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SUPER 8 – the highly anticipated science fiction thriller from writer-director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg – explodes onto screens this week. Naturally, the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast – the podcast of horror, fantasy, and science fiction films – is here to tell you whether or not to get your hopes up; CFQ regulard [...]

KNOWING is the new #1 film at the box office. The sci-fi fantasy – directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage – made its debut in 3,322 North American theatres, where it earned an estimated $24.8-million, easily surpassing the second place entry, I LOVE YOU MAN.
As for holdover sci-fi, fantasy, and horror films, last week’s [...]

After NEXT, Nicolas Cage fans must be wondering why the star opted to appear in another film about predicting the future. Presumably the actor was working on the theory that “if at first you don’t succeed, try again”; unfortunately, KNOWING shows little awareness of what went wrong before. Despite an intriguing premise and a handful of [...]

[ March 20, 2009; ] Nicolas Cage stars for director Alex Proyas (DARK CITY) in this thriller, written by Ryne Douglas Pearson and Juliet Snowden, about a teacher who comes to believe that a time capsule in his son’s school offers predictions of fatal future events. Rose Byrne and Chandler Canterbury co-star. Summit Entertainment has the film scheduled for release [...]

Variety reports that director Stephen Norrington – who has been missing in action since LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN tanked a few years ago – has signed on to write and direct a “reinvention” of THE CROW. That 1994 film, directed by Alex Proyas and based on the graphic novel by James O’Barr about a man who [...]

At the MTV Movies Blog, contributor Shawn Adler is perplexed by a quote from director Alex Proyas regarding his upcoming film, KNOWING, which stars Nicolas Cage. The story deals with the unearthing of a 50-year-old time capsule that seems to accurately predict subsequent disasters, including Armageddon. Says Proyas of the premise:
“It’s not supernatural,” Proyas said [...]

Hollywood Reporter tells us that Alex Proyas (DARK CITY) has signed on to write and direct a film adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s novel The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. (The article dryly notes that a “title change is likely.”) Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer and Brad Fischer will produce the film for Phoenix Pictures. Proyas will [...]

Alex Proyas’ sci-fi noir masterpiece broods long and hard on the nature of identity. 
“I think; therefore, I am,” said Rene Descartes, in his attempt to find a basic principal of complete certainty, an unshakable foundation on which to build his philosophy. No matter what else one may doubt about the universe—say, the evidence of our senses, [...]

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: TheAge.Com.Au offers an interview with Nicolas Cage, on location in Australia for KNOWING, an “apocalyptic” story about a man racing to prevent prophecies of doom from becoming reality:
“It’s subject matter that definitely makes one think about what one would do in the face of these incredible circumstances,” he said yesterday. “Where [...]

Attention, denizens of the Big Apple: Cinefantastique contributor Andrew Fitizpatrick (who also runs his own blog, The Blood-Spattered Scribe) will be appearing at the Rubin Museum of Art tonight to introduce a screening of DARK CITY. This little masterpiece of science-fiction and film noir came and went without a peep back in 1998, but ten [...]

Director Alex Proyas created one of the great works of modern science fiction cinema with Dark DARK CITY in 1998. Alas, this follow-up, while entertaining on a few levels, is no match for that earlier masterpiece. Instead, it feels like an anonymous Hollywood studio film that overwhelmed the director with the demands to fashion a blockbuster vehicle [...]

Variety reports that Nicolas Cage will star in KNOWING, a thriller directed by Alex Proyas (DARK CITY).
Cage will play a teacher who examines the contents of a time capsule unearthed at his son’s elementary school. Startling predictions in the time capsule that have already come true lead him to believe the world is going to [...]