From the monthly archives:

April 2007

Clash of the Titans to be remade

April 16, 2007

Lawrence Kasdan a scriptwriter whose work includes Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, is reported to be writing a remake of Clash of the Titans for Warner Bros.
The Hollywood Reporter says that Kasdan will pen and update of the original 1981 movie for Warner Bros. In [...]

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Live action adaptation of Speed Racer

April 13, 2007

A live-action adaptation of the 1960s cartoon Speed Racer is being made by matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski’s along with producer Joel Silver. According to The Hollywood Reporter it is being made for Warner Brothers Pictures.
The cartoon racer was created by Tatsuo Yoshida for Japanese audiences and later imported to the United States. [...]

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Sci-Fi-London film festival to be sponsored by Sky Movies

April 13, 2007

This year’s Sci-Fi-London film festival will be sponsored by Sky Movies which has recently moved to genre based channels including Sci-Fi with its Sky Movies Sci-Fi and Horror channel.
Sci-Fi-London, which is currently in its sixth year, is the UK’s only film festival devoted to the genre. Filmmaker John Landis will open the festival and includes [...]

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Joe Johnston Won’t direct Jurassic IV

April 13, 2007

The first Jurassic Park was good. It was exciting and it offered something moviegoers had rarely seen before namely; dinosaurs that neither looked as though they were made out of plasticine or were merely a guy in a suit. The second one was even better as it not only had an island of [...]

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Flash Gordon update in the works

April 12, 2007

The SCI FI Channel has announced that is creating a new upcoming original series based on the science fiction comic series Flash Gordon created in 1934 by Alex Raymond. Eric Johnson best known for his role as Whitney Fordman on Smallville has landed the role of Flash Grodon.
The 22-hour series updates the comic-strip franchise [...]

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Tom Hanks to return for Da Vinci prequel

April 12, 2007

With The Da Vinci Code raking in a huge $758 million worldwide box office earnings its unsurprising that Columbia Pictures are keen to get started on the film’s prequel Angels & Demons.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Da Vinci Code director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks are in final talks to return to film [...]

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Science Fiction Author Vonnegut dies from Brain Injuries

April 12, 2007

The science fiction author Kurt Vonnegut, best known for such novels as Slaughterhouse -Five and Cat’s Cradle, died in New York on April 10 at the age of 84, The New York Times reported after suffering from brain injuries as a result of a fall several weeks ago.
The author who was born in Indianapolis [...]

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More Mummy 3 details emerge

April 12, 2007

So the Mummy 3 is definitely happening and Brendan Fraser is going to be in it but Rachel Weisz will not be (probably something to do with that Oscar she won). Its also going to feature Jet Li as a Chinese Mummy and the legendary terracotta army, all 6000 of them.
The Mummy 3 (a.k.a. [...]

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UK scientists make best bacon sandwich

April 11, 2007

Let me bring everyone back to reality and show you what humanity is capable of. In Sci Fi films brilliant scientists are building robots, meddling with alien DNA and designing laser guns but in the real world UK scientists are answering that most important of questions, “what makes the perfect bacon sandwich”.
I know what [...]

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Scott Derrickson to Direct Earth Remake?

April 11, 2007

It’s a rumour and only a rumor but Hollywood North Report have posted that the director of The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Scott Derrickson, is set to direct the remake of the 1951 classic Sci-Fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still.
The original film told the story of an alien and his robot that come [...]

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