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Sam Worthington is expected to return for the sequel.
The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures are hiring two new writers for a sequel to CLASH OF THE TITANS: Dan Mazeau and David Leslie Johnson. Greg Berlanti is already working on a treatment; Mazeau and Johnson will collaborate with him, then write the [...]

You asked for it, and here it is! The fourth and final installment of the popular Twilight saga: Breaking Dawn, directed by Bill Condon, is set to hit theaters November 18, 2011, according to the Sci-Fi Movie Page. But before the wildly successful franchise’s final film reaches the big screen, there are still some hurdles [...]

This is a mess of a film (released on Blu-ray on May 25, 2010) that has poor CGI, problematic cast, and story issues. Originally aired on the SyFy Channel, BEYOND SHERWOOD FOREST tries to hammer the Robin Hood mythos into the sword-and-sorcery genre with terrible results.

Here is the fourth television spot for THE LAST AIRBENDER, M. Night Shyamalan’s feature film adaptation of the popular cartoon series.

Read more about The Last Airbender (2010) by clicking the links below:

The Last Airbender now playing
The Last Airbender TV spot
The Last Airbender French trailer
Third Last Airbender Trailer Arrives
The Last Airbender: Katar and Zuko fight
Last Airbender: Fire Nation [...]

According to Entertainment Weekly,
tween vampire flick TWILIGHT: NEW MOON (2009) took the Best Movie Award at The MTV Movie Awards ceremony.
NEW MOON was directed by Chris Weitz (FANTASY ISLAND), from a screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg (DEXTER), based on the novel by Stephanie Meyers.
Best Female Performance went to Kristen Stewart for her role [...]

Also premiering at the MTV MOVIE Awards was this new trailer for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, Part 1
Warner Brothers Pictures’ THE DEATHLY HALLOWS opens November 19th.
Directed by David Yates (THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE), with a screenplay by Steve Kloves (GOBLET OF FIRE), based on J.K. Rowling’s novel.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Allan [...]

Director Edgar Wright (SHAUN OF THE DEAD) introduced this clip from SCOTT PILGRIM Vs. THE WORLD for the MTV Movie Awards. (Commercial will play first.)
SCOTT PILGRIM is due in theaters August 13th, and stars Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Evans, Alison Pill, Brandon Routh, Jason Schwartzman and Anna Kendrick.

Read more about Scott Pilgrim [...]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, casting has begun on CAMELOT, a series to be broadcast in the US on the premium STARZ cable channel.
Joseph Fiennes (FLASH FORWARD) has been cast as the wizard Merlin, while Eva Green (CASINO ROYALE) will portray Morgan le Fey.
Jamie Campbell Bower (TWILIGHT: NEW MOON) will play the young [...]

John Betancourt of Wildside Press informs me that the late George Scithers’s (Hugo Award winning editor of Wierd Tales, Amazing Stories, Issac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine) personal art collection has been consigned to Worlds of Wonder.
They’ve listed the items on eBay, and feature original artwork and prints by people like George Barr, Frank Frazetta, [...]

[ June 5, 2010; 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Have you heard about that Direct-to-Video version of Edgar Rice Burroughs A PRINCESS OF MARS? Catch it for free on SyFy this Saturday at 9 PM ET/PT.

It’s billed as a “SyFy Original”, but it’s really from The Asylum, that cheeky band of movie privateers headed by producer David Michael Latt (WAR OF THE WORLDS [2005]).
Anything that [...]

Here’s a new Trailer for action-conedy SCOTT PILGRIM Vs. THE WORLD, based on
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s surrealistic sci-fi/fantasy video game-influenced graphic novel series.
Slacker-rocker Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) takes on the League of Evil Ex-Boyriends in order to win over sub-space traveling delivery girl Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).
Also starring Chris Evans (FANTASTIC FOUR) and Brandon Routh [...]

My friends over at The One Ring Net posted this shocking news at their site today:
Guillermo Del Toro announced today that he is no longer directing the two movies based on J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”, but will continue to co-write the screenplays. Out of respect to the legions of loyal Tolkien fans, [...]

Viewed from the Olympian heights of Cinefantastique – the Online Magazine with a Sense of Wonder, which maintains a reputation for demanding dilettantism, even outright pretension, in its assessment horror, fantasy, and science fiction films – PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME seems virtually made to be derided.  Its package of elements is less [...]