JUNE
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Henriksen Visits NASA Lance Henriksen made entertainment
headlines this weekend by spending some time with heroes of
the U.S. space program twenty years after he portrayed one on
the big screen. Henriksen presided over a ceremony at
the Kennedy
Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida this past weekend
inducting four former NASA astronauts into the U.S. Astronaut
Hall of Fame. Henriksen portrayed Mercury 7
astronaut Wally Schirra in the Academy Award winning
The Right Stuff, which was recently released on special
edition DVD in honor of its twentieth anniversary. "It's
everything and more than I ever dreamt," Henriksen commented regarding the NASA complex. "The
best thing about having done The Right Stuff was it got
me a ticket to come here tonight. That's the best thing,
all these years later." Visit
Yahoo! News or
Space.com for further coverage of the event.
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June
19th
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Revelation Revealed
I would like to direct the attention of Abyss visitors to a creative project
that I have recently initiated. This fall will bring the publication of
Revelation, an independently published, low budget, non-profit literary zine
preoccupied with the apocalypse. Contributors are
invited to submit artwork or writing of any kind -- short
stories, short plays, poems, essays, reviews, commentaries,
artwork, cartoons -- provided that the material is in some way
related to a creative conception of the end of the world.
The zine seeks to explore those themes inherently linked to
the notion of doomsday in unique and entertaining new ways. The material
that will appear in the zine will undoubtedly be of interest to those who
loved Millennium. Visit the
Revelation
website for complete details and future updates on this
creative endeavor. Submissions for the premiere issue will be accepted
until August 31st.
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June
11th
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Gloom For June Summer approaches but there's
nothing but continued gloom and doom to be seen in the
Millennium inspired artwork of the Millennial Abyss
calendar. After some delay the latest image, created to
represent the month of June, is online and available for
download. Click your way to the Abyss
calendar subsection to have a look at the latest full
sized image, featuring Frank Black against the bleakest of
stormy backdrops. Additionally, a variation of the
artwork has been added to the wallpaper gallery along with six
unique new wallpaper images
submitted by a generous fan artist. Visit the expanded
wallpaper subsection to obtain the newest artwork and
enjoy!
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June
10th
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DVD Delays Explained? While Millennium fans have
been clamoring for the release of the series on DVD there have
seemingly been no true efforts made at
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to
prepare the series for a proper release. Rumored release
dates are continually being pushed back. Now, a reliable
source has informed the Abyss that newly appointed
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment President
Mike Dunn has offered a reasonable
explanation for the continued lack of progress in bringing
Millennium to DVD and also hope for the future.
While the series' release is reportedly in the development
phase, and the company is open to releasing the show, creator
Chris Carter has apparently been so overwhelmed in preparing
the ongoing The X-Files discs that he hasn't been able
to properly devote attention to Millennium. If
this is the primary reason Millennium has yet to be
brought to DVD, further developments may be forthcoming early
next year, once the ninth and final season of The X-Files
has been released on DVD. As always, Millennium
will trail in the shadow of its more popular predecessor.
Any and all news regarding Millennium's potential
eventual DVD release will be reported as it is gathered.
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June
4th
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Scream Scheduling Canadian fans regularly watching
Millennium on the horror themed
Scream channel
have nothing to fear. The series is not going to be
disappearing from their schedule anytime soon. It's been
revealed that Millennium will continue to air on that
outlet once its current run is complete. Scream Viewer Relations has
announced, "We're happy to tell you that Scream will begin
Millennium from the pilot, episode one, on Wednesday,
August 6." The channel, now showing the early second
season, currently airs the series thrice daily. A
complete and up-to-date schedule of the upcoming Scream
showings is available, as always, in the
airdates
section.
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MAY
NEWS
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May
20th
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Advertisement Appearances Two of Millennium's primary
stars can now be seen back on television, although viewers will
have to look for them during the commercial interruptions
rather than the programming itself. The young Brittany Tiplady, as many fans have already discovered, can currently
be seen in a thirty-second spot for Dell Computers in the
United States. The
ad is the latest in a series of commercials featuring the Dell
interns. Meanwhile, Lance Henriksen is making commercial
appearances in Australia. Henriksen is the focus of a
new Visa advertisement which plays upon the actor's image and
film associations while featuring fortean phenomena in the
form of raining fish. The Australian ad is not yet
online but may soon be available for download at the
Visa
site's celebrity commercial section. Keep an eye out
for the familiar faces.
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May
13th
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Crossover Comes to DVD Frank Black has come to DVD.
