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After more than eight decades, Fritz Lang 's original cut of his classic movie Metropolis will be seen for the first time at next year's Berlin Film Festival , including 30 minutes of almost-unseen footage. Lang's original cut had almost become an urban myth; after the movie bombing during its ...
Superhero Fan Film Contest Returns To Metropolis!
fancinematoday.com 5/19/2009 — A mere 10 years ago, DC Comics famously shut down the first major Superman fan film on the internet, as recounted in Homemade Hollywood . These days, not only does DC approve of fan productions , so does the Metropolis Chamber of Commerce.
Every year, the town of Metropolis, IL holds its ...
DC Universe Online: First Look
tor.com 2/19/2009 — While at New York ComicCon, I got to check out the demo of Sony Entertainment’s upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online game, DC Universe Online . Based on the DC Comics Universe, home to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman (among many others), DCUO ...
The Bioluminescent Metropolis
bldgblog.blogspot.com 8/21/2009 — [Image: "Lightning Bugs in York, PA," by tom.arthur , courtesy of a Creative Commons license]. While staying in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney for a few days last week, I managed to re-read W.G. Sebald's book The Rings of Saturn . At one point, ...
I Have Met Superman, and He is Me
otter.covblogs.com 9/23/2009 — The wife and I spent the last two weeks living in Illinois with her grandmother and a bunch of her extended family. This was an unplanned trip, as we happened to be in Kentucky to visit my old college friends, and decided that a quick jaunt to central Illinois wouldn't take that long. And then ...
Superman Fan Film Wins Award and $300
fancinematoday.com 6/19/2009 — The annual Superman Celebration took place in Metropolis, IL on June 13-14; for the second year running, a superhero fan film contest was held as part of the festivities. Filmmaker George Doerr nabbed the grand prize this time out, along with a cool $300, for his fan film, Villains Day Off. ...
Top Of The Pile: Superman #685
heropress.net 3/1/2009 — This is it! The big one! Superman issue 685 is when he takes the decision to leave Earth - seemingly severing his ties with Ma Kent and Lois - to go and live on New Krypton ( where the inhabitants of the former bottled city of Kandor have relocated ). But before this happens, he has to have a ...
MIND MELD: The Most Intelligent Films of Science Fiction
sfsignal.com 8/26/2009 — Much of the general populace believes that SciFi films are nothing more than dumb fun, but genre fans know better. Science fiction offers filmmakers a unique opportunity to be thought-provoking and meaningful, or at least something more cerebral ...
Book Trailer: The Surrogates (Vol. 2) Flesh and Bone
otter.covblogs.com 5/2/2009 — Not only a new Surrogates prequel graphic novel coming out, but so is a movie based on the novel coming out on September 25 and starring Bruce Willis!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In a dark downtown alley in Central Georgia Metropolis, a juvenile prank goes too far and a homeless man is ...
Top 10 sci-fi films that were ahead of their time
screenhead.com 21 days ago — There’s no shortage of science fiction that predicts a future far too unknown and unexplored to the common man, and usually those kinds of work are initially dismissed, only to become cult classics, no matter what medium they are told in. ...
MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part III)
sfsignal.com 7/9/2009 — There's a great big world out there! So big that it will take four weeks to get all their responses in. (See Part I and Part II .) So while we've got entries from the Philippines, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, the Ukraine, Poland and Portugal this week, ...
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