March 11, 2009
Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood reports that Mickey Rourke has signed a deal to appear in Iron Man 2, apparently ringing the bell on the ongoing wrestling match between him and Marvel. The site reports that Rourke signed on for the role of the Russian villain in the sequel after at first being low-...
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Yahoo! Movies has posted a new theatrical trailer for Drag Me to Hell, Sam Raimi's upcoming horror movie. The film marks a return by the Spider-Man director to the kind of horror films that first won him fame, including Evil Dead and Army of Darkness. The movie stars Alison Lohman as a bank loan off...
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March 06, 2009
Universal is finalizing a deal with Media Rights Capital for the film The Adjustment Bureau, which would star Matt Damon in a contemporary love story with sci-fi overtones loosely based on a Philip K. Dick story, reported Variety....
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March 05, 2009
It is a dark time for the republic: The economy's so bad some ardent sci-fi fans have had to sell off their prized possessions, CNN reports. That includes this CNN "iReporter," who posts images of his original Star Wars stormtrooper costume, which he sold for $700, and a Lord of the Rings Nazgul Rin...
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March 02, 2009
Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, who voices Queen Hippolyta in the new feature-length direct-to-DVD animated film Wonder Woman, told SCI FI Wire at WonderCon in San Francisco over the weekend that she'd like to reprise her role in a live-action version of the story. "I want to play Hippolyta...
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February 27, 2009
By Jeff Garigliano First it conquered the academy, then the best-seller lists. Now behavioral economics has infiltrated the White House, where it’s shaping tax and health care policies. So what’s the best one-volume intro to the new science of decision-making? It depends. If you want a well-argu...
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Michael Petroni, who worked on the screenplays of the Anne Rice vampire flick Queen of the Damned and Possession, the U.S. adaptation of the hit Korean ghost story, has been hired to write The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the next installment in the Narnia franchise. In late Dec...
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February 26, 2009
Total Recall—the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action movie based on a Philip K. Dick story—may be headed for a remake, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia a contemporary version of t...
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February 25, 2009
Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, Tiffany Shepis, Justin Pierre (singer of Motion City Soundtrack), Lydia Lunch (Richard Kern's Hardcore Collection) and Davey Havok (singer of A.F.I.) have signed on for the "illustrated film" adaptation Godkiller, written and directed by filmmaker Matt Pizzolo based on...
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February 21, 2009
(From left) Alan Cumming as Glitch, Raoul Trujillo as Raw and Neal McDonough as Cain in Tin Man Is the SCI FI hit miniseries Tin Man going to become a regular series? Despite reports to the contrary, SCI FI's executive vice president of original programming, Mark Stern, said that there have be...
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