Science Fiction

Alien Trespass movie trailer

IGN has the exclusive preview trailer for Roadshide Attractions’ Alien Trespass online. The film looks like a blend of Creepshow and Eight Legged Freaks, for you pulp sci-fi lovers. 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 ….

Keanu Reeves will top-line Cowboy Bebop live-action film for Fox

It’s been reported for some time that Fox is overseeing a big-screen version of the popular Japanese anime series Cowboy Bebop. Variety has confirmed that Keanu Reeves in fact attached to star as the easygoing bounty hunter Spike Spiegel, who wanders through space in search of fortune and good times, in the year 2071. Cowboy ….

Sleep Dealer film details and photos

Indie distributor Maya Entertainment will release the U.S./Mexico co-production Sleep Dealer, in U.S. theaters this April. The film uses sci-fi elements to deal with issues very relevant in modern society. Sleep Dealer takes place in a corporate controlled, militarized near future where the United States has successfully sealed its borders. Through American technology, we have ….

John Carter of Mars finally coming to theaters

Andrew Stanton (WALL•E) told Sci-Fi Wire the scoop on Disney’s adaptation of sci-fi pulp comic John Carter of Mars. First of all, it’s actually moving forward, after years on the development wagon, and a boat-load of directors, including Robert Rodriguez (Sin City), Kerry Conran (Sky Captain), Jon Favreau (Iron Man) and now Stanton. “I’m deep ….

Mutant Chronicles to get On Demand release before it hits theaters

Magnet Releasing announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to the sci-fi/action epic, Mutant Chronicles. With an ensemble cast including Thomas Jane (The Mist), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Devon Aoki (Sin City) and John Malkovich, Mutant Chronicles boasts incredible special effects and riveting, action-packed battle sequences in a painstakingly crafted post-apocalyptic landscape. An Edward R. ….

Frank Miller bringing Buck Rogers to the big screen

Comic legend Frank Miller and Odd Lot Entertainment, the team behind the upcoming The Spirit film adaptation, are looking to bring the cult classic sci-fi comic-turned-TV-series Buck Rogers to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Odd Lot is in negotiations to option the rights to the “franchise” from Nu Image/Millennium, which obtained those ….

The Day the Earth Stood Still Special Edition Blu-ray review

It’s no secret that the original The Day the Earth Stood Still, is one of my favorite sci-fi films of all time (SEE HERE). The film is the opposite of the current trend in high-octane, high-tech 3-D special effects-driven extravaganzas of today. The original film’s director Robert Wise, chose to focus on psychological drama and ….

New trailer for next Six Shooter release Eden Log

Magnet has exclusively released the new trailer for the French sci-fi horror Eden Log, on IGN. Franck Vestiel co-wrote and makes his feature film debut with Eden Log, which features an ensemble French cast including Clovis Cornillac, Vimala Pons, Zohar Wexler, Sifan Shao, Arben Bajraktaraj, Abdelkader Dahou, Tony Amoni, Antonin Bastian, Joachim Staaf, Benjamin Baroche, ….

Collectible Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XIV coming in February

From 1988 to 1999, the hilarious and widely beloved space travelers on The Satellite of Love from Mystery Science Theater 3000 skewered B-movies and in the process made them masterworks of comedy. Hot on the heels of the recent Mystery Science Theater 2000 20th Anniversary celebration, Shout! Factory in association with Best Brains, proudly present ….

Terminator Salvation to be first movie of a new trilogy

Halcyon chiefs Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek are developing a fifth Terminator installment, according to Variety. Terminator Salvation director McG, is working with the company on the future project. The announcement was made at the Dubai International Film Festival, which began on December 11th and runs through this Thursday. There apparently hasn’t been a decision ….

WIN a Timecrimes movie poster signed by director Nacho Vigalondo

Next Friday, December 12th, Magnet will release Timecrimes, the third film in their Six Shooter Film Series. To celebrate the release, distributors are providing FilmFetish with a full-sized movie poster, signed by the film’s director Nacho Vigalondo. Lauded short film director Nacho Vigalondo makes his feature debut with this tense, unstoppable vision of science and ….