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Roland Emmerich Blames Fox, George W. Bush for the Lack of an Independence Day 2

German director Roland Emmerich, aka the man who made death porn on a global scale (aka disaster films) popular again, blames the lack of a sequel to “Independence Day” on the studio’s unwillingness to pay Will Smith his due. And oh yeah, that guy George W. Bush is also to blame, too....

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

Micronauts the Movie? J.J. Abrams? WTH?

The Wall Street Journal, of all places, currently has an article on Hollywood’s gold rush to make movies out of toys and board games following the phenomenal success of Michael Bay’s “Transformers”. Toward the end of the article, it mentions that “Star Trek’s”...

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

V Promo Images: Episodes 1.02 and 1.03

Promo images from the next two “V” episodes: 1.02, “There is no Normal Anymore” and 1.03, “A Bright New Day”. “V” 1.02: “There is no Normal Anymore” Erica and Father Jack, having quickly determined they’re both against the arrival of the...

November 6th, 2009 | Read More

The Apocalypse is Still on Hold on Tonight’s Supernatural

You knew it had to happen: Dean and Sam Winchester REALLY breaks through the fourth wall in tonight’s episode of “Supernatural”, titled, “Changing Channels”. It looks like the apocalypse and all that end of the world stuff will just have to wait while the boys have to figure...

November 5th, 2009 | Read More

Mandalay Pictures Has Eyes for the Machine Man

Mandalay Pictures would like to make a movie based on the novel “Machine Man” by author Max Barry, only they don’t quite know how it’s going to end. Because, see, the book itself isn’t finished, and as we speak, Barry is putting one up one page from his novel online every...

November 4th, 2009 | Read More

Chuck’s Scott Rosenbaum Takes Over V Showrunner Duties

Man, what is going on over at ABC’s “V”? First there were all those rumors of delays, network unhappiness with the episodes that have been produced so far (resulting in rewrites and reshoots), and now word is that “Chuck” veteran Scott Rosenbaum has moved over to “V”...

November 4th, 2009 | Read More

Open Discussion Thread: The New V Pilot

Anna and her Visitor buddies are about to touch down tonight on ABC (in case you missed the gazillion commercials on TV last night), and this is your open discussion thread to talk about the pilot. Did you love it? Hate it? Somewhere in-between? I saw a version of the pilot a while back in San Diego...

November 3rd, 2009 | Read More

SGU Producer Joseph Mallozzi Would Like you to Stop Being Idiots

Well, this, er, is not going to prove very fruitful. Apparently tired of all the “Stargate: Universe” bashers showing up at his blog and leaving, well, SGU bashing comments, SGU producer/writer Joseph Mallozzi has responded with a long statement on his blog. Besides addressing the overall...

November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Quick Promo for Lost’s Final Season 6

ABC has put out a quickie promo for the upcoming final season of their hit show “Lost”, which is set to begin and end its original TV run in 2010. As far as I can tell, there are no new footages, just old ones from the previous five, including the Kate-Sawyer cage match. Nice of them to include...

October 30th, 2009 | Read More

Men in Black 3 is Defintely Moving Forward

We’ve known that Sony wants to make another “Men in Black” movie since April, but we haven’t really heard anything concrete about the movie since. That change today, with word that Sony has already hired “Tropic Thunder” writer Etan Cohen to pen the sequel and that...

October 29th, 2009 | Read More

Ridley Scott Talks Alien Prequel Plot

Ridley Scott is looking forward to doing an “Alien” sequel. Or, er, prequel. Speaking to Empire, the director gives out a little bit more detail about the setting for his “Alien” movie, which he has boarded to direct after 20th Century Fox bulked at having someone else take over...

October 29th, 2009 | Read More

SyFy Greenlights American Version of Being Human

Sure, the BBC original show “Being Human” might have been good, even great, but it’s, you know, got them funny accents, and who wants to deal with that? As a result, the SyFy Channel has just greenlit a 13-episode order for an American version of the supernatural UK show. The premise...

October 29th, 2009 | Read More

Nathan Fillion’s Firefly Tribute on Castle

In case you missed it, “Firefly” fans (oh yeah right what are the chances of that?), here’s the opening scene from a recent episode of Nathan Fillion’s crime show “Castle” on ABC, which co-stars the oh-so-lovely Stana Katic. The episode was a Halloween-themed episode,...

October 28th, 2009 | Read More

Smallville Producer Hoping for a Season 10

After hearing about a couple of intriguing upcoming guest appearances on the CW’s “Smallville”, I made it a point to DVR the show. Unfortunately the first episode of Season 9 that I really watched was the Green Arrow episode where he went through a cheapie TV version of David Fincher’s...

October 28th, 2009 | Read More

Three Clips from Milla Jovovich’s The Fourth Kind

Milla Jovovich’s upcoming thriller “The Fourth Kind” continues to convince me this thing is more horror than sci-fi. Or actually, it’s a horror movie with a sci-fi setting, ala the original “Alien”. Minus, you know, acid-spewing aliens. At least, I think those guys...

October 28th, 2009 | Read More

Paranormal Activity’s Oren Peli Selling Sci-Fi Thriller Area 51

After striking the Hollywood equivalent of gold, you’d think that director Oren Peli’s next movie, a sci-fi thriller called “Area 51″, would be the subject of an intense bidding war by the major studios, including Paramount, the company that is making a mint off Peli’s little...

October 28th, 2009 | Read More

Matt Damon on The Adjustment Bureau Set Pics

In case you haven’t heard, Matt Damon’s sci-fi movie “The Adjustment Bureau” is currently shooting with George Nolfi directing, and here are some pics from the set. The film follows an affair between a politician (Damon) and a ballerina (Emily Blunt) and a mysterious force that...

October 26th, 2009 | Read More

Dreamworks’ Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Gets New Writer

I was enthusiastic when they announced a “Ghost in the Shell” live-action movie, but now, I’m not so sure. Is there even any real reason to remake Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 cyberpunk masterpiece “Ghost in the Shell”? It was perfect. Then you add in the constraints of live-action,...

October 23rd, 2009 | Read More

The New Avatar Trailer Arrives: Do You Still Care?

All that buzz, all that Comic Con gushing, it all went away when the first trailer for James Cameron’s “Avatar” landed online three months ago with quite possibly the biggest THUD in modern cinema. Let’s face it, it was kind of underwhelming. It was overly cartoony and obviously...

October 23rd, 2009 | Read More

Neill Blomkamp Preps his Next Sci-Fi Movie…

…and it doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a sequel to his breakout hit “District 9″. Variety currently has an article on Blomkamp getting a solid commitment from Media Rights Capital to begin work on his next movie, an untitled sci-fi film. If this was a sequel to “District...

October 23rd, 2009 | Read More