Unfortunately, its not in the context that Millennium
fans have been so desperately hoping for. The seventh season of The
X-Files has been released on DVD today, bringing the
infamous crossover episode with
it. "Millennium," the fifth episode of the season, is a
peripheral Millennium storyline at best. While Lance Henriksen is
superb as always in the well-written role of Frank Black, the
episode features a somewhat ridiculous paranormal storyline
that has no real connection to the mythology or themes of
Millennium. The celebratory story, even with the
first real kiss shared between Mulder and Scully, is easily
overshadowed by stronger seventh season entries of The
X-Files. It does, however, represent what may be the
final bow for Frank and Jordan Black and the Millennium
universe. Sadly, this will be the only one of
Frank Black's adventures to be committed to DVD in the
foreseeable future. Visit
Amazon.com to pick up the latest set in The X-Files
DVD series, or visit the Abyss
crossover subsection to view screen-grabs from the
episode.
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May
10th
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Transcript Coverage Expanding While the Millennial Abyss episode
guide contains a significant number of complete Millennium episode
transcripts, including the whole of the first season, texts
have yet to be prepared for the entire series. Recently,
a number of fans have expressed a particular interest in seeing those missing
transcripts created. Thus, I'm pleased to be able to report that
efforts are currently underway to fill in the gaps and bring
the Abyss episode guide's script coverage closer to completeness. Thanks to the dedicated
transcription efforts of Libby, the Abyss will be
featuring a new line of accurate and complete Millennium
episode transcripts. The first of the new files,
"The Beginning and the End," has been finished and posted to the Abyss episode guide.
Further transcripts are coming soon, so keep your eyes on the episode guide.
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May
9th
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Henriksen in Two-Dimensions
Prepare to add yet another new
motion picture to Lance Henriksen's ever-expanding résumé, and
this one stands uniquely apart from the rest. Lance has
lent his unmistakable voice to a new animated feature.
The Chosen One, from
Visionbox Pictures and X-42
Productions, is being
billed as the first animated feature to be produced entirely
outside of the studio system. The independent cartoon comedy takes
its humor from religious and apocalyptic scenarios, placing
Lance in the role of Cardinal Fred. "The
film uses ensemble comedy and comic book action to weave a
tale about competitive gods, bizarre cults and one average
guy’s road trip to save the world." Henriksen is joined
in the cast by his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
co-stars, Tim Curry and Traci Lords. The voice actors
completed recording their parts earlier this year but a
release date has not yet been chosen. Visit
The Chosen One's
official website for an overview of the film's story,
characters, and continuing production.
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May
8th
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Henriksen Enters Madhouse
Fangoria is reporting that
Lance Henriksen has added yet another horror-thriller to his
shooting schedule in Romania. It seems the actor's
trademark prolificacy has kicked into overdrive while he is on
location and now, in the days following his birthday, the list
of his upcoming films is becoming surprisingly long.
Lance has most recently stepped in to fill a lead role in Madhouse.
"Dee Wallace Stone has
escaped from the Madhouse cast, due to an extended
commitment in Los Angeles, but Lance Henriksen has been added
to the lineup as the villainous Dr. Ian Franks, the head of
the haunted asylum," explains director William Butler, who
also claims that the film's shooting has been plagued by
haunting paranormal events. Visit
Fangoria.com for further facts on the movie's production.
Madhouse joins the likes of The Prophecy 4, Hellraiser:
Hellworld, and Mimic: Sentinel, all horror film
sequels undergoing production in Romania with Lance in a lead
role.
Ain't
it Cool News, in fact, has recently released a favorable review for
the direct-to-video feature last on that list. Extensive
news concerning Henriksen's current work is certain to be
reported here at the Abyss as it becomes evident.
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May
5th
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Happy Birthday!
Today is Lance Henriksen's 63rd
birthday. The man who would go on to become a brilliant
actor highly recognizable
amid low budget horror films, perhaps best known for his role
in Millennium, was born in New York City on May 5, 1940. Lance is
spending this most recent birthday in Romania, where he is on
location shooting his most recent string of films.
"I appreciate the idea that
anybody would think of me as a star," Lance once modestly explained. "But I'm really not career
oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in
me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even
gotten this far."
Visit
Lance Henriksen
Web Magic for a proper overview of the actor's life and
life's work and be sure to examine the site's latest article,
The Tao of Lance, which contains some intriguing
commentary
regarding the character of Frank Black. The Abyss
extends its sincerest birthday wishes to the man that so
eloquently brought television's greatest hero to life.
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May
1st
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The Month of May
The Millennial Abyss calendar
section has now been updated to include an image representing
the month of May. This month's artwork allows Special Agent
Emma Hollis to take the spotlight, the first solo portrait
for Klea Scott's character in the calendar line-up. As usual, the image is available in both 800
X 600 and 1024 X 768 size formats. Click your way to the
calendar subsection to download the month's image for use
on your computer's desktop.
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