When your castmembers start auditioning for new shows, it’s a pretty bad sign that your show might be, uh, on the fence when it comes to renewal. Such is the case for ABC’s quickly plummeting “FlashForward”, which has seen three (three!) castmembers getting new gigs lately while the show is still in its first season and hoping for a second.
You’ll Never Work in This Town Again! Battlefield Earth Writer Apologizes for Movie
Talk about sticking a fork in your career! Or perhaps not, since according to IMDB.com, writer J.D. Shapiro hasn’t had much of a career since being known as “one of the two guys who wrote ‘Battlefield Earth’” (along with Corey Mandell, whose own screenwriting career never progressed pass “Earth”).
Iron Man 2 T.V. Spot Showcases Scarlet And Donuts
There’s a new T.V. spot for “Iron Man 2″ that debuted during the Kids’ Choice Awards on Nickelodeon. There’s some new footage within and man is this movie going to be good. I can’t tell you the Geek tech envy I have when I watch what Tony Stark gets to play with.
Jonny Lee Miller Reported As Front Runner For The Walking Dead
Jonny Lee Miller, former main squeeze of Angelina Jolie, is the front runner for the role of Rick Grimes in the Frank Darabont directed pilot for AMC’s The Walking Dead, based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore. Jonny was Sick Boy in “Trainspotting” as well as the star of the recent Eli Stone.
Cargo (2009) Movie Review
WHAT IS IT: “Cargo”, a moody, ambitious sci-fi thriller from Switzerland, directed by Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter, and co-written by Engler, Arnold Bucher, Johnny Hartmann, and Thilo Roscheisen. Made for an estimated $4.5 Swiss Francs (about $4.2 million dollars), the film recently made its North American debut at the SXSW Festival.
Is Ridley And Tony Scott Developing A Blade Runner Sequel?
As “Blade Runner” is my favorite movie and actually a bit of an obsession, I’ve always treated the thought of a sequel with mixed emotions. If you go there and mess it up, it’s going to sting. I really love “Blade Runner” because of all the movies I’ve ever seen, it came closest to generating the feeling like this alternate or future place actually existed. It was as real as a documentary or like a really interesting place you went to on vacation but could never afford to go to again.
Trailer for the Shumway Brothers’ Sci-Fi Actioner Enigma
You don’t get a lot of independently financed and produced sci-fi action movies nowadays. Or at least, you don’t get one that looks decent enough to tell people about without, you know, lying your ass off. The Brothers Shumway are trying to change that with their new movie “Enigma”, which looks like it’s got shades of Christian Alvart’s “Pandorum” and David Twohy’s “Pitch Black”. Trust me, those aren’t bad comparisons at all. Check out a full synopsis and trailer for the film below.
Will The Swiss Made Cargo Be The Next Great Sci-Fi Epic?
Grand, big idea and stately Sci-Fi epics have been in some short supply lately. Sci-Fi movies that work principally on story and feel have been largely replaced with more explosions, big toothy otherworldly human munchers or furry blue persecuted natives.
Brian K. Vaughan Of Y: The Last Man Fame Dangles His Post Apocalyptic Heist Movie To Studios
Brian K. Vaughan is a killer comic book writer of considerable fame. He’s the man behind Y: The Last Man, soon to start filming starring the rumoured Shia LaBeouf. Brian was also a producer for a little show called LOST. Brian has a new script that’s getting some serious buzz and it sounds like a can’t miss green light.
Predators Character Profile Video: Adrien Brody’s Royce
The latest “Predators” sneak peek gives us a look and some insights into Royce, the character played by Adrien Brody, because when you think of sci-fi balls to the wall action movie, you of course think Adrien Brody. Okay, maybe not so much, but maybe that’ll change after “Predators” invades movie screens everywhere.
Paul W.S. Anderson to Direct Buck Rogers 3D
After a lot of fits and starts, Buck Rogers is finally going to wake up in the 25th century again — thanks to Paul W.S. Anderson, who has signed on to direct a 3D feature film based on the character originally created by Philip Francis Nowlan and was launched way back in the 1920s. The character’s most famous incarnation is, no doubt, the TV show “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” starring Gil Gerard and the comely Erin Gray.
TV Review: FlashForward, Episode: Revelation Zero
Ever since “Flash Forward” temporarily departed the airwaves almost four months ago, the Internet has not been kind to the show groomed to be the next “Lost”. If you believe everything you’ve read in the past month, David Goyer abandoned the show to embark on a five state killing spree, the entire cast is in need of being vaccinated for rabies, and executives at ABC have turned to Oxycotin/Xanax/Percocet/airplane glue/dollar wine and anything else within reach to deal with the constant stress of their high profile implosion.
Michael Bay Says No 3D for Transformers 3
Given the option, Michael Bay wants no part of the 3D making process, and he wants no part of converting his “Transformers 3″ into 3D just so studios can charge an extra $3 bucks per movie ticket. The reasons? Bay believes 3D cameras are too heavy to shoot with during production, and converting 2D movies into 3D (the popular method nowadays with studios) is just, well, shit.
G4′s Olivia Munn Talks Iron Man 2 in Complex Magazine
This month’s Complex Magazine cover girl is none other than G4′s Olivia Munn, the object of wet dreams for sci-fi geeks everywhere. In the mag, Munn talks about a variety of things, including her role in Jon Favreau’s coming “Iron Man 2″.
Here’s an excerpt from the “Iron Man 2″ part:
Ridley Scott Associates Brings Some Nifty Sci-Fi In Parallel Lines
Ridley Scott, Sci-Fi director genius and generator of such monumental works as “Blade Runner” and “Alien” has gathered together some “associates” of the directing kind and through the good funding of Phillips, brought them together for the parallel lines project, where each director, including the likes of Greg Fay, Jake Scott, Johnny Hardstaff, Carl Erik Rinsch and animators Hi-Sim, assemble completely different stories using the exact same dialogue. Wacky.
