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Reel Critics: 'Recall' blends previous sci-fi flicks
Director Len Weisman honed his craft on loud action films like "Live Free and Die Hard" and the "Underworld" franchise. His remake of "Total Recall" boils down to a two-hour futuristic chase movie with grandiose psychedelic overtones. The complex...
Tags: Killer Joe (movie), Emile Hirsch, Kate Beckinsale, Matthew McConaughey, William Friedkin
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Science Fiction Visionary Ray Bradbury Dead at 91
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) - Ray Bradbury, a science fiction visionary whose singular imagination regarding space travel and worlds of the future set the standard for writers and dreamers worldwide, has died at age 91. Bradbury's agent Michael Congdon...Tags: Gregory Benford, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Genres, Los Angeles Times
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TV’s top 50 sci-fi characters: Mr. Spock, Starbuck and…TOBOR?
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comMad scientists and mechanical men, space cowboys and time travelers, Â man-monsters and man-eating aliens — clearly this is our kind ...... -
Gladis tidings for sci-fi romance: Thesp to topline Cory Cataldo's sci-fi romancer
VarietyMichael Gladis ("Mad Men") is toplining Cory Cataldo's sci-fi romancer "Without Ward" alongside Martin Landau, Harold Perrineau, Alexis Dziena, James Duval and Marguerite Moreau. Cataldo is directing from his own script and producing along with Mike...Tags: Martin Landau, James Duval
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Science fiction pioneer Ray Bradbury, 91, has died
Ray Bradbury, an iconic science fiction author who helped bring the genre into the mainstream, has died, his family confirms. He was 91. Bradbury was the recipient of many awards, including a National Medal of Arts, a special citation from the Pulitzer...
Tags: Christopher Isherwood, Awards and Prizes, John Huston, Fiction, Science and Technology
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Luc Besson to write-direct 'Valerian' adaptation: Sci-fi actioner adapts French comicbook series
VarietyPARIS -- Luc Besson is to write and direct an English-language live-action adaptation of the sci-fi comicbook series "Valerian." Created by Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mezieres in 1967, the graphic novels turn on the adventures of space- and...Tags: Crime (genre), Tommy Lee Jones, Finance, Thriller (genre), Luc Besson
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Just to Clarify, 'Prometheus' Is Not a Good Movie
There seems to be some confusion as to whether or not the new Ridley Scott“Alien” prequelish spin-off “Prometheus” is any good. I’ll clear this up right now: No. It is not. [Warning: spoilers galore ahead] Certainly “...
Tags: Prometheus (movie), Philosophy, Noomi Rapace, Damon Lindelof, Science and Technology
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Publishers have fifty ways to track e-readers: Several major producers last week were making their pitches to shoot a movie based on the erotic bestseller, "Fifty Shades of Grey," even as "Fifty Shades" products ranging from lingerie to sleepwear are poised to hit retailers.
VarietySeveral major producers last week were making their pitches to shoot a movie based on the erotic bestseller, "Fifty Shades of Grey," even as "Fifty Shades" products ranging from lingerie to sleepwear are poised to hit retailers. It's intriging to see...Tags: Stephenie Meyer, Michael De Luca, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Mother's Day
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Canal Plus makes a date with 'Barbarella': Gallic paybox boards Gaumont's TV series
VarietyPARIS French paybox Canal Plus has boarded Gaumont Intl. Television's "Barbarella," Nicolas Winding Refn's high-profile series based on the French sci-fi comicbook character. Announced on June 20, "Barbarella" has sparked interest from various...Tags: Canal+, Literature, Eli Roth, NBC (tv network), Hugh Dancy
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It came from Ray Bradbury
Though known primarily as an author, Ray Bradbury had a fixation with Hollywood. It was inevitable that his skills as a science fiction writer would eventually land him work in the movies. His first gig was with Universal Pictures in the early 1950s,...
Tags: Documentary (genre), England, Star Wars (movie), Joe Mantegna, Olivia Wilde
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Q&A: 'People Like Us' star Chris Pine and director/co-writer Alex Kurtzman
You may or may not know that “People Like Us” star Chris Pine auditioned for “Avatar.” It did not go well. “Sometimes you can leave your car in Burbank, Los Angeles, and walk into a conference room and your back is...
Tags: Harrison Ford, Music, Denzel Washington, Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Banks
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Walter Mosley, L.A.'s easy writer
You can take Walter Mosley out of Los Angeles — in fact, Mosley did so himself, moving to New York decades ago — but you can't take L.A. out of Walter Mosley. The master of several genres keeps the city present, from his Easy Rawlins detective...
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