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“After.Life” Manages To Make Dead, Naked Christina Ricci Boring

On paper, the indie flick After.Life sounds terrific. Liam Neeson plays an undertaker who may be crazy, or may be a supernatural creature who helps the restless dead like Christina Ricci accept their fates. Unfortunately it feels rote. Spoilers! One reason we were excited about this movie, other than the promise of Neeson and Ricci…

Movies Annalee Newitz

An Oscar-winning Producer is Remaking The Toxic Avenger. O-kay…But Why?

Akiva Goldsman is heading up a team that plans to take Troma’s marquee character, the Toxic Avenger, and give him a family-friendly makeover. Because, apparently, no one demanded it. Listen, I love retro-schlock as much as the next guy. No, the other next guy. But I’m having trouble figuring out the upside to purchasing the…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Marvel’s Extremis Motion Comic Exposes Iron Man 2’s Storyline

Marvel is launching a giant Iron Man Extremis motion comic, which might be laying the groundwork for their upcoming film. Compare Extremis’ trailer and stills to a screen shot from Iron Man 2, and you’ll see the connection. Spoilers/speculation below. Marvel’s motion comic, which will be released on iTunes, Xbox Live, and Zune on April…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Who Sent Out The Last Airbender Casting Call Asking For “Caucasian” Actors? Producer Responds

After fans got a hold of a Last Airbender casting call demanding actors who were “Caucasian and any other ethnicities,” the movie’s producer, genre legend Frank Marshall was forced to respond, producing his own original casting calls. A few weeks ago we posted this interview with The Last Airbender’s director M. Night Shyamalan, where he…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Flying Mega Piranhas Are Worse Than Terrorists

What terrible force is causing scantily-clad coeds to drown in bubbling, red waters of their own blood? That’s right – it’s a mega piranha, whose powers include largeness and destruction of small towns from the air. Ah, Syfy original movies. Syfy’s next original movie is Mega Piranha, which might not be as catchy as Chihuanhas,…

Movies Annalee Newitz

The Coolest Thing You’ll See Today: New York City, Infected By Old-School Videogames

What if Manhattan was assaulted by space invaders, Tetris blocks, and Donkey Kong? This stellar short imagines the possibilities Click to view Directed by Patrick Jean with an assured hand-held panache, Pixels: Retro Gamers is sure to get him some Hollywood attention. Let’s just hope, for his sake, that it’s not to direct Alvin and…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Smurf Wars: This Is The Smurfing Smurf Movie We Really Want

Smurf War is hell, judging from this graphic-novel pitch for a brutally violent Smurf epic. Read why Brainy is an evil sonofabitch, and Smurfette is doomed. Meanwhile, the actor portraying the live-action movie’s Gargamel speaks: Was Azrael cut? While searching for a better brand of Smurf movies than the live-action version currently being filming in…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Come With Me if You Want to Cry: The Biggest Tearjerkers In The Scifi Pantheon

You might not think to pop in a science fiction movie or TV episode when you’re looking for a good bawl. And you’d be wrong. Here are 15 surefire ways to get the tear ducts leaking. Tearjerkers are like the filmed-entertainment equivalent of the Blues: You put them on to see someone else who’s life…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Taylor Kitsch To Sink Peter Berg’s Battleship

Taylor Kitsch is slowly becoming science fiction’s next movie hero. Not only is he starring in John Carter of Mars, but he just landed the lead role in Peter Berg’s epic Hasbro board game-inspired Battleship movie. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Kitsch: is playing a Naval commander named Alex Hopper, described as “wildly…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The One Thing That Humans and Robots Desire Most

This short film, called “The Gift,” is about a box whose contents seduce both humans and robots. It’s directed by newcomer Carl Erik Rinsch, a Ridley Scott protege, and [update] several studios are bidding to make it into a feature film. Rinsch, a commercial director who was originally tapped to do the Alien prequel, scored…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Mark Strong’s Sinestro Will Keep The Classic ‘Stache And Story

Hollywood’s new supervillain, Mark Strong, spilled a few details on what’s in store for his badass character Sinestro in Green Lantern. It sounds like they’re sticking very close to the original Sinestro look – good news for pencil-thin mustache aficionados. In an interview with USA Today, Strong leaked a few costume and plot details about…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Chekov Stars In Fright Night Remake, Plus Twilight Nabs An Oscar-Winning Director

New vampire news is bleeding out all over the internet. The Fright Night remake picks up steam, a new True Blood poster hits, plus Twilight gets the Dreamgirls director to helm Breaking Dawn. Fright Night Remake Anton Yelchin has signed on to star in the Fright Night remake. While we’re happy that Hollywood is making…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Hackers Vs. Secret Nazi Cabals In “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo injects its pulpy, high-tech noir with references to Swedish/Nazi collaborators and secret societies. If you dig a well-executed suspense thriller, this movie plays like a master’s guide on how it’s done. Niels Arden Oplev’s adaptation of the first book of Stieg Larsson’s “Millenium Trilogy”, The Girl With The Dragon…

Movies Quiet Earth

How Many Millas Can You Handle?

