It’s always a tough choice when selecting directors for a big block-buster film. There are huge budgets, and the story must lead into the next franchise. After much ado, the man for the job is James Wan, why him? Here’s what Toby Emmerich, film chairman at Warner Bros., says about choosing …
Read More »Alex Kurtzman oversees Star Trek franchise expansion in a Five-Year CBS Deal
CBS Television Studios who was behind Star Trek: Discovery, has signed Alex Kurtzman in a 25 million-dollar five-year overall deal that will see him supervise the expansion of CBS’ Star Trek franchise for television, developing new series, mini-series …
Read More »BEYOND SKYLINE: Sci-Fi Action with Frank Grillo and Iko Uwais
The recent trend of films with strange and menacing aliens is a total VFX treat! As far as the story line, don’t think too much on it, just enjoy the alien bashing and saving mankind formula. BEYOND SKYLINE is a sequel to 2010’s SKYLINE . The sequel stars Frank Grillo …
Read More »MALIGNANT Sci-fi Action Thriller will have ‘Stranger Things’ Director
Becca Thomas of Stranger Things fame, is slated to direct Malignant, a sci-fi action-thriller that James Wan is producing for 20th Century Fox. For Thomas, Malignant is the latest in a series of exciting projects to come the director’s way. Malignant is actually based on a Boom! Studios comic titled Malignant Man that Wan co-created. Zak Olkewicz, Lights Out …
Read More »Jackie Chan Upcoming Film is Sci-Fi
In case you’re wondering what Jackie Chan is upto these days, here’s the latest: he’ll be in a sci-fi film. Bleeding Steel is a sci-fi action movie directed by Leo Zhang and starring Jackie Chan. Science fiction is a rare genre for Jackie Chan, who will play an agent protecting …
Read More »REVOLT: Sci-Fi Action Thriller
REVOLT stars Lee Pace as a US soldier attempting to fight back against a brutal alien invasion. This kind of film seems a bit like a blend of District 9 and Transformers, with robot-like alien creatures taking over. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, an American soldier (Lee Pace) and a French foreign aid worker …
Read More »Lionsgate’s DIVERGENT to become ASCENDANT TV series
And you thought you’d seen enough of Divergent and its extensions, well, not as yet. The young adult sci-fi flick will be turned into a TV series. Based on Veronica Roth’s bestselling books, Divergent is set in a futuristic society where people are broken up into social and personality-related factions. …
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