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Man of Steel will take flight a little later than expected. Peter Dinklage explains what's next for Tyrion on Game of Thrones. Joss Whedon's long-delayed horror movie is finally getting released. And Hilary Swank is headed to Venus. More »
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Breck Eisner's Escape From New York remake just took a strange and interesting twist. Rumor has it, Jeremy Renner is being courted for Snake Plissken... Say what? More »
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What's better than a mixtape of John Carpenter's finest movie themes? How about a mixtape curated by his longtime musical collaborator Alan Howarth, who co-composed the soundtracks for Escape From New York, They Live, and Big Trouble in Little China? More »
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Infodumps are a double-edged sword. They allow filmmakers to cram a ton of worldbuilding into a short amount of exposition but can also bludgeon the audience into a glassy-eyed stupor. What's the secret to cramming plot into the audience's earholes? More »
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My, how we do love a bad boy — and here are a baker's dozen of some of the worst of the worst that scifi movies, TV, and videogames have to offer. More »
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Director Breck Eisner is itching to work with his Crazies lead Timothy Olyphant again, but does this mean there's a spot for him in Eisner's upcoming Escape From New York remake? Sounds like there's a chance. More »
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It's the summer season, and Sunday has become the new scifi destination this week. Witness the debut of a jumpsuit-less Phantom, more sanguinary weirdness from True Blood, the debut of The Gates, and new Ashes to Ashes and Doctor Who. More »
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In Hollywood's continuing crusade to ruin everything that's good, the remake of John Carpenter's urban scifi classic is moving forward with a new director on board. More »
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There's only one thing Hollywood loves than a movie based on a toy: remakes. Dozens of science-fiction classics are slated for do-overs. But instead of remaking films that were fine the first time, here are 20 books Hollywood should film. More »
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A screenwriter talks the Escape From New York remake. A surprising Lost character walks the Island. V's mystery resistance leader is a Cylon! A DC Comics mainstay joins Smallville. Plus Doctor Who, Fringe, Despicable Me, Crazies, Supernatural and Chuck spoilers. More »
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Escape From New York, Again! is back in play. Why? Because the studio's found someone who can allegedly write witty Snake banter without making it sound campy. An impossible task, maybe — but nevertheless, they're going through with it. More »
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First he's playing the current president of the United States in Oliver Stone's new biopic, and next Josh Brolin could be sent to rescue the president of the U.S. from an alternate dystopia. A French site reports that Brolin is in talks to star in the remake of Escape From New York, which was originally set to star Gerard Butler. And a new rumored title for the film raises some interesting questions about its storyline this time around. More »
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Our hero Snake PlisskenParsifal busts the world's last fertile woman out of a maximum security facility staffed by knights in armor armed with laser crossbows (pew! pew!) in this awesome sequence from Italian post-apocalyptic masterpiece 2019: After The Fall Of New York. More »
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Everybody's re-imagining old science fiction franchises, from Battlestar and Bionic Woman to Star Trek and Terminator. (Can you remember when you had never heard the verb "re-imagine?" Now, it's the only verb I ever use.) But some of the greatest classics are still waiting for their extreme makeovers. It's time to give Hollywood a little push! Click through to vote for the best fixer-upper. More »
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