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There’s official confirmation that Lars von Trier’s (ANTICHRIST) disaster film MELANCHOLIA does indeed have a sci-fi angle — if there was any lingering doubt.
The Hollywood Reporter’s news from Cannes mentions that John Hurt (ALIEN) has joined a cast that includes 24’s Kiefer Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst (SPIDERMAN), Charlotte Rampling (ZARDOZ), gennre regular Udo Kier, [...]

According to The Hollywood Reporter
Ivan Reitman’s (GHOSTBUSTERS) Montecito Picture Company and Paramount have picked up a a science fiction adventure-comedy script called FIELD TRIP from Jordan Cahan (MY BEST FRIEND’S GIRL).
While few details are available, it appears the film concerns a time-traveling trip by a high scool teacher and his students.
Paramount and Walden Media [...]

Variety reports that among other shows,
THE GHOST WHISPERER has been cancelled after five seasons.
Jennifer Love Hewitt played Melinda Gordon in the supernatural mystery series. Her character spoke to troubled spirits and tried to help them find peace before moving on.
Hard to comment intelligently on a show I’ve assiduously avoided for five years. A check [...]

Laserblast likes to shine a light on exciting horror, fantasy and science fiction home video releases, but this week the light is dim, with no exciting theatrical blockbusters making their debut on DVD, Blu-ray, or Video on Demand. Instead we look at a handful of direct-to-video titles and some cult movie re-issues, including one featuring [...]

Actor Ewan McGregor
Empire Online have been talking to director Terry Gilliam (TWELFTH MONKEYS, BRAZIL) at the Cannes film festival and it appears Ewan McGregor (STAR WARS, THE ISLAND) has been cast in his latest film, THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE.
DON QUIXOTE is a fantasy/sci-fi film about an advertising executive who, after finding himself [...]

Director Albert Pyun (THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER) returns to the genre of his 1982 hit.
TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE stars Kevin Sorbo (HERCULES), Victoria Maurette (BULLETFACE), Melissa Ordway (17 AGAIN) , Whitney Able, and features TS&TS star Lee Horsely. The screenplay is by Cynthia Curnan (INFECTION), who also produced.
“A princess is on a quest [...]

Sarah Roemer, star of THE GRUDGE 2 and DISTURBIA
I don’t know why, but actress Sarah Roemer (THE GRUDGE 2, ASYLUM) is suddenly hot. I don’t mean in the “hot chick” sense but in the sense that suddenly search engine traffic for her is up (although presumably there is some directly proportional relationship between the two [...]

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur show TERRA NOVA won’t be on FOX’s Fall schedule, but will instead have a mid-season premiere.
Rather than being set on another planet, as one might expect from the title, TERRA NOVA will be about “a family from 100 years in the future that travels 150 million [...]

Cinematical reports in news from Cannes that Bruce Willis (ARMAGGEDON) has joined the cast of the SF-Action time travel flim LOOPER.
He’ll apparently play a older version of the character that Joseph Gordon-Levitt (3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN)
will portray, as the film takes place in at least two time periods, separated by decades.
The reported plot [...]

Director George A Romero
It seems as though George A Romero (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, MARTIN) is letting the dead rest in pieces, at least for a short while. Variety are reporting that he’s set to remake Dario Argento’s (SUSPIRIA, TENEBRAE) 1975 Italian horror film, DEEP RED. The film is also, drum roll please, set [...]

Poster for Disney's 1954 version of 20, 000 Leagues
According to The Hollywood Reporter Sci-fi classic 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA is set for not one, but two remakes. Both Disney and 20th Century Fox  are trying to get a remake in the works, with the former lining up David Fincher (FIGHT CLUB, ALIEN 3) and, [...]

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MALICE IN WONDERLAND ain’t your mama’s (or Lewis Carroll’s) version of the tale.  No, this one, which has recently been released on DVD here in the States, has a decidedly mod sensibility to it, complete with plenty of words of the ‘F’ persuasion, city-boy attitude, near music video mentality, and a trip down [...]

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Buoyed by the huge success of the X-MEN animated series, Marvel Comics unleashed a swarm of new animated shows, based upon their superheroes, in the 1990s.  In just 1994, Marvel debuted Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, and Iron Man, which were all seen on the now defunct Fox Kids Saturday morning and weekday afternoon, [...]