Science Fiction

Win an invite to the L.A. premiere of The Mutant Chronicles, plus more cool swag from the movie

Mutant Chronicles is now available on HDNet Ultra VOD and opens in theaters on Friday, April 24th in theaters. Just as Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman kick some serious mutant ass in the film, Magnet Releasing and Pressman Films are kicking some major ass by offering the Ultimate Mutant Chronicles Prize Giveaway! One lucky grand prize ….

New poster today and a sequel coming for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot

Paramount has greenlit a sequel to the new Star Trek relaunch, and Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof are set to write the screenplay, according to Variety. J.J. Abrams, who directed and produced the most recent film, will produce the follow-up. No details have been released on whether Abrams will also lens the future ….

Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic Forever War to be shot in 3-D

Ridley Scott, who’s adapting Joe Haldeman’s sci-fi war epic The Forever War, told reporters in Britain that James Cameron’s Avatar is inspiring him to shoot War in 3-D, according to SlashFilm. “I’m filming a book by Joe Haldeman called Forever War,” said the director. “I’ve got a good writer doing it. I’ve seen some of ….

New Gerard Butler sci-fi thriller Game trailer! More violent than 300?

Well, maybe not. But it’s certainly kinetic. Game stars Gerard Butler as a game avatar from a fictional game called Slayers, who’s had enough. It’s set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, and Butler attempts to regain his independence, and take down the game’s mastermind in ….

Bryan Singer eyes comic adaptation Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland

New Regency has nabbed film rights to the Radical Publishing sci-fi comic Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland, which will be developed as a potential directing vehicle for Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns, Valkyrie), according to Variety. The movie will be distributed by Fox, which worked with Singer on X-Men 2. Michael Finch – who ….

Win one of two official Alien Trespass movie posters signed by director R.W. Goodwin

On Friday, April 3rd, 2009, Roadside Attractions will release the campy retro-style sci-fi adventure Alien Trespass. To celebrate the release of the film, producers are providing FilmFetish with two official movie posters, signed by the film’s director R.W. Goodwin. You guys know the drill. In order to be entered in the random drawing to nab ….

The new trailer from Casshern director’s next film Goemon

Below is a new trailer for Goemon, directed by Kazuaki Kiriya – who helmed the cult sci-fi epic Casshern. Goemon takes place in 1582. Oda Nobunaga was on the verge of conquering all of Japan, but was forced to commit suicide at Honno-ji Temple by one of his generals, Akechi Mitsuhide. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Nobunaga’s top ….

Diesel teases next Riddick film in development

Vin Diesel briefly alluded to the third Riddick film’s state of development, while being interviewed by GameSpot about his upcoming console game The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena: Maybe we’re too tight-lipped about the next Chronicles of Riddick film, and I think circa the release of [Dark Athena] that’s probably when you’ll start ….

First look at the tech – and budget – behind Avatar…and Titanic coming BACK to theaters in 3D?

The New York Times posted an extended article on the making of James Cameron’s upcoming 3D epic Avatar. It has a lot of info on the film and the groundbreaking technology behind it from Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Jeffrey Katenberg, and Cameron himself. One of the major bits of information was that producers are digitalizing ….