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After months of being teased by photos, behind-the-scenes docs, and all manner of promotional material, the official trailer for AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD, makes its way to home viewers. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past year, here is a quick synopsis of the zombie goodness heading your way (from [...]

Deadline.com reports that David S. Goyer (THE DARK KNIGHT) has sold Warner Brothers the film rights to a series of science fiction novels  he is still currently writing.
The writer, also working on Warner’s upcoming MAN OF STEEL Supeman reboot, is in the process of completing the first book in a projected trilogy of novels. has [...]

Dimension Films is so happy about the reaction to PIRANHA 3D that they have put out a press release announcing that a sequel is already in the works. The announcement is rather premature, reading more like a marketing ploy to boost the box office fortunes of PIRANHA 3D’s current theatrical release than like a legitimate announcement [...]

Along with DEATH RACE 2000, this fun-filled exploitation horror film from 1978 is one of the great achievements to emerge from New World Pictures, a low-budget company that Roger Corman created after giving up hands-on directing to become an executive. New World churned out enjoyable exploitation fare for drive-in theatres and multiplexes in the 1970s, [...]

The third chapter of the beloved children’s book series is hitting theaters in December, and these three new clips are paving the way.

A brand new international poster for RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D has surfaced. Have you seen it?

Enjoy this brand new set of stills from the set of CAPTAIN AMERICA!

ABC is streaming the pilot episode of its superhero series NO ORDINARY FAMILY online at NoOrdinaryScreening.com . You need to be in the first 50,000 viewers, and use the case-sensitive password Extraordinary . It’s being presented with “limited” commercial messages.
NO ORDINARY FAMILY premiers September 28th.
via KsiteTV

Touring Austrialia, writer/director Joss Whedon told the newspaper The Sunday Herald-Sun that THE AVENGERS movie will not be based on any single comic book, but rather a synthesis of sources.
“It will be a new story that has many things from different arcs of the comics in it. There is no one Avengers story that you [...]

According to ScreenRant, 20th Century Fox is actively seeking higher level stars for their FANTASTIC FOUR re-boot.
They repeated the rumor that Alice Eve, who stepped away from the role of Emma Frost in Fox’s X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, is in line for the female lead, Sue Storm. Amber Heard (ZOMBIELAND) is reportedly also being considered.
They claim [...]

Renee Zellweger Tries To Squint The Devil Away In This New Thriller!

It’s a day of interviews and reviews at the Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction podcast. First, a chat with director Daniel Stamm and producer Eli Roth on their film THE LAST EXORCISM, opening on Friday, August27. Then an in-depth discussion of PIRANHA 3D, Alexandre Aja’s ultra-gory remake of the 1978 cult classic directed by [...]

Since Alexandre Aja and company could not be bothered to craft a coherent movie, I see no reason I should go to the trouble of writing a coherent review; instead, I will follow their lead and just throw together a series of random thoughts “inspired” by this cinematic chum-bucket.
The first is that, because PIRANHA 3D [...]