Julian McMahon

Mr. McMahon will be in our Main Events room for the special Twentieth Century Fox presentation on the new Fantastic 4 movie. In the movie he portrays the often maligned and always misunderstood Doctor Victor Von Doom.

The Ballad of Jack and Rose Screening Quiz/Contest

This movie is rated R. You must be at least 17 years of age to play for tickets.

Sin City Screening Quiz/Contest

This movie is rated R. You must be at least 17 years of age to play for tickets.

Katee Sackhoff Probable For Starfest 2005
On the Sci-Fi original series Battlestar Galactica, she plays Lt. Kara Thrace (A.K.A. Starbuck), the cocky, undisciplined fighter pilot, who also happens to be the best and most skilled pilot in the fleet. She says that her father raised her on Star Trek and fancies herself a bit of a science fiction fan, but fears she wouldn't do too well if pitted against the Sci-Fi Jeopardy experts at Starfest.

Katee is currently booked for a convention in the UK the same weekend of our show, but subject to a probable scheduling conflict, will be able to come to Starfest on Saturday, April 30th. When she is 100% confirmed, we'll let you know right here.

Check-out all the latest Starfest 2005 Info here.

Official T-Shirt, Polo & Hats Now Available
Our Official Logo for 2005 is incredibly forceful, some might say it's a little on the Dark Side, but everyone will love this colorful design that is destined to become another classic homage to sci-fi.

Check-out all the latest Starfest 2005 Info here.

Tony Amendola
Master Bra'tac Gates into Denver for Starfest
Over seven years ago Tony Amendola had just completed working with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones on The Mask of Zorro and got a call from his agent about a part on a TV show where he could play a 130 year-old guy. Figuring it would be a good variation from the period work he just completed, Tony decided to go-ahead and sign-on for a guest appearance on the new series. That series was Stargate SG1. Now, over 30 episodes later, Master Bra'tac has become one of the most endearing and popular characters on the show. For a man in his triple digits, Bra'tac is in excellent physical shape: A gruff warrior, spiritual teacher and all-around father figure to Teal'c, his young protégé (age 103), played by Christopher Judge on the series.

Additional Tony Amendola and Starfest 2005 information is available here.

The Upside of Anger Screening Quiz/Contest
Thursday, March 17th at 7:00pm - Continental Theater (I-25 & Hampden)
Sharp-witted Terry Wolfmeyer, a suburban wife and mother, has her life take an unusual turn when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Struggling to deal with his sudden absence, Terry finds herself increasingly at odds with her four headstrong daughters and regularly drowning her anger in alcohol, until she develops an offbeat relationship with her next-door neighbor, Denny. A once-great baseball star turned radio DJ. Denny becomes a drinking buddy for Terry and slowly evolves into her source of strength, as well as an ad-hoc father to her daughters. But things get complicated as Terry's daughters grow accustomed to having Denny around while attempting to juggle not only their mother's romantic dilemmas, but their own. 

This movie is rated R - you must be at least 17 years of age to play for tickets.

The Ring Two Screening Quiz/Contest
Wednesday, March 16th at 7:30pm - Colorado Center (I-25 & Colorado Blvd)
Six months after the horrifying events that terrorized Rachel Keller and her son Aidan (David Dorfman) in Seattle, Rachel has taken Aidan and moved to the small coastal community of Astoria, Oregon, to start fresh. However, Rachel's resolve quickly turns to dread when evidence at a local crime scene-including an unmarked videotape-seems eerily familiar. Rachel realizes that the vengeful Samara is back and more determined than ever to continue her relentless cycle of terror and death.

This movie is rated PG-13. Play for tickets.

Ice Princess Screening Quiz/Contest
Screening on Wednesday, March 16th at 7:00pm
A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan in Walt Disney Pictures' Ice Princess. Brainy Casey Carlyle has never quite fit-in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother, who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen - three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen's mother, she must dash her own mother's hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen's teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver, Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real Ice Princess. This movie is rated G. Play for tickets.

