Tag: Film & TV

Paranormal Activity 2 trailer unleashed

Paranormal Activity 2 trailer unleashed

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 [...]

July 1, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Yoostar in the movies

Yoostar in the movies

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 [...]

June 17, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Guillermo Del Toro quits The Hobbit

Guillermo Del Toro quits The Hobbit

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 [...]

June 1, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Orlando Bloom and James Corden will be in 3D Musketeers

Orlando Bloom and James Corden will be in 3D Musketeers

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 [...]

May 27, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Lilly from Lost signed up for Real Steel

Lilly from Lost signed up for Real Steel

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 [...]

May 13, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Prince of Persia world premiere in London this weekend

Prince of Persia world premiere in London this weekend

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 [...]

May 6, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Sylvain White looking at Robotech

Sylvain White looking at Robotech

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 [...]

April 6, 2010 | 0 Comments More
MiB III could be next for Will Smith

MiB III could be next for Will Smith

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 [...]

March 26, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Buck Rogers returns in 3D

Buck Rogers returns in 3D

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 [...]

March 26, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Ferrari joins Transformers 3

Ferrari joins Transformers 3

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 [...]

March 25, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Captain Future for the big screen

Captain Future for the big screen

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 [...]

March 24, 2010 | 0 Comments More
First sight of Predators

First sight of Predators

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 [...]

March 19, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Flash Gordon Update

Flash Gordon Update

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 [...]

March 4, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Atlantis star becomes Conan

Atlantis star becomes Conan

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 [...]

January 26, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Electric Church goes to Sony

Electric Church goes to Sony

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 [...]

January 22, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Push to become a TV series

Push to become a TV series

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 [...]

January 21, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Day One cut again

Day One cut again

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 [...]

January 12, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Director announced for Dune

Director announced for Dune

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 [...]

January 6, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Avatar passes the $1 billion mark

Avatar passes the $1 billion mark

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 [...]

January 5, 2010 | 0 Comments More
The Thing starts filming this spring

The Thing starts filming this spring

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 [...]

January 5, 2010 | 0 Comments More