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Here’s the latest trailer/TV spot
for THE LAST AIRBENDER.
“Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Aang (Noah Ringer) discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements.
The live action film also stars:
 Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Jessica Jade Andres, and Dev Patel
Written and Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

It’s based on the animated series  AVATAR: [...]

ConQuesT 41, Kansas City’s Oldest Science Fiction Convention, is coming up this weekend at the Hyatt Regency Hotel .
Their theme this year is Steampunk and Evil Geniuses.

Guests include:
Michael Swanwick – Author Guest of Honor -Winner of
Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, & World Fantasy Awards
Toni Weisskopf – Toastmaster – Publisher, Baen Books
Peri Charlifu – Artist [...]

Cinefantastique celebrates the horror stars’ birthdays with retrospective interviews regarding their work together on HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS, THE OBLONG BOX, and SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN.

According to The Hollywood Reporter
Warner Brother’s LOGAN’S RUN remake may be back up on it’s feet, with yet another director in talks to take on the project, long mired in ‘Development Hell’.
Carl Rinch, known mainly for commercials and the short futuristic film THE GIFT (watch at left) for Philips Electronics, had previously been up for [...]

The DVD of this horror/thriller is certainly horrifying…I guess 1 out of 2 ain’t bad!

-Summer Mini-series Seems to Have One Foot in Genre-
According to NBC.com
PERSONS UNKNOWN is a 13 episode one hour mystery “in which a group of strangers must come together to solve the puzzle of their lives.”
Oscar-winning writer Christopher McQuarrie (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) created the series and executive-produces with Heather McQuarrie and Remi Aubuchon.
The series [...]

People are up-in-arms over the “Whitewashing” of major Hollywood franchises. Is it warranted?

The sci-fi animated comedy FUTURAMA is back from ‘the dead’, a fate to be shared by most of it’s characters.
Canceled by the Fox Network in 2003, and having an afterlife in Direct-To-Video movies, it’s being resurrected by Comedy Central, in 26 new half-hour episodes, begining June 24th.
Entertainment Weekly interviewed Executive Producer David X. Cohen about [...]

Here’s a press release from SyFy:

“Syfy has inked award winning director/executive producer Jack Bender as director/executive producer for the action-adventure 90-minute pilot, ALPHAS (working title) from writers Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand, Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk) and Michael Karnow, it was announced today by Mark Stern, Executive Vice President of Original Programming, Syfy [...]

Tuesday, May 25 offers a variety of horror, fantasy, and science fiction titles on DVD and Blu-ray: TRUE BLOOD, THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON; DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG, THE ROAD, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD.

THR’s HeatVision Blog reports that the popular video game Mass Effect has been optioned as a feature film by Legendary Pictures (THE DARK KNIGHT).
Mark Prorosevich (I AM LEGEND) is said to be in talks to write the screenplay.
Former Marvel Entertainment head Avi Arad and Ari Arad are on the project as producers, along [...]

VIZ Media is letting fans watch VAMPIRE KNIGHT free online at VizAnime.com. Here’s their synopsis:

“Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorms, they cross paths with the mysterious Night Class on their way to school. Yuki [...]

Not since the brilliant French film MARTYRS (2008) has a movie come on the scene, grabbed you by the throat, and essentially dared you to watch it without flinching. This is what was promised with THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE: FIRST SEQUENCE, which is gaining quite the cult following and is now in limited release around [...]