William Shatner at Starfest 2005
As an actor, director, producer, screenwriter, author and recording artist, William Shatner is an American Icon - one who was raised in Canada. Already established as a professional actor in his home country - Shatner arrived in the U.S. and made a big impact playing on Broadway and in such early TV shows as Playhouse 90 and Studio One. His film debut came in the 1957 film, The Brothers Karamazov.

Before his Iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk, he appeared in TV shows and genre hits like The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Mission: Impossible. Then came Star Trek, ...actually, then came reruns. Once Trek was aired in syndication and played over and over again after school on televisions throughout America, Captain Kirk became the role model for millions and sparked a vision of the future that captivated countless young minds.

Post Star Trek, Shatner never stopped working. television series, movies, commercials, animated productions, writing, and producing. Only recently, has he started to receive the mainstream recognition that he deserves. He was nominated for a 1999 Emmy for his work on 3rd Rock from the Sun; then last year he won an Emmy for Boston Legal and followed it up this year with a Golden Globe. Additionally, his poetry & song album in current release titled Has Been (in collaboration with Ben Folds) is receiving great critical acclaim and notice.

It is with great humility and thanks we welcome "The Shat Man," William Shatner to Starfest 2005. Mr. Shatner will be attending Starfest on Sunday, May 1st.

Voltaire To Perform At Starfest
Singer, Songwriter, Animator, Director, and Teacher Extraordinaire
Voltaire was born in Havana, Cuba in 1967. He emigrated with his family to the U.S. as a child and settled in New Jersey (a fact he never stops complaining about!)

"Voltaire is a singer/songwriter whose music has its roots deeply imbedded in European folk music. His songs speak of love and, most often, the loss thereof with the added twist of how best to seek revenge on the ones who have hurt you. Lyrically, he explores and reveals those moments of vulnerability most would rather not discuss and exploits with childish abandon those fleeting streaks of cruelty we all feel but choose not to act upon or even mention.

Voltaire's live shows, whether solo or with his skeletal orchestra, are highly theatrical -full of props and stories. The visual quality of his performances is not surprising; Voltaire has been directing commercials and animating short films for the last ten years. He's best known for his Hieronymous Bosch inspired station ID's for MTV.

Inspired by the films of Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), Voltaire began animating at the age of ten on a super8 camera. At that time, he says, "no three dimensional object was safe. My brother's action figures, my sister's dolls, silverware, etc . . . If it was missing, chances were that it was in the basement in front of my camera."

Eventually, piecing together snippets of information from fanzines, he was able to teach himself how to make foam rubber animation models and animate them with fluidity and realism. The films of his childhood landed him his first directing job in 1988. That project was the classic MTV ID called "MTV-Bosch." The stop-motion tour of the hellish "Garden of Earthly Delights" went on to win several awards including a Broadcast Design Award and helped to establish Voltaire's style of animation.

His strange stew of gothic darkness, baroque lushness and whimsical surrealism has been seen in a score of television commercials for clients such as Cartoon Network, USA and The Sci-Fi Channel. His short films which he describes as being "an opportunity for me to be as strange and demented as I care to be," have been seen at animation festivals around the world, including the sinister "Rakthavira" which toured as part of Expanded Entertainment's Too Outrageous Animation."

- Courtesy of Projekt.com

These days, Voltaire continues writing, recording and performing music, directing and animating commercials and projects for television and working on the occasional comic book. Somewhere in there, he also teaches stop-motion animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He's currently working on a project for the new Fangoria channel.

Voltaire spends a lot of time at SCI-FI conventions. Usually he is promoting his comic books and Chi-Chian animated series but we all know he really just goes to them in the hopes of picking up a new Starfleet uniform or that hard to get, limited edition Tribble! Voltaire, you see, is an avid Star Trek fan (even stating in an interview on the Sci Fi Channel show "Exposure" that his dream in life is to play a Vulcan!). You can check out his Star Trek related recordings at his website.