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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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