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

Enzo G. Castellari’s Bronx Warriors Trilogy Gets the Box Set Treatment

If you haven’t figured out what to get me for Christmas yet, allow me to point you in the right direction. According to Latemag.com, Enzo G. Castellari’s entire post-apocalypic saga — namely, “The Bronx Warriors,” “Escape From the Bronx,” and “The New Barbarians”...

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

Behind the Scenes On The Casting Of Zackary Quinto As Spock

Having been raised on the old school Trek and being of the advanced age to have actually watched the show while it was still on it’s network run, getting to know a new Spock was a little difficult. I think Zackary Quinto did a fine job. The thing I think he missed was Nimoy Spock’s very carefully...

November 5th, 2009 | Read More

Avatar TV Spot Showcases The Battle

Here’s a nice and juicy 30 second trailer released to the wilds of T.V. land. Some footage I either haven’t seen or missed as I gawked at the pretty blue scenery or at the pretty blue girls. “Avatar” is on it’s way. I’ll see you there Dec 18th.

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

Roland Emmerich Has His Plans Made For 2013

Roland Emmerich has an early Xmas present ready for all you fans of fine, tasteful and hysterical disaster movies. “2012″ will enrich all our Sci-Fi Holiday preparations with absolutely photo realistic footage of mother Earth undergoing an extreme makeover. In the crumbly aftermath, who will...

November 4th, 2009 | Read More

Dreamworks Options The Future Robopocalypse

Dreamworks and Doubleday have acquired the film rights to Daniel H. Wilson’s as yet unpublished book “Robopocalypse”, about how humans deal after the robots take over. Daniel H. Wilson is a robotics engineer so he knows a thing or two about how screwed we will end up being. I’m...

November 3rd, 2009 | Read More

What Roland Emmerich Couldn’t Obliterate

I am confident in reporting that in “2012″, an imminent digital masterpiece by director Roland Emmerich, your favorite phallic monument or architectural wonder is going to be completely squashed. However, in deciding which statue, building, city or structure was going to be tidal waved, rolled,...

November 3rd, 2009 | Read More

Diora Baird Is Orion But Not A Slave In Star Trek Deleted Scene

As the epic Blu Ray (ditch your Grandpa’s DVD, Poindexter) release of Star Trek approaches (Nov 17) we are getting some data drops of some of the deleted scenes sure to light up your big screen television set. In this release we’ve got the lovely blue hued Diora Baird having none of James...

November 3rd, 2009 | Read More

The Cast Of Roland Emmerich’s 2012 Wax On about the Return Of Quetzalcoatl!

My significant spouse and I are debating whether to go to “2012″. I, naturally, am firmly in the “Yup” camp as destruction of this quality and scope comes perhaps once in a Sci-Fi movie going lifetime. The spouse unit thinks that maybe the movie could be depressing and perhaps...

November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Robert Rodriquez Moves On From The Jetsons

Robert Rodriquez has apparently found other shiny little movie trinkets to capture his eye and has left the remake of the 60’s Sci-Fi cartoon “The Jetsons” to other interested parties. And it seems that the interested party is Peter Segal, the director of “Get Smart” and...

November 2nd, 2009 | Read More

Is It Official? Will Tom Hardy And Charlize Theron Star In Mad Max: Fury Road?

We reported on the rumour and now, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the star of “RockNRolla”, “Bronson” and a ton of other things, Tom Hardy and everyones favorite charity auctioneer Charlize Theron (The Road), are in negotiations to play the major parts in writer-director...

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

Video Behind The Scenes Look Of Avatar

Good old Nix just posted the international trailer for you and I’ll add this cool behind the scenes view of how “Avatar” was first imagined and then brought to the screen. James Cameron claims he had a dream where the planet, setting, characters and story came to him and I’ll...

October 29th, 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

Peter Berg Has Seen Enough Of Dune

Peter Berg, long expected to be the director of the reboot of perhaps the greatest Sci-Fi novel of all time “Dune”, has dropped the project. Paramount is now shopping around for a director and the rumours are Neill Blompkamp (District 9) and Neil Marshall (The Descent and the upcoming Centurion)...

October 28th, 2009 | Read More

See Wimpy Masked Klingons In The Star Trek Deleted Scene

Here’s the scene in “Star Trek” where tragic villain Nero is tortured with a brain bug by a masked Klingon dude with a sensitive side. If this is the future of my favorite aliens I don’t like it. There ’s a lack of menace and warrior spirit in the masked guy about to insert...

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