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Alice Eve cast for Star Trek 2

Alice Eve cast for Star Trek 2

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Several fresh snippets of news have popped up regarding the much anticipated JJ Abrams Star Trek sequel, which is destined to hit the silver screen in 2013. Abrams has apparently cast Alice Eve, of Entourage and Sex in the [...]

December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Matt Smith would like 50th Doctor Who anniversary shot in 3D

Matt Smith would like 50th Doctor Who anniversary shot in 3D

3D is trying to firmly ensconce itself in our lives, on way or another. First we had the return of three dimensions at the cinema (where it had previously failed, several times, the last of which was in the eighties). Then we had the revelation of 3D in the living room with new 3DTV sets, [...]

August 30, 2011 | 0 Comments More
New Enslaved DLC: Pigsy’s Perfect 10

New Enslaved DLC: Pigsy’s Perfect 10

If you’ve not encountered Enslaved yet, it’s a polished modern video game retelling of the classic tale of Monkey. Yes, the outlandish TV series with the mad Monkey and his cloud (which in itself was based on a classic Chinese novel). One of the best characters was Pigsy, a lecherous fool who was always getting [...]

November 25, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Star Wars films to go 3D come 2012

Star Wars films to go 3D come 2012

3D is suddenly all the rage, so it doesn’t really come as a surprise that the Star Wars films are up for a three dimensional makeover. The Hollywood Reporter writes that George Lucas will release 3D conversions of the Star Wars movies, starting with Episode I: The Phantom Menace, a film which managed some amazing [...]

September 29, 2010 | 0 Comments More
StarCraft II joins the 3D revolution

StarCraft II joins the 3D revolution

The buzz about Blizzard’s up and coming sci-fi RTS, due out at the end of this month, is that support for 3D is included. Well, it won’t actually be on board at launch, but a few months later it will be patched in, IGN discovered in an interview with the StarCraft team. This means that [...]

July 5, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Plan 9 from Outer Space in 3D

Plan 9 from Outer Space in 3D

As far as B-movies go, Plan 9 from Outer Space is widely regarded as one of the worst. And of course, in cult terms, one of the best. It’s a 1959 sci-fi horror flick which was masterminded by Edward D Wood Jr, and is all about aliens resurrecting humans as zombies to stop mankind from [...]

June 17, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Sam Raimi to direct Wizard of Oz prequel

Sam Raimi to direct Wizard of Oz prequel

Here’s an interesting one – the buzz on the Internet (and specifically at the Deadline website) has it that Sam Raimi will direct Disney’s pre-runner to the Wizard of Oz. The prequel is called Oz: The Great and Powerful, and it will be in 3D (of course… Oz: The Great and Powerful and Commercial, maybe?). [...]

June 16, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Zombie MMORPG Dead Frontier goes 3D

Zombie MMORPG Dead Frontier goes 3D

Dead Frontier is a massively multiplayer game, in which the players fight for their very lives in the midst of a zombie infested city. No, it’s not an online simulation of a Saturday night out in Milton Keynes, but a post-apocalyptic horror survival MMORPG. And currently a top down 2D affair, which is about to [...]

June 14, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Sony’s next Killzone will be in 3D

Sony’s next Killzone will be in 3D

The next instalment of Killzone has been announced, and the big news is that the PS3 exclusive will be rendered in stereoscopic 3D. Killzone 3, or should that be Killzone 3D, will be in Sony’s words, “fully playable in Stereoscopic 3D, immersing you in… incredible, High Definition, 3D detail”. Killzone’s ferocious and cinematic action will [...]

May 26, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Hammer Horror goes 3D with Woman in Black

Hammer Horror goes 3D with Woman in Black

Hammer Films, the makers of those classic sixties and seventies horror flicks, are back in action these days. Not only has the film company acquired the rights to remake the Swedish vampire chiller Let the Right One In, but it’s also set to venture into the world of 3D films. The Woman in Black will [...]

May 13, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Star Wars in 3D a possibility

Star Wars in 3D a possibility

It seems that Lucafilm will not have to make any more Star Wars films because all they have to do is wait for the latest technology to come out in order to re-launch the film series. Already there has been Beta, VHS and DVD releases of the films, but now there Blu-ray and HD coming [...]

April 20, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Scorsese to make 3D film

Scorsese to make 3D film

When an Oscar winner announces that his next film a mild sci-fi story will be filmed in 3D you know that technology has made a serious impact on the way that films are going to be produced in the future. 3D quite literally adds a new dimension to films, especially films that use CGI to [...]

April 16, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Harry Potter to made in 3D

Harry Potter to made in 3D

As the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows prepares for release on the 19th November, there is talk of converting it to 3D. Apparently, Warner Bros are very keen to put the first part of the trilogy out in 3D despite the estimated cost of around $5 million, although considering how much [...]

April 2, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Fantastic Voyage to return

Fantastic Voyage to return

You would have to go back to 1966 to find the original version of The Fantastic Voyage; it starred Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence. The story itself followed a team of scientists who in an attempt to save a man’s life, a team of scientists are shrunken along with their mini submarine and injected into [...]

April 2, 2010 | 0 Comments More
No 3D for Avatar DVD

No 3D for Avatar DVD

Before Avatar, the idea of 3D TV was limited to the occasional film or event, but with the launch of the film, an industry is growing behind it and by the end of the year, 3D TV in the home will become a reality for many households. But it seems even by making an investment [...]

March 18, 2010 | 0 Comments More
The Green Lantern in 3D

The Green Lantern in 3D

It seems that one film has changed the industry literally overnight, when James Cameron decided to make Avatar in 3D could he have known the revolution that he was starting or did he use 3D because it was viable with a CGI film? It seems that the entire industry has seized 3D technology and launched [...]

March 9, 2010 | 0 Comments More
More Clash of the Titans views

More Clash of the Titans views

The remake of the 1980’s classic fantasy film, the Clash of the Titans is gearing up for release by taking full advantage of the TV coverage of the recent winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada by releasing three video clips from the film. It is highly unusual for a production to release several clips in one [...]

March 2, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Luc Bessons firm working on sci-fi film

Luc Bessons firm working on sci-fi film

If there was a time when the world actually did become united one decision could be to pool all of the hardened criminals together in one place. But where would this be? In space of course and this is the basis on which the latest work from Luc Bessons, Europacorp is working on for Section [...]

February 18, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Transformers 3 to be in 3D

Transformers 3 to be in 3D

It looks like there are talks going on between Transformers director Michael Bay and the special visual effects company Industrial Light and Magic over the possible deployment of 3D imagery for the next Transformers film. The question is should the film be made in 3D or converted to some other format once it has been [...]

February 4, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Star Wars to get 3D effect

Star Wars to get 3D effect

In the past it has been a regular feature that studios try and get as much out of their investments as possible. This has meant that films that came out on video, were released on DVD, then digitally re-mastered, re-released in HD, then Blu-ray and now it seems that there is another format that studios [...]

January 12, 2010 | 0 Comments More