I’ve never actually seen any of the Astroboy cartoons or read the mangas, so I can’t tell you if this English version of the Astroboy character (or what little we see of it in this very short teaser trailer) bears any resemblance to the original character. What I do know is that, well, this is probably very kid-friendly, so anyone over 10 probably won’t have much use for it, unless that is, you grew up with the character, in which case you’ll probably find things to nitpick about it. Then again, my nephew is 7, and this teaser didn’t do a whole lot for him, either. Oh well. Here’s your first look at a moving Astroboy, coming in 2009.
Eliza Dushku in tight black leather pants. Okay, so maybe that’s more than three reasons (I’m not good at counting), but you gotta admit, Eliza Dushku in tight black leather pants is a pretty good reason to do just about anything, especially when it comes to something as easy as watching a TV show in your free time. (Or at least DVR it, ya lazy bums.) Sure, FOX is doing its best to bury Joss Whedon’s show by scheduling it to bow on Friday nights aka The Graveyard, but let’s prove them wrong and watch Dollhouse anyway, shall we? Here are three new images of Eliza Dushku from the show to get you excited.
Science fiction movies about isolated individuals who begin to experience things that may or may not actually be happening is nothing new, but no other genre does it better than sci-fi, which has the added benefit of the vastness of space as its background. Add some paranoia, a lot of grungy technology, and isolate the character within an inch of his life, and you have yourself the makings of a great psychological thriller. That seems to be what writer/director Duncan Jones is going for with his movie “Moon”, which stars Sam Rockwell as a lunar miner who begins to suspect that the company he’s working for may be trying to kill him. Or at least, keep him from leaving the moon. Is it real? Is it all in his head, the product of prolonged isolation on the moon? 
I hope the Sci Fi Channel’s Sanctuary lasts for a while. I really like the idea behind the movie, and the fact that the whole thing is pretty much shot on a sound stage in front of a green screen is kinda cool, too. Plus, it has Amanda Tapping, and I’ve always had the biggest crush on her. Anyways, the LA Times recently went behind the scenes of Sanctuary to see how they make the show, what it cost, and other topics of interest. Besides the article, there are some great shots of Amanda and company doing their thing in front of the infamous green screen. You gotta admit, acting this way is infinitely harder than with real people and real surroundings you can touch.
Well slap me silly and call me Sally, if these first pics from Sandy Collora’s new movie “Hunter Prey” doesn’t look all kinds of kickass cool, then you just don’t have any taste, because these things look insanely cool. But wait, who is Sandy Collora, you ask? Well, if you’ve seen the Batman short film “Batman: Dead End”, then you know the name. He’s the guy who single-handedly made fan movies respectable when he came out with a Batman versus Predator (and then later, Aliens) in 2003, all of it shot with fantastic production values and killer visuals. Sandy’s back with his first feature-length movie, the sci-fi actioner “Hunter Prey”.
It looks like Tobey Maguire’s “Robotech” live-action movie is still moving forward, this time there’s news that the project has nabbed its writers — Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the creators of the WB’s Smallville TV show, which followed the adventures of a pre-Superman Clark Kent. The duo recently just bailed from the aging TV show (seriously, how long is Clark Kent going to keep pretending to be a teenager? Isn’t the actor playing him like 30 or something by now?), and recently contributed to the most recent “Mummy” film, as well as Maguire’s “Spider-Man 2″. So yeah, they know how to write superheroes is what I’m trying to say.
Holy cow. Are you serious? Aaron Eckhart, ol Two-Face himself, is going to star in the sci-fi movie “Battle: Los Angeles”? Oh hell yeah! Color me all kinds of excited about this. I was psyched when I heard the premise for “Battle”, but then that 
According to published reports, J.J. Abrams is not exactly a big fan of the Star Trek franchise. I think the director has even admitted that he doesn’t plan on making his Trek reboot movie conform to what we already know about the characters. Which may explain why the first 30 seconds or so of this bootleg trailer for Abrams’ Trek 11 doesn’t look anything like, well, Trek. Plus, later in the trailer, Spock puts the neck choke on Kirk, and I may be wrong, but Uhura flashes us her bra in a disrobing scene. Yup. This ain’t your father’s Trek, kids. Behold, the first full-length trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek 11 in bootleg form.
The good thing about being an off-network TV show is that people tend to give you second and in some cases, even third chances. Now I don’t know if the new Amanda Tapping show Sanctuary has managed to maintain its high ratings from its premiere episode, but the Sci Fi Channel has enough faith in it that it’s greenlighted a second season for the show, okaying 13 new episodes for next year. I haven’t been keeping up with Sanctuary since its premiere, but I’ve been meaning to add it to my list of DVR’ed shows. 
Our first look Master of Disaster Roland Emmerich’s new disaster film, “2012″, has arrived online. It’s a short teaser, just barely over a minute long, featuring what appears to be a monk racing up a long slope of mountains to a temple, and then looking out at — egads, an ocean towering over said mountains! (I’m guessing oceans aren’t supposed to get this high?) The ocean wipes away the temple, while titlecards ask us what our governments would do in the face of an impending, world-ending natural disaster. It then answers itself: Nothing. Because, you know, governments suck and such. Anyways, enjoy the teaser.