In Resident Evil: Afterlife, you’re going to get as much Milla Jovovich as you could ever want: There will be an entire army of cloned superbeings called Alice, and according to the actress, they will all have different personalities. We caught up with Jovovich last weekend at WonderCon, where she geeked out about fight sequences…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Robert Zemeckis is Going Back to the Future

Okay, not back to Back to the Future — he’s signed on to direct a near-future underwater adventure called Dark Life. But, hey, it’s Zemeckis and scifi — everybody wins. The Oscar-winning director who’s given us Back to the Future, Death Becomes Her, Contact, and Beowulf is planning to adapt Kat Falls’ upcoming YA novel…

Movies Marc Bernardin

UPDATED: Harrison Ford IS Saddling Up for Cowboys and Aliens

As those old Indiana Jones posters used to say, “The Man With the Hat is Back,” and he’s taking on aliens. Well, Jon Favreau’s next scifi flick has got to be better than that Crystal Skull business Unbelievably, it’s been more than 30 years since Harrison Ford has played an actual cowboy — seriously, Hollywood,…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Tron Legacy’s Writers Already Coming Back For The Sequel

First, Disney announces a Tron, television series, and now they’re already starting to work on the sequel, more than half a year before the premiere date of the first film. Disney certainly seems confident everything’s following its Master Control Program. Heat Vision announced that Tron Legacy screenwriters Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, formerly of Lost,…

Movies Meredith Woerner

A Sequel to the Unreleased Tron: Legacy Film Is Being Planned

It makes sense for Disney to be planning a sequel to Tron: Legacy (which is itself a sequel) based on web popularity alone—but it’s reassuring they’re placing enough trust in the film’s success that they’ve already hired screenwriters. Lost episode writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have been hired to pen the screenplay, and as…

Movies Kat Hannaford

Real Steel’s Dystopian Future Won’t Stop Hugh Jackman From Taking His Shirt Off

Real Steel’s future world is tired of human boxers, so they turn to fighting robots. But even though it’s a gritty, post-industrial dystopia, director Shawn Levy promises it’ll have a lot of heart, and a shirtless Hugh Jackman. Spoilers ahead. While working the red carpet for his movie Date Night, we grabbed director Shawn Levy…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Roald Dahl, Master Of Dark Fantasy, Meets Hipster Auteur Wes Anderson. They Make Babies.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox came out on DVD a couple weeks ago, giving us a chance to re-evaluate this dark, comedic gem. How does Roald Dahl’s dark whimsy mesh with Wes Anderson’s quirky indie-adventurer sensibility? Mostly, pretty well. Spoilers ahead… The Fantastic Mr. Fox is a great movie to have on DVD, because it’s very…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

“After.Life” Manages To Make Dead, Naked Christina Ricci Boring

An Oscar-winning Producer is Remaking The Toxic Avenger. O-kay…But Why?

Marvel’s Extremis Motion Comic Exposes Iron Man 2’s Storyline

Who Sent Out The Last Airbender Casting Call Asking For “Caucasian” Actors? Producer Responds

Flying Mega Piranhas Are Worse Than Terrorists

The Coolest Thing You’ll See Today: New York City, Infected By Old-School Videogames

Smurf Wars: This Is The Smurfing Smurf Movie We Really Want

Come With Me if You Want to Cry: The Biggest Tearjerkers In The Scifi Pantheon

Taylor Kitsch To Sink Peter Berg’s Battleship

The One Thing That Humans and Robots Desire Most

Mark Strong’s Sinestro Will Keep The Classic ‘Stache And Story

Chekov Stars In Fright Night Remake, Plus Twilight Nabs An Oscar-Winning Director

Hackers Vs. Secret Nazi Cabals In “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”

How Many Millas Can You Handle?

Robert Zemeckis is Going Back to the Future

UPDATED: Harrison Ford IS Saddling Up for Cowboys and Aliens

Tron Legacy’s Writers Already Coming Back For The Sequel

A Sequel to the Unreleased Tron: Legacy Film Is Being Planned

Real Steel’s Dystopian Future Won’t Stop Hugh Jackman From Taking His Shirt Off

Roald Dahl, Master Of Dark Fantasy, Meets Hipster Auteur Wes Anderson. They Make Babies.

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