New Orleans Casting Call…….Deja Vu?

A few months ago we reported on the Slice of SciFi podcast that Bruckeimer would be helming a new scifi project. What we didn’t know until now was if he would get his first pick shooting location. Well, he has! Hundreds of actors, bit players and just ordinary folk showed up for the casting call [...]

The Slither Zone

Submitted by: Kyle Nin Submitted for your approval. The town of Wheelsy is a typical small hovel nestled away in the charmining backwoods of every very American landscape. The townfolk are friendly and wave at passerbys, but tend to their own affairs and mind their own business. But then, cattle mutilations, missing pets, clogged phone [...]

Darkly Delays

Keanu Reeves’ next entry into the world of scifi has hit another bump in the road causing a further delay in its release date. “A Scanner Darkly,” is the screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s hearlded novel about a future paranoid world where it is commonplace for neighbor to spy on neighbor and friend to [...]

‘See No Evil’…Why?

Submitted by: Kyle Nin Photo Courtesy of WWE If you’re in the mood to loose two hours from your life that can never be retrieved watching another pro-wrestler turned actor, then this new horror/mangle-them-up flick may just be your ticket. Lionsgate’s SEE NO EVIL stars WWE super bad boy Kane (Glen Jacobs), who plays – [...]

Serenity And Beyond

Browncoats around the world cried out in despair when, due to an underwhelming performance at the box office, Joss Whedon announced that the saga of Serenity had ended. No sequels, no follow-ups, no hope. But Whedon isn’t a man to let his brain-child die; the man’s already resuscitated the franchise once and there’s still hope for a third coming.

Raimi To Helm Wee Free Men

Source: SciFi Wire Submitted by: Kyle Nin Sam Raimi (Spider-Man 3) will direct The Wee Free Men, an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s best-selling young-adult fantasy novel, Variety reported. Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the book and set Pamela Pettler to write the script.

Narnia Sequel In the Works

Submitted by: Kyle Nin NarniaWeb is claiming that Douglas Gresham, stepson of the late C.S. Lewis, is already laying the groundwork for the sequel to the highly successful ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.’ ‘Prince Caspian’ will take the Pevensie kids on a return trip through the wardrobe to Narnia [...]

Spiderman 3 Begins Principals

Submitted by: Kyle Nin Principal photography for the next installment of Spidey begins this week. Spiderman 3 will see the return of leads Tobey McGuire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco. The movie will be shot on location in New York City from May through September of this year. Thomas Hayden Church (Sideways) is Sandman and [...]

Paramount Starts Peddling Dream Pix

Source: Variety Written By: Dave McNary Soros is sweet on library deal Paramount is in exclusive negotiations to sell the DreamWorks film library to George Soros’ private equity fund. Par[amount] is looking to earn fees for distribution of the DreamWorks titles, and seeks to retain the right to buy back the library within five years.

Torture Big At the Box Office

Source: Coming Soon Submitted by: Kyle Nin Hostel Brutalizes and BloodRayne Gets Brutalized The first weekend of the New Year followed last year’s tradition of a new horror movie bringing in the most business with Eli Roth’s gory thriller Hostel taking a definite place in the box office’s top slot with an estimated $20.1 million [...]

Stewart Still Hot Commodity for TREK

Source: Yahoo UK News Stewart still wanted back on the Enterprise Hollywood bosses are still trying to entice Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart to return to the Starship Enterprise – but he fears he will be too old by the time they come up with the goods. The 65-year-old star, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard [...]

Fantasy Lands Rooted In Reality Checks

Source: Variety Written By: Rachel Wimberly Production designers create worlds that auds can relate to Narnia’s snowy forests, Batman’s Gotham City, Willy Wonka’s chocolate river and the far, far away “Star Wars” galaxy may have started as figments of imagination, but production designers have to transform them into believable settings. “You are trying to convince [...]

What’s In Your ‘Secret Drawer’?

Imagine yourself a guest at an Inn for a night or two. You go to the drawer of the bedside table expecting to see a Gideon’s Bible or phone book only to find letters from previous guests of the hotel. Everyone of the letters talk about the occupant’s encounters with ghostly apparitions that visited them [...]

‘Chill’ In Air For Thesp Pair

Source: Variety Written By: Nicole LaPorte Blunt, Holmes go with ‘Wind’ Ashton Holmes and Emily Blunt have been cast as the leads in Revolution Studios’ horror pic “Wind Chill,” being produced by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh’s Section Eight shingle and Blue Print Pictures. Greg Jacobs is directing a script by Joe Gangemi and Steven [...]

Gugino’s Career Moves On After Threshold

Source: SciFi Wire Gugino Mulls Museum Night Carla Gugino is in final negotiations to star opposite Ben Stiller in the fantasy movie Night at the Museum for 20th Century Fox, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Shawn Levy is directing the live-action/computer-animated comedy, which centers on a goodhearted but bumbling security guard (Stiller) who works at [...]