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Special Episode of Bones To Be Heavy With Avatar Product Placement
The next episode of Bones , set to air on December 3rd, is to be called The Gamer in the Grease and appears to be jam packed full of Avatar product placement. There’s a promo clip on Youtube, which you can see embedded below the break. The show airs on Fox which is, of course, a ...
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Steven Spielberg Teams with Stephen King for Under the Dome
We mentioned last week that Stephen King mentioned that his new book, Under The Dome , might end up as an HBO miniseries. Well, Variety now has word that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks TV have optioned the book and are looking to set it up as a mini series, likely for cable. Spielberg ...
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New Avatar Featurette Shows Off The “Human Hardware”
IGN UK has a new four minute featurette for James Cameron ’s Avatar which focuses on the human sci-fi tech hardware contained in the film: From the cryogenic drawers that the humans are put in during transport to Pandora, to the oxygen masks that must be used while in the ...
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First Look: The Dream Machine, From Paprika Director Satoshi Kon
I’m not much of an anime fan. Actually, I actively dislike the bulk of the anime I’ve seen. Movies by Hayao Miyazaki get my attention (there’s an argument to be made that, thanks to different sensibilities when building story and character, Miyazaki’s movies are not ...
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Capcom’s Upcoming Dark Void to be Adapted to Film, Possibly as a Brad Pitt Vehicle
I’m not at all surprised to read that Dark Void , the upcoming video game from Capcom, will be adapted into a feature film. The first time I played the game, at Capcom’s editor’s day in early 2008, the game’s filmic influences were obvious. There’s a large ...
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Sam Worthington Books Another One: Adaptation of The Last Days of American Crime
If you’re making a big budget action or genre picture these days, one of the first names to attach seems to be Sam Worthington . That’s what working with Cameron and being in a Terminator movie will do for a guy. And, despite the highly forgettable nature of Terminator: Salvation ...
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Sex Swap Sci-Fi Story Cycler Coming to Cinemas
Sex Swap Sci-Fi Story Cycler Coming to Cinemas
slashfilm.com — Angryfilms have an obvious taste for projects with real clear hooks and bold high concepts and their latest acquisition is no different. Seemingly blending PMS metaphor with a little bit of Mr. Jekyll and Dr. Hyde , the Cycler novels introduce ... (more) Sex Swap Sci-Fi Story Cycler Coming to Cinemas
Comic Adaptations: Platinum Studios Tackles Nightfall; CW Tries Again With Global Frequency
What if you went to prison, only to discover that the institution was run by vampires? That’s the very silly premise behind the graphic novel Nightfall , which is now the target of a film adaptation by Aurora Productions and Nightfall’s publisher Platinum Studios. (Someone, ...
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Avatar: French Poster, 3 Hour Running Time Confirmed, Soundtrack Track Listing Reveals Entire Plot
Avatar: French Poster, 3 Hour Running Time Confirmed, Soundtrack Track Listing Reveals Entire Plot
slashfilm.com — Back in 1999, when I was still looking forward to Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace , I attempted to avoid any and all spoilers. I wanted to go into the movie not knowing what happened, partly because I figured that we all know what ... (more) Avatar: French Poster, 3 Hour Running Time Confirmed, ...
J.J. Abrams Teases Star Trek 2 Details; His Return, and the Possibility of Khan
Star Trek 2 details are floating all over the place following a recent event to promote the film’s DVD and Bluray release. Sci Fi Wire reports that both J.J. Abrams and writer/producer Damon Lindelof have stated that 2012 is pretty much the earliest we can expect the film, ...
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Justin Theroux Scripts Space Invader
Justin Theroux has been hired to pen a draft of the astronaut romantic comedy Space Invader . Theroux is an actor turned screenwriter whose writing credits include Tropic Thunder and the upcoming Iron Man 2 . Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger sold the project to 20th Century Fox and penned the ...
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TV Tidbits: Bob Saget’s Strange Days, Alternative Star Trek Pilot Coming, Lost Season 6 Poster, And More!
We’ve got a bunch of TV news tonight: It appears that Bob Saget is coming back to television with an unscripted travel show entitled “Bob Saget’s Strange Days”. Perhaps tired of just being the disembodied voice of grown-up Ted on How I Met Your Mother , and looking ...
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First Avatar Clip and New Image
First Avatar Clip and New Image
slashfilm.com — The first Avatar clip to have made it online will be fairly familiar to anybody who made it along on Avatar day, it’s just a whole lot smaller and one dimension short these days. Happily for me, this is a snippet of the sequence I was most ... (more) First Avatar Clip and New Image
Leona Lewis To Sing Avatar’s Theme Song
Atlantic Records has announced that they will be releasing the upcoming score for James Cameron’s Avatar . While details are thin, the small press release on Atlantic’s website reveals that Avatar: Music From The Motion Picture will feature “music composed and conducted ...
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New Avatar Featurette
New Avatar Featurette
slashfilm.com — 20th Century Fox has released a new featurette for James Cameron ’s Avatar on the Taiwanese Yahoo. The featurette gives a basic overview of the entire story (and by the entire story, I must warn you, they give away almost the ENTIRE ... (more) New Avatar Featurette
Film Version of Classic Epic Comics Title Alien Legion Inches Forward
When I scan through my newsreader each morning, I really don’t expect to see a feature-length article about a comic series like Alien Legion in a major US paper. The comic was one of the early efforts from Epic Comics, the direct-sales Marvel imprint that skirted the comics code ...
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R2-D2’s Star Trek Cameo Revealed
As you probably know by now, the George Lucas -owned effects company ILM (Industrial Light & Magic) likes to insert R2-D2 into the background of some of the films they create visual effects for. Earlier this year we posted a photo of our favorite little droid’s cameo appearance in ...
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TV Tidbits: Fox Plans Observer Week Viral Marketing for Fringe, Caprica Gets a New Showrunner, McG and Borat Producer Team Up for NBC Comedy
Tonight in TV news: In a bid to get more live viewers for Fringe , Fox is building up this week’s upcoming Observer-heavy with a large scale viral marketing campaign , dubbed internally as “Observer Week”. The bald-headed character was one of the most intriguing elements ...
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Weekend Weirdness: Black Devil Doll, Gone With the Pope, Altitude, and Hausu
It’s a crazy, mixed up world and we are all thankful for movies, new and old, that offer proof. After the jump, we’ll examine trailers stuffed with images and ideas so nuts they could make a turkey turn crimson. For example, one for the new independent film, Black Devil Doll , ...
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TV Tidbits: Gattaca Series Will Be a Police Procedural, ABC Eying Charlies Angels and Goes Crazy with New Sitcom, New Caprica Poster
Let’s start with the most interesting TV news tonight: MTV got to sit down with Gil Grant ( 24 , NCIS:LA ), writer of the upcoming Gattaca television series, and managed to get some fascinating info from him. If you were wondering how Andrew Niccol’s film would be adapted to ...
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