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Angels & Demons is Filled with More Demons than Angels
ANGELS & DEMONS is a film that we originally thought was meant to be a mystery tale, a who-done-it. However, the picture involves a science fiction aspect in the form of ‘antimatter’ experiments, thus opening the door to that which is Cinefantastique. So, we decided that we should give it a look-see. And having done [...]
The Sky Crawlers – Anime Trailer
Y’know, it’s not like I get blurbed every day.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – Fantasy Film Podcast Review
Okay, here’s a bit of something new for CFQ: Whenever my internet series, MIGHTY MOVIE PODCAST, covers a film that would be of interest to the Cinefantastique audience, I’ll be posting a link to the show. First up: My review of NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN.
Sense of Wonder: Summer 2009 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Movie Release Schedule
Summers seems to start earlier every year. It’s not even June and We are already being bombarded by big-budget blockbusters. There are other genres (comedy, action) on display, but by and large summer is the season when science fiction and fantasy rule the box office (with some horror movies tossed into the mix, in order [...]
“Salvation” terminates $3-million at midnight
Christian Bale and Sam Worthington
Variety reports that midnight screenings of TERMINATOR SALVATION last night (technically, this morning) earned$3-million, launching the extended Memorial Day weekend with an early explosive bang. By way of comparison, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE earned almost $5-million at midnight screenings, and WATCHMEN took in $4.6-million the midnight before its official opening.
TERMINATOR SALVATION [...]
Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror lined up for New York Asian Film Festival
Subway Cinema has announced a slate of interesting science fiction, fantasy, and horror films for their eight annual New York Asian Film Festival, which is scheduled to run from June 19 through July 5 at the IFC Center in New York. Genre titles include:
THE FORBIDDEN DOOR (”Like a 19th century gothic novel adapted by Alfred Hitchcock [...]
American Psycho author’s script to get Roseblood treatment
Reuters reports that The Roseblood Movie Company – a joint venture of Myriad Pictures and RKO Pictures, focusing on horror-thrillers – is planning to prodcue a film from an untitled screenplay by Brett Easton Ellis. Brad Furman is signed on to direct the film, which is about a “social outcast who takes hostage a group [...]
Anti-matter explosion? No, it’s not Star Trek; it’s Angles & Demons
Symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) attempts to difuse an anti-matter bomb.
USA Today has a nice article pointing out that the MacGuffin driving the plot of ANGELS & DEMONS – an anti-matter bomb in - exists only in science fiction. Rather than simply deriding Hollywood for its fiction, the article uses the film as an opportunity [...]
Sense of Wonder: Tired of sequels? Hollywood offers prequels, too!
Over at USA Today, Scott Bowles points out that Summer 2009 is loaded with blockbusters that feature origin stories. The motivations for this a fairly clear: Hollywood likes familiar franchises, but audiences are getting tired of sequels rehashing the same old plots. Prequels allow filmmakers to fill in the back story; more than that, an [...]
Terminator Salvation – Science Fiction Film Review
I think films (like Terminator Salvation) strive to achieve in two areas: On a very visceral level, bringing you a lot of special effects explosiveness and fun, because that is what you want from a Terminator movie, but also, it will have more resonance if you have interesting themes.
We have a theme about the burden [...]
CW will open “Vampire Diaries”
The CW network has given a greenlight to VAMPIRE DIARIES, based on a series of books by L. J. Smith. The pilot, adapted by Kevin Williamson (SCREAM) and Julie Plec, is about a teen girl in a small town who falls in love with a vampire. Can you say TWILIGHT?
Roddenberry’s son will take you behind the scenes of Trek
Variety reports that Eugene Roddenberry will host a DVD box offering a look behind the scenes at the making of the various STAR TREK television series. Included will be prevously unseen behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew; unfortunately, footage dates back only to STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.
“This footage is a gold mine,” [...]
Foreign horror heads to Hollywood from Cannes
Variety reports that IFC Films has picked up U.S. distribution rights for ANTICHRIST, Lars Von Triers’ symbolic shocker, which recently screened at Cannes. From advance descriptions, the film sounds as if it will easily fall into NC-17 territory, so we can only hope that IFC puts it out uncut (and probably unrated, as they most [...]
