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Tremendous special effects duke it out with stupid characterizations in "2012," a movie less concerned with Mayan theology than with putting on a thrill ride featuring 1,001 close calls. Massive destruction is caught with wide-angle shots and aerial shots that were made with seamless composites by a heavily geared special effects team, of course, director Roland Emmerich of “Independence Day” fame as the commandant....(more)
Somewhere in the range between supercool and cool, Surrogates has a constant slick Magna comic look and brisk, dashing storytelling involving a futureworld where humans let their humanoid robot counterparts do everything for them in the real world. Bruce Willis is the perfect action rogue for this kind of picture, out to smash in some robot heads – which he does a couple of times....(more)
They have arrived. They hover above Johannesburg, South Africa in a massive spaceship freight that is indefinitely stalled....(more)
Universal Pictures has tapped Bryan Singer to direct a big screen feature based on the "Battlestar Galactica" TV series. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the big budget film will serve as a standalone to the TV series, which recently ended its run on the SyFy Channel....(more)
Universal Pictures has won the bidding rights for an "Asteroids" film adaptation from Atari, a project in which Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce. Matt Lopez will pen the screenplay....(more)
Dreamworks is working on a deal to acquire the sci-fi novel "I Am Number Four," the first book in an upcoming six-part series from WME. According to Variety, Michael Bay is being setup to produce and possibly direct the film....(more)
Bloody-Disgusting will produce the project....(more)
A new "Buffy" movie is in the works and it's going forward with or without series creator Joss Whedon. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo Entertainment are working with original movie director Fran Rubel Kuzui and her husband, Kaz Kuzui, on a new "Buffy" movie that will reboot the franchise....(more)
The Disney film "Flight of the Navigator" is set to be remade with screenwriter John Hyde, who exec produced the original, will oversee this film as well....(more)
Hollywood mogul Robert Evans and ITV will be producing a feature film version of the 1970s British TV series "UFO." Ryan Gaudet and Joseph Kanarek are penning the script....(more)
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