extravaganza will premiere on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 (10:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT).

Spike TV is proud to partner once again with Comic-Con International, the biggest comic book and pop culture convention in the world, to present real-life super hero Stan Lee with the Comic-Con Icon Award at “SCREAM 2009.”  Lee is the creator of such legendary super-heroes as Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man and The Hulk.  “Spider-Man’s” Tobey Maguire will lead the tribute to one of the most beloved and influential comic book legends of all time.

“SCREAM 2009” will also honor the godfather of the modern horror film, George Romero with this year’s Scream Mastermind Award.  This award is presented to a filmmaker whose unique vision of horror, science fiction and/or fantasy is both critically-acclaimed and culturally significant.   Romero, best known for his gruesome and satirical zombie masterpiece “Night Of The Living Dead” and its sequel “Dawn Of The Dead,” as well as the cult classic, “Creepshow,” will receive the honor previously presented to cinematic luminaries Wes Craven, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

“SCREAM 2009” will celebrate the year of the vampire and the phenomenal popularity of the “Twilight” saga with cast and World Premiere footage from the highly-anticipated “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”  In addition, fans will be treated to appearances from the cast and creators of “True Blood” including Alan Ball, Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgård, Sam Trammell, among others.  The celebration continues with a “Battlestar Galactica” cast reunion for a farewell tribute featuring Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, James Callis, Kate Vernon, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Trucco, Tahmoh Penikett and executive producer David Eick.

“SCREAM 2009” will present awards in 16 different categories.  J.J. Abrams’ sci-fi action-adventure “Star Trek” tops the “SCREAM 2009” list with 17 nominations including the categories of The Ultimate Scream, Best Science Fiction Movie, Best Director, Best Ensemble, Holy Sh*t Scene-of-the-Year and a nod in the all-new Fight Scene-of-the-Year category.  Comic book-inspired blockbusters “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and “Watchmen” each nabbed 13 nominations, big screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best selling novel “Twilight” received 10 nominations, while HBO’s vampire-themed television series “True Blood” garnered nine nominations.  Fans can log onto scream.spike.com until Saturday, October 17 to vote for their favorites.

The official sponsors of Spike TV’s “SCREAM 2009” are Taco Bell, Subaru, Geico and Free Credit Report.com.

Casey Patterson, Michael Levitt and Cindy Levitt serve as executive producers for “SCREAM 2009.”  Greg Sills is supervising producer, Gary Tellalian and Austin Reading are producers and Hamish Hamilton will direct.

Spike TV is available in 98 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks.  A unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), MTV Networks is one of the world’s leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Spike TV’s Internet address is www.spike.com and for up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs, visit Spike TV’s press site at http://www.spike.com/press.

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  • rreeve

    Hi I’ve just had the pleasure of watching all re-imagined BSG episodes, including mini-series’s and webisodes back to back in a 50+ hour marathon. I absolutly recommend this to any BSG fan because you get a whole different experience when watched like this. This really does point out the quality of the show because I can’t think of many movies I would like to see stretch over this length of time.
    Out of all the episodes from all seasons the only ones I think don’t work too well are episodes 14,15 and 16 from season two. The episodes named as: 14- Black Market, 15- Scar, 16-Sacrifice. I believe these episode were created under the instructions of Syfy as they wanted to have a story told in each episode to attract new fans who didn’t want to watch a season wide story. Anyway, I was glad they realised this was a mistake with BSG because it’s loyal fans wouldn’t have allowed any more of this. It’s just a shame that these three episodes were allowed to be aired in the first place because without them I would have to say the show would have hit perfection in my eyes.
    Another, thing I think I should mention is, I couldn’t believe how much new stuff I saw when I watched the show this way, so many little things that I missed when watching an episode once a week that made the show more complete for me as it answered so many questions.

    Anyway, the main reason I am posting here (other than to encourage others to watch BSG back to back) is to ask if anyone noticed an inconsistancy that I noticed. The first episode of season three: ‘Occupation’, when on New Caprica jammer was standing directly behind doug when he blew himself up while at the NCP graduation ceremony. The final shot of the episode saw all the NCP lying dead on the floor yet in episode two and up to ‘Collaborators: episode five’ we see Jammer fit and well with no signs of any injurys. Surely he should have died in the blast seen as he was directly behind the suicide bomber. Anyhow, enough of me being a geek, just wondered if anyone else noticed this! I imagine Ron & David knew about this but choose to let it slide because Jammer wasn’t a main character and not many people would have noticed.

    I’m totally gutted BSG has come to an end, I saw the pilot for Caprica but I’m not convinced that it’s going to be anywhere close to delivering a story in the same league. It’s sad that this is all we will have left from the BSG world and I know it’s not going to satisfy me or many other fans I guess. I just hope and pray that in a couple of years Ron, David and Syfy decide to continue the story because I don’t want to see it end. Because I have grown so fond of BSG it almost feels like the BSG world is an alternate reality to ours and because it feels so real to me how can it just end. The story is never over, it can go on and on if the writers so wished. So if you ever read this Ron or David please bring this world back to life and give us fans back our alternate reality to escape to. Stuck for ideas? Believe me, I have plenty! Heres one: Remember Starbuck had her overy’s removed by the Cylons when she was in the Baby factory? ‘Farm’ It would be awsome if the Cylons decided to build a 13th Cylon model i.e Kara Thrace. This would make most fans cum in there pants with excitment. PLLEEAASE don’t kill BSG KEEP IT GOING.