If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Some news on the Total Recall reboot. What’s that, you say, they’re doing a Total Recall reboot? Yes indeed, with Arnie being replaced by Colin Farrell, and now news has emerged of which actresses will play the leading ladies [...]
YouTube has brought us many, many clips since it became the video giant of the web, but the latest home-made epic we’ve stumbled across (via Topless Robot) is Toy Wars. Toy Wars is a remake of the original (and still the best, well, perhaps shaded by Empire) Star Wars movie by Sillof on YouTube, using [...]
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 [...]
Team 17 has announced that it will be bringing its remake of Alien Breed to the PS3 and PC. Originally released in the early nineties, Alien Breed was a top-down survival shooter, where you face hordes of vicious aliens on a spaceship (possibly inspired by a certain film). The remade for the 21st Century version, [...]
The possible Warner Bros remake of Logan’s Run has been on the back-burner for some time – it was actually first floated in the mid-nineties – but it appears that the movie may now be happening (again). The classic seventies sci-fi gem now looks set to get a Director in the form of Carl Rinsch, [...]
Remember that classic movie from the eighties, Teen Wolf? No, neither do we. We do, however, recall a daft corny film where a ridiculous hairy Michael J. Fox (who looked more like Teen Ape) slam dunked a basketball a few times. And ordered a keg of beer by using the power of his red eyes. [...]
When it comes to sequels and remakes, you have to some to beat Godzilla, this over sized lizard has stomped around Japan and America in more than twenty films, in fact, the name of the monster strikes fear into the hearts of any young sci-fi fan. Yet it seems that Godzilla is going to be [...]
Disney have been through a fairly difficult year so far but the release of a new trailer for the studios latest work Tron, shows that the Disney still has what it takes to create magic for the big screen. Tron will be opening in the US on the 17th December 2010, so there is still [...]
One day filmmakers will find that there are no films left to remake or rework, so could that the day when sci-fi as genre dies, we shall have to wait and see. In the mean time the remaking continues, this time the film is The Black Hole, this was made by Disney back in 1979 [...]
If there is one film that could blow cinema goers minds if it were made in 3D it has to be Hellraiser and yes it seems that Dimension Films also feel the same about this. It looks as if Hellraiser will be developed into new feature, but this time it will be made in fantastic [...]
This is must be what all Star Wars fans have been waiting for! It is a chance to claim a scene from the films and remake it, as only you would want to see it. It is the idea of Casey Pugh to produce the ultimate Star Wars adventure created by the fans for the [...]
Visitors to the MCM Expo in London this coming weekend will be in for a treat when NBC Universal will be showing an enticing ten minutes worth of their reboot of the 1980’s science fiction show V. The show opens in the US the week after so this is a rare treat for British science [...]
Are film directors running out of original material, it seems that some could be and in fact instead of remaking another director’s piece of work, there are some directors that are considering remaking their own work? Take David Cronenberg for instance, he remade the 1958 film The Fly in 1986. This film was great success [...]
One of the most iconic science fiction films from the 60’s Barbarella is to be remade, that is no secret and whatever happens in the casting of the lead role this film be getting the 21st century makeover and as it happens there some people who are not happy about that. So who will be [...]
Dune by Frank Herbert, has always been one of those stories that splits opinions, its complexity spans more than the universe that it inhabits. However moving the story from the book to a film for the big or small screen, has proved to be a major challenge. This was seen in the original film by [...]
Normally when top director Steven Spielberg plans his next movie, the industry and fans all begin to take notice, but the directors next film is going to be a remake of the Mary Chase play, Harvey. Yes, that is the one with the extra large rabbit, which is a figment of the main character, Elwood [...]
In 1988, a feature film called Alien Nation hit the screens; it was different and became a hit. This success was followed by a series and five TV movies. Now it seems that a new version of Alien Nation is in the pipeline, with Tim Minear of Angel will be creating a modern day version [...]
During the eighties, there was a run of werewolf based films, “The Howling” being the most prominent. But there were a few films that were edgy enough to be classed as a horror, but because of the way that they were made these film actually became classics in their own right, purely because these films [...]
You have to go back to 1935 for the original version of The Bride of Frankenstein, back then it starred the legend of the silver screen Boris Karlof. It was a sequel to the original Frankenstein film where the doctor makes a companion for his creation, only to see them descend into self destruction. However, [...]
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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