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Allison Miller Joins ‘Terra Nova’
Allison Miller (KINGS, BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE) has been added to the cast of Steven Spielbeg’s Fox Network prehistoric time-travel adventure series TERRA NOVA.
Miller is only the second actor to be announced for the show. She joins Jason O’Mara, who has the lead role of Jim Shannon, a father who moves with his family from 2149 [...]
Terra Nova Delayed to Fall 2011
The Fox Network has announced it’s delaying the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur series TERRA NOVA until the fall of 2011, rather than staring mid-season 2010-11. They plan to run the pilot/TV movie in May of 2011.
As previously reported, Emmy Award winner Alex Graves (FRINGE) will direct the pilot, and the press release announces that [...]
‘Real Steel’ Photo And Info
USA Today features pictures and press info on the in-production SF film REAL STEEL. (click on photo for larger view)
Directed by Shawn Levy (NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM), takes place in the near-future setting of 2020, by which robot boxers have replaced humans in the ring.
Hugh Jackman plays one of these replaced fighters, now out of [...]
‘Indy 5′ Back to Basics?
File It Under Rumors—For Now
According to Stuff.co.nz there’s definitely a fifth INDIANA JONES movie coming, and this one will be heading “back to its roots”, following the critical drubbing of THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL.
However, this information comes from an un-named source, so reader beware.
Both Harrison Ford and Shia LeBouf are said to be [...]
Speilberg’s ‘Terra Nova’ for Fox Mid-season
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 [...]
Abrams’ Super 8 Teaser and Info
J.J. Abrams (STAR TREK, CLOVERFIELD) and Steven Spielberg (E.T., JURASSIC PARK) have been working together on a rather hush-hush project called SUPER 8 over the last year, and the first teaser trailer has begun showing before screenings of IRON MAN 2. You can watch the teaser on the left, and we also have new information [...]
Spielberg will direct Harvey remake
Steven Spielberg has agreed to direct a remake of HARVEY, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Mary Chase. The previous film adaptation, released in 1950, is considered a classic, starring James Stewart as an eccentric man who believes he has a friendship with a 6-foot tall invisible rabbit named Harvey. The new screenplay is by novelist [...]
Sense of Wonder: Yahoo’s 100 Movies to See before You Die
Yahoo has posted their list of the 100 Movies to See Before You Die. Although the horror genre is, typically, under-represented, fans of science fiction and fantasy films will be pleased to see numerous favorites on the list. In fact, if one is liberal in their definition of what constitutes cinefantastique (as indeed we have [...]
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
It was easy to imagine a sequel to JURASSIC PARK: since the film adaptation omitted many memorable set pieces from Michael Crichton’s novel all that was needed was some plot device to get the characters back on the island and then stitch together the unused material. However, this method was rendered unnecessary when Crichton wrote [...]
Jurassic Park (1993)
This film deserves the highest of all praise: it actually lived up to its hype when it was released in the summer of 1993. This is the event for which dino-fans had been waiting; it is the 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY of its genre – the best dinosaur movie ever – one whose special effects [...]
Revisiting Raiders
Decades later, a trio of teens look back on their home movie remake of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
It’s amazing to realize that it took Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford 19 years to conjure up a fourth Indiana Jones adventure, one they called INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL, which was [...]
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull – San Francisco Preview
Actually, while George Lucas, Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg and all the other stars of INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL were holding court at Cannes, in the south of France, I was watching their new film at San Francisco’s legendary Castro theater – the same theater where I’ve seen Mr. Lucas [...]
Steven Spielberg’s “Raiders of the Crystal Skull”
Legend says that a crystal skull was once stolen from a mystical lost city of gold in the Amazon jungles of Peru. It is supposedly guarded by the living dead, and it is said, that whoever returns the mystic skull to the Temple of Akator, will be given control over its powers.
Today at the Cannes [...]
