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Fox Network options DC Comics character, commisions pilot script.

So Real, You Can Almost Smell the Lion Breath: A beloved moment from THE LION KING 3D.
There were no new genre films in theaters this weekend, but there was one old one in a shiny new, 3D coat: THE LION KING 3D, which just so happened to top this week’s box-office. With a prescience befitting [...]

After discussing the goods & bads of Steven Soderbergh’s CONTAGION, Lawrence French and Dan Persons take a few minutes to debate George Lucas’ motivations for constantly revising his STAR WARS saga and continue to explore CONTAGION’s place in the highly virulent universe of biothriller films. Click the player to hear the conversation.

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Ryan Gosling in DRIVE.
Somehow, it seems like it was only a matter of time before director Nicolas Winding Refn hitched his camera to a hurtling piece of American metal and did a full-on car chase film. In DRIVE, Ryan Gosling plays a guy named… wait for it… Driver, a stunt man with [...]

DOCTOR WHO deals with THE GOD COMPLEX, will he face his darkest fear?

CBS/Paramount is working on HD remasters of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, JJ Abrams open to a new TREK series.

Noted actor was in several genre productions, including his Oscar-winning role in the science fiction classic CHARLY.

Turn Your Head, Cough, and Die: Jennifer Ehle battles the bio-apocalypse in CONTAGION.
Break out the Purell, Steven Soderbergh is in mainstream thriller mode and he’s decided to get under your skin — almost literally — with a tale about a virus that doesn’t know when to quit. CONTAGION follows Soderbergh’s TRAFFIC template, spinning a world-spanning [...]

The first episode of the original series aired 45 years ago today, September 8th, 1966.

Modern-day Indiana Jones-like novel series as potential TV series.

Mark Bomback enlisted to rewrite WOLVERINE’s Japanese sojourn.

Fresh Meet: Sara Paxton is the deep blue plate special in SHARK KNIGHT… 'scuse us, SHARK NIGHT 3D.
Yes, we’re deliberately misspelling SHARK KNIGHT. Why? Well, because it’s Labor Day weekend, and also because it amuses us to think of an insatiable predator of the deep leering in towards a nubile, young twenty-something, unleashing his awful, [...]

Standing for Justice: Andy Lau confronts the intangible in DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME.
Cause for celebration, indeed: Hong Kong director Tsui Hark is back, and if anything, his vision has gotten more crazily energetic and eye-dazzling in his latest effort. In DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME, Andy [...]