The kid-friendly book-to-screen animated fantasy, How to Train Your Dragon, swooped in and took over the box office this past weekend in its debut, knocking Tim Burton‘s Alice in Wonderland down to the second spot for the weekend ending March 28. The other genre film debut, Hot Tub Time Machine, the Generation X science fiction [...]
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Get your geek on.Archive for March, 2010
Video game designer and avid space enthusiast, Richard Garriott was profiled by National Public Radio (NPR) this past week. It wasn’t for his game production skills; the creator of Ultima and producer of City of Heroes, City of Villains and Tabula Rasa was noted because a junker car he bought in the 1990s that had [...]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF7YEu5Pi4k] OPENS: March 26, 2009 GENRE: Horror, Thriller, Ghost Story From the Studio: THE ECLIPSE tells the story of Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier. Lately he has been seeing and hearing strange things late at night in his house. He isn’t sure if he [...]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zu9XLp_X1A] Not as much of a genre film as it is a Gen X mid-life crisis “bromance” comedy with a 1986 soundtrack. OPENS: March 26, 2010 GENRE: Comedy, Science Fantasy, Time Travel Plot from the studio release: HOT TUB TIME MACHINE follows a group of best friends whove become bored with their adult lives: Adam (John Cusack) [...]
The new Hubble 3D documentary – with eye-popping previews shown before most showings of Avatar – is set for a nationwide debut May 6. But Starting April 19, it is playing in limited release at 39 theaters in major markets. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8dcTzwMDk] Related articles by Zemanta ‘Hubble 3D’: An out-of-this-world documentary (seattletimes.nwsource.com) New 3D Film Makes [...]
Opening wide starting April 19, 2010 – the new film Repo Men – is not at all related to the 1980s cult classic Repo Man. Judging by the trailer below, it has much more in common with the 2008 cult classic, Repo! The Genetic Opera. Studio Description: In the futuristic action-thriller Repo Men, humans have [...]
Warner Brothers Pictures has released the following featurette to promote the new film, Clash of the Titans, a re-make of the 1981 film of the same name. It is set to open in theaters on April 2, 2010. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m29XIsoI1c0] Related articles by Zemanta Lastest 3D Converts: Clash of the Titans & Ghostbusters 3? (screenrant.com) [...]
After languishing in recent years at Harris Publications and its bizarre fight with Fangoria, the 40-year-old Vampirella comic book franchise has a new home with Dynamite Entertainment. “Vampirella is one of the most well known and longest running comic characters in the history of the business,” Nick Barrucci, Dynamite’s president said in a March 17 [...]
Ryan Phillippe, the 35-year-old actor of Oscar-winning non-genre films such as Crash and Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers confirmed recent rumors that he has, indeed, auditioned for the lead role of Steve Rogers in the upcoming film adaptation of Marvel’s Captain America, according to various news reports. Phillippe joins an increasingly long list of [...]