If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Paranormal Activity was a big hit – it was made on a shoestring budget, and grossed over $100 million in the US alone. So the sequel was inevitable, and keenly anticipated by the many who thought the original film [...]
Ever fancied being a movie star? Well, you’ll soon be able to, of a fashion. You won’t get your own on-set trailer, more cash than you can have a bath in, and umpteen members of the opposite sex following you around and laughing at your every joke no matter how bad it is. But you [...]
Director of The Hobbit, Guillermo Del Toro, has just announced that he’s leaving the picture, so will no longer be Director of The Hobbit. He will be very much Ex-Director(y). The two part Peter Jackson extravaganza will have to find a replacement for the man who captained the likes of Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy. According [...]
A couple of new actors have signed up to a fresh adaptation of the famous Three Musketeers tale, which is due to begin filming in the summer. With Paul W. S. Anderson co-writing and directing, the film will follow the 3D trend, and go for an all-action and adventure take. Heat Vision blog reports that [...]
Evangeline Lilly, better known as Kate from Lost, has been signed on for the up and coming sci-fi drama Real Steel, according to a report in Variety. Lilly will bring her special brand of pouting while looking slightly pissed off to the Dreamworks film, along with Anthony Mackie, who has also been recruited to the [...]
The new Disney epic flick, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, will hold its world premiere in London, this Sunday May 9th. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, of Donnie Darko and Brokeback Mountain fame, an actor who is moving on from such darker roles to take up the mantle of action hero. He’ll be buckling [...]
The director of The Losers, Sylvain White is talking about the possible production of a live action version of Robotech. The director has confirmed that he is looking at the project, but as of yet it has not been given the go ahead, which places the director in a sort of limbo, especially if another [...]
What has happened to Will Smith, he is a man in great demand with producers and directors queuing up in order to get him into their next movie? So since Seven Pounds, what has he been working on? It would seem not much at all, and this is the man that was tripping over scripts [...]
With the revival of many science fiction characters from the past, such as Captain America, Flash Gordon and it looks like Dan Dare will even be making an appearance on the big screen, but what that all American hero, Buck Rogers? Despite being revived in the early 1980’s, Buck Rogers is the ideal hero whose [...]
When the classic European cars were replaced by American made machines in the Transformers film it threw up a few complaints from die hard fans who were expecting to find a Porsche or some other euro brand in there. Well it seems that this is going to be no problem when the latest outing for [...]
Anyone that has watched early sci-fi would realise that these films and TV show were quite sophisticated and complex, sure, the acting and effects were not up to much, yet at the time, this was real science fiction. This influence is seen in some of the more recent shows and films; the only difference being [...]
The last time the Predator strutted its stuff was when one tried to clean up a town in the US that had become infected with those other Aliens, but it’s been a over twenty years since Predator 2 hit the big scene. However, this summer will see the release of Predators, as film by Robert [...]
Fresh from making The Crazies, Breck Eisner has been talking about the next job, a remake of Flash Gordon! The script written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless is currently going through its second draft and within a few months will be with the studio, although Eisner admits this is a project that will take [...]
Taking on the role of Conan is a big step to take and considering that this is the role that really shot Arnie to fame there would be some intense competition for the role and that can be seen through the short listed candidates. Twilights Kellan Lutz, Jared Padalecki and from the hit science fiction [...]
A new science fiction story has been picked up by Sony Pictures, the film rights give the studio the chance to develop the series of books written by Jeff Somers. The first to get the Sony treatment will be The Electric Church; it is believed that the title of the film will be the Avery [...]
Anyone that remembers the science fiction Push will understand the producers feel that the story would go down well on TV. Push is a story centred on the paranormal skills of a group of people that find they are able to work as an organised group and make things happen for the better. In the [...]
The NBC science fiction drama, Day One was initially planned to be a thirteen part series based on a sort US version of Survivors. Day One would have picked up the day after a global wipe out of most of the human race and would have followed the rebuilding of some sort of society. But [...]
Dune is one of those stories that stays with you, whether you read the Novel by James Herbert, watch the film or the miniseries. It is one of those dark stories that simply makes you think and it seems now that we are going to have to go through all that once more with a [...]
The investment appears to have paid off and once again film director James Cameron is god, although there are some records that still have to be broken Avatar is fast becoming a record breaker. It looks as if the film is set to become the fastest film ever to reach the $1 billion mark, although [...]
If there is one science fiction film that could have really benefited from the technology of the 21st century it would have to be The Thing. Yet this is not to be, although there will be a prequel to the John Carpenter classic from the 1980’s that starred a young looking Kurt Russell. The story [...]
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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