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WarGames reboot still alive

WarGames reboot still alive

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It seems that yet another classic eighties film is due to be rebooted, literally in the case of WarGames, the flick about computers, hackers and global thermonuclear war. Oh, and noughts and crosses, of course. There are no winners [...]

August 23, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Babylon 5 remake rumours are false

Babylon 5 remake rumours are false

Babylon 5 is a classic piece of nineties sci-fi, not too many folks would argue with that. Some would, but some people would argue about mortar with a brick wall. Hugely atmospheric and with a defined visual style for its ships (which was much copied, erm, we mean the inspiration for some spacey computer games), [...]

August 22, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Rise of the Planet of the Apes still number one in US

Rise of the Planet of the Apes still number one in US

Rise of the Planet of the Apes has remained the highest grossing film at the US box office this week, a second week at number one for the ape reboot. The film, which began showing in the UK this weekend, features some impressive CGI work and the talents of Andy Serkis amongst others. It has [...]

August 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Milla Jovovich to return for Resident Evil: Retribution

Milla Jovovich to return for Resident Evil: Retribution

Resident Evil is all set for another movie in the famous survival-horror franchise which began scaring folks on computers and consoles in 1996. The first film didn’t roll out until 2002, mind you, but since then there have been another three, culminating in last year’s Resident Evil: Afterlife. While the movies have been consistently panned [...]

August 11, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Bruce Willis to sign for GI Joe 2?

Bruce Willis to sign for GI Joe 2?

Ageing action hero who refuses to die-any-way-but-hard Bruce Willis is apparently in talks to appear in the GI Joe sequel. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was screened in 2009, based on the famous toys, and the comics and cartoons the franchise has spawned. However, it wasn’t well received by critics – panned for the [...]

August 10, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Conan reboot readies for release, sequel already scripted

Conan reboot readies for release, sequel already scripted

The fresh take on Conan the Barbarian – minus the camel punching Arnie – is ready to roll into cinemas later this month. We’ve already seen a trailer and Marcus Nispel’s Conan looks very gritty and promising, not to mention every bit as gory as the original was (but with much better, non-eighties special effects). [...]

August 8, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Short Circuit reboot still on the cards

Short Circuit reboot still on the cards

Yes, yet another eighties movie is in line to be resurrected for the new millennium. In fact, we first heard about the reboot of Short Circuit back in 2009. Short Circuit is, or was, the story of a kind of cute yet kind of annoying robot (Johnny Five) built by the US military as a [...]

August 5, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Laurence Fishburne drafted into Superman reboot

Laurence Fishburne drafted into Superman reboot

It seems that Laurence Fishburne has been signed up for Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, according to Entertainment Weekly. Fishburne will play Perry White, the boss at the Daily Planet where Clark Kent writes his stuff when not zooming around melting things with his laser eyes and trying to avoid green rocks. Fishburne is, of course, [...]

August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt trailer released

Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt trailer released

Francis Ford Coppola is, of course, regarded as one of the directorial greats, with a pedigree of the likes of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Although things went quiet for him come the turn of the millennium, and these days he very much shuns the big film industry, preferring to work on his own quirky [...]

August 3, 2011 | 0 Comments More
X-Files 3 movie on the cards?

X-Files 3 movie on the cards?

Will there be another X-Files movie? The truth is out there, of course, and that truth is that… maybe there will. Although after the last flick, I Want to Believe, there are many who cringe at the thought of dragging things out further. Many critics hated the 2008 film (although we weren’t quite so down [...]

August 2, 2011 | 2 Comments More
Frank Darabont leaves Walking Dead, successor named

Frank Darabont leaves Walking Dead, successor named

Frank Darabont, Executive Producer and head honcho on The Walking Dead, has apparently left the TV show. At least according to Deadline, who report that he will be replaced by his number two (as of season two), Glen Mazzara, now regarded as the head writer on the show (of Crash and Hawthorne fame). Still, his [...]

July 28, 2011 | 0 Comments More
The Amazing Spider-Man coming to IMAX 3D

The Amazing Spider-Man coming to IMAX 3D

Sony Pictures has announced that The Amazing Spider-Man is to be shown in IMAX 3D cinemas when it’s released next July. So you’ve got a few options when you come to watch the flick, next year – straightforward 2D (where you can play spot the 3D bits when things fly at the screen), 3D, or [...]

July 27, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Stephen King’s Bag of Bones headed to TV

Stephen King’s Bag of Bones headed to TV

Stephen King has of course written many, many horror books, and a large number of them have made it to the big screen since the very first adaptation of Carrie way back in 1976. Or indeed the small screen, and the latest King title to make the leap to the visual medium is his 1998 [...]

July 25, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Conan the Barbarian 2011 trailer unleashed

Conan the Barbarian 2011 trailer unleashed

The new take on Conan the Barbarian has had a trailer unveiled. The original Conan was, of course, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1982, but the new flick – due out next month – bears no relation, and is a fresh interpretation of the Robert E Howard books. Although predictably enough, it’s just as bloody [...]

July 22, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Blade Runner sequel with Harrison Ford possible?

Blade Runner sequel with Harrison Ford possible?

We’ve discussed reboots a fair few times here on SFF Chronicles – if you can’t think of an original idea, then resurrect an old classic which was popular back in its day. It’s guaranteed bums on cinema seats in these recession plagued days, or so film studio execs seem to think. It’s also a lot [...]

July 20, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 breaks box office records

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 breaks box office records

Harry Potter’s latest outing has generated magical amounts of cash after it opened last weekend, which isn’t surprising given that this is the final film-of-the-book. However, not only did the Deathly Hallows Part 2 beat out all the previous Potter films for opening weekend takings, it also stormed past Batman’s 2008 flick, The Dark Knight. [...]

July 19, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Evil Dead 4 still lumbering forth…

Evil Dead 4 still lumbering forth…

Good news for Evil Dead fans, it seems that the fourth “dead” movie might be very much alive and kicking. Evil Dead made its controversial entrance in the early eighties, with a film that managed to be rather strange and camp, yet genuinely chilling and something you really didn’t want to watch alone, late at [...]

July 13, 2011 | 0 Comments More
The Thing prequel poster revealed

The Thing prequel poster revealed

The Thing is due out this autumn, the new version that is, although it isn’t a remake. The Thing (2011) is actually a prequel, although calling it exactly the same name as the 1982 John Carpenter horror is rather confusing to say the least. Apparently, though, the film studio bods just didn’t see any other [...]

July 12, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Jurassic Park trilogy coming to Blu-ray in October

Jurassic Park trilogy coming to Blu-ray in October

Heads up – the dinosaurs are coming back, and this time in much higher definition and crisper surround sound. Yes, the original 1993 film, the follow-up The Lost World, and Jurassic Park III will all be packaged up in a Blu-ray boxed set for purchase come the end of October. That means a remastered high [...]

July 11, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Final Destination 5 trailer unveiled

Final Destination 5 trailer unveiled

Warner Bros has revealed a new trailer for Final Destination 5. Yes, Final Destination is still going. If you’re not familiar with the franchise, it’s cut from supernatural-horror-disaster cloth. The main characters have a premonition of a disaster – in the first film, an airplane crash, then it was a major road accident, a rollercoaster [...]

July 8, 2011 | 0 Comments More