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A list of the top-grossing science fiction, fantasy, horror and spy-fi films of 2008.

If you’re a fan of the 1927 silent science fiction classic Metropolis, I’ve got some news for you: you haven’t seen the whole movie. In fact, you don’t know the half of it. Literally.
This past summer, film archivists discovered Fritz Lange’s director’s cut of the 1927 film that has been thought lost for 80 years.
The [...]

Aliens invade – and hilarity ensues. Set in 1957, Alien Trespass chronicles a fiery object from space that crashes into a mountaintop in the California desert, bringing the threat of disaster to Earth. Out of the flying saucer escapes a murderous creature – the Ghota, which is bent on destroying all life forms on the planet. A benevolent alien from the spaceship, Urp, inhabits the body of Ted Lewis (Eric McCormack) – a local astronomer – and with the help of Tammy, (Jenni Baird) a waitress from the local diner, sets out to save mankind.

What do you get when you re-make a classic landmark of science fiction film history like the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still?

Better yet, throw in box-office favorite Keanu Reeves as the alien with the warning to humanity and replace the cold war message with one dealing with today’s obsession about environmental catastrophe.

Animated Weinstein film Igor was master of the sci-fi box office this past weekend. The film brought in $8 million in its first weekend, easily outdistancing No. 2 genre flick, Ghost Town, a fellow newcomer which brought in $5.2 million over the same period.
Last week’s No. 1, The Dark Knight, fell to the third spot [...]

From Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago and acclaimed director Fernando Meirelles (“The Constant Gardener” and “City of God”) comes “Blindness.” It is described as “the compelling story of humanity in the grip of an epidemic of mysterious blindness. It is an unflinching exploration of human nature, both bad and good – people’s selfishness, opportunism, and indifference, but also their capacity for empathy, love, and sheer perseverance.”

OPENS: September 19, 2008
RATING: PG-13 (Language)
GENRE: Fantasy, Romantic Comedy
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni
Director: David Koepp
Writer: David Koepp & John Kamps
Plot: He sees dead people… and they annoy him.
Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he [...]

In its ninth week in release, Batman flick. The Dark Knight continued its reign at the box office this past weekend ad was top film over a dwindling group of genre films at the box office.
No new science fiction, fantasy, horror or spy-fi films have opened over the past two weekends as mainstream comedies dominated at [...]

OPENS: September 19, 2008
RATING: PG (Some scary situations, Minor adult themes)
GENRE: Fantasy, Animation
Starring: (voices of) John Cusak, John Cleese, Steve Buscemi, Sean Hayes, Eddie Izzard, Jennifer Coolidge, Jay Leno, Molly Shannon
Director: Anthony Leondis 
Writer: Chris McKenna
Plot: In a land of mad scientists and diabolical inventions, what do you do when you’re born with a hunch on your back? You become [...]

Despite poor reviews, newcomer Babylon A.D. topped the genre Labor Day holiday weekend box office with just under $10 million in ticket sales.