Logan’s Run script getting redo by 28 Days Later screenwriter

Alex Garland, who wrote the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later and Sunshine, is in talks to take a crack at the long-in-development Logan’s Run remake for Warner Bros., according to HeatVisionBlog. The 1976 film starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter and Farrah Fawcett, was based on a 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George ….

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival chooses themes of travel and adventure for 2010

The principal genre film festival in Asia, Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) kicks off its 11 days of movie mayhem on July 15th, and runs through the 25th. Young Bin Kim is this year’s festival director. With this year’s theme being an “Up and Coming Genre Explorer Travelling to a World of Love, Fantasy, ….

Guillermo del Toro leaves The Hobbit film adaptation

After two years in development on The Hobbit, HeatVision reports that director Guillermo del Toro has announced that he’s leaving the long-delayed J.R.R. Tolkien 2-film adaptation. “In light of ongoing delays in the setting of a start date for filming “The Hobbit,” I am faced with the hardest decision of my life,” del Toro wrote ….