Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist) In an attempt to turn every successful video-game franchise into a big-screen film, 20th Century FOX has acquired the rights to produce a big-screen adaptation of “The Sims.” “The Sims” is the best-selling game in PC history from Electronic Arts. Players create their own characters and family units […]

Just in case you’ve been asking yourself whatever happen to Ashley Judd’s acting career, we have the answer for you. It got bugged! Her last good role was opposite Kevin Kline in “De-Lovely” released in 2004. Ms. Judd will now star in a new horror/paranoia flick called “Bug”. The film is about a paranoid war […]

Even though Disney has touted that “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” is the last of the “Pirates” films, actor Johnny Depp has not yet tired of playing the role of screwball, but delightful Jack Sparrow. The versatile actor told AP Press reporter Eric Talmadge that three journeys as Captain Jack haven’t quenched his […]

Famed producer Dino De Laurentiis has put together a very talented team to bring his vision of “Barbarella” back to the big screen. “Grindhouse – Planet Terror” and “Sin City” director Robert Rodriquez will helm the remake from a script penned by “Casino Royale” screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. “In our vision, the future […]

Written by: Abbie Bernstein (Fangoria Contributing Journalist) Submitted by: Sharon Snyder “SHADOW PUPPETS” depicts a nightmarish situation—a group of people who don’t know where or even who they are, locked in a strange facility and menaced by a homicidal supernatural force — but its release is a dream come true for writer/director Michael Winnick. Most […]

CANNES, France (Hollywood Reporter) -“300” star Gerard Butler will topline “Game,” a high-concept thriller set in the near future. The Lakeshore Entertainment project takes place in a world where mind-control technology has taken society by storm. In this dystopian world, the ultimate online simulation environment is humans remote-controlling other humans in mass-scale, multiplayer online gaming. […]

Slice of SciFi has just learned that Samuel L. Jackson is in negotiations to star as a mysterious supervillain in the Frank Miller-helmed comic book adaptation “The Spirit” for Lionsgate and Odd Lot Entertainment. If all goes well Jackson will play the Spirit’s nemesis, the Octopus, a shy lab assistant who reinvents himself as a […]

Pictured below are Al Pacino & Robert De Niro in a scene from “Heat” — the only film they have ever appeared together in This story is not directly SF genre related but any time Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are talked about in the same breath and in the same movie, I’ve got […]

Disney Pictures will be making an all Chinese-language fantasy flick this summer that centers on a vegetable. It will be called “The Magic Gourd” and the long-time film company is hoping to make magic with it by attracting this untapped 1 billion member audience. The movie is based on the children’s novel by the late […]

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist) “The Masters of the Universe” could be headed back to the big-screen with a big-name star in the role of He-Man. Rumors have surfaced that Brad Pitt is in the running to play He-Man should the project make it to production. Legendary Pictures — the team behind “Superman […]