“Ice Age2: The Meltdown” continues to astonish the Hollywood pros by taking the rest of the globe by storm. Not only did it register box office gold for the last two weeks in American theaters, but now it is blowing box office records throughout the rest of the planet. After the less than stellar international [...]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter) In a recent interview Lauren Shuler Donner, producer for X-Men 1 through 3 and wife of that other famous producer Richard Donner, says that she hopes that the title of this soon to be released 3rd edition of the franchise does not signal the end of more to [...]

Source: Hollywood Reporter Genre films are in BOLD Weekend Box Office Top 10 April 7-9 ,2006 Final figures in $ million 1. Ice Age: The Meltdown $33.8 2. The Benchwarmers 19.7 3. Take the Lead 12.1 4. Inside Man 9.1 5. Lucky Number Slevin 7.0 6. Failure to Launch 4.1 7. ATL 3.7 8. V [...]

Guest Contributor: Vol Have you ever sat and wondered what a Star Trek: Enterprise Season 5, Movie or Mini-Series would have been like and tried to picture in your head the countless possibilities the continuation of Enterprise would have explored? The Romulan War? The Mirror Universe? Future Guy? Guinan? Well imagine no longer! Through the [...]

Submitted by: Cougar (SoSF Reporter) The Writer’s Guild of America, west has released its list of the 101 Greatest Screenplays. Of the 101 listed 18 are specific to either scifi, horror, fantasy/fable or deal with the supernatural and paranormal. Those 18 films and writers of the screenplays are: Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick, Peter George [...]

Fox’s animated flick “Ice Age 2: The Meltdown” stayed number one at the box office this weekend but is melting faster than a popsicle on a July day. In its opening weekend it blasted all the competition with a whopping $68+ million, while its second weekend showing is projected to come in at about half [...]

Marcus Lewis has created a new Star Wars Fan Film entitled “Order of the Sith: Downfall, and it features Star Wars’ own original Darth Vader, Dave Prowse. Also in the film are Star Wars alum Jeremy Bulloch, Michael Shead (who recently passed away) and Orli Shoshan. Lewis made the film to aid Save the Children [...]

Submitted by: Lesmond (SoSF Reporter) Back on our March 7th Slice of SciFi show (#047) we announced that “Jumper,” based on the 1992 Steven Gould novel would be the first in a trilogy to come to the big screen. At that time director Doug Liman (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) had yet to be given a [...]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Reporter) Another of Stephen King’s collection of short story works called “Everything’s Eventual” will get a big screen adaptation and will star Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack. The particular venue within the King compilation getting treatment is “1408.” When a skeptic and professional debunker of the paranormal stays in [...]

Source: Variety All Genre Films Are In BOLD 1. Ice Age: The Meltdown…………..$68,033,544 Engagements:3,963 Cume: $68,033,544 2. Inside Man…………………….$15,437,760 Engagements:2,830 Cume: $52,508,055 3. ATL…………………………..$11,554,404 Engagements:1,602 Cume: $11,554,404 4. Failure to Launch……………….$6,463,434 Engagements:3,074 Cume: $73,088,790 5. V for Vendetta………………….$6,295,358 Engagements:2,910 Cume: $56,659,439 6. Stay Alive……………………..$4,506,719 Engagements:2,009 Cume: $17,280,614 7. She’s the Man…………………..$4,429,426 Engagements:2,552 Cume: $26,622,732 8. [...]

“Ice Age 2: The Meltdown” has just had the second highest grossing non-holiday, non-summer weekend box office opening in movie history. Second only to Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ,” “Meltdown” has taken in over $70.5 million. Who says there isn’t life after “Everybody Loves Raymond?” The film has also set another animation debut record, [...]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Reporter) Fox Atomic Films is in the pre-production stage of “28 Weeks Later,” the sequel to the unexpected British hit “28 Days Later.” Alex Garland, who wrote the first screenplay, will pen this one as well and Danny Boyle, along with Andrew Macdonald will produce. Since this project is still [...]

Who would of ‘thunk it?’ After 19 years on the small screen, Homer and the entire Simpson clan are finally coming to the big screen. It’s been a long and overdue wait but “The Simpsons: The Movie” will be in theaters July 27, 2007. Moviegoers who went to see this weekend’s premiere of the Ray [...]

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Reporter) Paramount Pictures is aggressively looking for identtical twin boys for “The Spiderwick Chronicles.” They need to be between the ages of 9 and 11 years old. “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is a fantasy feature from the bestselling series of novels written by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The film will [...]